Unit 12
像个孩子歌词Section One Tactics for listening
健康的用英语怎么说Part one spot dictation
Dangers in Your Garage
Imagine that your home contained a small factory with high explosives, dangerous industrial tools and potentially lethal* (1) energy sources. Sound far-fetched? Not really, becau this "factory" is your (2) garage.
The National Safety Council (NSC) says that each year (3)祝旅途愉快 houhold accidents kill about 20,000 Americans and injure another (4) three million. The culprits* in many of the mishaps* are the modem (5) equipment and supplies we keep casually in our garages and tend to (6) take for granted.
Last November, in a suburb of Chicago, three toddlers* (7) spilled a can of gasoline stored i
n a garage. One of the children dropped a tool that (8) struck a spark when it landed on the concrete floor.
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Violet flames flashed in a loud (9) blast. Two of the children were hideously (10) burned and later died. The other child needed (11)盈科而后进的意思 extensive skin grafts* and plastic (12) surgery*.
A Wisconsin man was (13) cutting wood last fall. To move a (14) log, he t his chain saw down on the ground but (15) left it running. When he returned for the saw, he (16) stepped on a branch that flipped the spinning (17) saw blade up toward his head. The cutting bits ripped his face from mouth to ear, (18) knocked out four teeth and left his lower lip hanging. It took more than (19) 180 stitches to clo the wounds, and later he required neurosurgery* and extensive (20) dental work.
Part two Listening for gist
What is love? And what caus it? An American professor, Charles Zastrow, offers an inte
resting answer, particularly to the cond question. He argues that there are many kinds of love and that particularly in one kind, which he calls "romantic love", we are strongly influenced not so much by what we actually feel but by what we tell ourlves about the way we feel. He calls this "lf-talk" .
For example, say a woman is strongly attracted to a man. (It could just as easily happen to a man attracted to a woman.) She tells herlf things like "He is all I have ever wanted in a man! He is warm, kind and affectionate and will understand all my needs." But when she discovers that he is, like all of us, just an ordinary human being with both strong and weak points, she is bitterly disappointed.
He points out that this kind of love often begins to fade and die as soon as the problems and obstacles which parate the two people are removed and a normal relationship begins.
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He contrasts romantic love with what he calls "rational love". This is bad on such things as:
- an accurate, objective idea of the other person's strengths as well as their weakness;
- the ability to communicate with each other openly and honestly, so that you can deal with problems as they ari;
- the ability to show affection openly to each other and to give as well as receive;
- a clear knowledge of your own goals in life;
- realistic and rational "lf-talk", so that your feelings are not bad on fantasy.
This kind of love is far more likely to lead to a lasting, satisfying relationship. But it is much more difficult to achieve, and is not as frequent as romantic love.
Exerci
Directions: Listen to the passage and write down the gist and the key words that help you decide.
1. This passage is about two kinds of love - romantic love and rational love.
2. The key words are "romantic love". influenced. "lf-talk". fade and die. problems and obstacles. removed. normal relationship: "rational love". accurate. objective. strengths. weakness. / communicate. show affection openly. a clear knowledge. goals in life. realistic and rational. lasting. satisfy博士熊ing relationship. difficult. achieve.
Section Two Listening Compression
Part 1 Dialogue
The Teacher
Interviewer: I recently read an article which said that in primary schools in particular chances of promotion of women teachers are less than men, that men generally get promoted far quicker than women in primary education. Is this something you've noticed or is this something you feel?
Mary: No, this is something that is so. And we come back full circle really becau it's not just teaching. I mean it's everything that men are getting promotion more quickly than
women. In the primary ctor there are far more women teachers than men but there are more headmasters than headmistress.
Interviewer: So where does that leave someone like you? I mean what, what are the possibilities of your promotion in primary education? At the moment you're in charge of a ction of the school.
