时间:2019-01-25 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


英语课

Reality TV makes stars out of ordinary people


The latest fashion on British TV is Reality TV. Reality TV means that shows follow and film ordinary people in an artificial situation. This could be at work, or in some kind of competition.


One of the first and most popular Reality TV shows is Big Brother. In this show, 15 complete strangers have to live together in a house for 11 weeks. They are filmed 24 hours a day, and shown on television. Each week, the viewers vote to evict 1 one of the housemates. Finally, only one is left, and they win the prize money – 50 000 pounds!


The show was an instant hit, and runs in several countries. The housemates often become stars as a result of the show, and appear in national newspapers and on other shows.


Another very popular show is I’m a Celebrity– Get Me Out Of Here! In this show, 10 celebrities 2 are taken to the Australian jungle. They have to complete tasks each week, such as eating insects. The show is very expensive to make. The show cost 10 million pounds to make, but over 12 million people in Britain watched the finale.


Reality TV is also big business in the United States. American Idol 3, which is similar to the Chinese Super Girl, is one example. In this show, thousands of would-be singers audition 4 in front of a panel of three judges.


Part of the attraction is that many of the singers are not very good – in fact, some are awful! The judges do not have to be polite, and are in fact usually very rude to some of the contestants 5.


As the show progresses, viewers vote for their favourite singers and the number of singers goes down until only one is left. As a prize, they receive a recording 6 contract with a major record company.


Reality TV is coming to China, too. The hit US show, The Apprentice 7, featured the tycoon 8 and multi-millionaire Donald Trump 9. In the new Chinese version, Wise Man Takes All, 16 would-be businessmen will present their ideas to the judges, and the best one will win 1 million Yuan to make their dream come true. Whatever happens, it seems Reality TV is here to stay.


GLOSSARY 词汇表


reality 现实;真实 


strangers 陌生人 


viewers 观众 


evict 驱逐;逐出 


housemates 同居一屋的人 


hit 成功;轰动一时 


celebrities 名人 


jungle 丛林 


finale 最后一场;结局 


would-be 将要成为…的 


audition 试唱;试演 


awful 非常糟糕的;极坏的 


tycoon 名人 


multi-millionaire 亿万富翁



vt.驱逐,赶出,撵走
  • The lessor can evict the lessee for failure to pay rent.出租人可驱逐不付租金的承租人。
  • The government always says it's for the greater good when they evict farmers from their land.当政府把农民从他们的土地赶出去的时候,总是号称是为了更大众的利益。
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
n.偶像,红人,宠儿
  • As an only child he was the idol of his parents.作为独子,他是父母的宠儿。
  • Blind worship of this idol must be ended.对这个偶像的盲目崇拜应该结束了。
n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)
  • I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音,可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
  • At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初,他们说他太小,但后来他们叫他去试听。
n.竞争者,参赛者( contestant的名词复数 )
  • The competition attracted over 500 contestants representing 8 different countries. 这次比赛吸引了代表8个不同国家的500多名参赛者。
  • Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency. 两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.录音,记录
  • How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间?
  • I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。
n.学徒,徒弟
  • My son is an apprentice in a furniture maker's workshop.我的儿子在一家家具厂做学徒。
  • The apprentice is not yet out of his time.这徒工还没有出徒。
n.有钱有势的企业家,大亨
  • The tycoon is on the verge of bankruptcy.那名大亨濒临破产的边缘。
  • The tycoon has many servants to minister to his needs.那位大亨有很多人服侍他。
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
学英语单词
131I-HSA
a tall drink of water
accelerate(d)
active comet
Alpine type of folding
amurskaya oblast
art of building
awow
bacillaemia
baggage shelves
bedder
bezoar of horse
Bill Daley
blanket pump
break-even graph
Briggsian
Bulbophyllum crassipes
Cambremer
cell of corti
collateral giver
communicating state
control configuration
convulive pulse
coreid bugs
corneal
cosine pulse
Croker I.
crossdisciplinary
cymatium parthenopeum
datives
debye(d)
dentoliva
differential equation
estate by the entirety
Europeanized
fibre finish
frumenty
Gibbs energy function
Glaslough
Gnetum hainanense
Gobēsa
Goodness gracious me !
Gulf of Ob
Haba, Alois
hensens
hitbox
hunans
Jazi
Jominian
Journal of Reproduction and Fertility
kalapooias
lead-alloy-sheathed cable
lifo(last in-first out)
lighting-off
linuron
localization of space
low tension circuit
Lydiate
machining test
main fold
menurid
metrial glands'
motivest
mounted plate
Nizhnyaya Palomitsa
North-South trade
pair formations
paraldehyde enema
phase shifter package
Physcione-monoglucoside
Pilimelia
Pistia L.
plane of substrate
political preparation
psychoanalytic school
room calorimeter
rotary crossed axis shaving
scholar's
schutzs
second grouting
serial data set
sewerage system overflow
shaber
solid state time relay
spiral-flow aeration
stagrant market
standing instruction
stay plate
stewed fruit
suborder Ruminantia
thea biflora hay.
three-dimensional copying milling machine
threephase current transformer
transmitting bank
trapped electromagnetic wave
Udmurt Republic
understitches
uranites
use of heavier rails
Vermigal
volume of receipts
wine coaster