大学英语高级媒体英语视听说课本录音文字.docx

1、大学英语高级媒体英语视听说课本录音文字 Document number【AA80KGB-AA98YT-AAT8CB-2A6UT-A18GG】大学英语高级媒体英语视听说课本录音文字Unit 1 School lifeClip 1 Healthy eatingWoman 1: The schools are doing it because theyve got to promote healthy eating and I think its the right message. But I think really they should target the parents beforeha

2、nd, because I think its quite sad for the children to have things in there and then to take them away.Woman 2: I think its a good idea. I think children should eat healthy while theyre at school. Treats should be at weekends or after school.Man 1: So what is allowed in childrens lunch bags? Well, he

3、re I have an array of food. Good and bad.Man 2: Sandwiches, pasta, fruit and nuts are fine. Sweets, crisps, fizzy drinks and chocolate though are set to be taken away.Clip 2 Grants for school buildingsVoice-over: The building work continues but for how much longer? Theyre ready to start a second pha

4、se of refurbishment here, but the college may have to send the builders home.Woman 1: Weve just come up onto the roof of the old building and as you can see there, that is the new building weve been working on for two years and were just about to move into the refurbishment of this great two-lifted

5、building.Voice-over: The principal of South Thames College told me what would happen of she doesnt get the money for the new building project.Woman 1: I will have already committed six and a half to eight million pounds that will then be the Colleges debt. And this building would no longer work beca

6、use the services would be cut off and this will have to be muffled.Voice-over: From hair dressing to forensic scienceover 20,000 students and adult learners come here. Some classes are in the old listed building. But the basement floods and the heating breaks down and thats why they wanted to give i

7、t a refurb.Clip 3 The increasing tuition feeVoice-over: University fees paid by these students are capped at around 3.000 pounds a year. But the government is due to review the situation and the body representing the bosses of Englands universities has a suggestion, to increase fees to 5,000 or even

8、 7,000 pounds a year.Woman 1: We have a world-class reputation that needs to be maintained. Students, I think quite rightly, expect a very high-quality higher education. And that has to be paid for.Woman 2: Todays second-year students will leave university with debts of more than 17,000 pounds on av

9、erage. Under one of the schemes being discussed today, that amount will increase to more than 26,000 pounds, a sum that could take quite a few years to pay off. The question is, would this increase actually put young people off from applying to university in the first place.Man 1: Potentially yes. Y

10、es, I would have to assess my personal situation at that time. But I think it will put a lot of people off as its a huge amount of money.Woman 3: Im doing a history degree so I have about eight hours of contact a week. So as for my money being wasted, whereas medical students have lots of labs and l

11、ots of money on them, so I think it would kind of cause me to think twice about going to university and which university I go to and where.Man 2: Well I think it is breathtakingly arrogant of university vice chancellors to be talking about doubling the level of tuition fees and the level of graduate

12、 debt in the middle of a recession. I think they need to get out of their ivory tower to look at what is going on with the economy now. Students are in increasing hardship already and leaving tens of thousand of people graduating with even bigger amounts of debts is reckless and irresponsible.Voice-

13、over: Introducing tuition fees in the first place was controversial and difficult so the government is unlikely to rush to increase them now. Annabel Roberts. ITV News.Clip 4 Graduates facing difficult timeVoice-over: Students setting out on lifes journey are feeling the economic strain before theyv

14、e even secured their first job. For as the economy contracts, graduates vacancies have fallen for the first time in three years.Woman 1: Most of the other people that I know in my degree, in my course, theyre still struggling to find jobs.Voice-over: Diphian Serran is a final-year student hoping for

15、 a first-class degree and praying for a good job. So far, despite numerous interviews and an impressive CV, shes had bad luck.Woman 1: Very bad luck. Unfortunately. Ive gone through the interview stage of many, so to the final stage. But once I reach there, I often get, either get rejected or its, y

16、ou know, “well let you know”.Voice-over: The downturn in manufacturing and the meltdown in the financial services mean that nearly half of the employers expect to hire fewer graduates this year. That means the competition on campus has ever been tougher.Woman 2: This is the generation of university

17、students who were born and bred in the economic boom. But they are graduating in the economic bust. Recruitments down, salaries are frozen. This is crunch time in every sense.Man 1: These times are a lot tougher than they had been the last 10, 15, possibly even 20 years. But employers are still recr

18、uiting. The brains of today are the profits of tomorrow. The question is whether the graduates are able to adjust their expectations to the realities of the labor market.Voice-over: For this final year engineering student, the reality is still great. Vacancies in the engineering and public sectors a

19、re on the rise. Wills found a job in a bank. His starting salary is 42K.Man 2: There are still opportunities down there for people being smart or, kind of risk savvy enough to get them so its just, you know, its more difficult but its not impossible.Voice-over: The generation who never had it so goo

20、d as children may find the economic realities harder as adults. Penny Marshall. News at Ten. Warwick University.Clip 5 Value of a degreeVoice-over: Tis the season when 400,000 bright young things write off hoping their dreams will come true. Not a letter to Santa, but a university application form.

21、The government wants half of all our young people to experience the wonderful world of the undergraduate. The joy of learning, of student life, the thrill of graduation, the invitation to high-powered, exciting careers.The reality can be rather different. A few years ago these telesales staff would

22、have been school leavers. Today this publishing firm employs only graduates. Same job, similar salary, different qualifications.Man 1: Fifteen years ago we wouldve probably said the basic requirements would be A-levels. Because that would be the benchmark we wouldve expected our new employees to hav

23、e achieved. You know now we see the benchmark is being the degree. So I think the very fact that there are far more students leaving university looking for jobs, enables us to specify a degree today whereas we wouldnt have done 15 years ago,Voice-over: Thirty-five per cent of graduates enter the wor

24、ld of work in a job that doesnt need a degree. And many get stuck in careers they dont like. Asked what they did want to do, 47% hoped for jobs in media, advertising or PR. Other popular careers include designfavored by 21% of womenand computing, picked by 23% of men. But over 10% of media studies g

25、raduates are currently unemployed. Its the same for design studies. And even worse in computing. Unpopular careers include engineering. Only 9% of students mention that. And yet unemployment amongst civil engineering graduates is only 2.9%.At todays graduate recruitment fair, thousands of students w

26、ere searching for jobs. But engineering stands were typically deserted. And those that did enquire often lacked relevant qualifications. The engineering industry believes in encouraging yet more school leavers to go to university may be an expensive indulgence.Man 2: Universities argue that we are n

27、ot training, we are educating. We are creating people who can think. Now, if we are just producing philosophers and thinkers, I dont think we are going to resolve the economic needs of this country. I mean, that would be absolutely silly, quite frankly.Voice-over: There are now 60,000 different degr

28、ee courses in Britain. The biggest increase in so-called cheap degrees, usually humanities or social sciences, which dont require equipment or laboratories. Universities get money for how many students they have and extra cash if they can woo school leavers from poor and deprived backgrounds. Studen

29、ts are saddled with debts, justified by government on the basis that across a lifetime, a degree is worth an extra 400,000 pounds. But is it?Man 3: There are two flaws in the governments figures. Firstly theyre based on the percentage of graduates going through our education. Those figures were in a

30、 small per cent. In a couple of years time one in every two people will go through higher education of that age group. The second big fundamental problem is they were based on an employment market where there was a job for life, Things have changed.Voice-over: Here at this plumbing school in North L

31、ondon, about 20% of the class are graduates whove decided to retrain. Many come from just the kind of backgrounds government wants to encourage into higher education. But their experience is hardly an advert.Man 4: By the time I graduated I would say there werent the jobs there. So in hindsight, it

32、probably was a waste of time, yeah.Man 5: So how much money do you reckon you can earn as a plumber?Woman1: Well, they say between 50 to 75 thousand in about 10 years time.Man 5: 75 grand?Woman 1: Approximately, yes.Clip 6 School disciplines (David Camerons speech, 31 July 2007)So going back to my question, how do we translate our values into action? To reprise those values, families as the origin of society, the role of schools in backing up and adding to the lessons of home, the need for clear boundaries and for rules of behavior, the diver