新世纪大学英语视听说5听力原文

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s.... Now, let39。 s look at your daily habits. You have cable TV, right? Joel: Yeah. Mr. Young: And what about magazine subscriptions? Did you calculate that for me? Carrie: Yep. We spend about $250 a year on magazines. The cable bill runs about ... I don39。 t know ... what is it? Joel: About 50 buck a month? Carrie: I think it39。 s more like 60 ... So that es out to about $720 a year. Mr. Young: OK, so let39。 s say we cut back on half of the magazines that39。 s $125 a year plus eliminate the $720 for cable. Carrie: Wow, that39。 s almost $900 saved over a year. And we hardly watch TV anyway. Joel: Seems doable to me. Mr. Young: This is the way we need to look at it. Now, what about entertainment things like going to the movies, concerts, clubbing, going out to eat...? Joel: Well, we don39。 t really go out that often. Carrie: Yeah, maybe we go to the movies or see a band somewhere once or twice a month. Joel: And we do meet friends for dinner on Saturdays, but most of the week, we eat at home. Carrie: Yeah, but we do get takeout at the Chinese restaurant about once a week. Joel: Oh yeah. And I usually grab a cup of coffee in the morning on my way to work. Does that count? Mr. Young: You know, if you buy a cup of coffee every morning it can really add up. Just think about how much you spend every day. Now think about how much that coffee will cost you over 10 years. Joel: Wow. I had no idea. Mr. Young: Yeah ... I39。 d suggest taking your own from home. Carrie: Sounds like another great way for us to save. Mr. Young: Good! Now, about eating out and going places with friends... Track 524 A. A professor is talking to his class about migrant workers. Listen to the lecture and number the topics in the order ill which they are presented. Today, we are going to start looking at the impact that migrant workers have been having around the world, and at some of the challenges that they face on both personal and institutional levels. By the end of this lecture, 1 hope you e to realize that migrant workers are not only very important to national economies but also to the global economy, and that they will continue to grow in importance as countries and panies pete more aggressively to enhance their human resources. Let me start out by giving you some statistics. Today, almost one out of every ten residents in many industrialized nations is from another country, and the number of people living and working outside their home countries has more than doubled since the mid1970s to almost 180 million. In fact, over the last ten years, thousands of people have traveled abroad in search of opportunity, and this movement has been noticed, and even encouraged, by different countries, as I will explain later. For example, Japan and Canada, and countries in Europe, Australasia, and the Middle East are beginning to realize how important workers from abroad are to their economies. Migrant workers bring with them special skills needed in an industrialized nation, and they are also willing to do Certain jobs that many citizens won39。 t do, such as janitorial and factory work. In addition, by working abroad and sending money home, migrant workers are helping to improve the lives of their families. Money sent home can be used to buy a house, send someone to school, or start a small business. These are opportunities that families in some countries might not have otherwise. Moreover, the money that migrant workers send home has an impact on the economies of their countries of origin. It helps to sustain, and sometimes improve, the economic wellbeing of the home country. In 2020, for example, Brazilian workers in Japan sent more money home than Brazil made by exporting coffee that year. Another statistic points out that a very small percentage of india39。 s population, only zero point one percent (%), live and work in the . However, these workers earn and send back almost ten percent (10%) of india39。 s national ine. Industrialized nations that have the largest number of migrant workers are now changing their laws to make it easier for foreign workers to enter, and remain in their countries. Many countries are now allowing dual citizenship which was quite unmon in the recent past, especially in developing nations. And now, a citizen of one country can live and work abroad as a citizen of another nation, and still send money back to his or her home country. Living and working in a foreign country is not easy of course, but many migrant workers have a strong sense of purpose. One man I met from Mumbai told me that although he missed being with his family, he knew that he had made the right decision to move here, and in the long run, it would be worth it. Now, are there any questions before we move on? Unit 2, Lesson B Britain39。 s migrant boom TV reporter: When the flags were raised back in May to salute the arrival often new countries in the European Union, there was one sour note. Worried at the prospect of increased immigration, many of the older EU states put restrictions on the free movement of iners to work in their countries. But now those who didn39。 t, like Britain, are gaining dividends. FPB official: Several British firms have actually set up shop in Poland for a few days, doing a sort of work trade, if you like, where people have applied for jobs and the firms found them have signed them up, found them acmodation here, and they39。 re working happily. TV reporter: Handy for Poland, where unemployment runs around 20%。 but good, too, for Britain, where employers back the Bank of England39。 s verdict that the influx of job seekers is helping to keep down interest rates. CBI official:They explain why we are continuing to see increases in employment, reductions in u。