大学体验英语视听说4全部的home listening答案

UNIT1

Home Listening

Where have all the Gentlemen

Gone?

What factors have contributed to the demise of chivalry？

Men tend to blame the decline on women’s tolerance of men’s trifling behavior. Females, on the other hand, blame the death of chivalry on the egocentric nature and 1)laziness of men. Our society has become increasingly 2) self-centered so people no longer abide by old school home training of manners and politeness.

Both genders are correct, but whose actions started the 3) snowball effect? It is the classic chicken or the egg argument.

Perhaps with the Women’s Rights Movement, women opened the door for men to become lazy with their courteousness. Maybe women started acting more independent so men figured, “Why bother?”

Or, perhaps society in general is in a state of moral 4) bankruptcy. Marriages are dissolving at an all time high, people are no longer valuing monogamy. As trust in men 5) diminishes, women’s attitudes toward men shift and the way we 6) interact with them has changed—and not for the positive.

Or, perhaps men are not settling down as often or as quickly, so there is a sense of desperation among the female race. Desperation leads to feeling the need to settle or 7) compete for men. Likewise, women have become more tolerant and/or numb to the waywardness of men.

So, which is it? The chicken or the egg? Did men’s behaviors and attitudes shift first or did women’s? We may never 8) figure the answer out.

However, I think that 9) chivalry is about RESPECT. Chivalry and respect go hand in hand. Respect and character go hand in hand. And, 10) character and morality go hand in hand. If we can work on our morals we will work on our level of respect for each other. It just starts with everyone as individuals. Unit2

Home Listening

Stereotypes: Being Content with

Myself

By Kamaal Majeed

Why don’t you act black?

Since my middle school years, I’ve

been asked this question more than

any other. It seems to me that too

many people have what society 1)

programs into their brains, what

should be expected of me, a black

person, before ever interacting

with me. But I believe in being

who I am, not who others want me

to be.

On my first day of high school,

going into math class, two of my

classmates pointed and laughed at

me. I initially thought my fly was

open, or that something was 2)

stuck in my teeth. But as I took my

seat, I heard one of the students

whisper, why is a black person

taking honors? So my fly wasn’t

open. An 3) honors-level class had

simply been joined by a student

whose skin was an unsettling

shade of brown.

Many people think that my

clothes should be big enough for

me to live in, or expect me to listen

exclusively to black music. In

seventh grade, a group of my peers

4) fixed their cold stares on my

outfit. Cargo shorts and a plain,

fitting T-shirt. They 5) called out

to me, go get some gangster

clothes, white boy.

I am now in my junior year of

high school. I still take all of the

honors courses. My wardrobe still

6) consists solely of clothes that

are appropriate to my proportions.

My music library spans from rock

to pop to techno, and almost 7)

everything in between. When it

comes to choosing my friends, I

am still 8) colorblind. I continue to

do my best work in school in order

to reach my goals. And yet, when I

look in the mirror, I still see skin of

that same shade of brown.

My skin color 9) has done

nothing to change my personality,

and my personality has done

nothing to change my skin color.

I believe in being myself. I

believe that I — not any stereotype

—should 10) define who I am

and what actions I take in life.

Unit3

Home Listening

Indian Film Industry, Bollywood,

Steps Up Fight Against Piracy

The Indian Hindi language

movie industry - popularly known

as Bollywood - is stepping up its

fight against film piracy both at

home and overseas. As Anjana

Pasricha reports from New Delhi,

Bollywood films lose billions of

dollars because of infringement of

copyright laws.

In a busy market in Central

Delhi, 1) pirated CDs and DVDs

of popular Hindi movies produced

by the Mumbai-based Bollywood

film industry are freely available.

Ask a shop owner for DVDs of the

2)latest

Hindi movie hits and he produces

them from under the counter. A

quick 3)bargain drives down the

price from two dollars to just a

dollar and a half.

A recent study 4) estimates that

India’s entertainment industry

loses $4 billion, and 800,000 jobs,

each year, because of piracy. These

losses are not 5)unique to India.

Piracy is also a growing problem

in Western countries, like the

United States and Britain, which

are home to large Indian 6)

populations. Film Federation of

India Secretary Supran Sen says

tens of thousands of people in

these countries buy 7)illegal

DVDs of Hindi films. He says

these are easily available in small

retail stores, usually owned by

Indians.

The Western markets have

become so big that Bollywood film

producers are 8)basing some of

their biggest blockbusters on

Indians living overseas. In

Mumbai, Komal Nahata, publisher

of a Bollywood trade magazine

called “Film Information”noted

that in.some.cases,9)the overseas

market is almost as huge as the

Indian market.

The huge scale of the problem

has prompted Bollywood to step

up the fight against piracy both at

home and overseas. On a recent

visit to Washington, Indian

filmmakers urged American

enforcement agencies to help plug

the losses suffered by them. An

advocacy.group,10)the U.S.-India

Business Council, and American

film companies are collaborating

with Bollywood to combat piracy

by raising awareness of the

problem with American

authorities