大学体验英语听说教程听力原文第四册Unit1Identity文档格式.docx

1、 either active, physical games outdoors or games of dolls-and-house indoors. I, on the other hand, spent much of my childhood alone. Id curl up in a chair reading fairytales and myths, daydreaming, writing poems or stories and drawing pictures. Sometimes around the fourth grade, my “big” （often crit

2、ical, judgmental） Grandma, whod been visiting us said to me, “Whats wrong with you? Why dont the other children want to play with you?” I remember being startled and confused by her question. Id never been particularly interested in playing with the other children. It hadnt, till then, occurred to m

3、e that that was either odd or something with me. Nor had it occurrred to me that they didnt “want to play with” me. My first conscious memory of feeling different was in the fourth grade. At the wardrobe, listening to classmates joking, chattering and laughing with each other, I realized I hadnt a c

4、lue about what was so funny or of how to participate in their easy chatter. They seemed to live in a universe about which I knew nothing at all. I tried to act like others but it was so difficult. I felt confused and disoriented. I turned back to my inner world: reading books, writing and daydreamin

5、g. My inwardness grew me in ways that continued to move me further away from the world of my age peers. The easy flow of casual social chat has remained forever beyond my reach and beyond my interest, too.Listening Task 2The greatest difficulty for me is that as a person of mixed origin I am at home

6、 neither here nor there. Wherever I am, I am regarded as being foreign, either “white” or “black”. It happens to me when I live in my mothers country of origin, in Switzerland, and it happened to me when I was living in my fathers country, Ivory Coast. I would feel at home where I could feel that pe

7、ople accept me just the way I am! When you are a small child you first do not feel that you are different from the others. But soon the others will make you feel different and children too can be very cruel in their behavior against the “strange child”. Sometimes incredible incidents happen. Some ti

8、me ago I was riding my bike somewhere in a little place in Switzarland nearby to where I live. A car drove by, and the male driver opened the window and yelled at me: “Scheiss Neger dirty nigger!” I almost froze. I felt helpless and unable to defend myself. When I looked at the number plate, I saw t

9、hat it was a German number plate. This means that the insulting person himself was a foreigner in this country! How could he dare insult me like this? I felt that I wanted to kill this man. When I recovered I was able to think about it more clearly. These racist people are just stupid and do not kno

10、w anything about life.Scripts for Unit TwoEverybody cheats. Whether its the taxi driver who tricks a visitor and takes hime the long way round, or the shop assistant who doesnt give the correct change, or the police officer who accepts a bribe everybodys at it. Cheats in the news include the scienti

11、st whose research was based on fake data, the game show contestant who collaborated with a friend in the audience to win a million pounds, and the doctor who forged his qualifications and wasnt really a doctor at all. Everybody cheats; nobodys playing the game.Is cheating acceptable, a natural way o

12、f surviving and being successful? Or is it something that should be frowned on, and young people discouraged from doing? If its the latter, how can we explain to children why so many bend the rules?Take sport for example. The pinnacle of football, the World Cup, was rife with cheating. Whether prete

13、nding to be hurt or denying a handball, footballers will do anything for a free-kick or a penalty shot. French player Henry denied cheating to win the free-kick which led to his sides second goal in their 3-1 victory over Spain. Whatever the nationality theres one common strategy: the player rolls o

14、ver holding his leg, ankle or head seeming to be in great pain. As a result a yellow card or free-kick is given for the foul and then, a few seconds later, the player is up and about as if nothing had happened!Of course its not just the footballers. In 1998 the Tour of France, the worlds greatest cy

15、cling event, was hit by a drug-taking scandal. Forty bottles of drugs found with a team triggered a massive investigation that almost caused the cycling tour to be abandoned. One rider was banned for nine months.A climate of mistrust surrounds everyone.In the field of business, Enron, Americas seven

16、th largest company, could serve as an unfortunate example. Its collapse in 2001 caused thousands of people to lose their jobs and life savings. The company had fooled investors into believing it was healthier than it really was. One boss now faces the rest of life in prison.Meanwhile companies aroun

17、d the world are losing billions of dollars to the counterfeit trade. From cut-price CDs and DVDs to sportswear and cosmetics, cheap fake products are everywhere. It has become socially acceptable to buy fake Gucci bags and illegal copies of films. If parents are doing this, their children will follo

18、w.So perhaps its not surprising that around the world more pupils than ever are caught cheating during exams. In one case keys to exam papers were put up for sale on the Internet. In another, widespread cheating took place by pupils using their mobile phones to receive texted answers. In a third cas

19、e, pupils admitted to candidate substitution. They blame the pressure put on them to do well in exams. It doesnt help that their role models are also cheats. Surely we cant complain when were setting such a bad example.Unit 3 LifestyleListening task 1When she has young children, a stay-at-home mom h

20、as two jobs. Her house and her kids. A stay-at-home mom is expected to do all the house cleaning. She is expected to always be the one to get up in the middle of the night, do the school things room-mother, baker, coordinator, chauffeur and carpooler, etc. often, a stay-at-home mom is expected to ta

21、ke over “daddy-type” chores such as lawn-mowing and taking cars for repair. Imagine sitting in a repair shop with two squirmy toddlers! The worst thing is that the stay-at-home mom is made to feel guilty for saying “no”. The reason the stay-at-home mom does not get her nails done or have a spa day i

22、s she feels guilty for spending family money on herself.Gosh, you all have such hectic lives. Im dizzy just hearing your daily activities. I guess I have it nice. I have no schedule at all! I get up whn I want. I work my business when I want. I shop when I want to. I wash my hair when I bathe or I d

23、ont wash my hair. When I go to work all I have to do is open up my office door in my house and Im at work already. No traffic to deal with and there can be 10 feet of snow on the ground and I wouldnt have to walk an inch of it because my house connects directly to my warehouse! If I get up and dont

24、feel like working I dont.Listening task 2I took my first drink and smoked my first marijuana cigarette when I was 12 years old. In high school, I used all kinds of drugs. After high school until I was 21, I did a lot of binge drinking. When I was 31, I started using crack cocaine. Thats when the rea

25、l problems began.I was addicted to alcohol and cocaine, and my life was a wreck. I tried to quit a number of times. I moved to Mexico and gave up cocaine. I still drank and smoked marijuana, but for the time I lived there, I was off cocaine. I thought that that time off cocaine would completely cure

26、 me of any desire for it, but when I got back in town two years later, I started using it again only five days later. Every part of my life was messed up. I remember my oldest son being embarrassed to be seen with me. He would pass me on the street with his friends but he wouldnt even speak to me. T

27、he bottom came for me when I was finally evicted from my apartment. I lost my car, my home and my sons. I looked in the mirror that day, and I couldnt look myself in the eyes. The next morning, I showed up at the treatment center. The first few days of detox and treatment were hard, but I was convin

28、ced that I needed help, so I stayed. Ive been clean now for five years, and I have a new life.Unit Four FamilyListening Task OneThe traditional American family is a “nuclear family”. A nuclear family refers to a husband and wife and their children. The average American family today has two or three

29、children. In some cultures, people live close to their extended family. Several generations may even live together. In America, only in a few cases does more than one household live under one roof.American values are valued in the home. Many homes are run like a democracy. Each family member can hav

30、e a say. A sense of equality often exists in Amercan homes. Husbands and wives often share household chores. Often parents give children freedom to make their own decisions. Preschoolers choose what clothes to wear or which toys to buy. Young adults generally make their own choices about what career

31、 to pursue and whom to marry.Families in America, like those in every culture, face many problems. Social pressures are breaking apart more and more American homes. Over half of US marriages now end in divorce. More than one in four American children are growing up in single-parent homes. As a resul

32、t, many people believe the American family is in trouble.Even so, there is stll reason for hope. Many organizations are working hard to strengthen families. Americans almost unanimously believe that the family is one of the most important parts of life. They realize that problems in family life in recent years have brought serious consequences. As a result, more and more people are making their family a priority. Many women are quitting their j