展望未来英语教程第四册Unit10-unit11
Unit 9 Exericse 9 and 10,
the reporter is finding out what the members of the public think about the good news the debate,
answer the questions in your students book.
INT:Excuse me,sir.I'm doing a survey on behalf of local radio.
Would you mind telling me what you think about the good news,bad news debate?
MAN:Not at all,you mean that Martyn Lewis thing,I suppose?
INT:Yes,that's right.
MAN:Actually,I think he has got a point.
Well,it's all rather depressing really,isn't it?
The new I mean.Martyn Lewis is right about all the bad news that seems to be on TV all the time.
I think there should be more,you know,happy,em,optimistic things.
INT:Can you give me an example?
MAN:Well,for instance,in my village--it's just small you know--but a group of people,
mostly schoolchildren,raised ￡10,000 for a maternity hospital,but nobody came to report that.
Yet when there was a hold up at the bank,
you know when it was robbed,the place was full of reporters....
INT:So what you're saying is that there should be a focus on the positive rather than the negative.
MAN:Yes,and to a certain extent it's up to you,
you know,radio and TV journalists,to select these items.
8.Listen and answer the questions in your students book.
Get in!
We have reason to believe that you have been in that cafe with a stolen camera.
If my mother sees you,you'll be in terrible trouble.
Can we drop you back where we first found you,sir?
11.Listen to these messages and make notes.
This is the'Retina'photographic agency.
There is nobody here to answer your call at the moment but we will contact you as soon as the office re-opens on Monday
Please leave your message,with the date and the time of your call,
after the beep,and please speak clearly.
This is Maggie Page here with a message for Barry.
I have to cancel the session on Wednesday,
as the model we wanted to use is sick.I'll be in touch about a later date.
2.Barry,this is Paul Ryan.Can we do the Vermini fashion shoot in Jamaica?
We'd get just the right kind of light and colour.Let me know.
3.This is for Michaela Brown from Jenny Lewis of the picture agency.
Michaela,please don't send the pictures by post.
Will you deliver them by hand?We'll pay the extra.Thanks.
Hello.You know who this is.
Those pictures you took of the meeting the other day,
if you send them,you'll have a very bad accident!
This is Mandy Stringer's secretary from Disco World.
The photographs we need haven't arrived yet.Have you sent them?
If we don't get them by 12.00 on Monday,
they won't get into this month's magazine.
This is Julius Maxwell for Michaela Brown.Michaela.
I'm not going to pay for the pictures you took last week.
The lighting is all wrong.They look terrible and I'm afaid I just can't...
2.Carole talks about her job.
Listen and answer the questions in your students book.
I think I enjoy the unpredictability of it.
I think I enjoy the fact that even if I'm having a rather boring day in the office,
things can happen very suddenly and I can be travelling somewhere halfway round the world.
I think also you get,if you like,a front row seat on events which are shaping history,
world events of enormous importance and a chance to actually be there
when those events are happening and to talk to the people who are making history is,is an extraordinary opportunity.
3.Carole describes the routine of making a news item.Listen and check your answers.
Basically,the way we normally work is I will go out with a camera crew to film interviews,
street scenes,pictures of the disaster,
pictures of people shooting at one another,whatever it may be.
We take the pictures back and I'll work with an editor and record my voice track;
the editor will put together the pictures,
perhaps an excerpt of an interview and that basic process is the same whether
I'm reporting on a British Rail story in London or a war anywhere overseas.
4.Carole talks about the'art'of reporting.
Well,the difficulties vary according to what the story is and where the story is.
Often it's a case of battling against the authorities who don't want you to find out what you want to find out.
I think that to avoid bias what you have to do is to stand back a little bit,
to try and approach everything that anybody says to you with a certain degree of scepticism,
and to try wherever possible to check it out and to get the other point of view,
and not to necessarily believe everything people tell you,
to always be aware that they may very well have a,
a hidden agenda behind what they're telling you and they may be exaggerating,
em,something for a political reason.
6.Listen to Carole's report about the crash of a cargo plane close to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport.
Answer the questions in your students book.
Workers at the site of the crash found the flight data recorder buried
beneath the collapsed concrete of the apartment block.
It is severely damaged and burned and has been taken to the Farnborough
Accident Investigation Centre to be examined by specialists.
The cargo plane's full load of fuel kept the huge fire burning here for
three hours--the flight date recorder is designed to withstand only about half an hour of intense heat.'
One senior Dutch air traffic controller had plotted the entire route of the plane.
He was able to tell me at exactly what time the pilot had maydayed the emergency,
he told me exactly the advice he'd given to the pilot,
he told me what the pilot had done to try to avert the crash
and he told me why the plane had actually crashed where it had.
Air traffic controllers have already given crash investigators
some details of that final flight,number LY 1862,which lasted less than 15 minutes.
At 6,000 feet as it headed out along the coast,
the pilot put out a mayday call reporting fire in the number 3 engine.
The radar map charts his downward spiral,
circling twice as he struggled to control the plane.'
The mayor gave a press conference and we asked why,
for example,initially the death toll had been put at,in excess of 200,
it was later revised to about 80 and the mayor said that it was
because it was very difficult to have accurate records in that area
where there was a large and partly illegal immigrant community.
Unit 10 2.Margaret Green talks about the tastes of British people.
Listen and answer the questions in your students book.
MARIA:So,is it true,Margaret,that English people prefer old things to new ones?
MARGARET:I suppose so.The English are very fond of traditions
and institutions like the monarchy.
MARIA:I wasn't really thinking about that,
I was thinking more about houses and objects and things.
MARGARET:Ah,right,sorry.Well,
I suppose it depends what kind of old thing you are talking about.
I think it's true,by and large,that English people would always prefer
to live in an old house with an established garden than somewhere newer.
I'll never forget when I lived abroad once I happened to tell someone
that I lived in a house that was over a hundred years old and the other person's reaction was'Oh,poor you,'
whereas it was actually something I was quite proud of.
Yes,on the whole I think that the English do prefer older things.
They'd rather have antique or good second-hand furniture than something modern.
MARIA:Why do you think that is the case?
MARGARET:Well,for a start,
a lot of people feel that old stuff was much better made than its modern equivalent;
it also goes better with older style houses.
They think that lots of modern furniture is poorly made and,quite frankly,rubbish.
MARIA:And does this extend to other things?Like cars for instance?
MARGARET:Oh no,not really,not unless you're talking about a car which has become a classic,
you know a vintage Rover or MG.
No,quite the reverse is true.
In England people have an unhealthy obsession with the registration number of their car.
MARIA:What do you mean?
MARGARET:Well,in August of each year there's a new letter before the number on the registration plate.
For example,my car is an M registration,which means it was made in 1994.
There's a lot of snobbery attached to having really recent letter on your number plate!
Probably the first thing an English person would do if they had a lot of money
would be to buy a brand new car and drive it round so that everyone could see it!
MARIA:That's strange.
But there's something else I really wanted to ask you.
It's rather sensitive actually,
I've noticed that English people tend to wear old-fashioned and sometimes rather scruffy clothes.
This would be impossible in my country.
MARGARET:Hm.Yes,I suppose you're right.
English people generally don't care that much about fashion.
Some people are even quite proud of the fact
that they find their clothes in second-hand shops and jumble sales!
I guess that this is mainly because in England what really counts
is not what you wear but your background and your social class.
You know,in some countries you might be judged by how much money you have and the way you dress.
While this is,of course,true of England too,
people think of education and background as being more,you know,important.
It's more important to speak with the right kind of accent
and read the right newspaper than to wear smart and fashionable clothes.
This means you can get someone who's really quite well-off dressed like a tramp in someone else's hand-me-downs
7.Listen to Mark assessing the painting.
Complete the details in your students book then answer the questions.
Well,the first impression is wonderful.
Erm,it's by this artist called Rubens Santoro who's an Italian artist and,
I think he was born in the 1850s and he died in Naples in 1942.
He specialised really on these sort of architectural views and here
we have I think a beautiful view of Venice
and I have to say it is one of the nicest I've seen for a long time.
What I like particularly is the little blob of red there and the flowers there and the yellow there,
it's wonderfully colourful and I think it's commercial,
not only for Italians but also Americans or anybody
who's been on holiday to Venice.It just sums it up beautifully.
Have you ever sort of wondered what it might be worth?
VICTORIA:No,I have no idea.I was hoping you could tell me.
MARK:Well,there have been a number on the market and
I would expect this could make at least eight to twelve thousand pounds.
VICTORIA:Really?
MARK:Could,could make more,if we can get the right Italians and Americans in,
em,possibly...sort of up to twenty thousand pounds.
MARK:But it's a wonderful picture and so unexpected to see...
10.Mark explains how he knows the painting is genuine.
VICTORIA:How can you tell that it's authentic?
MARK:Well,there are a number of reasons.First of all the style is absolutely typical,and the quality is all there,
I mean this is quite a difficult picture to copy because it's so sort of intricate.
But perhaps more importantly,is this signature here,
and if you look through the magnifying glass,
you can see that the signature very much is part of the picture,
it's not sort of on top of the varnish and this is a good indication.
If it hadn't been right,
I'm afraid its value would have been considerably less.
You could have sold it as a decorative piece but that brings the value down to perhaps one thousand pounds.
VICTORIA:So what's the next step?
MARK:Well if you wanted us to sell it for you,
we would include it in our next important sale of nineteenth century pictures in three months time,
and our terms would be ten per cent commission plus various
other charges including photograph and insurance charges.
11.Listen to Mark talking about the actual auction and answer the questions in your students book.
The pace is quite quick.Em,if it's too slow,people get bored.
And I think we do between sixty and a hundred lots an hour which is a pretty fast pace.
And so we tend to start the sales at about 11 o'clock in the morning and they should be over by lunchtime.
12.Listen to the final part of the interview.
If you find a picture,
or any antique which you're not certain of or indeed you don't know its value,
do bring it into us.I think a lot of people are frightened
about coming into Christie's or indeed coming into any sort of establishment,they don't want to appear foolish.
But you must come in because if you don't ask,
you'll never know whether the picture on the wall or in the attic is valuable.
You should buy what you like and if you enjoy it,
then you're lucky and if it goes up in value,you're even luckier.
10.Natacha Tessier is talking about a Russian samovar.Listen and make notes.
Well,a family heirloom--you say?Mmm...I suppose the only thing we have is this thing here.
It's a samovar;my family,my great grandmother brought it to France,
to Paris in 1918 just after the revolution in Russia.
She had lots of other things but the family had to sell them because they were so poor.
Anyway,as you can see,it's made of silver,so I suppose it is fairly valuable.
In fact a family legend says that it was made from silver coins which one of my ancestors melted down.
It is plain with a tap at the front and a handle on each side.
Nowadays,we use it as an ornament and a way of reminding ourselves where we came from.
In the old days they used to boil water in the samovar and have a small teapot on the top with very strong tea.
So what they did was to put the strong tea into glasses
and add hot water with a slice of lemon...and lots of sugar of course--or even raspberry jam...
3.Listen and find out who the people are and what they have done.
Well,the gentleman on the motor cycle is Arthur Cook,
who is Britain's oldest motor cyclist.
He goes for a ride each day,even though he is 93.
Don Watkins,the one who is hanging in the air,
is just doing his first bungee jump at the age of 78.
Charlie Henbury decided that it was getting too dangerous for old people,
with there being lots of muggers around,so he decided to take up karate.
At the age of 81 he got his black belt and regularly defeats
people young enough to be his great grandchildren.
The lady amongst them is the author Mary Wesley,
who published her first novel when she was a mere 70.
Unit 11 3.Listen and find out what is different about Mike.
I play wheelchair tennis,I'm a nationally ranked wheelchair tennis player.
I travel all around the nation playing wheelchair tennis.
I play wheelchair basketball,
we travel around the nation playing wheelchair basketball.
Wheelchair basketball is just like college basketball,
we use the same rules that they use.We use a standard basketball court.
Wheelchair sports is designed to keep the essence of the sport
so you're playing the same sport that you were before.
I'm a scuba diver.
I take a yearly trip to Bonayre in the Netherlands Antilles to scuba dive.
A lot of quadriplegics go scuba diving.
They may not even be able to brush their teeth in the morning but they can scuba dive.
It takes you out of your wheelchair and it frees you from gravity and allows you to roam as an able-bodied person.
4.Mike now works with other disabled people.
Listen and answer the questions in your students book.
Well,St,David's,em,is a rehabilitation centre for people who have,
who have had injuries and who are getting rehabilitated to get back into everyday life and back to the community.
Wheelchair sports is based under therapeutic recreation.
It's getting people back to what they did before in life.
I run a fitness centre for people with disabilities,
it's specifically designed for people with disabilities--it's one of three in the country.
I set people up with individualised weight-training programmes to increase their strength more functionally,
to get them more independent in life--the key to independence once you're disabled is strength.
7.Listen to Mike's account of the incident,answer questions in your students book.
I walked towards him,held up my hands and said,you know,
"Hey,what's the matter?"and he pulled a 357 and,and as I turned to run,
I thinking the whole time that he was not going to shoot me,he did shoot me.
While I was on the ground he shot at me again.I lifted up-
I was instantly paralysed-I lifted up and the next bullet went underneath me.
Em,I dragged myself behind the car and then he just...he laughed and drove off.
Em,he's serving twenty years for attempted murder in Huntsville,which is a penitentiary here in Texas.
8.Listen and answer questions in your students book.
There's a lot of things that you miss.
But then I didn't know all the opportunities that were open to me at the time and I,
I basically had to re-invent the wheel.
There were other people doing the same thing I was doing out there
but they were at different parts of the country.
I had to learn everything by myself,I had to,em learn how to drive,I had to...
all the resources and things that were available,
there was nothing standard,em,there was no information available,
so I had to go out there and find all this information and so now
I want to be there for somebody,I want to be a resource for these people,
so once they get hurt they don't have to go through what I did,
they don't have to go through six or seven years of not knowing all this different information.
I want to catch them right when they,
when they get here to the rehabilitation centre and tell them,
to,to show them films of people doing great things,achieving things,
so that they can set their sights early in life,once they're hurt,
and not have to go through that deep depression that I went through.
I mean I'm sure they're still going to go through depression but I don't want it to be as bad as mine was.
Exercises 9 and 10 listen to three friends discussing the Ayalas'situation.
Answer the questions in your students book.
CARMEN:Well,I really don't know what to think about all of this.
Er,I mean,it's difficult,isn't it?
BAZ:Um...Yes.But don't you think,
if you were her parents then I think you'd want to do anything to help your child,
wouldn't you?I think you would...
CARMEN:Yes,but what about the baby...I mean,
it seems to me that her feelings weren't taken into account at all.
DELIA:Yes...They're--the parents-they're going to have to be really careful about um,
about,well,telling her why she was born when she gets a bit older...
CARMEN:Yeah,but then again,it could make her feel really special,couldn't it?
I mean,she will be unique,
it's not many children who have the chance to save someone else's life.
DELIA:I suppose so,but where does it all end?
BAZ:Um,I know what you mean.It's an ethical thing,
isn't it?Can you really,you know,interfere with nature...
it seems to be that our power to um,you know,to do things in,
em,medicine is far greater now than our ability to,em...
DELIA:...deal with the moral questions?
CARMEN:Mmm...that's right...But all the same,
the baby,isn't she going to think,they didn't want me...,
do you see what I mean?They just wanted a spare part,you know,like for a car?
