新标准大学英语视听说教程(2)听力原文

1 Unit 1 Conversation 1 Janet So this is the Cherwell Boathouse it s lovely And look at those people punting It looks quite easy Mark I m not so sure about that Janet there s something Kate and I wanted to discuss with you Some people in college are organizing charity events this term We ve decided to get involved Janet Raising money for charity Right In China people raise money for charity but students don t usually do that Mark Students often do that here Anyway we re thinking of doing sponsored punting Janet Sponsored punting What s that Kate Sponsoring is when people pay you to do something like run a long distance So people would be sponsoring students to punt Janet What a great idea I d love to join you Mark That s why we re telling you about it So that s decided then Let s make a list of things we need to do Kate I ll do that One of the first things we should do is choose the charity Mark Yes And choose a day for the event And we need to design the sponsorship form I ve got one here Kate That looks fine but we must change the wording Who wants to do that Mark I ll do that What have we got so far Kate Choose a charity Also a day for the event Change the wording on the sponsorship form Um We have to decide where the punt will start from Mark Cherwell Boathouse no question It s a very beautiful route from here apparently Kate I m with you on that Janet Me too Janet I m not used to boats Woah Mark Whoops Kate Watch out You nearly hit me with that thing Mark Sorry I didn t mean to OK we re off Kate Maybe I should do the punting Mark It s fine I ve got the hang of it now give me a chance Kate Well I d like to have a go Mark Supposing I do the first hour Then you can take over for a while if you want to Kate Yes great Janet You re really good at it Mark This is fantastic It s exactly how I imagined life here Look over there isn t it lovely Kate Yes it is Unit 1 Conversation 2 Janet Kate everything s organized isn t it for collecting the sponsorship money Kate Yes I ve arranged for people to get the money to me by next Friday if they haven t paid online I ll count it all up Janet Good We d better have a meeting soon after that don t you think How much have we raised Kate About 600 Janet Fantastic I m so enjoying this Mark Hey guys I ve got a suggestion how about moving over to the bank and we can have our picnic Hey look there s Louise and Sophie Mark Whoo Girls Mark Janet Are you all right Mark Er Of course I m all right Kate I think it s your turn to punt Unit 1 Outside View Voice over Harvard University in Cambridge is one of the best universities in the world We spoke to Alex Jude the university s Head of Communications He explained that Harvard looks for the best and most talented students from around the world Alex Harvard actually seeks students from around the world the best students that we can find to study chemistry or study literature or study government or business Our business school is particularly well known around the world as is the medical school and law school so um and and the Kennedy School of Government or the John F Kennedy School of Government so er we do seek very very talented 2 students and we have open doors for them Voice over We asked five students at Harvard to tell us what kind of social life they have Ashley Um well relaxing is a little hard to do around here but basically I mean I still I I live nearby anyway so I see a lot of my friends and Um there s a good social life here if you look for it I go to the gym run So that s what I do Adam It s it s whatever you want it to be It s good If you wanna go out party do anything you can If you wanna sit in your room and study all night like my friend over here you can also do that Brian Socially like you said it s it s a lot of what you make it Um we don t have fraternities here and so you know that s it s obviously not as social There s not as many parties as there would be on another campus Um but on a Friday or Saturday night there there there will be a party Usually we end up studying until about 10 o clock And then we and then we ll go out and have fun maybe or just watch a movie with friends or you know whatever is going on for the night Jodie Not everyone would agree with me obviously but it s I think it s a fun place to be Interviewer Have you made a lot of friends Jodie Oh definitely Interviewer Mm Jodie Many Interviewer What what do you do with your friends Jodie Um well I like to go to concerts I m in three music groups so I have lots of rehearsals during the week for that Um just do you know some fun things on the weekend Voice over We asked the Harvard students if they use the Internet Ashley Um I I use it a fairly good amount Um our library system is online so I use that a lot And a lot of my classes you know have to do research papers You can find a lot of information on there so Interviewer So how often do you use it a week a day Ashley Um I use it probably on more of a weekly basis Maybe three or four times a week Brian Oh yes definitely We live through the Internet actually Well I do a lot of research through the Internet follow my stocks on the Internet Um well even though e mail is not officially Internet we that s how we communicate a lot at college so through the e mail John Um I use the internet mostly for er I d say sort of leisure purposes I mean I play um I use it for a lot of I don t we don t have TV in my room so I use it uh uh go to the CNN website keep up on current events things like that Uh I also uh you know there s some little games to play over the Internet Um just um I go to to see what s happening follow the Boston Red Sox things like that Um I think a lot of courses use it to post things but I I don t usually use it that much for research or things I tend to use the libraries for such things so Unit 1 Listening in Passage 1 3 Voice over Hi I m Nick Carter and this is SUR your university radio station This morning we went around campus to ask freshers now half way through their first year the question How are you finding uni Here are some of the answers we got Speake Speaker 1 It s cool It s everything I hoped it would be I m very ambitious I want to be a journalist and I want to get to the top of the profession I ve started writing for the university newspaper so I ve got my foot on the ladder already Speaker 2 I m working hard and the teaching is as good as I expected And I ve made some good friends But I m very homesick I m Nigerian and my family s so far away I went home at Christmas for a month that really helped but man I miss my family so much Speaker 3 How am I finding uni It s great It s not perfect nothing is but like I ve got a brilliant social life just brilliant and I ve made lots of friends For the first few months I just didn t do really enough work But I 1 talked about it with my parents and I m working harder now and getting good grades Speaker 4 Actually I ve been quite lonely to be honest I m a bit shy everyone else seemed to find it so easy to make friends straight away But things have been better recently yeah they have I ve joined a couple of clubs and like it really helps to get to know people when you have shared interests So yeah I m feeling a lot happier now Speaker 5 Uni s great I love it My only problem and it s quite a big problem is money My parents are both unemployed so you know they can t help me financially My grant just isn t it s just not enough for me to live on so I ve taken a part time job as a waitress a lot of people I know like a lot have had to do the same I don t want to have huge debts at the end Speaker 6 I love my subject History and I m I m getting fantastic teaching here I want to be a university lecturer and that means I have to get a first I have a good social life but work definitely comes first for me Passage 2 Oxford and Cambridge two universities so similar that they are often spoken of together as Oxbridge They re both in the UK fairly near London and both regularly come top in any ranking of the world s best universities The two universities began within a century of each other Oxford University now 900 years old was founded towards the end of the 11th century In 1209 there was a dispute between the university and the townspeople of Oxford As a result some of the Oxford teachers left and founded a university in the town of Cambridge some 84 miles away Ever since then the two institutions have been very competitive Unlike most modem universities both Oxford and Cambridge consist of a large number of colleges Oxford has 39 and Cambridge 31 Many of these colleges have old and very beautiful architecture and large numbers of tourists visit them In all UK universities you need good grades in the national exams taken at 18 But to get into Oxford and Cambridge it s not enough to get A grades in your exams You also have to go for a long interview In these interviews students need to show that they are creative and capable of original thinking Through the centuries both universities have made huge contributions to British cultural life They have produced great writers world leaders and politicians Cambridge in particular has produced scientists whose discoveries and inventions have changed our lives Among the great university institutions is the world s most famous debating society the Oxford Union where undergraduates get a chance to practise speaking in public Cambridge s comedy club Footlights has produced many first class comedians while some of the UK s most famous actors and actresses began their careers at The Oxford University Dramatic Society known as OUDS Then there s the Oxford and Cambridge Boat Race which takes place every year in March or April and is watched on television all over the UK So with all this excellence in so many fields it s not surprising that the ambition of clever students all over the world is to attend either one of these great universities Unit 2 Conversation 1 Kate Come in Hey Janet Janet Hi Kate are you busy Kate Yes I m just doing an essay But it s great to see you So what s new Janet Well nothing much Kate You look a bit fed up What s bugging you 4 Janet Well I had a phone call from my parents and it made me feel homesick It happens every time they call and it gets me down Kate I m sorry to hear that I know how you feel I love speaking to my mum and dad but I always feel miserable after the call Janet My dad doesn t say much and I want to speak to him but I wish I knew what to say Kate Don t let it get to you My dad doesn t say much on the phone either I call he answers the phone and says Hi I ll pass you to your mother It s really irritating Janet But I miss him and my mother a lot and I like to hear his voice Kate Just tell him what you re up to Janet Sometimes I feel as if I made a mistake leaving home and coming to Oxford Sometimes I feel like a moody teenager Kate Try not to worry about it Janet It s normal to feel like that I understand how you feel but I bet everything will be fine next term You ll get used to it Hey why don t you do what I do Janet What s that Kate When my dad calls I ask him for more money He usually says no but at least I get to hear his voice Janet Maybe I m sorry to take up your time Kate but I must go now Bye Kate Wait a minute Unit 2 Conversation 2 Kate I think I may have upset Janet last night Mark What happened Kate She came to see me I was busy doing an essay but I was really pleased to see her She d had a call from home and said she was feeling homesick Mark Poor kid It must be tough when you guys living so far away from home Kate I tried to make her laugh told her not to worry about it and that it was normal to feel miserable Suddenly she looked miserable and then she got up and said I must go now and left my room It was really sudden I felt as if I d said something wrong Mark Maybe she was just being polite It was probably because she realized you were working and didn t want to disturb you Kate I just wonder if she found it difficult to talk about her feelings with me Maybe I shouldn t have tried to make her laugh Perhaps she thought I wasn t taking her seriously Mark I wouldn t worry about it Put yourself in her shoes How would you feel if you were a student at college in China Kate I know That s why I feel bad If only she had stayed longer I wish I could have helped her more Janet Hey everyone Mark Hi Janet you look cheerful Janet Yes I ve just got my essay back I got an alpha minus Kate What an amazing grade Well done Mark I m really happy for you Janet Janet I feel on top of the world Unit 2 Outside view Sebastien Hi I m Sebastien I m from Germany Um the idea of IQ of a measure of your brain power has been around for a while but recently there s been this new idea of the EQ your emotional quotient And by now it s actually almost being regarded as more important If you look at it businesses will Well they will prefer employing people with great EQ Well of course IQ cannot be disregarded but um EQ does have its importance as well Uh I believe that um I mean people most people will have um their basic means of communicating with other people Most people are somewhat socially adept and just like most people have you know a basic general knowledge But then what I think really is the difference between IQ and EQ I mean you can have a brainiac and they will be great at most things they do but if you just can t get along with him if you just can t communicate with him I mean you know he s not really that useful Kim Hi This is Kim I m originally from Korea and I was raised in California And today we are going to talk about the differences between IQ and EQ IQ meaning your intelligence EQ meaning your emotions Now in When I was when I was a little little boy in Korea I had to take I think I d taken like two or three IQ tests before the age often which is when I moved to California So I guess we stress a lot of importance on intelligence on having great IQ1 scores But after I moved to the States I learnt how to associate with people and along 5 the lines that this word EQ came up you know emotional caring lout It s basically how you deal with people how you make people feel and how people make you feel think they re equally as as important but it seems that in the Eastern world they kind of stress on that a lot more back in the days But I think again you know now that with Internet and people are communicating so much faster there s a better mixture of the two I link There s a stress on EQ in Korea as well and a stress on IQ in the States Thank you Ted Hello My name is Ted and I m from the United States of America Today I m going to talk a little bit about IQ or EQ which is most important or which is more important Now for a long time when I was growing up people said IQ What s your IQ Take an IQ test But then EQ your emotions how you interact with people that became very important And I think they re that people might be onto something with that because your EQ how you deal with people how you interact with people is important Now a big part of this in my opinion is listening I know I m talking a lot right now but if you want to get along well with people you have to listen to them so just take a minute maybe shut your mouth for a minute and listen to others and then you can understand and communicate with them in a better way So part of EQ I think is listening listening to others and it can be more important than IQ Unit 2 Listening in Passage 1 Presenter We re fortunate to have as our guest today Dr Jenna Hudson who has just written a book about how colours affect us in our surroundings especially in the world of advertising It s called Market Colours Dr Hudson which are the most common colours in advertising and marketing Dr Hudson Well of course it depends what image the marketing team wish to project with their products So for example we often think of blue as a cold colour but it also makes you feel peaceful quiet and it doesn t suggest strong emotions So it s a favourite for banks and insurance companies who wish to suggest the image that they are trustworthy And for selling products it s often used to suggest something is pure and fresh Presenter What about red Dr Hudson You can sell almost anything with red It s a hot colour which suggests a feeling of energy and even passion It grabs your attention and can make people buy almost anything You often see red on magazine covers But if you use it too much it looks cheap and may make people tired And orange has a similar effect to red it s upbeat and happy it suggests pleasant feelings and images Most people react well to orange and it s especially popular in advertising and on packaging for baked food Presenter What about yellow for instance Dr Hudson Yellow is the colour of sunshine and it s a positive happy colour so it s used a lot in advertising But it s also often used for warning signs direction signs and so on where you have to read the message quickly and at a distance Presenter What about less popular colours for advertising Dr Hudson Surprisingly green isn t used much in advertising except for garden products It s friendly and restful It can be cool and soothing the colour of apples and mint but it can also be quite strong and many people associate it with unpleasant ideas of decay or slimy creatures Presenter But most colours are not primary colours they re a combination Dr Hudson Absolutely So yellow orange is common and often used to give an impression of style and class it looks like gold But it s not often used in letters because it s not very strong And yellow green reminds people of feeling sick Blue green works well as a cool colour suggesting freshness and is sometimes used for toothpaste products bathroom products food and household cleaning products It has many of the advantages of blue without the disadvantages of green Presenter Fascinating Thank you very much Dr Hudson Market Colours by Dr Jenna Hudson is on sale from next 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