新编大学英语自主2 Unit 7

[00:00.00] Unit 7:Lesson one Disorders in Society [00:05.98]Practice One Are You a Litter Lout? [00:10.66]Words You Need to Know [00:12.89]litter lout core [00:22.10]volunteer package recycle [00:35.57]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which sentences have been mentioned. [00:44.71]If the sentence is mentioned, write "Y" (Yes). If not, write "N" (No). [00:53.35]Have you ever left an apple core on a bench or wall, or an empty drink bottle sitting by a lamp-post? [01:00.12]And have you ever left your newspaper behind on a train seat when you've finished reading it? [01:05.45]If you answered "Yes" to just one of these questions, then you are a litter lout, according to the Tidy Britain Group. [01:12.90]Litter is a big problem in Britain. This organization is trying to deal with about 6 million tons of litter left on the streets each year. [01:22.40]The aim is "Getting away from litter". Last year 1.6 million volunteers got involved in thousands of events-cleaning up rivers, streets and other areas. [01:34.18]In one place 150 people collected 20 tons of litter in only one morning! [01:40.40]Packaging makes up 60 per cent of litter dropped, and one way of dealing with this is to recycle it. [01:46.96]Bottle banks and litter centers are appearing all over the country, but Tidy Britain says that more are needed and that not enough people use them. [01:56.14]By the way, it appears that more men than women are litter louts. [02:00.67]In 1990, over 2000 men were punished for dropping litter against around 200 women! (203 words) [02:07.58]1)If you answered "Yes" to just one of these questions then you are a litter lout. [02:16.04]2)The country is not going to think about the problem of litter. [02:21.88]3)Six million volunteers got involved in thousands of events-cleaning up rivers, streets and other areas. [02:31.74]4)If you want to recycle the litter, you'll have to have a large bank. [02:38.80]5)Bottle banks and litter centers are appearing all over the country. [02:46.36]6)More louts are needed and not enough people belong to that kind of louts. [02:54.06]7)In comparison, over 2000 men were punished for dropping litter against around 200 women. [03:03.78]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide which of the following are mentioned as litter. [03:13.46]Put a tick ( ) beside it. [03:15.88]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and answer the following questions briefly. [03:26.14]1)What are you called if you have left litter around? [03:31.32]2)What is the organization of "The Tidy Britain Group" trying to do? [03:39.31]3)How many volunteers joined in the events? [03:43.74]4)What did the volunteers do in the event? [03:48.06]Practice Two Does Anyone Care? [03:53.17]Words You Need to Know [03:55.40]psychology incident metro [04:10.63]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions. [04:22.04]In 1985 a French television company sent its reporters to the Paris Metro. [04:29.71]They took cameras to see what passengers would do if they saw someone attacked on the platform or trains. [04:37.60]The incidents looked real but they were all done with the help of actors. [04:42.64]However, very few people tried to help,and most passengers pretended not to notice. [04:49.98]In one incident, a foreigner was attacked by three men. [04:54.88]The attack was on a train which was quite full, and although one man tried to get the other passengers to help, [05:02.29]they all refused. This is not only a French problem. [05:08.16]A British newspaper reported in 1991 that a professor of Social Psychology in New York had sent his students out to rob their own cars. [05:21.52]The students didn't try to hide what they were doing. [05:25.51]About 800 people watched 250 car thefts, and only twelve people tried to stop the student robbers. [05:34.84]In a typical incident, one man stopped, looked, and then put his hands over his eyes and shouted "I didn't see that!" [05:44.84]About forty people offered to help the thieves, and two people actually sat down next to the car and waited to buy a camera and television set a student was taking from the back seat of his own car. [06:00.54]The professor wonders whether it's a problem of big cities, or would the same thing happen anywhere. (234 words) [06:08.71]1)Who carried out the experiment on the platform and trains? [06:13.90]2)How could the incidents be described? [06:19.08]3)Why didn't passengers help those being attacked? [06:24.01]4)What did 40 people do when the cars were robbed? [06:28.87]5)What is the conclusion we can get from the passage? [06:33.84]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again. Fill in the numbers to show whether the following expressions are mentioned in the first experiment ( ) or the second experiment ( ) . [06:49.21]Practice Three Changes in the World [06:54.18]Words You Need to Know [06:56.12]terrorist hostage hijack violate starve [07:19.92]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). [07:31.66]Many people say the world is becoming a more dangerous place. [07:36.37]In almost every area of the world, something bad is happening. [07:40.87]Many countries are having political problems. Some are fighting wars with their neighbors. [07:47.17]In others, people are making trouble against their own government and fighting wars. [07:53.62]Terrorists are taking hostages and hijacking planes to make demands on their government or on the government of another country. [08:02.29]Some countries are violating the human rights of some of their citizens. [08:06.76]People in those countries as well as in other countries are against the government. [08:12.26]Besides political problems, there are also economic problems. [08:17.41]In some countries, there is not enough food, and people are starving. [08:22.67]In others, such as the US, unskilled workers are losing their jobs as technology keeps increasing. [08:30.41]There are also many social problems. In the US, for example, more and more people are getting divorced, [08:38.72]and children are growing up in single-parent families. [08:42.61]Many young women are having babies without getting married. [08:46.32]More and more young people are using drugs. (172 words) [08:49.74]1)Some countries are fighting against their neighbors. [08:55.07]2)There are no wars in any countries so far. [09:00.58]3)Some terrorists are threatening the governments. [09:05.87]4)In advanced countries, technology is taking away some people's jobs. [09:12.64]5)The US divorce problem causes many children to live in single-parent families. [09:20.81]6)Some people take drugs because they are having more babies. [09:26.64]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly. [09:36.65]1)How many general kinds of problems are mentioned in the passage? [09:42.98]2)In some countries, what are people doing to their own government? [09:49.32]3)Under economic problems, how many phenomena have been mentioned? [09:56.63]4)In social problems, who have more troubles, middle-aged people or young people? [10:04.69]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and write down the summary of the passage. [10:15.85]Lesson Two Theft [10:19.52]Pracitice One Types and Characteristics of Shoplifters Words You Need to Know [10:27.26]shoplifter kleptomaniac impulse [10:42.28]disturb cosmetics journalist [11:00.10]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the interview and answer the following questions briefly. [11:09.89]I:Is there such a thing as a typical shoplifter? [11:12.98]D:Uh, not really... But there are certain types most shoplifters fall into. [11:18.49]Three types, I would say. [11:20.51]I:Tell me more about these three types. [11:22.88]D:Well... uh... people in the first type are what I call "the sudden impulse type". [11:29.00]Doctors and psychologists call such people kleptomaniacs. [11:33.54]They see something and just can't... uh... help stealing it. [11:37.86]The strange thing about this first type is that the people in it are often well off and could easily afford to buy the thing. [11:46.50]Sometimes they don't even need it... and often they're emotionally disturbed in some way... middle-aged women, [11:53.52]for example, whose husbands have left them, or perhaps older men whose wives have recently died. [11:59.96]I:What about the second type? [12:01.76]D:Well, those are people who are really... uh... "little thieves". [12:06.52]They work alone, and know exactly what they want before they go into the store. [12:12.02]These days a lot of them, but by no means all, are teenagers who steal things they can't afford. [12:19.04]Leather jackets. Watches. Expensive cosmetics. Things like that. [12:23.83]I:And the third type? What kind of people do you find in the third type? [12:28.19]D:Ah, yes, they're what I call "the experts". [12:32.72]I:Why? [12:33.77]D:Well, first of all, because they're highly organized. [12:37.73]And secondly because they do it for a living. [12:41.44]They usually operate in groups of three or sometimes four, and they're extremely difficult to catch. [12:49.14]I:Can they make a lot of money that way? [12:51.26]D:Oh, yes. Yes, they're very well off, believe me... much better off than a store detective... or even a journalist! (274 words) [12:59.80]1)How many types of shoplifters are mentioned in the conversation? [13:05.66]2)Among the three types of shoplifters, who can be found out least easily? [13:12.68]3)Among the three types of the shoplifters, who are most probably the youngest? [13:19.74]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen closely to the interview again and fill in the diagram below with the information from it. [13:31.01]Practice Two An Unlucky Robber [13:35.18]Words You Need to Know [13:37.09]cashier slide crawl [13:48.79]get to one's feet Milan [13:59.48]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and put a tick ( ) to the sentences that have been mentioned in the passage. [14:11.08]In September 1979, Carlo Colodi parked his car outside a bank in Milan, Italy, [14:19.18]and then rushed inside with a big handkerchief hiding his face and a gun in his hand. [14:25.15]Hitting his foot on the corner of the carpet, he sild across the smooth floor. [14:30.80]His handkerchief dropped off, showing his face, and as he fell, he by chance fired his gun, which hit no one. [14:40.20]Getting to his feet in a hurry, he ran to the cashier's desk, [14:44.84]started to fall again, and seized a counter to keep his balance. [14:50.39]At that time he dropped his gun, and the whole bank rocked with laughter. [14:56.11]Annoyed, the man turned, ran, slipped again, and finally crawled out of the bank. [15:04.07]Outside he found a police officer writing out a ticket for his car, which was parked in a noparking area. (140 words) [15:12.96]1)Carlo Colodi rushed inside with a handkerchief hiding his fact. [15:19.51]2)He jumped into the car and drove away. [15:24.41]3)He took up the money and fell. [15:28.80]4)The robber by chance fired his gun. [15:33.30]5)He rocked the whole bank. [15:37.84]6)He crawled out of the bank. [15:41.98]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and put serial numbers in brackets, according to the order of the content in the recording. [15:54.58]Practice Three The Magnificent Powder [15:58.68]Words You Need to Know [16:00.77]powder paralyze boast figure [16:16.18]Ibadan Nigeria Tommy Lucas [16:28.67]Exercise 1:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions. [16:39.50]My father old me this story. It happened at a place called Ibadan, in Nigeria. [16:48.94]Nowadays Ibadan is a big, important city, but at that time it was still quite small. [16:55.38]The few Europeans working there lived in houses built close together in a suburb of the town. [17:02.65]In the evening the Europeans used to meet for a talk or a game of tennis at the club. [17:09.82]It so happened that during the three or four months before a number of robberies had taken place, [17:17.09]All the people robbed were white and in each case they told a similar tale. [17:22.78]They had woken during the night and seen silent, dark figures moving about, but they were unable to move or give the alarm. [17:31.88]In the morning when they awoke, they found that valuable things had disappeared. [17:38.08]All kinds of suggestions were put forward, and the most popular theory was that the thieves were using some form of African drug, [17:47.29]which had the effect of paralyzing the people for some time, so that they were aware of things happening, [17:54.82]but unable to move or speak. It was thought that this drug was blown into the bedroom through a tube in the form of a fine powder which the sleeper breathed in. [18:05.15]A young man called Tommy Lucas listened carefully to the conversation. [18:09.94]He had only recently arrived from England, while my father and some of the older members had been living in Africa for 20 years or more. [18:19.98]"I'd like to see any African drug paralyze me with magnificent power," boasted Tommy Lucas. [18:26.93]"I always sleep with a loaded gun on my bedside table and I wouldn't hesitate to use it, I can tell you." [18:33.66]There was a moment of silence. Everyone looked at him. [18:38.02]"You haven't been in Africa very long, have you, Tommy?" asked one of the older members, quietly. [18:45.18]On Saturday evening there was a party at the club and everyone went home rather late. [18:51.12]So my father was surprised to be woken about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning by a gentle knock at his bedroom door. [18:59.08]Ade, his African servant, stood there with an amused smile on his face. [19:06.17]He asked my father to follow him out into the morning sunshine. There, in the middle of the road, [19:12.97]was Tommy Lucas, fast asleep in his bed. Beside him, on his bedside table, lay his gun. (402 words) [19:28.13]1)What do we know about the city of Ibadan when the story happened? [19:34.36]2)What happened in the story? [19:38.53]3)What was true about the incidents? [19:43.10]4)What do you know about the young man Tommy Lucas? [19:48.54]5)Who proved that Tommy Lucas was wrong? [19:53.58]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F). [20:05.71]1)The Africans liked to tell a similar tale. [20:10.25]2)The Africans disliked the Europeans. [20:14.14]3)The speaker's father had lived in Africa for at least 20 years. [20:20.11]4)On that Sunday morning the weather was fine. [20:24.83]5)Tommy Lucas was carried out of his bedroom. [20:29.62]6)Ade turned out to be the thief.

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