新编大学英语自主2Unit 7

[00:05.98]Practice One Are You a Litter Lout 1?

[00:10.66]Words You Need to Know

[00:12.89]litter lout       core

[00:22.10]volunteer     package    recycle

[00:35.57]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which sentences have been mentioned.

[00:44.71]If the sentence is mentioned, write "Y" (Yes). If not, write "N" (No).

[00:53.35]Have you ever left an apple core on a bench or wall, or an empty drink bottle sitting by a lamp-post?

[01:00.12]And have you ever left your newspaper behind on a train seat when you've finished reading it?

[01:05.45]If you answered "Yes" to just one of these questions, then you are a litter lout, according to the Tidy Britain Group.

[01:12.90]Litter is a big problem in Britain. This organization is trying to deal with about 6 million tons of litter left on the streets each year.

[01:22.40]The aim is "Getting away from litter". Last year 1.6 million volunteers got involved in thousands of events-cleaning up rivers, streets and other areas.

[01:34.18]In one place 150 people collected 20 tons of litter in only one morning!

[01:40.40]Packaging makes up 60 per cent of litter dropped, and one way of dealing 2 with this is to recycle it.

[01:46.96]Bottle banks and litter centers are appearing all over the country, but Tidy Britain says that more are needed and that not enough people use them.

[01:56.14]By the way, it appears that more men than women are litter louts.

[02:00.67]In 1990, over 2000 men were punished for dropping litter against around 200 women! (203 words)

[02:07.58]1)If you answered "Yes" to just one of these questions then you are a litter lout.

[02:16.04]2)The country is not going to think about the problem of litter.

[02:21.88]3)Six million volunteers got involved in thousands of events-cleaning up rivers, streets and other areas.

[02:31.74]4)If you want to recycle the litter, you'll have to have a large bank.

[02:38.80]5)Bottle banks and litter centers are appearing all over the country.

[02:46.36]6)More louts are needed and not enough people belong to that kind of louts.

[02:54.06]7)In comparison, over 2000 men were punished for dropping litter against around 200 women.

[03:03.78]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide which of the following are mentioned as litter.

[03:13.46]Put a tick ( ) beside it.

[03:15.88]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and answer the following questions briefly 3.

[03:26.14]1)What are you called if you have left litter around?

[03:31.32]2)What is the organization of "The Tidy Britain Group" trying to do?

[03:39.31]3)How many volunteers joined in the events?

[03:43.74]4)What did the volunteers do in the event?

[03:48.06]Practice Two Does Anyone Care?

[03:53.17]Words You Need to Know

[03:55.40]psychology 4     incident     metro 5

[04:10.63]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions.

[04:22.04]In 1985 a French television company sent its reporters to the Paris Metro.

[04:29.71]They took cameras to see what passengers would do if they saw someone attacked on the platform or trains.

[04:37.60]The incidents looked real but they were all done with the help of actors.

[04:42.64]However, very few people tried to help,and most passengers pretended not to notice.

[04:49.98]In one incident, a foreigner was attacked by three men.

[04:54.88]The attack was on a train which was quite full, and although one man tried to get the other passengers to help,

[05:02.29]they all refused. This is not only a French problem.

[05:08.16]A British newspaper reported in 1991 that a professor of Social Psychology in New York had sent his students out to rob their own cars.

[05:21.52]The students didn't try to hide what they were doing.

[05:25.51]About 800 people watched 250 car thefts, and only twelve people tried to stop the student robbers

[05:34.84]In a typical incident, one man stopped, looked, and then put his hands over his eyes and shouted "I didn't see that!"

[05:44.84]About forty people offered to help the thieves, and two people actually sat down next to the car and waited to buy a camera and television set a student was taking from the back seat of his own car.

[06:00.54]The professor wonders whether it's a problem of big cities, or would the same thing happen anywhere.  (234 words)

[06:08.71]1)Who carried out the experiment on the platform and trains?

[06:13.90]2)How could the incidents be described?

[06:19.08]3)Why didn't passengers help those being attacked?

[06:24.01]4)What did 40 people do when the cars were robbed?

[06:28.87]5)What is the conclusion we can get from the passage?

[06:33.84]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again. Fill in the numbers to show whether the following expressions are mentioned in the first experiment ( ) or the second experiment ( ) .

[06:49.21]Practice Three Changes in the World

[06:54.18]Words You Need to Know

[06:56.12]terrorist    hostage    hijack     violate     starve

[07:19.92]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

[07:31.66]Many people say the world is becoming a more dangerous place.

[07:36.37]In almost every area of the world, something bad is happening.

[07:40.87]Many countries are having political problems. Some are fighting wars with their neighbors.

[07:47.17]In others, people are making trouble against their own government and fighting wars.

[07:53.62]Terrorists 6 are taking hostages 7 and hijacking 8 planes to make demands on their government or on the government of another country.

[08:02.29]Some countries are violating 9 the human rights of some of their citizens.

[08:06.76]People in those countries as well as in other countries are against the government.

[08:12.26]Besides political problems, there are also economic problems.

[08:17.41]In some countries, there is not enough food, and people are starving.

[08:22.67]In others, such as the US, unskilled workers are losing their jobs as technology keeps increasing.

[08:30.41]There are also many social problems. In the US, for example, more and more people are getting divorced,

[08:38.72]and children are growing up in single-parent families.

[08:42.61]Many young women are having babies without getting married.

[08:46.32]More and more young people are using drugs. (172 words)

[08:49.74]1)Some countries are fighting against their neighbors.

[08:55.07]2)There are no wars in any countries so far.

[09:00.58]3)Some terrorists are threatening the governments.

[09:05.87]4)In advanced countries, technology is taking away some people's jobs.

[09:12.64]5)The US divorce problem causes many children to live in single-parent families.

[09:20.81]6)Some people take drugs because they are having more babies.

[09:26.64]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and answer the following questions briefly.

[09:36.65]1)How many general kinds of problems are mentioned in the passage?

[09:42.98]2)In some countries, what are people doing to their own government?

[09:49.32]3)Under economic problems, how many phenomena 10 have been mentioned?

[09:56.63]4)In social problems, who have more troubles, middle-aged 11 people or young people?

[10:04.69]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the passage for the third time and write down the summary of the passage.

[10:15.85]Lesson Two Theft

[10:19.52]Pracitice One Types and Characteristics of Shoplifters   Words You Need to Know

[10:27.26]shoplifter     kleptomaniac     impulse 12

[10:42.28]disturb     cosmetics 13     journalist

[11:00.10]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the interview and answer the following questions briefly.

[11:09.89]I:Is there such a thing as a typical shoplifter?

[11:12.98]D:Uh, not really... But there are certain types most shoplifters fall into

[11:18.49]Three types, I would say.

[11:20.51]I:Tell me more about these three types.

[11:22.88]D:Well... uh... people in the first type are what I call "the sudden impulse type".

[11:29.00]Doctors and psychologists call such people kleptomaniacs 14.

[11:33.54]They see something and just can't... uh... help stealing it.

[11:37.86]The strange thing about this first type is that the people in it are often well off and could easily afford to buy the thing.

[11:46.50]Sometimes they don't even need it... and often they're emotionally disturbed in some way... middle-aged women,

[11:53.52]for example, whose husbands have left them, or perhaps older men whose wives have recently died.

[11:59.96]I:What about the second type?

[12:01.76]D:Well, those are people who are really... uh... "little thieves".

[12:06.52]They work alone, and know exactly what they want before they go into the store.

[12:12.02]These days a lot of them, but by no means all, are teenagers who steal things they can't afford.

[12:19.04]Leather jackets. Watches. Expensive cosmetics. Things like that.

[12:23.83]I:And the third type? What kind of people do you find in the third type?

[12:28.19]D:Ah, yes, they're what I call "the experts".

[12:32.72]I:Why?

[12:33.77]D:Well, first of all, because they're highly organized.

[12:37.73]And secondly 15 because they do it for a living.

[12:41.44]They usually operate in groups of three or sometimes four, and they're extremely difficult to catch.

[12:49.14]I:Can they make a lot of money that way?

[12:51.26]D:Oh, yes. Yes, they're very well off, believe me... much better off than a store detective... or even a journalist!  (274 words)

[12:59.80]1)How many types of shoplifters are mentioned in the conversation?

[13:05.66]2)Among the three types of shoplifters, who can be found out least easily?

[13:12.68]3)Among the three types of the shoplifters, who are most probably the youngest?

[13:19.74]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen closely to the interview again and fill in the diagram below with the information from it.

[13:31.01]Practice Two An Unlucky Robber

[13:35.18]Words You Need to Know

[13:37.09]cashier      slide       crawl

[13:48.79]get to one's feet      Milan

[13:59.48]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and put a tick ( ) to the sentences that have been mentioned in the passage.

[14:11.08]In September 1979, Carlo Colodi parked his car outside a bank in Milan, Italy,

[14:19.18]and then rushed inside with a big handkerchief hiding his face and a gun in his hand.

[14:25.15]Hitting his foot on the corner of the carpet, he sild across the smooth floor.

[14:30.80]His handkerchief dropped off, showing his face, and as he fell, he by chance fired his gun, which hit no one.

[14:40.20]Getting to his feet in a hurry, he ran to the cashier's desk,

[14:44.84]started to fall again, and seized a counter to keep his balance.

[14:50.39]At that time he dropped his gun, and the whole bank rocked with laughter.

[14:56.11]Annoyed, the man turned, ran, slipped again, and finally crawled out of the bank.

[15:04.07]Outside he found a police officer writing out a ticket for his car, which was parked in a noparking area.  (140 words)

[15:12.96]1)Carlo Colodi rushed inside with a handkerchief hiding his fact.

[15:19.51]2)He jumped into the car and drove away.

[15:24.41]3)He took up the money and fell.

[15:28.80]4)The robber by chance fired his gun.

[15:33.30]5)He rocked the whole bank.

[15:37.84]6)He crawled out of the bank.

[15:41.98]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and put serial 16 numbers in brackets 17, according to the order of the content in the recording 18.

[15:54.58]Practice Three The Magnificent Powder

[15:58.68]Words You Need to Know

[16:00.77]powder      paralyze 19      boast     figure

[16:16.18]Ibadan     Nigeria      Tommy Lucas

[16:28.67]Exercise 1:Listen to the passage and decide which choice is the best answer to each of the questions

[16:39.50]My father old me this story. It happened at a place called Ibadan, in Nigeria.

[16:48.94]Nowadays Ibadan is a big, important city, but at that time it was still quite small.

[16:55.38]The few Europeans working there lived in houses built close together in a suburb of the town.

[17:02.65]In the evening the Europeans used to meet for a talk or a game of tennis at the club.

[17:09.82]It so happened that during the three or four months before a number of robberies had taken place,

[17:17.09]All the people robbed were white and in each case they told a similar tale.

[17:22.78]They had woken during the night and seen silent, dark figures moving about, but they were unable to move or give the alarm.

[17:31.88]In the morning when they awoke, they found that valuable things had disappeared.

[17:38.08]All kinds of suggestions were put forward, and the most popular theory was that the thieves were using some form of African drug,

[17:47.29]which had the effect of paralyzing 20 the people for some time, so that they were aware of things happening,

[17:54.82]but unable to move or speak. It was thought that this drug was blown into the bedroom through a tube in the form of a fine powder which the sleeper 21 breathed in.

[18:05.15]A young man called Tommy Lucas listened carefully to the conversation.

[18:09.94]He had only recently arrived from England, while my father and some of the older members had been living in Africa for 20 years or more.

[18:19.98]"I'd like to see any African drug paralyze me with magnificent power," boasted Tommy Lucas.

[18:26.93]"I always sleep with a loaded gun on my bedside table and I wouldn't hesitate to use it, I can tell you."

[18:33.66]There was a moment of silence. Everyone looked at him.

[18:38.02]"You haven't been in Africa very long, have you, Tommy?" asked one of the older members, quietly.

[18:45.18]On Saturday evening there was a party at the club and everyone went home rather late.

[18:51.12]So my father was surprised to be woken about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning by a gentle knock at his bedroom door.

[18:59.08]Ade, his African servant, stood there with an amused smile on his face.

[19:06.17]He asked my father to follow him out into the morning sunshine. There, in the middle of the road,

[19:12.97]was Tommy Lucas, fast asleep in his bed. Beside him, on his bedside table, lay his gun. (402 words)

[19:28.13]1)What do we know about the city of Ibadan when the story happened?

[19:34.36]2)What happened in the story?

[19:38.53]3)What was true about the incidents?

[19:43.10]4)What do you know about the young man Tommy Lucas?

[19:48.54]5)Who proved that Tommy Lucas was wrong?

[19:53.58]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the passage again and decide whether the following statements are true (T) or false (F).

[20:05.71]1)The Africans liked to tell a similar tale.

[20:10.25]2)The Africans disliked the Europeans.

[20:14.14]3)The speaker's father had lived in Africa for at least 20 years.

[20:20.11]4)On that Sunday morning the weather was fine.

[20:24.83]5)Tommy Lucas was carried out of his bedroom.

[20:29.62]6)Ade turned out to be the thief