新视野大学英语听说教程4听力原文

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ld be valued above all else? 8. W: What do you think? Is it dangerous to be unlike other people sometimes? M: Nah. I think it39。 s more dangerous to be similar to others that39。 s when you run the risk of being insignificant and fotten. Q: According to the man, what is dangerous? 9. M: I suppose I couldVe been successful by being like other people, but I felt that I should express my own original ideas. And I think this is a lesson you should learn. W: Ma says the same thing about her success. I guess thinking the same about that is what first brought you two together? Q。 What is the relationship between the speakers?2. W: Fm not saying that your work is poor, just that it lacks imagination. You haven39。 t done anything to set yourself apart from your classmates. M: If my assignments look so much like others, why do you give me lower grades than you give them? Q。 What is the relationship between the speakers? Long conversations Look at you, a III dressed up in a bowller hat, looking all dapper like Charlie Chaplin, It39。 s not Halloween though Are you going to leave the house looking like that? Would you believe that I39。 m going to a party? If there was a party tonight I would39。 ve heard about it by now. So what39。 s the deal? rm auditioning for a film, I thought, welllL this Ibok worked well for Chap IS a So you thought it39。 d work for you, I don_t think much of that idea. Why not? Chaplin got a lot of success because of his Little Tramp costume. And fve copied it exactly, Chaplin did very well 一 but that39。 s because the look was originalL He di dn39。 t copy anyone in H W: But look, I39。 m a woma^ a woman dressed like Chaplin, That39。 s original, isn39。 t it? M: rm afraid not, fm pretty sure that I39。 ve seen other women do the same thing. If you really want to succeed like Chaplin did, you should do what he did. Try to invent and develop something people haverVt seen before, W。 I guess you39。 re right. 111 go back up to my room and change, 1, What are the speakers talking about? 2, Why is the woman dressed like Chaplin? 3, What can be inferred from the conversation? 4, Besides hbe originar, what advice does the man have for the woman? 5, Where is the conversation takmg place? Passag Some people stand out as tryliy special and one of a kind. Charlie Chaplin, a superstar of silent edies and one of the great icons of the 20thcentury film, is one of those unique people, Chapin had a rotten childhood and an earty start on stage, performing even as a child in vaudeville. He went to Hollywood in 1914 and began acting in silent edies By 1915, he controlled most aspects of his films, in which he usually appeared! as a character called simply the ^Little Tramp39。 *: a lovabfyshabby direamer with a bushy moustache, bowler hat and cane, Chapin was one of the founders of United Arti sts Studios and was one of the first movie makers to have plete control over his features. His bestknown films include 192539。 s The Gold Rush^ 1931fs City Lights, and 193639。 s Modern Times. Famously outspoken and sympathetic to munism, Chaplin left the United States in 1952 because of increased political piressun He settled in Switzeirlandi where he and his wife Oona raised eight children, including actress Geraldine Chaplin. In 1972 he returned to the United States to accept a special Oscar, and in 1975, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth IL 1, What is this passage about? 2. What did Chaplin do when he went to Hollywood? 3. What did the Little Tramp39。 * look like? 4, What can be inferred firom the passage? 5 When did the Queen make Chapilin a kniight? Home work Taskl 第 29 页 W。 My friends have pared my film to the best of Orson Welles39。 works. How can you criticize it? M: You… Welles? I, well, urn, I appreciate your confidence in yourselif But you do know who Wellies was, right? W: Nah, I don39。 t watch films by British directors. M: You really don39。 t know who Wellies was at all! Welles was American! Do you even pay attention to my lectures? W。 I don39。 t listen to people talk about films。 I make films,『 m a doer, M: You really have to pay attention from now oa Welles first became famous on the radio, especially for his reading of War of the Worlds in 1938. Three years later, he made his first movie, Citizen Kane, in 1941 Other films of hiis include The Magnificent A m bersons in 1942 and The Lady From Shanghai in 1948, People consider Kane to be his best film, W: That must be the one that I39。 ooks like my film. M: People consider it not only his best film, but the best film in movie history. Do you realty think your film is that good? W: My mom seems to think so. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the conversation you have just heard 1, What are the speakers talking about? 2, What can be inferred from the conversation? 3, Why doesn39。 t the woman listen to the man more? 4, When was Citizen Kane made? 5, What is the relationship between the speakers? Task2 第 30 页 When Eli vis Presley died on August 16s 1977, radio and television programs a I over the world we ire interrupted to give the news of his death. President Carter was asked to declare a day of national mourning. Eighty thousand people attended his funeral In the summer of 1953 ElMs paid four dollars and recorded two songs for his mother39。 s birthday at Sam Phillips39。 Sun Records Studio, Sam Philips heard Elvis and asked him to record 39。 That39。 s All! Righf in Julh/, 1954, Twenty thousand copies were solid, mainly in and around Memphis, On January 10, 1956, Elivis recorded 39。 ^Heartbreak Hotel39。 and a million copies were sold in the next fourteen months he made a no their fourteen records1 and they were all big hits. In 1956 he also made his first film in Hollywood, In 1972 his wife left him, and they were divorced in October, 1973, Elvis died from a heart attack in 1977, He had been abusing his body for several years by eating and drinking too much and taking a。