新编大学、研究生英语视听说教程第五册听力原文Unit_4
山东省高校毕业生-防汛知识
Unit 4
Listen1-1
Steve is
very short and rather fat. He likes to wear
bright-colored casual clothes.
Last week, he
bought a red shirt and an expensive pair of shiny
leather shoes. Every week
Steve spends his
paycheck before he gets another one. Steve enjoys
being with people.
He's extremely cheerful all
the time and likes to tell jokes. People laugh at
his jokes, but
he laughs even louder. He loves
to go to parties. He eats and drinks a lot and is
always
surrounded by people. He likes to dance
and to listen to loud music. At every party he
sings all his favorite songs at the top of his
voice and dances with all the girls in the room.
He's the last one to leave a party. Steve is a
typical extrovert.
Susan is slightly
overweight. She doesn't like the color of her
hair, which is brown.
Every month, she buys a
lot of fashion magazines that show pictures of
slim models
wearing beautiful clothes. Susan
is so busy reading these magazines and watching
her
favorite TV shows that she often forgets
to wash her hair or take care of her clothes.
When she reads the magazines, she eats
chocolate. When she is not watching TV, she
talks for hours on the telephone with her
friends.
Jennifer is the kind of girl
who impresses you at first sight. She has short
hair and
likes to dress herself like a
T-shirt. Adventure stories and romantic love
stories are her favorites, of which she can
cover 200 pages in an hour and retell
everything in vivid detail! As long as Jennifer
can get
a 60 in physics or computer science or
any of the other courses she has little interest
in,
that's all she cares about. She will not
make any effort to get higher marks. Yet, she has
never failed in any courses up to now.
Harry is of medium height and weight. He looks
quite serious with his thick glasses. He
often
gets creative ideas and is not easily convinced.
He's a good student and quite
diligent and
dreams of getting the first prize this semester.
He is usually quiet but is
quite talkative
when it comes to chess and computer programming
and when there are only
one or two friends
around. Once he was heard to say that he would
never fall in love with
any girl until he was
a success.
Listen2-1
Interviewer: Do you
have many friends?
very close to me.
Interviewer: When did you meet this friend and
how did your friendship develop?
Shen Mei: We
met in our first year in senior middle school,
about five years ago.
Xiaoqing and I were in
the same experimental class. We had a lot more
Shen Mei: Yes, I have many friends and
acquaintances but only one of them is
free time than students in the regular
classes, so we did many
interesting things
together.
Interviewer: Do you have any close
friends at the university?
Shen Mei: No, I
think friendship takes time to develop. That's
probably the main
reason why I haven't made
any more close friends here. I'm too busy
studying and going to classes.
Interviewer: Why do you think you became close
friends with that particular girl,
rather than
other girls in your class?
Shen Mei: Well, it
was due to a combination of factors. At the
beginning, we
were both chosen to represent
our class in a speech contest, so we
worked
closely together. Then, I discovered that she was
a very
honest person and I think honesty is a
very important aspect of
friendship.
Interviewer: Were there any other things that
strengthened your friendship?
Shen Mei: Yes.
We were both on the basketball team, so we spent
hours
practising together. Teamwork and
cooperation certainly made us
appreciate each
other even more. We also took part in running
races;
she helped me a lot. She organized a
singing contest and I did a lot of
things for
her. I think helping each other is another
important aspect
of friendship.
Interviewer: Do you still see each other on a
daily basis?
Shen Mei: No, unfortunately we
aren't in the same city now. I passed the
entrance examination, but she failed. We were
terribly sad, at first.
But we are still best
friends and that will never change.
Interviewer: How would you summarize the
difference between a really close
friend and
other friends?
Shen Mei: It's more a question
of being a process. Like a flower, real friendship
grows day by day. It needs many special
ingredients to flourish.
Statements:
1.
Shen Mei doesn't have many friends.
2. When
Shen Mei and Xiaoqing were in the experimental
class, they didn't have much
free time.
3.
It can be inferred that both of them were very
athletic in senior middle school.
4. Xiaoqing
helped Shen Mei to improve her basketball skills.
5. Xiaoqing organized a singing contest and
Shen Mei helped her a lot.
6. They don't see
each other on a daily basis because Xiaoqing is at
another college.
7. They are still the best
friends and will be so forever.
8. According
to Shen Mei, real friendship is like a flower,
which needs many special
ingredients to
flourish.
Mlisten1-1
The
story goes that two friends were walking through
the desert. During some point
of the journey
they had an argument, and one friend slapped the
other one in the face.
The one who got
slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he
wrote in the sand:
They kept on
walking until they found an oasis, where they
decided to take a bath.
The one who had been
slapped got stuck in the mud and started drowning,
but the friend
saved him.
After
he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a
stone:
friend saved my life.
The
friend who had slapped and saved his best friend
asked him,
you wrote in the sand and now you
write on a stone. Why?
The other friend
replied:
sand where winds of forgiveness can
erase it away. But when someone does something
good for us, we must engrave it in the stone
where no wind can ever erase it.
Learn
to write your hurts in the sand and to carve your
benefits in the stone.
They say it
takes a minute to find a special person, an hour
to appreciate them, a day
to love them, but an
entire life to forget them.
Send this
phrase to the people you'll never forget. It's a
short message to let them
know that you'll
never forget them.
Questions:
1. Where did
the story take place?
2. What did the person
do when he got slapped?
3. What did they
decide to do when they found an oasis?
4. What
did the person write when he was saved?
5. How
did the person feel when the other wrote something
on a stone?
Mlisten2-1
There once was a
little girl who had a bad temper. Her mother gave
her a bag of nails and
told her that every
time she lost her temper, she must hammer a nail
into the back of the
fence.
The first day the girl had driven 37 nails into
the fence. Over the next few weeks, as
she
learned to control her anger, the number of nails
hammered daily gradually dwindled
down. She
discovered it was easier to hold her temper than
to drive those nails into the
fence. Finally
the day came when the girl didn't lose her temper
at all.
She told her mother about it and
the mother suggested that the girl now pull out
one
nail for each day that she was able to
hold her temper. The days passed and the young
girl
was finally able to tell her mother that
all the nails were gone.
The mother took
her daughter by the hand and led her to the fence.
She said,
have done well, my daughter, but
look at the holes in the fence. The fence will
never be
the same. When you say things in
anger, they leave a scar just like this one.
You can hurt a person and it won't matter how many
times you say
wound is still there. A verbal
wound is as bad as a physical one. Friends are
very rare
jewels, indeed. They make you smile
and encourage you to succeed. They lend an ear,
they
share words of praise, and they always
want to open their hearts to us.
Mlisten3-1
Part I
Welcome to the Garden of
Friendship. We hope you leave your troubles at the
gate,
and enjoy your stroll through our
garden.
The Garden of Friendship was
planned to bring men and women together on common
ground and to provide a network allowing them
to meet one another. The Garden of
Friendship
reaches out to all corners of the globe, so that
people can come together to
share ideas,
spread joy, support one another, and build
friendships.
Our members come from
every color, race and religion and will be shown
no
discrimination when they walk through the
garden. We stand together and support one
another. We support each other in our causes,
our triumphs and our tribulations, lending a
hand whenever it is needed.
The
Garden of Friendship is blooming with support,
whether you need help with an
idea, praise for
an accomplishment, support through one of life's
hardships, prayers for a
friend or family
member, and so much more. We stand together
showing love and support
for one another
without prejudice. Any member displaying
prejudice, racism, hatred, or
bias will have
their membership revoked immediately.
Mlisten3-2
Part II
Here
is how we define the Garden of Friendship:
G
is for genuineness; the friendship is just about
this
A is for always, always here for you
R is for respect, for you'll find it does
abound
D is for durable; it's always around
E is for everlasting, as friendships should
be
N is for nurturing, for this is the key
O is for outstanding; you'll find this so
true
For friendship makes you smile, when
you are blue
F is for fantastic, the way
you'll always feel
R is for reliable, now
that's a great deal
I is for independence,
'cause we're all unique
E is for equal, in
all we do and speak
N is for necessary,
'cause life without friends
Does not supply
the soul with a purpose to its end
S is for
support, friends always do, you know
H is
for happiness when the friendships grow
I is
for ideas; we share them with each other
P
is for the privilege of knowing one another
Mlisten4-1
Part I
Show me that smile
again
Oh, show me that smile
Don't
waste another minute living on your crying
We're nowhere near the end
We're
nowhere near
The best is ready to
begin
...
Mike: Dad, can I talk to
you as a friend, not as a guy who will make my
life miserable?
Jason: What's wrong, Mike?
Mike: Dad, I gotta know that what I tell you
won't be used against me.
Jason: OK, what is
it?
Mike: OK, so I have your word that
whatever I say you're not going to...
Jason:
Mike, just say it, OK?
Mike: OK. Me and Eddie
and Boner, we ended up at a party where everybody
was
doing, doing cocaine.
Jason: Cocaine?
Mike: Wait, you're not my dad, you're a
friend!
Jason: Cocaine? Really?
Mike: Yeah, and if you didn't do it you
were a wimp.
Jason: Cocaine.
Mike: Dad, I
never felt so much pressure in my life.
Jason:
And?
Mike: And from Boner and Eddie.
Jason: And?
Mike: And it was like I didn't
even have a choice.
Jason: And?
Mike: And
I didn't do it.
Jason: You didn't do what?
Mike: I didn't do the stupid drug.
Jason:
Well, that's great, Mike. That's wonderful. I
always figured that you'd make
the right
choice if you had to face that, and I'm relieved.
Mike: Dad, that's not it.
Jason: What?
Mike: Dad, I've been thinking about this since
the party. Dad, I've been driving and
driving...
Jason: Mike, you did the right
thing.
Mike: Yeah, that's what kills me.
Jason: I don't understand.
Mike: Dad, I
know I did the right thing. It's just that I feel
like everyone's going to
laugh at me. And some
of those people did laugh.
Jason: Well, Mike,
you're not going to be able to please everybody.
Mike: Yeah. Well, tonight I didn't please
anybody.
Jason: Except yourself.
Mike:
Yeah.
Jason: Yeah, what you did tonight took
real courage, Mike. I admire you.
Mike:
Thanks.
Jason: Sleep on it.
Mike: Good
night, Dad.
Jason: Good night, Mike.
Mike:
Thanks, Dad.
Statements:
1. Mike and his
father, Jason, were talking like friends.
2.
It was with Boner alone that Mike went to the
party.
3. Jason felt relieved after hearing
the right choice Mike's friends had made.
4. Mike was laughed at by some people
at the party because he didn't take the cocaine.
5. Jason hopes that Mike could please
everybody.
Mlisten4-2
Part II
Mike:
You know a lot of people tell you that drugs are
cool and they're the same people
who are
saying that everybody is doing something, so
what's your problem? Well,
they're wrong.
Everybody's not doing drugs and you don't have to
do it to be cool.
Look, I'm not telling you
how to live your lives, but I am telling you that
you don't
have to do something you don't want
to do just to keep your friends happy. I mean,
if that's the way that they feel, then
maybe they're not your friends. And maybe
they're not as cool as you thought they were.
And one last thing, I'm not being paid
to say
this. This is how I feel and if you think that
makes me uncool, then you're
wrong.
Quiz1-1
Be a Friend
by Edgar Guest
Be a friend. You don't need
money,
Just a disposition sunny;
Just the
wish to help another
Get along some way or
other;
Just a kindly hand extended
Out to
one who's unbefriended;
Just the will to give
or lend,
This will make you someone's friend.
Be a friend. You don't need glory.
Friendship is a simple story.
Pass by
trifling errors blindly,
Gaze on honest effort
kindly,
Cheer the youth who's bravely
trying,
Pity him who's sadly sighing;
Just
a little labor spend
On the duties of a
friend.
Be a friend. The pay is bigger
(Though not written by a figure)
Than is
earned by people clever
In what's merely self-
endeavor.
You'll have friends instead of
neighbors
For the profits of your labors;
You'll be richer in the end
Than a prince,
if you're a friend.
Quiz2-1
If there
is one old saying that will forever be true, it is
that good friends are hard to
find. Friends
come and go, and very few of them you have right
now will be your friends
ten years from now.
So often, we expect friendships to last forever,
and we get hurt
when they don't. I know I've
spent a lot of time in my life feeling hurt
because people I
thought were good friends
turned out not to be or simply lost touch.
It is hard not to be hurt and when a friend leaves
it feels like a part of yourself has
gone too.
There isn't much you can do to prevent this or
make it feel any better. The best
thing to do
is to try to find friends that you know will be
good friends. Don't just try to
make friends
with every member of a particular group, and don't
make friends because
you are seeking
popularity. The best friendships are based on
common interests and
mutual concern.
It is easy to find a bunch of people to hang out
with and to gossip with or joke around
with.
It is hard to find a true friend. Think about all
of the friends you have right now.
You
probably can't even count them. Now, think about
the people you know that you could
call at
three in the morning to come and get you out of
trouble. I'll bet you can count
those people
on one hand. Those are the friends you need to
hang on to, because in a few
years all of the
others will probably be gone.
Questions:
1. What is the old
saying mentioned at the beginning of the
passage?
2. What do we feel when friendships
don't last forever?
3. How can we avoid
feeling bad when losing friends?
4. What are
the best friendships based on according to the
passage?
5. According to the author,
how many true friends does each
of us have
at most?
Quiz3-1
Mark was walking
home from school one day when he noticed the boy
ahead of him had
tripped and dropped all of
the books he was carrying, along with two
sweaters, a baseball
bat, a glove and a small
tape recorder. Mark knelt down and helped the boy
pick up the
scattered articles.
Since they were going the same way, Mark helped to
carry the burden. As they walked,
he
discovered that the boy's name was Bill, that he
loved video games, baseball, and
history, that
he was having a lot of trouble with his other
subjects and that he had just
broken up with
his girlfriend.
They arrived at Bill's
home first and Mark was invited in for a coke and
to watch some
TV. The afternoon passed
pleasantly with a few laughs and some shared small
talk, then
Mark went home.
They
continued to see each other around school, had
lunch together once or twice.
They ended up at
the same high school where they had brief contacts
over the years.
Finally the long-awaited
senior year came and three weeks before
graduation, Bill asked
Mark if they could
talk.
Bill reminded him of the day years
ago when they had first met.
why I was
carrying so many things from school that
day?
out my locker because I didn't want to
leave a mess for anyone else. I had stored away
some of my mother's sleeping pills and I was
going home to commit suicide. But after we
spent some time together talking and laughing,
I realized that if I had killed myself, I
would have missed that time and so many others
that might follow. So you see, Mark, when
you
picked up my books for me that day, you did a lot
more. You saved my life!
Sview1-1
Scene 1:
In a sports shop
(
It
is Sunday afternoon. Allen and Oliver are looking
for a gift for Allen's
girlfriend,
Pauline.
)
Allen: Oliver, what if I send
Pauline this schoolbag?
Oliver: A good gift.
But... if I were you, I would choose something
different.
Allen: Why?
Oliver: According
to what I hear, girls prefer something romantic.
They would like
boys to send them roses every
day, instead of giving them something more
practical.
Allen: Mm, I see your point.
Did you learn it from your girlfriends on-line?
Oliver: Yes. But I can't remember who, Amy,
Sandy, Rose or Cinderella?
Allen: Yeah, you
are great!
Oliver: Hey, look at that girl! Is
that Wendy? Come on, let's go see her.
(
Allen walks over after Oliver.
)
Hi,
Wendy.
Wendy: Hi, Oliver. I'm so glad to see
you.
Oliver: This is my roommate Allen.
Wendy: Hi, Allen. Nice to meet you.
Allen:
Nice to meet you.
Oliver: (
He notices
Wendy carries a lot of shopping bags and points to
them.
) Why
have you bought so many things?
Wendy: In fact, they're birthday gifts for my
best friends Alice, Lily and Phyllip. Our
friendship has lasted for almost ten years.
You know, I spent the whole day
looking for
the gifts. And I find these—they're perfect. My
friends are going
to be so happy. Actually,
would you be able to give me a hand? I can hardly
take
them back to my dorm.
Oliver: (
He
says hesitantly.
) Oh, well...
Allen:
(
He says joyfully.
) I'd be glad to. We can
carry some of your bags. We don't
charge much.
We charge nothing, don't we? (
He winks at
Oliver and takes some
bags from Wendy.
)
Oliver: Now I find one advantage of having
e-friends, I mean, friends on-line. It's
more
simple. The only thing I need to do with my
friends is to put words into
the computer and
read the reply. I don't have to worry about
whether I have
bought the right gift or
whether I've got enough gifts for all my friends.
Wendy: Maybe that's a good idea. But what's
the point of friendship if friends mean
only a
few images and messages on-line? I'll feel
disappointed if I get nothing
from my friends
in the real world, though I'd admit it's enjoyable
to talk with
them in the chat room.
Allen:
I agree with you, Wendy. Sending gifts is more
than just telling someone that
you like them.
It's a way of saying
Wendy: Wonderful, Allen,
you sound like a philosopher. You expressed
something that
is in my mind but I
can't express myself.
Allen: How about a
coffee?
Oliver: Sounds good.
Scene 2: In a cafe
Wendy: Hi,
Cathy. Didn't you have an appointment with Robin
Hood today? How did it
go?
Cathy:
Couldn't have been worse. I waited for the whole
weekend. He never showed
up. And now all I can
do is wait and wait and wait...
Wendy: Now you
see how unreliable e-friends are. This is what can
be expected from
e-friendships. Oliver, what
do you say?
Oliver: It's not that unusual in
real life. Maybe he's just busy.
Allen: Or
maybe he'll never show up.
Oliver: Cheer up,
Cathy. Why don't you talk to somebody else? You'll
make a better
friend than Robin Hood. I still
say that making friends on-line is the best way.
It never disappoints me.
Wendy: Come on,
Oliver, I don't understand you! Why do you stick
to e-friends so
much?
Oliver: I don't
know. Maybe it's because I'm the only child in my
family. I'm not good
at making friends. I
think that making friends on-line has advantages
over
personal friendships.
Wendy: Really?
I'm all ears.
Oliver: Well, it's easy to find
somebody to talk to in the chat room. If I just
log on and
say hello, there will be a guy who
pops up and enjoys chatting with me and then
we meet from time to time and we become
e-friends. But in real life, according
to my
experience, it's more difficult. Nowadays people
are so busy.
Allen: How can you share
friendships with people you don't know? You can
never know
their... true looks, true names,
backgrounds or even true sexes.
Oliver: I
don't need to know their real life. I just take it
for granted that the
information they give me
is true. It's more fun to keep friends in a
virtual
world. You know, one thing we expect
our friends to do is to listen to our inner
heart. We need other people to share our
happiness, for instance. As you know,
happiness shared is happiness multiplied.
Cathy: I agree with you. We girls like to talk
with others in times of anxiety and
misery.
But of our personal friends, who can always keep a
secret for us? I
would be so embarrassed if
some of my friends revealed my secrets. It could
lead to trouble or even disaster if we chose
to talk to the wrong people.
(
Wendy's
roommate Cathy is browsing the Internet. She is in
low spirits.
)
(
The three of them walk
out of the shop.
)
Oliver: But I'm
happy with my e-friends. It doesn't threaten me if
they talk to other
people. They only know my
e-name, and they don't know anything about my
real life.
Wendy: It sounds plausible. But
don't you think that e-friendships are easy to
break?
Suppose your e-friends disappear from
the chat room, just as your Robin Hood
did,
Cathy, the friendships would be gone without a
trace.
Cathy: I don't think that's a problem.
As a matter of fact, friendships in real life are
no stronger than friendships on-line. What if
you stop writing letters, sending
gifts or
even making calls to each other? Would the
friendship last then?
Wendy: I don't think
friendship will disappear if that kind of thing
really happens, it
only fossilizes. After all,
all the letters and gifts would be there and they
would remind me of the happy moments we once
had.
Allen: In fact, we can call and even go
to visit their house to ask a real-life friend why
they didn't show up. I would be relieved to
know the truth, whatever it was.
Cathy: I
think it's not a real friendship any more if
either person feels uncomfortable
in the
relationship.
Oliver: Yes, I think, in this
sense, e-friendships are likely to be less risky
than
personal friendships. We often find that
friendships become complicated for
many
reasons.
Allen: But to me, it would be awful
if my friends were all
on-line. However
convenient it is, I can't count on them as true
friends.
Wendy: Yes. Remember, Cathy, when you
twisted your ankle last month? What would
have
happened to you without your real friends?
Cathy: Don't get me wrong. Oliver and I just
think that
e-friendships are less risky in
some ways, but we would never suggest that
people give up making real-life friends. Am I
right, Oliver?
...