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1、大学体验英语听说教程听力原文第四册.docScripts for Unit OneListening Task 1The neighborhood children my age played together: either active, physical games outdoors or games of dolls-and-house indoors. I, on the other hand, spent much of my childhood alone. Id curl up in a chair reading fairytales and myths, daydreami
2、ng, writing poems or stories and drawing pictures. Sometimes around the fourth grade, my “big” (often critical, judgmental) Grandma, whod been visiting us said to me, “Whats wrong with you? Why dont the other children want to play with you?” I remember being startled and confused by her question. Id
3、 never been particularly interested in playing with the other children. It hadnt, till then, occurred to me that that was either odd or something with me. Nor had it occurrred to me that they didnt “want to play with” me. My first conscious memory of feeling different was in the fourth grade. At the
4、 wardrobe, listening to classmates joking, chattering and laughing with each other, I realized I hadnt a clue about what was so funny or of how to participate in their easy chatter. They seemed to live in a universe about which I knew nothing at all. I tried to act like others but it was so difficul
5、t. I felt confused and disoriented. I turned back to my inner world: reading books, writing and daydreaming. My inwardness grew me in ways that continued to move me further away from the world of my age peers. The easy flow of casual social chat has remained forever beyond my reach and beyond my int
6、erest, too.Listening Task 2The greatest difficulty for me is that as a person of mixed origin I am at home neither here nor there. Wherever I am, I am regarded as being foreign, either “white” or “black”. It happens to me when I live in my mothers country of origin, in Switzerland, and it happened t
7、o me when I was living in my fathers country, Ivory Coast. I would feel at home where I could feel that people accept me just the way I am! When you are a small child you first do not feel that you are different from the others. But soon the others will make you feel different and children too can b
8、e very cruel in their behavior against the “strange child”. Sometimes incredible incidents happen. Some time ago I was riding my bike somewhere in a little place in Switzarland nearby to where I live. A car drove by, and the male driver opened the window and yelled at me: “Scheiss Neger dirty nigger
9、!” I almost froze. I felt helpless and unable to defend myself. When I looked at the number plate, I saw that it was a German number plate. This means that the insulting person himself was a foreigner in this country! How could he dare insult me like this? I felt that I wanted to kill this man. When
10、 I recovered I was able to think about it more clearly. These racist people are just stupid and do not know anything about life.Scripts for Unit TwoListening Task 1Everybody cheats. Whether its the taxi driver who tricks a visitor and takes hime the long way round, or the shop assistant who doesnt g
11、ive the correct change, or the police officer who accepts a bribe everybodys at it. Cheats in the news include the scientist whose research was based on fake data, the game show contestant who collaborated with a friend in the audience to win a million pounds, and the doctor who forged his qualifica
12、tions and wasnt really a doctor at all. Everybody cheats; nobodys playing the game.Is cheating acceptable, a natural way of surviving and being successful? Or is it something that should be frowned on, and young people discouraged from doing? If its the latter, how can we explain to children why so
13、many bend the rules?Take sport for example. The pinnacle of football, the World Cup, was rife with cheating. Whether pretending to be hurt or denying a handball, footballers will do anything for a free-kick or a penalty shot. French player Henry denied cheating to win the free-kick which led to his
14、sides second goal in their 3-1 victory over Spain. Whatever the nationality theres one common strategy: the player rolls over holding his leg, ankle or head seeming to be in great pain. As a result a yellow card or free-kick is given for the foul and then, a few seconds later, the player is up and a
15、bout as if nothing had happened!Of course its not just the footballers. In 1998 the Tour of France, the worlds greatest cycling event, was hit by a drug-taking scandal. Forty bottles of drugs found with a team triggered a massive investigation that almost caused the cycling tour to be abandoned. One
16、 rider was banned for nine months.Listening Task 2A climate of mistrust surrounds everyone.In the field of business, Enron, Americas seventh largest company, could serve as an unfortunate example. Its collapse in 2001 caused thousands of people to lose their jobs and life savings. The company had fooled investors into believing it was healthier than it really was. One boss now faces the rest of life in prison.Meanwhile companies around t
