英语高级视听说unit-4
大学英语视听说教案Unit 4.pptx
1. Lesson A Speaking, Communication 2. Topic understanding and content understanding of each passage 3. Improving the students' listening and speaking ability
学海无 涯 the words they hear. Play the recording. Check answers.
4. Lesson A : Pronunciation 1. Remind students when they should reduce want to. Play the recording. Have Ss work in pairs to practice the conversations. 2. Have Ss listen and read the sentences. Play the recording. Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the sentences. Check their pronunciation..
3. Present the situation. Tell Ss they will hear a interview about Yeliz’s story. Have them read the questions so they know what information to listen for. Ask Ss to listen and write short answers to the questions. Play the recording. Check answers.
《视听说教程》Unit4答案
3. 蛋白质(Protein)
4. 碳水化合物(Carbohydrate)
03
词汇填空答案
01
5. 脂肪(Fat)
02
6. 膳食纤维(Dietary Fiber)
03
7. 油脂(Oil)
04
8. 高热量食物(High-calorie Food)
句子翻译答案
总结词:句子翻译
1. "平衡膳食是指摄入各种营养素的比例适当,以满足人 体正常的生理需求。"
议论文写作答案
议论文写作
支持或反对某个观点
总结词
提供了议论文写作的本框架和结构,包 括引言、主体和结论等部分,并强调了逻 辑性和条理性在议论文中的重要性。
总结词
总结词
详细介绍了如何提出和分析论点,以及如 何使用证据和例子来支持自己的观点,并 给出了一些实用的论证技巧。
强调了议论文写作中需要注意的语言表达 和逻辑推理能力,以及如何避免常见的逻 辑谬误和语言表达问题。
《视听说教程》Unit4答案
contents
目录
• 听力部分答案 • 口语部分答案 • 阅读部分答案 • 翻译部分答案 • 写作部分答案
01 听力部分答案
短对话答案
总结词:正确答案
详细描述:短对话答案包括选择题和填空题,选择题答案为B、C、D、F,填空题答 案为“The Smiths”和“New York”。
说明文写作答案
说明文写作
介绍一种事物或现象
总结词
提供了说明文写作的基本要点和结构,包括引言、正文和结论等部分, 并强调了准确性和清晰度在说明文中的重要性。
总结词
详细介绍了如何对事物或现象进行描述和解释,以及如何使用恰当的 说明方法和语言风格来表达信息。
大学英语视听说 4 Unit4
Activity 3 The right job
A Listen to Olivia talking about her future plan and fill in the blanks with information from the talk.
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I plan to (1) _b_e_c_o_m_e__a_te_a_c_h_e_r_ after I finish my studies. I decided to study at this university because (2) t_h_e_t_e_a_c_h_in_g__p_ro_g_r_a_m__i_s_v_e_ry__g_o_o_d_. We have (3) a__lo_t_o_f__p_ra_c_t_ic_e_ working with children. I love to work with (4) _y_o_u_n_g_k_i_d_s . I expect to (5) _g_ra_d_u_a_t_e_f_ro_m__t_h_e_u_n_i_v_e_rs_i_ty__n_e_x_t _J_u_n_e , and I hope to find a job in (6) _a_k_i_n_d_er_g_a_r_te_n_ . I’ll try to start working in September.
1. active 2. careful 3. flexible 4. independent 5. pleasant 6. punctual
a. careless b. dependent c. inactive d. inflexible e. late f. unpleasant
4 Unit The World of Work Lesson A Work history Listening
英语视听说UNIT4 Listening Skills
Listening Skills
2. Each of you shall have one card. The telephone number at the top of the card is your own number. The other numbers on the card are the telephone number of the other students in the group but each number has got one digit wrong. Your task is to put a name next to each of the numbers on your card and to correct the wrong digit by asking and answering questions.
Listening Skills
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Procedure:
Ask for and correct telephone numbers
1. Divide yourselves into several groups. Each group includes up to eight students.
023? B: No-247-01865 247 023.
A: Oh, thank you. (correcting the number on your card and writing the student’s name next to it.)
Listening Skills
3. Now go around the group, find out the owner of the telephone numbers and correct the wrong number. During the process you shouldn’t show your card to other students.
视听说文本Unit 4
Unit 4 Today’s TrendsListeningAudio Track 2-4-1A: Graph A shows that many married women go out and work today.B: Yes, that’s true. Only 15 percent of them now stay at home.A: Graph D shows that only one-third of children aged 3 to 5 are taken care of at home. It’s unbelievable.B: It’s not uncommon. In today’s society, most mothers and fathers mare busy with work. They have no choice.Audio Track 2-4-2/Audio Track 2-4-3Interview 1Interviewer: So, tell us a little about yourselves.Dan: Well, I’m Dan Preston.Courtney: And I’m Courtney Preston. We live in Phoenix, Arizona.Interviewer: OK, great. Do you have any children? Courtney: Yes, we have a baby. He’s thirteen months old.Interviewer: How nice. … Courtney, you must be busy!Courtney: It’s not so bad. I’m a manager at a bank. Dan stays at home with the baby. Interviewer: Really?Dan: Yep. I’m a “househusband.” I take care of the kid while Courtney works.Interviewer: That’s unusual!Dan: Well, it’s a growing trend. There are more and more househusbands every year. Interviewer: How interesting!Interview 2Interviewer: Where are you from?Jamal: We live in Toronto, Canada.Interviewer: How big is your family?Jamal: Well, there are four of us. I’m Jamal, my wife is Tia, and we have two girls. Interviewer: Who takes care of them?Tia: We both do. We both stay at home with the girls.Interviewer: Well, who works then?Jamal & Tia: We both do!Interviewer: What do you mean? I don’t understand.Jamal: We’re both writers. We work at home during the day.Interviewer: Oh, I see.Tia: We’re always here when the girls come home from school at 2:30. Interviewer: That’s great.Audio Track 2-4-4/Audio Track 2-4-5Interviewer (Int): Hi. What’s your name?Gio: Gio.Int: Hi, Gio. Where are you from?Gio: Milan, Italy.Int: Welcome to New York, then!Gio: Thank you.Int: Where are your clothes from?Gio: My brother. I’m always borrowing clothes.Int: How would you describe your style?Gio: Casual, I guess. I’m not very innovative. I just wear the same thing all the time. Int.: Good evening. What’s your name?Vicki: Vicki.Int.: You look beautiful.Vicki: Thank you.Int: That dress is very stylish.Vicki: My mother gave it to me. It was tailormade!Int.: Wonderful. Where are you from, Vicki?Vicki: I’m from Hong K ong.Int.: How would you describe your personal sense of style?Vicki: Classic, I suppose. I like to dress up.Int: Hi, there.Elena: Hi!Int: Who are you?Elena: I’m Elena.Int: And where are you from?Elena: I’m from right here in New York.Int: A hometown girl. And your clothes are from …?Elena: A store in my neighborhood. There was a sale.Int.: Great! How would you describe your personal style?Elena: Retro. It’s fashionable now.Int: It looks old-fashioned … in a good way, of course.Audio Track 2-4-6/Audio Track 2-4-71.A: I’m new in town and I’d like to make some friends. What should I do?B: You ought to join a sports club.A: But I don’t like sports.B: You could look for friends on the Internet.2.A: I don’t know what to wear to the party to night. What should I wear?B: You could wear your new jeans or your black pants.A: It’s a formal dress party.B: Oh, then you shouldn’t wear pants after all. You definitely ought to wear a dress.3.A: I still don’t understand this grammar. What should I do?B: You had better get some help or you will fail the test. It’s on Thursday.A: Maybe I could take the test on Friday. That would give me extra time.B: Well, you had better not delay. There’s not much time!Audio Track 2-4-81. I’m a salesclerk in a woman’s clothing store. My boss is great, but she has a very strict dress code. We have to wear long skirts, black shoes, no jewelry, and on and on. It’s really boring, so I’m planning to dye my hair red. What do you think? — Lana2. I love my girlfriend, but she complains a lot about my clothes. She doesn’t want to go anywhere with me because I always wear old jeans and a T-shirt. I don’t care about looking like a fashion magazine. I just want to be comfortable! What’s your advice? — DaveAudio Track 2-4-91. I’m a salesclerk in a woman’s clothing store. My boss is great, but she has a very strict dress code. We have to wear long skirts, black shoes, no jewelry, and on and on. It’s really boring, so I’m planning to dye my hair red. What do you think? — Lana2. I love my girlfriend, but she complains a lot about my clothes. She doesn’t want to go anywhere with me because I always wear old jeans and a T-shirt. I don’t care about looking like a fashion magazine. I just want to be comfortable! What’s your ad vice? — DaveExpert’s opinion: I think you ought to have a serious talk with your girlfriend and explain how you feel. We all have our own style and taste. In my opinion, she thinks too much about appearances.Audio Track 2-4-10/Audio Track 2-4-11Today I started my new part-time job as a trendspotter. I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect. Well, guess what? It was a lot of fun! I’m telling all my friends, “You should think about becoming a trendspotter, too!” On Saturday morning, we had to report to a recording studio by 10 a.m. The “Trends Coordinator,” Mandy, explained the schedule. Then she gave us a tour. That was really cool!Next we sat around a big table in a room. They gave each person three cards. One card said “Yes— All the way!” Another said, “It’s OK.” The third one said, “No way!” We listened to about 10 different songs. After each song we had to hold up a card. They played some hip hop, rock, heavy metal, and dance music. The heavy metal was “No way” for me!Do you know the rock group called “Gifted”? They’re really popular right now. Well, they have a new CD coming out. We saw six different CD covers. I guess they are trying to choose one. This time, we didn’t have any cards. Instead, we just talked about the covers we liked. Mandy asked us questions: “Which ones do you like?” “Why do you like them?” “Would you buy a CD with this cover?”We finished at 12:30. We will meet again next week at a boutique downtown. We will look at some new fashions. Each week we go to a different location. Oh yes, we also received a free CD for our work. This “job”doesn’t pay, but we get free stuff!Audio Track 2-4-121. All of the families live in big cities.2. None of the students study German.3. Some of the people don’t agree with me.Audio Track 2-4-131. Most of the young children are in day care.2. Some of their parents work two or three jobs.3. All of my friends grew up in the same town.4. None of my classmates like to study.Audio Track 2-4-14Moderator: Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to our debate. Mr. Taylor, please begin. Mr. Taylor: We have a big problem. Too many children are in day care centers. This is not good. Moderator: Ms. Marin, what do you think?Ms. Marin: I’m a mother and I work. In today’s society, most mother s and fathers are busy with work.Moderator: So, they don’t have a choice? They need day care?Ms. Marin: Exactly. And it’s very expensive.Moderator: What can we do about this situation?Mr. Taylor: We should encourage mothers and fathers to stay at home with their children.Ms. Marin: I don’t agree. I think we should offer cheaper day care.Audio Track 2-4-15Moderator: Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to this debate on whether it is better to rent or to own a home. Miss Ying, please begin.M iss Ying: As far as I’m concerned, owning a home is far better than renting one. Actually, I feel quite troubled by the idea of living in a rented apartment.Moderator: Can you further explain that point?Miss Ying: Of course. The sense of security I get from home ownership would not exist in a rented apartment.Moderator: Mr. Chen, what are your thoughts?Mr. Chen: Well, I think it’s better to rent a home than to own one. I just can’t afford to purchase a home, and I don’t know if that will ever change. At the moment, the cost of even a small city center apartment is out of most people’s reach.Miss Ying: I see your point, but I still think, it’s better to own a home than to rent one in the long run. Although buying a home is expensive, I think most people can apply for a mortgage or join with their families to invest in a home.Mr. Chen: Yes, that’s quite true, but I feel bothered by the idea of owing so much money. I think it’s better to save for a home rather than get a mortgage. I believe people should spend only the money that they have earned or saved.Moderator: Some excellent points. Thank you both for taking part in the debate.Video CourseVideo Track 2-4-1Yelena: In Ukraine people get married very early.Lourdes: In Colombia people usually marry in their late 20s.Paula: In Brazil people get married around 25. Usually husbands and wives both work.Calvin: I guess in a traditional family … traditional Korean family … you know, it is usually the males who work. There are a lot of parents who both have full-time jobs.Kumiko: In Japan, nowadays, people usually get married around 30. Husbands and wives both work until they have babies. And the wife stays at home with her children.Alejandra: Children in Argentina live with their parents until they get married. Usually both the husband and the wife work, but if they have children, then the wife stays at home to take care of the children.Video Track 2-4-2Kumiko: In Japan, nowadays, people usually get married around 30. Husbands and wives both work until they have babies. And the wife stays at home with her children.Alejandra: Children in Argentina live with their parents until they get married. Usually both the husband and the wife work, but if they have children, then the wife stays at home to take care of the children.Video Track 2-4-3Dave: I really admire my sister’s style because she’s very independent.Calum: One person whose fashion I admire is my friend Alex. He wears really nice clothes. Dayanne: I have a friend that always wears cowboy boots to go to work. I think that she should wear something more stylish.Dennis: The person I most admire is Robert Redford. I like the way he moves, the way he stands, the way he carries his clothes … his hair …Woo Sung: I’ve had this hair for a while and I think it’s definitely time for a change. I need a haircut.Dayanne: To improve my appearance, I should have a haircut and lose weight.Calum: I think I could improve my appearance by wearing contact lenses instead of glasses. Video Track 2-4-4Mike: I told you —I don’t like to go running.Roberto: You ought to get more exercise, Mike. It’s good for you. You know, I think there’s a definite trend. More and more people are starting to exercise.Mike: You’re just saying that because you think I should exercise more. The majority of the people I know don’t exercise.Roberto: Well, in my opinion, I really think more people are exercising nowadays.Mike: What makes you say that?Roberto: Well, when I came to New York five years ago, almost no one in my office exercised. Then, a few years ago, some people started going to the gym. And now, I just read in my office newsletter that 28 percent of the people in my office go to the gym three or more times a week. That’s almost one third of the employees.Mike: Just because some of the people in your office go to the gym, doesn’t make it a trend. Maybe 28 percent go, but that means that 72 percent don’t.Roberto: Not necessarily … there’s more ways to get exercise than going to the gym.Mike: Such as?Roberto: Some people walk to work … some people play golf … some people jog in the park . . . Mike: Yeah, that’s true …Roberto: Look around you. Don’t you see all the people exercising?Mike: Well, how many of them are enjoying it? None!Roberto: Oh come on, Mike. All of them are enjoying it.Mike: Not all of them …Roberto: Well, most of them …Mike: Maybe some of them … but not this one. I’m exhausted. I think we ought to go home. Roberto: Yes, I think we’d better. And we’d better get you something to drink, too.Mike: Hey, you know what?Roberto: What?Roberto: What?Mike: Yeah! You know, I read somewhere that 33 percent of all famous athletes recommend eating ice cream after a heavy workout.Roberto: Yeah, right.Mike: No, I’m serious. I read it in a magazine!Video Track 2-4-5Mike: I told you —I don’t like to go running.Roberto: You ought to get more exercise, Mike. It’s good for you. You know, I think there’s a definite trend. More and more people are starting to exercise.Mike: You’re just saying that because you think I should exercise more. The majority of the people I know don’t exercise.Roberto: Well, in my opinion, I really think more people are exercising nowadays.Mike: What makes you say that?Roberto: Well, when I came to New York five years ago, almost no one in my office exercised. Then, a few years ago, some people started going to the gym. And now, I just read in my office newsletter that 28 percent of the people in my office go to the gym three or more times a week. That’s almost one third of the employees.Video Track 2-4-6Mike: Just because some of the people in your office go to the gym, doesn’t make it a trend. Maybe 28 percent go, but that means that 72 percent don’t.Roberto: Not necessarily … there’s more ways to get exercise than going to the gym.Mike: Such as?Roberto: Some people walk to work … some people play golf … some people jog in the park …Mike: Yeah, that’s true …Roberto: Look around you. Don’t you see all the people exercising?Mike: Well, how many of them are enjoying it? None!Roberto: Oh come on, Mike. All of them are enjoying it.Mike: Not all of them …Roberto: Well, most of them …Mike: Maybe some of them … but not this one. I’m exhausted. I think we ought to go home.Rob erto: Yes, I think we’d better. And we’d better get you something to drink, too.Video Track 2-4-7Mike: Hey, you know what?Roberto: What?Roberto: What?Mike: Yeah! You know, I read somewhere that 33 percent of all famous athletes recommend eating ice cream after a heavy workout.Roberto: Yeah, right.Mike: No, I’m serious. I read it in a magazine!。
大学英语视听说教案Unit-4
大学英语视听说教案Unit-4Unit 4 ChangeI. Teaching AimsIn this unit, students will be able to:1. Listen for the main idea and the key information of every passage;2. A rouse Ss’ interests for the topic of this unit and participate actively;3. Grasp the language points and grammatical structures ;4. Learn to talk about “I need a change”.II. Teaching important points1. Lesson A Speaking, Communication2. Topic understanding and content understanding of each passage3. Improving the students' listening and speaking abilityIII. Teaching difficult points1. Lesson B Video Course2. Speaking with logical thinking3.Vocabulary about the topicIV. Teaching Methods1. Task-based teaching in while-listening procedure2. Listening and practicing3. Speaking and communication4. Media instruction5. Communicative Methods: answering, discussion, presentation, team work...V. Teaching hours10 class periodsVI. Teaching Procedures1. Lead-in / Warming upWhat’s your dream?Have you ever thought about doing something for these children to help them realize their dreams?Could you say something about Kofi Annan Ghana , the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations?2.Lesson A : Vocabulary Link1. Dire ct Ss’attention to the pictures. Present the vocabulary. Have them read the sentences and number the pictures. Check answers.2. Have Ss work in pairs. If there is one student left, ask him or her to join a pair to make a group. Tell Ss they will interview one another, asking and answering the questions: What changes do you want to do...? Present the listed situations and people. Answer any questions about vocabulary. Ask Ss to fill in the blanks before practicing the model conversation. Have Ss create more conversations. Invite one or two pairs to give a demonstration to the class.3. Lesson A : Listening1. Familiarize students with the new words in activity one. Have them read the new words aloud. Present the situation. Tell Ss they are goingto hearsth about “New Year’s resolutions”. Have Ss read the statements in the box. Ask Ss to listen and check the confirmed statements. Play the recording . Check answers.2. Present the situation. Tell Ss they will hear a conversation between Mike and Paula. Ask Ss to listen and number the objects in the order they hear them. Play the recording . Check answers.Tell Ss to listen again and complete the sentences. They must either circle the correct answers or fill in the blanks. Play the recording. Check answers.3. Present the situation. Tell Ss they will hear a interview about Yeliz’s story. Have them read the questions so they know what information to listen for. Ask Ss to listen and write short answers to the questions. Play the recording. Check answers.Have SS read the short summary. Tell them to listen to the talk again and fill in the blanks with the words they hear. Play the recording. Check answers.4. Introduce the situation. Explain that Ss will listen to a talk about finding your dream. Tell Ss to read the steps as listed in the table. Have them listen to the talk carefully and write their answer. Play therecording. Check answers.Have Ss listen to the talk again. Play the recording. Check answers.5. Present the situation. Tell Ss they will hear a talk about their dreams. Ask Ss to read the questions so they know what to listen for. Have them listen carefully and write short answers to the questions. Play the recording. Students write down their answers, then the teacher checks the answers.Have Ss listen to the passage again and complete the sentences by filling in the blanks. Play the recording. Check answers. The talk again and fill in the blanks with the words they hear. Play the recording. Check answers.4. Lesson A : Pronunciation1. Remind students when they should reduce want to. Playthe recording. Have Ss work in pairs to practice the conversations.2. Have Ss listen and read the sentences. Play the recording. Ask Ss to work in pairs to read the sentences. Check their pronunciation..5. Lesson A : Speaking and communicationActivity One1. Introduce the situation .Explain that When making requests, could is a little more polite than can. If your response to a request is negative, you usually give a reason. Ask Ss to listen and fill in the blanks with the words they hear.Play the recording. Check answers. Elicit or explain that Conversation 1 is informal and Conversation 2 is formal.2. Put Ss in groups of three. Present the conversations again. Ask Ss to listen and read along in their groups. Play the recording again.Ask Ss to practice the conversations in groups. Remind Ss to keep eye contact with their group members while speaking.3. Ask Ss to work in groups of three. Ask Ss to read the model conversation. Answer any questions about vocabulary. If necessary, play the recording. Elicit or explain to Ss who the famous celebrities are.4. Have Ss work in groups of three. Each student should role-play a famous person. Have Ss work in their groups to create and practice a new conversation where they introduce each other. When all groupsActivity Two1. Have Ss work individually to write three sentences about themselves, and another three sentences about themselves.2. Collect and redistribute the papers.3. Model the activity for Ss.Have Ss stand up with their papers and walk around asking and answering questions.6. Lesson B: Video Course Plans and DreamsGlobal Viewpoints Making change1. Say the list of vocabulary items aloud as Ss repeat for pronunciation practice. If necessary, explain the meaning of the words. Have Ss complete the sentences using the correct words from the New words. Check answers.2. Explain to Ss that they are going to watch several people talking about plans and dreams. Before viewing, have Ss read the statements so they know what to watch and listen for. Ask Ss to watch and circle True if the statement is completely correct. If it is False, they must listen for information to correct for it. Play the video. Check answers.3. Tell Ss they will watch the interviews. Ask Ss to fill in the missing words as they watch the video. Play the video. Check answers.Goals, plans and dreams1.Read the underlined words aloud for pronunciation practice. Ask Ss to complete the sentences using the underlined words. Check answers. Present the situation. Tell Ss they will watch people talking about goals, plans and dreams. Ask Ss to read the text so they know what to watch and listen for. Explain to Ss that they are to fill in the missing words as they watch the video. Play the video. Check answers.7. Lesson B:City Living Mike needs a change1. Have students look at the pictures and read the story linealoud. Check Ss comprehension. You may have Ss predict what they think happens in the video.2. Have Ss use the information from the pictures and captions to complete the sentences. Checks answers.8. Lesson B:City Living Mike needs a change “While You Watch”1. Before viewing, have Ss read the sentences so they know what to watch and listen for. Ask Ss to watch and then match the sentence parts to make true sentences. Play the video. Check answers.2. Give Ss time to study the pictures and sentences. Tell Ss: While you watch, write the number of the picture next to the correct sentence. When the video is finished, you will have time to label the pictures.Play the video and allow time for Ss to answer. Check answers.3. Give Ss time to study the pictures and questions. Ask Ss to pay attention to what people say in the video. Play the first episode of the video. Check answers.4. Give Ss time to study the pictures and questions. Ask Ss to payattention to what people say in the video. Play the second episode of the video and allow time for Ss to fill in the blanks. Check answers.Class work: Show the script of the second episode of the video on the screen. Explain that some of the words are missing. Play the 2nd episode and ask Ss to act out the lines of the script as a class. Check answers.5. Give Ss time to study the pictures and script. Play the third episode of the video and allow time for Ss to fill in the blanks. Check answers.6. Give Ss time to study the question. Play the whole video once again and allow time for Ss to answer. Check answers.9. Lesson B:City Living Mike needs a change “After You Watch”1. Read the useful expressions dialogues aloud, emphasizing the expressions in blue. Encourage students to think of how the phrases were used in the video before matching the expressions to the definitions. The teacher checks the answers.2. Read the examples given from the video. Have Ss fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Check answers.3. Ask Ss to write a short summery of the City Living story.VII. Assignments1. Oral practice: I need a change (pair work or group work)2. Write a short summary of the City Living story3. Dictation4. Preview & preparation: Unit Five(注:可编辑下载,若有不当之处,请指正,谢谢!)。
unit4英语高级视听说上册听力原文上外版
英语高级视听说上册听力原文上外版Unit 4For much of 2005, the news out of Iraq has overshadowed what has been going on in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops are still fighting and dying along the Pakistan border in battles with the Taliban, al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups.The rest of Afghanistan, at least compared to Iraq, appears relatively peaceful. But the country is facing another threat to its stability — its growing addiction the production and trafficking of heroin, which is controlled by some of the most powerful people in the country.Correspondent ,Steve Kroft, reports.Afghanistan is now the world's largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, supplying 87 percent of the world market. And it is creating an infrastructure of crime and corruption that threatens the government of President Hamid Karzai.The heroin trade begins with fields of opium poppies grown in almost every province of Afghanistan. Last year, according to the U.S. state department, 206,000 hectares were cultivated, a half a million acres, producing 4,000 tons of opium, most of which was converted into 400 tons of illegal morphine and heroin in laboratories around the country.How much opium and heroin is that?"It is not only the largest heroin producer in the world, 206,000 hectares is the largest amount of heroin or of any drug that I think has ever been produced by any one country in any given year," says Robert Charles, who until last spring was assistant secretary of state for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, overseeing anti-drug operations in Afghanistan.Charles says Afghanistan is producing more heroin than Colombia is producing cocaine.After 25 years of war, it is the country's main cash crop, contributing nearly three billion dollars a year in illegal revenues to the Afghan economy, which equals 50 percent of the gross national product.The laundered proceeds are no doubt funding much of the rebuilding of Kabul, which is experiencing a major construction boom.But the best way to illustrate the sheer volume of the drug trade is to tour the basement vault underneath Afghanistan's Counter Narcotics police in Kabul, whereone and a half tons of heroins, just seized in the provinces, was awaiting destruction.One and a half tons of pure heroin is much larger than the biggest shipment ever seized in the United States, and once cut and repackaged it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the streets of a western city.Y et the seizure is less than one percent of all the heroin produced in Afghanistan last year, production which has increased more than 2,000 percent since 2001."That acceleration should be sending a blinking red light to all of us right now. Drug money is going to accelerate the disintegration of democratic institutions," warns Charles.What is happening, Charles says, is the transformation of a poor, war torn country struggling with democracy into a narco state where power emanates from a group of drug kingpins far more powerful than the new government.The process began in 2001 when the United States forged military alliances with powerful warlords and used their private armies to drive al Qaeda and the Taliban out of the country.But some of Afghanistan's biggest warlords also happen to be some of the countries biggest drug lords. Now that they are part of the government, often in high places, a few are even charged with eradicating the drug traffic that many people believe they're still involved in.One former warlord suspected of being involved in the opium trade is Hazrat Ali, whose private army fought against al Qaeda at the battle of Tora Bora. In appreciation of his efforts, he was placed in charge of security for Nangahar province until he resigned recently to run for parliament.He also happens to be named in a United Nations report as one of the provincial officials suspected of being heavily involved in drug trafficking.Ali doesn't deny that the heroin business flourishes in the region but denied that he is involved in the trade. "No. Y ou can ask anyone. I am opposed to drugs. If everyone was like me, there wouldn't be an opium plant in Afghanistan."60 Minutes had no difficulty finding people to make the allegations; proving them is another matter since there is virtually no criminal justice system in place to pursue them.In all of Afghanistan there are barely 100 people in jail for drug offenses, most of them small time players.Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, who is considered honest and well intentioned, outlawed the cultivation and trafficking of opium three years ago, but has neither the power nor the prosecutors to enforce it."It is the top priority. Not one of the top — the top priority now," says Karzai."There have been lots of reports that many of the people in the provinces, many o f the former commanders, have been involved with drug trafficking in the past. And some believe still continue to be involved in drug trafficking," Kroft says.Karzai agrees. "A lot of people are still involved in drug trafficking," he says. "Maybe even there are people in the government who may be involved in drug trafficking. Drug trafficking, drug cultivation, poppy cultivation, was a major way of life in this country. Now that the country's going back toward stability, now that we have a better hope for tomorrow, that we have hope for tomorrow, the Afghan people have begun to distance themselves. Slowly, slowly."Things are moving much too slowly for the country's top law enforcement officer, interior minister Ali Amad Jalali, who resigned last month after complaining about the lack of progress in stemming the opium trade, and bringing government officials involved in it to justice.Last June, his elite Afghan anti-drug force, trained and assisted by the British, raided the offices of Sher Muhammed Akhundzada, the Governor of Helmand Province, another warlord widely suspected of being involved in the drug trade.They seized nine and a half tons on opium, but the investigation went nowhere. Governor Akhunzada said the drugs were not his but that they had been seized by police and were just being stored at his headquarters.He showed 60 Minutes a locker now loaded with another two and a half tons of opium. "This is opium that we confiscated. We have to keep the confiscated opium in a safe place. And this is where we keep it," says Akhunzada, through a translator.Not everyone bought that argument, especially the chief counter-narcotics officer for Helmand Province. When the investigation stalled, Abdul Samad Haqqani went on Radio Liberty, which is funded by the U.S. Congress, and denounced the governor as a major narcotics trafficker.Haqqani has since disappeared and President Karzai says he would look into the matter.As for the tons of opium in the Governor's administrative office, Karzai wasn't the least bit surprised"It's almost half of the economy," he says. "Why would it surprise me if there was poppy found in a governor's office? Or administrative offices? Whether they were confiscated or whether they belonged to somebody. In both cases, it doesn't surp rise me."Asked how his government would deal with the governor amid these allegations, Karzai says the governor asked to be removed."This governor of Helmand, he has come to me a number of times to say that he is tired of working in Helmand precisely because of these allegations," Karzai says. "He says, 'Well remove me' and we have not removed him. Because right now, under thecircumstances, any replacement would find it difficult to continue the fight against terrorism the way he's doing it there — in that province and at the borders."Karzai went on to say that no investigation was needed and that the governor could be removed and assigned to other government work."We don't need an investigation on him," Karzai says. "We will remove him from his place and bring him to do some other government work. Maybe he should become a senator or something."Antonio Maria Costa, director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, says he has pleaded with Karzai to do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drug business."These people who have been involved, senior officials and governors who were involved in the drug economy should be removed," says Costa. "Removed from office and possibly removed from the country."Costa says the need to fight terrorism and defeat the insurgency should not be used as an excuse to ignore the opium trade. "I think it is the responsibility of the Afghan government and the foreign powers assisting it to fight both narcotics and the insurgency. I will say that fighting one is equal to fighting the other."The British, who have overall responsibility for counter narcotics in Afghanistan, and the Americans, have limited their role to assisting the Karzai government in training anti-drug units and providing occasional logistical support for their missions to confiscate opium and destroy drug labs. So far they have destroyed 150 labs.The American military has no direct role in counter narcotics. Its responsibility is fighting terrorism and providing security and stability. If U.S. troops come across opium they can take action but it is not part of their mission.Robert Charles says the U.S. military has limited resources to commit to the effort and feels that aggressive action could disrupt the flow of intelligence. "It is easy to say, 'We will get to this issue in time' the way we get to other social issues. But we don't have time."And Charles doesn't think it is just a threat to the mission. "I think it is a threat to the Democracy. Why is it a threat to democracy? First, it has a potential for public corruption. Second, it funds the violent elements in society. Finally, it sends a signal that the rule of law doesn't matter."One U.S. counter-narcotics official told Kroft that corruption is worse in Afghanistan than it is in Colombia, and estimated that 90 percent of the police chiefs are either directly involved in the drug business or protecting those who are.The British trained mobile unit says it is under orders to stop police cars and official motorcades as well as ordinary buses. Official vehicles are the preferred means of transporting opium.There have been a few small successes. The government has stepped up a modest poppy eradication program, and with the help of the U.S. state department is trying to persuade farmers to grow alternative crops.The number of acres of poppy under cultivation actually dropped 20 percent in 2005, although opium and heroin production remained about the same.In the village of Kushkak, farmers told 60 Minutes that they voluntarily quit growing opium poppy after the government promised to build them health clinics, schools and roads. But the promises have not materialized and they are growing impatient."We did promise them alternative livelihoods," says Karzai. "We have told them that they should stop growing poppy that we'll be there to help them. And if we don't do that, people out of desperation will go back to poppies, and we should not allow that." But illegal profits from the opium and heroin trade are not only helping warlords and corrupt officials expand their influence over the government. There is evidence that some of the money is ending up with the Taliban and al Qaeda, who elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas they control."Narcotics is such an insidious, creeping, potentially lethal problem in that country that it needs to be elevated to a rank that is commensurate with that threat," says Charles.Asked whether he is saying that this issue is as important as fighting terrorism, he said, "I am."。
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英语高级视听说上册听力原文上外版Unit 4For much of 2005, the news out of Iraq has overshadowed what has been going on in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops are still fighting and dying along the Pakistan border in battles with the Taliban, al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups.The rest of Afghanistan, at least compared to Iraq, appears relatively peaceful. But the country is facing another threat to its stability — its growing addiction the production and trafficking of heroin, which is controlled by some of the most powerful people in the country.Correspondent ,Steve Kroft, reports.Afghanistan is now the world's largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, supplying 87 percent of the world market. And it is creating an infrastructure of crime and corruption that threatens the government of President Hamid Karzai.The heroin trade begins with fields of opium poppies grown in almost every province of Afghanistan. Last year, according to the U.S. state department, 206,000 hectares were cultivated, a half a million acres, producing 4,000 tons of opium, most of which was converted into 400 tons of illegal morphine and heroin in laboratories around the country.How much opium and heroin is that?"It is not only the largest heroin producer in the world, 206,000 hectares is the largest amount of heroin or of any drug that I think has ever been produced by any one country in any given year," says Robert Charles, who until last spring was assistant secretary of state for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, overseeing anti-drug operations in Afghanistan.Charles says Afghanistan is producing more heroin than Colombia is producing cocaine.After 25 years of war, it is the country's main cash crop, contributing nearly three billion dollars a year in illegal revenues to the Afghan economy, which equals 50 percent of the gross national product.The laundered proceeds are no doubt funding much of the rebuilding of Kabul, which is experiencing a major construction boom.But the best way to illustrate the sheer volume of the drug trade is to tour the basement vault underneath Afghanistan's Counter Narcotics police in Kabul, where one and a half tons of heroins, just seized in the provinces, was awaiting destruction.One and a half tons of pure heroin is much larger than the biggest shipment ever seized in the United States, and once cut and repackaged it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the streets of a western city.Yet the seizure is less than one percent of all the heroin produced in Afghanistan last year, production which has increased more than 2,000 percent since 2001."That acceleration should be sending a blinking red light to all of us right now. Drug money is going to accelerate the disintegration of democratic institutions," warnsWhat is happening, Charles says, is the transformation of a poor, war torn country struggling with democracy into a narco state where power emanates from a group of drug kingpins far more powerful than the new government.The process began in 2001 when the United States forged military alliances with powerful warlords and used their private armies to drive al Qaeda and the Taliban out of the country.But some of Afghanistan's biggest warlords also happen to be some of the countries biggest drug lords. Now that they are part of the government, often in high places, a few are even charged with eradicating the drug traffic that many people believe they're still involved in.One former warlord suspected of being involved in the opium trade is Hazrat Ali, whose private army fought against al Qaeda at the battle of Tora Bora. In appreciation of his efforts, he was placed in charge of security for Nangahar province until he resigned recently to run for parliament.He also happens to be named in a United Nations report as one of the provincial officials suspected of being heavily involved in drug trafficking.Ali doesn't deny that the heroin business flourishes in the region but denied that he is involved in the trade. "No. You can ask anyone. I am opposed to drugs. If everyone was like me, there wouldn't be an opium plant in Afghanistan."60 Minutes had no difficulty finding people to make the allegations; proving them is another matter since there is virtually no criminal justice system in place to pursueIn all of Afghanistan there are barely 100 people in jail for drug offenses, most of them small time players.Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, who is considered honest and well intentioned, outlawed the cultivation and trafficking of opium three years ago, but has neither the power nor the prosecutors to enforce it."It is the top priority. Not one of the top — the top priority now," says Karzai. "There have been lots of reports that many of the people in the provinces, many of the former commanders, have been involved with drug trafficking in the past. And some believe still continue to be involved in drug trafficking," Kroft says.Karzai agrees. "A lot of people are still involved in drug trafficking," he says. "Maybe even there are people in the government who may be involved in drug trafficking. Drug trafficking, drug cultivation, poppy cultivation, was a major way of life in this country. Now that the country's going back toward stability, now that we have a better hope for tomorrow, that we have hope for tomorrow, the Afghan people have begun to distance themselves. Slowly, slowly."Things are moving much too slowly for the country's top law enforcement officer, interior minister Ali Amad Jalali, who resigned last month after complaining about the lack of progress in stemming the opium trade, and bringing government officials involved in it to justice.Last June, his elite Afghan anti-drug force, trained and assisted by the British, raided the offices of Sher Muhammed Akhundzada, the Governor of Helmand Province,another warlord widely suspected of being involved in the drug trade.They seized nine and a half tons on opium, but the investigation went nowhere. Governor Akhunzada said the drugs were not his but that they had been seized by police and were just being stored at his headquarters.He showed 60 Minutes a locker now loaded with another two and a half tons of opium. "This is opium that we confiscated. We have to keep the confiscated opium in a safe place. And this is where we keep it," says Akhunzada, through a translator.Not everyone bought that argument, especially the chief counter-narcotics officer for Helmand Province. When the investigation stalled, Abdul Samad Haqqani went on Radio Liberty, which is funded by the U.S. Congress, and denounced the governor as a major narcotics trafficker.Haqqani has since disappeared and President Karzai says he would look into the matter.As for the tons of opium in the Governor's administrative office, Karzai wasn't the least bit surprised"It's almost half of the economy," he says. "Why would it surprise me if there was poppy found in a governor's office? Or administrative offices? Whether they were confiscated or whether they belonged to somebody. In both cases, it doesn't surprise me."Asked how his government would deal with the governor amid these allegations, Karzai says the governor asked to be removed."This governor of Helmand, he has come to me a number of times to say that he is tired of working in Helmand precisely because of these allegations," Karzai says. "He says,'Well remove me' and we have not removed him. Because right now, under the circumstances, any replacement would find it difficult to continue the fight against terrorism the way he's doing it there — in that province and at the borders."Karzai went on to say that no investigation was needed and that the governor could be removed and assigned to other government work."We don't need an investigation on him," Karzai says. "We will remove him from his place and bring him to do some other government work. Maybe he should become a senator or something."Antonio Maria Costa, director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, says he has pleaded with Karzai to do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drug business."These people who have been involved, senior officials and governors who were involved in the drug economy should be removed," says Costa. "Removed from office and possibly removed from the country."Costa says the need to fight terrorism and defeat the insurgency should not be used as an excuse to ignore the opium trade. "I think it is the responsibility of the Afghan government and the foreign powers assisting it to fight both narcotics and the insurgency. I will say that fighting one is equal to fighting the other."The British, who have overall responsibility for counter narcotics in Afghanistan, and the Americans, have limited their role to assisting the Karzai government in training anti-drug units and providing occasional logistical support for their missions to confiscate opium and destroy drug labs. So far they have destroyed 150 labs.The American military has no direct role in counter narcotics. Its responsibility is fighting terrorism and providing security and stability. If U.S. troops come across opium they can take action but it is not part of their mission.Robert Charles says the U.S. military has limited resources to commit to the effort and feels that aggressive action could disrupt the flow of intelligence. "It is easy to say, 'We will get to this issue in time' the way we get to other social issues. But we don't have time."And Charles doesn't think it is just a threat to the mission. "I think it is a threat to the Democracy. Why is it a threat to democracy? First, it has a potential for public corruption. Second, it funds the violent elements in society. Finally, it sends a signal that the rule of law doesn't matter."One U.S. counter-narcotics official told Kroft that corruption is worse in Afghanistan than it is in Colombia, and estimated that 90 percent of the police chiefs are either directly involved in the drug business or protecting those who are.The British trained mobile unit says it is under orders to stop police cars and official motorcades as well as ordinary buses. Official vehicles are the preferred means of transporting opium.There have been a few small successes. The government has stepped up a modest poppy eradication program, and with the help of the U.S. state department is trying to persuade farmers to grow alternative crops.The number of acres of poppy under cultivation actually dropped 20 percent in 2005, although opium and heroin production remained about the same.In the village of Kushkak, farmers told 60 Minutes that they voluntarily quit growing opium poppy after the government promised to build them health clinics, schools and roads. But the promises have not materialized and they are growing impatient."We did promise them alternative livelihoods," says Karzai. "We have told them that they should stop growing poppy that we'll be there to help them. And if we don't do that, people out of desperation will go back to poppies, and we should not allow that." But illegal profits from the opium and heroin trade are not only helping warlords and corrupt officials expand their influence over the government. There is evidence that some of the money is ending up with the Taliban and al Qaeda, who elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas they control."Narcotics is such an insidious, creeping, potentially lethal problem in that country that it needs to be elevated to a rank that is commensurate with that threat," says Charles. Asked whether he is saying that this issue is as important as fighting terrorism, he said, "I am."。
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⼤学英语视听说四级新版原⽂+练习答案Unit4Unit 4 CreativityPart 1 Listening, Understanding and SpeakingListening IIn China, education is considered a race. Students have to begin as early as possible and have to proceed as quickly as possible around the track. Success is measured by how many students cross the finish line in the short time .In America, we recognize the race too, but we feel that the students have a chance to explore things for themselves, even if not all of them reach the finish line. As a result of their exploring, some of the participants may have more to offer by the end of the race. The advantage of the Chinese way is that more students become proficient and reach the finish line. The disadvantage is that they may have less to say or to show once they get there. The disadvantage of the American way is that some students never finish the race. The advantage, however, is that some who do go "all the way" have very interesting and original things to say when they get there.1. F T T T F F2.1) race 2) race 3 ) proceed 4) explore things for themselves 5) proficient6)interesting 7) original 8) less 9) finish the raceListening IIOnce Wealth and Poverty approached a merchant and introduced themselves as Goddesses. The merchant greeted both of them and said, "May I ask why you have come to my humble house" The Goddess of Wealth said, "We want you to judge between us who is the most beautiful."The merchant did not know what to say. He knew he was between the devil and the deep blue sea: If he said that Wealth was more beautiful than Poverty, Poverty would curse him. If he said that Poverty was more beautiful than Wealth, Wealth would abandon him. However, he became calm and said, "I have great respect for you both. Would you please do what I ask of you It is the only way I can judge properly." The Goddesses agreed. He said, "Mother Wealth, would you please walk towards my house Mother Poverty, Would you please walk away from my house This way I can see you both better, from near and far." The two Goddesses did what the merchant had asked them to do. Then the merchant confidently declared, "Mother Wealth! You appear most beautiful when you are nearest my house. Mother Poverty! You look most beautiful when you are farthest from my house." The Goddesses appreciated the wit and wisdom of the merchant. The Goddess of Wealth happily stayed in his house while the Goddess of Poverty cheerfully departed.、Whenever we have a serious problem, if we look within and think calmly, a solution will come in answer to the problem.1. F T F F F2. 1. Why did the two Goddesses go to the merchant’s place C2. What would happen if the merchant declared the Goddess of Wealth to be more beautifulthan the Goddess of the Poverty B3. What did the merchant ask the Goddesses to do D4. What was the reaction of the Goddesses A5. What does the story tell us CListening IIIThere is an old and common saying in the United States that "There is nothing new under the sun." I thought of that today while reading an article in a magazine. The article tells about the growing number of people who are building earth-sheltered houses, which are partly underground. I had known about modern earth-sheltered houses, but I had never thought about their roofs before. Instead of having metal or tiles on the roofs, many of these houses now have living roofs. The wooden top of the house is covered with a special waterproof plastic material. On top of this there is soil, in which grass and flowers are planted. Such a roof can be very beautiful. But this really is not a new idea. When the early settlers came to the UnitedStates, they often made their houses by digging into the ground. Their roofs were made of wood, and then covered by large areas of soil with grass or turf. They were warm, though not always waterproof. People replaced these houses and roofs as soon as they could live in regular wooden homes with wooden or metal roofs. Now, 200 years later, some people think of this as a new idea. But I think, "There is nothing new under the sun."1. 1) partly underground 2) living 3 ) digging into the ground 4) grass waterproof`2.Questions:1. What does the speaker mean by saying "There is nothing new under the sun"2. What makes the speaker think of "earth-sheltered houses"3. What is a living roof4. How many years ago did the early settlers first build earth-sheltered houses-Why did People replace these earth-sheltered houses with regular wooden ones5.Key: C D A B DListening IVMan: It is said that the first sandwich was made in 1762 by the Earl of Sandwich. He didn't want to take time away from his card games to eat, so he ordered his butler to makesandwiches instead.Woman:Is that so Hey, look at this. The first beauty contest was held in Belgium in 1888. Why in Belgium of all places Man: Why not Oh, here's one I bet you're proud of. The electric chair was used for the first time in 1890, in the United States. Yes, you're first to diagnose AIDS, too. The firstrecorded case was in New York.$ Woman:Plus and minus signs were used in 1514 in Holland. Yeah, there was no way we could have guessed that one. And the equals sign, you'll be pleased to hear, was first used in Oxford, in 1557. You'd have thought they'd all have been invented at the same time.Man:Well, we both got these right. Coffee was in Arabia around 1,000 AD, and just before that, playing cards were invented in China.Woman:Well, I got this one right. First diagram of a flying machine was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci, as I said, in 1492. Man: Yeah, but the first air flight wasn't made until 1903, and it was in the United States. Woman: But that wasn't the question, was it Also, England was also the first to transmit television.)Man:Garbage! It was the Italians.Woman: No, it says here, the first TV transmission was in London, 1925. And here we are again, the first traffic lights were in London, in 1868.Man: But they didn't even have cars then, so why would they have needed traffic lights1.D A A F C E A B B2.1)1762 2)1888/Belgium 3)1890/the United States 4)New York5)1514/Holland 1557 6) 1492/1903 7) 1925/1868~Part 4 Further ListeningListening IJuan comes up to the Mexican border on his bicycle. He's got two large bags over his shoulders. The guard stops him and says, "What's in the bags""Sand," answers Juan.The guard says, "We'll just see about that. Get off the bike." The guard takes the two bags and rips them apart; he empties them out and finds nothing in them but sand.He detains Juan overnight and has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags.The guard releases Juan, puts the sand into new bags, hefts them onto the man's shoulders and lets him cross the border.A week later, the same thing happens. The guard asks, "What have you got""Sand," says Juan.The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to Juan, and Juan crosses the border on his bicycle.,This sequence of events is repeated every week for three years. Finally, Juan doesn't show up one day and the guard meets him in a bar in Mexico."Hey, buddy," says the guard. "I know you are smuggling something. It's driving me crazy. It's all I think about. I can't sleep. Just between you and me, what are you smuggling"Juan sips his beer and says, "Bicycles."1) border 2) rips 3) overnight 4) analyzed 5) release 6) cross7) weekly 8 ) thorough 9) show up 10) bicyclesListening IIPottery has been found in the remains of every ancient civilization. The oldest known piece of pottery was found in China and dates back to 7,900 BC. That's almost 10,000 years ago!#The first pots were large bowls, formed by taking a lump of clay and making a bowl shape. Pottery doesn't just include pots, but anything made from clay that can hold things, such as jugs, vases and cups. Pottery was used to hold water, milk, seeds and grains.Later, people learned to mix different clays together to make stronger pottery and to put the pottery in a fire oven so that the clay would harden faster. The potter's wheel was invented in China around 3100 BC. The wheel spins clay like a top. It allows people to make pottery much more quickly and makes shapes that were perfectly symmetrical—bowls that were really round, rather than lumpy or uneven. Pottery is not only considered one of the first inventions but also one of the first art forms. Most types of pottery have been painted with figures or designs; some even tell a story!1. B A C2. oldest known piece of pottery was found in china and dates back to 7900 BC(and was madealmost 10,000 years ago).2. It was used for holding water, milk ,seeds, and grains.3. To make stronger pottery and to make the clay harden faster.4. It allowed people to make pottery much more quickly and to make symmetrical shapes.5. Because most types of pottery have been painted with figures or designs; some even tell astory.:Listening III(Students are in the classroom waiting for the teacher to arrive. Two are talking.)Cathy:I've enjoyed talking about creativity in our English class. I wish I had been encouraged more when I was in elementary school.Michael:I know what you mean. I always liked drawing, but my teachers and parents insisted I was just wasting my time with it. My father said I should work onmathematics.Cathy: Maybe you still will still use your artistic talent some day.Michael:Oh, I don't know. After all, I'm in university now. Perhaps I'm too old to be creative., Cathy: I don't think so. I read an interesting article about a lady who wanted to be an artist but the whole family wanted her to work in their candy business.Michael:What happenedCathy: Well, Jean, the lady, knew painting was what she wanted to do, not making candy. After graduating from college she tried various jobs to support herself,though none of her jobs was in the candy business. And she kept painting inher spare time.Michael: Then whatCathy: About 20 years ago a worker in the family candy business quit around Valentine's Day, one of their busiest seasons. Her father needed Jean to cometo help with the business.Michael:Did sheCathy: Yes, although she didn't like it.Michael: So, how did she copeCathy: She got an idea of putting art and candy together.Michael: HowCathy: First she experimented with making an edible paint. She found that powdered food coloring mixed with vodka would work.Michael: That's quite a combination.Cathy: Then, for her "canvas", she melted white chocolate and molded it flat. She even learned how to make chocolate frames.Michael: What kind of art did she createCathy: She copied the works of famous painters. She displayed her candy art in the candy shop and customers would come in just to look at the art.~Michael:What did her family think thenCathy:They didn't take her seriously until the Toledo Museum of Art heard about her works and paid her to paint 77 reproductions of works in their collection. Thatwas her first big job. Now she works full-time on her candy creations. Michael:Does she do anything besides copying art masterpiecesCathy: Yes, she's done some portraits. However, people love her reproductions.Michael: What are the prices for her candy art creations|From $150 to $200 each.Cathy:Michael: Well, her creativity has brought her success.1.What did the male speaker like to do B2.How did Jean make a living right after graduating from college B3.Why did she begin to help with the family business C4.How did she paint A5.In what way was she successful AListening IVFor over 30 years, "Sesame Street" has been the most popular TV program for young children in the United States. The characters on this show are mainly puppets, and probably the most loved of the puppets is a gigantic yellow bird called "Big Bird".Caroll Spinney has played Big Bird all the years of Big Bird's existence on American television. Spinney's love of puppets and his own creativity led him to this career. When he was five years old, he saw his first puppet show. He loved the show and never forgot it. When he was seven he bought a used monkey puppet for five cents. His mother had made him a stuffed snake from green material, so he got the idea of making his own puppet show. He made a stage from wooden orange boxes and his mother's old curtains. He charged 2 cents for admission and earned 32 cents for his first performance.Spinney's family liked his creativity and encouraged him to do more. For Christmas when he was nine, his older brother made him a better puppet theater and his mother secretly sewed eight colorful puppets for him. Spinney later wrote, "The more I gave shows, the more I felt the power that one has when performing. All these people would sit in a room and listen to everything I said. I did all the character voices: little girl voices, an old lady voice, and a ghost voice. The audience listened and clapped at the end, and also paid me to do it. What could be a better way to make a living than to perform I knew that I would wind up in the world of entertainment." Spinney continued giving puppet shows. When he decided to go to art school, puppet shows helped him pay for his tuition. Even when he was in the army, he managed to continue giving puppet shows. He knew he wanted to do this as his life's work and that he wanted his audience to be children. When he was given the opportunity to create the character of Big Bird on "Sesame Street", he accepted it and over the years has made Big Bird one of the most beloved characters on American television.1-5 T T T F F6-10 T T T F F。
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英语高级视听说unit-4Unit 4 Brain ManAlmost 25 years ago, 60 Minutes introduced viewers to George Finn, whose talent was immortalized in the movie "Rain Man." George has a condition known as savant syndrome, a mysterious disorder of the brain where someone h as a spectacular skill, even genius, in a mind that is otherwise extremely limited.Morley Safer met another savant, Daniel Tammet, who is called "Brain Man" in Britain. But unlike most savants, he has no obvious mental disability, and most important to scientists, he can describe his own thought process. He may very well be a scientificRosetta stone, a key to understanding thebrain.________________________________________Back in 1983, George Finn, blessed or obsessed with calendar calculation, couldgive you the day if you gave him the date."What day of the week w as August 13th, 1911?" Safer quizzed Finn."A Sunday," Finn replied."What day of the week was May 20th, 1921?" Safer asked."Friday," Finn answered.George Finn is a savant. In more politically incorrect times he would have been called an "idiot savant" - a mentally handicapped orautistic person whose brain somehow possesses an island of brilliance.Asked if he knew how he does it, Finn toldSafer, "I don't know, but it's just that,that's fantastic I can do that."If this all seems f amiliar, there?s a reason: five years after the 60 Minutes broadcast,Dustin Hoffman immortalized savants like George in the movie "Rain Man."Which brings us to that other savant we mentioned: Daniel Tammet. He is an Englishman, who is a 27-year-old math and memory wizard."I was born November 8th, 1931," Safer remarks."Uh-huh. That's a prime number. 1931. Andyou were born on a Sunday. And this year,your birthday will be on a Wednesday. Andyou'll be 75," Tammet tells Safer.It is estimated there are only 50 true savants living in the world today, and yetnone are like Daniel. He is articulate, self-sufficient, blessed with all of thespectacular ability of a savant, but withvery little of the disability. Take his math skill, for example.Asked to multiply 31 by 31 by 31 by 31, Tammet quickly - and accurately - responded with"923,521."And it?s not just calculating. His gift ofmemory i s stunning. Briefly show him a long numerical sequence and he?ll recite it right back to you. And he can do it backwards, toboot.That feat is just a warm-up for Daniel Tammet. He first made headlines at Oxford, when he publicly recited the endless sequence of numbers embodied by the Greek letter "Pi."Pi, the numbers we use to calculate the dimensions of a circle, are usually rounded off to 3.14. But its numbers actually go onto infinity.Daniel studied the sequence - a thousand numbers to a page."And I would sit and I would gorge on them.And I would just absorb hundreds and hundreds at a time," he tells Safer.It took him several weeks to prepare and then Daniel headed to Oxford, where with number crunchers checking every digit, he openedthe floodgates of his extraordinary memory.Tammet says he was able to recite, in a proper order, 22,514 numbers. It took himover five hours and he did it without a single mistake.Scientists say a memory feat like this istruly extraordinary. Dr. V.S. Ramachandranand his team at the California Center forBrain Study tested Daniel extensively after his Pi achievement.What did he make of him?"I was surprised at how articulate and intelligent he was, and was able to interact socially and introspect on his own-abilities," says Dr. Ramachandran.And while that introspection is extremelyrare among savants, Daniel?s ability to describe how his mind works could be invaluable to scientists studying the brain, our least understood organ."Even how you and I do 17 minus nine is a big mystery. You know, how are these little wisps of jelly in your brain doing that computation? We don't know that," Dr. Ramachandran explains.It may seem to defy logic, but Ramachandran believes that a savant?s genius could actually result from brain injury. "One possibility is that many other parts of the brain are functioning abnormally or sub-normally. And this allows the patient to allocate all his attentional resources tothe one remaining part," he explains. "Andthere's a lot of clinical evidence for this. Some patients have a stroke and suddenly,their artistic skills improve."That theory fits well with Daniel. At the age of four, he suffered a massive epilepticseizure. He believes that seizure contributed to his condition. Numbers wereno longer simply numbers and he had developed a rare crossing of the senses known as synesthesia."I see numbers in my head as colors and shapes and textures. So when I see a longsequence, the sequence forms landscapes inmy mind," Tammet e xplains. "Every number up to 10,000, I can visualize in this way, hasit's own color, has it's own shape, has it's own texture."For example, when Daniel says he sees Pi, he does those instant computations, he is not calculating, but says the answer simply appears to him as a landscape of colorful shapes."The shapes aren't static. They're full ofcolor. They're full of texture. In a sense, they're full of life," he says.Asked if they?re beautiful, Tammet says, "Not all of them. Some o f them are ugly. 289 is an ugly number. I don't like it very much. Whereas 333, for example, is beautiful to me. It's round. It's?.""Chubby," Safer remarks.'It's-yes. It's chubby,' Tammet agrees.Yet even with the development of these extraordinary abilities as a child, nobodysensed that Daniel was a prodigy, including his mother, Jennifer. But he was different."He was constantly counting things," Jennifer remembers. "I think, what first attracted him to books, was the actual numbers on each page. And he just loved counting."Asked if she thinks there?s a connection between his epilepsy and his rare talent,she tells Safer, "He was always differentfrom-when he was really a few weeks old, I noticed he was different. So I'm not surethat it's entirely that, but I think it might have escalated it."Daniel was also diagnosed with Asperger?s Syndrome-a mild form of autism. It made f or a painful childhood."I would flap my hands sometimes when I was excited, or pull at my fingers, and pull atmy lips," Tammet r emembers. "And of course, the children saw these things and would repeat them back to me, and tease me about them. And I would put my fingers in my earsand count very quickly in powers of two. Two, four, eight, 16, 32, 64.""Numbers were my friends. And they never changed. So, they were reliable. I couldtrust them," he says.And yet, Daniel did not retreat fully intothat mysterious prison of autism, as many savants do. He b elieves his large family may have actually forced him to adapt."Because my parents, having nine children,had so much to do, so much to cope with, I realized I had to do for myself," he says.He now runs his own online educational business. He a nd his partner Neil try to keep a low profile, despite his growing fame.Yet the limits of his autism are always there. "I find it difficult to walk in the streetsometimes if there are lots of people around me. If there's lots of noise, I put my fingers in my e ars to block it out,' he says.That anxiety keeps him close to home. Hecan?t drive, rarely goes shopping, and finds the beach a difficult place because of his compulsion to count the grains of sand. And it manifests itself in other ways, like making a very precise measurement of hiscereal each morning: it must be exactly 45grams of porridge, no more, no less.Daniel was recently profiled in a British documentary called ?Brainman.? The producers posed a challenge that he couldnot pass up: Learn a foreign language in aweek -and not just any foreign language, but Icelandic, considered to be one of the most difficult languages to learn.In Iceland, he studied and practiced with a tutor. When the moment of truth came and he appeared on TV live with a host, the hostsaid, "I was amazed. He w as responding to our questions. He did understand them very well and I thought that his grammar w as very good. We are very proud of our language and that someone is able to speak it after only one week, that?s just great.""Do you think that Daniel, in a certain way, represents a real pathway to furtherunderstanding the brain?" Safer asks Dr. Ramachandran."I think one could say that time and againin science, something that looks like a curiosity initially often leads to a completely new direction of research," Ramachandran replies. "Sometimes, they provide the golden key. Doesn't always happen. Sometimes it's just mumbo-jumbo. But that may well be true with savants."Daniel continues to volunteer for scientists who want to understand his amazing brain. But he is reluctant to become what he calls ?a performing seal? and has refused most offers to cash in on his remarkable skills."People all the time asking me to choose numbers for the lottery. Or to invent a time machine. Or to come up with some greatdiscovery," he explains. "But my abilitiesare not those that mean that I can do at everything."But he has written a book about his experiences, entitled "Born on a Blue Day."He also does motivational speeches for parents of autistic children-yet one moregift of his remarkable brain.But at the end of the day-genius or not-that brain does work a little differently."One hour after we leave today, and I willnot remember what you look like. And I willfind it difficult to recognize you, if I see you again. I will remember y our handkerchief. And I will remember you have four buttons on your sleeve. And I'll remember the type oftie you're wearing. It's the details that I remember," Tammet tells Safer.And it?s the details that make us all so different. One man may see numbers as a tedious necessity of modern life, anothersees them as the essence of life."Pi is one of the most beautiful things inall the world and if I can share that joy in numbers, if I can share that in some small measure with the world through my writingand through my speaking, then I feel that Iwill have done something useful," he says.。
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英语高级视听说上册听力原文上外版Unit 4For much of 2005, the news out of Iraq has overshadowed what has been going on in Afghanistan, where 18,000 U.S. troops are still fighting and dying along the Pakistan border in battles with the Taliban, al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups.The rest of Afghanistan, at least compared to Iraq, appears relatively peaceful. But the country is facing another threat to its stability — its growing addiction the production and trafficking of heroin, which is controlled by some of the most powerful people in the country.Correspondent ,Steve Kroft, reports.Afghanistan is now the world's largest exporter of heroin, and the opium used to produce it, supplying 87 percent of the world market. And it is creating an infrastructure of crime and corruption that threatens the government of President Hamid Karzai.The heroin trade begins with fields of opium poppies grown in almost every province of Afghanistan. Last year, according to the U.S. state department, 206,000 hectares were cultivated, a half a million acres, producing 4,000 tons of opium, most of which was converted into 400 tons of illegal morphine and heroin in laboratories around the country.How much opium and heroin is that?"It is not only the largest heroin producer in the world, 206,000 hectares is the largest amount of heroin or of any drug that I think has ever been produced by any one country in any given year," says Robert Charles, who until last spring was assistant secretary of state for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, overseeing anti-drug operations in Afghanistan.Charles says Afghanistan is producing more heroin than Colombia is producing cocaine.After 25 years of war, it is the country's main cash crop, contributing nearly three billion dollars a year in illegal revenues to the Afghan economy, which equals 50 percent of the gross national product.The laundered proceeds are no doubt funding much of the rebuilding of Kabul, which is experiencing a major construction boom.But the best way to illustrate the sheer volume of the drug trade is to tour the basement vault underneath Afghanistan's Counter Narcotics police in Kabul, whereone and a half tons of heroins, just seized in the provinces, was awaiting destruction. One and a half tons of pure heroin is much larger than the biggest shipment ever seized in the United States, and once cut and repackaged it is worth hundreds of millions of dollars on the streets of a western city.Yet the seizure is less than one percent of all the heroin produced in Afghanistan last year, production which has increased more than 2,000 percent since 2001."That acceleration should be sending a blinking red light to all of us right now. Drug money is going to accelerate the disintegration of democratic institutions," warns Charles.What is happening, Charles says, is the transformation of a poor, war torn country struggling with democracy into a narco state where power emanates from a group of drug kingpins far more powerful than the new government.The process began in 2001 when the United States forged military alliances with powerful warlords and used their private armies to drive al Qaeda and the Taliban out of the country.But some of Afghanistan's biggest warlords also happen to be some of the countries biggest drug lords. Now that they are part of the government, often in high places, a few are even charged with eradicating the drug traffic that many people believe they're still involved in.One former warlord suspected of being involved in the opium trade is Hazrat Ali, whose private army fought against al Qaeda at the battle of Tora Bora. In appreciation of his efforts, he was placed in charge of security for Nangahar province until he resigned recently to run for parliament.He also happens to be named in a United Nations report as one of the provincial officials suspected of being heavily involved in drug trafficking.Ali doesn't deny that the heroin business flourishes in the region but denied that he is involved in the trade. "No. You can ask anyone. I am opposed to drugs. If everyone was like me, there wouldn't be an opium plant in Afghanistan."60 Minutes had no difficulty finding people to make the allegations; proving them is another matter since there is virtually no criminal justice system in place to pursue them.In all of Afghanistan there are barely 100 people in jail for drug offenses, most of them small time players.Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, who is considered honest and well intentioned, outlawed the cultivation and trafficking of opium three years ago, but has neither the power nor the prosecutors to enforce it."It is the top priority. Not one of the top — the top priority now," says Karzai."There have been lots of reports that many of the people in the provinces, many of the former commanders, have been involved with drug trafficking in the past. And some believe still continue to be involved in drug trafficking," Kroft says.Karzai agrees. "A lot of people are still involved in drug trafficking," he says. "Maybe even there are people in the government who may be involved in drug trafficking. Drug trafficking, drug cultivation, poppy cultivation, was a major way of life in this country. Now that the country's going back toward stability, now that we have a better hope for tomorrow, that we have hope for tomorrow, the Afghan people have begun to distance themselves. Slowly, slowly."Things are moving much too slowly for the country's top law enforcement officer, interior minister Ali Amad Jalali, who resigned last month after complaining about the lack of progress in stemming the opium trade, and bringing government officials involved in it to justice.Last June, his elite Afghan anti-drug force, trained and assisted by the British, raided the offices of Sher Muhammed Akhundzada, the Governor of Helmand Province, another warlord widely suspected of being involved in the drug trade.They seized nine and a half tons on opium, but the investigation went nowhere. Governor Akhunzada said the drugs were not his but that they had been seized by police and were just being stored at his headquarters.He showed 60 Minutes a locker now loaded with another two and a half tons of opium. "This is opium that we confiscated. We have to keep the confiscated opium in a safe place. And this is where we keep it," says Akhunzada, through a translator.Not everyone bought that argument, especially the chief counter-narcotics officer for Helmand Province. When the investigation stalled, Abdul Samad Haqqani went on Radio Liberty, which is funded by the U.S. Congress, and denounced the governor as a major narcotics trafficker.Haqqani has since disappeared and President Karzai says he would look into the matter.As for the tons of opium in the Governor's administrative office, Karzai wasn't the least bit surprised"It's almost half of the economy," he says. "Why would it surprise me if there was poppy found in a governor's office? Or administrative offices? Whether they were confiscated or whether they belonged to somebody. In both cases, it doesn't surprise me."Asked how his government would deal with the governor amid these allegations, Karzai says the governor asked to be removed."This governor of Helmand, he has come to me a number of times to say that he is tired of working in Helmand precisely because of these allegations," Karzai says. "He says, 'Well remove me' and we have not removed him. Because right now, under thecircumstances, any replacement would find it difficult to continue the fight against terrorism the way he's doing it there — in that province and at the borders."Karzai went on to say that no investigation was needed and that the governor could be removed and assigned to other government work."We don't need an investigation on him," Karzai says. "We will remove him from his place and bring him to do some other government work. Maybe he should become a senator or something."Antonio Maria Costa, director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, says he has pleaded with Karzai to do something about senior officials and governors involved in the drug business."These people who have been involved, senior officials and governors who were involved in the drug economy should be removed," says Costa. "Removed from office and possibly removed from the country."Costa says the need to fight terrorism and defeat the insurgency should not be used as an excuse to ignore the opium trade. "I think it is the responsibility of the Afghan government and the foreign powers assisting it to fight both narcotics and the insurgency. I will say that fighting one is equal to fighting the other."The British, who have overall responsibility for counter narcotics in Afghanistan, and the Americans, have limited their role to assisting the Karzai government in training anti-drug units and providing occasional logistical support for their missions to confiscate opium and destroy drug labs. So far they have destroyed 150 labs.The American military has no direct role in counter narcotics. Its responsibility is fighting terrorism and providing security and stability. If U.S. troops come across opium they can take action but it is not part of their mission.Robert Charles says the U.S. military has limited resources to commit to the effort and feels that aggressive action could disrupt the flow of intelligence. "It is easy to say, 'We will get to this issue in time' the way we get to other social issues. But we don't have time."And Charles doesn't think it is just a threat to the mission. "I think it is a threat to the Democracy. Why is it a threat to democracy? First, it has a potential for public corruption. Second, it funds the violent elements in society. Finally, it sends a signal that the rule of law doesn't matter."One U.S. counter-narcotics official told Kroft that corruption is worse in Afghanistan than it is in Colombia, and estimated that 90 percent of the police chiefs are either directly involved in the drug business or protecting those who are.The British trained mobile unit says it is under orders to stop police cars and official motorcades as well as ordinary buses. Official vehicles are the preferred means of transporting opium.There have been a few small successes. The government has stepped up a modest poppy eradication program, and with the help of the U.S. state department is trying to persuade farmers to grow alternative crops.The number of acres of poppy under cultivation actually dropped 20 percent in 2005, although opium and heroin production remained about the same.In the village of Kushkak, farmers told 60 Minutes that they voluntarily quit growing opium poppy after the government promised to build them health clinics, schools and roads. But the promises have not materialized and they are growing impatient."We did promise them alternative livelihoods," says Karzai. "We have told them that they should stop growing poppy that we'll be there to help them. And if we don't do that, people out of desperation will go back to poppies, and we should not allow that."But illegal profits from the opium and heroin trade are not only helping warlords and corrupt officials expand their influence over the government. There is evidence that some of the money is ending up with the Taliban and al Qaeda, who elicit tolls, protection money and drugs from traffickers in areas they control."Narcotics is such an insidious, creeping, potentially lethal problem in that country that it needs to be elevated to a rank that is commensurate with that threat," says Charles.Asked whether he is saying that this issue is as important as fighting terrorism, he said, "I am."。
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Unit 4 Psychology in Our Daily LifePart One Viewing, Understanding and SpeakingVideo ScriptT opic: Psychology at the AirportSetting: the waiting room of the airport, the Information Desk, the coffee shop of the airport Characters: Mr. and Mrs. Strong, Mr. and Mrs. Green, an Agent at the Information Desk (Some passengers have been informed of the delay of their flight, while some other passengers have not.)(It’s now 6:05 in the afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Strong are in the waiting room of an airport. Mr. Strong is reading a newspaper. Mrs. Strong is sitting there idly. Mr. and Mrs. Green approach them.)Mrs. Green: Excuse me, is this seat taken?Mrs. Strong: No, it’s not taken. Have a seat.(Mr. and Mrs. Green sit down next to Mr. and Mrs. Strong and Mr. Green takes out a book and begins to read it.)Mrs. Strong: My name is Strong… Molly Strong. Pleased to meet you.Mrs. Green: I’m Doris Green. How do you do?Mrs. Strong: Where are you going?Mrs. Green: We’re going to Copenhagen for our son’s wedding. It’s tomorrow morning.Mrs. Strong:Oh, congratulations! That’s nice. Y ou must be very excited.Mrs. Green: Y ou bet. I can hardly believe my little Jackie has grown up and is getting married.(She looks at her watch.) Now it’s 6:05 and the flight will take off in 50 minutes. Just imagine in nine hours I’ll see Jackie and my new daughter-in-law, Alice! I expect they’ll come and pick us up at the airport. What about you? Where are you going?Mrs. Strong: We are going to New Y ork by TW A Flight 1070. Our daughter recently had a baby.My first grandchild.Mrs. Green: Y ou must be thrilled.Mrs. Strong: Y eah, I can’t wait to see my dear grandson. This is him, Nick. (She takes out a picture of Nick and shows it to Mrs. Green.)Mrs. Green: (She looks closely at the photo.) He’s lovely!(Suddenly, a voice comes out through a loudspeaker.)(Loudspeaker: Attention, please. AA Flight 644 to Copenhagen will be delayed. Attent ion, please.AA Flight 644 to Copenhagen will be delayed.)Mrs. Green: Oh, my goodness! What’s up? It seems the flight to Copenhagen won’t be on time.I’d better go and call Jackie about the delay.Mr. Green: (He looks up from the book.) No hurry. It doe sn’t say how long the flight will be delayed. Let’s wait and see.Mrs. Green: Well, OK, let’s wait a while.Mrs. Strong:Don’t worry. I’m sure things will turn out fine in the end.(Just at that time, another voice comes out through a loudspeaker.)(Loudspeaker: Attention, please. TWA Flight 1070 to New Y ork is overdue because of mechanical problems. It’s stopping in Chicago for maintenance. We’ll keep you informed whenwe know more.)Mrs. Strong: Oh, no! Our flight is delayed as well.Mr. Strong: (He looks up from the newspaper.) Take it easy. It says the flight is overdue because of mechanical problems. I believe the mechanics will solve the problems soon.Mrs. Strong: Ok.(As time goes by, Mr. and Mrs. Green become more and more anxious. Mr. Green can’t read the book any more. He walks back and forth in the waiting room. Mrs. Strong is comforting Mrs. Green.)Mrs. Green: I can’t wait any more. It’s 7:15. We’ve been waiting for over an hour, but there’s been no further information. What on earth is happening?Mr. Green: Who knows! It could be bad weather, mechanical problems, a bomb threat, whatever. Mrs. Strong: Why don’t you go to the Information Desk and ask them about the causes of the delay?Mr. Green: That’s not a bad idea. Let’s go there now.(Mr. and Mrs. Green leave for the Information Desk.)Mrs. Strong: (to Mr. Strong.) I’ll go and buy some magazines.Mr. Strong: Go ahead. I’ll be here waiting for you.Mrs. Strong: OK.(Mrs. Strong stands up and goes around the airport. Mr. Strong continues reading the newspaper. Several minutes later, Mrs. Strong comes back with some magazines in her right hand.)Mr. Strong: What did you get?Mrs. Strong: Cosmo, Life and Good Housekeeping. Any further news about our flight yet?Mr. Strong: Nothing, up to now.(Loudspeaker: Attention, please. TW A Flight 1070 to New Y ork is overdue because of a door problem. The mechanics expect that the door will be repaired in 30 minutes. We’llkeep you advised as we know more.)Mr. Strong: Well, it seems we have lots of time. Why not go and get a bite to eat?Mrs. Strong: Good idea. L et’s go to the coffee shop.(Mr. and Mrs. Green arrive at the Information Desk.)Mr. Green: Excuse me, can you tell me why AA Flight 644 to Copenhagen is delayed? (该句读成: light AA 644 is delayed for Copenhagen?) 请外研社改正!Agent:I’m sorry, sir, but we don’t have any further information about that.Mr. Green: Then how long will it be delayed?Agent: Sorry, sir. We really don’t know. Y ou’ll just have to wait. We’ll infor m you through the loudspeaker as soon as possible.Mrs. Green: (saying angrily) We’ve been waiting for ages and there’s been no further information about the delay. How long will we have to wait? We are going to our son’s wedding. We can’t miss it.Agent: I understand how you feel, madam. We’ll try to find out the causes as soon as possible.(Mr. and Mrs. Green go back to the waiting room of the airport. Another 15 minutes later, they become increasingly impatient.)Mrs. Green: Isn’t it annoying! Nobody is telling us anything.Mr. Green: That’s the limit! I can’t bear it any longer. Let’s go and find seating on (错读成to)请外研社改正!an airline that flies to Copenhagen.Mrs. Green: Why not? We’re not getting any help from this airline.(Mr. and Mrs. Green leave the waiting room angrily.)(Mr. and Mrs. Strong are sitting leisurely at the coffee shop. Light music is on, and they feel very comfortable.)Mrs. Strong: (She looks at her watch.) Oh, time is flying. It’s a quarter to seven. Hurry up. The flight will be announced soon.Mr. Strong: Take your time. We’re in no great rush. We can hear the announcement here if there is one.(Loudspeaker: Attention, please. TW A Flight 1070 to New Y ork is overdue because of mechanical problems. We are sorry to announce that the problems are more complex thaninitially expected. Those who are without luggage and need to leave right awaycan take TW A Flight 1120 at Gate 6. TW A Flight 1120 will leave from Gate 6 at7:45.)Mr. Strong: (He smiles.) See? Let’s go to take TW A Flight 1120.Mrs. Strong: Good.Exercise 1Directions: You’re going to watch a video which describe s what happened to two couples of the passengers at the airport. Read the following part carefully, which will make it easyfor you to understand the video.Exercise 2Directions: Now watch the video and pay attention to the information related to Mr. & Mrs.Strong and Mr. & Mrs. Green. Then match the information listed in the right columnwith the corresponding characters. Write down the letters in the space providedbelow the table.1) Mr. & Mrs. Strong2) Mr. & Mrs. Green A) They are going to Copenhagen to attend their son’s wedding.B) They are excited about the arrival of their first grandchild.C) Their flight is stopping in Chicago for maintenance.D) They are very anxious because they are not informed of thecauses of the delay.E) They wanted to get some help from an agent at the airport.F) They wait leisurely when they know how long it will take formechanics to solve the problem.G) They are angry at the service of American Airlines.H) They don’t have any luggage, so they can take another flightto their destination (目的地).I) They will board the plane at Gate 6.1) Mr. & Mrs. Strong __________________________2) Mr. & Mrs. Green __________________________Key to Exercise 21) Mr. & Mrs. Strong: B), C), F), H), I)2) Mr. & Mrs. Green: A), D), E), G)Exercise 3Directions: Watch the video again and answer the questions by completing the given sentences. 1) When will Mr. and Mrs. Green’s flight take off according to the schedule?At ________. (6:55)2) Where is Mr. and Mrs. Strong going?________ ________. (New York)3) Who is Nick?He is Mr. and Mrs. Strong’s ________ ________. (first grandchild)4) Why is TW A Flight 1070 delayed?It is overdue because of ________ ________. (mechanical problems/door problems)5) Why do Mr. and Mrs. Green go to the Information Desk?They go there to ask the reasons why ________ ________ ________ ________. (their flight is overdue/delayed)6) Where do Mr. and Mrs. Strong go to kill time?They go to ________ ________ ________. (the coffee shop)7) What do Mr. and Mrs. Green finally decide to do?They decided to request ________ ________ ________ ________ which flies to Copenhagen. (seating on another airline)8) Which flight will Mr. and Mrs. Strong take in the end?TWA Flight ________. (1120)Key to Exercise 31) 6:552) New York3) first grandchild4) mechanical problems/door problems5) their flight is overdue/delayed6) the coffee shop7) seating on another airline8) 1120Exercise 4Directions: Watch the video a third time. This time you are required to repeat a few important lines. What you have said will be recorded so that you can compare yourpronunciation and intonation with the speakers’. Try to imitate their pronunciationand intonation.Exercise 5Directions: Now you know people will get extremely impatient when they are not told what is going on. Please describe one of YOUR own experiences when you were kept waitingfor unknown reasons. Your description will be recorded so that your teacher will beable to know your performance. If you want to improve your work, try again beforeyou submit your recording.Part Two Listening, Understanding and SpeakingListening ITapescriptA potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself, but that she could manage to do the planting; and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors who would be willing to do the digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his wife which said, “Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money and the gun there.”Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said, “I think somebody is rea ding your letters before they go out of the prison. Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field. What shall I do now?”The prisoner wrote back at once, “Plant the potatoes, of course.” (155 words)Exercise 1 (Online)Directions:Listen to the story and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the space provided.Key to Exercise 1: 1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5) F 6) FExercise 2(Online)Directions:Listen to the story again and complete the following statements with the information you get from the story.Key to Exercise 2:1) prison2) do the planting 3) ten days4) the money, the gun 5) plant the potatoesExercise 3Directions: Listen to the story a third time and note down what the husband said in his first letterand the wife’s reply. Then work in groups to complete the two letters. Read them to the class.Listening IIWords Y ou Need to Know:TapescriptThe manager of a large office building received many complaints about the lift service in the building. He hired a group of engineers to study the situation. They suggested two solutions: 1. adding more lifts of the same type;2. replacing the lifts with faster ones.The manager decided that both suggestions were too expensive. So he asked a psychologist to study the problem. The psychologist noticed that many people felt angry and impatient because they thought they had to wait too long for the lift. However, the psychologist found that they had to wait only a relatively short time. It occurred to him that the reason they felt angry and impatient was that they had nothing to do while they were waiting for the lifts. He suggested a simple, inexpensive solution to the manager. This was adopted and complaints stopped immediately. The solution was to place a large mirror next to the lifts. (154 words)Exercise 1 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage and pay attention to the reason why people have complaints.Choose the statement that correctly explains the reason. Put a tick in front of thestatement in the space provided.Key to Exercise 1: 5)Exercise 2 (Online)Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the table with the information you get from the recording.Key to Exercise 2:1) the lift service2) engineers3) adding more lifts4) faster ones5) too expensive6) a psychologist7) placing a large mirror8) simple, inexpensive.Exercise 3Directions: Listen to the passage a third time and then discuss in groups to find out:1) the reasons why complaints stopped immediately after the solution was adopted;2) other possible solutions to the problem.Sample:1) The reason was that people could look in the mirror. They could have something to do while waiting for the lift and, of course, many people like to look at themselves in the mirror.2) Other possible solutions:a. to set up a picture gallery near the lift and change the pictures regularly;b. to put up-to-date newspapers on the wall;c. to open a small shop nearby where people can buy snacks;d. to put a shoe polisher (擦鞋器) there;e. to put a screen on the wall on which information about the stock exchange is shown;f. to play programs (e.g. news, short funny stories) on TV screens close to the lift.Part Three More ListeningPractice One I Can Have Her Here on T uesdays and Thursdays.Words Y ou Need to Know:constant不断的at each other’s throats激烈争吵therapy 治疗, 理疗resort方法therapist 治疗专家speechless 哑口无言的disbelief不相信TapescriptAfter just a few years of marriage, filled with constant arguments, a young man and his wife decided the only way to save their marriage was to try therapy. They had been at each other’sthroats for some time and felt that this was their last resort.When they arrived at the therapist’s office, the therapist j umped right in and opened the floor for discussion. “What seems to be the problem?” Immediately, the husband held his long face down without anything to say. On the other hand, the wife began describing all the wrongs within their marriage.After 5 -- 10 -- 15 minutes of listening to the wife, the therapist went over to her, picked her up by her shoulders, kissed her for several minutes, and sat her back down. Afterwards, the wife sat there--speechless.He looked over at the husband who was staring in disbelief at what had happened. The therapist spoke to the husband, “Y our wife NEEDS that at least twice a week!”The husband scratched his head and replied, “I can have her here on Tuesdays and Thursdays.”(185 words) Exercise 1 (Online)Directions: Listen to the story and decide whether the following statements are true or false. Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the space provided.Key to Exercise 1:1) T 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) TExercise 2(Online)Directions: Listen to the story again and fill in the blanks with the information you get from the story.Key to Exercise 2:1) office 2) discussion 3) Immediately 4) long 5) describing6) wrongs 7) over 8) shoulders 9) minutes 10) satPractice Two Psychological SpaceWords Y ou Need to Know:psychological心理的preference偏爱crib婴儿床cluster群集modify 更改TapescriptNot everyone in the world requires the same amount of living space. The amount of space a person needs around him is a cultural preference, not an economic one. Knowing your own psychological space needs is important because they strongly influence your choices, including, for example, the number of bedrooms in the home. If you were brought up in a two-child family and both you and your sister or brother had your own bedrooms, then it’s very likely that you will also provide separate bedrooms for your children. In America they train people to want their own private rooms by giving them their own rooms when they are babies. This is very rare in the world. In many cultures the baby sleeps in the same bed with his parents or in a crib near their bed.The areas in the home where people meet also reveal a lot about psychological space needs. Some families cluster, and the size of their house has nothing to do with it. Others have separate little places where family members go to be alone.Although psychological space needs are not determined by economic factors, they sometimes have to be modified a little because of economic pressures. It is almost impossible, however, tocompletely change your psychological space needs. (213 words)Exercise 1 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage and decide whether the following phrases express the main ideaof the passage. Put a tick (√) in front of such items. Key to Exercise 1: B) E)Exercise 2 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage again and complete the following flow chart which shows thepassage structure. The arrow( ) means “influence”.Key to Exercise 2:Exercise 3 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage a third time and decide whether the following statements aretrue (T) or false (F) according to the passage. Write “T ” for true and“F ” for false in the space provided.Key to Exercise 3: 1) T 2) F 3) F 4) T 5) TPractice Three The Power of Color Words Y ou Need to Know:organ 器官 appropriate 适当的 hormone 荷尔蒙, 激素bloodstream 血液,血流 mood 情绪 nerves 神经紧张 by contrast 对比之下 atmosphere 气氛 focused 集中注意力的 enhance 增进 reflective 反射的 violet 紫色 stimulate 激励 enliven 使有生气 intuitiveness 本能TapescriptWouldn ’t it be great if changing your mood was as easy as changing your clothes? Well,according to psychologists, it is--when you use the power of color.Here’s how it works: When you see a color, your brain sends a chemical message to an organ of your body, which pours the appropriate hormone into the bloodstream. So for instance, if you wear red, a color the brain finds exciting, it sends a signal which puts you in the mood for love.Blue has a calming effect on the nerves. Wear blue if you want to keep yourself cool during a busy day with the children. By contrast, orange creates a joyful atmosphere and focused activity. Also, yellow is a cheerful color reminding us of summer days, and it aids in decision-making. White, however, enhances brain power and a reflective mood. V iolet is also a color which stimulates the mind toward creative thought. As well, it increases intuitiveness. Green is a relaxed color of springtime buds on trees, like springtime it also enlivens tired muscles. (203 words)Exercise 1 (Online)Directions:Listen to the passage and fill in each blank with the information you get from the passage.Key to Exercise 1:The colors you wear can make a big difference in the way you feel. When you see a color, your brain sends a chemical message,releasing the proper hormone into the bloodstream. A case in point is red , which the brain finds exciting . It sends a signal which will create a mood for love.Exercise 2 (Online)Directions:Listen to the passage again and fill in the table with the information you get from the passage.Practice Four Sensitive EarsWords Y ou Need to Know:cast石膏lawnmower 割草机unhandicapped 无残疾的subject 接受实验者volunteer 志愿者;自愿去做annoy恼怒irritate使烦躁TapescriptTwo recent studies by psychologists suggest that noise can influence how nice we are to others. They experimented by giving people a chance to help someone in trouble. A person would see a man carrying two boxes filled with books. As the person came closer, the book carrier dropped several books. The other researcher observed whether the passer-by offered to help.When the noise level was normal, 20 percent of the passers-by helped. When the experimenter wore a cast on his arm, 80 percent offered help.But when a very noisy lawnmower was nearby, 10% of the passers-by helped the unhandicapped man, and 15 percent helped the man with a cast.It seemed that people were less helpful when it was noisy because they wanted to escape the noise. So the researchers set up a similar experiment in a situation where the subjects couldn’t leave.A student volunteer waited in a room before being called for the experiment he expected. The experimenter waited in the same room, holding some books. He dropped the books. The noise level in the room varied from normal to loud; 75% of the 52 students helped pick up the books under normal conditions, but only half that many volunteered when the room was noisy. Perhaps because of the distracting noise, the students didn’t notice and respond quickly to the book-dropping. Or perhaps the book-dropping further annoyed students already irritated by the noise, making them less likely to help out. (244 words)Exercise 1 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage and the questions that follow and answer them briefly by filling in the blanks.Questions for Exercise 11. What does the research suggest?2. How many experiments did the researchers perform?3. What did the researchers carry in both experiments?4. What kind of people took part in the experiments?5. How many experimenters did the subjects see in each experiment?Key to Exercise 1:1. Noise, how, nice2. Two3. Books4. Passers-by, student volunteers5. OneExercise 2 (Online)Directions: Listen to the passage again and fill in the table with the information you get from the passage.Part Four Testing Y ourselfSection IPsycho-geometricsTapescriptThree students, Janice, Sue, and Kelly, are looking at magazines in the library and commenting on some articles they see.Janice:I think I’ve seen everything now!Sue: What do you mean?Janice: Have you ever heard of psycho-geometrics?Sue: No.Janice:I hadn’t either. It’s a new way of identifying personalities.Kelly: How?Janice:Y ou think of the four basic shapes—square,triangle, circle and rectangle and decide which shape you like best.Sue: I like triangles. They make me think of the ancient Egyptian pyramids. What does that say about me?Janice: The triangle stands for ambition and high achievement.Sue: I like that. What else?Janice: Y ou like to achieve. Once you decide what you want, nothing stops you. Also you like to give big parties for friends and love being in the center of the crowd.Sue: That fits me.Kelly:What about me? I like circles. That’s why I wear my blouse with the dots in it so often. Janice: The circle is a symbol of un ity. Getting along with others is most important to you. Y ou’re friendly, caring and a good listener. No wonder you’re so popular!Kelly:That’s nice to know. What about you?Janice: I like squares. This is supposed to mean that I like things to be planned and structured.Also that finishing things is important to me.Kelly: What else?Janice: It says that I prefer being with just a few friends rather than with a big group. That’s really true.Sue: Do you believe all of this?Janice:I don’t know but it’s f un to think about. (246 words)Directions: Listen to the dialogue twice and fill in the blanks with appropriate words according to the story.Key:It is fun to know that four basic shapes can be used to identify personalities. Those who like triangles are ambitious and like to have high achievement. These people like giving big parties for friends and love being in the center of the crowd. People who love circles and squares are different. Circle is a symbol of unity. Those circle lovers think getting along with others is most important, so they are friendly, caring and good listeners. People who like squares like everything to be planned and structured. Besides, they would rather being with a few friends than with a big group.Section IITV ShowTapescriptBob had finally made it to the last round of the $64,000 Question. The night before the big question, he told the host that he desired a question on American History The big night had arrived. Bob made his way on stage in front of the studio and TV audience. He had become the talk of the week. He was the best guest this show had ever seen. The host stepped up to the mike. “Bob, you have chosen American History as your final question. You know that if you correctly answer this question, you will walk away $64,000 dollars richer. Are you ready?”Bob nodded with confidence. The audience went nuts. He hadn’t missed a question all week."Bob, your question on American History is a two-part question. As you know, you may answer either part first. As a rule, the second half of the question is always easier. Which part would you like to answer at first?"Bob was now becoming very nervous. He couldn't believe it, but he was drawing a blank. American History was his easiest subject, but he played it safe. “I'll try the easier part first.”The host nodded approvingly. “Here we go, Bob. I will ask you the second half first, then the first half.”The audience silenced with great anticipation.“Bob, here is your question: And in what year did it happen?”(230 words)Part ADirections: Listen to the story and answer the questions by filling in the blanks.Key to Part A:1. American history2. $64,0003. the best guest, missed a question4. second5. easier, play it safePart BDirections: Listen to the story again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the space provided.Key to Part B: 1) F 2) T 3) F 4) T 5) FSection IIIFighting StressTapescriptJoan, Kristen and Shelly are discussing their evening plans while having lunch.Joan:I’m so stressed out! I just can’t get that new computer program written. I wonder if I’ll ever finish it. I’m supposed to have dinner with my best friend from college tonight but think I should call her and say I can’t.Kristen: No, Joan, don’t call her. Have dinner with her and have a good time.Shelly:I agree with Kristen. Have dinner and talk about what fun you two had in college.Tomorrow you’ll feel less stressed.Joan: How do you know, Shelly?Shelly: I recently read an article in the magazine PSYCHOLOGY TODAY. It said social support, especially with old and good friends, can help you keep down your stress level. It can actually slow your heart rate and reduce your blood pressure.Kristen: I read that too. It also said that making time for close relationships is vital to helping you have good health. Some research suggests that people who are socially connected get a better night’s rest too.Joan:Ok, I’ll go. I really wanted to, but, well, you know---- By the way, Kristen, your job is stressful too. What are you doing tonight?Kristen:I’ve joined a book discussion group. We’re meeting tonight. I always enjoy the discussion and social interaction, so I go home afterwards feeling relaxed.Shelly:I’m going to call my sister. We don’t live close to each other so we phone when we can and laugh a lot. I always feel great afterwards.Joan:Sounds like we’ll all be “distressing” tonight. I’m glad we talked.(256 words)Part ADirections:Listen to the dialogue and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). Write “T” for true and “F” for false in the space provided.Key to Part A: 1) T 2) T 3) F 4) F 5) FPart BDirections:Listen to the dialogue again and fill in the blanks with the information you get from the dialogue.Key to Part B:According to Psychology Today, social support, especially with old and good friends, can help one keep down his stress level, slow his heart rate, and reduce his blood pressure. If people want to have good health, they’d better make time for close relationships.。
最新最全大学视听说教案Unit4(完整版)2024新版
写作练习与评估
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提供与主题相关的写作素材和题目,让学生进行有针对性的 练习。
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对学生的作业进行及时批改和反馈,指出优点和不足。
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根据学生表现给予相应的评分和建议,帮助学生进一步提高 写作水平。
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视听说综合应用
视听说材料选择与处理
选择与主题相关的视听说材料,如电影、纪录片、新闻报道等,确保内容真实、生动,能够引起学生 的兴趣。
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掌握与科技相关的基本词汇和表达方 式,了解科技发展的历史和现状。
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培养学生对科技发展的兴趣和好奇心 ,鼓励学生积极思考和探索科技对社
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大学英语视听说 Unit4 PPT
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Unit 1 Our Earth Unit 2 Technology Today Unit 3 Newspapers and the News Unit 4 The World of Work Unit 5 Big Business Unit 6 Wealth Unit 7 Social Issues Unit 8 Honestly Speaking
a. careless b. dependent c. inactive d. inflexible e. late f. unpleasant
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2. a. Diane is always late. _p_u_n_c_tu_a_l_ b. Yesterday the lights went out. _la_s_t_w__e_ek_
3. a. Mimi’s students are ten years old. _e_ig_h__t b. The students have a lot of questions. _en__er_g_y_
Lesson A Work history
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否则就听不成啦!Part 1 Short dialogs and multiple choice questions(每小题:分)Directions: Listen to the short dialogs, then choose the correct answers to the questions. You will hear the recording twice. After the first playing, there will be time for you to choose the correct answers. Use the second playing to check your answers.Questions 1 to 1 are based on the following passage or dialog.1.A. He is seeking help.B. He is offering advice.C. He is trying to look calm.D. He is having an interview.Questions 2 to 2 are based on the following passage or dialog.2.A. She is weak in doing projects.B. She is weak in studies.C. She tends to work whole-heartedly.D. She is not willing to start a project.Part 1 Short dialogs and multiple choice questions(每小题: 4 分; 满分:8 分)小题得分对错我的答案客观1. 4 A A2. 4 C CSubtotal: 8 老师评语:Click ONCE on the speaker icon to start listening!放音结束前请不要离开本页。
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U4P461.Weather forecasting makes it possible for people to BA)answer any question there may be about the weatherB)tell what the weather will probably be like in the short termC)predict all the important changes in the weatherD)understand and control the weather2.Weather forecasting can be made with the help of DA) a person’s hands and eyesB) a weather mapC) a weather computerD)observation3.It will be soon C if a rainbow appears in rainy weather.A)foggyB)cloudyC)sunnyD)rainy4.If distant objects seem quite clear and near, AA)rainyB)fineC)warmD)cloudy5. A fog that occurs at sunrise is a sign of DA)snowyB)cloudyC)foggyD)warmWe all know that people cannot control the weather. However, we can predict important short term changes in the weather. This is called weather forecasting. Many people rely on the weatherperson to provide that information, but one method of weather forecasting is simply to use your eyes and your brain. For example, if you see a rainbow in a rainy evening, it means that the weather will soon be clear and fine. Sometimes distant objects such as hills and tall trees appear very clear and near; this means that there is a lot of water vapor in the air. It is usually a sign of rain. If fog appears around sunrise, then the day will be warm. If the sunset is mostly red, then the following day will be fine. Clear, twinkling stars at night are also a sign of fine weather.U4P481.What was the film crew doing in the desert?They were shooting a film.2.What happened after the old man told director it was going to rain the next day?It rained.3.How did the director feel about the old man?The old man was incredible. He could give an accurate weather forecast.4.What did the director tell his secretary to do?To hire the old man to predict the weather.5.Why couldn’t the old man say anything about the weather at the end of the story?Because the radio broke and he couldn’t get the weather forecast.A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old Indian went up to the director and said, "Tomorrow rain." The next day it rained. A week later, the Indian went up to the director and said, "Tomorrow storm." The next day there was a hailstorm. "This Indian is incredible," said the director. He told his secretary to hire the Indian to predict the weather. However, after several successful predictions, the old Indian didn't show up for two weeks. Finally the director sent for him. "I have to shoot a big scene tomorrow," said the director, "and I'm depending on you. What will the weather be like?" The Indian shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know," he said. "The radio is broken."U4P561.Our mental energy varies from season to season.2.Climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities.3.Spring is the most favorable season for creative thinking.4.The factors that bring about changes in nature in spring seem to affect our mental abilities aswell.5.Not all people are less intelligent in summer than they are in any other season.You may not believe that our mental energy varies from season to season. But some people think that it does. Research has shown that climate and temperature have a definite effect on our mental abilities. Scientists have discovered that cool weather is much more favorable for creative thinking than is summer heat. Spring spears to be the best period of the year for thinking. People seem to be a lot sharper in spring than they are in any other season. One reason may be that in spring people’s mental abilities are affected by the same factors that bring about great changes in natu re. Fall is the next-best season, then sinter. Summer seems to be the best time to take a long vacation from thinking. This does not mean that all people are less intelligent in summer than they are during the rest of the year. It does mean, however, that the mental abilities of most people tend to be lowest in summer. Be aware of these facts, and you will bring your talent into full play.U4P56F 1. Hopkins was not a qualified meteorologist.T 2. His predictions about the weather seldom came true.T 3. He became a laughing stock in the local area where he made weather predictions.F 4. He moved to another part of the country because he had quit his previous position.T 5. He did not seem to admit that he had given unreliable weather forecasts.Although he was a qualified meteorologist, Hopkins ran up a terrible record of forecasting for the TV news program. He became something of a local joke when a newspaper began keeping a record of his predictions and showed that he'd been wrong almost three hundred times in a single year. That kind of notoriety was enough to get him fired. He moved to another part of the country and applied for a similar job. One blank on the job application called for the reason for leaving his previous position. Hopkins wrote, "The climate didn't agree with me."。
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Unit 4 Brain ManAlmost 25 years ago, 60 Minutes introduced viewers to George Finn, whose talent was immortalized in the movie "Rain Man." George has a condition known as savant syndrome, a mysterious disorder of the brain where someone has a spectacular skill, even genius, in a mind that is otherwise extremely limited.Morley Safer met another savant, Daniel Tammet, who is called "Brain Man" in Britain. But unlike most savants, he has no obvious mental disability, and most important to scientists, he can describe his own thought process. He may very well be a scientific Rosetta stone, a key to understanding the brain.________________________________________Back in 1983, George Finn, blessed or obsessed with calendar calculation, could give you the day if you gave him the date."What day of the week was August 13th, 1911?" Safer quizzed Finn."A Sunday," Finn replied."What day of the week was May 20th, 1921?" Safer asked."Friday," Finn answered.George Finn is a savant. In more politically incorrect times he would have been called an "idiot savant" - a mentally handicapped or autistic person whose brain somehow possesses an island of brilliance.Asked if he knew how he does it, Finn told Safer, "I don't know, but it's just that, that's fantastic I can do that."If this all seems familiar, there?s a reason: five years after the 60 Minutes broadcast, Dustin Hoffman immortalized savants like George in the movie "Rain Man."Which brings us to that other savant we mentioned: Daniel Tammet. He is an Englishman, who is a 27-year-old math and memory wizard."I was born November 8th, 1931," Safer remarks."Uh-huh. That's a prime number. 1931. And you were born on a Sunday. And this year, your birthday will be on a Wednesday. And you'll be 75," Tammet tells Safer.It is estimated there are only 50 true savants living in the world today, and yet none are like Daniel. He is articulate, self-sufficient, blessed with all of the spectacular ability of a savant, but with very little of the disability. Take his math skill, for example.Asked to multiply 31 by 31 by 31 by 31, Tammet quickly - and accurately - responded with "923,521."And it?s not just calculating. His gift of memory is stunning. Briefly show him a long numerical sequence and he?ll recite it right back to you. And he can do it backwards, to boot.That feat is just a warm-up for Daniel Tammet. He first made headlines at Oxford, when he publicly recited the endless sequence of numbers embodied by the Greek letter "Pi." Pi, the numbers we use to calculate the dimensions of a circle, are usually rounded off to 3.14. But its numbers actually go on to infinity.Daniel studied the sequence - a thousand numbers to a page."And I would sit and I would gorge on them. And I would just absorb hundreds and hundreds at a time," he tells Safer.It took him several weeks to prepare and then Daniel headed to Oxford, where with number crunchers checking every digit, he opened the floodgates of his extraordinary memory.Tammet says he was able to recite, in a proper order, 22,514 numbers. It took him over five hours and he did it without a single mistake.Scientists say a memory feat like this is truly extraordinary. Dr. V.S. Ramachandran and his team at the California Center for Brain Study tested Daniel extensively after his Pi achievement.What did he make of him?"I was surprised at how articulate and intelligent he was, and was able to interact socially and introspect on his own-abilities," says Dr. Ramachandran.And while that introspection is extremely rare among savants, Daniel?s ability to describe how his mind works could be invaluable to scientists studying the brain, our least understood organ."Even how you and I do 17 minus nine is a big mystery. You know, how are these little wisps of jelly in your brain doing that computation? We don't know that," Dr. Ramachandran explains.It may seem to defy logic, but Ramachandran believes that a savant?s genius could actually result from brain injury. "One possibility is that many other parts of the brain are functioning abnormally or sub-normally. And this allows the patient to allocate all his attentional resources to the one remaining part," he explains. "And there's a lot of clinical evidence for this. Some patients have a stroke and suddenly, their artistic skills improve."That theory fits well with Daniel. At the age of four, he suffered a massive epileptic seizure. He believes that seizure contributed to his condition. Numbers were no longer simply numbers and he had developed a rare crossing of the senses known as synesthesia."I see numbers in my head as colors and shapes and textures. So when I see a long sequence, the sequence forms landscapes in my mind," Tammet explains. "Every number up to 10,000, I can visualize in this way, has it's own color, has it's own shape, has it's own texture."For example, when Daniel says he sees Pi, he does those instant computations, he is not calculating, but says the answer simply appears to him as a landscape of colorful shapes."The shapes aren't static. They're full of color. They're full of texture. In a sense, they're full of life," he says.Asked if they?re beautiful, Tammet says, "Not all of them. Some of them are ugly. 289 is an ugly number. I don't like it very much. Whereas 333, for example, is beautiful to me. It's round. It's?.""Chubby," Safer remarks.'It's-yes. It's chubby,' Tammet agrees.Yet even with the development of these extraordinary abilities as a child, nobody sensed that Daniel was a prodigy, including his mother, Jennifer. But he was different."He was constantly counting things," Jennifer remembers. "I think, what first attracted him to books, was the actual numbers on each page. And he just loved counting."Asked if she thinks there?s a connection between his epilepsy and his rare talent, she tells Safer, "He was always different from-when he was really a few weeks old, I noticed he was different. So I'm not sure that it's entirely that, but I think it might have escalated it."Daniel was also diagnosed with Asperger?s Syndrome-a mild form of autism. It made for a painful childhood."I would flap my hands sometimes when I was excited, or pull at my fingers, and pull at my lips," Tammet remembers. "And of course, the children saw these things and would repeat them back to me, and tease me about them. And I would put my fingers in my ears and count very quickly in powers of two. Two, four, eight, 16, 32, 64.""Numbers were my friends. And they never changed. So, they were reliable. I could trust them," he says.And yet, Daniel did not retreat fully into that mysterious prison of autism, as many savants do. He believes his large family may have actually forced him to adapt."Because my parents, having nine children, had so much to do, so much to cope with, I realized I had to do for myself," he says.He now runs his own online educational business. He and his partner Neil try to keep a low profile, despite his growing fame.Yet the limits of his autism are always there. "I find it difficult to walk in the street sometimes if there are lots of people around me. If there's lots of noise, I put my fingers in my ears to block it out,' he says.That anxiety keeps him close to home. He can?t drive, rarely goes shopping, and finds the beach a difficult place because of his compulsion to count the grains of sand. And it manifests itself in other ways, like making a very precise measurement of his cereal each morning: it must be exactly 45 grams of porridge, no more, no less.Daniel was recently profiled in a British documentary called ?Brainman.? The producers posed a challenge that he could not pass up: Learn a foreign language in a week - and not just any foreign language, but Icelandic, considered to be one of the most difficult languages to learn.In Iceland, he studied and practiced with a tutor. When the moment of truth came and he appeared on TV live with a host, the host said, "I was amazed. He was responding to our questions. He did understand them very well and I thought that his grammar was very good. We are very proud of our language and that someone is able to speak it after only one week, that?s just great.""Do you think that Daniel, in a certain way, represents a real pathway to further understanding the brain?" Safer asks Dr. Ramachandran."I think one could say that time and again in science, something that looks like a curiosity initially often leads to a completely new direction of research," Ramachandran replies. "Sometimes, they provide the golden key. Doesn't always happen. Sometimes it's just mumbo-jumbo. But that may well be true with savants."Daniel continues to volunteer for scientists who want to understand his amazing brain. But he is reluctant to become what he calls ?a performing seal? and has refused most offers to cash in on his remarkable skills."People all the time asking me to choose numbers for the lottery. Or to invent a time machine. Or to come up with some great discovery," he explains. "But my abilities are not those that mean that I can do at everything."But he has written a book about his experiences, entitled "Born on a Blue Day."He also does motivational speeches for parents of autistic children-yet one more gift of his remarkable brain.But at the end of the day-genius or not-that brain does work a little differently."One hour after we leave today, and I will not remember what you look like. And I will find it difficult to recognize you, if I see you again. I will remember your handkerchief. And I will remember you have four buttons on your sleeve. And I'll remember the type of tie you're wearing. It's the details that I remember," Tammet tells Safer.And it?s the details that make us all so different. One man may see numbers as a tedious necessity of modern life, another sees them as the essence of life."Pi is one of the most beautiful things in all the world and if I can share that joy in numbers, if I can share that in some small measure with the world through my writing and through my speaking, then I feel that I will have done something useful," he says.。