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New Practical English 4
Being All Ears
Listen and Decode
Listen and Judge
Listen and Read
Listen and Echo
New Practical English 4
Listen and DecodeListen to the 10 short conversations and do the multiple choice
exercises below.
1 a She is too busy to go online.
b She often goes online at home.
c She spends much time online every day.
d She used to go online at home.
2 a The man spends a lot of time online.
b The woman spends a lot of time online.
c The man’s wife and the woman’s husband spend a lot of time online.
d Both the man and the woman spend a lot of time online.
aa
cc
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Listen and Decode3 a He hates playing games online.
b He is enthusiastic about playing games
online.
c He is more interested in making friends
online.
d He plays chess with people from all over the
world.
4 a [email protected].
bb
aa
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Listen and Decode
5 a She is interested in it.
b She is doubtful about it.
c She is astonished to hear it.
d She is excited to hear it.
6 a The man knows little about a QQ
number.
b The man knows what a QQ number is.
c The woman knows what a QQ number
is.
d The woman knows a lot about a QQ
number.
cc
bb
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Listen and Decode7 a He keeps an open mind to it.
b He likes it.
c He will never try it.
d He is against it.
8 a The man doesn’t care about the harmful material online.
b The woman doesn’t care about the harmful material online.
c The woman is worried about the harmful material online.
d The man is worried about his kids due to the harmful material online.
aa
cc
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Listen and Decode
9 a He is doubtful about its necessity.
b He is worried about losing privacy.
c He is interested in the new technology.
d He is upset about those fancy things.
10 a The man does a lot of shopping online.
b The woman does a lot of shopping online.
c The man is interested in shopping online.
d The woman isn’t interested in shopping on
line.
aa
bb
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Listen and JudgeListen to Dialogue 1 and decide whether the statements are true or false. Write T / F accordingly.
1 The man has no email address.
2 The woman seldom writes emails.
3 The woman seems to prefer traditional letters
to emails.
4 The man says there are still many people who
spend hours writing long letters.
5 The man agrees with the woman on the
negative effect of email.
FF
FF
TT
FF
FF
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Listen and EchoListen to Dialogue 2 and give short answers to the following questions.
1 What kind of project has the
man undertaken?
The design of ________
____.
2 What kind of course does
the man plan to study?
A crash course in ________
_______________________.
a web store
computer-aided graphic
design
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3 Where does the man decide to study the course?
He plans to study it _________________________.
4 What else does the woman’s virtual university offe
r in addition to the course?
They also offer _________________.
5 What are the fees like in the virtual university?
Almost the same as for________________.
online / in a virtual university
online discussions
the real university
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Listen and ReadListen to the following passage carefully and fill in the blanks based
on what you have heard.
Being online was an escape for me when I felt tired out fr
om the routine work during the day. It allowed me to forg
et about 1 _____________. I didn’t have to pretend to 2 _
_______________ all the time. And if ever I wanted to dis
appear, I could just switch off and
3 ________.
But 4 _______________ crept slowly upwards. The
5 ___________________ began to change into person
al. The strangers became friends. And then, the “Dear Ca
roline” letter 6 ________________.
the real world
be happy or smart
be gone
KEY
my hours online
casual conversations
arrived in my box
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In less than a thousand words, a complete stranger
poured out 7 _____________. And I 8 __________ with
a man I had never met before. Of course, I
9 ______________ at that time.
To this day, I can’t believe how lucky I was to have met
and fallen in love with my husband
10 ________________.
his life to me fell in love
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over the Internet KEY
didn’t realize it
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1 M: Do you often go online, Mary?
W: I wish I did, John. You know I'm so preoccupied with
the housework every day.
Q: What does the woman mean?
2 M: Hi, Tracy, you know what I want to say? I do wish my
wife didn't spend so many hours chatting online.
W: That's exactly what I wanted to say about my
husband.
Q: What can we learn from the conversation?
3 M: Does your son enjoy playing games online?
W: I guess he's got playmates all over the world.
Q: What does the woman say about her son?
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4 M: Would you mind telling me your email address, Prof. Brown?
W: It's [email protected].
Q: What's the professor's email address?
5 M: My son once played computer games for three days without stopping.
W: Oh, my God! Are you kidding, man? I just can't imagine.
Q: What's the woman's reaction to what the man says?
6 W: Will you tell me what a QQ number is used for?
M: It's something like a phone number. People use it to seek their chat mates online.
Q: What do we know from the conversation?
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7 W: What's your opinion of chatting with strangers onli
ne?
M: Me? I've never tried it myself. But if people like it,
they may have their reasons.
Q: What's the man's attitude towards chatting with
strangers online?
8 W: I'm really concerned that there is so much harmful
material online that may be harmful to my ki
ds.
M: I know of some software that functions as a firewall.
Why not have a try?
Q: What do we learn from the conversation?
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9 W: I hear that in the future even microwaves and fridge
s can be connected to the Internet.
M: What for? To let people know what you are cooking
in the microwave and what you've got in the
fridge?
Q: What does the man mean?
10 W: I find it a lot more fun shopping at home, dear; I
mean shopping online.
M: No wonder my credit card is overdrawn.
Q: What can we conclude from the conversation?
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Dialogue 1
W: Hi, Dick, do you have an email account?
M: What a question, Jiang! Do you think I am living in the past?
Don't tell me you haven't got one.
W: Well, though I write a lot of emails, I still miss the days when
I had so many pen friends. We used to write to each other
very often.
M: But you can do the same with emails. And it's much easier.
W: We did and are still doing so sometimes. Only the email
letters are becoming shorter and duller.
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M: That's what emails are usually like, something like mobile
phone messages.
W: That's exactly why I missed the good old days when I could
receive full-length letters.
M: I know what you mean. But now not many people would
spend hours writing those long letters.
W: Sometimes I wonder whether the new technology has
brought people closer together or made us drift away from each ot
her.
M: Perhaps you've made a point there.
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Dialogue 2
M: Our company contracted a new project today and the
manager wanted me to join the design team.
W: That's wonderful. What kind of project?
M: It's a web store of a large supermarket. They want to expand
their business online.
W: Are you sure you can do it well?
M: That's why I'm planning to enroll in a crash course in
computer-aided graphic design.
W: But you are so busy all day long; I think it's almost
impossible.
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M: Perhaps I should consider going to a virtual university, as
you do.
W: That's a very good idea. You can study any time you like in
such a university.
M: How's the one you’re with? Are the courses well-designed?
W: Very well-designed, I'd say. In addition, they provide online
discussions and offer immediate answers to any questions
students ask.
M: That's terrific! How are the fees, expensive?
W: Not much difference from the real university.
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Being online was an escape for me when I felt tired out from
the routine work during the day. It allowed me to forget about the re
al world. I didn't have to pretend to be happy and smart all the time.
And if ever I wanted to disappear, I could just switch off and be gon
e.
But my hours online crept slowly upwards. The casual conv
ersations began to change into personal. The strangers became frie
nds. And then, the “Dear Caroline” letter arrived in my box.
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In less than a thousand words, a complete stranger poured o
ut his life to me. And I fell in love with a man I had never met before.
Of course, I didn't realize it at that time.
To this day, I can't believe how lucky I was to have met and f
allen in love with my husband over the Internet.
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