现代大学英语听力4 UNIT3
玛丽莲梦兔
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2020年07月30日 17:00
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Task 2:
【答案】
A.
TimetName of the ProgrammetContenttChannel
7:15tAuthors NowtInterview with Pat EllisontRadio 3
7:45t
Mystery HourtThe second episode of Charles Richards' exciting thriller She Died on Mondayt
Radio 2
8:00tMonday concerttClassical music of Beethoven and BrahmstRadio 3
8:50tPostbagtOpinions of the audiencetRadio 3
10:30tBedtime Reading
BooktPat Ellison's most famous novel A Cousin from Birmingham will be read by Catherine Jeavons.t
Radio 4
From 11:30 p.m. onwards
tomorrow nightt
Swing the Day
AwaytCaroline Peel will be playing some of the records the audience have requested for relatives and triends.t
Radio 1
B.
1) c
2) b
3) d
4) b
5) d
【原文】
Announcer:
The time now is 5:52 and in 3 minutes here on Radio 4 we have the weather forecast followed at 6 o'clock by the news, which means we have time for a look at programmes for this evening and for the week ahead with Bernard Mitchell.
Bernard Mitchell:
For classical music lovers, tonight's Monday concert on Radio 3 will be broadcast live from the Royal Festival Hall and includes works by Beethoven and Brahms, starting at 8 o'clock. In the interval, Peter Simpson will be giving some of your opinions on radio programmes in "postbag" at 8:50. Fans of the writer Pat Ellison may be interested to know that she's being interviewed on tonight's edition of "Authors Now" at 7:15 on Radio 3 prior to our concert. Pat Ellison's most famous novel A Cousin from Birmingham is also our "Bedtime Reading Book", starting tonight at 10:30 after the news on Radio 4, and will be read by Catherine Jeavons.
In "Mystery Hour" on Radio 2 starting at 7:45 you can hear the second episode of Charles Richards' exciting thriller She Died on Monday and that's followed by another edition of "Sports Desk" which will bring you an up-to-the-minute report of tonight's Portugal versus England match, as well as details of all today's other main sporting events.
Those of you who enjoyed last month's programme "The Animals Came to Tea" on Radio 2 and would like to hear it again, or may have missed the broadcast altogether, may like to know that we are repeating the programme on Radio 4 on Thursday morning at 10:15. In case you don't already know, naturalist and explorer David Woods recounts some of his experiences in the Amazon jungle.
If you fancy a little late-night music, you can "Swing the Day Away" with Caroline Peel on Radio 1 from 11:30 p.m. onwards tomorrow night, when she will be playing some of the records you have requested for relatives and friends. Also for pop music lovers, most of Tuesday evening on Radio 1 will be devoted to a rock concert recorded last week in the Albert Hall, f
eaturing many well-known groups, and that will start at 7:30.
If you are thinking of buying a home computer in the near future, in "Watchout" this Friday on Radio 4 at 10:45, Michael Sharp will be delving into this world of microtechnology and giving listeners advice on all the latest models available and what to look out for.
And now back to you, Evelyn.
Task 3:
【答案】
1) Yes, but it doesn't exist the same as it used to. It was totally based on the star system before. And now, it is more a matter of the talent and the people that would live to have the exposure.
2) a) They live in a totally different life style than they used to.
b) They work in different motion pictures, but are not necessarily contracted to a studio. So the studios don't have as many contract players now as they used to have.
3) Not as much importance has been placed on the star career of the actors and actresses as there used to be, because their career now can rise and fall with a season on television. It rose and fell with almost their entire lifetime with the studio before.
【原文】
Interviewer: There's an image of Hollywood around the world...
Mickennon: Uh-hmm.
Interviewer: Is that uh...image - does it exist anymore?
Mickennon: Not as much as it used to.
Interviewer: All the glamour and the rest of it?
Mickennon: I don't think it exists the same as it used to. Uh...it was based on the star system so
totally before. And now, it is more a matter of uh...the talent, and the people and the
uh...exposure of uh...those that would like to have the exposure.
Interviewer: What has happened to Hollywood actors and actresses then? Obviously, they're still
making motion picture material for television. Bat it's almost like a different medium, isn't it?
Mickennon: Well, they like in a different life style—totally different life style that they used to. It
used to be they all lived in fabulous mansions, and they had all kinds of uh...servants
and that sort of thing. Uh...and their uh...their car status, and their...their beach home
status...
Interviewer: Uh-huh...
Mickennon: ...and uh...their status with the studio. It...it no longer is a matter of...
Interviewer: It's just different...
Mickennon: ...what studio you're with. It's a matter that you're working in this picture or that
picture, but not necessarily contracted to studio. They don't have as many contract
players now as they used to have.
Interviewer: But is it that there is not the need to create as much of an image or something with
the television era as it was with motion pictures? Because a lot of the -
Mickennon: I don't think as much importance has been placed on their... their star career as there
used to be. Because uh...their careers now can rise and fall with a season on
television...
Interviewer: Uh-huh.
Mickennon: But it rose and fell with almost their entire lifetime with the studio before...
(To be continued)
Task 4:
modern musical show is America's most original and dynamic contribution to world theater. Certainly in the last quarter of a century, America has produced a spate of musical plays that have been phenomenally popular abroad as well as at home. Yet it is very difficult to explain what is new or characteristically American about them, for the ingredients are centuries old. For hundreds of years, drama and dance, music and verse have been combined in different ways to compose grand and light operas, operettas, musical reviews, and musical comedies.
Perhaps the uniqueness of America's contribution to the genre can best be characterized through brief descriptions of several of the most important and best-known musicals. One of these is surely "Oklahoma!" by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein. When "Oklahoma!" burst into popularity in 1943, Broadway audiences and critics were struck by its originality, vitality, and excitement. This “new” type of musical was conceived as a kind of total theater which the play (or "book"), the music and lyrics, the dancing, and the scenic background were assembled not merely to provide entertainment and variety, but to share intimately in a single unifying concept. This meant that the play or story that provides the structure of the piece must be itself an interesting and cogent drama, not merely a skeleton on which to hang a series of unrelated songs and dances and jokes. It also meant that the songs and dances should arise (or seem to arise) naturally out of the situations of the story and should not interrupt the action but carry it forward. At last dancing had become more than an extra and entertaining frill, it had become a partner of equal importance. The choreographer of Oklahoma!, Agnes de Mille, was given free reign to create the dances in an American folk-dance style expanded by all the virtuosity of classical ballet and modern dance. The result was a brilliantly integrated performance by the talented dancers and singing actors.
Oklahoma! also marked a new direction in the choice of story on which a musical is based. No longer were writers and composers content with a simple love story in a sentimentally picturesque or aristocratic setting. After Oklahoma! most musicals were based on plays or novels that had already proven themselves and that contained more realistic stories of young love in authentic social and cultural contexts. "Oklahoma!" itself was based on Lynn Rigg's successful and esteemed "folk play" Green Grow the Lilacs; its story dealt not only with the vicissitudes of young love, but also with opening of the American West.
As in all genres, the musical has had its share of failures. Some worthy dramas have been pressed into service and musicalized and sometimes butchered in the process, and audiences have had to watch a fine play diluted into a mediocre musical. But the successes have been many and spectacular. Musicals such as My Fair Lady (1956), based on Shaw's delightful Pygmalion, h
Toby: With deference to Rick's youth and my advanced age, perhaps he just needs a stronger dose of blood and thunder before he'll respond to a plot.
Penny: I'm inclined to support you there, Toby.
Luke: And back to you, Rosie. Any more comments about the music?
Rosie: Considering Rick is so exposed to the pop environment, it's rather refreshing that he enjoyed the soundtrack with all those singing violins.
Rick: Now just a minute, Rosie! Surely someone in your position ought to have a little more respect for the sociological trends of the youth of today!
Rosie: Now that's totally unfair, Rick, because I happen to like...
Luke: Ahem, we... before we come to blows, perhaps we should move on to something that's more in Rick's line the new disc that's just been released by Dead-Eye Dick and the Grim Den featuring the hit single that's rapidly moving to the top of the charts, called Motive for Melancholy.
Task 7:
【答案】
A.
1) c
2) d
3) a
B.
1) F
2) F
3) T
C.
landscapes，portraits，take notice，soul
【原文】
Rick: Actually, Luke, it's Dead-Eye Dan, and for anyone who's interested, the name of the album is The Den Depressed.
Rosie: May I get a word in here?
Luke: By all means, Rosie...
Rosie: Just because I happen to be over 30, it doesn't mean I'm automatically excluded from appreciating the pop scene.., and I think this group has got a lot going for it. The lyrics have a message which can appeal to a wide age range, and the music—when it isn't at a deafening volume—gets through to your soul.
Rick: Nice one, Rosie!
Luke: Any other comments? Toby?
Toby: Well, I'm afraid this music isn't really what I'd choose to listen to. However, for the sake Of this programme I must admit I tried to sit through it. But the.., words certainly didn't manage to—what was it you said, Rosie?
Rosie: Penetrate your soul.
Toby: Precisely. The words didn't quite manage to penetrate my soul.
Rick: That's probably because it's buried under too many layers of conventionality! Look, Toby—these guys have got a message they're trying to get across, and it's not only to young people: Anyone can suffer from depression these days. It's not a monopoly of youth!
Luke: Er, now I think it's time we moved on to the exhibition that's now on at the Moore An Gallery featuring artists and sculptors born after 1950. Penny...
Penny: To tell the truth, I went expecting to see a lot of paintings in the pop style that could have been produced by a chimpanzee—you know the sort of thing—a huge white canvas with a black blob in the middle.
Rosie: And probably titled Black Blob on White!
Penny: Yes, that's it exactly, Rosie. Well, I was certainly in for a surprise—no black blobs, no plastic pizzas, no old car parts wired together. The whole exhibit was bright and cheerful and you could actually... 1 suppose "understand" is the right word. Yes, you could actually understand what the artists were depicting.
Rosie: Mmm. It did make a welc
ome change from some of the rubbish that gets passed off as an these days. There was a real sensitivity in the paintings, especially those by the German artist, Nico Rocholl.
Penny: Yes, his landscapes were beautiful and his portraits had an ethereal quality. They really made me stop and take notice. They got to my soul, as the saying goes.
Rosie: Well, Toby, did they get through to your soul?
Toby: Indeed, for me the sculptures were quite exquisite. That Scottish girl—er, Nora Comer, her name was—has considerable talent and her marble animals, especially tile cats, were most attractive. But what really caught my eye 'were the bronze works by Charles Vernon—English I believe. He... his appreciation of anatomy is superb, and the faces particularly were, splendid so evocative and reflecting the total expression of the bodies.
Luke: Any comments, Rick?
Rick: I'm afraid I'll have to pass on this one as I didn't have time to see it. But I'll definitely pop in next week. But returning to Penny's comments about chimpanzees and art, 1 think that if the public and the galleries are crazy enough to pay through the nose for creations done by chimps, or cats, or whatever, then we ought to be giving art grants to zoos! It's the gallery directors and the public who are conned by some critics into thinking that this stuff is great!
Rosie: Hear! Hear! You're absolutely right!
Rick: Well, maybe it can be called art but it certainly isn't worth thousands of dollars if a monkey splashes paint on a canvas!
Luke: Er, um, we're getting a bit sidetracked here... And now, looking at the clock, there's just time to give you a quick rundown of next week's topics. We'll be discussing the all-Beethoven concert at the Symphony Hall, the exhibition of old coins and stamps at the Antiques Museum, the new production of the well-loved opera Flora Fidelis—the one that's been such a success in Paris and opens here tomorrow at the Opera House—and also the TV programme that everyone's on about—Astra on Astrology. All those are in store for you next week. And now I'd like to thank our panel for their stimulating comments.
Rosie: Not at all.
Penny: Pleasure.
Toby: You're welcome.
Luke: And to our listeners, I hope you'll tune in again next week at the same time for another interesting and perhaps controversial discussion on "Arts Review".
Task 8:
【答案】
A.
1) a
2) c
3) c
4) b
B.
1) Health and love, crime, secrets from the past are some of the subjects that readers in the United States currently like best.
2) The South Beach Diet suggests ways that people can get thinner while still eating foods they like best.
3) Phillip McGraw is a mental health specialist and television personality known as Doctor Phil. His book is called The Ultimate Weight Solution. It offers seven ways to lose weight.
4) This is a storybook for children aged four to eight, and deals with feelings and emotions.
5) The books get their name from the traditional idea that
up for the Soul. Since then there have been many other books. They have names like Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul and Chicken Soup for the Cat & Dog Lover's Soul.
Thirty publishers had rejected the first "Chicken Soup" book before it was finally printed. Today, about eighty million of these books have been printed in North America. And Chicken Soup books have been translated from English into thirty-five other languages.
Mystery and horror stories by Steven King have also sold millions of copies. Some of his most famous—and most frightening—books are Carrie, The Shining, and The Green Mile. These and many others have been made into films.
Task 9:
【答案】
A.
1) Oprah Winfrey started her book club in the late 1990s.
2) During the first years of her club, Ms. Winfrey often picked books that had not gained huge public interest. Now she is choosing books from the past.
3) East of Eden explores family relations over a long period of time. The story uses themes similar in some ways to the biblical story of the brothers Cain and Abel.
4) Cry the Beloved Country tells what happens when a black clergyman goes to Johannesburg to find his son.
5) a) Book clubs have blossomed in recent years.
b) The publishing industry itself has changed. Many small, independent book sellers are struggling to survive. There are now huge book stores owned by a few national companies.
c) Buyers can also order books through the Internet.
6) One thing that has not changed is that people can still borrow books from their local public library.
B.
1) F
2) T
3) T
【原文】
In recent years, Oprah Winfrey and her television talk show have greatly influenced reading in America. Mizz Winfrey started a nationwide book club in the late nineteen-nineties. She suspended it for awhile. But now she is again helping Americans find what she believes is the best literature.
Oprah Winfrey chooses a book she likes. She announces her choice on her show from Chicago. Then she asks people to read the book. During the first years of her club, Mizz Winfrey often picked books that had not gained huge public interest. That would immediately change, once the books became choices of Oprah's Book Club.
Now Oprah Winfrey is choosing books from the past. For example, she suggests that club members read East of Eden, by the American author John Steinbeck. This huge novel explores family relations over a long period of time. The story uses themes similar in some ways to the biblical story of the brothers Cain and Abel.
Alan Paton was a white man. He was born in South Africa in nineteen-oh-three. He worked as director of a corrections center for boys, where he made many reforms. He opposed colonialism and apartheid, the former system of racial separation in South Africa.
A number of other television programs besides Oprah also have book clubs that reach millions of people. But there are thousands of small book clubs across the country. Members of these discussion groups may
gather in homes, libraries, offices or religious centers. Some meet in eating and drinking places. Members of book clubs may read classics like The Odyssey of Homer. They may read poetry, or mystery stories, or love stories. Or, they may read books about politics and current events. There are also books that offer directions for book clubs.
Book clubs are not the only big development in recent years. The publishing industry itself has changed. Many small, independent book sellers are struggling to survive. There are now huge book stores owned by a few national companies. Buyers can also order books through the Internet. One thing that has not changed, though, is that people can still borrow books from their local public library.
Book clubs are more than just reading groups. They are social groups, too. Many book club members become friends. They discuss their families and jobs as well as the books they read.
The meetings let people learn what other readers are thinking. As one book club member says, "It is very satisfying to talk about what you read with good friends."
Task 10:
【原文】
When Superman burst onto the scene sixty years ago there had never been a character quite like him, and he remains unique today. The innumerable imitators who followed in his wake have acknowledged his primacy by taking on the title of super hero, but Superman did more than start the trend that came to define the American comic book. His influence spread throughout all known media as he became a star of animated cartoons, radio, recordings, books, motion pictures, and television, while his image appeared on products ranging from puzzles to peanut butter. He is perhaps the first fictional character to have been so successfully promoted as a universal icon, yet he also continues to remain a publishing phenomenon whose adventures appear in no less than five monthly comics magazines.