[00:06.61]Declining an Offer of Help
[00:11.81]A:Is there anything I can do to help?
[00:16.12]B:It's all right, thanks.
[00:19.20]A:Perhaps I could carry one of your suitcases.
[00:23.69]B:It's very kind of you indeed but I can manage.
[00:28.97]Listening Comprehension
[00:33.46]A.Listen and choose an appropriate response to what you've heard.
[01:42.95]B.Listen and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
[01:56.14]Vacation in the Mountains
[04:09.44]Text Mountain-Climbing
[04:15.14]New Words and Expressions
[04:19.34]eighteenth
[04:21.84]第十八的
[04:24.33]townsman
[04:26.33]n.镇民
[04:28.33]wild/waild/
[04:30.12]adj.荒芜的;野的;
[04:31.91]easily/'i:zili/
[04:33.70]adv.容易的
[04:35.49]explore
[04:37.34]vt.勘探;探险
[04:39.20]unknown
[04:41.25]n.未知的事物
[04:43.30]sight/sait/
[04:45.19]n.景象,视域
[04:47.09]excitement
[04:49.38]n.激动;兴奋
[04:51.68]man-made
[04:54.23]adj.人造的;人为的
[04:56.78]untouched
[04:58.67]adj.未触摸过的;未开发的
[05:00.56]particularly
[05:02.72]adv.特别;尤其
[05:04.88]disorderly
[05:06.87]adj.杂乱的
[05:08.87]rock
[05:10.52]n.岩石
[05:12.16]greatly/'greitli/
[05:14.02]adv.非常
[05:15.87]struggle
[05:17.68]n.斗争
[05:19.48]nature
[05:21.32]n.大自然;自然界
[05:23.16]giant
[05:24.91]adj.巨大的
[05:26.66]reward
[05:28.52]n.报答;奖赏
[05:30.37]noble
[05:32.23]adj.高尚的;宏伟的
[05:34.08]pure
[05:35.62]adj.完美的;纯的
[05:37.16]below
[05:38.86]adv.在下面
[05:40.56]It was only in the eighteenth century
[05:46.44]that people in Europe began to think that mountains were beautiful.
[05:51.84]Before that time.
[05:55.55]mountains were feared by the inhabitants of the plain,
[06:00.15]and expecially by the townsmen,to whom they were wild,
[06:04.93]dangerous places in which one was easily lost or killed by terrible animals.
[06:11.83]Slowly,however,many of the people
[06:16.71]who were living comfortably in the town civilization began to grow tired of it.
[06:23.32]Man has many desires,
[06:27.42]some of which fight against each other;
[06:31.21]one of these is to explore the Unknown to look for mystery,
[06:37.51]for things which the reason cannot explain,
[06:41.08]for sights and sounds which produce in one a felling of fear or excitement.
[06:47.98]So,in the eighteenth century,
[06:51.98]people began to turn away from the man-made town to the untouched country
[06:57.57]and particularly,to places where it was dangerous rough and disorderly.
[06:56.57]Wild rocks and high mountains began to become popular for a holiday.
[07:02.86]Then,mountain-climbing began to grow popular as a sport.
[07:09.16]To some people,
[07:11.67]there is something greatly attractive about setting out to conquer a mountain;
[07:17.57]a struggle against Nature is finer than a battle against other human beings.
[07:24.47]And then,when you are at the top of a giant mountain,
[07:30.06]after a long and difficult climb,
[07:33.87]what a satisfactory reward it is
[07:37.55]to be able to look down over everything within sight!
[07:42.73]At such times,you feel nobler and purer than you can ever feel down below.
