Unit Seven Being Famous
I.Pre-listening Activities
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Part2 1.your talent 2.groundbreaking advances 3. Break the record
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5.Work it
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Whether walking the red carpet,publishing in respected and influential magazines or taking a place in the record books,becoming famous requires patience and strategy.
Find and develop your talent.Famous actors,writers,physicists and explorers all discovered their passion and spent time developing it.Send an audition tape to a reality show.Post your talents online at
popular websites like You Tube and Myspace.
Produce groundbreaking advances in your field.Attract attention by exceeding expectations of judges in your area of experti.If you have natural talent in your chon field,continue to further your knowledge.Take class and apply to the most respected and prestigious programs.
Break the record of the person who is the highest record holder in your arena.Conquer something previously thought unconquerable-mountains and long-distance flights.Set a goal and overcome it.Succeed and there9s a good chance to be remembered by historians for years.
Position yourlf to be noticed.Move to a big city and gain more opportunities to tap into the national market.Obtain as much information about your industry and apply it.
Work it.Wherever you go,act like someone who should be noticed.Even if you aren't famous yet,people notice confidence.
II.Listening Tasks
Task1Understanding News Reports
News Item1
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News Item2
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News Item3
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News Item One
Questions1and2will be bad on the following news item.
Belgian curity forces are continuing to arch for a man en with two suicide bombers at the airport and metro attacks in Brusls,Belgium.
At least31people were killed and271wounded.The Islamic State terrorist group is claiming responsibility for the attacks.A U.S.official told VOA there is no reason to doubt the claim.
Belgian federal procutor Frederic Van Leeuw confirmed that two of the attackers were brothers—Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui.
On Tuesday,Belgian police relead a photograph of three men taken from clod-circuit television at the airport.Van Leeuw said Ibrahim and an unidentified man,both wearing dark clothing,died in the airport attacks.
Security forces are now looking for the third person in the photo.The man was wearing a white jacket with a black hat.
考研考试时间安排Questions:
1.What is the number of casualties in the airport and metro attacks in Brusls?
2.Which of the following statements about the attackers is NOT true according to the news?
News Item Two
Questions1and2will be bad on the following news item.
In America,one big Easter tradition nds children hunting for hidden Easter eggs.Children carry baskets and collect eggs made of chocolate or candy.They arch in the hou,their yards or a park.
But one egg hunt on Saturday went wrong in the northeastern State of Connecticut.A candy company hosted an egg hunt for children.The company is called PEZ,and it hid more than9,000 eggs on its property in Connecticut.But way more people showed up than the candy maker expected.
The egg hunt was t up on three parate fields,and children would be assigned to hunt for eggs bad on their ages.But Monday morning,stories reported parents going out of control at the hunt and made PEZ one of the top trending topics on Facebook.
It turns out the parents rushed on to the fields where the eggs were hidden.They said they were trying to get eggs for their children.But instead,they left behind a lot of hurt feelings.
Questions:
1.Who hosted the egg hunt on its property in Connecticut?
2.What happened at the egg hunt on Saturday in Connecticut?
News Item Three
Questions1to3will be bad on the following news item.
In Ohio's presidential primary recently,17-year-olds were permitted to vote.Thafs unusual becau the voting age in the United States is18.But during this election campaign,some people want to change the voting rules.
In Ohio,a judge ruled that17-year-olds who turn18before the November8general election can vote.
Several groups,including Generation Citizen,want local governments to permit all16-and 17-year-olds to vote.Generation Citizen argues that lowering the voting age will increa interest in government and politics.
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“A lower voting age would involve parents,teachers,and community members in the process of learning to vote,and ultimately voting themlves,raising adult voter turnout/9said Oliver York, age16.He is a junior at a San Francisco high school and working with Generation Citizen's"'Vote
16USA Campaign".
Arguments against lowering the voting age include:16-and17-year-olds are not mature enough and would vote the way their parents do.
Here is what one person wrote on the website:"It's simply the fact that people at 16-17-years-old don't have the emotional or mental maturity of someone20-years-old.Their minds are still crazed with the chemicals of being a teenager.^,
Questions:
1.What do some groups including Generation Citizen want local governments to do?
2.Who is Oliver York according to the news?
3.Why are some people against lowering voting age?
Task2Understanding a Long Conversations
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Conversation Two
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Conversation One
W:Good evening,and welcome to tonight's edition of Legendary Lives.Our subject this evening is James Dean一actor and hero for the young people of his time.Edward Nervy is the author of a new biography of Dean.Good evening,Edward!
M:Hello,Tina!
W:Edward,tell us what you know about Dean's early life.
M:He was born in Indiana in1931,but his parents moved to California when he was five.He wasn't there long,though,becau his mother pasd away just four years later.James'father nt him back to Indiana after that to live with his aunt.
W:So how did he get into acting?
M:Well,first he acted in plays of high school,then he went to college in California where he got riously into acting.In1951,he moved to New York to more stage acting.
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W:Then when did his movie career really start?
M:1955.His first starring role was in East of E den.It was fabulous.Dean became a huge success.
But the movie that really made him famous was his cond one—Rebel without Cau.That was about teenagers who felt like they didn't fit into the society.
W:So how many more movies did he make?
M:Just one more.Then he died in a car crash in California in1955.
W:What a tragedy!He only made three movies.So what made him the legend he still is today? M:Well,I guess is his looks,his acting ability,his short life and maybe the type of character he played in his movies.Many young people thought him as a symbol of American youth. Questions1to5are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
1.Who is Edward Nervy?
2.When did James Dean and his parents moved to California?
3.Which movie really made Dean famous?
4.How did James Dean die?
5.Which of the following statements is true according to the conversation?
Conversation Two
M:So,this is the first time we've met.
W:Yes,it is.
M:And my producers tell me that your real name is Jo.All this time I thought you were"J.K." W:(Laughing)Yeah.
M:J.
W:Is just the nom de一well,ifs becau my British publisher.When the first book came out,they thought C4this is a book that will appeal to boys",but they didn't want the boys to know a woman had written it.So they said to me'could we u your initials9and I said"fine".I only have one initial.I don't have a middle name.So I took my favorite grandmother's name,Kathleen.
M:And fooled the boys for a while.
W:Yeah,not for too long,becau I started getting my picture in the press and no one could pretend
I was a man anymore.
M:Yes,and I don't think the boys have minded.
W:No,it hasn't held me back,has it?Clearly not held me back.
M:Is there something about being here,in this particular hotel where we are that you thought would be particularly stimulating to your creative process.Thafs why you wanted to come here?To finish?
bellyW:Well,it turned out to be stimulating.For years and years and years I just would go to a cafe and sit in a different kind of noi and work.I thought"I can go to a quiet place”.So I came to this hotel becau it's a beautiful hotel,but I didn't intend to stay here.They were so nice to me here 一and I think writers can be a little bit superstitious—so the first day's writing went well so I kept coming back to this hotel and I ended up finishing the last of the Harry Potter books in this hotel.
Questions1to4are bad on the conversation you have just heard.
1.Why did the woman write under a pen name?
2.What did the boys do when they knew J.K.was a woman?
3.Where did the woman ud to write?
4.What makes the hotel special for the woman?
Task3Understanding Passages
Passage One
Listening f or general information
1.The world spends most of the time looking at the celebrity"elite".
2.Teenage daughters want to marry or become the girlfriend of a celebrity.
Listening f or specific information
1.A
2.B
3.C
4.B
5.D
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Listening f or general information
The world spends most of the time looking at the celebrity"elite"and occasionally trying to emulate,on a much smaller scale,what they e there.Our celebrity culture is as it is but,as a new study shows,if it's not filtered,ifs our teenage daughters that have the most to suffer from it, since they grow up to believe that marrying or becoming the girlfriend of a celebrity is what they want from life.
Undertaken by the British Girls'School Association,on the occasion of the launch of a new site called My Daughter,which aims to help teens deal with age-specific issues,the poll showed that wife and girlfriends ranked the highest in terms of negative influence on youngsters.They make girls give up academic learning,in order to aspire to,some day,become the partner of a celebrity opting for high-heels and low IQs as a way of life.
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However,given that the girls in question are surrounded almost constantly by such models from their peers to the celebrities they so admire,it's up to the parents to make them e the difference between the options that are prented to them.
Other bad influences that must be counteracted by parents are the so-called"It girls,,reality TV stars and,last but not least,celebrity magazines.Nevertheless,not all television is bad television.The same poll showed that TV shows like the long-running ER and Casualty prompt young girls to opt for a career in medicine.
Listening f or specific information
1.Who will suffer from celebrity culture most according to the study mentioned in the passage?
2.Why does the British Girls'School Association launch a new site called"My Daughter"?
3.Who should help girls e the difference between the options that are prented to them?
4.Which of the following items is NOT mentioned as bad influences on girls?
5.What profession are young girls encouraged to take after watching the shows ER and Casualty
according to the poll?
Passage Two
Listening f or general information
1.how to become a celebrity.
2.Five steps and four tips.
Listening f or specific information
l.B 2.C 3.B 4.A 5.C
■Script
Listening f or general information
Andy Warhol once said that everyone will have15minutes of fame.This may or may not be true,but to achieve celebrity status and stay there,you'll have to be persistent.Here are some things to keep in mind.
路边停车技巧The steps are as follows.First,have a personality,any personality.Without this,forget the rest.Second,work on your singular talent,whether it's cooking,acting,singing,writing,whatever. Third,try to reach the widest possible audience.Then,get a good publicist.You must be on front pages or inner covers.Always get a full page somewhere or a page where your mug dominates. Finally,Start anywhere and smile.Work your way up in circulation.
