大学体验英语视听说教程1(文本1-8)

Unit 1

Lesson 1

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Steve Jobs is the co-founder and CEO of Apple Inc. and former CEO of Pixar Animation Studios. He is the largest individual shareholder in Walt Disney. His name is associated with innovative products like the iPod, iPhone and iTunes. He is a much respected corporate leader whose management style is studied worldwide. His attention to design, function and style has won him millions of fans.

Jobs was born in San Francisco in 1955. He became interested in computers when he was a teenager. In 1974, he got a job as a technician at the video game maker Atari. He saved enough money to backpack around India and then returned to Atari.

Jobs and Wozniak founded Apple in 1976. Jobs guided Apple to become a major player in the digital revolution. The introduction of the iMac and other cutting-edge products made it a powerful brand with a loyal following. Jobs also enjoyed considerable success at Pixar. He created Oscar-winning movies such as Toy Story and Finding Nemo.

In 2004, Jobs was diagnosed with a cancer. In April 2009, he underwent a liver transplant and his prognosis was ―excellent.‖

His advice to aspiring young entrepreneurs is: ―You‘ve got to find what you love.‖

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I was lucky. I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents‘garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a two billion dollar company with over 4,000 employees. We‘d just released our finest creation — the Macintosh —a year earlier, and I‘d just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew, we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we

had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. And so at 30, I was out, and very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating. I really didn‘t know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down, that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me: I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn‘t see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the world‘s first computer-animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, and I retuned to Apple, and

the technol ogy we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple‘s current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together. I‘m pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn‘t been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it.

Sometime life … sometimes life‘s going to hit you in the head with a brick. Don‘t lose faith. I‘m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You‘ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven‘t found it yet, keep lo oking, and don‘t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you‘ll know when you find it. And like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking. Don‘t settle.

Lesson 2

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Making the transition from high school to college life can be difficult. It is easy to become discouraged, overwhelmed and homesick. Here are a few tips that will make the transition to college life a little easier.

You Are in Charge of Your Time

Along with your newfound freedom at college comes responsibility. Being responsible involves being able to manage your time. Using a planner to help you stay organized is highly recommended. You should also try to plan your coursework in advance, so you can determine what extracurricular activities you will have time for.

It’s Important to Keep an Open Mind

When you first move to college, you‘re going to be in a new place, handling new situations. So you need to keep an open mind. College isn‘t just about learning facts and theories fr om textbooks.

A large part of college involves learning how to be an adult.

Home Is Only a Phone Call or Instant Message Away

If going away to college is the first time you‘ve been away from home for a long period of time, it‘s natural to feel homesick. Don‘t be pessimistic. And if things get too bad, home is only a phone call or instant message away.

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At the start of freshman year, finding a job after graduation is probably the last thing on your mind, but before you know it, it‘ll be senior year and finding that job will be your top priority. Hi, I‘m Lindsey Pollak, generation Y career expert and author of Getting from College to Career. I‘m standing here on the campus of Columbia University to talk about a four year plan to land the job of your dreams after you graduate.

Well, everybody‘s experience is very different. There are a few guidelines you can follow for each of your four years. Freshman year, don‘t worry too much about your career plans. Try lots of activities, get your feet wet on campus and take several different classes to see what it is you most enjoy. Sophomore year is the time to narrow down your academic focus and decide on a college major. You also want to narrow your options in terms of your extracurricular activities to focus on your biggest commitments.

And finally I recommend getting a professional internship the summer between your sophomore and junior years to start having professional experience you‘ll be able to list on a résumé. Junior year is a time to take on leadership positions in the extracurricular activities that you‘ve chosen. It‘s also really important to get your GPA above a 3.0 because that‘s the cut-off for many employers to give you a job. And finally if you haven‘t done an internship already, it‘s essential to have at least one on your résumé by the end of your junior year.

During your senior year, your goal should be to find a balance among the leadership positions

you‘ve taken on in your extracurricular activities, keeping up your grade point average in your college major and focusing on the job search for a position after graduation. I strongly encourage you to become involved in your career services centre to make sure you‘re clear on the deadlines and requirements for any jobs you will be applying to.

And finally it‘s your senior year of college. Enjoy, have some fun. Take some time to really enjoy college before you‘re off into the real world.

Now that you‘ve got your four-year college career plan underway, let‘s talk about that dorm roo m situation. For tips on decorating in small spaces, check out the Back to School series on https://www.wendangku.net/doc/cb6906139.html,. I‘m Lindsey Pollak. Thanks for clicking on.

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Unit 2

Lesson 1

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Searching the Internet may help middle-aged and older adults keep their memories sharp, according to a recent study. Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, recorded the brain activity of people searching the Web and found that those with experience of the Internet used more of their brain during their searches. This suggests that simply searching the Internet has the effect of training the brain and keeping it active and healthy. Many studies have found that challenging mental activities such as puzzles can help preserve brain function, but few have looked at what role the Internet might play. According to Dr Gary Small, a UCLA expert on ageing, this is the first time anyone has simulated an Internet search task while scanning the brain. Dr Small‘s team studied 24 normal volunteers between the ages of 55 and 76. Half were experienced at searching the Internet and the other half had no Web experience. Both groups were asked to do Internet searches and book reading tasks while their brain activity was monitored. The team found that people who are familiar with the Internet can engage at a much deeper level of brain activity.

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Anchor: Did you know that the internet could be a good exercise for the brain? A new study from UCLA finds that, when middle age and senior age adults perform internet searches, it activates many different areas of the brain, including those involved with memory, decision making and reasoning. Joining us today is the lead author of a study looking at this — Dr. Gary Smalls [Small] —and he‘s also the author of the book iBrain, Surviving the technological alteration of the modern mind. Welcome Dr. Smalls [Small].

Gary Small: Thank you! It‘s great to be here

Anchor:So, in my parents‘ house, I have to tell you how it works. My mom and dad might sit up and at some point there‘s a discussion — hey you are on the internet, quit surfing internet. Can I now tell my parents, it‘s OK for dad to surf the internet,it‘s good for his brain?

Gary Small:Well, we don‘t see any harm in it, and this first study to see what the brain looks like when it searches on the internet showed very dramatic results. Compared to just reading a book text page, there was much greater activation and particularly in the front part of the brain that controls complex reasoning and decision making.

Anchor: Th at‘s interesting. So it‘s kind of akin to crossword puzzles, sounds like

Gary Small: Well, it‘s… it‘s probably different from crossword puzzles but similar. One thing about when we‘re searching on the web is we‘re constantly deciding ―should you go for this site or that other site?‖, whereas if we‘re just reading a book page, the decision is ―should I turn the page when I finish the last sentence?‖And there‘s something about that decision making process, something about the interaction, that is activating a much greater extent of brain neural circuits. Anchor: That‘s interesting. Now what about ages where you‘re looking at these kind of… I saw your study was relatively small, it seemed to be 24 people on the stuff that I‘ve read. Uh, what ages are we looking at and when does this become potentially1 neural preventive for people? Gary Small: We don‘t know whether it‘s neural preventive and we don‘t know about the age effects2, but one thing I focus on in iBrain, in my new book, is the digital divide between young people, digital natives who are getting this technology 24/73 born into it, and the older generation, the digital native4, the digital immigrants who come to it more reluctantly later in life, and how do we bridge that so-called brain gap by upgrading the text skills of older people and helping younger people with their face-to-face human contact skills?

Anchor: It‘s fascinating. We just have time for one last question, kind of comment, but I‘ve been fascinated how able people in their 60s and 70s are really in incorporating this new technology into their daily lives in internet searching etc. It‘s really been amazing to me to see how quickly that‘s happened.

Gary Small: Well I encourage boomers and seniors to get involved in the technology, to have fun with it and enjoy it, and it‘s a great way to reach out to people who are not nearby. The communication ability is… (Absolutely) really spectacular.

Anchor: Absolutely. Sorry we are out of time, but thanks so much for coming to see us Dr. Smalls [Small].Loved to hear what you had to say.

Gary Small: Thank you.

Lesson 2

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At the dawn of the digital age, many believed that the Internet, e-mail, blogs and interactive video games would produce a generation of more intellectually sophisticated children. The terms ―information superhighway‖ and ―knowledge economy‖ entered the dictionary, and it was assumed that teens would use their knowledge and understanding of technology to blaze a trail as the pioneers of this new digital age. That was the pro mise. But the enlightenment didn‘t happen. The technology that was supposed to make young adults more intelligent, diversify their tastes and improve their verbal skills has had the opposite effect. According to recent reports, most young people in the United States do not read literature, visit museums or vote. They cannot explain basic scientific methods, recount basic American history, name their local political representatives or locate Iraq or Israel on a map. The Dumbest Generation, written by Mark Bauerlein, is a

startling indictment of the intellectual life of young adults and a timely warning of its consequences for American culture and democracy.

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Anchor: And finally, the dumbest generation. And if you are watching this webcast, that apparently means you. At least that‘s a theory of a professor of English at Emory University who‘s written a book which basically argues that the internet is making people stupid.

Mark Bauerlein:I‘m Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University. The book has

a provocative title. It‘s The Dumbest Generation: How The Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future. [In] Recent years though, I have begun to look at youth culture, youth knowledge, youth academic achievements, and what has come up, more and more, is that things don‘t look good. Young people today enjoy more and more digital connections, more screen time than ever before and one of the effects of that is that they are steadily disengaging from the traditional contents … uh … the liberal arts. One of the things we measured was how much people read literature, and how much they read books in general. And the first time we did the study was in 1982, and at that time, young people formed the most active reading group. When we did it again in 2002, they were the least active.

Only about half of them ever read a book on their own. If it‘s not assigned for school, if it‘s not assigned in the workplace, they simply don‘t care. The internet is extraordinary. It is a miraculous tool for knowledge and information. But the fact is that is not what the internet means to the average sixteen-year-old. What the internet does is provide a more intense form of contact with other sixteen-year-olds. You know, I do often tell my students, read more books. Please, read more books in your leisure time, unplug for just an hour or two per day. I urge them, and they, they generally just laugh at me. Some of them may feel that I come down on them too hard, but they know deep down that this is right.

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Unit 3

Lesson 1

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The U.S. already has high-speed trains: the Acela Express has been carrying millions of riders between Washington D.C., New York, and Boston since 2000. It zips along at 150 miles per hour for relatively short distances —just over 25 miles per hour faster than its conventional counterparts. But compare it with high-speed trains in Europe and Asia that can reach speeds over 200 miles per hour on hundreds of miles of track. The problem is: tracks in the U.S. are not

designed to support high-speed travel. Plus, any new express trains might have to share those lines with slower freight traffic. So is high-speed train travel even possible in the U.S.? Well, the Obama administration hopes to make it so, setting aside $8 billion to create 10 high-speed lines between cities in the East, Southeast, Midwest, and West Coast. But it will take a lot more money to bring the U.S. passenger rail system up to the standards of, say, the French Train àGrande Vitesse, which runs on delicate tracks and holds the record for the fastest train at 357 miles per hour. And Amtrak has proven woefully inadequate at providing passenger rail service in its three decades of existence, requiring constant infusions of government cash and rarely keeping to schedule. So do not expect high-speed trains to show up fast at your local station.

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Obama’s Stimulus Plan on High-Speed Rail

The president joined vice president Biden in Florida to announce the administration‘s biggest stimulus project of all. ―Right here, in Tampa, we are going to start building a new high rail line.‖ $8 billion to begin a European-style, clean energy, high-speed rail system. Planners hope

it will eventually connect cities across the country, [the] largest infrastructure project since the interstate highway system. The White House claims it will create tens of thousands of jobs. The announcement is one of many plans in coming months to convince Americans —―Jobs must be our No. 1 focus in 2010‖ —that the president was dead serious last night w hen he said he‘s pivoting to jobs. ―It was rhetoric about a pivot, but no pivot at all.‖ But Republican critics say, despite all the post-speech fanfare, the president spent only about five minutes of a 70- minute speech on specific proposals to create jobs in the short term. And Republicans say the centerpiece of the plan, a second stimulus expected to cost about $80 billion, is a non-starter. ―One more so-called stimulus bill built on the same failed policies of the last stimulus bill.‖ The president also proposed tax breaks for small business to encourage job creation. But critics say they are too narrow to do much good. ―I think they could be much much better and I think the net job creation from these tax cuts is going to be relatively small.‖

The president is not entirely pivoting to jobs. Today in Tampa he repeatedly brought up health care reform and his intention to keep fighting until it‘s law.

Lesson 2

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Competition between airlines and rail operators will further hot up thanks to the launch of China‘s longest high-speed train link between Wuhan and Guangzhou. The line stretches more than 1 ,000 km and will slash the travel time from Wuhan to Guangzhou from 10 hours to just three. The link, on which trains will reach a top speed of 350 km per hour, is expected to pose a real threat to airlines. ―High-speed rail has three advantages over air travel: it is more convenient, more punctual and has a better safety record. This could help erode the airlines‘ market share,‖ said Si Xianmin, chairman of China Southern Airlines. To deal with this threat, China Southern Airlines has unveiled several counter measures, including cutting ticket prices from Wuhan to Guangzhou by almost half for purchases made in advance. ―If railway chiefs cut the numbe r of low-cost tickets on slower trains too sharply, as they did when the country‘s first high-speed link opened between Beijing and Tianjin last year, the airlines could win more passengers with their cheap offers. But whichever side wins, passengers will be the ultimate winner.‖ said Zhao Jian, a professor at Beijing Jiaotong University. Wu Wenhua, a researcher with the National Development and Reform Commission‘s comprehensive transport institute, says that ―developing high-speed

rail networks is in line with the demand for high-efficiency, low-emissions transport.‖ By 2020 China plans to have high-speed rail services running between 70 percent of its key cities, covering more than 80 percent of the present airline network.

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High-Speed Rail Boost Travel

Now travel agents in Fujian are also getting in on the action. They‘ve got big plans for the World Expo, even those taking place in Shanghai. The province has just begun a special high speed rail travel package to bring in Taiwan tourist s, just across the Strait. Let‘s take a look.

High-speed rail service between Fuzhou and Shanghai takes only five hours. The Fujian branch of China Travel Service has exclusive rights to the High Speed Rail Tours for the World Expo. And it‘s counti ng on its location to bring in tourists from Taiwan.

[Wang Ying, vice General Manager of Inbound Tours, CTS:] ―Once in Fujian, they can stay in the region for two to three days. And then they can take the high-speed rail to Shanghai for the World Ex po.‖ Packages range from 900 yuan to 3,000 yuan each. The tour operator says it‘s already signed cooperative deals with some travel firms in Taiwan. Island residents can apply with them. [Wang Ying:] ―Travel agencies in Taiwan are already estimating that t he event could help Fujian attract 800,000 to one million Taiwan tourists this year.‖ Tour operators say World Expo theme travel services are extremely popular in Taiwan. Fujian tourism authorities are also planning more World Expo tour packages to attract overseas Chinese from south-east Asian countries like the Philippines and Malaysia.

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Unit 4

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Paying for college in the US is about to get harder. Starting in July 2007, interest rates on new student loans will rise to 6.8 %, from today‘s rate of 4.7 %. And interest rates on new loans that parents take out called PLUS loans will rise to 8. 5%. The bottom line is that getting your degree is becoming even more expensive.

On a $20,000 loan, students will be paying about $2,500 more over the life of the loan just in interest payments. And parents will have to put up $3,000 more.

This is going to prevent a lot of young adults from living independently once they leave school. Many will be unable to pay off their credit card debt. Parents are also going to feel the pain because they will have to support their children for much longer, with the result that they may

have to defer their own retirement.

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Anchor: How do you manage your cash? Do you have a budget? Do you keep track of what comes in, what goes out and where you spend your money? If you want to be debt free and have financial freedom, knowing every detail of your expenses is crucial, especially in this tough economic times. Jacob Gold is a third generation financial planner, as well as author of a new book – Financial Intelligence: Getting Back To Basics After An Economic Meltdown. And he‘s here to give us some tips on improving our cash flow. Welcome Jacob, it‘s great to see you. Jacob: Thanks for having me.

Anchor:Now Jacob, before we get to all your tips, let‘s talk a little bit about your book.

What motivated you to write it?

Jacob:Well, you‘d be surprised that, with the abundance of financial information that‘s readily available to individuals via the internet and … and TV and newspapers, you would think that people would have a clear path to get back on track after this terrible economic meltdown. But the exact opposite has happened. There‘s too much information out there. And people tend to put their head in the sand and they don‘t have that path. So my goal was to create a simple ―How to‖ guide of getting back on track financially and prepare for yourself a financial future that is ... er … that is worthy of, of your time and effort.

Anchor: It sounds great. A lot of confused folks out there, and they can definitely use, use

some good advice. Now what are some of the biggest complaints you‘re hearing

about the current economic situation?

Jacob:You know, I‘d say the biggest complaint is people really didn‘t have a good grasp of how much risk they were taking on when they were investing in stocks, bonds, mutual funds as well as real estate. And when there‘s an economic meltdown that is the worst since the Great Depression, many people lost more money than they ever thought they could lose in a given calendar year. So that has be en … er … absolutely a detriment for individuals and they‘re just scared on how to move forward.

Anchor:All right. So let‘s jump right in with your first tip on how to improve cash flow. And you say organize yourself better. What exactly are the things we need to organize? Jacob: Well, a lot of times people have things all over the place. They don‘t know how much they have in their credit card debt. Perhaps they don‘t know what their mortgage payment is. And the first step is to get organized. Designate a place in the house where you focus on your financial situation. Perhaps you buy some type of software like a Microsoft Money or, or a Quicken. And really begin to categorize and alphabetize all of your expenses and try to find some type of spending pattern. Anchor: All right. And the next thing you say we need is dedication. What do we need to be dedicated to?

Jacob:Well, it, it‘s never convenient to ... er ..., manage your money appropriately. There‘re always obstacles and people tend to always want to procrastinate. But what you need to do is you need to set aside a little time every single month to go over your expenses, to know what your debt liability is, and just really be focused on improving your financial situation.

Anchor: So you really have to be dedicated to making this a goal, right?

Jacob: Absolutely. I mean it is difficult to become financially independent and to have a

good grasp of where you stand financially and you act always keep your eye on the price. Anchor: ... I love your next tip, b ut it‘s not a very easy thing to do. You say leave home with less cash. And I suppose that also means staying away from the cash machine.

Jacob: You know, in, in, in some cases, yes. Er, you know, the problem about people going to an ATM machine is they repeatedly go to an A TM machine and withdraw 20,

100, 200 dollars a month. Many times when they start to go over their finances, they have no idea where they actually spent their money. So even if you were to use a debit card, at least electronically you can keep track of those purchases. And then also too, the less money you have in your pocket, we would hope the less money you would spend just on every day little items. Anchor: As long as you don‘t use that as an excuse to keep going to the ATM and incurrin g all these ATM fees, right?

Jacob: Correct, absolutely.

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The financial aid package has just arrived in the mail from your dream school but with a slight problem－it‘s still not enough. Where are you going to find the extra?

One of the most common ways of paying for college is through scholarships and grants. Scholarships are usually awarded to students based on academic achievement or merit, while grants are usually based on other considerations, such as geographical location or financial need. Both are considered ―gift aid‖ and do not have to be paid back after graduation. Another way to pay for college is through federal loans, which often come in association with grants, scholarships and other aid that an institution awards potential students for a given academic year. Repayment of these loans does not begin until six months after the student has graduated or left school. If there‘s nowhere else to turn, students can contact the college or university‘s financial aid office. They wil l usually then be assigned a specific financial aid counselor to help them with their concerns or to secure additional resources to enable them to finance their college education. A college education should not be put on hold due to funding problems. However reluctant students and their parents may be to get into debt in order to finance higher education, they will surely find that it turns out to be an investment that pays off when the student enters the professional world and starts a career.

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Anchor: Welcome Kim. Thanks for being here.

Kim: My pleasure. Thanks for having me.

Anchor: So the bottom line is the more a college student can cut now from their expenses,

the better off they are on graduation day, right?

Kim: Absolutely. Every dolla r you cut out of you expenses is one dollar you don‘t have to borrow or one dollar you don‘t have to earn or try to raise in scholarships.

Anchor: So they should, really should be focused on keeping student loans especially to a minimum.

Kim: Absolutely. I mean there are wonderful new repayment programs but still, less debt

is always better. More ... less is more.

Anchor:Less is more. Let‘s talk about some of the ways to cut the debt. First, you say ―sell

the car‖. That is a significant cost.

Kim: You know, college financial aid officers say the single biggest budget buster on campus

is the car. Think about it, not only do you have the car payment, you‘ve got insurance,

which for a young person is very high, and you‘d be surprised by how expensive

parking i s, is on campus. And of course, then you‘ve got maintenance and gas. So we

figure if you sell the car, you just, you‘ll right away you‘ll save like 6,000 dollars a year.

Anchor:And plus you can save on your gym membership because you‘ll be walking everywhere, right?

Kim: Right.

Anchor: So next you say forego the suite in the dormitory. I had no idea that they had suites – I went to the university of Montana, there was no such thing. But how much could someone save from doing that?

Kim: Well, um, one of the reasons college has gotten so much more expensive is that campuses are a lot nicer. You go into a, you go into a modern dorm these days, and you do see suites, you see single rooms and, if students are willing to live a little more like you and I lived, maybe double up, triple up, even say, live in a quadruple, you can save big bucks. Another wonderful way to save money is to look for what‘s called a coop dorm. This is a dorm when you have to do, let‘s say, five hours a week of chores, and you can save, literally, three, four, five thousand dollars a year on your dorm costs.

Anchor:That‘s huge. Food is another major expense. Everybody wants to eat the pizza late at night. But you recommend dropping the …, stop, ordering delivery and eat from the cafeteria. Kim: Yeah. Just think about it. If you get your coffee at breakfast in the cafeteria each morning, that‘s three dollars each day you‘re saving. If you can manage not to order the late night pizza, you‘re saving ten to twenty dollars a night. And you probably won‘t gain that freshman fifteen. Anchor:Let‘s move on to the next one and this involves technology, and you suggest going on a technology diet. You don‘t always need the laptop, for instance. That could be pretty hard to do, especially in today‘s soc iety. But can they do it? Can they get by?

Kim:They can. I mean it‘s not gonna be easy. Absolutely. Do you need access to a computer to succeed in today‘s college? Absolutely. But more and more colleges are provi … realizing this is an expense that a lot of students can‘t afford and are providing computers. Many dorms have one or two just … computers that you can use, sign up and use, so if you really want to save that extra one or two thousand dollars, you can forego the laptop.

Anchor: How about cell phones?

Kim: Yeah, cell phones. Well, one way you can save money on cell phones, of course,

is to get a pre-paid plan. And if you don‘t, you know, forego the land line in your dorm, then maybe you‘re saving money on one hand and spending it on another.

Obviou sly if you have an unlimited plan where you don‘t pay for each text message,

it‘s probably a good idea if you‘re going to text ... text message a lot.

Anchor: I was surprised when I went back to visit my sorority on campus, they don‘t even

have phones in the house any more, so it almost seems as if ... (right) as if you have

to have your cell phone.

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Unit 5

Lesson 1

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Animation is the art of creating a sequence of drawings, each so slightly different that, when filmed and run through a projector at 24 frames per second, the figures seem to move.

Early animations, which started appearing before 1910, consisted of simple drawings photographed one at a time. It was extremely labor intensive as there were literally hundreds of drawings per minute of film.

Walt Disney took animation to a new level. He was the first animator to add sound to his movie cartoons with the premiére of Steamboat Willie in 1928. In 1937, he produced the first full length animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.

With the introduction of computers, animation took on a whole new dimension. Many feature films of today have had animation incorporated into them for special effects. A film like Star Wars by George Lucas relies heavily on computer animation for many of its special effects. Toy Story, produced by Walt Disney Productions and Pixar Animation Studios, became the first full length feature film animated entirely on computers when it was released in 1995.

With the advent of personal computers, it has now also become possible for the average person to create animations.

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Narrator: For the last 20 years, a group of artists and scientists have transformed two-dimensional drawings into their own three-dimensional world.

Narrator: Transforming the hand-drawn line into a new art form was no easy task. Over the last 20 years, these artists faced struggles and the risk of failure every step of the way. This marriage of art and science was the combined dream of three men, a creative scientist, Ed Catmull, a visionary entrepreneur, Steve Jobs, and a talented artist, John Lasseter. Together they have revolutionized an industry and blazed an unprecedented record in Hollywood history.

Narrator: The creative force behind Pixar Studios and the director of Toy Story, John Lasseter, helped pioneer this new art form from an early love of bringing drawings to life.

Lasseter: When I was growing up, I loved cartoons more than anything else. And when I was in high school, I found this book, this old, ratty book, called The Art of Animation. And it was about the Disney Studios and how they made animated films. And it was one of those things that it just dawned on me; people make cartoons for a living. They actually get paid to make cartoons. And [I thought], ―That‘s what I wanna do.‖ Right then, right there, it was like I knew that‘s what I wanted to do.

Narrator: An unexpected visitor to Lucasfilm was Steve Jobs. Steve was 21 when he cofounded Apple Computer, revolutionizing the concept of user-friendly personal computing with the Apple II and the Macintosh. By the age of 30, he had become a multimillionaire, selling his innovative computers all over the world.

Jobs: And he shared with me his dream to make the world‘s first computer-animated film. And I, in the end, ended up buying into that dream, both spiritually and financially.

Narrator: Steve Jobs took a chance and invested $10 million to launch Pixar.

Jobs: The stuff that Ed and his team were doing was at the very high-end, and I could see

that it was way beyond what anyone else was doing.

Catmull: We had the fortune to have Steve Jobs, who believes in passion and vision. He was responding to this passion.

Lasseter: It was really exciting when … when Steve was the one that bought our group. Lasseter: I remember Ed came to me, and he says, ―Let‘s do a little animated f ilm, something

that says who we are.‖ I wanted something simple and geometric, and I was sitting there at the desk kind of thinking. And I just kept staring at this lamp, and it was sort of like a classic Luxo lamp. I just started moving it around like it was alive. I love bringing inanimate objects to life, in maintaining the integrity of the object, and pull personality and movement and physics out of that. Narrator: In 1987, Luxo Jr. became the first three-dimensional computer-animated film nominated for an Academy Award.

Catmull: Luxo is the one that changed everything. It was a pure little story. And once we hit it with that, then it became a new goal for everybody.

Jobs: It was the combination of the new medium and John really bringing a character to life that made people say, ―Oh my God‖, you know. And the smart ones say, ―Look at this potential here.‖Narrator: A hopping Luxo lamp would become a symbol of Pixar‘s optimism and determination.

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The rapid advance of technology has made computer animation widely available to the masses and turned animation into one of the fastest growing industries in modern times. The demand for animated entertainment has expanded with the increase in broadcasting hours by cable and satellite TV along with the growing popularity of the Internet. In the past, animation series were aimed at children aged nine and below. In recent years, however, TV stations have been producing animation series for teenagers, adults and the whole family. Animation series like The Simpsons and King of the Hill have been successfully aired on prime time TV.

Major markets include the United States, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany. Licensing operations for T-shirts, caps and other items have also been a major source of revenue for animation companies. In Japan, several successful computer games such as Pokemon and Detective Conan have been transformed into animated series. More broadly speaking, animation is increasingly used in video games, and movies are also increasingly reliant on animation and computer graphics special effects.

Another key trend we are witnessing is the outsourcing of animation to Asia, especially by North American film and television program producers. The major factor behind this shift continues to be the availability of powerful computer animation platforms and much lower labor costs compared to North America and Europe. The bulk of the outsourcing is for 2D animation, with some for 3D as well.

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James Cameron (producer, director, and writer): I think the thing that people need to

keep very strongly in mind is that this is not an animated film. These actors did not just stand at a lectern and do a voice part and then animators went off for the next two years and created the entire physicality of their performance.

Sam Worthington (Jake Sully): The most exciting thing is, it is my performance. This thing walks, talks and acts like me. It‘s my interpretation.

James: Every nuance, every tiny bit of the performance that you see on the screen was created by the actors. They had to run, they had to leap, they had to fight, they had to do all the things that

you see them doing in the film and that‘s where the power of the performance comes from. Richard Banehan (animation supervisor): It‘s not just we capture motion; we‘re trying to capture what‘s the intent of the actor.

Jon Landou (producer): What CGI technology does is it replaces prosthetics. Actors can now play any character that‘s designed in the computer without going through hours an d hours of makeup and what we get is their performance coming through the CGI character. Just like you would get Eric Stoltz‘s performance coming through in The Mask, you get Zoe Saldana‘s performance coming through in Neytiri.

Joe Letteri (senior visual effects supervisor): Performance captures the technique where you try to capture the performance of an actor and translate it to a digital character.

Stephen Rosenbaum (visual effects supervisor): Prior to them even moving out into the performance capture world, we put the actors inside this giant sphere covered with lights and we could photograph them and study their facial features and try to understand how to design their characters.

Joe: And then you put an actor in a suit with markers on the suit. We put you in a spatial volume, using a lot of cameras all around to record the motions of all the markers.\

James: The computer is creating a realtime moving skeleton of you. From that skeleton you now can drive a computer generated character. The part that we had to create during the making of this film was the facial image-based performance capture technology that allowed what the actors did to 100 percent translate to what you see the characters doing. So we came up with the idea that we would actually have a little boom and on the end of that boom there‘d be a little tiny camera and it would image the face while the

actor was working, so it captured every nuance of how their lips moved and how all their facial muscles moved, how their eyes moved.

Joe: What w e‘re trying to do is take what the actor‘s doing emotionally in any given scene

and to translate that into the characters and we do that by using their muscles. It gives us a way to correspond emotion to what you actually see expressed in the character‘s f ace.

James: It was a very very exciting time while we realized that we had rounded that corner and we had true human emotion captured and performed by a non-human character.

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9.expanded image licensing to new areas

10.has set the best possible example for local animation enterprises

Unit 6

Lesson 1

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With the first anniversary of the 2008 Beijing Olympics (August, 8th), just around the corner,

people are assessing the legacy the Olympic Games has left the city, both materially and spiritually.

There can be little doubt that the Games have brought substantial benefits. Our national sports culture has continued to develop and flourish. Local people are delighted that the Beijing municipal government has decided to open Olympic venues to the public, providing alternative gymnasiums as well as a chance to see the venues up close.

Currently, six Olympic venues have been opened to the public. In choosing which venues to visit, people tend to select the ones nearest their homes.

During the Olympics a hundred thousand volunteers impressed the world with their charming smiles and quality service. Many of them have chosen to continue serving the city as volunteers after the Olympics. They consider it to be a way of spreading the volunteer spirit far and wide and of developing a sense of civic responsibility.

The Olympics have brought about significant changes in people‘s ways of life. Greater interest in sport, greater awareness of environmental protection and a greater willingness to volunteer are all valuable outcomes of the Games. Although the Olympics are now history, our lives have become richer as a result of them.

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[Four years on this] is the Olympic legacy in Athens. Millions of pounds were spent on venues like the Beach V olleyball Center. Like many now, it‘s empty, locked up and its future uncertain. Graffiti covers the outside of the gymnastics arena. What should have been a huge public park looks like this. And a venue built specially for taekwondo is deserted, nothing more than a backdrop for the local fishermen. And the Greek authorities would rather you didn‘t see it.

―No. No. No.‖ And it‘s not just the security guards. No one from the Greek government or from the company that now runs these sites or even from the ruling party here in Greece wanted to speak to us on camera. And maybe it‘s not surprising because 10 of the 20 venues from 2004 are not used at all for anything. And many of the others like the main Olympic Stadium here are only used every now and then. This is the Olympic legacy here in Athens. Try to visit the state-of-the-art Sailing Center and a fence blocks the way. The Greek people who paid for this can‘t see what they got for their money. A man down there didn‘t want to appear on camera, but he said that what was happening to facilities like that one there was a terrible waste. He said it was wrong that the Greek public had paid for facilities like that but weren‘t allowed to use them. In fact, he said he felt ashamed to be Greek. Stefanos Kalopisis was in the Olympic Kayak Squad in 2004. He, like most Greeks, is proud of the way the country staged the Games, but they worry about the long-term cost.

―The cost was huge, I mean, like a billion Euro per day and Greece is a small country, already it had the financing problem with, you know, the health system, with the educational system, … I‘m sure not …even … think what was all this money spent.‖

Officially all this cost Greece 8 billion pounds. Unofficially the bill might eventually reach 15 billion. The district of Helleniko is home to what was some of these showpiece venues. The neglect here angers Helleniko‘s mayor. ―Money,‖ he says, ―seems more important than using venues for the public good.‖ ―The cost was very big and the result was not what it should‘ve been. The venues have not been given to the local communities, with very few exceptions.‖The government agency that runs these venues is confident that it will eventually find people who want them. Politicians say that highlights a failure of planning. ―I don‘t think that … that the Greek people mind the bill. Perhaps what they mind is that, after the Olympics, we did not use the

Olympics as a springboard for the count ry. And the quarrel leads to the question ?Was it worth it?‘ is could we have done more to explore the Olympics afterwards and the answer is absolutely yes, we could have, in terms of using the facilities more, in terms of using the feeling that it‘s great for the country.‖

Everywhere people will remember 2004, this man told me. Nowhere did it happen as it happened in Greece. National pride and some positives: the Athens transport network is now the envy of many countries; the Olympic Village, once temporary home to thousands of athletes, is now short-term accommodation for the city‘s underprivileged. The country that gave the world the modern Olympics didn‘t get it all right in 2004. There‘s still time for London to learn the lessons. Greg Milam, Sky News, Athens.

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Despite the fact that holding an Olympics is usually thought to provide a powerful long-term stimulus to the host country‘s economy, an examination of the ―before‖ and ―after‖ effects of previous host nations suggests the economic gains are more of a sprint than a marathon.

Furthermore, according to analysis by HSBC of every Summer Olympic Games since the end of the Second World War, the GDP growth of the Olympic host nation usually drops below the global average after the end of the Games.

However, in the aftermath of the Beijing Olympics, diplomats and economists have said that China‘s economy is not likely to suffer from a post-Olympic slowdown. Serge Abou, the European Union Ambassador to China, remains positive about China‘s development. As he has said, ―I don‘t think that after the Olympics China will have a kind of post-Olympic trauma.

I don‘t believe that. I think that the growth and improvement of Beijing will continue after the Olympics.‖

Since Beijing‘s success in its bid for the 2008 Olympics in 2001, the Olympic dream has consumed and driven China. Now the country should be able to bask in the Games‘ success. Its desire to hold a successful Games has catalyzed the nation‘s developm ent and reshaped the capital with awe-inspiring sports venues, a cloud-scraping skyline and the world‘s biggest airport terminal. There is every reason to believe the momentum will continue.

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Many assume that the London Olympics will [give the capital a chance to reverse] the long decline of its public sports facilities. Over the past twenty years, the city has lost dozens of swimming pools and scores of playing fields, but there is a risk that the Games will make matters even worse. The plans include a proposal to turn the popular East Marshes in Hackney into a coach park. It‘s feared that these grounds will never be restored.

―These things tend to disappear for some project, and you‘ll never regain them. So what is this legacy?

The legacy is just a promise. What will we end up with? Some very, very expensive sports facilities that people won‘t be able to use? Facilities that are difficult to get at?‖

―London‘s vision is to reach people, young people, all around the world, to connect them with the

inspirational power of the Games, so that they are inspired to choose sport.‖

―There is a challenge here to, I think, marry, on the one hand, the Olympics being an élite sporting activity, whilst what we need it to be is to deliver a long-term grassroots benefit.‖

Of course, the true legacy of the London Games won‘t be known until well after the city hosts them. No one wants the Olympics to become a financial millstone or an architectural albatross. So the organizers have to learn hard lessons from past calamities if London 2012 is to keep the white elephants at bay.

―There‘s no excuses. We have the time, and we have the resources, and we certainly have the creative energies.‖

―We can barely run a railway; the tubes are decaying; the bendy buses are spontaneously combusting;

and yet we think we can go and put up these sort of grand buildings on an epic scale by the best architects in the world, and we know very well that you can‘t.‖

―Steam on ahead, I always think ... um … If what you are doing is right, and I believe the Olympics is a great thing for us to be doing, then, in the end, you have to look on negative criticism as helpful comments.‖

―We have an opportunity here to really plan to leave a long term benefit in Lo ndon, in east London in particular. And I‘m pleased to say that at the moment it doesn‘t look like another Dome. The signs are quite positive.‖

―Olympic Games are exciting events. They kind of embrace human achievements, and a sort of a sense of competition and a sort of a sense of victory. So I think it is important to recognize that there is an upside as well as a downside to all this. But who will win at the end of it? I don‘t know. We‘ll remember it. You‘ll mention it to your grandchildren. You‘ll say I was there.‖

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4.energy-saving

5.environmentally friendly

6.sustainable

7.collects

8.initiative

9.by as much as 10 percent compared with normal technologies.

10.the 20,000 students and teachers in the university as well as 300,000 citizens in the

neighborhood

Unit 7

Lesson 1

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Good communication is the foundation of successful relationships, both personal and professional. But we communicate with much more than words. In fact, research shows that

most of our communication is nonverbal. Nonverbal communication, or body language, includes facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture and even tone of voice. Much of the nonverbal information we receive from people comes from their eyes. This explains why it‘s often har d to infer meaning from a telephone call or written words.

The ability to understand and use nonverbal communication is a powerful tool that will help you connect with others, express what you really mean, deal with challenging situations and build better relationships at home and at work. When we interact with others, we continuously give and receive countless wordless signals. All our nonverbal behavior — the gestures we make, the way

we sit, how fast or how loudly we talk, how close we stand, how much eye contact we make —send strong messages. The ways you listen, look, move, and react tell the other person whether or not you care and how well you‘re listening. The nonverbal signals you send either produce a sense of interest, trust and desire to communicate or they generate disinterest, distrust and confusion.

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Narrator: Here President Clinton leads Israeli and Palestinian leaders Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat out before the press during peace negotiations. It‘s all smiles for the camera s. But behind the facade of bonhomie, there‘s a power struggle going on. Clinton jokily explains that none of them will take any questions.

Bill Clinton: We pledged to each other we would answer no questions and offer no comments. So I have to set a good example.

Narrator: The body language then revealed just why that was.

Harry Witchel: Oh, my!

Patti Wood: Well …

Mark Jefferies: Wow, almost a physical fight.

Narrator: Many viewed this apparently light-hearted tussle as a sign that Arafat and Barak were getting on well. Think again.

Mark Jefferies: There is a … a great meaning behind who goes through the door first. Now, of course, you know, here in the West, letting someone through the door first doesn‘t really matter. It‘s polite, maybe. But in the Middle East, it has significant cultural impact.

Patti Wood: The host, the power person, says I‘m in control, I‘ll help you through the door, I‘ll show you the way.

Narrator: Throw in the fear and tension present in most Middle East negotiations and suddenly the desire of both Arafat and Barak not to go through that door before the other starts to make sense.

Harry Witchel: This is a classic example in an extreme way of how the last man through the door is the winner. So Barak reaches for Yasser Arafat. Arafat literally grabs his arm, moves

around and starts waggling his finger at Barak who then … Barak then uses it as an opportunity like a wrestling match to move round, to actually be behind Arafat, and then literally grabs Arafat, holds him by the arm and shoves him through the door bodily.

Patti Wood: So you‘ve got fear and power struggle showing in big, big, big, big, bold body language movements.

Narrator: Arafat and Barak are not the only ones to appreciate the significance of the last man through the door mo ve. Even when friends and allies meet, subtle cues reveal who‘s

top dog. 2003, British Prime Minister Tony Blair plays host to President Bush.

Harry Witchel: In this particular example, we‘re looking at No.10 Downing Street and one would expect Tony Blair to be very territorial. It‘s his territory. He should be host. He should

be in charge and the boss in terms of who at least goes through the door.

Mark Jefferies: And yes, Tony Blair the Prime Minister accepts that the seniority in place here is the Presid ent. So President Bush says photo op‘s over, gives him a little nod, and so they start going in. The President‘s in charge of the choreography.

Harry Witchel: He goes through the door last. He uses his left hand and taps Blair forward, not shoving Blair through the door, but helping him through the door, meaning Bush is in charge. Mark Jefferies: As they go in, the President, being in charge, and wanting him to be clear that he‘s in charge, not only displays the ownership symbol of putting his hand on Tony Blair‘s

back, but then he displays a further bit of dominance — gives him three little taps, just

to let him know that actually he is a good little boy and that George W. Bush is boss.

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When you remain silent, you may still be communicating. It is true that you may not wish to say anything. But your very silence may reveal a wish to be left alone or to stay uninvolved, which is the message which, consciously or subconsciously, you want to send. So it has rightly been said that, while we speak with our vocal organs, we converse with our whole body. All of us communicate with one another nonverbally as well as with words. Sometimes we know what we‘re doing, such as when we give a thumbs-up sign to indicate that we approve. But most of the time we‘re not aware of what we‘re doing. We gesture with eyebrows or a hand, meet someone else‘s eyes and look away, shift uneasily in a chair. We assume that these actions are random and incidental. But researchers have discovered that there is a system to them almost as consistent and comprehensible as language itself. They conclude that there is a whole range of body language, including the ways we move, the gestures we employ, the postures we adopt, the facial expressions we wear, the direction of our gaze, the extent to which we touch and the distance we stand from each other.

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JJ Newberry: Her eyebrows go up almost into the corner.

Marion Jones: … that I asked for the meeting.

JJ Newberry: Eyebrows are up and coming together in the corner, almost like a fear. Surprise and fear almost together.

Janine Driver: Ideally if she‘s telling the truth, we‘d like to see the brows coming down, ‘cause you should be angry. You‘re being falsely accused of something you didn‘t do. The brows should come down.

Marion Jones: I have truthfully answered every question asked of me under oath …

Janine Driver: There shouldn‘t have been fear and surprise. It might leak out, maybe a little bit, but it‘s non-stop here —the fear and surprise —it‘s the dominant e motion that is leaking out subconsciously.

Marion Jones: If they tell the truth …

Narrator: Fear and surprise weren‘t the only emotions leaking from Jones‘s face.

Marion Jones: If the truth is told, then my name will be cleared and I can move on with my life. Harry Witchel: ―If the truth can be told, then I can move on with my life.‖ And then immediately she creates this unbelievably sad expression. She looks down. She‘s got a long, literally, a long face.

Marion Jones: … and I can move on with my life.

Na rrator: Marion Jones‘s brief flash of sadness here is a classic example of what experts call a hot-spot.

Marion Jones: … then my name will be cleared and I can move on…

Narrator: These are facial expressions that seem to be at odds with what someone is saying, or inconsistent with how they would be expected to behave in a given situation.

Harry Witchel: That‘s a point where you have to look for more information. It could mean a lie, but it could mean many different things. Do we know that it‘s guilty and no t something else? At the time, I think it would have been very hard to tell.

Marion Jones: There exists no one …

Narrator: For Newberry the biggest hot-spot of all is the absence of one specific emotion on Jones‘ face.

JJ Newberry: It‘s not what you‘re seeing, it‘s what you‘re not seeing. And you‘re not seeing an … an anger response.

Marion Jones: I‘m not going to engage in USADA‘s secret kangaroo court.

Narrator: Jones‘s words were defiant, her face certainly wasn‘t. Her body language just didn‘t go with what she was saying.

Marion Jones: [ I will answer their questions in a public forum open for entire world to see ] hear and evaluate.

Narrator: Three years later all that had changed. Here she emerges from court to face the media again, having been found guilty of lying under oath to Federal Agents.

Marion Jones: And so it is with a great amount of shame that I stand before you and tell you that I have betrayed your trust.

Janine Driver: It moves me now to even talk about it. And that‘s what happens when pe ople are being authentic. You are taking to their level of pain, or their level of anger, or their level of fear. And here,

when she‘s finally coming clean, you see a more relaxed Marion Jones.

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8.people tend to ignore what has been said and focus instead on nonverbal expressions of

moods, thoughts and emotions.

9.Start noticing how your tone of voice affects how others respond to you

10.While eye contact is an important part of communicati on, it’s important to remember that

good eye contact does not mean staring fixedly into someone's eyes.

Unit 8

Lesson 1

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Everybody feels down for a day or two. This sadness is a natural part of being human and feeling this way for a few days is normal. But if these feelings last for more than a couple of weeks and you start noticing that it‘s affecting your life in a big way, you may be suffering from an illness called depression.

Depression, also known as clinical depression, is a mood disorder that will affect one in eight people at some point in their lives. It changes the way people feel, leaving them with mental and physical symptoms for long periods of time. Depression can be triggered by a life-changing event such as the loss of a job, the end of a relationship or the loss of a loved one, or other life stresses like a major deadline, moving to a new city or having a baby. While depression can affect anyone, at any time, it does seem to strike most often when a person is going through changes — changes

like the loss of a loved one, starting university or the onset of an illness. One of the most important things to remember is that people who have it can‘t just ―snap out of it‖ or make it go away. It‘s a real illness, and the leading cause of suicide.

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RODOLFO: I didn‘t want to face anyone; I didn‘t want to talk to anyone. I didn‘t really want to do anything for myself because I felt so, I felt like I was such an awful person that

there was no real reason for me to do anything for myself.

NARRATOR: Depression is more than just a feeling of being down in the dumps or blue for a few days. It is a serious illness that affects many people. Symptoms can vary, but many depressed people lose interest in activities they normally enjoyed, have feelings of sadness, guilt and worthlessness, and have trouble concentrating.

RODOLFO: [I] couldn‘t sit down for a minute really to do anything that took deep concentration.

I tried a journal and I tried to do things but I couldn‘t do that, I couldn‘t. I didn‘t read a book, didn‘t, didn‘t really do… I barely went to class. I wouldn‘t get out of the house. I was in college so I wouldn‘t go to classes at all. I gained a lot of weight.

NARRATOR: A person with depression can feel irritable and restless and have sleep problems. RODOLFO: Sometimes I‘d sleep like only three hours a night or … ‘cause I couldn‘t sleep for weeks, and then … But most of the time the opposite happened, where I would sleep 10, 12, 15 hours a day even.

NARRATOR: People who are depressed can feel numb and tired all the time. In some cases, it can even lead to thoughts of suicide.

RODOLFO: It was like I had big huge weights on my legs and I was trying to swim and just kept sinking. And I'd get a little bit of air, just enough to survive and then I'd go

back down again. It was just constantly, constantly just fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting, fighting.

NARRATOR: Depression is a real and complex illness that is not yet completely understood. We do know that the brains of people with depression are different from those without

the illness, but we aren‘t sure why. Scientists at the National Institute of Mental

Health are studying brain images of people who suffer from depression, trying to

learn why it affects some people but not others. Treatments for depression do work.

One type of effective psychotherapy is called cognitive behavioral therapy or CBT.

CBT can help you change ways of thinking and behaving that may be damaging or

contribute to depression.

RODOLFO: I had one really good therapist and through her I think I started really thinking about that I did have depression.

RODOLFO: I had one really good therapist and through her I think I started really thinking about that I did have depression.

NARRATOR: Medications called anti-depressants can also help. NIMH researchers are getting closer to figuring out exactly how these medications work, who benefits from

them the most, and how to make better, more effective ones. For many people, a

combination of medication and psychotherapy may be the best choice. Depression

can be successfully treated in many people, but sometimes treatments fall short. For

this reason, NIMH continues to study the genetic, biological and environmental

factors that influence depression so that new and better treatments can be

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Unit1 A篇 我在哈佛的第一周 新生进入哈佛校园的第一天，据说总是令人激动不已。这的确也是我来到哈佛第一天的真实写照。父母陪着我开车驶过主校门进入校园时，那柔和的阳光透过绿树间隙照射在古老的砖墙建筑上。沾满晨露的绿草在阳光下闪闪发光。我凝视着车窗外面的迷人景色，心中暗想：“最幸运的新生不过如此了！” 我们来到了卡纳迪公寓——我的宿舍楼。我和四个女孩同住在四室一厅的套房里。这个套房在顶楼，天花板很高，上面有天窗。从卡纳迪公寓到餐厅和上课的教室，都只需要两分钟的路程。我很喜欢自己的室友。我们各自的背景、种族、宗教信仰和兴趣爱好都完全不同。这也反映出哈佛引以自豪的“多样性”。第一周，幸亏有这样四个可称为朋友的女孩相伴，帮助我顺利度过了到哈佛后的这段适应期。这一周有许多重要的决定需要我来做，而没有父母和好友的帮助，有时我会感到十分艰难。 选课是第一步。在哈佛，新生唯一的必修课是说明文写作。这一年，我实际上可以选修我想学的任何课程，而且课程的门类出奇地多！我该如何选择呢？庆幸的是哈佛允许新生在“选课周”里到课堂试听。上课时间和平时一样，我们可以试听任何想选修的课程，多少不限。如果我最后决定选修某一门课程，我就要完成“选课周”里布置的所有功课。另外，如果我试听了一门选课表上看似很好的课程，却发现这门课并不适合我，或教授讲课枯燥乏味，我可以决定不选修这门课！同样艰难的是在众多的运动队、出版社团、乐队、戏剧社或俱乐部中做出选择。到底该参加哪一个呢？ 在哈佛，就餐肯定也是最能引得新生关注的事情之一。不过并不是指一日三餐吃的东西——尽管饭菜很可口，而是指就餐的环境真的很好。我们的餐厅与其说是个自助食堂，不如说更像是一个教堂或博物馆。桌子、椅子、地板、墙壁，还有高高的天花板都是用华丽的深色木料制作的，油漆得精光锃亮。而且，大厅里悬挂着枝形吊灯，墙上镶嵌着明亮的彩色玻璃窗，厅里到处可见哈佛历史名人的雕塑和画像。 哈佛第一周的所有这些经历将成为我毕生的珍贵记忆。然而，哈佛这一周给予我的最宝贵的财富，却是我遇到的其他同学。我在这儿遇到的每一个人都是那么朴实。每当我看到有人在嘉佩乐音乐会上演唱动人的歌曲，有人在才艺秀上表演精彩的小提琴独奏，有人在我去听的一堂课上阐述深刻的见解，我都惊讶不已！能够欣赏身边这么多有天赋的同学并能与他们相伴，这正是我在哈佛第一周体验到的最宝贵的经历。一周已经过去，四年大学生活就在前头——真是令人迫不及待！ Unit2 A篇 我们都有梦想。通常,当我们睡着了。这样的梦想可以比帮助更伤人。例如,假设在做梦你吃小麦片,醒来,发现只有一半床垫不见了!嗯,我指的并不是这种类型的梦。相反,我在考虑一个人的视野,愿望,或狂热的对未来的希望。我们的梦想是我们的灵魂之歌。生活中没有一个是减少到一个空洞的存在。但是生活有梦想充满了意义和目的。 尼尔?皮尔特既是Rush摇滚乐队的鼓手和主要词作者，也是一位作家和哲人。请看他是何等优美地表述了生活和梦想之间的关系：“生命就像一支蜡烛，而由梦想将其点燃。”安利公司的创始人理查德?M?德沃斯也谈及希望之火：“一个人心怀梦想和大志，时时刻刻地在渴望和希望，却没有尝试将这一切付诸现实，还有比这种人的生命更富悲剧性的吗？他的梦想只能发出摇曳的微弱光亮，却永远不能迸发出火焰。”

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4 To do this kind of experient needs specialized equipment. 5 Learning to drive was a whole new venture for me. 7 1 Anyone over the age of 18 is eligible to vote. 2 A form to apply for these scholarships is sent by the university to each student before the start of each semester. 3 On the advice of my doctor, I decided t give up smoking. 4 The park is located right in the center of town. 5 The university provides all the materials and facilities we desire. 8 1 Lu Xun is one of the greatest writer in China and one of the world’s outstanding men of letters. 2 Most graduate students chose literature as their field of study, and the rest made linguistics their choice. 3 People buy what kind of houses to live in on the basis of their special needs and on the advice fo relevant experts. 4 These virtual teaching facilities enable overseas students from Asia and Africa to learn a foreign language in a real-life situation for a minimum of three months. 5 Students should check carefully that they are eligible to join this club before making their decision, as each of them is restricted to only one choice. Passage B 11 1 Because a terrible tragedy took place in America on the morning of September 11th . 2 Because the students will get to know more people with different backgrounds, cultures or beliefs. 3 The university began to enrol students in 1891.