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[ti:Unit6 PartC]
[ar:上海外语教育出版社]
[by:上海外语教育出版社]
[00:00.00]Part C
[00:01.96]Additional Listening
[00:03.72]Magic
[00:05.57]Exercise
[00:07.74]Listen to the recording and decide whether the following statements are true or false.
[00:13.65]Write "T" for true and "F" for false.
[00:20.37]In this technological age, television is the stage on which a magician plays to his audience.
[00:25.75]Mastery of this medium is yet one more skill in his ever-changing repertoire.
[00:32.75]Magicians are, after all, the only people allowed to legitimately deceive.
[00:37.18]To do it, they have to be, by necessity, masters of many arts.
[00:42.05]Exploiting the public ignorance of constantly changing technology
[00:46.03]and applying it to the secret world of illusion has been going on for centuries.
[00:59.01]Magicians have ever contrived to make the impossible seem possible.
[01:16.96]Throughout the history of magic,
[01:18.28]many scientific principles have been exploited by the pioneers of magic
[01:22.57]to entertain and mystify their audiences.
[01:31.50]Static electricity, made safe enough to thrill, but not to kill.
[01:37.37]The destructive force of fire,
[01:38.72]tamed by performers who acquired the secret knowledge of fireproofing themselves.
[01:44.40]Incense, flash powder and dry ice,
[01:46.57]even strange gases and narcotics have over the years permeated theatres,
[01:51.87]employed by illusionists eager to create a magical atmosphere.
[01:57.93]Some of the greatest illusions ever seen in magic
[02:00.27]were constructed with a watchmaker's precision,
[02:02.84]in a time long before plastics, carbon fiber and computer-aided design.
[02:08.34]In most people's minds, conjurors are primarily entertainers.
[02:13.44]But as illusion makers, magicians have always been on the cutting edge of technology.
[02:21.50]"Yesterday's magic is the science of today,
[02:24.32]much the way alchemy became chemistry into modern science,
[02:27.75]and the magic of today, perhaps, could be the science of tomorrow."
[02:38.39]Quotations
[02:40.93]Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance
[02:47.53]— William Shakespeare
[02:50.28]Honesty is the best policy – when there is money in it
[02:55.04]— Mark Twain
[02:58.02]Honesty may be the best policy, but it’s important to remember that apparently,
[03:03.13]by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy
[03:08.67]— Gorge Carlin
[03:10.83]Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans.
[03:16.58]It’s the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity.
[03:20.28]But then — we elected them.
[03:23.60]— Lily Tomlin