新世纪大学英语视听说optional listening 文本含翻译.docx

1、新世纪大学英语视听说optional listening 文本含翻译Track 5-1-8C. Pair work. Now listen to the whole interview. Pay special attention to what Resende said towards the end of the interview. Who do you think may have said each statement below? Write the persons name. Then compare your answers with a partner and give yo

2、ur reasons.Interviewer: Why dont we start off by talking a little about how you developed your interest in food and cooking?Resende: We!l, food has always been my passion. As a child, I used to love preparing meals with my grandmother, who was from Brazil. And as I got older, I spent a lot of time i

3、n the kitchen, experimenting with different dishes Thai soups, German tortes, Italian pastas.Interviewer: But you never considered a career in the culinary arts7Resende: Not at all. You know, as a kid, I grew up learning that a person went to college and got a job in business, law, or something like

4、 that. Telling my parents that ! wanted to study food wouldve been impossible. They never would have agreed.Interviewer: So, fast forward to the present. Youre now a business development manager for an international technology company. !t doesnt exactly sound like the career you dreamed of. Tell us,

5、 how did The Mediterranean came into your life?Resende: About three years ago, I moved into an apartment around the corner from this store its a lovely little place that specializes in imported food from Greece, Spain, and Italy. Theres a deli as well. Anyway, id drop in there once a week or so to p

6、ick up different items. But the next thing you knew, i was talking with the owner, Alex Kanellos, about a cheese or a certain wine. Then one day, he jokingly suggested that i work in the deli since I had all of these ideas. I just laughed when he said it, but when I got home, ! couldnt stop thinking

7、 that maybe this part-time job was an opportunity in disguise.interviewer: So you took the job?Resende: Oh yeah. ! went to the deli the next morning. I had butterflies in my stomach. ! kept thinking . Im thirty years old and Im taking a part-time job in a deli. What am I doing? When I asked Mr. Kane

8、llos if he was serious about letting me work there part-time, he looked a little surprised at first. But then, Mr. Kanellos handed me an apron, and the rest is history, so to speak, ive been working there every Saturday for the last couple of years. Interviewer: What led to your decision to buy the

9、deli? Resende: About eight months ago, Mr. Kanellos mentioned that he was getting ready to retire, and was going to sell the place. So, l started thinking . lf hes going to sell it to someone, why not me? When l approached Mr. Kanellos with the idea, he was very open to it. l also think he was pleas

10、ed to turn over the place to someone he knew.Interviewer: And what about your job with the tech company?Resende: Im going to stay for another three months, until Mr. Kanellos retires.Interviewer: How are your family and friends reacting to the news?Resende: My friends are really happy for me. A lot

11、of them have jobs they cant stand - especially my friend Suki - and most would love to make a change in their lives. My boyfriend has been pretty supportive, too, though at first, he thought I was crazy to work part-time at the deli. My mom isnt thrilled, though. Shes worried about me leaving a good

12、 job to run the store, but I know that as a small businesswoman, 1 can be successful, too. Im sure shell come around! Track 5-2-4A. A professor is talking to his class about migrant workers. Listen to the lecture and number the topics in the order ill which they are presented. Today, we are going to

13、 start looking at the impact that migrant workers have been having around the world, and at some of the challenges that they face on both personal and institutional levels. By the end of this lecture, 1 hope you come to realize that migrant workers are not only very important to national economies b

14、ut also to the global economy, and that they will continue to grow in importance as countries and companies compete more aggressively to enhance their human resources. Let me start out by giving you some statistics. Today, almost one out of every ten residents in many industrialized nations is from

15、another country, and the number of people living and working outside their home countries has more than doubled since the mid-1970s to almost 180 million. In fact, over the last ten years, thousands of people have traveled abroad in search of opportunity, and this movement has been noticed, and even

16、 encouraged, by different countries, as I will explain later. For example, Japan and Canada, and countries in Europe, Australasia, and the Middle East are beginning to realize how important workers from abroad are to their economies. Migrant workers bring with them special skills needed in an indust

17、rialized nation, and they are also willing to do Certain jobs that many citizens wont do, such as janitorial and factory work. In addition, by working abroad and sending money home, migrant workers are helping to improve the lives of their families. Money sent home can be used to buy a house, send s

18、omeone to school, or start a small business. These are opportunities that families in some countries might not have otherwise. Moreover, the money that migrant workers send home has an impact on the economies of their countries of origin. It helps to sustain, and sometimes improve, the economic we!l

19、-being of the home country. In 2002, for example, Brazilian workers in Japan sent more money home than Brazil made by exporting coffee that year. Another statistic points out that a very small percentage of indias population, only zero point one percent (0.1%), live and work in the U.S. However, the

20、se workers earn and send back almost ten percent (10%) of indias national income. Industrialized nations that have the largest number of migrant workers are now changing their laws to make it easier for foreign workers to enter, and remain in, their countries. Many countries are now allowing dual ci

21、tizenship - which was quite uncommon in the recent past, especially in developing nations. And now, a citizen of one country can live and work abroad as a citizen of another nation, and still send money back to his or her home country.Living and working in a foreign country is not easy of course, bu

22、t many migrant workers have a strong sense of purpose. One man I met from Mumbai told me that although he missed being with his family, he knew that he had made the right decision to move here, and in the long run, it would be worth it. Now, are there any questions before we move on?Track 5-3-6C, Li

23、sten again to the whole TV program. Then read the statements in A and B, and decide if each is a fact or a theory. Write the correct letter (For T next to each statement above.Speaker 1: For years, scientists have tried to account for the mysterious disappearances of planes and ships at sea. Now, th

24、ey may have the answer due to new satellite data. Stay tuned to Mystery World.Speaker 2: From Washington, DC, heres Clark Jacobs with Mystery World.Speaker 1: Consider these three facts: First.Over the last twenty years, hundreds of cargo ships - many as big as a soccer field - have mysteriously dis

25、appeared or been destroyed in the North Atlantic and near the tip of South America and South Africa. Second.The Bermuda Triangle, roughly the area between southern Horida, Puerto Rico, and Bermuda, has been the site of many ship and aircraft disappearances over the last hundred years, and Third.in t

26、he Pacific Ocean, just off the coast of central Japan, there is a region known as The Devils Sea - given its name in 1955 after ten ships vanished, and the area has been named a danger zone by the Japanese government. For years, scientists have struggled to explain these events. Many speculated that

27、 bad weather or machine problems were responsible, and on Mystery World, we considered the possibility of visitors from space as the cause. But now there is evidence that may shed new light on the disappearances. Satellites set up by the European Space Agency have recently identified enormous waves

28、far out in the oceans. These monster are often nearly thirty meters high, or about the size ora twelve-story building. They often rise unexpectedly, like giant walls of water from the sea, crashing down with great force, and then, they disappear. Speaker 2: Though waves this size have been a part of

29、 folklore for centuries, people believed that they were extremely rare, occurring only once every ten thousand years. The satellite data, though, proves that they are more common than once thought. Scientists now also suspect that these waves may have been responsible for many of the unexplained dis

30、appearances of low-flying aircraft and ships over the years. So, how and why do waves like these form? In analyzing the recent satellite images collected by the European Space Agency, scientists have noted that monster waves appear to form most often in places where waves of different strengths come

31、 together from different directions. At the southern tip of Africa,for example, where the Atlantic and indian Oceans meet, it is quite common for waves to crash into each other. Combined with the strong ocean currents in the region, waves may then grow to enormous height. This theory may explain the

32、 occurrence of monster waves in similar locations around the globe such as at the tip of South America. To understand why monster waves might form in places like the North Sea, where there are no fast- moving ocean currents, scientists have turned to studying the weather and its effect on the ocean. They hope that by studying weather patterns, they may be able to predict where monster waves are likely to develop. Even though scientists are beginning to understand more about monster waves, there is still a lot to learn. And now that it is clear that these