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* * Unit 1 Happy New Millennium 迎接新千禧 Step by Step 2000 Listen carefully and repeat what you’ve hear on the tape. Finish the blanks in your textbook. Section A : Listen to some statements about the time ball. Fill in the Blanks with what you hear on the tape 1.The time ball was originally used as a marine ____________. 2.The Greenwich time ball is said to be the world’s first public __________. 3.The ball is automatically raised halfway up the mast at ________ to the Top at 12:58 p.m., and drop at________ . 4. Around ___________ public time balls are known or reported to have Been installed around the world after that at Greenwich in 1833. 5. The U.S. Naval Observatory dropped the first time ball in the United States in _________. 6. Time balls were used in many cities around the U.S. during _________. time-keeper time signal 12:55 p.m. 150 1844 the 19th century 1:00 p.m. Word Phrases Section A : Listen to some statements about the time ball. Fill in the Blanks with what you hear on the tape 7. At the turn of the 20th Century dozens of time balls were being dropped _________________. 8. A few time balls are still ceremonially dropped around the world, ranging From ____________ to the Old Royal Observatory in ____________. Section B : Listen to a news report about the lowering of the time ball. Answer the questions with the key words. Slow Clear Fast Noisy around the world New Zealand Greenwich Section B : Listen to a news report about the lowering of the time ball. Answer the questions with the key words. Tapescript: In the age of __________________, many places around the world will mark the start of the New Year in an ___________ way. They will revive a 19th century naval tradition by dropping time balls when 2000 arrives. _____sites on six continents will observe a tradition best exemplified by the lowering of the lighted time ball in __________ City. “As the New Year sweeps around the world, beginning at the ____________________,