Exercise A
Directions: Listen to the news item and complete the summary.
This news item is about an annual Kemper Open golf tournament on Thursday.
Exercise B
Directions: Listen to the news again and answer the following questions.
1. The Kemper Open golf tournament will be held on Thursday. 2. Rich Beem comes back to defend his title. 3. He is currently ranked 132nd on the money list.
4. Tiger Woods is number-one on golf\'s money list and in the world rankings. 5. He has to take a break after a match on Monday. 6. There are 156 golfers taking part in this event. 7. The total prize money is three million dollars. 8. The prize for the first place is 540 thousand dollars
Section Four Supplementary Exercise
Part 1 Feature Report
US Men’s National Collegiate Basketball Tournament
The widely followed US men\'s national collegiate basketball tournament concludes tonight (9 p.m. EST) in Atlanta with a championship match-up* between Maryland and Indiana.
Maryland is in the championship game for the first time in the school history. To get here, the Maryland Terrapins had to beat three teams with great basketball traditions: Kentucky, Connecticut and Kansas.
Now they face another, Indiana. while Maryland was one of the four top seeds in this 65-team tournament, the Indiana Hoosiers* were a fifth seed, and virtually no one expected them to reach the title game*. But they knocked off defending champion Duke in the third round, and in the semifinals they upset Oklahoma.
Maryland coach Gary Williams knows it will take a solid effort to win. team that\'s gotten to where Indiana has gotten, you don\'t look at their record. You look at how they\'re playing now, how they play. Any time a team plays team defense like they do, they have a chance to beat anybody. That\'s what concerns me the most, their ability to play together as a unit, because a lot of times you can play with anybody when you play that close together like they do.
Indiana has 27 wins and 11 defeats this season. The last time a team won the national championship with as many as 11 losses was Kansas in 1988. Maryland has a school record of 31 wins against only 4 losses. It has three seniors in the starting line-up* who reached the semifinals last year, and they are determined that this time they will take home the school\'s first men\'s national basketball championship.
Exercise A
Directions: Listen to the news report and complete the summary.
This news report is about two teams that will compete for the championship of US men\'s national collegiate basketball tournament.
Exercises B
Directions: Listen to the news again and complete the following sentences. 1. Maryland moves in the championship game for the first time in the school history.
2. The Maryland Terrapins had to beat three teams with great basketball traditions before it reached the title game.
3. Among the 65 teams, the Indiana team was a fifth seed. 4. Indiana has 27 wins and 11 defeats this season.
5. Last year the Maryland Terrapins reached the semifinals.
6. In 1988, the team who won the national championship with as many as 11 losses was Kansas.
Part 2 Passage
Who on Earth Invented the Airplane?
1. He would keep his dirigible tied to a gas lamp post in front of his Paris
apartment and during the day he\'d fly to go shopping or to visit friends. 2. Since his was the first public flight in the world, he was hailed as the
inventor of the airplane all over Europe.
3. But to bring up the Wright brothers with a Brazilian is bound to elicit an
avalanche of arguments as to why their flight didn\'t count.
4. His flight did meet the criteria: He took off unassisted, publicly flew a
predetermined length and then landed safely.
5. By the time the Brazilian got around to his maiden flight the Wright brothers had already flown numerous times, including one flight in which they flew 39 kilometers.
Ask anyone in Brazil who invented the airplane, and they will say Alberto Santos-Dumont, a bon vivant as well-known for his aerial prowess as he was for his dandyish* dress and place in the high-society life of Belle Epoque Paris.
As Paul Hoffman recounts in his biography Wings of Madness, the eccentric* Brazilian was the only person in his day to own a flying machine.
apartment at the Champs Elysees, and every night he would fly to Maxim\'s for dinner. During the day he\'d fly to go shopping or to visit friends,said.
It was on November 12, 1906, when Santos-Dumont flew a kite-like contraption* with boxy wings called the 14-Bis some 220 meters on the outskirts of Paris. Since his was the first public flight in the world, he was hailed as the inventor of the airplane all over Europe.
It was only later that Orville and Wilbur Wright proved they had beaten Santos-Dumont at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, three years earlier.
