Task 5

* Nairobi:  内罗毕（肯尼亚首都）

In this task, you'll hear a report on a Nobel Peace Prize winner, Wangari Maathai.

A. Fill in the following chart.

Wangari Maathai
Award:	__________________ (the _________ woman / the _______ African  woman since 1901 to win the prize)
Comments from the Nobel Committee:
Major reason for receiving the award:
Personal information:
Nationality:
Age:
Education:  Career:	Studied in ________________ and __________ Believed to have been the first woman in East and Central  Africa to _______________________ Was a professor of _______________ at the University of Nairobi Is assistant minister of ________________________________________

B. Complete the following summary of the Green Belt Movement.

      Wangari Maathai started the Green Belt Movement in ____________, and the goal is to 

_______________________________. Today the program operates in a number of countries, and a 

reported _______________trees have been planted.

      Young trees are grown from _________ at thousands of _________. The Green Belt Movement

gives these young trees to ___________ where locally trained people advise women farmers

about _________ and _______________________. The movement pays farmers for every tree that

__________. Later the women can use some of the trees for __________.

Task 8

Listening Aids

devoid (adj.):  completely lacking in sth.

grim (adj.):  looking or sounding very serious

hover (v.):  stay nervously in the same place

Lilliputian (n.):  a very small person or being, after the Lilliputians, a people in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift

lopsided (adj.):  unequal or uneven, esp. in an unfair way

plague (v.):  afflict with or as if with a disease or calamity

pompous (adj.):  自负的，自命不凡的

somber (adj.):  serious, grave

take the wind out of sb.:  make sb. lose confidence, esp. by saying or doing sth. unexpected

In this task, you'll hear an argument that regards the sense of humour as the most important of all human qualities.

Complete the following summary of the passage.

      Biologically, ___________________ distinguishes us from animals. In a universe devoid of humour,

laughter is a ________, for it seems to serve no biological purpose. In a divided world, laughter is 

_________________. Nations may _________, and human relations may be plagued by __________________

and _______________, but everyone can laugh. Laughter depends on ___________________. Certain comic

stereotypes have _____________________, for example, Charlie Chaplin's films of the little man at odds

with society. Dr. Johnson once said that men were wise in different modes, but they laughed in the

same way.

      A sense of humour and laughter may take different forms, but the effect is the same: humour

helps us to maintain ______________________, and prevents us from __________________________________. 

It also reminds us that _________ and _________ are related.

      This is one of the chief functions of _________ and _________. There is much grimness in this world 

and cartoons and satirical accounts of somber political events _________________________. They deflate 

___________________ and show the __________ of our actions. Satire is banned in totalitarian regimes 

because it is too ________ a weapon.

      The sense of humour is important because it is associated with __________, which, in turn, is 

associated with _________. We share some qualities with other forms of life, but the sense of humour 

is ___________________. If happiness is one of the great goals of life, then the sense of humour is the 

_________ to happiness.