创新国际英语教程第三册 unit16

[00:05.20]3 And when you can’t answer! [00:13.84]Listen and practise saying the expressions. [00:20.01]1.Sorry,my mind’s gone completely blank. [00:25.44]2.Wait,it’ll come to me in a minute. [00:33.18]3.Wait,it’s on the tip of my tongue. [00:41.64]4.Sorry,I can’t remember off the top of my head. [00:49.08]Pronunciation [01:00.13]Practise saying the questions . [01:04.24]a.Who’s in it? b.What’s it about? c.Where’s it on? d.What’s it like? [01:24.09]e.Who’s it by? f.When was it made? g.Where’s it from? h.What kind of film is it? [01:45.04]2 While you read [01:57.11]TV ROBOCOP NOT VIOLENT ENOUGH FOR VIEWERS [02:02.57]The news that Mary Whitehouse has died at the age of ninety-one [02:10.51]has brought the same kind of opposing reactions [02:14.95]that she provoked when she was alive. [02:18.79]For over thirty years she was the head of the National Viewers’and Listeners’Association, [02:26.36]which she set up in the late sixties. [02:30.13]She formed the organisation along with two other mothers in their mid-forties [02:36.68]to ’protect children from the filth and violence [02:42.25]that is flooding our TV screens and ruining our children’s lives.’ [02:48.49]When if first startd,the NVLA [02:53.35]attracted hundreds of people to the meetings it held round the country, [02:58.52]and the group forced the government and TV companies [03:03.38]to create a nine o’clock watershed, [03:07.32]before which programmes should not contain swearing, [03:12.50]excessive violence or sexual behaviour. [03:17.17]It also corrdinated letter writing and phone campaigns [03:23.34]to complain about certain films and programmes. [03:27.99]A spokesman from the NCLA said, [03:32.53]’It’s very sad that she has died, [03:36.97]but she made a great contribution to his country. [03:41.44]If hadn’t been for Mary Whitehouse, [03:45.49]the quality of TV in this country would be much worse [03:50.92]and the effect on our children would’ve been terrifying.’ [03:55.57]One TV producer said in reply,’I would say that’s rubbish really. [04:02.83]Mrs Whitehouse was just an ultra conservative who didn’t understand art. [04:08.79]She caused a lot of problems for producers of serious drama and, [04:14.35]as a result,she might’ve persuaded some writers [04:19.71]and TV executives not to show one or two things, [04:24.57]but basically life moved on ahead of her. [04:28.93]In the end,we’re adults and we live in a democracy [04:34.21]and we should be able to watch what we like.’ [04:38.05]Raradoxically,a recent incident perhaps proves both sides of argument. [04:45.81]Following the showing of Robocop, [04:50.27]the sci-fi movie best remembered for its comic-book violence, [04:56.20]hundreds of people rang up to complain about it. [05:01.17]However,what offended the audience was the polite language [05:07.02]and the fact that it was not violent enough! [05:11.17]Angry viewers called their local television stations [05:16.84]saying that the TV version had been censored so much [05:21.88]that the film had been ruined. [05:25.43]All the f-words had been over-dubbed and the viilence was so reduced [05:31.49]that at times it was apparently hard to follow the plot. [05:36.04]One man who complained said, [05:40.40]’This is a classic example of over-the-top censorship we constantly get on British TV [05:48.13]because of people like Mary Whitehouse. [05:52.71]When are you going to realise these people are dinosaurs [05:58.16]and let us choose what we want to watch? [06:02.32]The strong public reaction [06:07.07]has actually led TV executives to consider putting back [06:12.11]some of the bad language and violence when it is shown again. [06:16.97]The film,shown last Saturday night at 10.05 pm, [06:22.75]attracted more complaints than any other film this year. [06:28.00]One executive commented that [06:32.25]’one can’t help but notice we’ve maybe taken too much out of a film like Robocop. [06:39.62]Maybe we’ve gone a bit too far this time.’ [06:43.75]Mrs Whitehouse must’ve been turning in her grave. [06:48.82]However,a spokesperson for the NVLA said, [06:54.38]’People who make these kinds of complaints [06:59.06]are only concerned about their own interests [07:03.60]rather than the good fo society as a whole. [07:07.96]Anybody who can’t give up a little bit of film [07:12.54]in order to reduce the current climate of violence [07:17.29]should not be taken seriously

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