展望未來英語教程第四冊Unit12-unit15

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Unit 12 Exercises 3 to 4,
Marcello is talking to Julia about how to behave in England.Listen and make notes.
JULIA:So how long is it,Marcello,since you er,came over here?
MARCELLO:Well,it must be about seven years now.
JULIA:And how do you find it?
MARCELLO:Oh,good question!I would say that I am used to most things now.
JULIA:So how was it at first?
MARCELLO:Well,driving was the most difficult thing.
I got used to driving on the left quite quickly,
but it was other things,like,um,one problem I had was with the,em,the horn.
JULIA:And why was that?
MARCELLO:Well,you see,in my part of Italy we're used to going'beep,
beep'all the time.It doesn't really mean anything.
I've found out though,that English people get very upset if someone,you know...
JULIA:Sounds their horn.
MARCELLO:Exactly.Another thing which was terrifying was when people,
you know,pedestrians just stepped into the road,you know on the zebra crossings.
I just wasn't used to stopping and I almost ran someone over!
JULIA:Oh no!But what about other things?
MARCELLO:Well,queueing was a problem too.
I mean it really is the national sport over here.I'm still trying to get used to it;
it just seems such a boring thing to do,you know,stand in line for such a long time.
JULIA:Um,I'm not so sure.
I think it can be exhausting having to fight your way noto the bus and things.
Anyway,what about the people?
MARCELLO:Well,I'd better be careful about what I say.
You are very polite,you know,saying'please'and'thank you'all the time.
I found this strange at first-all the same,
before I lived here I used to think that the English were very formal.
You know,lots of businessmen walking around with bowler hats and umbrellas.
JULIA:And they're not?Formal,I mean.
MARCELLO:No,I don't think so.Everybody use first names a lot.
In business situations the Italians are sitll quite formal,I think.
You're lucky as well because you have only got'you';
I mean you don't have to worry about using the formal or the informal form.
JULIA:Is there anything that you still find difficult?
MARCELLO:Apart from the food and the weather you mean?
No,no,not really,except I suppose about how to greet people,you know'to kiss or not to kiss'...
JULIA:Goodness,yes.It's a minefield.
10.Listen and find out if you're right.
1.A:Does this bus go to town? B:I don't think so.
2.A:Do you speak English? B:Yes,I do.
3.A:You're German,aren't you? B:Actually,I'm Swiss.
4.A:Is it OK if I smoke? B:I'd rather you didn't.
5.A:Have you got a pen I could borrow? B:I'm afraid not.
6.A:How are you? B:Fine,thanks.How are you?
7.A:Would you like a cigarette? B:No,thanks.
8.A:Would you like to come to the cinema tomorrow? B:I'm afaid I'm busy.What a pity.
9.A:Can I make a phone call? B:Yes,of course.
5.Joan Tull talks about why she want to do VSO.
Listen and answer the questions in your students book.
I always wanted to do something that was about helping people
and feeling that what you did was important to people and that it mattered,
so that's the basic reason why I'll be going to do VSO,I think.
I'm quite looking forward to going to a completely different environment,
that's different on all sorts of levels,
in terms of the culture,in terms of the standard of living,
I'll be quite interested to just find out how a whole different set of people live,...
6.Joan describes what she'll be doing.
I'll be going to Zimbabwe to,em,quite a large village school and I'll be teaching English to,em,
sixteen year olds up to'O'level and,em,
I think I'll be a form teacher to twelve and thirteen year olds.
I'll be staying for two years minimum,em,and there's a possibility of having that extended to three or four years.
8.Joan talks about her life in London at her future Zimbabwe?
Listen and check your answers.
I'll have to get used to a whole series,a whole raft of different working conditions.
I'm used to working in quite a hi-tech sort of industry
that's got lots of machinery and everything and I'm going to be going to,em,
a place that has no machinery apart from a typewriter,
has no electricity at all,no photocopiers,all the things that you just take for granted,
they just won't be there any more,
so I'm going to have to get used to that sort of thing really.
I'll be staying near the school,
which is called Kurandoura,em,in quite a small village,it's amid sort of,
em,farmers generally,it's quite near to a sort of a small town
but it's quite rural itself and I'll be staying in a teachers'house,
living with two or three other Zimbabwean teachers.
I'll have to get used to not having the variety of different foods that you have here like,
twenty different varieties of breakfast cereal and all the food
that you could possibly want and can think of you can have here,
and the range of food there is much smaller.
I'll have to get used to getting water from a bore-hole,
not having electricity,which means gas-lamps in the evening,
which means the difficulty of preparing for the next day's lessons in poor light,
different ways of getting your clothes washed,
how you make your own entertainment in the evenings
because I'm used to coming home and watching television,
and you know phoning your friends and listening to music and that sort of thing,
and there'll be sort of quite big differences like that that I'll have to get used to.
I'll miss shopping for clothes in my favourite clothes stores
and I'll miss seeing my friends after work and going to the cinema and going to a blub...
erm...going to parties....erm...an endless list of things that I can think of that I do,
that I do without thinking about it really that I'm going to miss.
9.Joan talks about things it will be diffiuclt get use to.
I think there'll be quite a lot of cultural differences
and those are going to be the most difficult things to get used to
because physical things I think you can adapt to really quickly.
Em,I think a different way of looking at the role of women in society is going to be quite difficult because,
I'm used to saying exactly what I think about everything
and I'm just going to have to learn to keep quiet about things,but the problem with that is,
I can see why you have to do that,
but then if quite a big part of yourself is to kind
of not like injustices or whatever it is and to say what you think,
then how much is it that you're kind of changing yourself as a person and as a personality?
And maybe I'll get there and I'll find that,you know,it simply is not a problem at all.
2.Listen to Lucy presentation and make notes.
Good evening,everybody.
I am going to tell you something about my travels to the Far East.
As you can imagine,I saw a lot of festivals,
but the one I'm going to tell you about is the Dragon Boat Festival,
which takes place in the middle of the summer in Hong Kong;
it's an absolutely marvellous setting for the event.
There are other races throughout China,
but this one attracts the most foreign spectators.
First of all,before I carry on,I should say a few words about dragons.
They are very important symbols in Chinese myth and legend.
Once upon a time people used to believe that rain was made by dragons fighting up in the skies!
Anyway,going back to the festival,
it's also known as'Poet's Day'.Let me explain how it got this name:
long ago there was a wise man and poet called Qu Yuan
who threw himself into the Mi Lo River as a protest against corruption.
People went out in boats to save him,but he drowned.
Fishermen threw rice into the river so sharks wouldn't eat his body.
Afterwards his ghost came and told the fishermen that the best way
to scare away bad spirits was to wrap up little parcels of rice in silk.
Nowadays,in memory of the poet,people eat special rice dumplings wrapped up in leaves.
Returning to the festival itself,the event that attracts so many visitors is the dragon boat race.
Dragon boats are rowing boats with a carved dragon's head on the front.
Each boat has two lines of rowers who paddle furiously while
someone beats time on an enormous drum-incidentally,the race is taken very seriously.
It's an international event too:although most teams come from the region,
some are from as far apart as France,South Africa and New Zealand!
Actually there are so many that there are lots of'heats',
you know qualifying races before a team can get to the final.
When I went the men's final was won by an Indonesian team,while a team from Canada won the women's.
It was an exciting climax to the event.
In fact,I cheered and shouted so much that I lost my voice!
If you'd like to gather round,I've got some photos here which will give you a better idea of what actually goes on.
I've also brought some rice dumplings in for everyone to try,
so help yourselves.Are there any questions?
Unit 13 2.Listen and find out if your answers to exercise 1 were right.
A The ring of stones is Stonehenge in the south of England.It was built around 2000 BC.
Some people believe that Stonehenge was a kind of giant observatory
and that it was used for astronomy and for astronomical calculations.
There are two amazing things about it:
the first is the weight of the stones and the fact that
they were moved such distances before the invention of the wheel.
They were probably pulled on sledges.
The second thing is how a primitive people on the edge of Europe managed to accomplish such work,
which required advanced engineering skills.
B Exactly why the pyramids were built and their positioning remains a mystery.
We know that the tombs were packed with treasure to help the Pharaoh in his afterlife.
Most of the tombs,of course,have been robbed and their treasure stolen,
but recently,archaeologists have come across some hieroglyphics which were every bit as valuable.
They found out new information which suggests that the pyramids
may have been built as'launching pads'for the dead Pharaohs to project their souls to the stars.
The pyramids were arranged to represent the position of some of the stars in the sky;
the River Nile was the earthly equivalent of the Milky Way.
C This picture shows an impression of Atlantis from a film.
Atlantis was supposed to be an island with a rich and civilised culture,
which then simply disappeared one day.
It just vanished!
There are lots of theories about where Atlantis was and what happened to it.
The most likely explanation is that Atlantis was a volcanic island
and in around 1450 BC the volcano erupted one day,leaving just the crater sticking up out of the sea.
Nowadays,all that remains,according to some people,is the island of Thera,north of Crete.
Exercises 7 and 8.Rick Turner talks about the discovery of Lindow man,
listen and answer questions in your students book.
The story begins in,in the peat depot which is just off the site where we're standing,
where the men one day found what turned out to be a well-preserved human foot.
I got to hear about this as the local archaeologist responsible for the area and came out the next day,
out onto the bog just behind where we're standing,
and found what turned out to be the rest of Lindow Man.
We came here and what we excavated was the peat in which the body lay,
we didn't at that stage want to uncover the body,
so when we came here we actually lifted a block of peat
and we weren't exactly certain of what might have been in there.
We could see exactly what he looked like,the fact he was bearded,
the fact his hair was neatly trimmed,perhaps with a form
of shears rather than scissors-it was before scissors were invented.
We found evidence of the stomach and the remains in the stomach
tells us what he might have eaten for his last meal
or his last two meals so we could reconstruct that very accurately.
The evidence for how Lindow Man died is very clear and you can reconstruct the events quite closely.
What seems to have happened first is that from the two fractures that
we found on the top of the head it seems that he might have been hit,
by an axe or a weapon of some sort that certainly made him unconscious and perhaps killed him.
Not happy with that,the people responsible then tied a strong cord around the neck,
tied at the back of the neck,
perhaps inserted a stick through the cord,
twisted the stick until the neck was broken and the breathing cut off.
Finally,from the,from the evidence of a cut underneath the neck,
we think he might have been bled and the blood would have poured forth from the body onto the ground.
So we have a very complicated,and,and perhaps ritualistic death.
From all the evidence we've been able to gather,scientific analyses
and detailed tests and studies we've made,we can begin to build
a picture of who Lindow Man was,how he lived and how he died.
He was a man,we,we know that for certain.
He was perhaps twenty-five,likely to be of medium build.
He must have been someone who didn't work in the fields at the end
of this life--he had beautifully smooth fingernails.
He might have been a bard or perhaps a warrior or even a priest.
First of all,you must decide what date he might have died.
We think it's most likely that he was Iron Age or died just after the Romans had invaded.
If so,he was Celtic,he was a member of a Celtic tribe who would have lived here in Cheshire at the time.
Now,we can reconstruct his appearance very accurately,
we have a face from the past that we can look at,
and,and see that perhaps the past is not so far from our,
our present time and that he looks much as you and I do
and he would have been walking here around two thousand yours ago.
He almost certainly comes from the local area.
Why he came to be in the bog is the mystery that everyone can speculate about.
9.Listen and check your answers.
1.We stayed in a famous haunted house last year,which was in the middle of nowhere.
2.I know a man who believes he can contact spirits.
3.That's the woman whose parents are spiritualists.
4.The article about Coral Polge,which I told you about yesterday,came from a very interesting book.
10.Listen and answer questions in your students book.
TONY:Two summers ago,when I'd just left school,
I managed to get a job for about six weeks over the summer on an archaeological dig.
SASHA:Where was it?Greece or somewhere like that?
TONY:No,nowhere so romantic.It was up near Pistoia,
an Etruscan site.It's in the middle of nowhere.
There were about fifteen of us altogether,all camping out in tents by the dig.
Anyway,at the end of the day--this happened every evening-we all had a meal together and chatted and things.
Nothing else to do,you see.Well,one evening someone,
I think it was Monica,had the bright idea that we should hold some kind of seance.
SASHA:What,all joining hands and things?
TONY:Well,not quite,we had a glass and letters on the table,you know the kind of thing.
SASHA:Where you touch it with your fingertips and it moves around.
TONY:Right...So,there were six of us...We did all the usual thing,'
Is there anybody there?'and,to our amazement,there was.
We asked the spirit to spell its name.
So,anyway,the glass went up and down and spelt out the name Charmiane.
SASHA:That's odd...it's an unusual name,isn't it?
TONY:Yeah,it's,um,it's a girl's name...Well,anyway...
at this one of the guys,called Kurt,he um,turned as white as a sheet...
And when we asked the spirit who it wanted to speak to...
we should have stopped at that point...it started to spell out K-U-R...
And before it could get to T,Kurt stood up and ran out of the tent;
he totally freaked out...I was scared stiff...absolutely petrified by this time...
SASHA:Wow!And did you run after him?
TONY:Sure,but on top of everything it was a really misty night,
there was hardly any moon and all the trenches,you know,the holes we'd dug,were full of mist.
It was really spooky,it was like something out of a horror movie.
We got torches and eventually found him at the bottom of a trench,
shivering,with his teeth chattering,looking out of his mind...
SASHA:Gosh,so who was this Charmiane then?
TONY:He just wouldn't say.The next day he just packed his things and left...
Unit 14 3.Bruce makes predictions about the world in 2025.
Listen and answer the qestions in your students book.
I think that Europe has a great deal to teach the world possibly,
probably more so at this point in time than the United States or even the,the East Asian groups.
Europe has been a source of a lot of trouble in the twentieth
century in its nationalist trouble and political trouble.
If the Europeans can learn to overcome their own tribalism,
then perhaps the rest of the world can learn.
On the other hand,if the Europeans cannot do this,
then I foresee very great trouble,probably another world war,
perhaps more savage than the earlier ones,and that's not a pleasant prospect.
But I don't believe that will in fact happen.I think the Europeans will have their open borders,
I think they will have a one European currency,
and I think they have a good chance of becoming the single
most powerful trading block of the,of the three I see coming.
4.Listen to more of Bruce's predictions.Are these statements in students book true or false?
I believe we will have stopped wasting so many of our resources.
I believe we will have installed much more recycling.
I believe that our industries will have become much cleaner,
they will have been redesigned from top to bottom to save energy,to save resources,to stop,er,pollution.
I believe we will take much more care about what we put into our environment in the way of chemicals and toxins.
I believe also that our eating habits will change drastically.
We will be eating material in 2025 that would be basically unrecognisable to anyone today.
I think there will be a great vogue for artificial foods because they're cheap to make.
I believe practices like slaughtering livestock for food will still
be around but they will have been abandoned in great extent,
not because of moral reasons but basically for financial reasons--
there's simply not going to be room for enormous herds of cattle.
5.Bruce summarises the progress the human race,listen and complete the text in your students book.
We will have become more advanced,but we will not have become any more moral.
I think we will still see the same hypocrisy,the same greed,
the same basic animal traits that have always propelled humanity.
But,on the other hand,I don't believe we will have become any worse
and perhaps our increasing knowledge may bring us a little bit more wisdom.
5.Listen to the pairs of sentences from Exercise 4.Which words are stressed?
One. A:Not only did he name the ship Titan,
but he predicted where the Titanic would sink.
B:He named the ship Titan and also predicted where the Titanic would sink.
Two. A:No sooner did he discover this than he rushed out and placed bets on both of them.
B.As soon as he discovered this he rushed out and placed bets on both of them.
Three A:Never before had there been such a dreadful accident.
B:There had never been such a dreadful accident.
Four A:Hardly had he fallen asleep when he had a terrible dream.
B:A few minutes after he fell asleep he had a terrible dream.
7.Listen and check your answers to exercises 6.
1.No sooner had Mariano had the strange dream than he left the bank.
2.Never before had they had such a strange feeling.
3.The problem was that not only did I lie awake for hours,but I also had nightmares.
4.Hardly had we fallen asleep when the alarm went off.
5.Never before had a premonition saved so many lives.
6.Listen to this talk and answer in your students book.
I think you should let me into the bunker.
After all,everyone is going to be sad and miserable and we'll all get terribly depressed.
We'll need to stay optimistic and cheerful.
Even though I can't cook or make things,
I can keep everyone happy by telling them jokes and organising sketches.
In difficult situations morale is very important.
The last person we want with us is a politician or a soldier.
They're the people who got us into the mess in the first place.
Unit 15 3.Juliet describes a trick her memory played on her,
listen and answer questions in your students book.
It's strange the tricks that memory can play on you.
1,um,remember once going to a department store one dark,
miserable winter's evening,and being um,
suddenly overcome by a feeling of happiness and excitement.
For some reason or other I started to think of the holidays
I used to have in the south of France as a child,and the marvellous times I'd had there.
We'd go down every summer.What surprised me was the strength of the sensation.
It did surprise me really,I mean nothing like that had ever happened before.
And then,a few minutes later,I understood what had caused it;
it was the scent of jasmine,you see,from the perfume counter.
It's a smell I'll always associate with the house we always rented,
there was jasmine there,you see,and its strong sweet perfume would fill the garden--
anyway,without being conscious of it,it had triggered a whole lot of memories.
You know,it's strange that when people talk about the senses,
they think mainly about sight and hearing and touch.
They say taste and smell aren't that important,
but I think taste and smell are really under-rated.
9.Listen to the poem,Piano,by D.H.Lawrence.
Softly,in the dusk,a woman is singing to me;Taking me back down the vista of years,
till I see A child sitting under the piano,in the boom of the tingling strings.
And pressing the small,poised feet of a mother who smiles as she sings.
In spite of myself,the insidious mastery of song Betrays me back,
till the heart of me weeps to belong To the old Sunday evenings at home,with winter outside,
And hymns in the cosy parlour,the tinkling piano our guide.
So now it is vain for the singer to burst into clamour With the great black piano appassionato.
The glamour Of childish days is upon me,
my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance,
I weep like a child for the past.