《新概念英語》(New Concept Eng-lish)壹書近幾年來在國內廣為采用,上海外語 教育 出版社1982年底發行了這套書,並附有譯文,這對學習者是很有幫助的。下面是我帶來的新概念英語3 文章 聽力，歡迎閱讀!
新概念英語3文章聽力1
A Puma at large
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted 45 miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar. The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw 'a large cat' only 5 yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place 20 miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of 'cat-like noises' at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from ? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.
美洲獅是壹種體形似貓的大動物，產於美洲。當倫敦動物園接到 報告 說，在倫敦以南45英裏處發現壹只美洲獅時，這些報告並沒有受到重視。可是，隨著證據越來越多，動物園的專家們感到有必要進行壹番調查，因為凡是聲稱見到過美洲獅的人們所描述的情況竟是出奇地相似。 搜尋美洲獅的工作是從壹座小村莊開始的。那裏的壹位婦女在采摘黑莓時的看見?壹只大貓?，離她僅5碼遠，她剛看見它，它就立刻逃走了。專家證實，美洲獅非被逼得走投無路，是決不會傷人的。事實上搜尋工作很困難，因為常常是早晨在甲地發現那只美洲獅，晚上卻在20英裏外的乙地發現它的蹤跡。無論它走哪兒，壹路上總會留下壹串死鹿及死兔子之類的小動物，在許多地方看見爪印，灌木叢中發現了粘在上面的美洲獅毛。有人抱怨說夜裏聽見?像貓壹樣的叫聲?;壹位商人去釣魚，看見那只美洲獅在樹上。專家們如今已經完全肯定那只動物就是美洲獅，但它是從哪兒來的呢?由於全國動物園沒有壹家報告丟了美洲獅，因此那只美洲獅壹定是某位私人 收藏 豢養的，不知怎麽設法逃出來了。搜尋工作進行了好幾個星期，但始終未能逮住那只美洲獅。想到在寧靜的鄉村裏有壹頭危險的野獸繼續逍遙流竄，真令人擔心。
Mutilated ladies
Has it ever happened to you? Have you ever put your trousers in the washing machine and then remembered there was a large bank note in your back pocket? When you rescued your trousers, did you find the note was whiter than white? People who live in Britain needn't despair when they made mistakes like this and a lot of people do! Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team called Mutilated Ladies which deals with claims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog. Dogs, it seems, love to chew up money! A recent case concerns Jane Butlin whose fianc?, John, runs a successful furniture business. John had a very good day and put his wallet containing ?3,000 into the microwave oven for safekeeping. Then he and Jane went horse-riding. When they got home, Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven and without realizing it, cooked her fianc?'s wallet as well. Imagine their dismay when they found a beautifully-cooked wallet and notes turned to ash! John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains of wallet and the money to the special department of the Bank of England in Newcastle: the Mutilated Ladies! They examined the remains and John got all his money back. 'So long as there's something to identify, we will give people their money back,' said a spokeswoman for the Bank. 'Last year, we paid ?1.5 million on 21,000 claims.'
這種事情在妳身上出現過嗎?妳有沒有把褲子塞洗衣機，然後又想在褲子的後兜有壹張大面值的紙幣?當妳把褲子搶救出來時，妳有沒有發現那張紙幣已經變得比白紙還白?當英國人犯這種錯誤時，他們不必感到絕望(而許多國家的人都有這種絕望的感覺)。對英國人來說，值得慶幸的是英國銀行有壹個殘鈔鑒別組，負責理那些把錢塞進機器或塞給狗的人提出的索賠要求。看起來，狗很喜歡咀嚼錢幣。 最近的壹個案例與簡.巴特林有關，她的未婚夫約翰擁有壹家生意興隆家具店。有壹天約翰的生意很好，他把壹只裝有3,000 英鎊的錢包放進微波爐內保存。然後，他和簡壹起去騎馬。回家後，簡用微波爐煮了晚飯，無意中之中把她未婚夫的錢包也壹起煮了。可以想像他們發現壹只煮得很好看的錢包，鈔票已化成灰時的沮喪心情。約翰去找銀行經理，經理把約翰的錢包和紙幣的殘留物送到英國銀行在紐卡斯爾的壹個專門部門?殘鈔鑒別組。他們鑒定了這些殘留物。約翰拿回了他損失的全部數額。?只要有東西可供識別，我們會把錢還給人家的，?銀行的壹位女發言人說。?去年，我們對21，000 起索賠要求支付了150萬英鎊。?
新概念英語3文章聽力2
The facts
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president's palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refused to publish it. The article began: 'Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president's palace'. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him to find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall. The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took a long time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the 15-foot wall which surrounded the president's palace.
報刊雜誌的編輯常常為了向讀者提供成立壹些關緊要的事實和統計數字而走向極端。去年，壹位記者受壹家有名的雜誌的委托寫壹篇關於非洲某個新成立***和國總統府的文章。稿子寄來後，編輯看第壹句話就拒絕予以發表。文章的開頭是這樣的：?幾百級臺階通向環繞總統的高墻。?編輯立即給那位記者發去傳真，要求他核實壹下臺階的確切數字和圍墻的高度。 記者立即出發去核實這些重要的事實，但過了好長時間不見他把數字寄來，在此期間，編輯等得不耐煩了，因為雜誌馬上要復印。他給記者先後發去兩份傳真，但對方毫無反應。於是他又發了壹份傳真，通知那位記者說，若再不迅速答復，將被解雇。但記者還是沒有回復。編輯無奈，勉強按原樣發稿了。壹周之後，編輯終於接到記者的傳真。那個可憐的記者不僅被捕了，而且還被送進了監獄。不過，他終於獲準發回了壹份傳真。在傳真中他告訴編輯，就在他數通向15英尺高的總統府圍墻的1，084級臺階時，被抓了起來。
The double life of Alfred Bloggs
These days, people who do manual work often receive far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently referred to as "white-collar workers' for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. This can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation. When he got married, Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home dressed in a smart black suit. He then changed into overalls and spent the next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home at night, he took a shower and changed back into his suit. Alf did this for over two years and his fellow dustmen kept his secret Alf's wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will, for Alf has just found another job. He will soon be working in an office. He will be earning only half as much as he used to, but he feels that his rise in status is well worth the loss of money. From now on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him 'Mr. Bloggs', not 'Alf'.
如今，從事體力勞動的人的收入壹般要比坐辦公室的人高出許多。坐辦公室的之所以常常被稱作?白領工人?，就是因為他們通常是穿著硬領白襯衫，系著領帶去上班。許多人常常情願放棄較高的薪水以換取做白領工人的殊榮，此乃人之常情。而這常常會引起種種奇怪的現象，在埃爾斯米爾公司當清潔工的艾爾弗雷德.布洛斯就是壹個例子。 艾爾弗結婚時，感到非常難為情，而沒有將自己的職業告訴妻子。他只說在埃爾斯米爾公司上班。每天早晨，他穿上壹身漂亮的黑色西裝離家上班，然後換上工作服，當8個小時清潔工。晚上回家前，他洗個淋浴，重新換上那身黑色西服。兩年多以來，艾爾弗壹直這樣，他的同事也為他保守秘密。艾爾弗的妻子壹直不知道她嫁給了壹個清潔工，而且她永遠也不會知道了，因為艾爾弗已找到薪職，不久就要坐辦公室裏工作了。他將來掙的錢只有他現在的壹半。不過他覺得，地位升高了，損失點兒錢也值得。從此，艾爾弗可以壹天到晚穿西服了。別人將稱呼他為?布洛格斯先生?，而不再叫他?艾爾弗?了。
新概念英語3文章聽力3
An unknown goddess
Some time ago, and interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini. The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization. Houses, often three storeys high, were built of stone. They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls. The city was equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets. The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from the 15th century B.C. until Roman times. In the most sacred room of temple, clay fragments of 15 statues were found. Each of these represented a goddess and had, at one time, been painted. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the 15th century B.C. It's missing head happened to be among remains of the 5th century B.C. This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman. She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips. She was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.
不久之前，在愛琴海的基亞島上，考古工作者有壹項有趣的發現。壹個美國考古隊在阿伊亞.依裏尼海角的壹座古城裏考察了壹座廟宇。這座古城肯定壹度很繁榮，因為它曾享有高度的文明，房子壹般有3層樓高，用石塊修建。裏面房間很大，墻壁裝飾華麗。城裏甚至還敷設了排水系統，因為在狹窄的街道底下發現了許許多多陶土制作的排水管道。 考古工作者考察的這座廟宇從公元前15世紀直到羅馬時代壹直是祭祀祈禱的場所。在廟中最神聖的壹間殿堂裏發現了15尊陶雕像的碎片。每壹尊雕像代表壹位女神，而且壹度上過色。其中有壹尊雕像，她的軀體是在公元前15世紀的歷史文物中發現的，而她那身異處的腦袋卻碰巧是在公元前5世紀的文物中找到的。她的腦袋壹定是在古希臘羅馬時代就為人所發現，並受到精心的保護。即使在當時，它也屬歷史悠久的珍奇之物。考古工作者把這些碎片重新拼裝起來後，驚奇地發現那位女神原來是壹位相貌十分摩登的女郎。她身高3英尺，雙手叉腰。身穿壹條拖地長裙，盡管上了年紀，但體態確實優美。不過，考古工作者至今未能確定這位女神的身份。
Thirteen equals one
Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since. One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck 13 times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer. 'Whatever are you doing up here Bill?' asked the vicar in surprise. ?I'm trying to repair the bell,? answered Bill.?I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.? 'You certainly did give me a surprise!' said the vicar. 'You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.' 'That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o'clock it will strike 13 times and there's nothing I can do about it.' 'We'll get used to that Bill,' said the vicar. '13 is not as good as one but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.'
我們教區的牧師總是為各種各樣的事籌集資金。但始終未能籌足資金把教堂的鐘修好。教堂的鐘很大，以前不分晝夜打點報時，但很多年前遭到毀壞，從此便無聲無息了。 壹天夜裏，我們的牧師突然被驚醒了，大鐘又在?打點?報時了!他壹看表，才1點鐘，可是那鐘壹邊敲了13下才停。牧師拿著壹支電筒走上鐘樓想去看看究竟發生了什麽事情。借著電筒光。他看見壹個人，馬上認出那是本地雜貨店主經比爾.威爾金斯。 ?妳究竟在這上面幹什麽，比爾?牧師驚訝地問。 ?我想把這口鐘修好，?比爾回答說。?好幾個星期了，我天天夜裏到鐘樓上來。嗯，我是想讓妳大吃壹驚。 妳確實使我大吃了壹驚!?牧師說，?也許同時妳把村裏所有的人都吵醒了。不過，鐘又能報時了，我還是很高興的。 問題就在這裏，牧師，?比爾回答說。?不錯，鐘能報時了，但是，恐怕每到1點鐘，它總要敲13下，對此我已無能為力了。 大家慢慢就習慣了，比爾，?牧師說。?13下是不如1下好，但總比1下也不敲強。來，咱們下樓去喝杯茶吧。?