[00:00.00]4.2 Retelling a Story
[00:06.24]2.Now listen to the passage carefully and,as you listen,
[00:13.24]choose the best answer to each of the questions in your book.
[00:18.23]Last spring,a book was published telling the supposedly
[00:24.53]true story of an elderly millionaire who,at great expense,
[00:31.35]succeeded in producing a clone--an exact genetic copy of himself.
[00:39.24]According to the account,the clonal offspring,
[00:44.72]now two years old,is living with his "father" in California.
[00:51.30]The book caused a small uproar.
[00:55.72]Clone movies and clone jokes sprang up overnight.
[01:01.52]A group of scientists demanded that the federal government
[01:07.11]disclose all the studies
[01:11.00]it has funded on cloning and the related area of cell biology
[01:18.47]Hearings were held on the subject.
[01:22.47]The author was conveniently unable to appear.
[01:27.46]But some distinguished biological researchers
[01:33.26]offered their opinion that the book was purely fantastic.
[01:39.87]They pointed out that cell researchers
[01:44.75]simply do not yet know enough to bring off such a feat,
[01:50.76]even if they wanted to.
[01:54.47]Last spring,a book was published telling the supposedly
[02:02.15]true story of an elderly millionaire
[02:07.14]who,at great expense,
[02:11.24]succeeded in producing a clone--an exact genetic copy of himself
[02:18.42]According to the account,the clonal offspring,
[02:24.01]now two years old,is living with his "father" in California.
[02:30.52]The book caused a small uproar.
[02:34.91]Clone movies and clone jokes sprang up overnight.
[02:40.81]A group of scientists demanded that the federal government
[02:46.40]disclose all the studies it has funded on cloning
[02:52.62]and the related area of cell biology.
[02:57.71]Hearings were held on the subject.
[03:01.71]The author was conveniently unable to appear.
[03:06.70]But some distinguished biological researchers
[03:12.47]offered their opinion that the book was purely fantastic.
[03:19.05]They pointed out that cell researchers simply do not
[03:25.56]yet know enough to bring off such a feat,
[03:31.15]even if they wanted to.
[03:36.03]4.3 Note-Taking 1.As you listen to the next passage,
[03:46.14]put down some notes about the points in your book.
[03:50.53]Yesterday was Jim's birthday.
[03:54.24]He got a lot of presents from his friends and family.
[03:59.33]All the gifts were wrapped in brightly-colored wrapping paper
[04:04.53]Some of the packages were large,but others were very small.
[04:10.72]Some were heavy,and others were light.
[04:15.22]One square package was blue;there was a book in it.
[04:20.81]Another one was long and narrow;it had an umbrella in it.
[04:26.81]Jim's sister gave him a big,round package.
[04:32.01]He thought it was a ball,but it wasn't.
[04:36.90]When he removed the yellow paper that covered it,
[04:41.60]he saw that it was a globe.
[04:45.81]After that Jim's brother gave him another gift.
[04:50.80]It was a big box wrapped in green paper.
[04:55.29]Jim opened it and found another box covered with red paper.
[05:00.98]He removed the paper and saw a third box;
[05:07.07]this one was blue in color.
[05:10.54]Everyone laughed as Jim opened the boxes.There were six of them!
[05:17.52]In the last one he found a small white envelope.
[05:22.61]There was a piece of paper in the envelope that said:
[05:27.39]"Go to the spare bedroom.Look in the closet near the window.
[05:33.48]You will see three suitcases:a black one,
[05:38.68]a brown one and a gray one.
[05:42.39]Your birthday present is in one of these."
[05:46.98]Jim went to the spare bedroom.
[05:50.67]He went to the closet and began opening the suitcases.
[05:55.84]He had to open all of them before he saw his brother's present.
[06:01.43]He was very happy.It was just what Jim wanted--a laptop computer.
[06:09.21]Part 5 Exercises for Homework 5.3 Listening Practice Part One.
[06:21.81]Conversations.You're going to hear 10 short conversations.
[06:28.91]After each conversation you'll hear a question.
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