大学英语听说2.doc

1 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 to 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 differentand children too can be 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 Switzerland nearby to where I live. A car drove by, and the male driver opened the window and yelled at me: “ScheissNegerdirty nigger!” 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 I recovered I was able to think about it more clearly. These racist people are just stupid and do not know anything about life.最大的困难是我，作为一个人的混合血统我在家里也没有。无论我在哪里，我认为是外国的，无论是“白”或“黑”。它发生在我身上，当我在我母亲的原产地，在瑞士，和当我是生活在我父的国，象牙海岸。我觉得在家里，我能感觉到人们接受我。当你是一个小的孩子你不觉得你是从别人的不同。但很快，别人会使你感觉不同，孩子们也可以很残忍的行为对“奇怪的孩子”。有时令人难以置信的事情发生。前一段时间我骑我的自行车在一个小地方在瑞士附近到我住的地方。一辆车经过，和男性司机打开窗户，大声喊我：“scheiss-neger-dirty黑鬼！“我差点冻死。我感到无助和无法为自己辩护。当我看着牌照，我看到那是一个德国车牌。这意味着侮辱人自己是一个外国人在这个国家！他怎么敢侮辱我？我觉得我想杀这个人。当我恢复过来的时候我能想清楚。这些种族主义的人是愚蠢的，不知道什么是生活。6 Real World ListeningKim: Hey travelers! We are back from another escapist hour of planning and dreaming. Cindy, author of Sundays lead piece on travel planning will join us today. So ask away!Andrea: I have a quick question. What is a good time to visit Costa Rica? Would June be a bad month? Thanks!Cindy: Generally Dec. through April is the so-called dry season and May-Nov. is the rainy season, but two things temper that information. First, Costa Rica has microclimates, and it can be raining in the mountains but not on the coast, along the Caribbean but not the Pacific. Second, even on a rainy day it tends to rain late in the day or the evening and youre still likely to get 5 or more hours of sunshine.Ann: Im in the process of planning our delayed honeymoon this summer, most likely to Europe. Ive been abroad a couple of times, but my future husband hasnt traveled as much as I have. But he is adventurous and willing to try anything. Ive “done” Italy, and weve both “done” Great Britain, so ruling those two out, if you had 10 days to go travel around Europe, where would you go, or would you take a Mediterranean cruise?Cindy: Id go to Eastern Europe. Your dollars will go at least slightly farther so you can get some of the honeymoon element in there, choosing higher end accommodations, for example. I think Croatia sounds like a romantic adventure and in fact I believe it is popular for honeymooners. What do you say?基姆：嘿旅行者！我们从另一个小时的计划和逃避现实的梦想。作者辛蒂，星期日的一块铅对旅游规划将加入我们的今天。所以问问去！安德列：我有一个问题。什么是一个很好的时间来访问哥斯达黎加？六月将是一个月？谢谢！辛蒂：四月12月通过通常是所谓的旱季和5 - 11月。是雨季，但两者的脾气，信息。首先，哥斯达黎加的微气候，它可以在下雨，但不是在海岸山脉，沿加勒比海而不是太平洋。其次，甚至在一个下雨天，往往雨水在当天晚些时候或傍晚，你还是可能被5个或多个小时的阳光。安：我在规划过程的延迟蜜月今年夏天，最有可能的欧洲。我已经出国了几次，但我未来的丈夫没有走得和我一样。但他喜欢冒险，愿意尝试任何事情。我已经“完成”的意大利，我们都“做”的英国统治，所以这些了，如果你有10天去欧洲旅游，你会去哪里，或者你会采取一个地中海巡航？辛蒂：我会去东欧。你的钱将至少稍微远所以你能得到一些蜜月元件有选择较高的一端，住宿，例如。我认为克罗地亚听起来像一个浪漫的冒险，事实上我认为这是受欢迎的蜜月。你有何意见？7 Listening task 1Jessica Bucknam shouts “tiao(跳)”and her fourth-grade students jump. “Dun(蹲)!” she commands, and they crouch. They giggle as the commands keep coming in Mandarin Chinese. Most of the kids have studied Chinese since they were in kindergarten.They were part of a Chinese-immersion program at Woodstock Elementary School, in Portland, Oregon. Bucknam, who is from China, introduces her students to approximately 150 new Chinese characters each year. Students read stories, sing songs and learn math and science, all in Chinese.Half of the students at the school are enrolled in the program. They can continue studying Chinese in middle school and high school. The goal: to speak like natives.About 24,000 American students are currently learning Chinese. Most are in high school. But the number of younger students is growing in response to Chinas emergence as a global superpower. The U.S. government is helping to pay for language instruction. Recently, the Defense Department gave Oregon schools $700,000 for classes like Bucknams. The Senate is considering giving $1.3 billion for Chinese classes in public schools.“China has become a strong partner of the United States,” says Mary Patterson, Woodstocks principal. “Children who learn Chinese at a young age will have more opportunities for jobs in the future.” Isabel Weiss, 9, isnt thinking about the future. She thinks learning Chinese is fun. “When you hear people speaking in Chinese, you know what theyre saying,” she says. “And they dont know that you know.”Want to learn Chinese? You have to memorize 3,500 characters to really know it all! Start with these Chinese characters and their pronunciations.杰西卡bucknam叫“条（跳）”和她的四年级学生跳。“敦（蹲）！“她命令，他们蹲下。他们咯咯的命令来中国国语。大多数孩子学了中文，因为他们是在幼儿园。他们是一个chinese-immersion程序在伍德斯托克小学，在波特兰，俄勒冈。bucknam，谁是来自中国，介绍她的学生每年约150个新的汉字。学生读故事，唱的歌曲和学习数学和科学，所有在中国。一半的学生在学校注册的程序。他们可以继续学习中文在初中和高中。目的：说话像当地人。约有24000名美国学生正在学习汉语。大多数是在高中。但一些年轻的学生成长为响应中国崛起为全球超级大国。美国政府帮助支付指令。最近，国防部给俄勒冈学校7美元00000班就像bucknam是参议院正在考虑给予1300000000美元的中国公立学校的班级。“中国已经成为一个强大的美国的合伙人，说：”玛丽帕特森，伍德斯托克的主。“孩子学习中文在年轻时将有更多的机会为未来的工作。”伊莎贝尔，9，不考虑未来。她认为学习中文是有趣的。“当你听到人们说中文，你知道他们在说什么，”她说。“他们不知道，你知道。”想学中文吗？你必须记住3500个字真的知道这一切！开始与这些汉字的读音。10 Real World ListeningHans: Dr. Corliss, is it true that there is more stress in todays society than in years past?Dr. Corliss: People often ask me that question, sometimes comparing our lives with that of the cave manwho didnt have to worry about the stock market or nuclear weapons. They forget that the cave man worried about being eaten by a bear while he was asleep, or about dying of hunger. I doubt whether modern man experiences more distress than his ancestors. Its not that people suffer more stress today: its just that they think they do.Hans: But isnt everybody subject to stress?Dr. Corliss: Thats right. Everybody thinks he or she is under the greatest stress. The truth is that everybody actually is under stress because if you really managed to avoid stress completely, you would be dead.Hans: Then stress is a normal state of affairs?Dr. Corliss: Yes. Whenever anyone experiences something unpleasant, they say they are under stress. Yet there is such a thing as pleasant stressas in the case of the Olympic winner at the moment of his glory.Hans: What are the most frequent causes of stress?Dr. Corliss: One cannot generalize. They differ in various civilizations and historical time periods. One of the main problems for youngsters these days is that they have no motivation. No wind blows in favor of the ship that has no port of destination.Hans: How can people cope