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1、 .Unit 4 News 247Inside view Conversation 1 Mark ：This is just so crazy! Janet ：What? Mark ：This story Im reading. Kate ：So tell us. Mark ：A man within a wheelchair crossing the road in front of a lorry at some traffic lights. Somehow, the back of the wheelchair got stuck on the front of the lorry.
2、When the lorry started moving, it took the wheelchair and the man with it! Kate ：Youre joking! Mark ：The driver drove for several miles at 80 kilometres an hour before he stopped at a garage. The man was unhurt because his seat belt had stopped him falling out. Janet ：What a terrible story! Thank go
3、odness the man was all right! Mark ：The police asked the driver if hed realized he had a passenger. The driver said he had no idea at all. Mark ：Do you want to hear another one? A funny one this time. Kate ：Go on. Mark ：A woman reported that her car had been stolen and that shed left her mobile phon
4、e in the car. The policeman suggested calling the mobile. When he did, the thief answered it. The policeman told the thief that he was answering an ad in the paper and that he wanted to buy the car. And the thief agreed to sell it! Janet ：He didnt! Mark ：So they arranged to meet and the thief was ar
5、rested and the woman got her car back. Janet ：A happy ending! Mark ：You get these great stories in the papers I always read them. Conversation 2 Voice on radio ：The news at one oclock. Tornadoes have damaged homes in Northern England. There is still no news of missing company director, Alan Marsden.
6、 Scientists claim that global warming is accelerating. There are reports coming in of more fighting in Mark ：Do you mind if I turn it off? Janet ：Its fine, I wasnt listening. Mark ：Do you follow the news? Janet ：Yeah, I do. But I dont often listen to the radio, I mostly get my news online. Kate ：Do
7、you? Janet ：Yes, I read articles from different papers. Kate ：My dad does that. Mark ：Well, Ive got used to reading real newspapers. Janet ：You should try reading the news online. You get lots of different views, its very stimulating. Mark ：True, it is stimulating. But Ive got into the habit of read
8、ing the papers in the JCR in a comfortable armchair, with lots of black coffee. Kate ：Dont either of you listen to the radio? Its a great way to wake up. Mark ：Yeah, I do that. And I download podcasts. And I watch the news on telly. Kate ：Youre a news addict. We all know that. Mark ：You have to be i
9、f you read PPE. You have to be really knowledgeable about current affairs. Janet ：You are. Kate ：Well, Im a TV addict. I spend too much time watching the soaps. I love British TV. Janet ：Weve noticed, Kate. Are you going to watch Friends with me tonight? Kate ：You bet! Outside view Part 1 Keith ：I s
10、aw Robin Williams come to the patio. I made the run, jumped a couple of sawhorses, climbed up a stairway, got in front of him, and said, “Robin, do you mind if I take a picture?” He goes, “After all that, how could I stop you?” V/O (画外音)Keith Sykes has a long career in journalism, photography, and c
11、ommunications. Keith ：Ive taken pictures of a lot of celebrities. Cindy Crawford. Ive taken her picture a few times and, I, I think its impossible to take a bad picture of her. James Garner. Ive photographed famous politicians. I stood in the same position for two hours to get this picture. Photogra
12、phing these people is uh, an exciting thing for me. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to become editor of a weekly newspaper out there, I was really excited when I started getting these invitations to come to this award show, or this benefit show. I was showing up at all these event sand seeing pe
13、ople that I had seen on the screen and it was, uh, really, uh, a magical moment for me. Part 2Keith ：The word paparazzi means “the pest” in Italian. Fellini dubbed a character who played a pesky photographer in La Dolce Vita “Paparazzo”. The roots of paparazzi photography were in Europe after World
14、War II. The countries were all subject to many political factions who were deciding what direction their countries would go. This created awesome political rivalries. And photographers would cover political events, knowing that they would probably turn into violent protests and theyd get newsworthy
15、pictures and be able to sell them. Now at the same time, more and more celebrities were going to the Mediterranean, to Monte Carlo And these photographers, who had started as political photographers, took pictures of the celebrities and their those celebrities wild lives. There are financial rewards
16、. If I got a photograph of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt holding hands, then Id be paid maybe $10,000. If I shot Jennifer and Brad throwing drinks at each other, I would get $50,000. How much a photograph is worth is often determined by how negative it portrays that celebrity. When, uh, Princess Diana died, I started thinking. I had realized
