新标准大学英语视听说教程(听力材料文本及答案)(5)

Unit 4

Inside view

Conversation1

Mark ：This is just so crazy!

Janet ：What?

Mark ：This story I’m reading.

Kate ：So tell us.

Mark ：A man within a wheelchair crossing the road in front of a lorry at some traffic lights. Somehow, the back of the wheelchair got stuck on the front of the lorry. When the lorry started moving, it took the wheelchair and the man with it!

Kate ：You’re joking!

Mark ：The driver drove for several miles at 80 kilometres an hour before he stopped at a garage. The man was unhurt because his seat belt had stopped him falling out.

Janet ：What a terrible story! Thank goodness the man was all right!

Mark ：The police asked the driver if he’d realized he had a passenger. The driver said he had no idea at all.

Mark ：Do you want to hear another one? A funny one this time.

Kate ：Go on.

Mark ：A woman reported that her car had been stolen and that she’d left her mobile phone in the

car. The policeman suggested calling the mobile. When he did, the thief answered it. The policeman told the thief that he was answering an ad in the paper and that he wanted to buy the car. And the thief agreed to sell it!

Janet ：He didn’t!

Mark ：So they arranged to meet and the thief was arrested and the woman got her car back. Janet ：A happy ending!

Mark ：You get these great stories in the papers – I always read them.

Conversation2

Voice on radio ：The news at one o’clock.

Tornadoes have damaged homes in Northern England.

There is still no news of missing company director, Alan Marsden.

Scientists claim that global warming is accelerating. There are reports coming in of more fighting in …

Mark ：Do you mind if I turn it off?

Janet ：It’s fine, I wasn’t listening.

Mark ：Do you follow the news?

Janet ：Yeah, I do. But I don’t often listen to the radio, I mostly get my news online.

Kate ：Do you?

Janet ：Yes, I read articles from different papers.

Kate ：My dad does that.

Mark ：Well, I’ve got used to reading real newspapers.

Janet ：You should try reading the news online. You get lots of different views, it’s very stimulating.

Mark ：True, it is stimulating. But I’ve got into the habit of reading the papers in the JCR – in a comfortable armchair, with lots of black coffee.

Kate ：Don’t either of you listen to the radio? It’s a great way to wake up.

Mark ：Yeah, I do that. And I download podcasts. And I watch the news on telly.

Kate ：You’re a news addict. We all know that.

Mark ：You have to be if you read PPE. You have to be really knowledgeable about current affairs.

Janet ：You are.

Kate ：Well, I’m a TV addict. I spend too much time watching the soaps. I love British TV. Janet ：We’ve noticed, Kate. Are you going to watch Friends with me tonight?

Kate ：You bet!

Outside view

Part1

Keith ：I saw Robin Williams come to the patio. I made the run, jumped a couple of sawhorses, climbed up a stairway, got in front of him, and said, “Robin, do you mind if I take a picture?” He goes, “After all that, how could I stop you?”

V/O

Keith Sykes has a long career in journalism, photography, and communications.

Keith ：I’ve taken pictures of a lot of celebrities. Cindy Crawford. I’ve taken her picture a

few times and, I, I think it’s impossible to take a bad picture of her. James Garner. I’ve photographed famous politicians. I stood in the same position for two hours to get this picture. Photographing these people is uh, an exciting thing for me. When I moved to Los Angeles in 1979 to become editor of a weekly newspaper out there, I was really excited when I started getting these invitations to come to this award show, or this benefit show. I was showing up at all these eventsand seeing people that I had seen on the screen and it was, uh, really, uh, a magical moment for me.

Part2

Keith ：The word paparazzi means “the pest” in Italian. Fellini dubbed a character who played a pesky photographer in La Dolce Vita “Paparazzo”. The roots of paparazzi photography were in Europe after World War II. The countries were all subject to many political factions who were deciding what direction their countries would go. This created awesome political rivalries. And photographers would cover political events, knowing that they would probably turn into violent protests and they’d get newsworthy pictures and be able to sell them. Now at the same time, more and more celebrities were going to the Mediterranean, to Monte Carlo … And these photographers, who had started as political photographers, took pictures of the celebrities and their … those celebrities’ wild lives.

There are financial rewards. If I got a photograph of Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt holding hands, then I’d be paid maybe $10,000. If I shot Jennifer and Brad throwing drinks at each other, I would get $50,000. How much a photograph is worth is often determined by how negative it portrays that celebrity.

When, uh, Princess Diana died, I started thinking. I had realized that the business had gone bad, that it was being motivated by money, that it was creating not artists, or even well-meaning photographers who wanted to pursue this craft, but rather, really bounty hunters.

Part3

Keith

I decided to use the small college town of North Hampton and go up there every Saturday night, and I put on the full uniform, photo vest, and press IDs, and I would lurk in doorways and follow people and jump out in front of them and take their picture. I’ve, you know, walked up with my camera behind me and then just pulled it out and shot it with the flash. We wanted to know what it felt like – as an everyday person …… 此处隐藏：5535字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……