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现代大学英语听力第二册Unit 1 scripts

现代大学英语听力第二册Unit 1 scripts
现代大学英语听力第二册Unit 1 scripts

Task 1

Yesterday morning Gretel went to the city of London. She wanted to see St Paul?s Cathedral. She was surprised to see so many Englishmen who booked alike. They were wearing dark suits and bowler hats. They were all carrying umbrellas and newspapers. When she returned home she asked Mr. Clark about these strange creatures. “They must be typical English gentlemen,” she said. “ I have often read about them and seen photographs of them. They all look as if they are wearing a uniform. Does the typical gentleman still exist?”

Mr. Clark laughed. “I?ve never thought about it,”he answered. “It?s true that many of the men who work in the city of London still wear bowler hats and I suppose they are typical Englishmen. But look at this.” Mr. Clark picked up a magazine and pointed to a photo of a young man. “He?s just as typical, perhaps. it seems as if there is no such a thing as a …typica l? Englishman. Do you know the English saying …It takes all kinds to make a world?? That?s true of all countries—including England.

“Oh, just like the poem …If All the Seas Were One Sea?,” Gretel began to hum happily. “If all the seas were one sea, what a great sea it would be! And if all the trees were one tree, what a great tree it would be1and if this tree were to fall in the sea, what a great splash there would be!”

Task 2

John is British but has worked in Japan.Etsuko is a Japanese student from Osaka and she is studying in Britain. New they are comparing life in the two countries.

John: I found that living in Japan, people were much busier. They seem to work the whole day.

Etsuko:Yes, that?s right. We work from Monday through Saturday, even in summer. You know, summer in Japan is just horrible. It?s very very humid and hot, and you need to shower three times a day.

John: So you find it cooler in England?

Etsuko: Yes, that?s right.

John: where I was living in Japan in the north, it was much colder than England, especially in winter, minus thirty degrees centigrade. Does the winter in Osaka last longer than the winter in England?

Etsuko: No, I don?t think so. December, January, February, Marc h…

John: Yes, it?s a bit shorter if anything.

Etsuko: Ever since I came here., I noticed that the countryside in England is really beautiful.

John: It?s much flatter than in Japan.

Etsuko: Yes, Japan is a mountainous country and our cities are full of people. There are lots of people in a limited area.

John: Yes, I found Japan much more mountainous than Britain, especially in the north. The mountains are much higher and much more rocky. I found it more beautiful than Britain.

Etsuko: Yes, if you like mountains.

John: Therefore the towns and villages tend to be more crowded.

Etsuko: Yes, that?s right.

John: Yes. So because the cities are more crowded, the houses tend to be smaller, don?t they?

Etsuko: Yes, they are very compact, and we don?t have a lot of space. In big cities we have a lot of taller buildings now.

John: is this a problem because there are more earthquakes in Japan?

Etsuko: Yes, that?s right, and…

Task 3

1)On the evening of February the third, people in Japanese families took one dried bean for each

year of there age, and threw the beans on the floor, shouting “Good luck in! Evil spirits out!”

This was known as “Setsubun”, a time to celebrate the end of winter and the beginning of spring.

2)Before the Chinese Lunar New Year in the old days, many Chinese families burned the picture

of their kitchen god to bring good luck. When Lunar New Year?s Day came, they put a new picture of the kitchen god on the wall.

3)When American women got married, they sometimes followed an old custom in choosing

what to wear on their wedding day. The custom said the bride must wear “something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue”. This was to bring good luck.

4)Before Lent (a time on the Christian calendar), the people of Ponti, Italy ate an omelet made

with 1000 eggs. People could not eat meat, eggs or dairy products during Lent, so they tries to use up these things before Lent began.

5)When winter ended in Czech, the children made a straw man called”Smrt”, which was a

figure of death. They burned it or threw it in the river. After they destroyed it, they carried flowers home to show the arrived of spring.

6)January 17th was St. Anthony?s day in Mexico. It was a day when people brought their animals

to church. But before the animals went into the church, the people dressed them up in flowers and ribbons. This ceremony was to protect people?s animals.

Task 5

Man:Well, I think life used to be much more fun than it is now. I mean, look at the Victorians. They have lots of servants to do all the work; they never had to do any cooking or cleaning; they just wore those beautiful dresses and went to tea parties.

Woman: You must be joking! Their clothes were terribly uncomfortable and their tea parties were very formal and boring. They used to wear their hats and long gloves even when they were eating cakes and biscuits. And men were not usually invited.

Man: Really? Weren?t they?

Woman: And think of the poor servants. What a terrible life- just cleaning and cooking for other people all the time!

Man: But you hate housework!

Woman: Yes, I know, but there are lots of machines now to help you with the housework. People don?t need servants.

Man: Maybe they don?t, but life then was much slower than it is now—people nowadays are always rushing, and they never have time to stop and enjoy themselves.

Woman: Life then was fine for the rich, but it was dreadful for the poor. There was much more illness. they didn?t have the money to pay doctors, and they often used to die of illnesses that don?t exits in England now.

Man: Maybe. But people used to talk to each other, play the piano and play cards together. Nowadays people just sit in front of the television for hours and never talk to each other.

Woman: I agree with you about the television; but what about their children? They left their children with the servants all day. Children hardly ever saw their parents! And the clothes they had to wear! Horrible, tight, uncomfortable, grown-up clothes. Children have a much better life now than they used to, and schools and educations are much better too!

Man: I hate school.

Woman: And look at opportunities for women! In those days, women used to stay at home, play the piano, change their clothes several times a day and have tea parties. What a life! They didn?t have any freedom at all. I?m very happy living now. I can work, have a career, do what I want to.

Man: You mean you can work hard all your life like a Victorian servants.

Woman:life isn?t all tea parties, you know.

Task 6

The American family unit is in the process of change. There used to be two types of families: the extended and the nuclear. The extended family most often included mother, father, children and some other relatives, such as grandparents, living in the same house or nearby. Then as job patterns changed and the economy progressed from agricultural to industrial, people were forced to move to different parts of the country fro job opportunities. These move split up the extended families. The nuclear family became more prevalent; this consisted of only the parents and the children. Now besides these two types of traditional groupings, the word “family”is being expanded to include a variety of other living arrangements.

Today?s family can be made up of divert combinations. With the divorce rate one in two, there is an increase in singe parent home: a father or a mother living with one or more children. “Blended families” occur when previously married men or women marry again and combine the children from former marriage into a new family. On the other hand, some couples are deciding not to have any children at all, so there is an increase in childless families. There are also more people who live alone: single, widowed, divorced. Now one in five Americans lives alone.

Task 7

In Japan both men and women go to university and both men and women study the arts such as history or English. But very few women study science, medicine or engineering. In engineering classes of thirty or forty students, there may be one or two women. Men and women both go to university in order to get good jobs: men want to work in a big company, be successful, earn a lot of money, and support a family; women, on the other hand want to work in a big company because

they have a better chance of meeting a successful men and getting married. This is changing, however, because Japanese women begin to think about their own careers. They have begun to take jobs which they like rather than a job to find a husband.

Men work for their whole lives and usually stay with the same company. A woman may work up to ten years, but after that she usually gets married. Most women are married by the age of twenty seven. Then they stay at home and look after the children. A man does not cook or look at the children. When he comes home, his meal must be ready. The woman may go out in the afternoon, shopping with her friends or having a chat, but she must go back home by 4 o? clock to prepare the meal. Then she may have to wait a long time for her husband to come home. Often he has to go out for a drink after work: if he doesn?t, he may not rise very high in the company. After her children grow up, a woman can go back to work, but it is not easy. If her former company takes older women back, she might be lucky. But most women find it difficult to find a job when they are older.

Task 8

Matthew: how do people set about getting married in England?

Geth: I think the most common way is still for people to go home. For example, people who live in London now will still go back to their homes in the provinces where they?ll meet all their relatives and their parents, and they?ll get married in a church, with the bride wearing white, the traditional white. Then they?ll go off and have a booze-up with their relatives and friends and a jolly good time will be had by all. Otherwise you can get married in a registry office, which means you turn up with your bride-to-be or bridegroom-to-be with two witness only. The ceremony takes about five minutes, I suppose. You sign the form and that?s it.

Matthew: There are many today who say that marriage is a complete waste of time. What?s your view of marriage in the twentieth century?

Geth: Well, I live in London as you know. I think in London the tendency is to…for a …boy and a girl, man or woman to live together before marriage and often to live together without any prospect of marriage at all. I think this probably is…is true of London and the other big cities then elsewhere, because after all people in London are living in a big place where home ties are obviously not restrictive. They can do more or less as they please and I think this is the pattern.

Matthrew: But do you think it helps for people to living together before taking their vows?

Geth:I think in a sense the habit of living together may, in a strange sort of way, make marriage stronger. Because after all the people will know each other better when they do get married and it might be suggested that divorce would be less likely between such a couple.

Matthew: Sue, you?ve been married for two or three years now. how?s it working out?

Geth: I think it is a successful marriage. It?s… I mean, it?s difficult to say why, because we basically suit each other very much. We have a good friendship apart from anything else, and , you know, we just go together very well because we respect each other?s freedom and individuality, but on the other hand we really need each other, you know, it?s …

Matthew: What about … have you thought of having children?

Sue: Well. Obviously like most young couples, we have thought about it, but, you know, we both feel rather, sort of, loath to lose our freedom just yet. I think we?ll probably wait another few years.

Matthew: Is it easy in England today to people to get divorced, or is that quite difficult?

Chris:I think technically it?s probably fairly easy, I think, because I?m not English but I think it?s technically fairly easy to be …to get divorced. But it?s not just the technicality of it which is the problem. Divorce is … is a social stigma which people can probably cope with to varying degrees, but it?s also a lot easier for the man because the woman, after she is divorced is, in fact, frowned upon by…by a lot of people in society. She is …is…at a …a much more difficult social position in terms of …of meeting men, or whatever, simply because she is a divorce.

Task 9

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The important thing to remember about social customs is not to do anything that might make other people feel uncomfortable—especially if they are your guests. There is a story about a rich nobleman who had a very formal dinner party. When the food was served, one of the guests started to eat his peas with a knife. Other guests were amused or shocked, but the nobleman calmly picked up his knife and began eating in the same way. It would have been bad manners to make his guest feel foolish or uncomfortable.

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Unit 6 Task 1 【答案】 A. In the five short advertisements, sofa beds, a women’s magazine, a car buyer’s magazine, a kind of soap and a radio programme on music are advertised. B. 1) a) 2) c) 3) b) 4) d) 5) c) C. 1) T 2) F 3) F 【原文】 1) At Simply Sofabeds at Notting Hill Gate we're lowering our prices—for Christmas. Masses of sofa beds for immediate delivery. We're open six days a week, with viewing on Sunday. So celebrate Christmas early this year with a Simply Sofabeds sofa bed at a price that's right. Simply Sofabeds! 2) Could there really be a woman's magazine that's different? Yes. It's called Prima. It's packed with news, opinion, fashion and once again there's a free giant pull-out section with clothes to make, crafts to create, beautiful sweaters to knit. Get your second, value-packed issue of Prima! 3) Car Buyer magazine. Every Thursday. It gives you a choice of more new and used cars than all of your local papers put together—and for less. Car Buyer for car buyers. At your newsagent's now. 4) Girls! Sensitive skin really does need more sensitive care. And I take special care of my sensitive skin with Cuticura soap. Because Cuticura soap contains a medicated ingredient which cleans your skin without leaving it dry or tight. Cuticura medicated soap. From chemists everywhere. 5) Hello. This is Bob Harris inviting you to join me this Friday and every Friday evening for the LBC "Pop Review". I play the best of the recent releases, review the British and the American charts, play classic music by the big stars and new tracks by the names of tomorrow. So it's a real mix of different styles and I'm sure you'll love the music. I'd certainly love to have your company. This Friday evening at half past nine. Right here on LBC. Task 2 【答案】 A.

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