新标准大学英语视听说教程2册unit1-3听力原文 2

Outside view

V/O （画外音）

Harvard University in Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world. We spoke to Alex Jude, the university’s Head of Communications. He explained that Harvard looks for the best and most talented students from around the world.

Alex

Harvard actually seeks students from around the world, the best students that we can find, to study chemistry, or study literature, or study government, or business. Our business school is particularly well-known around the world, as is the medical school and law school, so, um, and, and the Kennedy School of government, for the John F. Kennedy School of Government, so, er, we do seek very, very talented students and we have open doors for them.

V/O （画外音）

We asked five students at Harvard to tell us what kind of social life they have.

Ashley

Um, well relaxing is a little hard to do around here, but basically, I mean, I still, I, I live nearby anyway, so I see a lot of my friends, and … Um, there’s a good social life here if you look for it. I go to the gym, run. So that’s what I do.

Adam

It is whatever you want it to be. It’s good. If you wanna go out party, do anything you can. If you wanna sit in your room and study all night like my friend over here, you can also do that.

Brian

Social ly, like you said, it’s, it’s a lot of what you make it. Um, we don’t have fraternities here, and so, you know, that’s, it’s obviously not as social. There’s not as many parties as there would be on another campus. Um, but on a Friday or Saturday night, there, there, there will be a party. Usually we end up studying until about 10 o’clock. And then we, and then we’ll go out and have fun maybe, or just watch a movie with friends, or, you know, whatever is going on for the night. Jodie

Not everyone would ag ree with me, obviously, but it’s, I think it’s a fun place to be. Interviewer: Have you made a lot of friends?

Jodie : Oh, definitely.

Interview. ：Mm.

Jodie: Many.

Interviewer: What, what do you do with your friends?

Jodie: Um, well, I like to go to concerts. I’m in three music groups, so I have lots of rehearsals during the week for that. Um, just do, you know, some fun things, on the weekend.

V/O （画外音）

We asked the Harvard students if they use the Internet.

Ashley: Um, I, I use it a fairly good amount. Um, our library system is online, so I use that a lot.

And a lot of my classes, you know, have to do research papers. You can find a lot of information on there, so.

Interviewer: So how often do you use it, a week, a day?

Ashley: Um, I use it probably on more of a weekly basis. Maybe three or four times a week. Brian: Oh yes, definitely. We live through the Internet actually. Well, I do a lot of research through the Internet, follow my stocks on the Internet. Um, well, even though e-mail is

not of ficially Internet, we, that’s how we communicate a lot at college, so, through the

e-mail.

John: Um, I use the internet mostly for, er, I’d say, sort of leisure purposes. I mean, I play, um, I use it for a lot of, I don’t, we don’t have TV in my room, so I use it, uh, uh, go to the CNN website, keep up on current events, things like that. Uh, I also, uh, you know, there’s some little games to play over the Internet. Um, just um, I go to https://www.wendangku.net/doc/5d5009907.html, to see what’s happening, follow the Boston Red Sox, things li ke that. Um, I think a lot of courses use it to post things, but I, I don’t usually use it that much for research, or things. I tend to use the libraries for such things, so.

Listening in

Passage 1

Voice-over

Hi, I’m Nick C arter, and this is SUR, your university radio station. This morning we went around campus to ask freshers –now half-way through their first year –the question, “How are you finding uni?” Here are some of the answers we got.

Speaker 1

It’s cool. It’s everything I hoped it would be. I’m very ambitious, I want to be a journalist and I want to get to the top of the profession. I’ve started writing for the university newspaper so I’ve got my foot on the ladder already.

Speaker 2

I’m working hard and the teaching is as good as I expected. And I’ve made some good friends. But I’m very homesick. I’m Nigerian and my family’s so far away. I went home at Christmas for a month –that really helped, but man, I miss my family so much.

Speaker 3

“How am I finding uni?” It’s great. It’s not perfect, nothing is, but, like, I’ve got a brilliant social life, just brilliant, and I’ve made lots of friends. For the first few months I just didn’t do, really enough work. But I –I talked about it with my parents and I’m wor king harder now and getting good grades.

Speaker 4

Actually, I’ve been quite lonely to be honest. I’m a bit shy … everyone else seemed to find it so easy to make friends straight away. But things have been better recently –yeah, they have. I’ve joined a couple of clubs and like, it really helps to get to know people when you have shared interests. So, yeah –I’m feeling a lot happier now.

Speaker 5

Uni’s great, I love it. My only problem –and it’s quite a big problem – is money. My parents are both un employed so, you know, they can’t help me financially. My grant just isn’t –it’s just not enough for me to live on, so I’ve taken a part-time job as a waitress – a lot of people I know, like a lot, have had to do the same. I don’t want to have huge debts at the end.

Speaker 6

I love my subject, History, and I’m, I’m getting fantastic teaching here. I want to be a university

lecturer and that means I have to get a first. I have a good social life but work definitely comes first for me.

Passage 2

Oxford and Cambridge – two universities so similar that they are often spoken of together as “Oxbridge”. They’re both in the UK, fairly near London, and both regularly come top in any ranking of the world’s best universities.

The two universities began within a century of each other. Oxford University, now 900 years old, was founded towards the end of the 11th century. In 1209 there was a dispute between the university and the townspeople of Oxford. As a result, some of the Oxford teachers left and founded a university in the town of Cambridge, some 84 miles away. Ever since then, the two institutions have been very competitive.

Unlike most modern universities, both Oxford and Cambridge consist of a large number of colleges. Oxford has 39 and Cambridge 31. Many of these colleges have old and very beautiful architecture, and large numbers of tourists visit them.

In all UK universities, you need good grades in the national exams taken at 18. But to get into Oxford and Cambridge, it’s not enough to get A grades i n your exams. You also have to go for a long interview. In these interviews, students need to show that they are creative and capable of original thinking.

Through the centuries, both universities have made huge contributions to British cultural life. They have produced great writers, world leaders and politicians. Cambridge, in particular, has produced scientists whose discoveries and inventions have changed our lives.

Among the great university institutions is the world’s most famous debating society, the Oxford Union, where undergraduates get a chance to practise speaking in public. Cambridge’s comedy club

Footlights has produced many first-class comedians, while some of the UK’s most famous actors and actresses began their careers at The Oxford University Dramatic Society, known as OUDS. Then there’s the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race, which takes place every year in March or April, and is watched on television all over the UK.

So with all this excellence in so many fields, it’s not surprising that the ambition of clever students all over the world is to attend either one of these great universities.

Unit 2 Mixed feelings

Inside view

Conversation 1

Kate ：Come in. Hey, Janet.

Janet ：Hi Kate, are you busy?

Kate ：Yes, I’m just doing an essay. But it’s great to see you. So what’s new?

Janet ：Well, nothing much.

Kate ：You look a bit fed up. What’s bugging you?

Janet ：Well, I had a phone call from my parents and it made me feel homesick. It happens every time they call, and it gets me down.

Kate ：I’m sorry to hear that. I know how you feel. I love speaking to my mum and dad, but I always feel miserable after the call.

Janet ：My dad doesn’t say much, and I want to speak to him, but I wish I knew what to say. Kate ：Don’t let it get to you. My dad doesn’t say much on the phone either. I call, he answers the phone, and says, “Hi, I’ll pass you to your mother.” It’s really irritating.

Janet ：But I miss him and my mother a lot, and I like to hear his voice.

Kate ：Just tell him what you’re up to.

Janet ：Sometimes I feel as if I made a mistake leaving home and coming to Oxford.

Sometimes I feel like a moody teenager.

Kate ：Try not to worry about it, Janet. It’s normal to feel like that. I understand how you feel, but

I bet everything will be f ine next term. You’ll get used to it. Hey, why don’t you do what I

do?

Janet ：What’s that?

Kate ：When my dad calls, I ask him for more money! He usually says no, but at least I get to hear his voice!

Janet ：Maybe. I’m sorry to take up your time, Kate, but I must go now. Bye!

Kate ：Wait a minute …!

Conversation 2

Kate ：I think I may have upset Janet last night.

Mark : What happened?

Kate ：She came to see me. I was busy doing an essay but I was really pleased to see her. She’d had a call from home, and said she was feeling homesick.

Mark : Poor kid! It must be tough on you guys, living so far away from home.

Kate ：I tried to make her laugh, told her not to worry about it, and that it was normal to feel miserable. Suddenly she looked miserable, an d then she got up and said, “I must go now”

and left my room. It was really sudden. I felt as if I’d said something wrong.

Mark ：Maybe she was just being polite. It was probably because she realized you were working and didn’t want to disturb you.

Kate ：I just wonder if she found it difficult to talk about her feelings with me. Maybe I shouldn’t have tried to make her laugh? Perhaps she thought I wasn’t taking her seriously.

Mark ：I wouldn’t worry about it. Put yourself in her shoes. How would you feel if you were a student at college in China?

Kate ：I know. That’s why I feel bad. If only she had stayed longer! I wish I could have helped her more.

Janet ：Hey, everyone!

Mark ：Hi Janet, you look cheerful!

Janet ：Yes, I’ve just got my essay back. I got an alpha minus!

Kate ：What an amazing grade! Well done.

Mark ：I’m really happy for you, Janet.

Janet ：I feel on top of the world!

Outside view

Sebastien

Hi. I’m Sebastien. I’m from Germany. Um, the idea of IQ of a measure of your brain power has be en around for a while, but recently there’s been this new idea of the EQ – your emotional quotient. And by now, it’s actually almost being regarded as more important. If you look at it, businesses will … Well, they will prefer employing people with great E Q. Well, of course, IQ cannot be disregarded, but um, EQ does have its importance as well. Uh, I believe that, um, … I mean, people, most people will have, um, their basic means of communicating with other people. Most people are somewhat socially adept, and just like most people have, you know, a basic general knowledge. But then, what I think really is the difference between

IQ and EQ, I mean, you can have a “brainiac”, and they will be great at most things they do, but if you just can’t get along with him, if you just can’t communicate with him, I mean, you know, he’s not really that useful.

Kim

Hi. This is Kim. I’m originally from Korea, and I was raised in California. And today, we are going to talk about the differences between IQ and EQ –IQ meaning your intelligence, EQ meaning your emotions. Now, in … When I was, when I was a little, little boy in Korea, I had to take … I think I’d taken like two or three IQ tests before the age of ten, which is when I moved to California. So, I guess we stress a lot of importance on intelligence, on having great IQ scores. But after I moved to the States, I learnt how to associate with people, and along the lines that this word EQ came up, you know, emotional, caring about … It’s basically how you deal with peopl e, how you make people feel, and how people make you feel. I think they’re equally as, as important, but it seems that in the Eastern world they kind of stress on that a lot more back in the days. But I think again, you know, now that with Internet and people are communicating so much faster, there’s a better mixture of the two I think. There’s a stress on EQ in Korea as well, and a stress on IQ in the States. Thank you.

Ted

Hello. My name is Ted, and I’m from the United States of America. Today, I’m go ing to talk a little bit about IQ or EQ – which is most important, or which is more important. Now, for a long time when I was growing up, people said, “IQ. What’s your IQ? Take an IQ test.” But then EQ, your emotions, how you interact with people, that be came very important. And I think they’re … that people might be onto something with that, because your EQ – how you deal with people, how you interact with people – is important. Now, a big part of this, in my opinion, is listening. I know I’m talking a lo t right now, but if you want to get along well with people, you have to listen to them, so just take a minute, maybe shut your mouth for a minute, and listen to others, and then you can understand and communicate with them in a better way. So, part of EQ, I think, is listening – listening to others – and it can be more important than IQ.

Listening in

Passage 1

Presenter: We’re fortunate to have as our guest today Dr Jenna Hudson, who has just written a book about how colours affect us in our surroundin gs, especially in the world of advertising. It’s called Market Colours. Dr Hudson, which are the most common colours in advertising and marketing?

Dr Hudson :Well, of course, it depends what image the marketing team wish to project with their products. So for example, we often think of blue as a cold colour, but it also makes you feel peaceful, quiet, and it doesn’t suggest strong emotions. So it’s a favourite for banks and insurance companies, who wish to suggest the image that they are trustworthy. And f or selling products, it’s often used to suggest something is pure and fresh.

Presenter: What about red?

Dr Hudson: You can sell almost anything with red. It’s a hot colour, which suggests a feeling of energy and even passion. It grabs your attention, and can make people buy almost anything. You often see red on magazine covers. But if you use it too much, it looks cheap and may make people tired. And orange has a similar effect to red, it’s upbeat and happy, it suggests pleasant feelings and images. Most people react well to orange, and it’s especially popular in advertising and on packaging for baked food.

Presenter: What about yellow, for instance?

Dr Hudson: Yellow is the colour of sunshine and it’s a positive, happy colour, so it’s used a lot in adve rtising. But it’s also often used for warning signs, direction signs, and so on, where you have to read the message quickly and at a distance.

Presenter: What about less popular colours for advertising?

Dr Hudson: Surprisingly, green isn’t used much in advertising except for garden products. It’s friendly and restful. It can be cool and soothing, the colour of apples and mint, but it can also be quite strong and many people associate it with unpleasant ideas of decay or slimy creatures. But most colours a re not primary colours, they’re a combination. Absolutely. So yellow-orange is common, and often used to give animpression of style and class, it looks like gold. But it’s not often used in letters because it’s not very strong. And yellow-green reminds people of feeling sick. Blue-green works well as a cool colour, suggesting freshness, and is sometimes used for toothpaste products, bathroom products, food and household cleaning products. It has many of the advantages of blue without the disadvantages of green.

Presenter: Fascinating！Thank you very much, Dr Hudson. Market Colours by Dr Jenna Hudson is on sale from next week, priced ￡15.99 …

Passage 2

Presenter ：What makes you embarrassed, Sally?

Sally ：Oh, I’m easily embarrassed. If anybody notices me o r looks at me, I get very embarrassed.

When people sing me Happy Birthday on my birthday, I get very embarrassed. Presenter ：And what makes you upset?

Sally ：When people are selfish, people who think only of themselves. And cruelty –I can’t bear people who are cruel, especially to animals or children.

Presenter ：Jake, what makes you depressed?

Jake ：I hate it when it rains, and I don’t like people who look down on me, who think they’re superior to me without any reason.

Presenter ：And what makes you angry?

Jake ：When people don’t behave properly in public, bad behaviour like dropping litter or people pushing each other on the bus or the train.

Presenter ：Andrew, what makes you cheerful?

Andrew ：I like to see everyone around me being happy and having a positive attitude towards the future, optimistic people.

Presenter ：And what makes you jealous?

Andrew ：Well, to be honest, I just never feel jealous. I can’t see the point of it.

Presenter ：Monica, what makes you proud?

Monica ：I’m proud when I’m successful, especially in my work. Being recognized by my boss for what I can do makes me feel really proud. Oh, and my family. I’m very proud of

them.

Presenter ：And what makes you nervous?

Monica ：Every time I teach a new class. The night before I’m very nervous. You don’t know what the kids are going to be like and how they might behave, or if they’re going to

like you.

Presenter ：Anything else?

Monica ：Doing interviews like this.

Unit 3 Crime watch

Inside view

Conversation 1

Kate ：So, what did you think of the movie?

Mark ：It was good but I thought it was too long.

Kate ：Yes, me too.

Kate ：Hey, where’s my bike? I don’t believe it! It’s gone!

Mark ：It was next to mine, you chained it up!

Kate ：Someone’s stolen it! Oh, how could they!

Mark: Oh, Kate!

Kate ：How could someone have done this! The creep!

Mark ：It’s a really mean thing to do, steal a bike.

Kate ：It was a mountain bike and it cost a fortune –I don’t have the money to buy another one. Mark ：Listen, I’ll go down the street and see if I can see anyone with it. Why don’t you go into that shop and see if they’ve seen anything suspicious? I’ll be back in a minute.

Kate ：OK.

…

Kate ：Well?

Mark ：No luck. What did they say in the shop?

Kate ：I asked the shopkeeper if she’d seen anything –

Mark ：And?

Kate ：She said she hadn’t. I guess it was a long shot. She advised me to report it to the police.

But according to her, bikes get stolen all the time around here.

Mark ：Listen, let’s get back so you can report it.

Kate ：I’ve got no bike. I’m just so upset!

Mark ：It’s not far to college. Come on!

Conversation 2

Mark ：So did you ring the police?

Kate ：Yes. I went to the police station to report it.

Mark ：What did they say?

Kate ：No one’s found it. This woman said that Oxford has the fifth highest rate of bike theft in the country!

Mark ：You’re joking!

Kate ：That’s what she said.

Mark ：What else did she say?

Kate ：She told me that sometimes you do get bikes back – the thieves use them and then abandon them, apparently, and then people find them and report them.

Mark ：So you might get it back.

Kate ：I hope so, Mark, I really do. It’s just too much you know? But … um … what else? She told me to go to this sale they have of abandoned bikes. She thinks I might find it there.

But it’s only every two months, I can’t wait till then! Honestly, Mark, I’m really furious! Mark ：You can always buy a cheap bike on eBay.

Kate ：Hello … Speaking … You found it! Where was it? Is it …? Oh, that’s fantastic news!

There was a lamp and a ba sket on it … Right … OK, thank you, I’ll be in tomorrow

morning to pick it up. Unbelievable! This guy found it!

Mark ：Brilliant! Was that the police?

Kate ：Yes. What they said was, someone dumped it outside this guy’s backyard.

Mark ：That’s so strange!

Kate ：The lamp’s been stolen and the basket.

Mark ：Forget about it! You’re lucky to get it back!

Outside view

Part 1

Presenter: Dodgy deals aren’t the only problems associated with doorstep sellers. Your doorstep presents these unannounced visitors with a real opportunity to undertake distraction burglary where they often pose as bogus officials to gain access to your home.

I’m joined now by Ian Holt, from Thames Valley Police. Ian, just outline for me what does distraction burglary actually entail?

Ian Holt: Well basically what happens is, somebody uses a story to get inside somebody’s house and then they steal items, usually cash or small items of jewellery.

Presenter: And what are the different techniques that are commonly used?

Ian Holt: Well basically the er … the people that commit this crime move from area to area, er … they will look at an area, they will try and pick a particular target and they can find that by looking at property, it may beer, an uncut garden, it may be repairs that need doing to the property.

Something that indicates that there’s, there’s a vulnerable person in there. It … usually, it’s an elderly person that lives there.

Presenter: Is this quite a common problem now?

Ian Holt: It is becoming more common. To get it in perspective, of the 14,000 burglaries that were in Thames Valley last year, we had reported 800 crimes of distraction burglary. But, it … there’s a slight increase this year over last year’s figures.

Presenter: OK, you mentioned some of the victims being elderly. What other people are targeted? Ian Holt: Well, unfortunately, with this type of offence, it is the vulnerable in society and the elderly. The, the national average, if there’s such a thing as a, a victim for this type of crime, is a white female aged 81 years.

Part 2

Presenter: And what about things that people can do to prevent it happening, basically?

Ian Holt: Well the things they can do are very, very simple. The difficulty comes, is that some of these people, er … it’s very difficult fo r them to remember what to do. But the three things we, we always say is: stop, chain and check. And that’s stop before you open the door to make sure who’s on the other side. Always apply a chain. If you haven’t got a chain, fit a chain to the door, or a door bar if you’ve got difficulty in handling a chain with arthritic fingers.

But also when you answer the door, check the identity of the person there. Generally the offenders say they are from the Water Board or from utilities. They may say they’re from a charity or even from local authority. But generally, a utility will be in uniform.

Ask for their identification. A genuine person will not mind you doing that and will wait until you can check them out. If you do need to check them, phone the number on, on your last bill. What won’t happen is that if it is a bogus caller, they will become unnerved by this reaction and they will leave.

Presenter: OK and there’s also a couple of gadgets new on the market that also can help as well.

Just talk us through that.

Ian Holt:Certainly, yes. The … a spy er … viewer is fairly standard. But for elderly who may have poor eyesight there’s a spyscope which actually makes it a lot easier for them to see who’s outside. As I mentioned before about the door bar, again, it can be easier to apply than the chain. Very reasonable priced er, and something that is fairly new … as I mentioned before it’s very difficult for some of these people to remember what they have to do when they go to the door and that’s why they become vi ctims. And this item is called a Memo Minder and actually you can record a message on there and it’s nice to have a grand-daughter or somebody to record a message, but every time the person approaches the door it reminds them with a voice to say “Put

your chain on.”

Listening in

Passage 1

Patrick ：I read a funny story today in the paper – true story.

Steve：Go on, then.

Patrick ：OK. This 72-year old guy stole a pair of trousers from a department store in Paris. A security man saw him and alerted the police and they were waiting for him when he

came out of the shop. The shoplifter started running, but the policeman soon caught

up with him. The man then bit the policeman on his arm several times.

Steve ：He bit the policeman?

Patrick：Yes – you have to remember, he was 72.

Steve ：I’d forgotten that.

Patrick ：Problem was, it didn’t hurt the policeman at all, ’cause the guy had forgotten to put his false teeth in before he left home.

Steve ：Very funny!

Patrick ：And the moral of the story is –

Steve：Always remember to wear your false teeth if you’re going to bite someone.

Patrick ：That’s good. I read a funny crime story the other day. Let’s see … yeah … this guy … this guy robbed a supermarket somewhere in America –I can’t remember where exactly – anyway, he got away with about 4,000 dollars. The next week the local newspaper reported the story but said he’d stolen 6,000 dollars. The thief rang the newspaper office to complain. He said, “Look, I only took 4,000 dollars. I’m wondering if the supermar ket manager took another 2,000 and said I’d taken it. I did not take 6,000, I promise you.”

Steve ：He was probably telling the truth.

Patrick ：He probably was. Anyway, the newspaper managed to keep the guy talking while they rang the police. And the police traced the call – the guy was ringing from a phone

booth – and they arrested him while he was still talking to the newspaper.

Steve ：That’s good. Stupid guy! I’ve got another true story … This – this – old guy was in court for some crime – and he fell asleep. His case began and his lawyer stood up and said,

“My client pleads not guilty.” The man suddenly woke up, but wasn’t sure what was

happening. He jumped up and shouted, “I plead guilty! I plead guilty!”

Patrick：So what happened?

Steve ：The judge allowed him to plead not guilty.

Patrick ：That’s the best, I think.

Passage 2

Presenter ：You’re listening to Kevin Fallon and my topic for today is street crime.Being mugged is something that can happen to anyone –and it’s a very frightening

experie nce. So it’s positive when you hear of someone who was attacked by a

mugger and defeated them – especially when that person is a woman. Anna Black

was attacked by a mugger. She’s here to tell us about it. How long ago did this

happen, Anna?

Anna: Just over a week ago. The day it happened, I was coming home from work a bit later than usual – I think it was about seven. I was on my mobile phone, talking to my husband. Presenter: And it was still daylight?

Anna ：Yes. Anyway, suddenly, someone pulled my hair from behind – and at the same time they grabbed my mobile phone. Now, I’m a karate black belt –

Presenter ：Really!

Anna ：Yes, I practise three times a week –so I’m ready for situations like this.

Presenter ：I bet you are.

Anna：Yes, I can react very fast. So as soon as this guy grabbed me, I did what you’re told to do in these situations.

Presenter ：And what’s that?

Anna：I fell backwards onto him.

Presenter：You fell backwards onto him!

Anna ：Yeah! I’m tall and quite heavy – so we both fell to the ground together.

Presenter ：Goodness!

Anna ：I er, yeah – I was ready to hit him but then next thing I knew, two men had seized the guy.

They were driving past and they, they stopped to help. They were big strong guys. They called the police who came in five minutes.

Presenter：So the mugger was arrested?

Anna ：Yes, he was.

Presenter ：Do you think, if that hadn’t happened, you could have injured him?

Anna：Oh, I’d like to think so. I’m a black belt, that’s what I’m trained to do.

Presenter：Well, it’s great to hear of women coping well in situations like this. Perhaps we should all learn karate.

Anna ：I think it’s a good idea to have some kind of defence training. Yes, especially if you live in an area that isn’t very safe.

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