1、此文档仅供收集于网络,如有侵权请联系网站删除 目录 Unit one Education 3 ****************Part one Problems with us Education*************** 3 Listening Script one 3 Listening Script two 4 *********************Part two Arts Education ******************* 5 Listing script one 5 Listening Script two 6 ***************Par
2、t Three graduate education******************* 7 Listening Script one 7 Listening Script two 8 Unit two love 9 *************************Part One Romance********************* 9 Listening script one 9 Listening script two 10 **********************Part Two Eternal love********************** 12
3、 Listening script one 12 Listening script two 13 ********************Part Three The Power of Love****************** 15 Listening script one 15 Listening script two 16 Unit Three Health 18 *************Part One Is Overweight a Problem?*************** 18 Listening script one 18 Listening scri
4、pt two 19 **************Part Two New Four Food Group***************** 20 Listening script one 20 Listening script two 21 ************Part Three There Are Worse Things than Dying********** 22 Listening script one 22 Listening script two 24 Unit four technology 25 **********************Part o
5、ne cell phone******************** 25 Listening script one 25 Listening script two 26 *********************Part two internet*********************** 27 Listening script one 27 Listening script two 28 *******************Part three computer giants***************** 30 Listening script one 30 List
6、ening script two 31 Unit Five Success and Happiness 32 ********************Part one Success Is a Choice******************** 32 Listening Script one 32 Listening Script two 33 ******************Part Two Can We Find Happiness***************** 34 Listening Script one 34 Listening Script two 35
7、Part Three The Sweet Success of Branding************* 36 Listening Script one 36 Listening Script two 38 Unit Six Globalization 40 *************Part one Three Eras of Globalization************* 40 Listening Script one 40 Listening Script two 40 ***************Part Two Globaliza
8、tion and China************** 41 Listening Script one 41 Listening Script two 42 ************Part Three Globalization and Inequality************ 43 Listening Script one 43 Listening Script two 44 Unit Seven Plagiarism 45 ******************Part one Defining Plagiarism**************** 45 Listen
9、ing Script one 45 Listening Script two 45 *****************Part Two Plagiarism in College*************** 46 Listening Script one 46 Listening Script two 47 ****************Part Three Avoiding Plagiarism*************** 48 Listening Script one 48 Listening Script two 49 Unit Eight Patriotism 5
10、0 ******************Part one My Chinese Heart***************** 50 Listening Script one 50 Listening Script two 51 ***************Part Two Comments on Patriotism************** 52 Listening Script one 52 Listening Script two 53 ****************Part Three Pride of the Nation***************** 53
11、 Listening Script one 53 Listening Script two 54 Unit one Education ****************Part one Problems with us Education*************** Listening Script one When I was in college I had an English major and for a while I considered going into tea
12、ching. While I was exploring the possibility of becoming a teacher, I did a lot of thinking about the way that the education system in the United States is run. And I disagree with a lot of the ways that things seem to happen and have happened for a long time in our educational system. Uh ... peop
13、le don't seem to recognize various kinds of intelligence; they seem to just want to give standardized tests and peg you for what you are capable of very early on your education. I've always felt that a lot of classes that you’re forced to take in high school are not really geared towards what you ar
14、e going to be doing. There’s very little emphasis on your own special interests. Uh ... everybody’s sort of treated like they're the same person. Everything is very generalized. There’s a lot of uh ... there’s a lot of pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible. I think being well-rounde
15、d isn’t really possible because it becomes impossible to develop any one part of yourself, um ... to any great degree. And as a result people can’t get into good colleges if they, yaknow, haven’t, yaknow, scored the ... the right thing on the math section of SAT, even if they are brilliant writers,
16、and vice versa. You know, um... people just really are not given a chance, I think, in a lot of cases. Another thing that really disturbs me is the way that students are separated from each other. I got involved with vocational education, uh ... which means that the kids go out to a technical or tr
17、ade school for part of the week, and then they come back to the home school for the other part of the week and they take their academic classes. However, those kids are kept separate from the rest of the school almost as if they’re below them. There’s a lot of stratification. Um ... at any rate I fe
18、el that the kids are very aware of the way that they’re perceived by the educators, by their teachers and, yaknow, by their peers. And I think that it ... it causes them to act in a way that... is ... not really optimal. And that’s pretty sad to me. I actually had kids tell me when I was teaching th
19、em, “yaknow, we’re the just bad class; we... yaknow, it’s not that we have a problem with you personally; yaknow, we are just bad. We are bad kids” because pretty much that was what they felt they were. And yaknow, their classes were very limiting, uh the teachers never try to do anything creative w
20、ith those classes. I think that many of the kids in that class were intelligent, but never actually realized their potential because of the way they were tracked very early on their education. Listening Script two Margaret Warner: Mr. Unz. Why do you believe that bilingual education should be scra
21、pped? Ron Unz: Well, the overwhelming practical evidence is that bilingual education has failed on every large scale case that’s been tried in the United States, in particular in California. The origins of this initiative was the case last year of a lot of immigrant Latino parents in downtown LA, w
22、ho had to begin a public boycott of their local elementary school to try to force the school to give their children the right to be taught English, which the school was denying. And I think that really opened my eyes to the current state of the program in California, where the statistics are dreadfu
23、l. Margaret Warner: Mr. Lyons. Janies Lyons: It is not the case that bilingual education is failing children. There are poor bilingual education programs, just as there are poor programs of every type in our schools today. But bilingual education has made it possible for children to have continuou
24、s development in their native language, while they're in the process of learning English, something that doesn't hap pen overnight, and it’s made it possible for children to learn math and science at a rate equal to English-speaking children while they’re in the process of acquiring English. Margar
25、et Warner: Mr. Unz, what about that point — for these children who don't speak English well they will fall behind in the basic subjects if they can't be taught those in Spanish, or whatever language? I shouldn’t say just Spanish, but whatever their family’s language is. Ron Unz: That’s a very reaso
26、nable point. And to the extent that we’re talking about older children. 14 or 15 year olds who come to the United States, don't know any English and are put in the public schools I think a very reasonable case can be made for bilingual education. I don’t know if it’s correct, but at least you can ma
27、ke a case for it. But most of the children we're talking about enter California or America public schools when they’re five or six or seven. At the age of five years old, the only academic subjects a child is really doing is drawing with crayons or cutting and, you know, with paper and that type of
28、thing. And at that age children can learn another language so quickly and easily that the only reasonable thing to do is to put them in a program where they're taught English as rapidly as possible and then put into the mainstream classes with the other children so they can move forward academically
29、 Margaret Warner: There is something to that point, isn’t there, Mr. Lyons, that very young children do absorb languages very quickly? James Lyons: They absorb certain facets of language very quickly. They learn to speak in an unaccented form like a native English speaker. But the research shows
30、 that actually adults are much more efficient and quicker language learners than children because they're working from a broader linguistic base, a greater conceptual base. I really take objection to what Mr. Unz is saying that children at the age of five, six, and seven are only coloring and cuttin
31、g out paper. That isn't going to lead to the high standards. *********************Part two Arts Education ******************* Listing script one Interviewer: Professor Gardner, what did you find in your studies to be the biggest difference between arts education in the United States and arts educ
32、ation in China? What struck you most, then? Gardner: I was so struck by the differences between arts education in the United States and arts education in China. US youngsters love to explore and think that they explore very well; and yet, without the requisite discipline, their products are typic
33、ally of little interest — except perhaps to their doting parents. Education in all of the arts in China is very precisely prescribed. Teachers and parents know exactly what they want children to be able to do and they know how to get the desired behaviour and performance in almost perfect fashion.
34、 On the other hand, there is little free exploration. But I must add another surprise. When young children in China were given a novel task in the arts, they performed very well. Before visiting China, I had thought that young people must always begin with a period of free exploration, before they
35、begin to acquire discipline and skills. After visiting China and thinking about what I had seen, I came to a different conclusion. It is not important that one "explore" first; what is important is that one has a significant period for exploration, either before, during, or after one has acquired so
36、me discipline. Interviewer: As you might have noticed, these days after-school classes in music, dance, painting and calligraphy are very popular in China, although many of the "young emperors" might not be so willing to learn all these "extra skills." What's your opinion on this? Gardner: The f
37、ewer children you have, and the more resources at your disposal, the more likely you are to give your children every form of enrichment. China has thousands of years of history of encouraging talent development, so it is not at all a surprise that many kids are taking after-school arts classes. But
38、what children do when their parents push them, is very different than what they do when they grow up, and their parents are no longer in control of the rewards and punishment. By and large, those grown up students who continue their area of talent are those who use the talent professionally and thos
39、e who gain intrinsic pleasure from the activity. Interviewer: In recent years, art museums and community arts centres have been mushrooming in China as the country experiences rapid modernization and internationalization. How do you balance arts education in schools and arts education beyond school
40、 Walls? Gardner: It is entirely to the good that students now have opportunities to learn about the arts outside of class — in museums, in children’s palaces, through the electronic media, community centres, and outdoor installations. Very often children learn much more comfortably and personally
41、 in what we call “informal educational settings.” Optimally, there should be a division of labour between schools and informal settings. As just one example: Schools could focus more on providing history and cultural background — whereas museums might provide the opportunity to learn about special
42、 topics, or probe into a topic more deeply. Listening Script two Ann: Do you find there’s much opportunity... to do other things, besides studying, during term- time? I mean, if you have a, a very academic course, you say the social life is good, but you might not always have time to, er, enjoy i
43、t, if you ... have a lot... Ian: Not being a very academic course, I wouldn’t know. Ann: How about you, Tony? Tony: I suppose ... a business course isn’t particularly academic, if you like, but, er, I certainly find quite enough time to do newspapers and ... all I want to do on the social side
44、 [Yes] Go to dances and so, on. Ian: But then you work till five in the morning, don’t you? [Laughter] Tony: Let’s not bring personalities into this! Ann: D'you think that a lot of students, are interested in producing things like newspapers and plays and writing poetry? Tony: No, but a lot o
45、f students like to have those things and a few students like to do them. This is why, I mean if you had—out of a college of, what is it, fifteen hundred students — if you had five hundred students going along to the Drama Club on the first week of term ... they try and mount two productions out of
46、five hundred people. It’d be absolutely impossible. Yet, there are those, the sufficient people to see, what is it, twenty, thirty people, doing those productions. It’s the same with the newspaper. Ann: Yes. But erm, I think this is because more students haven’t got the confidence to show the work
47、they do. I think a lot of students write things and paint, in the background, and just don’t like to er ... Ian: Er, I think, I think myself, they’re just not interested, in [You don’] sort of taking part in joint efforts. They prefer just to erm, well, they might write poetry on their own or some
48、thing, but they were asked to write something for a newspaper, they wouldn’t be interested. Ann: Is this because the courses are too difficult? They have too much academic work, as I said before? Tony: I think it’s all psychological, to bring a nice big word into it! Erm ... those students think
49、they shouldn’t do it, because they think they won’t have [Mm] time and so on. I think this is the thing. It’s not a question of not having enough time. It’s just organizing it. I mean, Ian says I stay up till five in the morning or whatever, you know, never go to bed till two. [Yes] You can, if you,
50、 if you’re determined to do something, you can arrange it. You can say, “Okay, I’ll do the newspaper between lectures finishing at four, or whatever, and go home at six”, and you have two hours a day on the newspaper, say. You know, [Yes] just, say, this is a way of organizing things. A lot of other






