“大学英语自主听力教程”分为6册，每册重点明确，循序渐进，形成一个有机的整体，系统性强。

第一册《音调并举》的内容有：音素、元音辨识、辅音辨识、辅音连缀、重读与轻读、不完全爆破、同化与省音、连读、意群与停顿、词重音与句子重音、重音转移、节奏及语调。

本书主要供各类大专院校一年级学生及英语自修者使用，同时也可供那些渴望提高英语听力的高年级学生及研究生采用。

本书是《大学英语自主听力教程》的第一册，共16个单元，由音素、元音辨识、辅音辨识、辅音连缀、重读与轻读、不完全爆破、同化与省音、连读、意群与停顿、词重音与句子重音、重音转移、节奏及语调等内容组成。每单元都依据练习内容安排练习形式，独具匠心地将枯燥乏味的语音、语调训练用具有生动意义的形式表现出来，既有助于掌握基本的语音、语调知识，矫正语音、改进语调；又能扩大词汇量，提高实际应用语言的能力。参考答案和录音文稿附于书后，便于读者自行掌握并调节进度。

本书主要供各类大专院校一年级学生及英语自修者使用，同时也可供那些渴望提高英语听力的高年级学生及研究生采用。

Unit One English Phonemes

Exercise 1 Getting familiar with English phonemes

Exercise 2 English phonemes in words

Exercise 3 Homophones

Exercise 4 English phonemes in phrases

Exercise 5 Relaxation

Unit Two Sound Recognition Vowels I

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

     /i:/ , /i/ , /el and/0el

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds.

   /u:/, /u/, /:/ and //

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 8 Identifying confusing words in the underlined words

Exercise 9 Distinguishing teens from tens

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Three Sound Recognition Vowels ][

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   /d, /a:/, /e/ and /el/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   //,//,/o:/and/ou/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 8 Identifying confusing sounds in the underlined word

Exercise 9 Identifying ordinal numbers

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Four Sound Recognition Consonants [

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   /s/, /0/, /f/ and /ty

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in groups of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   /f/ , /v/ , /s/ and /z/

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 8 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 9 Years and Dates

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Unit Five Sound Recognition Consonants ][

Exercise 1 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   /v/ , /w/ , /1/ and /n/

Exercise 2 Dictation

Exercise 3 Distinguishing confusing sounds in pairs of words

Exercise 4 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 5 Distinguishing confusing sounds:

   /n/, /0/ , /d/ and //

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Identifying a word in the context of a sentence

Exercise 8 Identifying the words containing:

   /d/or//

Exercise 9 Telephone Numbers

Exercise 10 Relaxation

Quiz Unit 1--Unit 5

Unit Six Consonant Clusters

Exercise 1 Initial clusters imitation

Exercise 2 Hunting initial clusters

Exercise 3 Medial clusters imitation

Exercise 4 Final clusters imitation

Exercise 5 Hunting final clusters

Exercise 6 Matching definition

Exercise 7 Passage understanding

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Seven Strong and Weak Forms

Exercise 1 Sentence dictation

Exercise 2 The weak form of determiners

Exercise 3 Dictation for verb forms

Exercise 4 The weak form of special verbs

Exercise 5 The weak form of pronouns

Exercise 6 The weak form of conjunctions and prepositions

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Eight Incomplete Piosion

Exercise 1 Imitating incomplete plosives

Exercise 2 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 3 Getting acquainted with incomplete plosives

     ( Plosive + Fricative / Affricate )

Exercise 4 Taking a dictation of phrases

Exercise 5 Getting familiarized with incomplete plosives

     ( Plosive + Nasal / Lateral )

Exercise 6 Taking a dictation of words and expressions

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Relaxation

Unit Nine Assimilation and Elision

Exercise 1 Historical assimilation I

Exercise 2 Historical assimilation II

     (Coalescent assimilation)

Exercise 3 Contextual assimilation

Exercise 4 Sentence dictation

Exercise 5 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 6 Spotting differences

Exercise 7 Dictation for elision

Exercise 8 Spotting silent-letters

Exercise 9 Relaxation

Unit Ten Liaison

Exercise I Taking a dictation of sentences

Exercise 2 Linking final consonant with initial vowels

Exercise 3 Imitating "r" liaison

Exercise 4 Sharpening up your ears

Exercise 5 Linking final vowels with initial vowel sounds

Exercise 6 Spotting liaison

Exercise 7 Testing your ears

Exercise 8 Getting acquainted with liaison

Exercise 9 Relaxation

Quiz Unit 6--Unit 10

Unit Eleven Sense Groups and Pausing

Exercise 1 Marking pauses in sentences

Exercise 2 Marking pauses in a passage

Exercise 3 Punctuating a proverb

Exercise 4 Spotting pauses

Exercise 5 Pauses and imitation

Exercise 6 Passage understanding

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Twelve Word Stress and Sentence Stress

Exercise 1 Marking the stressed syllables

Exercise 2 Identifying differences

Exercise 3 Marking the stressed words

Exercise 4 Marking the stressed words in a poem

Exercise 5 Poem appreciation

Exercise 6 Relaxation

Unit Thirteen Stress Shifts

Exercise I Spotting stress

Exercise 2 Stress distinction

Exercise 3 Identifying stress

Exercise 4 Stress application

Exercise 5 Matching stress patterns

Exercise 6 Relaxation

Unit Fourteen Rhythm

Exercise 1 Spotting longer vowels in each pair

Exercise 2 Liaison revision

Exercise 3 Experiencing rhythm

Exercise 4 Identifying rhythm

Exercise 5 Identifying stress patterns

Exercise 6 Rhythm appreciation

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Fifteen Intonation I

Exercise 1 Experiencing intonation

Exercise 2 Intonation distinction

Exercise 3 Intonation identification

Exercise 4 Intonation application

Exercise 5 Intonation appreciation

Exercise 6 Dictation

Exercise 7 Relaxation

Unit Sixteen Intonation ][

Exercise 1 Spotting stress

Exercise 2 Identifying meaning

Exercise 3 Intonation implication

Exercise 4 Intonation application

Exercise 5 Relaxation

Quiz Unit ll--Unit 16

Tapeseripts and Key

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