英语高级视听_听力原文_Unit6TheCoalCowboy
朗文英语听说教程二听力原文_Unit_06
Unit 6 Immigration: Bound for the United StatesIntroductionTEACHER: All right. Let’s get started. U.S. immigration is our topic today. I know many of you are immigrants, so you know something about this topic. As you may know by my last name, I have a German background; my parents immigrated to the U.S. from Germany about fifty years ago . . . . Yes, question?STUDENT 1: Does that mean you’re an immigrant?TEACHER: Well, no. My parents are immigrants. They came to the States from Germany. I’m a first generation German-American because I was born here. First, we’ll talk briefly about immigration, the history of immigration to the U.S., and the story of diversity in the U.S.Body: Part 1To immigrate means to move from one country to another. It’s a permanent move. By contrast, if you go to live and work in France for two years, you don’t immigrate there; you move there temporarily, because you plan to return to your country. So to immigrate means to move to another country to live there indefinitely. Immigration happens all over the world. Most people do it to improve their economic or social situation.Body: Part 2What I’ll do now is give you a brief chronology of U.S. immigration. Let’s start with the colonial period, the first wave of immigrants in the seventeenth century. Most immigrants were from Western Europe. Although the Spaniards arrived in 1513, the first permanent settlement in North America was one that the British started in l607 in Jamestown, Virginia. People were not prohibited from immigrating by the British; anyone could come. Life was difficult, and some people did not survive, but people felt it was worth the risk to have a better life in the colonies. The French, Spanish, and Dutch also came, but in smaller numbers. I should also point out that about 20 percent of the population at this time was African American. However, most weren’t immigrants; they were brought from Africa as slaves. Today we’re limiting our discussion to voluntary immigrants―to people who choose to come to the U.S. Now, by 1775, the U.S. population had grown to about 2.5 million. The country was growing fast. Some thought too fast. So in the 1790s, laws were passed to control immigration for the first time. The Naturalization Act of 1798 required immigrants to live in the U.S. a certain number of years before they became citizens.Body: Part 3The second big wave of immigration happened between 1840 and 1920. During this wave, about 37 million people came to the U.S. The industrial revolution had begun in Europe, causing a big shift from farming to factory jobs. Many left for the U.S., hoping to continue doing the farming jobs they knew. About 80 percent of these second wave immigrants were from all over Europe. During this second wave, Chinese workers also came to the U.S., mostly as contract workers. They arranged, or contracted, to work for an American company before they left home. Most of them worked in the gold mines of California, and later built railroads. Then laws were passed in the 1880s to keep most contract workers out. Now let’s see, where are we? Ah, yes, uh, 1891. In 1891, the U.S. Congress created the INS, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to control immigration. Any of you who want to immigrate to the U.S. have heard of the INS. Up until 1891, each state had its own laws and could decide whichimmigrants could enter. So no one really controlled the total number of people allowed in each year. After 1891, the federal government made the laws instead. A year later, in 1892, the INS opened Ellis Island, in New York Harbor. Ships would go past the Statue of Liberty, the symbol of a new life for many people, and, stop at Ellis Island. Have any of you seen Ellis Island? Or the Statue of Liberty? You have, Stefan?STUDENT 2: Yes, I have. The Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.TEACHER: What did you think?STUDENT 2: Very impressive. Interesting, too.TEACHER: Yes, it is interesting now that Ellis Island has been made into a museum. It’s an important part of American history. Between 1892 and 1954, when Ellis Island was closed, about 12 million immigrants entered through there, most from Europe. I’d encourage you all to go for a visit. Let’s go back for a minute. About 9 million people entered the U.S. between 1900 and 1910. As a result, the U.S. government decided that it needed to limit the number of immigrants. This led to a series of new laws. First, the Immigration Act of 1917 was passed to restrict who could enter. Then in 1921, the U.S. Congress passed a quota system. This meant they decided that a certain number of people from each country could enter the U.S. each year. For example, 2 million from Germany could enter. Once that number had immigrated, no more were allowed until the next year. That’s how the quota system worked. During this period, say up until the 1960s, the U.S. was called a “melting pot.” The attitude was that immigrants had to give up their traditions and cultures in order to create a uniform society. People were expected to forget about being Italian or Chinese. They were expected to learn English and to adjust to American ways of doing things.Body: Part 4Now, let’s look at the third wave, the period from 1965 to the present time. In 1965, the quota system was abolished. Instead, a limit of 290,000 was set on the total number of people who could enter each year. During the 1970s and 1980s, about 80 percent of the immigrants were from Latin America and Asia, and only 20 percent were from Europe and elsewhere. So if you compare the second and third waves, you see that in the second wave it was mostly Europeans, and in the third wave it was mostly Latin Americans and Asians. Again, economic opportunity was the main reason people immigrated. Each year, after 1965, many people wanted to immigrate to the U.S., many more than the 290,000 limit. This led to the Immigration Act of 1990. The Immigration Act of 1990 raised the yearly limit from 290,000 to 700,000. However, from 1990 to the present, the actual number has been closer to 1 million, one reason for this being that the U.S. needs workers for many of its service jobs, such as in restaurants or hotels or in farming.Body: Part 5In recent years, many people in the U.S. have come to realize that the country’s greatest strength is the diversity of its people. So, the old melting pot ideal has been replaced with the ideal of cultural diversity, with recognizing the importance of Americans’ many different cultural backgrounds. You can see this today in strong communities that are Korean-American, Japanese-American, Italian-American, Mexican-American, and so on. Any questions about this? Susan?STUDENT 3: I’m confused. I thought the melting pot was a good thing, that people should mix together and form a strong society.TEACHER: Yes, I think you’re right－we do want to mix together and form a strong society. But now the metaphor is that we want to have a mixed salad, where each ingredient keeps its original flavor, too. Does that sound like a good thing?STUDENT 3: Yes, it makes sense.ConclusionTEACHER: Well, let’s sum up. There were several waves of immigration into the U.S. The earlier waves were mostly Europeans, while the later waves have been mostly people from Latin America and Asia. The main reason has always been economic; they are looking for better jobs and a better life than they had in their home country. In the next class, I’m going to talk about current immigration laws. We’ll start there next time. That’s all for today。
《现代大学英语听力2》听力原文及题目答案Unit6
I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.Unit 6Task 1【答案】A.[d]—[b]—[a]—[e]—[c]B.a【原文】Laura usually leaves the offices of Quest Productions at about 5 o'clock, but last Monday she leftat 5:30. She wanted to get home by 6:30 and she ran to the bus stop but she couldn't get on a bus. There were too many people and not enough buses. Laura was desperate to get home so she decided to go by tube.In the station she went to one of the automatic ticket machines but she didn't have enough change, so she had to join the queue at the ticket window. She bought her ticket and ran to the escalator. Laura went to the platform and waited for the tube. It arrived and the crowd moved forward.Laura was pushed into the train. It was almost full but she was given a seat by a man with a moustache. Laura thanked him and sat down. She started to read her newspaper. In the tunnel the train stopped suddenly and Laura was thrown to the floor together with the man with the moustache. Somebody screamed. The lights went out. It was quarter past 6 on a cold, wet December evening.Task 2【答案】A.1) a 2) b 3) d 4) cB.1) T 2) T 3) FC.wondered; television plays; exciting; every cigarette lighter; tape recorder; held in a certain way;the touch of a gold ring against the hand of; reveal; How wrong they were【原文】X was a secret agent. He had rented a furnished room in a provincial town not far from the public park and had been there two weeks. He was standing at the window looking out at the dull beds of geraniums, the park gates and the cold, uninviting statue of Queen Victoria that stood across the street from him, It was raining hard and the few people who passed by looked wet and miserable. X was miserable, too. How, he wondered, could anybody think there was anything interesting about the life of a secret agent? He knew it was because people had seen so many television plays about glamorous spies that they thought the life of a secret agent was exciting.They were convinced that every cigarette lighter concealed a secret tape recorder; that a fountain pen held in a certain way would open a locked door, that the touch of a gold ring against the handof an enemy would make him reveal all his secrets. How wrong they were! He looked round his room. The wallpaper was in the worst possible taste, the pictures horrible, the carpet worn, dirtyand faded; and he was cold. This was the third Monday he had come to the window to look out.He prayed it would be the last.As if in answer to his prayer, a certain meeting he had been sent to investigate was about to take place. He took out his camera. Just beneath the statue two women had stopped to speak. He knew one of them, and it was she who pointed in his direction. The other woman looked up towards him and in that brief moment he photographed her.Task 3【答案】A.Names Ideal CareersHarry SailorNora Farmer(if she were a man)Robert Civil engineerPeter Racing driver or explorerB.1) a 2) b 3) c 4) b 5) d【原文】Harry: Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college?Nora: Oh Harry. Surely he's a bit young to decide on his career. He hasn't even got to college yet. Harry: Not at all, Nora. It's wisest to decide in good time. Look at me, for example. I really wanted to be a sailor, but now I spend my days sitting at a desk in an office. Yes, it's sillyto train for the wrong job. And after all, Robert will be going to college soon.Nora: Now if I were a man I'd be a farmer. To see the crops growing--that's my idea of a good life.Harry: Yes, and to see the money rolling in is more important still.Robert: Well, that's not the way I look at it, Dad. It's the job I care about, not the money.Harry: Maybe not; but you'll learn to care about the money too, when you've got a family to keep.Nora: And of course Peter — well, he's keen to be a racing driver, or else an explorer.Robert: Oh, Peter's not old enough to make up his mind about such things.Harry: You haven't answered my question yet, Robert. What would you like to do?Nora: Are you sure you don't want to be a farmer, Robert? Or a market gardener?Robert: No, I'm sorry Mum, but I don't want to at all. I'd rather be a civil engineer. I want to build roads and bridges.Harry: Not ships? Isn't it better to be a shipbuilding engineer?Robert: Look here, is it my career we're planning, or yours?Harry: All fight, all right, there's no need to lose your temper. But you'd better win that scholarship first.Task 4【答案】I. correspondents; columnistA. may not need eitherB. to go to places where events take place and write stories about themII. first; bigger; better; who will soon leave to work for other peopleIII. working hours; free time; work long hours to begin with【原文】Here are some of the things a young man or woman should not do when he first asks an editor for a job:He should not tell the editor that he wants to be a foreign correspondent or a columnist.Very probably the editor does not need either. He wants a reporter who will go to such places as government offices and police stations and write a true story of what is happening there. Being a foreign correspondent or a columnist will come later.A young person should not tell tile editor that newspaper work is only the first step on the way to bigger and better jobs, such as those in government. The editor must take a lot of time and trouble teaching someone to be a good newspaperman or woman. He does not like the idea of teaching people who are soon going to leave him to work for someone else.A young journalist should accept the working hours and free time the editor gives him. Asa new journalist, it is very probable that he will work longer hours than others and work on weekends. The editor did the same when he was a young newspaperman with no experience. He expects a journalist to understand how things are on a newspaper.Task 5【答案】A.1) acd 2) abeB.1) she is the wrong sex 2) she wears the wrong clothes【原文】SYLVIA: We've got a new manager in our department.LARRY: Oh? You hoped to get that job, didn't you?SYLVIA: Yes, I did.LARRY: I'm sorry. That's too bad. Who is it? Who got the job, I mean?SYLVIA: Someone called Drexler. Carl Drexler. He's been with the company only two years.I've been here longer. And I know more about the job, too!LARRY: Hmm. Why do you think they gave it to him and not to you?SYLVIA: Because I'm the wrong sex, of course !LARRY: You mean you didn't get the job because you're a woman?SYLVIA: Yes, that was probably it! It isn't fair.LARRY: What sort of clothes does he wear?SYLVTA: A dark suit. White shirt. A tie. Why?LARRY: Perhaps that had something to do with it.SYLVIA: You mean you think I didn't get the job because I come to work in jeans and a sweater?LARRY: It's possible, isn't it?SYLVIA: Do you really think I should wear different clothes?LARRY: Well. . . perhaps you should think about it.SYLVTA: Why should I wear a skirt? Or a dress?LARRY: I'm not saying you should. I'm saying you should think about it. That's all!SYLVIA: Why should I do that? I'm good at my job! That's the only important thing!LARRY: Hmm. Perhaps it should be the only important thing. But it isn't. Not inthis company.Task 6【答案】A.Former Jobs When Laid-off Why Laid-off1st man Car salesman Recently Low sales, due to theincrease of interestrates2nd man Worker at a vacuumcleaner plant 10 months ago Plant moved toSingapore whereworkers are paidmuch lessB.1st speaker(bcd) 2nd speaker(ae)C.1) F 2) F【原文】Al: Is this the right line to file a claim?Bob: Yeah. It's the same line for everything. You just stand here and wait.Al: Oh. Is there always such a long line?Bob: Every week. Sometimes longer. Is this your first time here?Al: Yes.Bob: What happened? Your plant closed down?Al: No. I'm a car salesman, or, I was a car salesman. But we just aren't selling cars. It's the interest rates. Two years ago, I averaged ten new cars a month. Do you know how many carsI sold last month? One. One car to a lady who had the cash. But the interest rates are up again.The boss let three of us go. How about you?Bob: I worked at a vacuum cleaner plant with about fifty workers. We put in a good day's work.But the machinery was getting old. As a matter of fact, the whole plant was old. So the management decided to build a new plant. You know where? In Singapore. The workers here made about seven dollars an hour, a couple of people made eight or nine an hour. You know how much they're paying the workers in Singapore? $2.50 an hour! Anyway, all fifty of usgot laid off.Al: How long ago was that?Bob: They closed down ten months ago.Al: Any luck finding another job?Bob: Nothing. I have one, sometimes two, interviews a week. Last week I thought I had something.They liked my experience with machines. But I never heard from them again.Al: At least you know something about machines. All I can do is talk.Bob: Maybe you'll talk yourself into another job. Good luck. I'll see you here next week.Al: I hope not. I hope I'll have something by then.Task 7【答案】A.1) F 2) F 3) T 4) F 5) T 6) FB.1) According to the first speaker, it is frustrating because the teacher cannot see clearly the resultsof his efforts.2) According to the second speaker, English language teaching is a good job, because it guaranteesa stable income and regular working hours and means less pressure. He also likes the way elderly teacher are.【原文】Interviewer: Do you prefer what you're doing to teaching?John Smith: Yes, one of the things I found a bit frustrating about teaching was that it was rather, very intangible than um, especially if you're teaching in England and most of the students knowquite a lot of English before they arrive. They learn a lot of English outside the classroom, in pubsor coffee shops or other places, with the families they're living with. It's very difficult to pin downhow much they learn from your actual lesson, whereas in marketing um, again there are lots of areas that are gray rather than black or white, but there are quite a few other areas where one can see quite clearly the results of one's efforts.Interviewer: What did you do after you quit your job in advertising?Second Man: In fact, I became a journalist and I worked as a freelance. I didn't have a full-time job with any newspaper. I just had to contribute things as they came along and 1wrote for magazines, and I did quite a lot of broadcasting for the VOA. Well, thiswas in a way the opposite of advertising because I enjoyed it a lot but I found it veryhard to earn enough money to live on.Interviewer: And then you decided to be a teacher?Second Man: Well, and so I thought. Well, I must do something which produces an income that I can be sure of. While I was working as a journalist I had done an article for amagazine about the English language teaching world and m fact I had come to theschool where I now teach as a journalist and interviewed a lot of the people. And Ithought it seemed a very nice place and I thought that the classes I visited had a very,very nice feeling about them, and so I thought, well, I'll see if they'll have me. Interviewer: Why do you prefer teaching to advertising?Second Man: Well, partly because in teaching you work regular hours. It I advertising you just had to stay at the office until the work was finished [I see.] and it could be three o'clockin the morning. [Oh, dean] Also you were very often made to work at weekends.Often some job would come up that was very important and they said it had to befinished — it had to go into the newspapers next week.Interviewer: So there was a lot mom pressure.Second Man: There was a lot more pressure in advertising. Also, the people I worked with when I was first in advertising were young hopeful people like myself. By the end I wasworking with a lot of old people who quite honestly were awful. And I kept lookingat them and saying, "Am I going to be like that?" And I thought if I am I'd better getout, whereas the English language teachers I saw, who were older people I thought,well, they seemed quite nice. And I wouldn't mind being like that myself.Task 8【答案】The interview with Michale:Does he work? No.Why or why not? The work he used to do was not what interestedhim and what he likes to do cannot earn himenough money to support himself.What are the advantages of not having to work? 1) You do not have to get up it you don’t feellike it.2) You can spend your time on the things youwant to do.Why does he feel justified in not working? He believes he does things which are enjoyablefor him and useful to people and thecommunity.The interview with Chris:What is the value of work in the current society? Very little value other than supporting oneself and ones family.What are the two main aspects of work? 1) It is a bread-winning process.2) The activities in it can be valuable to society.What does he think of the work of a car factory worker? He thinks it harmful to both the environment and the society, for cars add to pollution and consume the scarce resources.What does he think of the work of a doctor? He thinks it a valuable job in any society.What kind of job does he do? He is perhaps a university teacher.What does he think of his work?He regarded his job a “white collar” job, whichhe does with his mind and receives mentalsatisfaction from it.【原文】Matthew: Michael, do you go out to work?Michael: Not regularly, no. I... I used to; I used to have a job in a publishing company, but I decided it wasn't really what I wanted to do and that what I wanted to do wouldn't earn memuch money, so I gave up working and luckily I had a private income from my family tosupport me and now I do the things I want to do. Some of them get paid like lecturing andteaching, and others don't.Matthew: What are the advantages of not having to go to work from nine till five?Michael: Ah... there' re two advantages really. One is that if you feel tired you don't have to getup, and the other is that you can spend your time doing things you want to do rather thanbeing forced to do the same thing all the time.Matthew: But surely that's in a sense very self-indulgent and very lucky because most of us have to go out and earn our livings. Do you feel justified in having this privileged position?Michael: Yes, because I think I use it well. I do things which I think are useful to people and the community and which I enjoy doing.Matthew: Chris, what do you think the value of work is?Chris: Well, I think in our present-day society, for most people, work has very little value at all.Most of us go out to work for about eight to nine hours of our working day. We do thingswhich are either totally futile and totally useless or have very little justification whatsoever,and for most of us the only reason for working is that we need to keep ourselves alive, topay for somewhere to live, to pay to feed our children.Matthew: But surely people wouldn't know what to do if they didn't have to go to work?Chris: Well, again this raises the sort of two main aspects of work. Should we think of 'work only as a sort of bread-winning process, and this is very much the role it has in currentsociety, or should we take a much wider perspective on work and think of all the possiblesort of activities that human beings could be doing during the day? I think the sort of distinction currently is between say, someone who works in a car factory and who produces cars which are just adding to pollution, to over-consumption of vital resources,who is doing something which is very harmful, both to our environment and to, probablysociety, to contrast his work with someone perhaps like a doctor, who I think in any societycould be justified as doing a very valuable job and one which incidentally is satisfying tothe person who is doing it.Matthew: What do you do? Is your job just a breadwinning process or do you get some satisfaction out of doing it?Chris: Well, in the job I do find that most of the satisfaction is a mental one; it's coming to grips with the problems of my subject and with the problems of teaching in the University.Clearly this is the type of satisfaction that most people doing what we call in England "white-collar" jobs. This is quite different from the sort of craftsman, who is either working that his hands or with his skills on a machine, or from people perhaps who areusing artistic skills, which are of a quite different character. Certainly it's becoming a phenomena that people who do "white-collar jobs during the day, who work with their minds to some extent, people who work on computers, people who are office clerks, bankemployees, these people have fairly soul-destroying jobs which nevertheless don't involvemuch physical effort, that they tend to come home and do "do-it-yourself" activities at home. They make cupboard, paint their houses, repair their cars, which somehow providethe sort of physical job satisfaction that they're denied in their working day.Task 9【答案】A.Interviewees Like their jobs(percent)Dislike their jobs(percent)Like jobs in part(percent)Men91 5 4Women84124Men/Women 18-2470 20 6Men/Women 25-2988 9 3Men/Women 30-3992 8 0White-collar workers87 8 4Blue-collar workers91 5 3B.1) No major change. For som e→“less paperwork”Some:→less working hoursOthers:→earn more money.2) Most adults→would go on working.Esp. young adults (18 to 24)→9 out of 10 would go on working【原文】Are most workers today feeling bored and dissatisfied with their jobs? It is often claimedthat they are. Yet a study conducted by Parade magazine more than 20 years ago showed that people at that time felt the opposite.Parade asked questions of a representative sampling of adult Americans from coast to coast. The sampling included different sexes, age groups, and occupations.The interviewees were asked to make a choice from one of the following three to describe their feelings towards their work.A. Like their jobs.B. Dislike their jobs.C. Like their jobs in part,Results showed that 91 percent of the male interviewees and 84 percent of the females chose A, while only 5 percent men and 12 percent women interviewed chose B. The rest said that they liked their jobs in part and they comprised a very tow percentage.In all the three age groups — from 18 to 24, from 25 to 29 and 30 to 39 — those who liked theirjobs made up the majority. 70 percent, 88 percent and 92 percent respectively choose A. Those choosing B accounted for 20 percent, 9 percent and 8 percent of different age groups. And the rest, 6 percent, 3 percent and 0 percent respectively claimed that they only liked their jobs in part.The difference in responses among people with different occupations is small. Among the white-collar employees, those choosing A, B and C are 87 percent, 8 percent and 4 percent of the total. And for the blue-collar employees, 91 percent, 5 percent and 3 percent choose A, B and C respectively.It is interesting to note that there are few differences in attitude between men and women, professionals and factory workers. In each group, the largest number reported that they liked their jobs.Next, Parade asked, "If there were one thing you could change about your job, what wouldit be?" It was expected that many would wish to make their jobs less boring, but very few gavethis reply. No major changes were reported. Some wished for "less paperwork"; many would shorten their working hours, but others would like more hours in order to earn more money. No serious complaints were made.Most people have to work in order to live. But what would happen if someone had enough money to stop working? Parade asked, "If you inherited a million dollars, would you go on working — either at your present job or something you liked better--or would you quit work?" The answers showed that most adults would prefer to work, even if they didn't have to. This is true especially of the younger adults aged 18-24. Of these, nine out often said they would go on working, even if they suddenly became millionaires.Task 10【答案】A.According to Mother Accordingto CathyIntelligence very bright reasonably intelligentInterests music and dancing tennis and swimming, talking topeopleCareer inclination teacher or vet hairdresserB.1) F 2) TC.1) b 2) aD.1. She really enjoyed meeting new people.2. She had good qualifications in English and Maths.3. She did not mind hard work, even if it was not always pleasant.4. She liked living away form home.【原文】Officer: Come in, please take a seat. I'm the careers officer. You're Cathy, aren't you?Mother: That's right. This is Catherine Hunt, and I'm her mother.Officer: How do you do, Mrs. Hunt? Hello, Catherine.Cathy: Hello. Pleased to meet you.Officer: And you'd like some advice about choosing a career?-Mother: Yes, she would. Wouldn't you, Catherine?Cathy: Yes, please.Officer: Well, just let me ask a few questions to begin with. How old are you, Catherine?Mother: She's nineteen. Well, she's almost nineteen.Officer: And what qualifications have you got?Mother: Well, qualifications from school, of course. Very good results she got. And she got certificates for ballet and for playing the piano.Officer: Is that what you're interested in, Catherine, dancing and music?Cathy: Well...Mother: Ever since she was a little girl, she's been very keen on music and dancing. She ought to be a music teacher or something. She's quite willing to train for a few more years to getthe right job, aren't you, Catherine?Cathy: Well, if it's a good idea.Mother: There you are, you see. She's a good girl really, a bit lazy and disorganized sometimes,but she's very bright. I'm sure the careers officer will have lots of jobs for you.Officer: Well, I'm afraid it's not as easy as that. There are many young people these days who can't find the job they want.Mother: I told you, Catherine. I told you, you shouldn't wear that dress. You have to look smart to get a job these days.Officer: I think she looks very nice. Mrs. Hunt, will you come into the other office for a moment and look at some of the information we have there. I'm sure you'd like to see how we canhelp young people.Mother: Yes, I'd love to. Mind you, I think Catherine would be a nice teacher. She could work with young children. She'd like that. Or she could be a vet. She's always looking after sick animals.Officer: I'm afraid there's a lot of competition. You need very good results to be a vet. This way, Mrs. Hunt. Just wait a minute, Catherine.(The mother exits.)Officer: There are just one or two more things, Catherine.Cathy: Do call me Cathy.Officer: OK, Cathy. Are you really interested in being a vet?Cathy: Not really. Anyway, I'm not bright enough. I'm reasonably intelligent, but I'm not brilliant.I'm afraid my mother is a bit over-optimistic.Officer: Yes, I guessed that. She's a bit overpowering, isn't she, your mum?Cathy: A bit. But she's very kind.Officer: I'm sure she is. So, you're interested in ballet and music, are you?Cathy: Not really. My mother sent me to lessons when I was six, so I'm quite good, I suppose. ButI don't think I want to do that for the rest of my life, especially music. It's so lonely.Officer: What do you enjoy doing?Cathy: Well, I like playing tennis, and swimming. Oh, I went to France with the school choir last year. I really enjoyed that. And I like talking to people. But I suppose you mean real interests — things that would help me to get a job?Officer: No. I'm more interested in what you really want to do. You like talking to people, do you? Cathy: Oh yes, I really enjoy meeting new people.Officer: Do you think you would enjoy teaching?Cathy: No, no, I don't really. I was never very interested in school work, and I'd like to do something different. Anyway, there's a teacher training college very near us. It would be just like going to school again.Officer: So you don't want to go on training?Cathy: Oh, I wouldn't mind at all, not for something useful. I wondered about being a hairdresser — you meet lots of people, and you learn to do something properly—but I don't know. It doesn't seem very worthwhile.Officer: What about nursing?Cathy: Nursing? In a hospital? Oh, I couldn't do that, I'm not good enough.Officer: Yes, you are. You've got good qualifications in English and Maths. But it is very hard work.Cathy: Oh, I don't mind that.Officer: And it's not very pleasant sometimes.-Cathy: That doesn't worry me either. Mum's right. I do look after sick animals. I looked after our dog when it was run over by a car. My mother was sick, but I didn't mind. I was too worriedabout the dog. Do you really think I could be a nurse?Officer: I think you could be a very good nurse. You'd have to leave home, of course.Cathy: I rather think I should enjoy that.Officer: Well, don't decide all at once. Here's some information about one or two other things which might suit you. Have a look through it before you make up your mind.Task 11【原文】I began my career during college, reporting on news stories at a Toronto radio station. The station’s program manager was also a professor who taught one of my classes. I convinced himthat she needed a youth reporter because that year was International Youth Year. After graduation, I took a job as a television news reporter and later, news anchor. But sports reporting was something different, so I decided to try it. Figure skating was my first assignment.I had two months until my new job began. It was like waiting an entire summer for school to start. I spent those two months talking to figure skating coaches and judges. I read boring rule books. I drove to the rinks where the skaters trained, and made notes about our conversations. I even took a lesson, which made some of the skaters laugh.欢迎下载11。
Unit 6 听力原文及译文
Unit 6 I’m watching TV. Section A1b Listen. What are these people doing? Write the numbers from 1a.Bob: Hello, Jenny!Jenny: Hi, Bob.Bob: Jenny, what are you doing?Jenny: I’m watching TV.Bob: Do you want to play tennis?Jenny: No, this TV show is interesting. What’s John doing?Bob: He’s washing the dishes.Jenny: Well, what are Dave and Mary doing?Bob: They’re listening to a CD.2a Listen and match the answers with the questions. Jack: Hello, Steve.Steve: Hi, Jack.Jack: What are you doing, Steve?Steve: I’m watching TV. What about you?Jack: I’m listening to a CD, but it’s kind of boring.Steve: Yeah, my TV show is also not very interes- ting. Do you want to go to the movies?Jack: That sounds good.2b Listen again. Fill in the blanks.Jack: Hello, Steve.Steve: Hi, Jack.Jack: What are you doing, Steve?Steve: I’m watching TV. What about you?Jack: I’m listening to a CD, but it’s kind of boring. Steve: Yeah, my TV show is also not very interes- ting. Do you want to go to the movies? Jack: That sounds good. 听录音。
英语高级视听_听力原文_Unit 6 The Coal Cowboy
America's dependence on foreign oil - President Bush called it "an addiction" in his State of the Union address国情咨文- has become a threat to the country's economy and security.While the president spent much of last week promoting energy alternatives可替代能源of the future, like hybrid杂种，混血儿；混合物cars(使用电池、汽油的)双动力汽车and fuels made from wood chips木片，木屑, the governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, says there's something we can have up把某人请来作客；起诉and running in the next five years.What he has in mind is using the coal, billions of tons of it, under the high plains高地平原；高平原of his home state家乡州. The governor tells correspondent Lesley Stahl he wants to use an existing process to turn that coal into a synthetic综合的；合成的，人造的liquid fuel液体燃料；液态燃料, or synfuel合成燃料.The plan is controversial, but Gov. Schweitzer - half Renaissance man文艺复兴人；多才多艺的人, half rodeo竞技表演；竞技者cowboy牛仔；牧童；莽撞的人- seems ready for the challenge. In fact, he sounds like he's ready to take on承担；呈现；具有；流行；接纳；雇用；穿上the world."Why wouldn't we create an economic engine经济引擎经济发动机that will take us into the next century, and let those sheiks酋长，族长（阿拉伯人的）and dictators and rats and crooks from all over the world boil in their own oil?" Schweitzer said at a press conference记者招待会，新闻发布会.Schweitzer has called them rats and crooks and hasn't held back on抑制bit. "Hugo Chavez 乌戈·查韦斯（委内瑞拉总统）, the Saudi沙乌地阿拉伯（人或语）的royal family王室；皇族, the leaders of Iran," he said. "How about the countries that end with 'stan'? Nigeria尼日利亚（位于非洲）? You tell me. Sheiks, rats, crooks, dictators, sure."He's a governor with his own foreign policy and no one is calling Brian Schweitzer a wuss胆小鬼，软弱无用的人. He says flat平直地；断然地out竭尽全力；用全速；疲惫that his plan will change the world, and that the key to the country's energy future is buried in the grassy长满草的；草绿色的plains of eastern Montana."Probably about half of eastern Montana has coal underneath it," Schweitzer explains.Montana is already mining 矿业；采矿a small fraction of its coal.But unlike the deep shaft 拍杆；轴；箭杆；杆状物(电梯等的) 垂直通道利用mining done in West Virginia, Montana coal is surface mined and there hasn't been a fatal致命的；重大的；毁灭性的；命中注定的accident in 15 years. The governor took 60 Minutes down into one of those huge pits矿井；深坑；陷阱；（物体或人体表面上的）凹陷；（英国剧场的）正厅后排；正厅后排的观众."We are surrounded by energy," Schweitzer said. "There's no going down into a mine. It's a road. They drive right out of here.""But, let me ask you something. Coal has such a bad reputation" Stahl said. "It's dirty. I can feel it. I'm gonna be filthy肮脏的；污秽的；猥亵的. I can smell it. It's awful, awful, awful. How many of these would you have to dig out to produce enough of what you're talking about to make it make sense?""If we got to 20 of these kinds of pits, we could produce a serious amount of energy for the future of this country," the governor said.It's not enough to completely break our addiction to foreign oil过分依赖外国石油, but a start. Most coal today is used for electricity but the governor's plan is to turn Montana's billions of tons of untapped coal into a liquid diesel fuel柴油；柴油机燃料for our cars.Schweitzer wants to take coal that's been pressurized into a gas, and then use something called the Fischer-Tropsch process 费歇尔—特罗普希法，费—托法to convert that gas into a clean diesel fuel, similar to what is made at a demonstration plant示范装置；样板厂in Oklahoma美国俄克拉荷马州.The governor handed Stahl a jar罐；广口瓶；震动；刺耳声of this synthetic fuel合成燃料；人造燃料, which looked and smelled clean. "Chanel No. 37," Schweitzer said, laughing. "It is diesel. You can pour that in your diesel car柴油汽车，柴油机动车or truck right now."The Fischer-Tropsch process does have a track record径赛成绩记录；过去的成绩或成就, along with a sinister history. It was first put into wide-scale大规模的；广泛的use in the Nazi era, when Hitler had few oil-rich石油藏量丰富的allies. Ninety percent of his Luftwaffe （二战时期的）纳粹德国空军planes ran on coal-based fuelsLater on, South Africa, also isolated because of Apartheid种族隔离used the process."So, here you have these horrible regimes政权，政体；社会制度；管理体制, and now we want to take their technology. There's something kind of …spooky幽灵般的；有鬼般的；令人毛骨悚然的," Stahl said."Science is neutral," said Schweitzer. "They were pushed against the wall被逼到墙根了，走投无路了, because they couldn't get oil. We're pushed against the wall because the oil is so expensive."The price tag价格标签；标价to get his plan rolling - $1.5 billion - is a bargain, the governor says, now that crude is trading around $60 a barrel.Dr. Robert Williams, a senior energy scientist at Princeton, agrees."At the oil prices油价；原油价格that we expect for the long-term, it would be economic," Williams said.Stahl told Williams about the jar of diesel Schweitzer showed her. Is this synthetic fuel going to be that clean and smell that good?"Oh, yes. The Fischer-Tropsch diesel is a superb fuel," said Williams. "Not only is [it] cleaner than conventional符合习俗的，传统的；常见的；惯例的diesel, but it also leads to improved engine performance引擎性能."And he explained why the process works environmentally."The reason this works and is much cleaner is you're not burning coal. You're instead gasifying气化coal," Williams said."And, therefore, things don't go up into the atmosphere?" Stahl asked."Well, when you gasify coal, you can take the pollutants out," Williams explained."You're saying before the coal is ever burned in any way, you can separate out the bad stuff?" Stahl asked."You do that very early on," Williams replied.The new Fischer-Tropsch plants, Schweitzer says, wouldn't have the traditional smoke-belching 喷射smokestacks烟囱，烟窗低技术制造业的；大工厂的associated with today's coal-fired 烧煤的power plants. But he does acknowledge there would be some emissions."There would be less than one percent than you get in进入；到达；陷入；收获a plant like this," the governor said, pointing at smoking smokestacks in the background. "This is old coal technology. We're talking about the new way."But even in the new way there's an environmental problem, and it's a big one: carbon dioxide, which, while not a poison, is the No. 1 cause of global warming."Carbon dioxide will be generated at a rate that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions温室气体排放量that are twice those for conventional crude oil," said Williams.Williams says this process will produce twice as much carbon dioxide than traditional petroleum 石油if you vent the CO2 to the atmosphere.But Schweitzer has promised not to do that. "This spent耗尽了的；精疲力尽的carbon dioxide, we have a home for it. Right back into the earth, 5,000 feet deep," the governor explains.He plans to sell that carbon dioxide to oil companies that use it to boost促进宣扬；偷窃the amount of oil they can pump. "It's called enhanced oil recovery提高采收率石油増进回収法. It's worth money to the oil business," Schweitzer said.The sales pitch推销商品的言辞keeps coming: Schweitzer says the fuel will not only be cleaner, it'll be cheaper, too."We can produce this fuel for about $1 a gallon. We have gas taxes天然气税, depending on what state you're in, of 60, 70, 80 cents a gallon. So, do the math," he said."You know, it sounds almost too good to be true,好得令人难以置信；太好而有失真实" Stahl said."Well, that's what got me excited," Schweitzer replied.He's been so excited, he's been traveling the country selling his big idea好主意. But back home they say he can be arrogant."Are you a little, let's say cocky自大的；骄傲的；过于自信的?" Stahl asked."When I have a vision, I get single-minded专心的；纯真的；真诚的；率直的about it. I say, 'I'm going to continue to work on this until we get her done,' " Schweitzer said.That cowboy bravado虚张声势；冒险is just what you might expect from a guy who grew up roping calves on a Montana ranch大农场；大牧场."We have a little bit different way of looking at the world. And I think it's about self reliance 自力更生；依靠自已," Schweitzer said.And, yet, the cowboy is a bit of一点a geek who went to graduate school研究所，研究院to study soil science土壤科学，社会科学；土壤学. In the 1980s he went to work in Saudi Arabia - land of the sheiks - running farm projects.Schweitzer says the Saudis embarked on an ambitious野心勃勃的；有雄心的；热望的；炫耀的agricultural program to become self sufficient自给自足的；极为自负的in food, to wean使断奶；使断念；使放弃themselves off our wheat. Now, he wants to wean America off their oil.He got into politics as a Democrat民主党人；民主主义者；民主政体论者. But in his ads in the 2004 governor's race, he looked as un-like John Kerry as possible and even picked a Republican running mate竞选伙伴.In red state红色州（选民倾向于投票给共和党的州）Montana, Schweitzer squeaked 告密；吱吱叫；侥幸成功out a four-point win. But today he has a 65 percent approval rating支持率, buoyed使浮起；支撑；鼓励浮标；浮筒；救生圈；航标by his good ol' boy persona人物角色；伪装的外表and his image making. That includes his dog, Jag, who goes with him everywhere, even on the state plane 政府飞机专机状态平面.Now there's a fledgling无经验的人；刚会飞的幼鸟online movement to draft Schweitzer into征召…入(伍) the next presidential race.Schweitzer says "President Schweitzer of the United States" sounds a little silly to him. "I'm the governor of Montana. We have 920,000 people. This is the first office I've ever been elected to选举为(委员等)，选举(某人)担任and I've only been here a year."He may answer that question with an "aw shucks哦，呸“胡说八道”," but some Montanans complain that he does have his eye on the national stage."Right now he is the governor of Montana. He cannot turn his back on不搭理；不理睬拒绝帮助us looking for bigger and better things," said Helen Waller, who leads the Northern Plains Resource Council, a group of farmers and ranchers大农场经营者；大农场工人fighting the governor's coal-to-diesel plan."I think he has more of 更大程度上的…更多的…a perspective of trying to save the world. And that's a …good goal but you've got to start by pieces," said Waller.One of the pieces, she says, should not be more mining. She points out that in the past, mining companies came to Montana, dug out掘出；发现the precious minerals and, despite their promises to clean things up清理；大捞一笔, they left behind toxic eyesores眼中钉；难看的东西."The place would be changed to the point where it wouldn't be like home any more," Waller said.But Schweitzer says there's now a state law州法律that requires mining companies to restore the land after the digging is done.The governor showed Stahl a piece of land that used to be a mine but is now used for agriculture. He says he would force mining companies to restore the land after the mines are closed.Mining companies have gotten around 到处走走；逃避；说服；传开来（等于get round）；有办法应付the law in the past so Waller thinks it's crazy to dig up the coal; instead Montana should be producing bio-diesel, a fuel made from plant seeds植物种子."We've got all that land there that can be used to produce bio-fuels and it is competitive," she said. "There's a better way! That's what I'm saying. Other states are way out ahead遥遥领先于of us.""Well maybe they don't have as much coal as you have," Stahl said."Well, that's probably the case可能是如此吧," Waller acknowledged.Asked why the money shouldn't all be invested in bio-diesel, Schweitzer said, "If we replaced all the acres of wheat, corn and soybeans that we export across America, you would only replace 15 percent of our diesel demands in this country. Do the math. It's not enough."China is already working with Shell on Fischer-Tropsch projects in Asia but to build them in the United States, the governor has to raise investment money from private industry私人企业.Who's in?"Well no one's in yet. I haven't seen the check yet," said Schweitzer.Asked why investors are reluctant, Schweitzer said: "Everybody wants to be the first one to build the second plant. Because that's the fact. Because the first plant is going to be a lot of engineering设计；管理（engineer的ing形式）；建造on the fly在飞行中；忙忙碌碌. So, there will be cost over-runs成本超支. I'm telling you."Even people who like the governor say he's a big dreamer梦想家；做梦的人；不切实际的人but nothing seems to discourage him. With his cowboy swagger大摇大摆；吹牛；威吓；下摆散开状的女式短大衣, he just keeps pushing his plan for Montana, despite the obstacles.push for奋力争取"I have heard about synfuels 30 years at least," Stahl said. "Out here（老远）到这里；即将离开in the west. And it always seems to fail. The minute the price of oil comes down a little, these things just go into bankruptcy.""If you believe the price of oil is going to drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel, you shouldn't walk away from this project. You should run," said Schweitzer. "But the overwhelming majority压倒性多数of the people who understand the oil market worldwide do not believe that we will spend much time below $30 a barrel. This is the right thing to do. We can do it. Let's get started."By Miguel Sancho。
英语视听说(上册) 参考答案
Unit 1 Pirates of the InternetTask I Global Listening1. A2. C3. B4. D5. C6. A7. D8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. T4. F5. TEpisode 21. √2. √3. √Episode 3(1) technology always wins (2) software(3) advertising supported (4) radio(5) Ten million people (6) music(7) video games (8) not liable for(9) typo (10) control(11) fig leaf (12) facilitating(13) steal (14) comfortableEpisode 41. Following the music industry and begin to sue individuals who downloadmovies;2. Airing ads about people whose jobs are at risk because of the piracy;3. Keeping copies of movies from leaking in the first place;4. Hiring people to hack the hackers / serve up thousands of fake copies of newmovies.Episode 51. Downloading off the Internet.2. 60 million.3. Embrace it and get paid too.4. A bunch of crooks.5. 3 – 5 dollars.6. Stopping piracy.Unit 2 The New Space RaceTask I Global Listening1. A2. C3. B4. D5. C6. A7. D8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. T4. F5. F6. TEpisode 2(1) operable space plane (2) at a cost(3) monopoly on (4) incentive(5) business (6) dream(7) contests (8) a trophy(9) stunning looks (10) technological sophisticationEpisode 31. Nearly a decade ago.2. Turning his designs into models and testing them.3. He sought investment from Paul Allen.4. The vote of confidence.5. Gluing carbon fabric together with epoxy.6. Flying badminton shuttlecocks.Episode 41 —— (J)2 —— (A)3 —— (C, F)4 —— (B,H)5 —— (D)Episode 51. It has proved that the small guys can build a space ship and go to space.2. The deal is to invest $120 million to build five spaceships for paying customers.Flights are expected to begin in 2008.3. Yes. According to Virgin Galactic, 38,000 people have put down a deposit for aseat, and 90 people have paid the full price of $200,000.4. His next goal is affordable travel above low-Earth orbit, i.e., affordable travel tothe moon.Unit 3 New Orleans is SinkingTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. A4. C5. C6. D7. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. F5. F6. FEpisode 21. √ 5. √ 6. √Episode 3(1) 81 years; Two times.(2) Three generations.(3) It’s flat.(4) Land is all that the Fultons have, yet it is prone to disaster.(5) Several feet off the ground.(6) 80,000; $26,200.Episode 4(1) bad design (2) workmanship(3) fixed (4) next summer(5) withstand (6) Category 5(7) doubled (8) billionsEpisode 51. They made the assessment on the site and then Wi-Fied the reports to a city halldatabase, which is linked to aerial images of every single address, both before and after.2. The total cost of reconstruction will be given to the city authorities.3. Because his own home was flooded and ruined.4. It means that there are too few people to pay taxes or keep business going.5. He is asking the nation to commit billions of dollars and many years to protectthe city.Unit 4 Afghanistan – Addicted to HeroinTask I Global Listening1. C2. D3. B4. B5. A6. C7. C8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. F4. F5. FEpisode 2(1) military alliances (2) private armies(3) drug lords (4) in high places(5) allegations (6) for drug offenses(7) small-timeEpisode 31 —— (A, G)2 —— (E, I)3 —— (F)4 —— (K)5 —— (D)Episode 41. To do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drugbusiness.2. To remove them from office / from the country.3. The need to fight terrorism / insurgency.4. Destroy it.5. For fear of disrupting the flow of intelligence.Episode 51. The number of acres of poppy under cultivation dropped 20 percent this year.2. They were promised health clinics, schools and roads.3. They elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas theycontrol.4. Fighting narcotics is as important as fighting terrorism; It needs to be elevated toa rank that is commensurate with the threat it poses.Task I Global Listening1. D2. A3. A4. B5. D6. C7. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. T4. T5. T6. FEpisode 2(1) naturally (2) man’s doing(3) expeditions (4) ice cores(5) fingerprint (6) burning fossil fuels(7) carbon dioxide (8) thousand(9) warmEpisode 32. √3. √4. √Episode 41. Land of the great bear.2. Polar bears’ health.3. A tranquillizer dart.4. Bear population there is the healthiest.5. Changes in the bears’ fat, dimensions and teeth.6. They can only hunt on the ice.Episode 51. They say they’re no more reliable than the local weatherman.2. They made science as precise as it is today.3. The US can’t flip its energy use overnight and its economy might get hurt.4. His job is to tell the government exactly what he knows scientifically.Task I Global Listening1. B2. C3. D4. A5. B6. D7. A8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. F4. F5. FEpisode 21. √ 4. √ 6. √Episode 3(1) Nazi era (2) coal-based fuels(3) apartheid (4) gasifying coal(5) pollutants (6) conventional diesel7) engine performance (8) less than one(10) twice as much (11) conventionalEpisode 41. 920,000; One year.2. He has his eye on the national stage.3. Farmers and ranchers fighting the coal-to-diesel plan.4. Toxic eyesores.Episode 51. Mining companies have gotten around the law in the past.2. Montana has got all the land there that can be used to produce biofuels. It willbe competitive.3. Biodiesel can only meet 15 percent of the US diesel demands even if allfarmland is devoted to this cause.4. Not yet, because there will be a lot of engineering on the fly and cost overrunsfor the first plant of this kind.5. The price of oil will not drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel.Unit 7 Can a Video Game Lead to Murder?Task I Global Listening1. A2. D3. C4. A5. B6. B7. C8. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. F4. T5. T6. FEpisode 21. E2. C3. A4. D5. G6. B7. FEpisode 3(1) Aggression (2) I nstitute of Health(3) developed (4) impulse control center(5) under construction (6) consider consequences(7) urges (8) heightened(9) risk factors (10) upbringing(11) turn to violence32Episode 41. Selling Moore two versions of the game.2. Millions of law-abiding citizens.3. It makes the device that runs the game.4. It’s becoming more dangerous.Episode 51. When a new medium comes along, it will be the subject of almost a hystericalattack.2. He can’t understand why games targeting police officers were made by themanufacturers.3. They card teenagers in an effort to keep violent games from underage kids.4. They are considering laws that would ban the sale of violent games to thoseunder 17.Unit 8 The Star of StarbucksTask I Global Listening1. D2. B3. B4. B5. D6. D7. A8. ATask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. F4. T5. FEpisode 2(1) Coffee masters (2) coined a phrase(3) filling souls (4) filling bellies(5) human connection (6) humanity(7) communities (8) home and workEpisode 31 √ 3 √ 4 √Episode 41. 1971.2. He felt he was home.3. Adding an espresso bar.4. Coffee consumption was down.5. paper cups; 3 bucks each cup; Italian nameEpisode 51. It’s located in Brooklyn. There are bullet holes in the door leading to apartme nt7G2. He was from a poor neighborhood and his father was injured on the job.3. He was a delivery driver who picked up and delivered cloth diapers.4. There was no hospitalization, no health insurance, no workman’s compensationfor his father.5. He offers his employees heath care and stock options. He also pays farmershigher than market rate for beans.Unit 9 Rescuing Roy HallumsTask I Global Listening1. C2. C3. D4. B5. D6. A7. B8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. T5. F6. FEpisode 2(1) here (2) like a dream(3) November 1 (4) contractor(5) relatively (6) working at(7) ski masks (8) abducting(9) beheading (10) videotape(11) dragged (12) constantlyEpisode 32. √3. √ 6. √8. √Episode 41. No.2. That Susan tried to call the kidnappers.3. Two years ago.4. Because they remain best friends.5. For fear that it would endanger somebody else.6. $40,000; $12 million.Episode 51. He was happy for them. But on the other hand, he felt sorry for himself becausenothing was happening for him.2. He pulled the mask off and hugged the soldier.3. They thought the US military wasn’t doing anything to find Roy.4. The unit is still looking for three more kidnapped Americans.5. He is back home catching up with his two daughters, his granddaughter and hisex-wife.Unit 10 Dying to Get inTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. D4. A5. B6. C7. A8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. F4. F5. TEpisode 2(1) special unit (2) distress call(3) condition (4) hovered(5) Mexican (6) wandering(7) rationally (8) 17 years(9) refrigerator truck (10) morgueEpisode 32 √3 √4 √7 √Episode 41. About six million.2. Illegal migrants in meatpacking industry.3. Over 3,500 migrants fled Nebraska within 30 days.4. Leave the state (before ruining its economy).5. A good story rather than a secure border.Episode 51. It’s a $14 million pilotless dron e that scans the desert for intruders and potentialterrorists.2. They did so for fear of terrorism.3. No, terrorists don’t need to come in that way because they can purchase the bestforged document in the world and enter with valid visas.4. Their everyday job is to make arrests and drop migrants off on the Mexican sideof the border.Unit 11 Searching for JacobTask I Global Listening1. C2. D3. B4. D5. B6. B7. A8. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. T4. F5. FEpisode 2(1) kid (2) 16(3) 7,000 miles (4) bush plane(5) scene (6) raining season(7) sank (8) axles(9) 12 (10) government troops(11) 50 miles inside (12) intensifiedEpisode 31. F2. C3. E4. B5. D6. AEpisode 41. 20,000.2. She died in just a few hours.3. They carved them up and threw them in drinking water.4. No.5. Telling the same sad story.Episode 51. He signed a US-brokered peace agreement which never took hold.2. The deal is to give little tidbits of information about terrorist suspects around theworld to blunt US outrage over what’s happening in Darfur.3. He was the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy in Darfur; Last year, theUS sent a private jet to bring him to CIA headquarters.4. It’s really a heinous arrangement and one that history will judge very harshly.5. It has been pressing for peacekeepers; It’s keeping refugees alive with half abillion dollars of relief a year.Unit 12 Working 24 / 7Task I Global Listening1. A2. B3. D4. C5. B6. C7. B8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. F5. F6. TEpisode 21. B, E2. C, I3. D, J4. G, K5. AEpisode 3(1) high stress (2) share a job(3) working mothers (4) wives and children(5) in-house counsel (6) referred(7) six months (8) three days(9) overlapping (10) 40(11) 75 percent (12) off(13) on call (14) suckingEpisode 41. No; Number 52. Yes.3. She can’t have substantive con versations with her husband.4. They are matter-of-fact about their lack of communication.5. They both reach for her favorite toy, the BlackBerry.Episode 51. He is such a workaholic that he has wired his house with Internet, telephone andtelevision in every single room.2. He loses some days of his kids’ lives and some of those tender moments withfamily.3. He is always connected to the Internet. In order to relax, it actually takes a littlebit of effort.4. He watches the business news, checks his e-mails and answers the phone; Tomake this happen, he wired his shower.5. They are waterproof but not foolproof.Unit 13 Swimming with SharksTask I Global Listening1. D2. A3. C4. C5. B6. C7. B8. ATask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. F4. F5. TEpisode 2(1) inhabitant (2) surfer(3) concerned (4) Three years(5) associate (6) clamed down hard(7) forearms (8) out to sea(9) in his mouth (10) children(11) 70 yards (12) some useEpisode 31. √ 3. √ 6. √Episode 41. Jaws.2. Nine; 791.3. Because we are on the meal list of sharks.4. being murdered, mugged or killed in a war.5. We may feel what’s gonna happen to us.Episode 51. Sharks have far more to fear from humans because our industrial fishing fleetsbring in 100 million sharks a year.2. Sharks fin soup is regarded as an expensive status symbol in China; Chefs in theemperor’s court were once beheaded if they prepared it incorrectly.3. Its fin would be cut off and then it would be thrown overboard alive to sink tothe bottom and drown.4. It is hard to police because most of the sharks are caught in international waterswhere there is no law against finning.5. Authorities there raided several processing plants wined by Hong Kong Chinese.Seven tons of fins were confiscated.Unit 14 Felicity HuffmanTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. A4. B5. D6. C7. B8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. T4. F5. T6. TEpisode 2(1) starred (2) TV shows(3) died young (4) cursed(5) work (6) character(7) her wit’s end(8) touched a nerve(9) harried (10) authenticity(11) parallels (12) vindicationEpisode 31. Everybody assumes all the time that the girls I the play will get in a catfight.2. The catfight thought crept in her mind too.3. Those days they all shoot together were the funniest days on set; The group waswonderful because they were all grateful professionals who work hard.4. She was loud and obnoxious; Her mother threatened to send her to an actingcamp.Episode 43. √ 5. √ 6. √Episode 51. Two (girls).2. No, she resents the question.3. It’s the best thing in my whole life.4. She doesn’t know if she is a good mother.5. A more exclusive club of big actors.Unit 15 Living LargeTask I Global Listening1. A2. B3. B4. B5. A6. B7. D8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. T4. T5. FEpisode 2(1) temporary moratorium (2) $726,000 (3) 1,100 square feet(4) combined (5) 3,000 (6) on both floors(7) triple (8) freedom (9) legislate taste(10) when and how (11) their life savings (12) jealousy(13) haves and have-notsEpisode 31. C2. I, J3. B4. F5. EEpisode 41. The sheer magnitude of the demand for ever-large living space.2. Robin, her husband and son, a dog named Coco and her cat.3. The old world style.4. Houston; 6,800 square feet; Yes.5. No; Six.Episode 51. The house has a huge entranceway somewhere between the US Capitol and agood-sized mosque.2. They’re amazed by the dome more than anything else.3. There is a touch of old world charm for the billiard room, co-TV room, co-dryaquarium.4. It’s a big bedroom with bathroom and closet the size of almost two New Yorkstudio apartment.5. The wife would like to enlarge the family eating area while the husband wisheshe could have a little bit bigger gathering room for parties.。
八年级上册英语六单元听力
八年级上册英语六单元听力八年级上册英语六单元听力原文内容如下：Section AlbListen and fill in the blanks.Then match the items.Conversation 1Tina, what do you want to be when you grow up? Hmm, I think I want to be a computer programmer. Wow! Sounds difficult. How are you going to do that? I'm going to study computer science. Conversation 2Larry, what do you want to be when you grow up?I love basketball, so I want to be a basketball player. How are you going to do that?I'm going to practice basketball every day. Conversation 3What do you want to be when you grow up?I want to be an engineer.I see... but how are you going to do that?I'm going to study math really hard. Conversation 4What do you want to be when you grow up?I want to be an actor because I want a job that's fun. Cool!How are you going to do that?I'm going to take acting lessons.Section A2a/2bListen. What is Cheng Han going to do?Check (') the correct boxes in the picture.What do you want to be when you grow up, Cheng Han?I want to be a teacher.Are you going to move to Beijing?No, I'm going to move to Shanghai.And how are you going to become a teacher?Well, I'm going to learn how to teach children.When are you going to start?I'm going to finish high school and college first. Section B1c/1dListen and circle the resolutions you hear in la.Did you make a New Year's resolution this year, Lucy? Yes, Kim, I did.What are you going to do?I'm going to learn to play the piano.Cool. How are you going to do that?I'm going to take piano lessons. How about you?Well, my New Year's resolution is to get good grades.How are you going to do that?I'm going to study hard and of course do my homework every day.That sounds good!How about you, Mike?Did you make a resolution?I sure did. I'm going to make the soccer team.How are you going to do that?I'm going to practice really hard, and this summer, I'm going to go to a soccer camp.I can play soccer every day there.。
Unit6-7听力原文
Unit6, Lesson ATrack 4-6-1A.George and Megan are looking at a brochure advertising luxury hotels. Which hotel has themost expensive suite? Listen and check the appropriate box.Megan: Hi, George. Are you planning a trip?George: No, I’m just looking at this brochure. It features expensive hotels and their luxury suites. Megan: I didn’t know you were rich!George: I can dream, can’t I? Look at this place, it’s in Hong Kong. Guests staying in the Peninsula suite get their own limousine driver. They also have 24-hour butler service.Megan: And you pay for it, too! It’s only $4,300 a nightGeorge: Well, this one’s a little cheaper. It’s only 4,300 a night.Megan: Hmmm, the Hotel Ritz. It’s in the center of Pairs—great for sightseeing. Lots of famous people stay here… Wait, you can’t stay there.George:: Why not?Megan It’s the Coco Chanel Suite. You have to wear designer clothes and you don’t have any! George: Very funny.Megan: Wow! The Royal Suite at Burj Al Arab is really expensive! It’s almost $7,000—for one night!George: Yeah, but look at the details. They actually have a ―helipad‖—a place for landing your helicopter. Oh, and it’s also the tallest hotel in the world.Megan: Cool! So, when are you taking me there?George: Ha ha. Actually, I think the Peninsula s my favorite. What about you? Just a minute. Hello? ... Yes, it’s … , hi Luke … oh, really?…Uh huh …That’s great!... Ok, talk to you later! Megan: Who was that?George: It was Luke. He makes the travel arrangements for my boss.Megan: And?George: My boss is going to Hong Kong on a business trip and he wants me to go with him. Megan: When?George: In two weeks. Best of all, we’re going to stay at the Peninsula!Track 4-6-ol-1A Listen to nick and Janet talking about a TV show. Then answer the question.Nick: Did you see ― Look at Them Now!‖ last night?Janet: I had to do my homework, so I only saw the last ten minutes. Who was it about?Nick: Last night they featured Jim Carrey, Jewel, and um… what’s the name that actor from west Africa? He was in the movie Lora Croft: Tomb RaiderJanet: You mean Djimon Hounsou?Nick: Yeah. Anyway, it’s funny to think that they were all broke a few years ago.Janet: Yeah. And now they’re wealthy and famous. Life is so strange. Hey, I didn’t know that Jim Carrey used to be brokeNick: As a child, he even had to work an eight-hour shift after school every day. His family needed the money. Can you imagine?Janet: I could never do that. It sounds really hard.Nick: Yeah. He started his career as a stand-up comic before he acted in movies. He has alwaysbeen a funny guy.Janet: What did you say about Djimon?Nick: He was discovered in Paris by a fashion designer. He started out as a model. Then he appeared in music videos for Madonna and Janet Jackson. Did you know that?Janet: No, I didn’tNick: He’s also appeared on TV. He has done it all!Janet: Well I did see the part about jewel. Her family sure was penniless!Nick: Basically, yes. She started singing with her father when she was 14.Janet: And then her parents divorced. She had to grow up really fast.Nick: I know, but her life is good now. she has a great boyfriend—He’s a real-life rodeo cowboy! They seem really happy.Janet: ―Look at them now!‖ is such a great show, isn’t it?Nick: it sure is. Maybe we can watch t together next week.Track 4-6-ol-2A Listen to the conversation between two classmates, Joseph and Jane. Then complete the sentences by circling the correct answers.Joseph: I had the worst luck last week.Jane: Why? What happened?Joseph: I received a brand new bicycle as my 20th birthday present from my uncle and I loved it. Jane: That’s great news! What’s so unlucky about that?Joseph: Well, my friend had bad luck. He had a terrible accident.Jane: that’s too bad!Joseph: Yeah. He broke his leg and my bicycle was totally destroyed.Jane: Gosh, that’s really terrible.Track 4-6-ol-4Listen to Jane talking about her car. Then answer the following questions.When I was a university student, I bought my first car. It wasn’t very expensive because it was really old. It was a little red Toyota. I worked in a restaurant during summer vacation and in fall I finally had enough money. I bought the car from my friend’s father. I took all my friends driving around every weekend and we had so much fun. A year later I had an accident. I wasn’t hurt, but the car was destroyed. I still miss my first car.Track 4-6-ol-5B You will hear a passage about Mary Larson’s old life. Then answer the questions.Vacation everyday: The peaceful life Mary Larson has wished forMary Larson was 43 when she got divorced. It was a new life for her, and she started considering what was really important in her life. She was working 60 hours a week as a banker to pay for a big house, expensive furniture, a new car, and all the other ―important‖ things in life. But she had no time for what she really enjoyed: going out on her old houseboat.One day, she realized she could live on the boat, and forget about the mortgage payments. She sold her house and all her furniture. For the last six years, she and her dog Buddy have lived on the boat, which is only a fraction of the size of her old house. Her ―home‖ is a marina on the river, and the rent costs only $200 a month, including water and electricity.Inside the boat is one room, about 5 meters by 4 meters. It’s divided in two parts by a curtain. One part is Mary’s bedroom, the other is the living room and kitchen.There is also a small bathroom with a shower. ―I used to spend every weekend cleaning and maintaining my house. Now, it takes me two or three hours a month,‖ Mary says.―My friends think I’m crazy,‖ she says. ―But I wake up in the morning and hear ducks and birds. I can go fishing from my living room.‖Now, she works only part time. She uses all the extra hours for writing stories, bicycling, volunteering, and visiting friends. On the weekends, she goes along the river on her boat, exploring new places.―Would I go back to my old life? Never,‖ she says. ―It’s so peaceful here. It’s like being on vacation every day.Track 4-6-ol-7B Listen to the passage, ―money from unexpected sources.‖ Then ask and answer the following questions with a partner.Money from unexpected sourcesThe san people live in southern Africa. Scientists say that they may have been living there for as long as 40,000 years, hunting animals and gathering plants. Until recently, the once mighty San were broke and unemployed. They had lost their land and were no longer engaged in traditional activities, such as hunting. The few young San people with jobs were working as farm laborers. They were not learning about their ancient culture and language.That may all change. The San had struck it rich. They recently signed an agreement with a large drug company. The San have traditional knowledge about plants. The drug company is especially interesting in a particular cactus and how the San use it.The San used to go on hunting trips. While away from home, they chewed on the cactus to suppress their appetite –they no longer felt hungry afterwards. Using the San’s knowledge, the drug company plans to make a new drug from this plant. For people around the world who eat too much and have weight problems this new drug could really help them by suppressing their appetites.The San have a positive plan for this new wealth. Their first step will be to get jobs for their people. Their next priority will be education. Through education, they hope to save their culture and language for future generations.When you think of a monk, you might think of a quiet man living in an isolated place. The ―free monks‖ of Greece do live in a monastery, but they are anything but quiet. In fact, they sing. They have been recording their songs and selling many records in Greece.Young music listeners love to listen to the ―free monks.‖ Their songs are recorded in different styles (digital keyboard and rock, for example), and the themes are not only religious. The brothers also sing about problems like drugs and globalization.The monks haven’t made a fortune from their record sales, but they have made a profit. They use the money to pay for summer camps for teenagers. At the camps, the teens can play soccer and go horseback riding. The monks also donate money to other social programs that help people.Unit6 Lesson BGlobal viewpointsI wish…Natalie: If I had three wishes then they would be… my first wish would be to have a successful career, my second wish would be to have a lot of money, and my third wish would be to affect the world in a positive way.Malinda: First, I wish I had a horse, second I wish I could fly around the world, third I wish I wereable to buy a car.Gian: I wish I had enough money to have a really big house in a nice neighborhood.Kevin: I wish I were a popular star.Glum: I wish I could travel abroad a lot and meet people of different cultures.Alyssa: I wish there was an end to all wars because I don’t like violence.Alejandra: I wish I had enough money to end world hunger.Striking it richWoo Sung: If I suddenly struck it rich, I would buy my parents a house … um … and a car for each of them. And then I would purchase the university that I’m attending right now because the university needs new buildings and new equipment.Calum: If I was lucky enough to strike it rich big time, I think that I would definitely, take a holiday somewhere warmer than where I like, and live on the beach for a while.Natalie: If I had a hundred million dollars, I would give some to charity, but first I would buy myself a new house, a new car, and I would invest a lot of money for my future.Dave: If I suddenly became rich, I would spend it all as quickly as possible. I would probably do something stupid like buy a whole lot of cars.Unit7, Lesson ATrack 4-7-1A Listen to Dave and Esra’s conversation. Then circle the best answer to complete the sentence. Esra: Hi, Dave! What a pleasant surprise. How are you and your family?Dave: We’re all fine, thanks. And you?Esra: I’m fine too. I haven’t seen you in ages. What have you been up to?Dave: I’ve been busy. I’ve been getting advice from the mayor’s office on a project.Esra: what kind of project?Dave: A neighborhood association. It’s a group of people who are trying to improve life in this neighborhood.Esra: This is the first I’ve heard of it. Is it a lot of work?Dave: Yeah, but it’s interesting.Esra: Well, I wish someone would do something about the traffic, especially during rush hour. It’s really bad in this neighborhood.Dave: Actually, that’s one of our projects. We are encouraging people to leavetheir cars at home and take the bus.Esra: That’s good to hear. What else are you guys doing?Dave: We’ve asked police to increase their patrols and we’re working on another issue: noise pollution.Esra: I know. Those garbage trucks wake me up at least twice a week. It’s too early!Dave: That’s going to change. Starting next summer, garbage trucks won’t be allowed to pick up garbage before 7 a.m.Esra: Wow, you guys are doing a lot!Dave: You should come to one of our meetings. They’re on Thursday nights. At seven-thirty. Esra: Thanks for asking, but I don’t want any more work to do. I’m already overworked at the office.Dave: Well, left me tell you, it’s not all work. We have fun, too. In fact we’re planning a big blockparty for next weekend. Why don’t you come?Track 4-7-ol-1A Listen to the beginning of a radio show. What is the best title for the show? Check your answer:Announcer: you’re all familiar with the topic of urban sprawl. Well, in today’s radio show, we will talk to three guests about cities and suburbs. We can prevent urban sprawl by living closer together in cites. Will people in the suburbs want to do that? Or do people in the city want to move to the suburbs? Let’s find out! Let me go to the first person on our panel. Tyra, which do you prefer, the suburbs or the city?Track 4-7-ol-2B Now listen the rest of the show. Where do the people live now? Where do they want to live in the future? Write S for suburbs or c for city.Announcer: You’re all familiar with the topic of urban sprawl. Well, in today’s radio show, we will talk to three guests about cities and suburbs. We can prevent urban sprawl by living closer together in cities .Will people in the suburbs want to do that? Or do people in the city want to move to the suburbs? Let’ fid out! Let me go to the first person on our panel. Tyra, which do you prefer, the suburbs or the city?Tyra: I love the suburbs! I have a big, beautiful house. I don’t ever want to move.But what about urban sprawl? It’s a big problem in our area.Tyra: I’m sorry about that, but I live in the city before. I don’t like it. Not everyone is suited for that kind of life.Announcer: What did you like about it?Tyra: There is no privacy. You can hear your neighbors and smell their cooking.Announcer: Matt, what about you? You live in the city now. Do you want to move?Mattin: Well, I’m in college now and the city is really fun.Announcer: Think ahead to the future, though. Let’s say ten years from now…Matt: That’s different. When I get married, I think I want to live the suburbs.Announcer: Why is that?Matt: Well, it’s easy to live in the city when you are young and single. The suburbs are a better place for a family. It’s safer for the kids and they have room to play.Announcer: Mercedes, it’s your turn. You’ve heard Tyra and Matt. Do you agree with either one of them?Mercedes: Not really.Announcer: Explain.Mercedes: Well, I don’t like the suburbs. And I don’t like urban sprawl. The city is too expensive, but I’m comfortable here.Announcer: You don’t think it’s too dangerous … or there’s not enough privacy?Mercedes: Nah. I prefer it here. I get too lonely when I’m in the suburbs. I like the energy of the city.Track 4-7-ol-4A .Listen to a conversation between a mayor and a concerned citizen who’ s complaining about his community. Then answer the question.Man: Mr. Mayor, I live in this community and I’ve got a complaint.Mayor: well, what seems to be the problem?Man: A traffic light on High Street s broken. It can cause traffic accidents and put people’s lves in danger.Mayor: That it’s good for traffic control, I’m sure.Man: No, it’s not, and it’s dangerous.Mayor: I agree that a broken traffic light is a dangerous issue. We cannot ignore it.Man: What are you planning to do about it?Mayor: I think we need to have the Department of traffic Control to solve it immediately.Man: Thank you for your help, Mr. Mayor. You’ve got my support in the next election!Track 4-7-ol-6A You will hear John and Susan talking respectively about the problem area where their neighborhood didn’t score a point (4 CommunicationB & C) and also about suggestions as to how to fix the problem. Then fill in the blanks with the problem areas they are talking about.John: One of the areas where our neighborhood didn’t score a point is that we don’t know our neighbors well. This is one of the biggest problems. When we know our neighbors, we’ll pay more attention to our neighborhood. To improve neighborhood safety, I think we should establish block clubs and help organize community events and public safety programs such as neighborhood watch. Neighbors from a street or block can form a club to get to know each other and work together against problems such as vandalism, gang graffiti, and burglaries. We can also agree to look out for all the houses on our street and call the police for help immediately if we see a problem. We can put signs in our windows to show that we are participating in this kind of program.Susan: Police patrols in our neighborhood are not very frequent. Most of our neighbors made complaints about this to the police department. They should bring community policing into the neighborhoods. Now the police often patrol in cars so they don’t know the people of the neighborhood very well. If they patrol on foot or on bicycle, we can say hello to them when we see them patrolling. That’ll make us feel us safer. At the same time, the neighborhood residents and community agencies should cooperate with the police to prevent crimes, Then we’ll build a safe neighborhood.Track-4-7-ol-8The shrinking familyElisa Sanchez is a mother in Monterrey, Mexico. She and her husband are both high school teachers in their thirties.They have two children. They don’t plan to have more. ―I was one of six children,‖says Elisa. ―My husband comes from a family of seven. People used to have more children in the sixties and seventies. Now it’s different.‖Elisa’s husband thinks the lower birthrate s a positive change. ―With a smaller population, there will be less competition. That means there will be more opportunities for young people.‖Gina is 32 and her mother is worried about Gina’s ability to get married and raise a family in the future. The Italian government is worried, too. In 1958, one million babies were born in Italy. In 1998, it was half that number. The average mother in Italy has her first child at the age of 30. After 30, experts note, there isn’t a lot of time for women to have many children. The population is aging rapidly. Some wonder: Has population control in Italy been too successful?Unit7 , Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsIn my communityMalinda: There are many things that concern me in my community, but one of the issues that really concerns me is that a lot of people don’t have enough affordable housing. And I think the city should try to make more houses available to people who don’t have a lot of money.Martin: we need to do something about noise pollution. I live near a fire station, and every time the fire truck leaves the station, all you can hear for about two to three minutes is the siren and the horns.Natalie: living in a big city, one problem that I see a lot is graffiti. Graffiti on buildings … graffiti on sidewalks … It really bothers me because I’ve lived here all my life and I like to see my city clean.Global issuesCatherine: I think globally one of the biggest problems that we face is poverty.Nick: I think global warming is a very serious issue. The oceans are rising as well as the temperatures and something needs to be done about it before it’s too late.Malinda: one of the biggest issues facing the world today is the spread of HIV and AIDS, and something that I think needs to be done is that we need to do more to educate each other about this disease and how we can help people.Alejandra: I think that we need to do something about hunger. There are too many people who do not have enough food.Jennifer: I think that it’s really important that the world get together and help to make sure that all children become educated, that everyone gets a chance to learn and everyone gets a chance to go to school.祝大家考试顺利！。
Unit 6 听力原文及译文
Unit 6 I ,m watching TV. Section A1b Listen. What are these people doing? Write the numbers from 1a.Bob: Hello, Jenny!Jenny: Hi, Bob.Bob: Jenny, what are you doing?Jenny: I ,m watching TV.Bob: Do you want to play tennis?Jenny: No, this TV show is interesting. What ,s John doing?Bob: He ,s washing the dishes.Jenny: Well, what are Dave and Mary doing? Bob: They ,re listening to a CD.2a Listen and match the answers with the questions.Jack: Hello, Steve.Steve: Hi, Jack.Jack: What are you doing, Steve?Steve: I ,m watching TV. What about you?Jack: I ,m listening to a CD, but it ,s kind of boring.Steve: Yeah, my TV show is also not very interes - ting. Do you want to go to the movies?Jack: That sounds good.2b Listen again. Fill in the blanks.Jack: Hello, Steve.Steve: Hi, Jack.Jack: What are you doing, Steve?Steve: I ,m watching TV. What about you?Jack: I ,m listening to a CD, but it ,s kind of boring. Steve: Yeah, my TV show is also not very interes - ting. Do you want to go to the movies? Jack: That sounds good. 听录音.这些人在做什么?写下1a 中的数字.鲍勃：嗨,珍妮!珍妮：你好,鲍勃.鲍勃：珍妮,你在做什么?珍妮：我正在看电视.鲍勃：你想打网球吗?珍妮：不,这个电视节目很有趣.约翰在做什么?鲍勃：他正在洗盘子.珍妮：哦,戴夫和玛丽在做什么? 鲍勃：他们正在听CD唱片.听录音并将答案和问题配对 .杰克：嗨,史蒂夫.史蒂夫：你好,杰克.杰克：史蒂夫,你在做什么?史蒂夫：我正在看电视.你呢?杰克：我正在听CD唱片,但是它有点无聊.史蒂夫：是的,我的电视节目也不是很有意思.你想去看电影吗?杰克：那听起来不错.再听一遍录音,填空.杰克：嗨,史蒂夫.史蒂夫：你好,杰克.杰克：史蒂夫,你在做什么?史蒂夫：我正在看电视.你呢?杰克：我正在听CD唱片,但是它有点无聊.史蒂夫：是的,我的电视节目也不是很有意思.你想去看电影吗? 杰克：那听起来不错.Section B1c Listen and complete the chart. Conversation 1A: Hello. Is Alice there?B: No, she isn ,t. She ,s at the supermarket.A: Oh, is she shopping?B: Yes, she is. She ,s buying milk and bread. Conversation 2A: Hello. Is Mike there?B: Sorry, he ,s still at school.A: Oh. Umm, is he doing his homework?B: No, he isn ,t. He ,s playing basketball. Conversation 3A: Lisa?B: No, this is her sister, Julie.A: Oh. Is Lisa there?B: No, she isn ,t. She ,s at the library.A: Oh. Is she reading?B: Yes, she is.1d Listen again. Check your answers in 1c. Conversation 1A: Hello. Is Alice there?B: No, she isn ,t. She ,s at the supermarket. A: Oh, is she shopping?B: Yes, she is. She ,s buying milk and bread. Conversation 2A: Hello. Is Mike there?B: Sorry, he ,s still at school.A: Oh. Umm, is he doing his homework?B: No, he isn ,t. He ,s playing basketball. Conversation 3A: Lisa?B: No, this is her sister, Julie.A: Oh. Is Lisa there?B: No, she isn ,t. She ,s at the library.A: Oh. Is she reading?B: Yes, she is. 听录音并完成表格.对话1A: 你好,艾丽斯在那儿吗?B: 不,她不在.她在超市.A: 哦,她正在购物吗?B: 是的,她正在买牛奶和面包. 对话2A: 你好,迈克在那儿吗?B: 对不起,他还在学校.A: 哦.嗯,他正在做作业吗? B: 不,不是.他正在打篮球.对话3A: 莉萨吗?B: 不,我是她妹妹,朱莉.A: 哦,莉萨在那儿吗?B: 不,她不在.她在图书馆. A: 哦,她正在读书吗?B: 是的.再听一遍录音,检查1c 中你的答案 . 对话1A: 你好,艾丽斯在那儿吗?B: 不,她不在.她在超市.A: 哦,她正在购物吗?B: 是的,她正在买牛奶和面包. 对话2A: 你好,迈克在那儿吗?B: 对不起,他还在学校.A: 哦.嗯,他正在做作业吗?。
大学英语视听说2unit 6听力原文
视听说unit 6Ⅰ.lead in1. After you have finished listening to the whole unit, you may find that opinions are divided on this issue. Some people believe that good girls should never wear a miniskirt because it is too revealing. On the other hand, there are girls who prefer to break with tradition, play a new, independent role in society, and therefore they choose to wear something daring and rebellious such as a miniskirt. As for me, I'm in favor of the former point of view and don't like those who wear a miniskirt. (I support the latter point of view, for we have to advance with the times.)2. Some people are daring and self-confident by nature. They feel proud of themselves when putting on new, fashionable clothes. They always want to be the center of public attention. On the other hand, some others tend to be shy. The last thing they wish to do is to seek the spotlight. Naturally, they may feel ill at ease with stylish clothes. As far as I'm concerned, I would feel confident/uncomfortable in a new dress. This has something to do with my childhood experiences.3. Obviously fashion shows have been around for a long time in various parts of the world. This fact shows that they are an indispensable part of the modern culture. However, I'd like to point out that the pursuit of fashion should not take up the greater part of our lives. After all, work and study are far more important than fashion shows.4. Some people do treat me differently according to what I'm wearing. They are often called snobs. Fortunately, those people do not represent the majority. Most people judge you by your ability, intelligence and moral integrity rather than by the clothes you're wearing.Ⅲ.listening inTask 1.A Woman's Funny DressLily: Mom, look at that woman. Her dress looks funny.Mother: I wouldn't say that, Lily. It looks fine to me.Lily: Are you kidding? She's out of fashion. That's last year's style.Mother: Oh, come on, as long as it looks good on her.Lily: Wow, you're really as out-dated as she is.Mother: You're right. I'm out of date. So what? What's the point of following the fashion?Lily: No wonder you never buy me new dresses.Task 2.How is fashion decided?Fashion designers design and make fashionable clothes for men and women. They begin trends and create new styles. Paris has been the traditional center of world fashion, though recently British designers have had great influence in setting new styles, and so have certain designers in the United States and Italy. French designers guard the secrets of their new designs until their collections are shown to the public. Then pictures of the styles are published in newspapers and magazines all over the world. People from many countries travel to Paris to buy the clothes and copy the newest ideas. In January they go to see the spring clothes; and in July, to see the autumn designs. Many dress manufacturers from other countries buy the original clothes of the famous French designers. They then take them back to their own sewing rooms, where the clothes are copied and made up in great numbers. That's why you may be able to buy in your town the clothing that is in the latest style without paying a very high price for it. Other manufacturers use the Paris styles simply as a starting point for their own ideas. Still others may adapt only a part of the French design into their own styles.Task 3.Dreaming of Being a Fashion ModelTop fashion models travel all over the world, earn huge salaries and live exciting lives. If you want to be a model, you should know the basic rules. Girls are usually picked to be models when they are between 15 and 22 years old. Ideally, they are tall, long-legged, and thin. The minimum height is about 5'8", and the average weight is 108-125 pounds. A few other important things for a fashion model are clear skin, healthy hair, straight teeth, and a well-shaped body. You'll also need ambition, intelligence, confidence, independence, and will-power.If you've got the right looks but are worried over not being tall enough or fit enough, Kimi is the answer. Kimi is the magic key to developing your fashion model potential. Kimi is a computer-designed height stimulator. It massages your feet to stimulate a part of your brain that produces more growth hormones. This will give you the fashion model kind of height. You should also go in for some sports like running or basketball. These increase the benefits of using Kimi.Make an important decision today. Order Kimi right now! Don't you think having the height and shape of a fashion model would be wonderful? Yes, Kimi helps you realize your dream.Ⅴ.let’s talkMary Quant was a famous dress designer in the 1960s. Her main contribution to fashion history was the miniskirt. During the 1960s many young people were starting to think women could do more in life than be wives and mothers. Clothes became a weapon in the battle between generations. Anything different and daring was soon popular. During this period miniskirts attracted the world's attention. It was teenagers and very young girls who bought short skirts that displayed their legs. Ms. Quant said that at her fashion shop, young women began demanding shorter and shorter skirts. "If I didn't make them short enough, the girls that had wonderful legs would take scissors and shorten the skirts themselves." she said. Eventually, Ms. Quant's skirts, which arrived in the United States in the mid-60's, were reduced to about five inches. In parts of Europe and North America the miniskirt represented loose morals. Members of the older generation believed good girls would never appear in miniskirts. But in Ms. Quant's opinion, short skirts worn with heavy pantyhose would make the girl look childlike. Lately, feminists have come to see mini as a symbol of women's liberation, as a powerful weapon against the traditional stereotype of the woman simply as wife and mother.Ⅵ.further listening and speakingTask 1.Paying for the New ClothesDaughter: Mom, I need some new clothes. Everything I have is out of date. The new semester will be starting soon -- can we go shopping?Mother: You have a closet full of clothes that are still in very good condition. Your father and I already have to pay your university tuition... and there's the books too."Daughter: But everyone else will be wearing the latest Levis. And I will look stupid wearing the same old skirts I wore in high school. They are so long. People will think I came from the middle ages. Mother: But...Daughter: Maybe I could get a part-time job to help pay for the new clothes.Mother: No, you need to study. But university is a new experience... maybe we can look for something -- not too expensive.Daughter: Wonderful, at least we can have a look.Task 2.A Model's Description of Her WorkBefore the fashion show started, we had a rehearsal. In a small room we were each given a space. A dresser got us into the fashion clothes, then an assistant checked that the style was right -- the correct number of buttons undone, the trousers pulled to the right height. Once dressed, we queued up in order by the door. The fashion designer checked that the clothing was as he wanted. The music started, and we went out. We posed for the photographers, turned and walked back. It was a breeze. I walked back into the room, too excited to realize I was meant to hurry. In the few steps from the door you can throw off quite a few layers of clothing. By failing to do so, I almost missed my next turn.At 8:30 p.m., with the audience in place, we were back in the clothes. We went out again, to a full house. The music was loud, but clear. You could hear the talking -- fashion shows are not theatre, and people don't keep quiet. Journalists discuss what to write about; buyers discuss whether they can make a profit from the clothes. And although you have been chosen for your looks that are suitable for certain dresses, as a model, you are just an advertisement for the designer. So you walk through conversations, unable to stop or react. You are not a creative human being, just a smiling doll.。
英语高级视听_听力原文_Unit 6 The Coal Cowboy
America's dependence on foreign oil - President Bush called it "an addiction" in his State of the Union address国情咨文- has become a threat to the country's economy and security.While the president spent much of last week promoting energy alternatives可替代能源of the future, like hybrid杂种，混血儿；混合物cars(使用电池、汽油的)双动力汽车and fuels made from wood chips木片，木屑, the governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, says there's something we can have up把某人请来作客；起诉and running in the next five years.What he has in mind is using the coal, billions of tons of it, under the high plains高地平原；高平原of his home state家乡州. The governor tells correspondent Lesley Stahl he wants to use an existing process to turn that coal into a synthetic综合的；合成的，人造的liquid fuel液体燃料；液态燃料, or synfuel合成燃料.The plan is controversial, but Gov. Schweitzer - half Renaissance man文艺复兴人；多才多艺的人, half rodeo竞技表演；竞技者cowboy牛仔；牧童；莽撞的人- seems ready for the challenge. In fact, he sounds like he's ready to take on承担；呈现；具有；流行；接纳；雇用；穿上the world."Why wouldn't we create an economic engine经济引擎经济发动机that will take us into the next century, and let those sheiks酋长，族长（阿拉伯人的）and dictators and rats and crooks from all over the world boil in their own oil?" Schweitzer said at a press conference记者招待会，新闻发布会.Schweitzer has called them rats and crooks and hasn't held back on抑制bit. "Hugo Chavez 乌戈·查韦斯（委内瑞拉总统）, the Saudi沙乌地阿拉伯（人或语）的royal family王室；皇族, the leaders of Iran," he said. "How about the countries that end with 'stan'? Nigeria尼日利亚（位于非洲）? You tell me. Sheiks, rats, crooks, dictators, sure."He's a governor with his own foreign policy and no one is calling Brian Schweitzer a wuss胆小鬼，软弱无用的人. He says flat平直地；断然地out竭尽全力；用全速；疲惫that his plan will change the world, and that the key to the country's energy future is buried in the grassy长满草的；草绿色的plains of eastern Montana."Probably about half of eastern Montana has coal underneath it," Schweitzer explains.Montana is already mining 矿业；采矿a small fraction of its coal.But unlike the deep shaft 拍杆；轴；箭杆；杆状物(电梯等的) 垂直通道利用mining done in West Virginia, Montana coal is surface mined and there hasn't been a fatal致命的；重大的；毁灭性的；命中注定的accident in 15 years. The governor took 60 Minutes down into one of those huge pits矿井；深坑；陷阱；（物体或人体表面上的）凹陷；（英国剧场的）正厅后排；正厅后排的观众."We are surrounded by energy," Schweitzer said. "There's no going down into a mine. It's a road. They drive right out of here.""But, let me ask you something. Coal has such a bad reputation" Stahl said. "It's dirty. I can feel it. I'm gonna be filthy肮脏的；污秽的；猥亵的. I can smell it. It's awful, awful, awful. How many of these would you have to dig out to produce enough of what you're talking about to make it make sense?""If we got to 20 of these kinds of pits, we could produce a serious amount of energy for the future of this country," the governor said.It's not enough to completely break our addiction to foreign oil过分依赖外国石油, but a start. Most coal today is used for electricity but the governor's plan is to turn Montana's billions of tons of untapped coal into a liquid diesel fuel柴油；柴油机燃料for our cars.Schweitzer wants to take coal that's been pressurized into a gas, and then use something called the Fischer-Tropsch process 费歇尔—特罗普希法，费—托法to convert that gas into a clean diesel fuel, similar to what is made at a demonstration plant示范装置；样板厂in Oklahoma美国俄克拉荷马州.The governor handed Stahl a jar罐；广口瓶；震动；刺耳声of this synthetic fuel合成燃料；人造燃料, which looked and smelled clean. "Chanel No. 37," Schweitzer said, laughing. "It is diesel. You can pour that in your diesel car柴油汽车，柴油机动车or truck right now."The Fischer-Tropsch process does have a track record径赛成绩记录；过去的成绩或成就, along with a sinister history. It was first put into wide-scale大规模的；广泛的use in the Nazi era, when Hitler had few oil-rich石油藏量丰富的allies. Ninety percent of his Luftwaffe （二战时期的）纳粹德国空军planes ran on coal-based fuelsLater on, South Africa, also isolated because of Apartheid种族隔离used the process."So, here you have these horrible regimes政权，政体；社会制度；管理体制, and now we want to take their technology. There's something kind of …spooky幽灵般的；有鬼般的；令人毛骨悚然的," Stahl said."Science is neutral," said Schweitzer. "They were pushed against the wall被逼到墙根了，走投无路了, because they couldn't get oil. We're pushed against the wall because the oil is so expensive."The price tag价格标签；标价to get his plan rolling - $1.5 billion - is a bargain, the governor says, now that crude is trading around $60 a barrel.Dr. Robert Williams, a senior energy scientist at Princeton, agrees."At the oil prices油价；原油价格that we expect for the long-term, it would be economic," Williams said.Stahl told Williams about the jar of diesel Schweitzer showed her. Is this synthetic fuel going to be that clean and smell that good?"Oh, yes. The Fischer-Tropsch diesel is a superb fuel," said Williams. "Not only is [it] cleaner than conventional符合习俗的，传统的；常见的；惯例的diesel, but it also leads to improved engine performance引擎性能."And he explained why the process works environmentally."The reason this works and is much cleaner is you're not burning coal. You're instead gasifying气化coal," Williams said."And, therefore, things don't go up into the atmosphere?" Stahl asked."Well, when you gasify coal, you can take the pollutants out," Williams explained."You're saying before the coal is ever burned in any way, you can separate out the bad stuff?" Stahl asked."You do that very early on," Williams replied.The new Fischer-Tropsch plants, Schweitzer says, wouldn't have the traditional smoke-belching 喷射smokestacks烟囱，烟窗低技术制造业的；大工厂的associated with today's coal-fired 烧煤的power plants. But he does acknowledge there would be some emissions."There would be less than one percent than you get in进入；到达；陷入；收获a plant like this," the governor said, pointing at smoking smokestacks in the background. "This is old coal technology. We're talking about the new way."But even in the new way there's an environmental problem, and it's a big one: carbon dioxide, which, while not a poison, is the No. 1 cause of global warming."Carbon dioxide will be generated at a rate that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions温室气体排放量that are twice those for conventional crude oil," said Williams.Williams says this process will produce twice as much carbon dioxide than traditional petroleum 石油if you vent the CO2 to the atmosphere.But Schweitzer has promised not to do that. "This spent耗尽了的；精疲力尽的carbon dioxide, we have a home for it. Right back into the earth, 5,000 feet deep," the governor explains.He plans to sell that carbon dioxide to oil companies that use it to boost促进宣扬；偷窃the amount of oil they can pump. "It's called enhanced oil recovery提高采收率石油増进回収法. It's worth money to the oil business," Schweitzer said.The sales pitch推销商品的言辞keeps coming: Schweitzer says the fuel will not only be cleaner, it'll be cheaper, too."We can produce this fuel for about $1 a gallon. We have gas taxes天然气税, depending on what state you're in, of 60, 70, 80 cents a gallon. So, do the math," he said."You know, it sounds almost too good to be true,好得令人难以置信；太好而有失真实" Stahl said."Well, that's what got me excited," Schweitzer replied.He's been so excited, he's been traveling the country selling his big idea好主意. But back home they say he can be arrogant."Are you a little, let's say cocky自大的；骄傲的；过于自信的?" Stahl asked."When I have a vision, I get single-minded专心的；纯真的；真诚的；率直的about it. I say, 'I'm going to continue to work on this until we get her done,' " Schweitzer said.That cowboy bravado虚张声势；冒险is just what you might expect from a guy who grew up roping calves on a Montana ranch大农场；大牧场."We have a little bit different way of looking at the world. And I think it's about self reliance 自力更生；依靠自已," Schweitzer said.And, yet, the cowboy is a bit of一点a geek who went to graduate school研究所，研究院to study soil science土壤科学，社会科学；土壤学. In the 1980s he went to work in Saudi Arabia - land of the sheiks - running farm projects.Schweitzer says the Saudis embarked on an ambitious野心勃勃的；有雄心的；热望的；炫耀的agricultural program to become self sufficient自给自足的；极为自负的in food, to wean使断奶；使断念；使放弃themselves off our wheat. Now, he wants to wean America off their oil.He got into politics as a Democrat民主党人；民主主义者；民主政体论者. But in his ads in the 2004 governor's race, he looked as un-like John Kerry as possible and even picked a Republican running mate竞选伙伴.In red state红色州（选民倾向于投票给共和党的州）Montana, Schweitzer squeaked 告密；吱吱叫；侥幸成功out a four-point win. But today he has a 65 percent approval rating支持率, buoyed使浮起；支撑；鼓励浮标；浮筒；救生圈；航标by his good ol' boy persona人物角色；伪装的外表and his image making. That includes his dog, Jag, who goes with him everywhere, even on the state plane 政府飞机专机状态平面.Now there's a fledgling无经验的人；刚会飞的幼鸟online movement to draft Schweitzer into征召…入(伍) the next presidential race.Schweitzer says "President Schweitzer of the United States" sounds a little silly to him. "I'm the governor of Montana. We have 920,000 people. This is the first office I've ever been elected to选举为(委员等)，选举(某人)担任and I've only been here a year."He may answer that question with an "aw shucks哦，呸“胡说八道”," but some Montanans complain that he does have his eye on the national stage."Right now he is the governor of Montana. He cannot turn his back on不搭理；不理睬拒绝帮助us looking for bigger and better things," said Helen Waller, who leads the Northern Plains Resource Council, a group of farmers and ranchers大农场经营者；大农场工人fighting the governor's coal-to-diesel plan."I think he has more of 更大程度上的…更多的…a perspective of trying to save the world. And that's a …good goal but you've got to start by pieces," said Waller.One of the pieces, she says, should not be more mining. She points out that in the past, mining companies came to Montana, dug out掘出；发现the precious minerals and, despite their promises to clean things up清理；大捞一笔, they left behind toxic eyesores眼中钉；难看的东西."The place would be changed to the point where it wouldn't be like home any more," Waller said.But Schweitzer says there's now a state law州法律that requires mining companies to restore the land after the digging is done.The governor showed Stahl a piece of land that used to be a mine but is now used for agriculture. He says he would force mining companies to restore the land after the mines are closed.Mining companies have gotten around 到处走走；逃避；说服；传开来（等于get round）；有办法应付the law in the past so Waller thinks it's crazy to dig up the coal; instead Montana should be producing bio-diesel, a fuel made from plant seeds植物种子."We've got all that land there that can be used to produce bio-fuels and it is competitive," she said. "There's a better way! That's what I'm saying. Other states are way out ahead遥遥领先于of us.""Well maybe they don't have as much coal as you have," Stahl said."Well, that's probably the case可能是如此吧," Waller acknowledged.Asked why the money shouldn't all be invested in bio-diesel, Schweitzer said, "If we replaced all the acres of wheat, corn and soybeans that we export across America, you would only replace 15 percent of our diesel demands in this country. Do the math. It's not enough."China is already working with Shell on Fischer-Tropsch projects in Asia but to build them in the United States, the governor has to raise investment money from private industry私人企业.Who's in?"Well no one's in yet. I haven't seen the check yet," said Schweitzer.Asked why investors are reluctant, Schweitzer said: "Everybody wants to be the first one to build the second plant. Because that's the fact. Because the first plant is going to be a lot of engineering设计；管理（engineer的ing形式）；建造on the fly在飞行中；忙忙碌碌. So, there will be cost over-runs成本超支. I'm telling you."Even people who like the governor say he's a big dreamer梦想家；做梦的人；不切实际的人but nothing seems to discourage him. With his cowboy swagger大摇大摆；吹牛；威吓；下摆散开状的女式短大衣, he just keeps pushing his plan for Montana, despite the obstacles.push for奋力争取"I have heard about synfuels 30 years at least," Stahl said. "Out here（老远）到这里；即将离开in the west. And it always seems to fail. The minute the price of oil comes down a little, these things just go into bankruptcy.""If you believe the price of oil is going to drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel, you shouldn't walk away from this project. You should run," said Schweitzer. "But the overwhelming majority压倒性多数of the people who understand the oil market worldwide do not believe that we will spend much time below $30 a barrel. This is the right thing to do. We can do it. Let's get started."By Miguel Sancho。
英语中级听力lesson6原文文本
英语中级听力lesson6原文文本Lesson 6Reporter: And now, Mrs. Skinner, can you tell us your story? What happened at your farm when the earthquake passed? Mrs. Skinner: Oh, it was terrible. I'll never forget it to my dying day. I hope I never see anything like that again. It was terrible. Well, we always get up, Jack and me, at about quarter to five. He has to milk the cows early, you see, and while he's doing that I make his breakfast. I was in the kitchen when it came. Suddenly the whole house was moving. The coffee pot flew through the window, and I was on my back on the kitchen floor. The noise was terrible. Well, I knew what I had to do. You have to get outside, you know, it's safer there. So I ran through the house and opened the front door. Then I stopped—I couldn't believe it—everything was different, everything had changed, nothing was in the right place any more. You know outside our house there is a path to the gate—there was I should say—well, the path wasn't there any more. In front of the front door was our rose garden, not the path! And next to the rose garden were the eucalyptus trees, and behind them the raspberry patch—just as before, but they had all moved, moved about five metres to the left, to the south that is. On each side of the garden path we had a line of beautiful old cypress trees. Well these had now moved right down to the end of the house, to the left again that is. And the path had completely disappeared. Reporter: But that's incredible, Mrs. Skinner. Do you mean that everything in front of your house had moved—what?—five metres to the left, I mean to the south? The raspberry patch, the eucalyptus trees, the rose-garden, the two lines of cypresstrees—all had moved? Mrs. Skinner: Yes, everything had moved into the place of the other! Reporter: But your front path had completely disappeared? Mrs. Skinner: Yes, that's right. Oh it was terrible, terrible. Reporter: And your husband Jack? Was he all right? Mrs. Skinner: Yes—but the cowshed had moved too—it had moved several metres. Jack was all right—I could see him running round after the cows—all the cows had escaped you see. They were running all over the place—it was impossible to catch them. Reporter: So Jack, your husband, was all right. Mrs. Skinner: Well he was a bit shocked like me, but he was all right. Oh, I forgot to tell you about the granary—that had moved south too. Its normal place was behind the house and now it was near the cowshed. Can you believe it? Reporter: Incredible, Mrs. Skinner. And the house itself—what about your house? Mrs. Skinner: Well then we saw what had happened. Everything had moved one way—that is, to the south—except the house. The house—can you believe it?—had moved the other way—the house had moved north. So the house went one way and everything else—the garden, the trees, the granary—went the other way. Reporter: Incredible, Mrs. Skinner, absolutely incredible.A funny thing happened to me last Friday. I'd gone to London to do some shopping. I wanted to get some Christmas presents, and I needed to find some books for my course at college (you see, I'm a student). I caught an early train to London, so by early afternoon I'd bought everything that I wanted. Anyway, I'm not very fond of London, all the noise and traffic, and I'd made some arrangements for that evening. So, I took a taxi to Waterloo station. I can't really afford taxis, but I wanted to get the 3:30 train. Unfortunately the taxi got stuck ina traffic jam, and by the time I got to Waterloo, the train had just gone. I had to wait an hour for the next one. I bought an evening newspaper, the 'Standard', and wandered over to the station buffet. At that time of day it's nearly empty, so I bought a coffee and a packet of biscuits ... chocolate biscuits. I am very fond of chocolate biscuits. There were plenty of empty tables and I found one near the window. I sat down and began doing the crossword.I always enjoy doing crossword puzzles. ? ? After a couple of minutes a man sat down opposite me. There was nothing special about him, except that he was very tall. In fact he looked like a typical city businessman ... you know, dark suit and briefcase. I didn't say anything and I carried on with my crossword. Suddenly he reached across the table, opened my packet of biscuits, took one, dipped it into his coffee and popped it into his mouth. I couldn't believe my eyes! I was too shocked to say anything. Anyway, I didn't want to make a fuss, so I decided to ignore it. I always avoid trouble if I can. I just took a biscuit myself and went back to my crossword. ? ? When the man took a second biscuit, I didn't look up and I didn't make a sound. I pretended to be very interested in the puzzle. After a couple of minutes, I casually put out my hand, took the last biscuit and glanced at the man. He was staring at me furiously. I nervously put the biscuit in my mouth, and decided to leave. I was ready to get up and go when the man suddenly pushed back his chair, stood up and hurried out of the buffet. I felt very relieved and decided to wait two or three minutes before going myself. I finished my coffee, folded my newspaper and stood up. And there, on the table, where my newspaper had been, was my packet of biscuits.Inspector: Morning, Sergeant. What have you got for metoday? Sergeant: We've got that tape from Gentleman Jim, sir. It was sent to us yesterday. They want to know if it's all right to send it to his wife. Inspector: And is it? Sergeant: I don't know sir. I'm sure there's a message hidden in the tape, but I don't know what it is. It's been examined by half the police force in London, and nothing was found. But there is something very peculiar about that tape. Inspector: Well, what is it? Sergeant: Well, sir, he talks about happy memories and things. And really, Inspector, I don't think Gentleman Jim really feels like that about anything. I don't think he means any of it. I'm sure there is something else on the tape, and it's hidden in what he says. But I can't find it. Inspector: The tape is all right, is it? It wasn't tampered with when Gentleman Jim recorded the message? Sergeant: The tape was carefully examined by three different experts, and they didn't find anything. Whatever it is, it's in the words. Inspector: Well, I think I'd better listen to this tape, and see if I can find this mystery message. Sergeant: Right you are sir, it's waiting for you. Jim: Hello my dear wife. I want you to listen very carefully to this recording. Play it over and over again, and enjoy all the beautiful things I want to remind you about. Don't worry about me, just think about the beautiful things, and I'm sure you will be very happy, and you will find something very comforting in my words. Are you ready? I want to remind you of some really happy memories. Do you remember the day when we first met? You were very beautiful. There was a lot of sunshine that day, do you remember? There aren't many girls who are very beautiful, are there? But you were lovely. And our children. They're very beautiful. Two lovely girls, and a handsome boy, although they're all in prison now. I remember when our son was small, he had lovely blue eyes, and very beautiful gold curly hair.Do you remember the toys he used to play with? I remember his teddy bear, and also some very beautiful bricks, which he used to play with on the bedroom floor. Those were happy days. Do you remember, dear wife, the first dance we went to? You wore a blue dress and you looked very beautiful in the moonlight, and we danced until the morning, and then I took you home on my motorbike. Your mother was waiting for us, and she looked very beautiful. The next day I asked you to marry me. I don't think your mother was very pleased. She wanted us to buy the house next to her, do you remember? But we wanted a bigger house, with a very beautiful garden and we found one. I like our house very much. I remember coming home one day in the winter, and looking at our house. It looked very beautiful under the white snow, and I knew that you were waiting in the kitchen with a cup of hot soup, and my dear friend Ginger. Poor Ginger. He has been in prison too. He says that you are very beautiful. The important thing in prison is to have happy memories. And I've got wonderful memories. Do you remember Ginger's cat? It was a very beautiful big black cat. Ginger liked it very much. He bought it fish to eat, and a very beautiful red ribbon, which he tied around its neck. I always liked Ginger's cat. I'm sorry I did not want to see you when you came. I wanted to send you this message instead. When I come home, I will buy you some expensive perfume, or a very beautiful rose. Play this recording many times, and think carefully about my words. Think about what came after all these beautiful things, and walk into the country, sit down beside the river, under a very beautiful tree, and think about me. Your loving Gentleman Jim. Inspector: Is that all? Sergeant: Yes, that's all. Inspector: You're quite right. There is something very peculiar about thatmessage. Look, I've written some questions for you. Inspector: Well, I think Gentleman Jim has hidden a message in the tape. Sergeant: Yes sir, so do I. He keeps telling his wife to play the message over and over again. Inspector: He tells her that she'll find something comforting. What do you think he means by that? Sergeant: Well sir, perhaps there is money hidden somewhere, and this message tells his wife where to look? Inspector: I wish he'd tell us where to look. Then perhaps we'd find the message. Sergeant: I think he has told us, Inspector. Inspector: What do you mean? Sergeant: Well, did you notice that he keeps saying the same words over again? Inspector: Yes, of course. He says everything is very beautiful. Sergeant: Mm, that's right. And he tells his wife to think about these beautiful things. That must be a clue. Inspector: Well, what does he say? His wife is beautiful, the girls are beautiful, his son is beautiful, the bricks were beautiful ... Sergeant: That's a very funny thing to say. Inspector: Yes, it is. But wife, girls, son, bricks. It doesn't make any sense. 'Very beautiful bricks,' he said. It's nonsense! Sergeant: Just a minute. Do you remember what Gentleman Jim said at the end of the recording? Inspector: What was that? Sergeant: He said, 'Think about what came after all these beautiful things.' I think that's the answer, Inspector. Play it again, and every time he says 'very beautiful' write down the next word. I think we'll find Gentleman Jim's message. Inspector: Right Sergeant. That's very clever of you. Well done!When it has been decided what's to be read—a chapter of a book, for example—then it's helpful to get an overview of the contents before starting to read. This can be done by reading the introduction, usually the opening paragraph, and the conclusion, usually the final paragraph. In addition, (pause) a glance at theheadings of sections or subsections will show the order in which the items are introduced. 2. Finally, the students should ask themselves a specific question connected with the main part of their reading. They should then endeavour to answer it by making appropriate notes as they read. This will help them to focus on the reading as well as (pause) providing a summary which can be reread later. 3. When the student is writing a dissertation or doing a piece of research then he will need to consult a specialized bibliography. This is a book which lists all the published materials on a particular subject, and in some cases gives a brief summary of each item. Very recent research, however, (pause) may not appear in a bibliography. 4. There's the type of error which leads to misunderstanding or, even worse, to a total breakdown in communication. The causes of such misunderstandings and breakdowns are numerous, and I'll therefore be able to (pause) do no more than tryto cover the most important ones here. 5. Very often those students who come from a language background which is Indo-European, misuse English words which have a similar form to those in their native language. Spanish speakers, for example, expect the English word "actually" to mean the same as the Spanish word "actualmente". Unfortunately, (pause) it doesn't. 6. Finally, we come to the third type of error. This is the least damaging of the three, though (pause) it's still important.Sign Language ? ? Deaf people, people who can't hear, are still able to communicate quite well with a special language. It's called sign language. The speaker of sign language uses hand gestures in order to communicate. Basic sign language has been used for a long, long time, but sign language wasn't reallydeveloped until about 250 years ago. In the middle of the 1700s a Frenchman named Epee developed sign language. Epee was able to speak and hear, but he worked during most of his life as a teacher of deaf people in France. Epee developed a large number of vocabulary words for sign language. Epee taught these words to his deaf students. Epee's system used mostly picture image signs. We call them picture image signs because the signs create a picture. For example, the sign for sleep is to put both hands together, and then to place the hands flat against the right side of your face, and then to lower your head slightly to the right. This action was meant to show the position of sleep. So we call it a picture image sign.Try to Remember Try to Remember the kind of September When life was slow and also mellow Try to Remember the kind of September When grass was green and grain was yellow Try to Remember the kind of September When you were a tender and callow fellow Try to Remember and if you remember Then follow Follow ... Try to remember when life was so tender That no one wept except the willow Try to remember the kind of September When love was an ember about to billow Try to remember, and if you remember Then follow Follow ... Deep in December It's nice to remember Although you know the snow will follow Deep in December It's nice to remember The fell of september that makes us mellow Deep in December Our hearts should remember And follow Follow ...。
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Unit 1 Pirates of the InternetTask I Global Listening1. A2. C3. B4. D5. C6. A7. D8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. T4. F5. TEpisode 21. √2. √3. √Episode 3(1) technology always wins (2) software(3) advertising supported (4) radio(5) Ten million people (6) music(7) video games (8) not liable for(9) typo (10) control(11) fig leaf (12) facilitating(13) steal (14) comfortableEpisode 41. Following the music industry and begin to sue individuals who downloadmovies;2. Airing ads about people whose jobs are at risk because of the piracy;3. Keeping copies of movies from leaking in the first place;4. Hiring people to hack the hackers / serve up thousands of fake copies of newmovies.Episode 51. Downloading off the Internet.2. 60 million.3. Embrace it and get paid too.4. A bunch of crooks.5. 3 – 5 dollars.6. Stopping piracy.Unit 2 The New Space RaceTask I Global Listening1. A2. C3. B4. D5. C6. A7. D8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. T4. F5. F6. TEpisode 2(1) operable space plane (2) at a cost(3) monopoly on (4) incentive(5) business (6) dream(7) contests (8) a trophy(9) stunning looks (10) technological sophisticationEpisode 31. Nearly a decade ago.2. Turning his designs into models and testing them.3. He sought investment from Paul Allen.4. The vote of confidence.5. Gluing carbon fabric together with epoxy.6. Flying badminton shuttlecocks.Episode 41 —— (J)2 —— (A)3 —— (C, F)4 —— (B,H)5 —— (D)Episode 51. It has proved that the small guys can build a space ship and go to space.2. The deal is to invest $120 million to build five spaceships for paying customers.Flights are expected to begin in 2008.3. Yes. According to Virgin Galactic, 38,000 people have put down a deposit for aseat, and 90 people have paid the full price of $200,000.4. His next goal is affordable travel above low-Earth orbit, i.e., affordable travel tothe moon.Unit 3 New Orleans is SinkingTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. A4. C5. C6. D7. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. F5. F6. FEpisode 21. √ 5. √ 6. √Episode 3(1) 81 years; Two times.(2) Three generations.(3) It’s flat.(4) Land is all that the Fultons have, yet it is prone to disaster.(5) Several feet off the ground.(6) 80,000; $26,200.Episode 4(1) bad design (2) workmanship(3) fixed (4) next summer(5) withstand (6) Category 5(7) doubled (8) billionsEpisode 51. They made the assessment on the site and then Wi-Fied the reports to a city halldatabase, which is linked to aerial images of every single address, both before and after.2. The total cost of reconstruction will be given to the city authorities.3. Because his own home was flooded and ruined.4. It means that there are too few people to pay taxes or keep business going.5. He is asking the nation to commit billions of dollars and many years to protectthe city.Unit 4 Afghanistan – Addicted to HeroinTask I Global Listening1. C2. D3. B4. B5. A6. C7. C8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. F4. F5. FEpisode 2(1) military alliances (2) private armies(3) drug lords (4) in high places(5) allegations (6) for drug offenses(7) small-timeEpisode 31 —— (A, G)2 —— (E, I)3 —— (F)4 —— (K)5 —— (D)Episode 41. To do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drugbusiness.2. To remove them from office / from the country.3. The need to fight terrorism / insurgency.4. Destroy it.5. For fear of disrupting the flow of intelligence.Episode 51. The number of acres of poppy under cultivation dropped 20 percent this year.2. They were promised health clinics, schools and roads.3. They elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas theycontrol.4. Fighting narcotics is as important as fighting terrorism; It needs to be elevated toa rank that is commensurate with the threat it poses.Task I Global Listening1. D2. A3. A4. B5. D6. C7. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. T4. T5. T6. FEpisode 2(1) naturally (2) man’s doing(3) expeditions (4) ice cores(5) fingerprint (6) burning fossil fuels(7) carbon dioxide (8) thousand(9) warmEpisode 32. √3. √4. √Episode 41. Land of the great bear.2. Polar bears’ health.3. A tranquillizer dart.4. Bear population there is the healthiest.5. Changes in the bears’ fat, dimensions and teeth.6. They can only hunt on the ice.Episode 51. They say they’re no more reliable than the local weatherman.2. They made science as precise as it is today.3. The US can’t flip its energy use overnight and its economy might get hurt.4. His job is to tell the government exactly what he knows scientifically.Task I Global Listening1. B2. C3. D4. A5. B6. D7. A8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. T3. F4. F5. FEpisode 21. √ 4. √ 6. √Episode 3(1) Nazi era (2) coal-based fuels(3) apartheid (4) gasifying coal(5) pollutants (6) conventional diesel7) engine performance (8) less than one(10) twice as much (11) conventionalEpisode 41. 920,000; One year.2. He has his eye on the national stage.3. Farmers and ranchers fighting the coal-to-diesel plan.4. Toxic eyesores.Episode 51. Mining companies have gotten around the law in the past.2. Montana has got all the land there that can be used to produce biofuels. It willbe competitive.3. Biodiesel can only meet 15 percent of the US diesel demands even if allfarmland is devoted to this cause.4. Not yet, because there will be a lot of engineering on the fly and cost overrunsfor the first plant of this kind.5. The price of oil will not drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel.Unit 7 Can a Video Game Lead to Murder?Task I Global Listening1. A2. D3. C4. A5. B6. B7. C8. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. F4. T5. T6. FEpisode 21. E2. C3. A4. D5. G6. B7. FEpisode 3(1) Aggression (2) I nstitute of Health(3) developed (4) impulse control center(5) under construction (6) consider consequences(7) urges (8) heightened(9) risk factors (10) upbringing(11) turn to violence32Episode 41. Selling Moore two versions of the game.2. Millions of law-abiding citizens.3. It makes the device that runs the game.4. It’s becoming more dangerous.Episode 51. When a new medium comes along, it will be the subject of almost a hystericalattack.2. He can’t understand why games targeting police officers were made by themanufacturers.3. They card teenagers in an effort to keep violent games from underage kids.4. They are considering laws that would ban the sale of violent games to thoseunder 17.Unit 8 The Star of StarbucksTask I Global Listening1. D2. B3. B4. B5. D6. D7. A8. ATask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. F4. T5. FEpisode 2(1) Coffee masters (2) coined a phrase(3) filling souls (4) filling bellies(5) human connection (6) humanity(7) communities (8) home and workEpisode 31 √ 3 √ 4 √Episode 41. 1971.2. He felt he was home.3. Adding an espresso bar.4. Coffee consumption was down.5. paper cups; 3 bucks each cup; Italian nameEpisode 51. It’s located in Brooklyn. There are bullet holes in the door leading to apartme nt7G2. He was from a poor neighborhood and his father was injured on the job.3. He was a delivery driver who picked up and delivered cloth diapers.4. There was no hospitalization, no health insurance, no workman’s compensationfor his father.5. He offers his employees heath care and stock options. He also pays farmershigher than market rate for beans.Unit 9 Rescuing Roy HallumsTask I Global Listening1. C2. C3. D4. B5. D6. A7. B8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. T5. F6. FEpisode 2(1) here (2) like a dream(3) November 1 (4) contractor(5) relatively (6) working at(7) ski masks (8) abducting(9) beheading (10) videotape(11) dragged (12) constantlyEpisode 32. √3. √ 6. √8. √Episode 41. No.2. That Susan tried to call the kidnappers.3. Two years ago.4. Because they remain best friends.5. For fear that it would endanger somebody else.6. $40,000; $12 million.Episode 51. He was happy for them. But on the other hand, he felt sorry for himself becausenothing was happening for him.2. He pulled the mask off and hugged the soldier.3. They thought the US military wasn’t doing anything to find Roy.4. The unit is still looking for three more kidnapped Americans.5. He is back home catching up with his two daughters, his granddaughter and hisex-wife.Unit 10 Dying to Get inTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. D4. A5. B6. C7. A8. DTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. F4. F5. TEpisode 2(1) special unit (2) distress call(3) condition (4) hovered(5) Mexican (6) wandering(7) rationally (8) 17 years(9) refrigerator truck (10) morgueEpisode 32 √3 √4 √7 √Episode 41. About six million.2. Illegal migrants in meatpacking industry.3. Over 3,500 migrants fled Nebraska within 30 days.4. Leave the state (before ruining its economy).5. A good story rather than a secure border.Episode 51. It’s a $14 million pilotless dron e that scans the desert for intruders and potentialterrorists.2. They did so for fear of terrorism.3. No, terrorists don’t need to come in that way because they can purchase the bestforged document in the world and enter with valid visas.4. Their everyday job is to make arrests and drop migrants off on the Mexican sideof the border.Unit 11 Searching for JacobTask I Global Listening1. C2. D3. B4. D5. B6. B7. A8. BTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. T4. F5. FEpisode 2(1) kid (2) 16(3) 7,000 miles (4) bush plane(5) scene (6) raining season(7) sank (8) axles(9) 12 (10) government troops(11) 50 miles inside (12) intensifiedEpisode 31. F2. C3. E4. B5. D6. AEpisode 41. 20,000.2. She died in just a few hours.3. They carved them up and threw them in drinking water.4. No.5. Telling the same sad story.Episode 51. He signed a US-brokered peace agreement which never took hold.2. The deal is to give little tidbits of information about terrorist suspects around theworld to blunt US outrage over what’s happening in Darfur.3. He was the architect of the counter-insurgency strategy in Darfur; Last year, theUS sent a private jet to bring him to CIA headquarters.4. It’s really a heinous arrangement and one that history will judge very harshly.5. It has been pressing for peacekeepers; It’s keeping refugees alive with half abillion dollars of relief a year.Unit 12 Working 24 / 7Task I Global Listening1. A2. B3. D4. C5. B6. C7. B8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. F2. F3. T4. F5. F6. TEpisode 21. B, E2. C, I3. D, J4. G, K5. AEpisode 3(1) high stress (2) share a job(3) working mothers (4) wives and children(5) in-house counsel (6) referred(7) six months (8) three days(9) overlapping (10) 40(11) 75 percent (12) off(13) on call (14) suckingEpisode 41. No; Number 52. Yes.3. She can’t have substantive con versations with her husband.4. They are matter-of-fact about their lack of communication.5. They both reach for her favorite toy, the BlackBerry.Episode 51. He is such a workaholic that he has wired his house with Internet, telephone andtelevision in every single room.2. He loses some days of his kids’ lives and some of those tender moments withfamily.3. He is always connected to the Internet. In order to relax, it actually takes a littlebit of effort.4. He watches the business news, checks his e-mails and answers the phone; Tomake this happen, he wired his shower.5. They are waterproof but not foolproof.Unit 13 Swimming with SharksTask I Global Listening1. D2. A3. C4. C5. B6. C7. B8. ATask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. F4. F5. TEpisode 2(1) inhabitant (2) surfer(3) concerned (4) Three years(5) associate (6) clamed down hard(7) forearms (8) out to sea(9) in his mouth (10) children(11) 70 yards (12) some useEpisode 31. √ 3. √ 6. √Episode 41. Jaws.2. Nine; 791.3. Because we are on the meal list of sharks.4. being murdered, mugged or killed in a war.5. We may feel what’s gonna happen to us.Episode 51. Sharks have far more to fear from humans because our industrial fishing fleetsbring in 100 million sharks a year.2. Sharks fin soup is regarded as an expensive status symbol in China; Chefs in theemperor’s court were once beheaded if they prepared it incorrectly.3. Its fin would be cut off and then it would be thrown overboard alive to sink tothe bottom and drown.4. It is hard to police because most of the sharks are caught in international waterswhere there is no law against finning.5. Authorities there raided several processing plants wined by Hong Kong Chinese.Seven tons of fins were confiscated.Unit 14 Felicity HuffmanTask I Global Listening1. B2. C3. A4. B5. D6. C7. B8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. T3. T4. F5. T6. TEpisode 2(1) starred (2) TV shows(3) died young (4) cursed(5) work (6) character(7) her wit’s end(8) touched a nerve(9) harried (10) authenticity(11) parallels (12) vindicationEpisode 31. Everybody assumes all the time that the girls I the play will get in a catfight.2. The catfight thought crept in her mind too.3. Those days they all shoot together were the funniest days on set; The group waswonderful because they were all grateful professionals who work hard.4. She was loud and obnoxious; Her mother threatened to send her to an actingcamp.Episode 43. √ 5. √ 6. √Episode 51. Two (girls).2. No, she resents the question.3. It’s the best thing in my whole life.4. She doesn’t know if she is a good mother.5. A more exclusive club of big actors.Unit 15 Living LargeTask I Global Listening1. A2. B3. B4. B5. A6. B7. D8. CTask II Listen for DetailsEpisode 11. T2. F3. T4. T5. FEpisode 2(1) temporary moratorium (2) $726,000 (3) 1,100 square feet(4) combined (5) 3,000 (6) on both floors(7) triple (8) freedom (9) legislate taste(10) when and how (11) their life savings (12) jealousy(13) haves and have-notsEpisode 31. C2. I, J3. B4. F5. EEpisode 41. The sheer magnitude of the demand for ever-large living space.2. Robin, her husband and son, a dog named Coco and her cat.3. The old world style.4. Houston; 6,800 square feet; Yes.5. No; Six.Episode 51. The house has a huge entranceway somewhere between the US Capitol and agood-sized mosque.2. They’re amazed by the dome more than anything else.3. There is a touch of old world charm for the billiard room, co-TV room, co-dryaquarium.4. It’s a big bedroom with bathroom and closet the size of almost two New Yorkstudio apartment.5. The wife would like to enlarge the family eating area while the husband wisheshe could have a little bit bigger gathering room for parties.。
Unit6-7听力原文
Unit6, Lesson ATrack 4-6-1A.George and Megan are looking at a brochure advertising luxury hotels. Which hotel has themost expensive suite? Listen and check the appropriate box.Megan: Hi, George. Are you planning a trip?George: No, I’m just looking at this brochure. It features expensive hotels and their luxury suites. Megan: I didn’t know you were rich!George: I can dream, can’t I? Look at this place, it’s in Hong Kong. Guests staying in the Peninsula suite get their own limousine driver. They also have 24-hour butler service.Megan: And you pay for it, too! It’s only $4,300 a nightGeorge: Well, this one’s a little cheaper. It’s only 4,300 a night.Megan: Hmmm, the Hotel Ritz. It’s in the center of Pairs—great for sightseeing. Lots of famous people stay here… Wait, you can’t stay there.George:: Why not?Megan It’s the Coco Chanel Suite. You have to wear designer clothes and you don’t have any! George: Very funny.Megan: Wow! The Royal Suite at Burj Al Arab is really expensive! It’s almost $7,000—for one night!George: Yeah, but look at the details. They actually have a “helipad”—a place for landing your helicopter. Oh, and it’s also the tallest hotel in the world.Megan: Cool! So, when are you taking me there?George: Ha ha. Actually, I think the Peninsula s my favorite. What about you? Just a minute. Hello? ... Yes, it’s … , hi Luke … oh, really?…Uh huh …That’s great!... Ok, talk to you later! Megan: Who was that?George: It was Luke. He makes the travel arrangements for my boss.Megan: And?George: My boss is going to Hong Kong on a business trip and he wants me to go with him. Megan: When?George: In two weeks. Best of all, we’re going to stay at the Peninsula!Track 4-6-ol-1A Listen to nick and Janet talking about a TV show. Then answer the question.Nick: Did you see “ Look at Them Now!” last night?Janet: I had to do my homework, so I only saw the last ten minutes. Who was it about?Nick: Last night they featured Jim Carrey, Jewel, and um… what’s the name that actor from west Africa? He was in the movie Lora Croft: Tomb RaiderJanet: You mean Djimon Hounsou?Nick: Yeah. Anyway, it’s funny to think that they were all broke a few years ago.Janet: Yeah. And now they’re wealthy and famous. Life is so strange. Hey, I didn’t know that Jim Carrey used to be brokeNick: As a child, he even had to work an eight-hour shift after school every day. His family needed the money. Can you imagine?Janet: I could never do that. It sounds really hard.Nick: Yeah. He started his career as a stand-up comic before he acted in movies. He has alwaysbeen a funny guy.Janet: What did you say about Djimon?Nick: He was discovered in Paris by a fashion designer. He started out as a model. Then he appeared in music videos for Madonna and Janet Jackson. Did you know that?Janet: No, I didn’tNick: He’s also appeared on TV. He has done it all!Janet: Well I did see the part about jewel. Her family sure was penniless!Nick: Basically, yes. She started singing with her father when she was 14.Janet: And then her parents divorced. She had to grow up really fast.Nick: I know, but her life is good now. she has a great boyfriend—He’s a real-life rodeo cowboy! They seem really happy.Janet: “Look at them now!” is such a great show, isn’t it?Nick: it sure is. Maybe we can watch t together next week.Track 4-6-ol-2A Listen to the conversation between two classmates, Joseph and Jane. Then complete the sentences by circling the correct answers.Joseph: I had the worst luck last week.Jane: Why? What happened?Joseph: I received a brand new bicycle as my 20th birthday present from my uncle and I loved it. Jane: That’s great news! What’s so unlucky about that?Joseph: Well, my friend had bad luck. He had a terrible accident.Jane: that’s too bad!Joseph: Yeah. He broke his leg and my bicycle was totally destroyed.Jane: Gosh, that’s really terrible.Track 4-6-ol-4Listen to Jane talking about her car. Then answer the following questions.When I was a university student, I bought my first car. It wasn’t very expensive because it was really old. It was a little red Toyota. I worked in a restaurant during summer vacation and in fall I finally had enough money. I bought the car from my friend’s father. I took all my friends driving around every weekend and we had so much fun. A year later I had an accident. I wasn’t hurt, but the car was destroyed. I still miss my first car.Track 4-6-ol-5B You will hear a passage about Mary Larson’s old life. Then answer the questions.Vacation everyday: The peaceful life Mary Larson has wished forMary Larson was 43 when she got divorced. It was a new life for her, and she started considering what was really important in her life. She was working 60 hours a week as a banker to pay for a big house, expensive furniture, a new car, and all the other “important” things in life. But she had no time for what she really enjoyed: going out on her old houseboat.One day, she realized she could live on the boat, and forget about the mortgage payments. She sold her house and all her furniture. For the last six years, she and her dog Buddy have lived on the boat, which is only a fraction of the size of her old house. Her “home” is a marina on the river, and the rent costs only $200 a month, including water and electricity.Inside the boat is one room, about 5 meters by 4 meters. It’s divided in two parts by a curtain. One part is Mary’s bedroom, the other is the living room and kitchen.There is also a small bathroom with a shower. “I used to spend every weekend cleaning and maintaining my house. Now, it takes me two or three hours a month,” Mary says.“My friends think I’m crazy,” she says. “But I wake up in the morning and hear ducks and birds. I can go fishing from my living room.”Now, she works only part time. She uses all the extra hours for writing stories, bicycling, volunteering, and visiting friends. On the weekends, she goes along the river on her boat, exploring new places.“Would I go back to my old life? Never,” she says. “It’s so peaceful here. It’s like being on vacation every day.Track 4-6-ol-7B Listen to the passage, “money from unexpected sources.” Then ask and answer the following questions with a partner.Money from unexpected sourcesThe san people live in southern Africa. Scientists say that they may have been living there for as long as 40,000 years, hunting animals and gathering plants. Until recently, the once mighty San were broke and unemployed. They had lost their land and were no longer engaged in traditional activities, such as hunting. The few young San people with jobs were working as farm laborers. They were not learning about their ancient culture and language.That may all change. The San had struck it rich. They recently signed an agreement with a large drug company. The San have traditional knowledge about plants. The drug company is especially interesting in a particular cactus and how the San use it.The San used to go on hunting trips. While away from home, they chewed on the cactus to suppress their appetite –they no longer felt hungry afterwards. Using the San’s knowledge, the drug company plans to make a new drug from this plant. For people around the world who eat too much and have weight problems this new drug could really help them by suppressing their appetites.The San have a positive plan for this new wealth. Their first step will be to get jobs for their people. Their next priority will be education. Through education, they hope to save their culture and language for future generations.When you think of a monk, you might think of a quiet man living in an isolated place. The “free monks” of Greece do live in a monastery, but they are anything but quiet. In fact, they sing. They have been recording their songs and selling many records in Greece.Young music listeners love to listen to the “free monks.” Their songs are recorded in different styles (digital keyboard and rock, for example), and the themes are not only religious. The brothers also sing about problems like drugs and globalization.The monks haven’t made a fortune from their record sales, but they have made a profit. They use the money to pay for summer camps for teenagers. At the camps, the teens can play soccer and go horseback riding. The monks also donate money to other social programs that help people.Unit6 Lesson BGlobal viewpointsI wish…Natalie: If I had three wishes then they would be… my first wish would be to have a successful career, my second wish would be to have a lot of money, and my third wish would be to affect the world in a positive way.Malinda: First, I wish I had a horse, second I wish I could fly around the world, third I wish I wereable to buy a car.Gian: I wish I had enough money to have a really big house in a nice neighborhood.Kevin: I wish I were a popular star.Glum: I wish I could travel abroad a lot and meet people of different cultures.Alyssa: I wish there was an end to all wars because I don’t like violence.Alejandra: I wish I had enough money to end world hunger.Striking it richWoo Sung: If I suddenly struck it rich, I would buy my parents a house … um … and a car for each of them. And then I would purchase the university that I’m attending right now because the university needs new buildings and new equipment.Calum: If I was lucky enough to strike it rich big time, I think that I would definitely, take a holiday somewhere warmer than where I like, and live on the beach for a while.Natalie: If I had a hundred million dollars, I would give some to charity, but first I would buy myself a new house, a new car, and I would invest a lot of money for my future.Dave: If I suddenly became rich, I would spend it all as quickly as possible. I would probably do something stupid like buy a whole lot of cars.Unit7, Lesson ATrack 4-7-1A Listen to Dave and Esra’s conversation. Then circle the best answer to complete the sentence. Esra: Hi, Dave! What a pleasant surprise. How are you and your family?Dave: We’re all fine, thanks. And you?Esra: I’m fine too. I haven’t seen you in ages. What have you been up to?Dave: I’ve been busy. I’ve been getting advice from the mayor’s office on a project.Esra: what kind of project?Dave: A neighborhood association. It’s a group of people who are trying to improve life in this neighborhood.Esra: This is the first I’ve heard of it. Is it a lot of work?Dave: Yeah, but it’s interesting.Esra: Well, I wish someone would do something about the traffic, especially during rush hour. It’s really bad in this neighborhood.Dave: Actually, that’s one of our projects. We are encouraging people to leavetheir cars at home and take the bus.Esra: That’s good to hear. What else are you guys doing?Dave: We’ve asked police to increase their patrols and we’re working on another issue: noise pollution.Esra: I know. Those garbage trucks wake me up at least twice a week. It’s too early!Dave: That’s going to change. Starting next summer, garbage trucks won’t be allowed to pick up garbage before 7 a.m.Esra: Wow, you guys are doing a lot!Dave: You should come to one of our meetings. They’re on Thursday nights. At seven-thirty. Esra: Thanks for asking, but I don’t want any more work to do. I’m already overworked at the office.Dave: Well, left me tell you, it’s not all work. We have fun, too. In fact we’re planning a big blockparty for next weekend. Why don’t you come?Track 4-7-ol-1A Listen to the beginning of a radio show. What is the best title for the show? Check your answer:Announcer: you’re all familiar with the topic of urban sprawl. Well, in today’s radio show, we will talk to three guests about cities and suburbs. We can prevent urban sprawl by living closer together in cites. Will people in the suburbs want to do that? Or do people in the city want to move to the suburbs? Let’s find out! Let me go to the first person on our panel. Tyra, which do you prefer, the suburbs or the city?Track 4-7-ol-2B Now listen the rest of the show. Where do the people live now? Where do they want to live in the future? Write S for suburbs or c for city.Announcer: You’re all familiar with the topic of urban sprawl. Well, in today’s radio show, we will talk to three guests about cities and suburbs. We can prevent urban sprawl by living closer together in cities .Will people in the suburbs want to do that? Or do people in the city want to move to the suburbs? Let’ fid out! Let me go to the first person on our panel. Tyra, which do you prefer, the suburbs or the city?Tyra: I love the suburbs! I have a big, beautiful house. I don’t ever want to move.But what about urban sprawl? It’s a big problem in our area.Tyra: I’m sorry about that, but I live in the city before. I don’t like it. Not everyone is suited for that kind of life.Announcer: What did you like about it?Tyra: There is no privacy. You can hear your neighbors and smell their cooking.Announcer: Matt, what about you? You live in the city now. Do you want to move?Mattin: Well, I’m in college now and the city is really fun.Announcer: Think ahead to the future, though. Let’s say ten years from now…Matt: That’s different. When I get married, I think I want to live the suburbs.Announcer: Why is that?Matt: Well, it’s easy to live in the city when you are young and single. The suburbs are a better place for a family. It’s safer for the kids and they have room to play.Announcer: Mercedes, it’s your turn. You’ve heard Tyra and Matt. Do you agree with either one of them?Mercedes: Not really.Announcer: Explain.Mercedes: Well, I don’t like the suburbs. And I don’t like urban sprawl. The city is too expensive, but I’m comfortable here.Announcer: You don’t think it’s too dangerous … or there’s not enough privacy?Mercedes: Nah. I prefer it here. I get too lonely when I’m in the suburbs. I like the energy of the city.Track 4-7-ol-4A .Listen to a conversation between a mayor and a concerned citizen who’ s complaining about his community. Then answer the question.Man: Mr. Mayor, I live in this community and I’ve got a complaint.Mayor: well, what seems to be the problem?Man: A traffic light on High Street s broken. It can cause traffic accidents and put people’s lves in danger.Mayor: That it’s good for traffic control, I’m sure.Man: No, it’s not, and it’s dangerous.Mayor: I agree that a broken traffic light is a dangerous issue. We cannot ignore it.Man: What are you planning to do about it?Mayor: I think we need to have the Department of traffic Control to solve it immediately.Man: Thank you for your help, Mr. Mayor. You’ve got my support in the next election!Track 4-7-ol-6A You will hear John and Susan talking respectively about the problem area where their neighborhood didn’t score a point (4 CommunicationB & C) and also about suggestions as to how to fix the problem. Then fill in the blanks with the problem areas they are talking about.John: One of the areas where our neighborhood didn’t score a point is that we don’t know our neighbors well. This is one of the biggest problems. When we know our neighbors, we’ll pay more attention to our neighborhood. To improve neighborhood safety, I think we should establish block clubs and help organize community events and public safety programs such as neighborhood watch. Neighbors from a street or block can form a club to get to know each other and work together against problems such as vandalism, gang graffiti, and burglaries. We can also agree to look out for all the houses on our street and call the police for help immediately if we see a problem. We can put signs in our windows to show that we are participating in this kind of program.Susan: Police patrols in our neighborhood are not very frequent. Most of our neighbors made complaints about this to the police department. They should bring community policing into the neighborhoods. Now the police often patrol in cars so they don’t know the people of the neighborhood very well. If they patrol on foot or on bicycle, we can say hello to them when we see them patrolling. That’ll make us feel us safer. At the same time, the neighborhood residents and community agencies should cooperate with the police to prevent crimes, Then we’ll build a safe neighborhood.Track-4-7-ol-8The shrinking familyElisa Sanchez is a mother in Monterrey, Mexico. She and her husband are both high school teachers in their thirties.They have two children. They don’t plan to have more. “I was one of six children,”says Elisa. “My husband comes from a family of seven. People used to have more children in the sixties and seventies. Now it’s different.”Elisa’s husband thinks the lower birthrate s a positive change. “With a smaller population, there will be less competition. That means there will be more opportunities for young people.”Gina is 32 and her mother is worried about Gina’s ability to get married and raise a family in the future. The Italian government is worried, too. In 1958, one million babies were born in Italy. In 1998, it was half that number. The average mother in Italy has her first child at the age of 30. After 30, experts note, there isn’t a lot of time for women to have many children. The population is aging rapidly. Some wonder: Has population control in Italy been too successful?Unit7 , Lesson BGlobal ViewpointsIn my communityMalinda: There are many things that concern me in my community, but one of the issues that really concerns me is that a lot of people don’t have enough affordable housing. And I think the city should try to make more houses available to people who don’t have a lot of money.Martin: we need to do something about noise pollution. I live near a fire station, and every time the fire truck leaves the station, all you can hear for about two to three minutes is the siren and the horns.Natalie: living in a big city, one problem that I see a lot is graffiti. Graffiti on buildings … graffiti on sidewalks … It really bothers me because I’ve lived here all my life and I like to see my city clean.Global issuesCatherine: I think globally one of the biggest problems that we face is poverty.Nick: I think global warming is a very serious issue. The oceans are rising as well as the temperatures and something needs to be done about it before it’s too late.Malinda: one of the biggest issues facing the world today is the spread of HIV and AIDS, and something that I think needs to be done is that we need to do more to educate each other about this disease and how we can help people.Alejandra: I think that we need to do something about hunger. There are too many people who do not have enough food.Jennifer: I think that it’s really important that the world get together and help to make sure that all children become educated, that everyone gets a chance to learn and everyone gets a chance to go to school.祝大家考试顺利！。
英语听力教程（第2册）Unit6听力原文
英语听⼒教程（第2册）Unit6听⼒原⽂Unit 6 听⼒原⽂Part IB1. Tell me about yourself.2. What do you think are your strengths and weaknesses?3. We have a lot of applicants for this job, why should we appoint you?4. What has been your most valuable experience?5. How would you describe your personality?6. When did you last lose your temper? Describe what happened.7. Which is more important to you: status or money?8. How long do you think you’d stay with us if you were appointed?9. Why do you want to leave your present job?10. What makes you think you’d enjoy working for us?11. Are you an ambitious person?12. What would you like to be doing ten years from now?13. What are you most proud of having done in your present job?14. What was the worst problem you have had in your present job and how did you solve it?15. What is the best idea you’ve had in the past month?16. What is your worst fault and what is your best quality?17. Don’t you think you’re a little young for this job?18. What are your long-range goals?19. Describe your present job — what do you find rewarding about it?20. Now, what do you do in your spare time?21. What excites you about the job you’re doing now?22. What worries you about the job you’re doing now?23. Describe your ideal boss.24. How would you rate your present boss?C1. A person who likes to give or share things with others.2. Someone who always tells the truth.3. A person who is quick at learning new things.4. Someone who is always on time.5. A person who can’t keep a secret.6. Someone who does not think about other people’s feeling.7. A person who speaks in a very direct and honest way.8. Someone who is educated or has good manners.9. A person who comes up with new and original ideas.10. Someone who has a strong desire to succeed.Part II Two girls talking on the phoneClara:That number has been engaged for ages. Nobody can be that popular. I wonder if her number’s been changed. I think I’ll try again (Dialling)Sue: 3346791Clara: Is that you sue?Sue: Who’s callingClara: This is Clara, Clara Fulkson. Don’t you remember me?Sue: Clara! Of course I remember you. How are you? I haven’t heard from you for at least 2 years.What are you doing?Clara: Nothing very exciting. That’s one reason I’m ringing. I need some advice.Sue: Advice? Hm...That’s a good one. I’ve just been sacked (Pips)Clara: There’s (a) pips. Hang on Sue. (Insert a coin) What do you mean you’ve just been sacked?Sue, you are the most successful woman I know.Sue: That’s probably why I’ve been sacked. But let’s talk about you. You said you needed some advice.Clara: I certainly do. I want to ask you about interviews. Have you had (a) lots of them?Sue: Yes, I have. Too manyClara: So could you tell me the sort of questions you are usually asked?Sue:Let me think. The first ten questions are almost always the same. I call them the why’s, how’s and where’s.(pips again)Clara: Not again, Don’t go away, Sue, I’ve got one more coin. (Insert one more coin) Are you there Sue?Sue: Yes, I’m still here?Clara: Sorry, I didn’t understand what you were telling me. Could you repeat it?Sue: It’s very boring. But here you are. I’m always asked: why I want to leave my present job;why I’m interested in the new job; how I intend to get to work; how long I intend to stay at the job; Where I live; where I went to school; how much I ‘m paid in my present job; how much I expect to be paid in the new job. Oh, yes. I’m always asked if I’m married.(pips again)Clara: That is it, Sue. No more coins. I’ll write to you soon. And many thanks.Questions:1. What are the manes of the two speakers?2. Where might the caller make the phone call?3. How many coins did the caller insert?4. How long haven’t the two girls seen each other for?5. How many why’s, how’s and where’s can you remember? Place a tick by all the questions you can remember.Part III A good interviewA.Interviewer: Good morning, Miss ...Miss Jones: Miss Jones.Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Now, you’d like to join our team, I gather.Miss Jones: Yes, I would.Interviewer: That’s very good. I’d like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me a little bit about your education.Miss Jones: Oh yes. I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons. They’re an engineering firm. And after that, I did a one-year full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for two years and then moved on to my present company. That’s Europa Marketing. And I’ve been with them for three years now,first working with the Marketing Director and now I’m with the Sales Director. Interviewer: That’s all very interesting, Miss Jones. I’d like to know what was the course that you enjoyed most at school?Miss Jones: Foreign languages. We did French and German.Interviewer: And are you quite fluent in those languages now or ...?Miss Jones: Yes, a bit rusty now, but obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and I’d like to learn another language. I’d like to add Italian as well. Interviewer: Italian?Miss Jones: Yes.Interviewer: Very good, that might be very useful. Now tell me a little bit about the work you’re doing at present.Miss Jones:Well Europa Marketing is a marketing and public relations company and they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Our clients come from all over the world. I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations and I deal with her correspondence. I’ve not been able to go with her on any of her trips abroad, but I’ve been to the firms in this country, several times on my own to make these arrangements. Interviewer: It sounds as if you’re very happy there, Miss Jones. I’m curious why you’d like to leave them and join our company.Miss Jones: Well I know Anglo-European has a very good reputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company and that the work will be more challenging for me. I might be able to travel and use my languages because at the moment most of my work is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more challenges in my life really ...B.Interviewer: Good morning, Miss ...Miss Jones: Miss Jones. Good morning.Interviewer: Miss Jones, yes, right. Hi. Um ... now, you’d like to join our team, I gather.Miss Jones: Yes, I would.Interviewer: That’s ... that’s very good. Er ... I’d like to know a little bit about you. Perhaps you could tell me ... perhaps we could start ... if you could tell me a little bit about your education.Miss Jones: Oh yes, right. Well, I left school at 18 and for the first two years I went to Gibsons, you might know them, they’re an engineering firm.(An, yes, right.) Um ... and after that, I wanted to do a course, so I d ... I did a one-year full-time PA course and went back to Gibsons. I was PA to the Export Director. I stayed there for another two years and ... and thenI moved on to my present company. Um ... that’s Europa Marketing ... um ... Mr. Adair, themarketing director, offered me a job because Gibsons had ... had worked quite a lot with Europa Marketing. (Oh, yes, Europe’s got big business.) And I’ve been with them for three years now ... um ... first with the Marketing Director and ... andnow I’m with the Sales Director.Interviewer: That’s all very interesting, Miss Jones. Um ... I ... I’d like to know, what did you enjoy most at school? What was the course that you enjoyed most?Miss Jones: Ah ... foreign languages I liked best. (Foreign languages.) We did French andGerman. Yes.Interviewer: Mhm. And are you quite fluent in those now or ... ?Miss Jones: Yes, a bit rusty now, but ... um ... obviously the more travel I can do the more I can use my languages and I’d like to learn another language. I’d like to add Italian as well. Interviewer: Italian?Miss Jones: Yes.Interviewer: Very good, very good, that ... that might be very useful. Now ... er ... tell me a little bit about ... er ... the work you’re doing at present.Miss Jones: Um ... well ... er ... Europa Marketing is a marketing and public ... public relations company and they do ... they do consultancy work for companies operating in the UK and European markets. Er ... our clients come from all over the world ... um ... we deal with some of them by ... by post, but most of them come to our offices and at least once during a project.I assist the sales director by arranging these visits, setting up meetings and presentations andI ... I deal with her correspondence. I’ve not been able to go with her on any ... on any of hertrips abroad, but I ... I’ve been to firms in this country, several times on my own ... um ... to make these arrangements. Interviewer: It sounds as if you’re very happy there, Miss Jones. I’m curious why you’d like to leave them and join our company.Miss Jones:Well ... um ... I know the reputation of Anglo-European and it has a very good reputation. And I feel that I would have more scope and opportunity in your company and that the work will be more challenging for me. I might be able to possibly travel and use my languages because at the moment most of my work is ... is rather routine secretarial-type work and I like the idea of more ... um ... challenges in my life really ...Part ⅣAAt interview the first thing that I notice is how the person settles down, and when they sit down. Do they immediately rush into the room, grab a chair without being invited to sit down? Are they nervous? Do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back, holding their pen, tapping it on the table? Obviously everyone is nervous at interview and you make allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then you have to ask yourself what will they be like in a normal job?Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because if they won’t look at you in a job which depends on making a good impression, then probably in the job they won’t do very well in terms of making contact and having good relations with other colleagues. The sort of person normally we would look for would be someone who was, open, outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what they hoped to do. That doesn’t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever experience they’ve had.The other kinds of things that we might talk about in an interview of course are what the person expects to get from a new job, and I think that it is important because it shows the expectations that the person has-what they want from their job. It’s interesting to hear why people want to change jobs.B... But as important as qualifications are, and you won’t get to an interview or at least peoplewon’t get to an interview without the qualifications, the most important thing in fact is the character and how a person presents themselves at interview. I find it very difficult to define exactly the sort of person I am looking for, but when I meet someone I can tell whether they are the sort of person that I would like to appoint or whether they are not.At interview the first thing that I notice is how the person settles down, when they sit down. Do they immediately rush into theroom, grab a chair without being invited to sit down? Are they nervous? Um, do they spend a lot of time fiddling with their hands, brushing their hair back, er holding their pen, tapping it on the table? Obviously everyone is nervous at interview and you make allowances for that, but if it continues throughout the whole interview then of course you have to ask yourself if they’re like this after, say, an hour of interview, what will they be like in a normal job?Second thing that I look for is: Do they look at you? Do they make eye contact? Because if they won’t look at you in a job where in, in a situation where a job depends on, on them making a good impression, then probably in the job they won’t do very well in terms of making, er, good, making contact with other colleagues, making, having good relations with other colleagues. The sort of person normally we would look for would be someone who was, open, outgoing, enthusiastic and who could talk intelligently about what they had done and what they hoped to do. That doesn’t mean that they have to have had a lot of experience but that they should be able to reflect on whatever experience they’ve had.The other kinds of, of um things that we might talk about in an interview of course are what, er what the person expects to get from a new job in a new country, and that I think is important because it shows the expectations that the person has — what they want from their job. Um it’s interesting to hear why people want to change jobs, why they want to go to a new country.Part V Who’ll Get the Job?(Jane Langley is being interviewed by Mrs. Grey, the Personnel Manager, and Mr. Toms. ) Mr. Toms: Yes, I see. Good. Good.Mrs. Grey: Miss Langley, I see that your last employer, Mr. Carmichaes, described you as “conscientious”. Do you think you are?Jane: Well, I certainly try to be. I have a set routine for the day in the office which means that I know exactly all the jobs that I have to do. And if conscientious means being exrtemely careful and paying attention to detail, then yes, I suppose I’m conscientious.Mr. Toms: But he said too that you could ‘adapt quickly to change’. Did you leave because they were making changes, or what?Jane: No, not at all. They made a lot of changes while I was there. I’m afraid I became unhappy because I wanted something more challenging.Mrs. Grey: I assume you wanted something like the job of Senior Secretary that we’re offering. Jane: Yes, that’s right.(Michael James is being interviewed now by the same two people. )Mrs. Grey: ...and according to your last employer, Mr. Smith, you ‘tend to be a little impatient at times’.Michael: Well, perhaps I am, perhaps I’m not. Some of the others in the office there were so slow! Mr. Toms: Yes, yes. I like a person who wants to get on with the job.Mrs. Grey: Mr. James, what I’d like to know is ...Mr. Toms: Excuse me, Mrs. Grey, but I wanted to ask Mr. James about his sport. You’re a keenfootballer, I understand.Michael: Oh, yes. I play regularly twice a week. And I organised a team at my old place.Mr. Toms: And golf, too, I gather.Michael:Yes. Actually, I like golf better than football really. That’s why I play nearly every morning ...(Mrs. Grey and Mr. Toms are now discussing Jane and Michael after the interviews.) Mrs. Grey: ... so in my view, when you compare the two of them — and this has nothing to do with Jane being a woman —I’d give the job to Jane Langley. She’s obviously a better secretary than he is, she’s a much better typist, she mixes better with people and is clearly far more polite. We don’t even need to discuss Mr. James.Mr. Toms: Well, we do, because I think he’s brighter than Miss Langley. I know he doesn’t dress as well or speak as clearly, and he’s not as experienced as she is, but he’s quicker, more alert.And he’s keen on football and golf. I like that. So he gets the job.Mrs. Grey: No, I’m sorry, Mr. Toms. He doesn’t.Mr. Toms: Yes, he does, Mrs. Grey. He’s the Director’s nephew.。
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Unit 6Inside ViewConversation 1Janet: So tell me about Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, Joe. It looks really old.Joe: In fact, it was only built in 1997, which was the home of Shakespeare’s theatre company when he came to London in 1599.Janet: So what’s the Globe made of?Joe: Well, the walls are made of wood, and it’s got a thatched roof.Janet: Is that the kind of dried grass instead of tiles?Joe: That’s right. In fact, it’s the first thatched building in London since the Great Fire of London in 1966.Janet: That’s amazing.Joe: And inside it’s just like the original stage. The audience stands in front of the stage. Janet: Are you serious? Aren’t there any seats?Joe: Yes, there are some seats, but most people stand while they watch the play. So they get soaking wet when it rains. Actually the strangest thing is when you’re watching Romeo and Juliet in 16th century Verona, and suddenly there’s a plane passing over.Janet: That’s extraordinary!Joe: Yes, blows me away.Janet: And Andy tells me we’ve got a report to do on the summer season.Joe: Yes, that’s right. During the winter, it’s closed but in may the season starts again. Janet: When I think of Shakespeare, I usually think of Stratford-upon-Avon. Where is Stratford-upon-Avon?Joe: It’s about 130 kilometres from London. Yes, that’s where he was born, and it’s still the home of Royal Shakespeare Company. But I kind of see him as a London hero, because it’s here that he became the greatest playwright the world has ever known. Janet: You really think that?Joe: I sure do. Let’s get back to the studio and edit this.Conversation2Janet: So when was Shakespeare born?Joe: In 1564.Janet: And when did he die?Joe: In 1616.Janet: And when did he come to London?Joe: We don’t know exactly, but some time between 1585 and 1592.Janet: And what did he do in London?Joe: He joined a group of actors, and wrote some of his most famous plays, such as Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Romeo and Juliet.Janet: So what happened to him later in his life?Joe: Well, in 1603, Queen Elizabeth died, and theatre became less popular. And then the Globe Theatre burned down…Janet: And what was the last play he wrote?Joe: It was The Tempest – it’s often thought that the character of Prospero, the magician, was based on himself.Janet: And does the Royal Shakespeare Company still perform plays in London. Joe: Both in Stratford and London, and they also tour all over the country. I reckon there are about seven or eight Shakespeare plays on in the West End at the moment Janet: Why do you think he’s still so popular?Joe: What I think is great about Shakespeare is that the plays make audiences think.And that makes the audience feel good.Janet: And is it the same in the States?Joe: Maybe not so much. But there's huge respect for Shakespeare’s plays on Broadway.I suppose it’s because he’s still very relevant to audiences today.Janet: Joe, you know so much about Shakespeare! I’m really stunned!Well, I guess I’ve seen most of them at one time or another.Andy: Sorry I’m late.Joe: Better once than never, for never too late.Andy: What?Joe: Taming of the Shrew, Act 5 Scene1.Better late than never.Andy: Have you finished the edit? Let’s upload it onto the website.Outside ViewPresenter: Three American cyclists who only have three real legs between them are cycling through Oxford on a trek from Scotland to Greece. The trio sponsoredby Otto Bock USA all have prosthetic limbs and are hoping the challenge willraise awareness of the diversity of designs available. Six TV caught up withMick Wright, Sedan Sherret and Brad Kennedy earlier on today.Cyclist 1: Yeah it’s a little tough, I don’t like cycling. But you know, if we can, you know help somebody, motivate somebody to get back to an active lifestyle andput their mind to something good, it’s all worth it.Journalist: And so what’s really the point of this trip?Cyclist 2: To raise awareness of the abilities of those with disabilities. If you’ve lost a limb doesn't mean you sit on a couch. You can still be active; you can lead ahealthy lifestyle. And you can do challenges that you may have always wantedto do when you were fully healthy and with two legs.Journalist: And the trip is 2500 miles from Glasgow to Athens. How are you guys coping?Cyclist 3: Oh, I think we’re doing really well. We’re still in the, this is the first week of riding. We’re conditioning, we're getting used to the…we’ve had spectacularweather, it’s been, I mean, we got sunburnt in Scotland. It’s, we’re, we’regetting accustomed to life on the road and every day our pace is increasing andwe’re getting stronger. So I think it’s, it’s marvelous.Journalist: And will you, when you get to Athens, what’s your plan there?Cyclist 1: Hopefully take a little time to rest, relax vacation a little bit, and maybe throw the bike in the ocean, just the good things in life.Journalist: And what’s been the worst, most difficult thing you’ve come across so far? Cyclist 2: We’ve had some very challenging weather and some challenging hills. But We’ve actually enjoyed all of it. It’s been difficult but I think all of the ridinghas been good.Journalist: And how are the legs holding up?Cyclist 3: Oh great! Now we always say that our prosthetic limbs are the ones that are doing fabulous. It’s, it’s the, it’s the, as we refer to, the meat leg that, that might,might be a little weaker. But everybody’s riding really strongly and they’rejust, just performing marvelously.Listening inPassage 1Newscaster: A US Airways jet landed in the icy Hudson River in New York this afternoon after apparently hitting a flock of geese. Miraculously, no one waskilled and there were few injuries. James Moore, our correspondent at thescene, has more.James: An Airbus 330 took off from La Guardia Airport. New York, at 3:26 pm this afternoon, bound for Charlotte Airport in North Carolina. It had 155 peopleaboard. Thirty to 45 seconds after take-off, a flock of geese apparently flewinto the plane, causing it to lose power in both engines and one engine to catchfire. Without power the plane was unable to return to La Guardia Airport andthe pilot decided to land in the Hudson River in order to avoid crashing in apopulated area. Two minutes later the plane made a successful landing in theHudson and passengers were able to climb out through the emergency exits.The plane immediately started taking in water but fortunately water taxis andboats that had seen the crash were waiting by the aircraft. Passengers and crewstood on the wings of the plane in the icy cold water and were helped into theboats. Over the next hour, as New York watched the event on television,everyone on the plane, including a baby, were taken to hospitals for treatment,mostly because of the extreme cold. Their injuries are not reported to beserious. One of the passengers, Alberto Panero, said people had begun prayingas the plane approached the river but that everyone had stayed clam.The pilot of the plane has been named as Chesley Sullenberger. Aged 57, hehas 29 years experience of flying and at one time had been a US fighter pilot.Sullenberger was the last to leave the plane and walked up and down it twiceto make sure it was empty before climbing out. He has already been describedas a hero. The Governor of New York, David Paterson, said at a newsconference this afternoon, “I believe now we’ve had a miracle on the Hudson.This pilot, somehow without any engines, was somehow able to land this planeand perhaps without any injuries to the passengers.”It is thought that the survival of all on board is because the plane did not breakup when it hit water and because of the immediately arrival of the water taxisand boats.Passage 2Interviewer: Hi, we are asking people who their personal hero is. Someone they really admire and who’s inspired them in some way.Paul: Oh, right, interesting.Interviewer: Can you tell us a bit about yourself?Paul: Sure. My name is Paul Smith. I worked at London zoo.Interviewer: London zoo? Really?Paul: Yes, I’m a zoo keeper. I look after the elephants.Interviewer: Elephants? What a great job! So who is your hero, Paul?Paul: I’ve got quite a few heroes. But I guess my biggest hero is Al Gore. Interviewer: The American politician. So why him?Paul: Well, he is the guy who made people take climate change seriously. Interviewer: You are referring to the film, An Inconvenient Truth, I take it?Paul: That’s right. That film proved to people – with statistics and graphs, that kind of thing – that climate change was happening and that it’s man-made. Beforethat, most people believed it was just a few crazy scientists who thought it washappening.Interviewer: You work with animals. Do you worry about the effect of the climate on animals?Paul: Sure, I do. All these species are going to become extinct. It’s terrible. Interviewer: It is. Would you say Al Gore’s been an inspiration to you?Paul: Yes, I would. He’s taught me about importance of taking action when you see something that needs to be done. I do volunteer work for Greenpeace – quitea lot actually. That’s the way I do my bit.Interviewer: Greenpeace? Excellent. Thanks, Paul. Hi, what’s your name?Clare: Clare Hope.Interviewer: What do you do?Clare: Well, I’m a mum with two young kids. And I work part-time as an accountant for the Red Cross.Interviewer: We’re asking people who their personal hero is and if they’ve inspired them in any way.Clare: That’s an easy one. Melinda Gates, she’s my hero.Interviewer: Why is that?Clare: Well, she is Bill Gates’ wife, one of the richest people in the world. You know, she could so easily do nothing, just enjoy her money. And instead she co-founded the um… Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and I think that it’scalled – and it is one of the biggest private charity organization in the world.It’s donated more than 280 million dollars to various good causes. Interviewer: More than 280 million dollars? Now that’s a lot of money. She is very active in it, isn’t she?Clare: Oh yeah, she is a director. Flies all over the world.Interviewer: Do you do any work for charity?Clare: I make phone calls for Save the Children, asking people to donate. She is a real inspiration, Melinda gates.。
现代大学英语听力基础教程 听力部分文本 unit6
现代大学英语听力基础教程听力部分文本 unit6现代大学英语听力基础教程听力部分文本 unit6A: You're not looking very . What's the matter with you?B: Oh, nothing special. I'm just a bit A: With the job?B: With everything, with catching the same train every morning, sitting in the same office all day, watching the same television programs.A: You need a holiday.B: It wasn't always like this, you know.A: what do you mean?B: Well, our great-great-grandfathers had more fun, didn't they? I mean, they for their food and their own vegetables and did things for themselves. We do the same sort of job for years and years. There's no TuitionA: You need a holiday. That's what's the matter with you.A: Can I help you?B: Yes, I want to fly to Chicago on Wednesday, 7th, and return on Friday, 9th.A: Of October?B: No, November. How much is the fare?A: Fares are cheaper if you stay over Saturday night.B: Thanks, but unfortunately I've already arranged some business herethat Friday. So I'll just have to pay the extra cost.A: What time of day would you prefer? Morning or afternoon?B: Morning, because I have to be there by early evening. Is there a meal? A: Yes, they'll be serving breakfast, and you'll also see a movie.B: What movie?A: In both directions they'll show a feature film.B: Sounds good, but what's the fare?A: $850, .B: That's more than I expected.Hanger closet aisle sectionpermanentlyA: And welcome once again to " People Today". Now it's time for our "Eye on the World" Section, with Mark Perkins. Mark!B: Thanks, Anna. Yes. In tonight's "Eye on the World" We go to Japan. Now, everyone knows people in Japan work long, hard hours, but just what do people do in their free time? Well, we did a survey of leisure activities in Japan, and here is the Top 10. In the first place is eating out. As you can see, eating out is by far the most popular free-time activity. In the second place comes driving. Y es, it appears Japanese people like nothing more than driving around cities and into the countryside in their free time. It may seem strange to you and me, but there you are! Next, inthe third place, is traveling within Japan... to all those lovely temples and gardens, I guess. The fourth is, guess what, Anna?A: I've no idea.B: Karaoke, of course. Lots of people enjoy singing along with their favorite songs. Then in the fifth place we have watching DVDs and videos, followed by listening to music. But just look what we have here in the seventh place-- trips to museums and zoos. Then way down in the eighth place comes going to bars, and after that, gardening. I guess not so many people in Japan have gardens. And finally in the tenth place we have playing the lottery. And who wouldn't want to win lots of money? Back to you, Anna.A: Thanks, Mark. Now, let's go to see...People have always wanted to know about the past. Children like to remember and talk about fun things they did. They like to hear stories about their parents' lives. People wonder about what happened before they were born.Sometimes, people learn about the past to solve a problem they have now. They might ask questions like these: how did we get into this mess? What can we do to get out of it?Y ou can learn about the past in many ways. The most important way is bystudying written records. About 5,000 years ago, people learned to write down what happened to them. Perhaps a man had been bought or sold. Famouskings and queens wanted their deeds recorded. They wanted people in the future to know how great they were.History is the written record of the past. The period since people learned to write is called historic times. The period before people learned to writeis often called prehistory. In addition, it is known as prehistoric. "Pre" means "before". We can learn much about the past from written records. But many things were never written. And most writings from the past have been lost. However, we can still learn much about the past from other things people have left behind. In some places, there are ruins of cities built thousands ofyears ago. Ruins are the remains of things built in the past. They can stilltell us many things about the people who built them.People who dig up and study old ruins are called archaeologists. Studying ruins adds to what we know about historic times. But the remains of buildings and other things are all we know of prehistoric peoples. These things give us many clues about the ways people lived before they learned to write. besottedAs you might guess, the farther we go back into history, the less we know for sure about what happened. We have to make more and more guesses. We know a lot about what happened 50 years ago. We know less aboutwhat happened 500 years ago. We know even less about what happened 5,000 years ago. In general, the longer ago something happened, the less we can know about it.The Indians also used smoke to send signals. They made a fire, and put wet grass on it. Then they covered the fire with a wet blanket. After a few moments, they took the blankets away again. This made a cloud of smoke. They could send simple messages in this way. One cloud of smoke meant "danger". Two clouds meant "Everything is all right". Three clouds meant "Help".In the thick forests of Africa, it used to be difficult to travel from village to village. But drums could be heard from many miles away. People in this part of the world discovered that they could use their drums for sending messages. They did not use a special code like the Morse Code. They made their drums "speak" Like people. They did this by playing tunes that sounded like simple sentences in their languages.。
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America's dependence on foreign oil - President Bush called it "an addiction" in his State of the Union address国情咨文- has become a threat to the country's economy and security.While the president spent much of last week promoting energy alternatives可替代能源of the future, like hybrid杂种，混血儿；混合物cars(使用电池、汽油的)双动力汽车and fuels made from wood chips木片，木屑, the governor of Montana, Brian Schweitzer, says there's something we can have up把某人请来作客；起诉and running in the next five years.What he has in mind is using the coal, billions of tons of it, under the high plains高地平原；高平原of his home state家乡州. The governor tells correspondent Lesley Stahl he wants to use an existing process to turn that coal into a synthetic综合的；合成的，人造的liquid fuel液体燃料；液态燃料, or synfuel合成燃料.The plan is controversial, but Gov. Schweitzer - half Renaissance man文艺复兴人；多才多艺的人, half rodeo竞技表演；竞技者cowboy牛仔；牧童；莽撞的人- seems ready for the challenge. In fact, he sounds like he's ready to take on承担；呈现；具有；流行；接纳；雇用；穿上the world."Why wouldn't we create an economic engine经济引擎经济发动机that will take us into the next century, and let those sheiks酋长，族长（阿拉伯人的）and dictators and rats and crooks from all over the world boil in their own oil?" Schweitzer said at a press conference记者招待会，新闻发布会.Schweitzer has called them rats and crooks and hasn't held back on抑制bit. "Hugo Chavez 乌戈·查韦斯（委内瑞拉总统）, the Saudi沙乌地阿拉伯（人或语）的royal family王室；皇族, the leaders of Iran," he said. "How about the countries that end with 'stan'? Nigeria尼日利亚（位于非洲）? You tell me. Sheiks, rats, crooks, dictators, sure."He's a governor with his own foreign policy and no one is calling Brian Schweitzer a wuss胆小鬼，软弱无用的人. He says flat平直地；断然地out竭尽全力；用全速；疲惫that his plan will change the world, and that the key to the country's energy future is buried in the grassy长满草的；草绿色的plains of eastern Montana."Probably about half of eastern Montana has coal underneath it," Schweitzer explains.Montana is already mining 矿业；采矿a small fraction of its coal.But unlike the deep shaft 拍杆；轴；箭杆；杆状物(电梯等的) 垂直通道利用mining done in West Virginia, Montana coal is surface mined and there hasn't been a fatal致命的；重大的；毁灭性的；命中注定的accident in 15 years. The governor took 60 Minutes down into one of those huge pits矿井；深坑；陷阱；（物体或人体表面上的）凹陷；（英国剧场的）正厅后排；正厅后排的观众."We are surrounded by energy," Schweitzer said. "There's no going down into a mine. It's a road. They drive right out of here.""But, let me ask you something. Coal has such a bad reputation" Stahl said. "It's dirty. I can feel it. I'm gonna be filthy肮脏的；污秽的；猥亵的. I can smell it. It's awful, awful, awful. How many of these would you have to dig out to produce enough of what you're talking about to make it make sense?""If we got to 20 of these kinds of pits, we could produce a serious amount of energy for the future of this country," the governor said.It's not enough to completely break our addiction to foreign oil过分依赖外国石油, but a start. Most coal today is used for electricity but the governor's plan is to turn Montana's billions of tons of untapped coal into a liquid diesel fuel柴油；柴油机燃料for our cars.Schweitzer wants to take coal that's been pressurized into a gas, and then use something called the Fischer-Tropsch process 费歇尔—特罗普希法，费—托法to convert that gas into a clean diesel fuel, similar to what is made at a demonstration plant示范装置；样板厂in Oklahoma美国俄克拉荷马州.The governor handed Stahl a jar罐；广口瓶；震动；刺耳声of this synthetic fuel合成燃料；人造燃料, which looked and smelled clean. "Chanel No. 37," Schweitzer said, laughing. "It is diesel. You can pour that in your diesel car柴油汽车，柴油机动车or truck right now."The Fischer-Tropsch process does have a track record径赛成绩记录；过去的成绩或成就, along with a sinister history. It was first put into wide-scale大规模的；广泛的use in the Nazi era, when Hitler had few oil-rich石油藏量丰富的allies. Ninety percent of his Luftwaffe （二战时期的）纳粹德国空军planes ran on coal-based fuelsLater on, South Africa, also isolated because of Apartheid种族隔离used the process."So, here you have these horrible regimes政权，政体；社会制度；管理体制, and now we want to take their technology. There's something kind of …spooky幽灵般的；有鬼般的；令人毛骨悚然的," Stahl said."Science is neutral," said Schweitzer. "They were pushed against the wall被逼到墙根了，走投无路了, because they couldn't get oil. We're pushed against the wall because the oil is so expensive."The price tag价格标签；标价to get his plan rolling - $1.5 billion - is a bargain, the governor says, now that crude is trading around $60 a barrel.Dr. Robert Williams, a senior energy scientist at Princeton, agrees."At the oil prices油价；原油价格that we expect for the long-term, it would be economic," Williams said.Stahl told Williams about the jar of diesel Schweitzer showed her. Is this synthetic fuel going to be that clean and smell that good?"Oh, yes. The Fischer-Tropsch diesel is a superb fuel," said Williams. "Not only is [it] cleaner than conventional符合习俗的，传统的；常见的；惯例的diesel, but it also leads to improved engine performance引擎性能."And he explained why the process works environmentally."The reason this works and is much cleaner is you're not burning coal. You're instead gasifying气化coal," Williams said."And, therefore, things don't go up into the atmosphere?" Stahl asked."Well, when you gasify coal, you can take the pollutants out," Williams explained."You're saying before the coal is ever burned in any way, you can separate out the bad stuff?" Stahl asked."You do that very early on," Williams replied.The new Fischer-Tropsch plants, Schweitzer says, wouldn't have the traditional smoke-belching 喷射smokestacks烟囱，烟窗低技术制造业的；大工厂的associated with today's coal-fired 烧煤的power plants. But he does acknowledge there would be some emissions."There would be less than one percent than you get in进入；到达；陷入；收获a plant like this," the governor said, pointing at smoking smokestacks in the background. "This is old coal technology. We're talking about the new way."But even in the new way there's an environmental problem, and it's a big one: carbon dioxide, which, while not a poison, is the No. 1 cause of global warming."Carbon dioxide will be generated at a rate that would lead to greenhouse gas emissions温室气体排放量that are twice those for conventional crude oil," said Williams.Williams says this process will produce twice as much carbon dioxide than traditional petroleum 石油if you vent the CO2 to the atmosphere.But Schweitzer has promised not to do that. "This spent耗尽了的；精疲力尽的carbon dioxide, we have a home for it. Right back into the earth, 5,000 feet deep," the governor explains.He plans to sell that carbon dioxide to oil companies that use it to boost促进宣扬；偷窃the amount of oil they can pump. "It's called enhanced oil recovery提高采收率石油増进回収法. It's worth money to the oil business," Schweitzer said.The sales pitch推销商品的言辞keeps coming: Schweitzer says the fuel will not only be cleaner, it'll be cheaper, too."We can produce this fuel for about $1 a gallon. We have gas taxes天然气税, depending on what state you're in, of 60, 70, 80 cents a gallon. So, do the math," he said."You know, it sounds almost too good to be true,好得令人难以置信；太好而有失真实" Stahl said."Well, that's what got me excited," Schweitzer replied.He's been so excited, he's been traveling the country selling his big idea好主意. But back home they say he can be arrogant."Are you a little, let's say cocky自大的；骄傲的；过于自信的?" Stahl asked."When I have a vision, I get single-minded专心的；纯真的；真诚的；率直的about it. I say, 'I'm going to continue to work on this until we get her done,' " Schweitzer said.That cowboy bravado虚张声势；冒险is just what you might expect from a guy who grew up roping calves on a Montana ranch大农场；大牧场."We have a little bit different way of looking at the world. And I think it's about self reliance 自力更生；依靠自已," Schweitzer said.And, yet, the cowboy is a bit of一点a geek who went to graduate school研究所，研究院to study soil science土壤科学，社会科学；土壤学. In the 1980s he went to work in Saudi Arabia - land of the sheiks - running farm projects.Schweitzer says the Saudis embarked on an ambitious野心勃勃的；有雄心的；热望的；炫耀的agricultural program to become self sufficient自给自足的；极为自负的in food, to wean使断奶；使断念；使放弃themselves off our wheat. Now, he wants to wean America off their oil.He got into politics as a Democrat民主党人；民主主义者；民主政体论者. But in his ads in the 2004 governor's race, he looked as un-like John Kerry as possible and even picked a Republican running mate竞选伙伴.In red state红色州（选民倾向于投票给共和党的州）Montana, Schweitzer squeaked 告密；吱吱叫；侥幸成功out a four-point win. But today he has a 65 percent approval rating支持率, buoyed使浮起；支撑；鼓励浮标；浮筒；救生圈；航标by his good ol' boy persona人物角色；伪装的外表and his image making. That includes his dog, Jag, who goes with him everywhere, even on the state plane政府飞机专机状态平面.Now there's a fledgling无经验的人；刚会飞的幼鸟online movement to draft Schweitzer into征召…入(伍) the next presidential race.Schweitzer says "President Schweitzer of the United States" sounds a little silly to him. "I'm the governor of Montana. We have 920,000 people. This is the first office I've ever been elected to选举为(委员等)，选举(某人)担任and I've only been here a year."He may answer that question with an "aw shucks哦，呸“胡说八道”," but some Montanans complain that he does have his eye on the national stage."Right now he is the governor of Montana. He cannot turn his back on不搭理；不理睬拒绝帮助us looking for bigger and better things," said Helen Waller, who leads the Northern Plains Resource Council, a group of farmers and ranchers大农场经营者；大农场工人fighting the governor's coal-to-diesel plan."I think he has more of 更大程度上的…更多的…a perspective of trying to save the world. And that's a …good goal but you've got to start by pieces," said Waller.One of the pieces, she says, should not be more mining. She points out that in the past, mining companies came to Montana, dug out掘出；发现the precious minerals and, despite their promises to clean things up清理；大捞一笔, they left behind toxic eyesores眼中钉；难看的东西."The place would be changed to the point where it wouldn't be like home any more," Waller said.But Schweitzer says there's now a state law州法律that requires mining companies to restore the land after the digging is done.The governor showed Stahl a piece of land that used to be a mine but is now used for agriculture. He says he would force mining companies to restore the land after the mines are closed.Mining companies have gotten around 到处走走；逃避；说服；传开来（等于get round）；有办法应付the law in the past so Waller thinks it's crazy to dig up the coal; instead Montana should be producing bio-diesel, a fuel made from plant seeds植物种子."We've got all that land there that can be used to produce bio-fuels and it is competitive," she said. "There's a better way! That's what I'm saying. Other states are way out ahead遥遥领先于of us." "Well maybe they don't have as much coal as you have," Stahl said."Well, that's probably the case可能是如此吧," Waller acknowledged.Asked why the money shouldn't all be invested in bio-diesel, Schweitzer said, "If we replaced all the acres of wheat, corn and soybeans that we export across America, you would only replace 15 percent of our diesel demands in this country. Do the math. It's not enough."China is already working with Shell on Fischer-Tropsch projects in Asia but to build them in the United States, the governor has to raise investment money from private industry私人企业.Who's in?"Well no one's in yet. I haven't seen the check yet," said Schweitzer.Asked why investors are reluctant, Schweitzer said: "Everybody wants to be the first one to build the second plant. Because that's the fact. Because the first plant is going to be a lot of engineering设计；管理（engineer的ing形式）；建造on the fly在飞行中；忙忙碌碌. So, there will be cost over-runs成本超支. I'm telling you."Even people who like the governor say he's a big dreamer梦想家；做梦的人；不切实际的人butnothing seems to discourage him. With his cowboy swagger大摇大摆；吹牛；威吓；下摆散开状的女式短大衣, he just keeps pushing his plan for Montana, despite the obstacles.push for奋力争取"I have heard about synfuels 30 years at least," Stahl said. "Out here（老远）到这里；即将离开in the west. And it always seems to fail. The minute the price of oil comes down a little, these things just go into bankruptcy.""If you believe the price of oil is going to drop back to $25 or $30 a barrel, you shouldn't walk away from this project. You should run," said Schweitzer. "But the overwhelming majority压倒性多数of the people who understand the oil market worldwide do not believe that we will spend much time below $30 a barrel. This is the right thing to do. We can do it. Let's get started."By Miguel Sancho。