Step by Step 2000第四册 Unit11 Extending Life through Fun(I

Unit 11 Extending Life through Fun (I)

Part I Warming up

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B.

1. Radio Valley

( ) 9:00 Parliament Report

( 5 ) 9:25 Sportsline

( ) 9:45 Science-Fact

( ) 10:15 Wendy Rose's Shopping Guide

2. Radio 207

( ) 9:00 Farmers' Diary

( ) 9:15 Financial Portfolio

( 2 ) 9:28 The Word You Heard--Quiz program presented by Bob de Vere

( ) 10:00 Reggae Roots

3. Peak Radio

( ) 9:00 News Round-up

( 4 ) 9:27 Weather Word

( ) 9.30 Radio Theatre Pt. 1 The Ordeal of Gilbert Pinfold by Evelyn Waugh

( ) 10:00 News Round-up (with radio-car reports)

4. Radio Northwest

( ) 9:00 News Northwest

( ) 9:10 Press Review

( 1 ) 9:15 Family Phone-in Today's subject: Photography

( ) 10:00 Medicine Today

5. Riverside Radio

( ) 9:00 Morning Service

( 3 ) 9:10 Country Kitchen (with Dorothy Berry)

( ) 9:30 Nature Trail

( ) 10:00 Riverside Notebook

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# --And we have a caller on Line 2, now; Mr. Jackson from Bolton, who, I believe, wants to talk to Norman about setting up a darkroom. Are you there, Mr. Jackson?

-- Er, yes. Well, actually, it's about ... color-developing at home, really...

# So, there we are. Our four contestants are ready and waiting, here in the studio, to pit their wits against each other and the mighty Oxford English Dictionary. And one of them will be going through, after today's round, to do battle in the first semi-final, in three weeks' time.

# And after about 20 minutes, on a medium heat at the bottom of your oven, it should come out with the cheese nicely melted and browned over those slices of egg on the top.

Next week I'll be giving you some tips about freezing your summer fruit for the winter. So, I hope you can join me. Until then, goodbye.

#We've got a high of 9 degrees Celsius, 48 degrees Fahrenheit, with rain closing in from the west and that should be covering all of our area by lunch-time. So, if you're out this morning, you'd better take an umbrella with you.

# O'Keefe played a brilliant match. He headed a corner from Rainer, just two minutes before the final whistle, which bounced off the post and had the United goalkeeper, Stevenson, in a bit of a panic for a few moments, before the new boy, David Briggs, came through, like lightning, to clear the ball out of the area. United 2: Villa 1.

C Read the following difficult sentences and listen.

1. She's appealing on so many levels. You can't deduce it to simply spirit.

2. She's an incredibly intriguing person to examine and then has so many great qualities that, as an actor, make it easy and interesting to play her.

3. Many instruments actually play using air, so we have the air available to us automatically. So it is just a simple step to making a trigger valve which triggers the pneumatics to play and strum the guitar or play the flute or harmonica or harp or whatever.

4. But he is also a lifetime skeptic who began t0 collect .these bizarre machines so that he could expose the trickery of quacks, fake healers, and con men and women.

5. Bob McCoy points out that the current "Information Age" of computers and hundreds of television channels has only multiplied fraudulent schemes that target desperately sick people.

Part II Movies and music

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Summary

Erin Brockovich is a twice-divorced single mother who works for an attorney. She is brassy, bold and outspoken. As bold as she acts and speaks, Erin dresses even bolder. More often than not, she is ignored. But when her research reveals an industrial pollution cover-up in a small desert town, she becomes a tenacious advocate for the affected families, and her fight with the corporation that caused the pollution which poisoned the California town's water wins respect from people for the first time in her life.

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Julia Roberts is earning raves from critics for her new drama based on a true story of the woman who fought a corporation that

poisoned a California town's water.

“You are a lawyer?"

"Hell, no. I hate lawyers."

Erin Brockovich is brassy, bold and outspoken; but this twice-divorced single mom desperately needs a job and she talks her way into getting hired by attorney Ed Masry, who had represented her in an unsuccessful auto accident lawsuit:

"There're two things that aggravate me, Mr. Masry: being ignored and being lied to."

"I never lied."

"You told me things would be fine. They're not. I trusted you." "I'm sorry about that, I really am ..."

"I don't need pity. I need a paycheck."

As bold as she acts and speaks, Erin dresses even bolder in tight, short, short skirts and revealing outfits:

"Look, now you may want to ... now that you're working here, you might want to re-think your wardrobe a little."

"Well, it just so happens. I think I look nice. You might want to re-think those ties."

But when her research reveals an industrial pollution cover-up in a small desert town, she becomes a tenacious advocate for the affected families:

"Twenty million dollars is more money than these people have ever dreamed of."

"These people don't dream about being rich. They dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. “

"She's appealing on so many levels. You can't deduce it to simply spirit."

Julia Roberts says Erin Brockovich is especially interesting to portray because she is a real person:

"She's an incredibly intriguing person to examine and then has so many great qualities that, as an actor, make it easy and interesting to play her."

"You're emotional. You're erratic. You make this personal and it isn't."

"That is my work, my sweat, my time away from my kids. If that's NOT personal, I don't know what is."

"She could have been a very quiet.., you know, (softly) 'Well this doesn't seem right. I don't know about this.' and that's okay to play, but it's more fun to go: (loud) 'What is this all about? This doesn't make any sense.' You know, I mean that's just more interesting. The energy with which she approaches her life is really appealing as an actor."

Director Steven Soderbergh got so involved with the real story that he shot parts of the film on location in the now nearly deserted town of Hinkley, California, where the real pollution case was fought in the early 1990s.

"What the hell do you know about any of this anyway? Something like this, Erin, it could take forever. They're a huge corporation. They could bury us in paper work for the next 15 years. I'm just a guy with a small, private firm."

"... who happens to know they poisoned people and lied about it." English actor Albert Finney co-stars as lawyer Ed Masry, but Roberts, as the title character, is in almost every scene of Erin Brockovich. Still, she would rather not hear it described as a "Julia Roberts" movie:

"It's a great part and a really great story. And it's the infinitely worshipful Steven Soderbergh and it's Albert Finney and it's, you know, it's a lot of things."

"You got to find a different job or a different guy."

"For the first time in my life, I got people respecting me. Please don't ask me to give it up."

Erin Brockovich is produced by Danny DeVito's Jersey Films and is jointly released by Universal in North America and Columbia Pictures internationally.

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( F ) 1. Ken Caulkins is a conductor of an orchestra.

(T) 2. Ken Caulkins combines 19th century technology with modern computers in producing automated orchestra.

( F ) 3. The sound made by the instruments is produced by the computer.

( T ) 4. The automated orchestra can produce sounds like live music.

( F ) 5. The automated orchestra was more popular in the 19th century.

B2 Listen again. Complete the following statements.

1. Ken Caulkins' "musicians" are a combination of ordinary musical instruments, air pressure, and computers.

2. The sound made by Caulkins' automated orchestras is produced by air pressure controlled by a computer.

3. Caulkins has a catalogue of products ranging from a 90-dollar train whistle to a 123,000-dollar automated orchestra.

4. Caulkins insists that his automated orchestras project a sound superior to other audio delivery systems.

5. Ken Caulkins was 16 years old when he saw his first automated instrument, a player piano.

6. By the age of 19, he had started a business restoring and building automated instruments.

7. In the nearly three decades since, he and his workers have made and sold nearly 8,000 automated instruments.

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Ken Caulkins builds orchestras for fun and profit. His "musicians" are a combination of ordinary musical instruments, air pressure, and computers.

California manufacturer Ken Caulkins combines 19th century technology with modern computers to produce music that sounds like this.

Mr. Caulkins uses actual musical instruments in the automated orchestras he builds. The sound they make is produced by air pressure which he calls pneumatics -- controlled by a computer.

"You can't ignore the fact that flutes play with air pressure. Accordions play with air pressure or vacuum. Many instruments actually play using air, so we have the air available to us automatically. So it's just a simple step to making a trigger valve which triggers the pneumatics to play and strum the guitar or play the flute or harmonica or harp or whatever."

Ken Caulkins, whose factory is in the central California town of Ceres, has a catalogue of products ranging from a 90dollar train whistle to an automated orchestra with a price tag of 123 thousand dollars. This device, known as "Gazebo Americana," consists of a bandstand with two pianos, two accordions, four steel drums, whistles and other instruments. The 47-year-old Caulkins insists that his automated orchestras project a sound superior to other audio delivery systems.

"The advantage to using my system is... the closest thing to live music. Immediately you know it's not recorded, even if it is amplified and projected into an audience with a very large presentation, say, covering half a block for one of these large casinos. You know immediately that you are hearing live music. You know ... you can recognize it. Your ears actually can recognize the waveforms, as opposed to when it's laid down on a piece of tape or a CD. There is a change in the waveform. It doesn't come out exactly the same."

In this next instrumental section of Andrew Lloyd Weber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera," judge for yourself if Mr. Caulkins' automated orchestra possesses that mysterious property called "live," a quality difficult to either discern or describe.

Ken Caulkins was 16 years old when he saw his first automated instrument, a player piano. Young Caulkins was fascinated by player pianos, and by age 19, he had started a business restoring and building them. In the nearly three decades since, he and his workers have made and sold nearly 8,000 such instruments. Three years ago he added computers to the air-stream technology of the player piano and other instruments, allowing him to produce automated orchestras.

Ken Caulkins' customers range from family amusement parks such as Euro Disney, Opryland, and Busch Gardens, from Japanese health spas to exclusive shops in California's Beverly Hills.

Ken Caulkins -- his musicians never talk back to him.

Part III Museum of questionable devices

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--salt museum

--oyster museum

--museum devoted exclusively to bedrooms

--museum of vacuum cleaners

--museum of popcorn poppers

--museum of mushrooms

--pretzel museum

--museum of trumpets

--museum of questionable medical devices

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Phony Device & Quack Descriptions

Electrometabograph Equipment: (on surface) dials, meters

Cure: nymphomania, sensitivity to noise.

numbness in the body

Weight: several hundred pounds

Spectrachrome Equipment: a 1,000-watt bulb, a box, colored filters

Patient: sit in front, face north, stark naked, stare at the light

Cure: red light: heart problems

blue light: impotence

Sales: >10,000

Dr. Abraras King of quacks

Patient: send him blood and money

Diagnosis: cancer and syphilis

Cost: $100

Exervac machine Equipment: a cabinet, a metal skull cap, a rubber hose, an air compressor, a vacuum pump

Cure: baldness

Tapescript.

Somewhere in the United States, you'll find a salt museum, an oyster museum, and a museum devoted exclusively to bedrooms.

In the state of Ohio, there is a museum that displays vacuum cleaners.

And another, nothing but popcorn poppers. Neighboring Pennsylvania has a museum of mushrooms. Pennsylvania also has two pretzel museums.

And another that deals only with trumpets.

In Minnesota's largest city Minneapolis -- is a fascinating specialty collection. It's the "Museum of Questionable Medical Devices" -- a big room full of gadgets, dials, bells and blinking lights. All were once advertised as magic cures for what ails humans, from flat feet to cancer.

The instruments and implements in the Museum of Questionable Medical Devices have been proven to be complete frauds.

Bob McCoy runs the museum. He's a retired salesman who sold steel products throughout the Midwest. But he is also a lifetime skeptic who began to collect these bizarre machines so that he could expose the trickery of quacks, fake healers, and con men and women. He got some help from the American Medical Association and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which have loaned him phony curative machines like the electrometabograph. It's covered with dials and meters.

"Cured such things as nymphomania, sensitivity to noise, numbness in the body and so forth, by pushing different buttons. And this is a very elaborate device. It weighs several hundred pounds."

The big boom in these phony machines occurred in the 1920s and 30s, when radio waves and mysterious radioactivity and neon were first introduced to the public.

In some cases, the quack would offer to treat patients thousands of kilometers away, using radio waves.

Another machine called a "spectrachrome" employed a one thousand-watt lighthouse bulb -- a really powerful light -- inside a box. A patient sat in front of it in the dark, facing north, stark naked- staring at the light, which was covered by colored filters. Red was said to be good for heart problems, blue for impotence, and so forth. The healer sold more than 10,000 of these.

Bob McCoy says the American Medical Association considered a man named "Dr. Abrams" in San Francisco to be the king of quacks. He got people all around the country to send in drops of their blood, along with quite a few dollars.

"He put the drops of blood in a machine, had his chauffeur stand on a plate that was connected to the machine, and by thumping on his chauffeur's stomach, he could tell what was wrong with the person who sent the drops of blood in. After he fiddled around with these numbers and so forth, he diagnosed everybody who sent him the blood sample in as having cancer and syphilis. But he had a cure for only a hundred dollars."

One respectable company that made refrigerators, automobiles, and television sets also built the "exervac" machine to cure baldness. It's a cabinet attached to a metal skull cap by a rubber hose. Inside the cabinet are an air compressor and a vacuum pump.

"Now when I turn this on, the patient puts this.., puts this thing over their head and then the vacuum will begin sucking out those clogged pores in your head. And the people made this believed that bald people really would have a full head of hair if you just cleaned out their pores." "I can see it hasn't done you a lot of good! .... Oh, I was completely bald until I used this!"

Bob McCoy points out that the current "Information Age" of computers and hundreds of television channels has only multiplied fraudulent schemes that target desperately sick people. Some of the modern cures offered by slick salespeople, he says, are just as empty and worthless as the old curiosities that he's collected in his museum.

Part IV Listen and relax

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Museums in the United States are shaking off their image of the past as quiet places to contemplate works by the masters. It's still possible to find a quiet gallery in a museum if that's what you want, but younger people who are looking for something more lively, are finding museums have more to offer than ever before.

On a recent Thursday evening this summer, the courtyard outside the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, was rocking to the music of the Red Elvises. The crowd, which numbered 1,800, was more interested in partying, than looking at art.

"I want you to know this man really wanted to be here. He stood out on the street, talking to people until he got a ticket."

"Did you go to the museum, or did you just come for the music?"

"Uh, I go to the .museum about once a year."

"During the winter, but not usually during these concerts."

"I'm guessing this is the place to be on Thursday nights in summer in Richmond, am I right?"

"Absolutely. It is the place to be on Thursday nights in Richmond."

"Why is this a good place to be on Thursday night?"

"Good music, nice setting, fun people, a young crowd, an upwardly mobile crowd, professionals."

In other words, just the type of people the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts would like to see become members. According to Suzanne Hall, who organizes the after-hours programs:

"We did a membership survey, oh, I guess more than 15 years ago, and it came back that the median age for a museum member was over 55 and we thought, we need to think about the young people. And so what we did was develop a program that was youthful and exuberant, and that is called our 'Jumpin' series, and it's music from Celtic Rock to music from Barbados and Cuba, to Cajun music, any variety of music, but different music that hasn't been heard before in Richmond. It does attract a younger audience, and the median age is about 32."

"And has that increased membership in general?"

"Yes it has. The Friends of Art are a young professional support group for the museum, and we have about 700 members in that group, which grew directly out of the 'Jumpin' series."

Few art museums are hosting rock concerts, but several from San Francisco to New York are attracting young patrons with social events, like cocktail parties, and black-tie galas geared specifically to them. In Washington, a number of museums, including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, have formed special groups to cater to young professionals. The Corcoran's "1869" Society, named for the year the museum was founded, has more than 800 members, aged 25 to 45. Eighty-one percent of them are single. Christine Mingis, the museum's member programs coordinator, says social events like Happy Hours and Dancers provide those members with an opportunity to meet new people.

"In D. C. , and in larger urban areas, most folks don't have a great opportunity to network and get together outside of the bar scene, or you know, the tried and true, you know, ways of meeting people. This is a unique opportunity for folks to get together in a very sophisticated setting. Chances are you're going to meet someone with similar interests, most of them are very well traveled, very well read."

Almost all of the "1869" Society members are college graduates, and half hold graduate degrees. And, of course, all of them are interested in the arts. After all, the primary goal of all museum groups like the "1869" Society, is to develop patrons who will support the arts throughout their lives. By mixing lectures and gallery tours with social events, Christine Mingis says they educate the newest generation of arts patrons.