新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案--Un

新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案--Unit-4

Unit 4 Looking Good

Unit Goals

1. D iscuss appropriate dress

2. C omment on fashion and style

3. E valuate ways to change one’s appearance

4. D escribe what makes a person beautiful

5. W rite a description of people

Lesson 1

Lead-in

TV Documentary: Selling Them Short

A. The report mentions some problems short men face. What are they?

buying clothes, getting a date, seeing around people in elevators, seeing a movie screen, driving cars

B. Use words from the box to complete the statement. You will not use all of the words.

1. mature and respected

2.

submissive, childish, weak

Video Script

Lynn Sherr: Imagine a world where nothing fits. Where pants are too long.

Craig: The crotches are down to here,

the seat’s down to here, the

pants are up to there.

Lynn Sherr: Where elevators are filled with giants.

Rob: You kind of get cramped. And

you know, it’s kind of hard to

breathe sometimes.

Lynn Sherr: Where driving a car means your feet don’t reach the pedals.

David: You have to fumble down here,

and some have bars underneath

and some have these little

electronic things on the side

you have to figure out.

Lynn Sherr: And where you can’t see the movie screen, let alone find a date to there. lst woman: I don’t care hair color, eye color,

skin color-they need to be tall. Sorry.

Lynn Sherr: Welcome to the world of short

men. Ralph Keyes, 5’7”, wrote

a book about height.

Ralph Keyes: We just assume anybody

we’re looking up to has

power…has power over us. Lynn Sherr: We put Chris and Debbie,

colleagues here at ABC News,

in front of our camera, posing

at different heights. Half the

shots showed Chris as the

taller of the pair.

Chris: The air’s kind of thin up here. Lynn Sherr: In the other half, Debbie was

taller. Then we gave the photos

to students at Fairleigh

Dickinson University, and

asked them to tell us a story

about what was going on.

When Chris was taller, the

adjectives used to describe

him were mature and

respected. When Chris was

shorter than Debbie, they

called him submissive,

childish, weak. Andrea

McGinty, who runs a dating

service in Chicago, knows all

the tricks. We asked her to

help us construct an

experiment to test just how

willing women are to date

shorter men. And we found

three brave volunteers. Stu is

the shortest. How tall are you?

Stu: I’m 5 foot. And 5’5” with the Afro. Lynn Sherr: Rob is 5’3”. He prefers taller women.

Rob: I kind of enjoy it. I mean, I think there are some serious

advantages to being a little bit,

having a woman who’s a little bit

taller.