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1、1.III. Listening InTask 1: Soft answers turn away wrath.Mary: Dam! You re spilled red wine on me. My new dress is ruined.John: I m terrible sorry! What can I do to help? Here s some water to wash it off.Mary: Stop splashing water on me! Oh, this is so embarrassing! I m a mess.John: Well, you do look

2、 a little upset. Please don t blow up. Don t lose your cool.Mary: Hmm, you ve got the nerve talking like that! Who shouldn t fly off the handle? This dress cost a fortune.John: You look really cute when you re mad. I kid you not. Some people do look attractive when they are in a rage.Mary: This is v

3、ery expensive dress. I saved for months to buy it, and now it s ruined. Look at this stain!John: Accidents do happen. Give me your dress, and I 11 take it to the cleaners.Mary: Sure! You want me to take it off right here in public and give it to you? I don t even know you!John: This might be a reall

4、y goof time to get acquainted. I m John Owen.Mary: Mmm, at least you re polite. I guess I really shouldn t have flared up. After all, it was an accident. I m Mary Harvey.John: Come on. I 11 take you home. You can change your clothes, and I 11 get the dress cleaned for you.Mary: Now you re talking. T

5、hanks. You re a real gentleman.John: You d better believe it. I m glad to see that you ve cooled down. Feel look a bite to eat afterward? I m starving.Mary: Ok. You re pretty good. I m not nearly as mad. If you can get this stain out, I 11 be very happy.John: I 11 try my best. But if I can t get the

6、 stain out, please don t let your happiness turn to wrath.Task 2: Big John is coming!ScriptA bar owner in the Old West has just hired a timid bartender. This (SI) owner of the establishment is giving his new hire some instructions on (S2)running the place. He tells the timid man, If you ever hear th

7、at Big John is coining to town, (S3)drop everything and run for the hills!He s the biggest, nastiest (S4) outlaw who s ever lived!A few weeks pass (S5) uneventfully. But one afternoon, a local cowhand comes running through town (S6) yelling, “Big John is coming! Run for your (S7) lives!When the bart

8、ender leaves the bar to start running, he is knocked to the ground by several townspeople rushing out of town. (S8) As he s picking himself up, he sees a large man, almost seven feet tall. He s muscular, and is growing as he approaches the bar.He steps up to the door, orders the poor barkeep inside,

9、 and demands, I want a beer NOW!He strikes his heavy fist on the bar, splitting it in half. (S9) The bartender nervously hands the big man a beer, hands shaking. He takes the beer, bites the top of the bottle off, and downs the beer in one gulp.As the terrified bartender hides behind the bar, the bi

10、g man gets up to leave, Do you want another beer? the bartender asks in a trembling voice.Dang it, I don t have time! the big man yells, (S10) I got to get out of town! Don t you hear Big John is coming?Task3: A View of HappinessScriptDr. Smith has proposed a reasonable, if perhaps somewhat oversimp

11、lifies, view of happiness. According to his theory, happiness might be described as a state if balance. And when human or certain animals achieve that balance, they rend to remain in that condition in order to repeat the happy feeling.To illustrate this, we may study two magnets. When their positive

12、 and negative poles meet, they are comfortably joined, and they remain there. In other words, they have attained a balance or state of happiness. If on the other hand, one of the poles is reversed, and positive pole is presses against positive pole, there is resistance, instability, imbalance a stat

13、e of unhappiness.Animals with some degree of intelligence seem to find happiness in reinforcement. Once they have gained one or more of their goals such as food, and water, they learn to repeat the actions that led to satisfaction of those goals. This repetition or reinforcement produces a state of

14、balance or sense of happiness.According to this theory, only animals with a significant capacity to learn should be able to experience happiness. But in truth learning can take place through surprisingly simple short-term action such as scratching an itch, followed by pleasure, followed by more scra

15、tching, and so on. Thus learning can occur with almost no conscious thought. For human beings, blessed with the ability to reason, goals are not limited to the short-term satisfaction of needs. Indeed, there is a strong link between happiness and the fulfillment of long-term goals. Even if human str

16、ive for goals that are more complex and longer-term than the animals goals, once those goals are gained, happiness is reinforced.VI. Further Listening and SpeakingTaskl: Reason and EmotionScriptEmotion is sometimes regarded as the opposite of reason; s is suggested by phrase such as appeal to emotio

17、ns rather than reason and don t let your emotions take over . Emotional reactions sometimes produce consequences or thoughts which people may later regret or disagree with; but during an emotional state, they could not control their actions. Thus, it is generally believed that one of the most distin

18、ctive facts about human beings is a contradiction between emotion and reason.However, recent empirical studies do not suggest there is a clear distinction between reason and emotion. Indeed, anger or fear can often be thought of as an instinctive response to observed fact. The human mind possesses m

19、any possible reactions to the external world. Those reactions can lie on a continuum, with some of them involving the extreme of pure intellectual logic, which is often called cold , and others involving the extremes of pure emotion not related to logical agreement, which is called the heat of passi

20、on . The relation logic and emotion merits careful study. Passion, emotion, or feeling can reinforce an argument, event one based primarily on reason. This is especially true in religion or ideology, which frequently demands an all-or-nothing rejection or acceptance. In such areas of thought, human

21、beings have to adopt a comprehensive view partly backed by empirical argument and partly by feeling and passion. Moreover, several researchers have suggested that typically there is no pure decision or thought; that is, no thought is based purely on intellectual logic or purely on emotion-most decis

22、ions are founded on a mixture of both.Task 2: DepressionScriptPat: You look depressed. Are you feeling blue? I ve come to cheer you up.Ted: But theres nothing that can cheer me up. Im down in the dumps. Life s miserablePat: You have to try to get your mind off things.Ted: But I can t. I just feel th

23、ere s too much pressure on me sometimes!Pat: You can t let things get you down. Learn to relax and stop worrying all the time. What s your problem?Ted: I failed my last exam, and another exam is coming, I get bored.Pat: If I were you, I d start working hard. If you work hard for a long time, you re

24、bound to get better grades. You see, “no pain, no gain.Ted: It s easier said than done! If I read for fifteen minutes, I get bored.Pat: You have to learn some self-discipline.But how can I stay cheerful all the time?Ted: Worse than that! If I read for half an hour, I get a headache. Then I start to

25、worry about passing the next exam.Pat: It s all in your mind. If you stay cheerful like me, everything will soon be OK.Ted: But how can I stay cheerful all the time?Pat: Try to look on the bright side of things.Ted: But what if there isn t a bright side?Pat: You know the saying: Every cloud has a si

26、lver lining. It means there re always tow sides to everything-both the dark and the bright sides. So, try to identify your strengths and bring then into full play.Ted: Oh, no! Your corny old sayings are making me even more depressed.Task3: AngerScriptAnger is an emotion that can be hard to control.

27、Despite this, we should learn how to manage anger in a constructive manner. In the most intense moments of anger, we usually have two choices: to fight or to run. Some choose the option of violence, which is a negative reaction to anger; and others choose to run. Some may think running means you are

28、 a coward. But the option of walking away and claiming down is the more productive method of handling anger. It is difficult to walk away, especially when your heart is racing, and your anger is boiling over.There are constructive ways of handling anger in any situation. First, you have to stop for

29、a brief moment and think before you act. Take that moment and calm down id you feel yourself being pushed.At that moment you should admit you are angry. If you refuse to admit you re angry or hurt, or if you make it appear that everything is peaches and cream, you are not managing angry in a product

30、ive way. You should first admit you are angry and let your feelings out before you blow up.Foe example, you can stay in a quiet place by yourself and shout; or you can talk to a close friend to vent your rage. If you do not acknowledge your anger, it only builds up inside you and will eventually exp

31、lode like a volcanoThen, in order to manage your angry, you can ask yourself an important question that we all must ask ourselves, “What made me angry?” When you get the answer, and then ask yourself, “Why did that made me angry?” Through such logical reasoning, one tends to calm down and move towar

32、d a sensible solution2.III. Listening InTask 1: A Friendly StylistStylist: Morning, sir. This chair, please. What can I do for you?Nick: A simple haircut: short on the back and sides.Stylist: Very good. I can, of course, do something fashionable for only $60.Nick: 60 dollars! That s highway robbery一

33、twice what I ordinarily pay.Stylist: Perhaps, sir. But your haircuts haven t been in harmony with your character. Your hair is at war with your soul.Nick: I ve never heard of such a thing.Stylist: If I may say, I m an expert at matching hairstyle to personalities. Believe me; you re suffering a disj

34、unction.Nick: A disjunction? What the devil is a disjunction?Stylist: Your hair does not match you.Nick: This is utter nonsense. However, I d like to hear how you d solve this so-called problem.Stylist: Your character is artistic, imaginative. But your hair is dull. I can correct that imbalance in s

35、econds.Nick: Okay, let me see what can you do about theuhdisjunction, as you call it.Stylist: We re going to use scissors to create peaks, which we 11 keep in place with a liberal helping of gel-. This tuft in the back we 11 braid into a pigtail. Now, it s the new you!Nick: I love it. It s just like

36、 me: imaginative and artistic. Now what are you doing? What s wrong? Don t you see harmony in my new hairstyle?Stylist: Something s preventing your hairstyle from being a true fashionable statement.Nick: For heaven s sake, tell me what s missing.Stylist: Streaks. By putting in a few yellow streaks i

37、n your hair, it will become a work of art. Streaking will cost you more, but* Nick: Do it. Forget the cost. But, by the way, what is the total getting to be? How much am I paying to avoid disjunction?Stylist: That s*$135. Sir? Sir, are you all right? Oh, he fainted.Task 2: The Voice LiftScriptAfter

38、the face-lift, the forehead tightened, and the (SI) nose job, something still might be revealing your age: your (S2) voice.For patients who think their trembly, hoarse words don t (S3) match their newly face and figure, there s a procedure that claims to make them (S4) sound younger too: the voice l

39、ift.There are two general kinds of voice lifts. In some cases, implants (S5) inserted through an incision in the (S6) neck bring the vocal cords closer together. Doctors also use injections of (S7) fat or other substances to plump up the cords, so that the voice sounds younger.(S8) The voice lift is

40、 becoming more widely known among an aging population, who try to make themselves sound younger.“I speak in a great deal, or I was shouting, on a particular day, at the end of the day, I would feel exhausted, said Robert Brown, 75, (S9) a retired construction engineer who underwent the voice lift se

41、veral years ago, I don t know if I sound younger, but the hoarseness is gone, which is such a great improvement.(S10) Voice lift can also benefit people like performers, lawyers, teachers, and telephone operators who need to have a strong voice and hope to shave years off the sound of their voice.Ta

42、sk3: A View of HappinessScriptMen are turning to plastic surgery and cosmetic procedures to brighten up their appearances at a faster rate than women, according to a survey released on Wednesday.Men s use of fat injections to soften deep wrinkles leaped 47 percent last year from the previous year. W

43、omen s use of the injections fell 36 percent, according to a survey by the American Academy of Facial and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons.Men s use of botox injections to eliminate frown lines rose 88 percent, while women s botox use fell 8 percent.And for smoothing skin, the use of laser resurfacin

44、g among men rose 13percent, the survey showed. Meanwhile, women , s use of laser resurfacing dropped 38 percent during the same time period.The number of men getting nose jobs rose 47 percent, while the number of women doing so rose 5 percent.Typically, men and women visiting plastic surgeons for co

45、smetic reasons were age 40 to 59.The study said 44 percent of men and 57 percent of women tell their doctor that looking younger is the reason they are choosing cosmetic surgery.By about 18 percent, men are more likely than women to say they want facial cosmetic surgery for work-related reasons.The

46、study was conducted by written questionnaires from January 20 to March 3 among more than 2, 600 members of the association, who focus on treatment of the face, head, and neck.By comparison, in the previous year, women s use of botox rose 60 percent while men s fell 14 percent; women s use of laser r

47、esurfacing rose 13 percent while men s fell 19 percent; women s use of fat injections felll7 percent and men s fell 54 percent.VI. Further Listening and SpeakingTaskl: Beauty Contests and Plastic SurgeriesScriptJuliana Borges, who was named “Miss Brazil” early on Tuesday, had plastic surgery four ti

48、mes and underwent 19 smaller operations. She was just one of many competitors who were determined to improve their appearance through surgery.Plastic surgery make me more beautiful and gave me confidence in myself and the perfect measurement that won me this title, said the beauty queen in a green dress, who was representing Brazil s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul.Borges, 22, had liposuction and had her chin, nose, and ears worked on, as well as, had her breasts enlarged.With the development of plastic surgery, more and more of