新标准大学英语视听说教程4-听力原文及翻译

1、v1.0 可编辑可修改 Unit 1OutsideviewConversation 1Li:What a wonderful view! This is such a great city!Do you ever get tired of living in London, AndyA;When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life, for there is in London all that life can affordLi:Thats a quotation by Samuel Johnson, isnt itA:Correct,

2、so do you have any plans when you finish at OxfordLi: Ive got another year to go and then I suppose Ill go back home.A; And you will find a jobLi:I think I have to do my Masters before I look for I must admit London is very you think you would ever leave LondonA:Sure, Id love to come to china one da

3、y, and I like traveling. But i think Ill always come back here.Li:Well, your roots are here and there are so many opportunities.A;But have you ever thought of living in London for a year or twoLi:Yes, but what could I do here I had planned to become a i have often thought if there was a job i could

4、do here in publishing,maybe as an editor, Ill go for it.A:Thats sounds like a great think that would really suit youLi:Maybe I should update my CV and send it to one or two publisher.A:Dont make it look too goodLi:Why notA;Well,if you enjoy working with London Time Off, we dont want you working with

5、 anyone elseLi:Oh, working with you and Joe its great fun and really interesting. I couldnt think of a better way to find out about a cityA;So maybe you should think about applying for a job with usLi:But do you think Id stand a chance（有可能，有希望 ）I mean, Im not sure if Joe likes meA:Dont even think ab

6、out it!Joe is very straight talking and I promise you that youd know if he didnt like you.Li:Perhaps we should both update our CVs and look for jobs togetherA:Hey,right!That would be fun.v1.0 可编辑可修改Conversation 2Li:Talking about future plans,how do you see your career developingA:My careerWell, I li

7、ke working for London Time s a part of a larger media company called Lift off USA,so there are lots of .Li:But.WhatA:Its not always very easy working with mean,I kind of think he has a different agenda（ different way of thinking fromAndy 不一样的想法） .I like his work, but sometimes I dont think his heart

8、 is in his job.Li:How did he end up in London ？A:He did media studies in the States,and then found work as a gofer（杂工） at Lift off USA in New York.Li:Whats a goferA:Go for this,go for s a word for the least experienced person in the film and TV he came to London and got a properjob as a researcher a

9、t Lift off UK,and then after a few years he got the producers job in London Time OffLi:He is good at his job,isnt heA:Yes,he is confident and competent at what he does,so the people who work with him rate him quite highly（ speak highlyof ） .Li:Except youA:No,I rate him I get on with him quite well,a

10、lthough we are not best budies or anything like that,its just.I wanthis job!Li:Now we know your little promise I wont tell anyoneA:Janet,there was something I was going to ask you.Li:Sure,what is itA:I was wondering.oh,its ,all this talk about your future career is making me s go for a drink.Li:Who

11、is roundA:You.Outsideview :How to get a joba big day!Your life is about to begin!And then your parents say.Get a job.I tell you!Looking for your firstjob out of college can be pretty all the job listing is so trying to figure out what the actual job is can be throughthe want ads can be so writing yo

12、ur resume is really hard work.22 v1.0 可编辑可修改 I dont have that day open.Getting a job interview,and then going on it the whole process is pretty tough.Sorry to keep you ,have a seat.I have your resume here,and you are interested in the assistants position.Yeah,yeahWell,the right candidate for this jo

13、b has to be very outgoing and all it is a sale position.Well, Im a real extrovert（性格外向的人 ）.Definitely.And the right candidate has to have great need to feel that you know what youre talking about.Well, Im really I know what Im talking about and I think I can project thatSo,what skills would you brin

14、g to this jobWell, I realize that Im completely overqualified for this mean,um,in my last job,I was running the wholeplace.Oh,so youve supervised peopleYep,five of ,obviously I could do this job,no also have really good computer what else do you want to knowabout meEh.Even though I was trying really

15、 hard,even though I had sent out about 300 resumes,even though I asked all myfriend and relatives if they knew of wasnt getting anywhere!Despite all my best efforts,I was still unemployed.Please,why dont you see a career counsellor（顾问） Ill pay for to help you get a job!Samantha,Im Phyllis Oh,hi, to

16、meet you.So I figure,heck,why notI met with Phyllis Stein,a professional job coach.Interviewing is vital to getting the job that you want.She showed me how to prepare for an interviewby doingresearch on the position and thelatter,she coaching me on my interviewing skills.I am going to pretend to be

17、your interviewer,and then well stop it and replay it and look at the video andsee what we could learn from I dont think that you should go into an interview having not practised with some of thequestions that are pretty standard.Tell me about yourself.Well,my parents my mom is a social worker,and my

18、 dad is an engineer.Your preparation is really important.What do you know about our organizationv1.0 可编辑可修改 Well,I saw on,um,on the Internet that ,you do business publishingRightThere is a whole range of things that have to do with how you present yourself/Why should I hire youOh,well.,um, Im a real

19、ly outgoing person,and I like,I like people a m responsible and nice.You need to think about what the interviewer is actually looking for.Samantha, what was a major problem that youve encountered and how did you solve itI havent really had any problems to deal with. Thank lets look at your mock inte

20、rview on videotape. I think it boils down （ 归 结 为 ） to preparation,presentation, and understanding what the interviewer is looking for（Watching the videotape） Another way of answering it is not telling about yourself ,but telling your relationship to the job.So,theydont care so much about your paren

21、ts and that you want to live in may need you to be able to be a use some examplesin your life from being a troubleshooter.One of the things that someone who is an assistant in a trade show is doing,isdealing with need to be sure that you stay,sort of ,on target with preventing,presenting yourself in

22、 the strongest possible way.This time I felt a lot more confident when I went in for the interview.I have developed strong communication college I worked on the school paper and I brought some writing samples toshow you.I also worked every summer at a bed-and-breakfast.I worked a lot with our booked

23、 reservation over thephone,got them what they needed,and handled any complains.Well,I feel like I did really ll see. Making a good first impressionis the most important part of a job interview.Arriving on timeand being confidentare the most important parts of a job interview.Its very important that

24、you are being confident and youre being clear in your answers andlistening carefullyNot fidgeting （坐立不安，烦躁） and being confident are the most important things in a job interview.Writing a thank-you noteis the most important thing you want to do after a job interview/And go in there with a firm handsh

25、ake .ItsListening innot enough to ask what successful people are like.Itis only by asking where they are from that we can unravel v1.0 可编辑可修改 the logic behind who succeed and who doesntThis is the basic idea of an intriguing book called Outliers, by the American journalist Malclom book explores the

26、factors which contribute to people who are extremely successful in their careers, for example, the role the family , culture and friend play.Gladwell examines the causes of why the majority of Canada ice hokey playersare born in the first few months ofthe calender year, what the founder of Microsoft

27、 Bill Gates did to achieve his extraordinary success,and why the Beatles managed to redefine the whole of popular music in the 1960s.Gladwell points out that the youth hockey league in Canada recruits from January the first, so thatplayers bornearly in the year are bigger,stronger and better athlete

28、s than others born later in the because they have this advantage at the start of their sports career,theyre given extra coaching,and so theres a greater chance that theyll be picked for an elite hockey team in the future.He calls this phenomenonaccumulative advantage （积累优势） ,a bit like the idea that

29、 the rich get richer and thepoor get depends on the process by which talented athletes are identified as much as it does on their own abilities.Another aspect which contributes to success is the 10000 hour success demands an enormous amount of time for practise and example,the Beatles performed live

30、 in Hamburg Germany more than 1200times over four years,much more than the 10000 hours Gladwell claim is necessary for great by the time they returned to England,they had developed their talente and sounded completely different from any other group.In the same way,Bill Gates had thousands of hours w

31、orth of programming because he had access to a computerat hishigh also became a teenager just at the right time to take advantage of the latest developments in computer technology.Outliers has met with extraordinary sucess,matched only by Gladwells own career for 25 years in a result, many citics ha

32、ve seen it as an autobiography, in which the writer appears to be apologizing for his own personal the ides that you have to be born at the right moment,in the right place and in the right family,and then you have to work really hard is a thought-provoking way of revisiting our traditional view of g

33、enius and great s certainly worth reading,as long as you dont take it too seriously.Listening in 2P:Hi,we are talking about typical working hours in the US and in .um.yourefrom the States,tellme what are the typicalworking hours in the Statesv1.0 可编辑可修改E:Er.traditionally people go to work at9oclock

34、in the morning and they finish at about 5,so sort of a 9to 5.P:And,and Penny I.I know youre English but you work in Brazil,what are the hours in BrazilPenny:Um varies slightly,sometimes you can start um on an early shift,say,8oclock in the morningto 5 um orBrazil often people will work longer hours

35、than this.P:Right,right what kind of clothes do you wearI mean do you dress up formally or in a relaxed wayE:It used to be that you would wear a jacket and tie to work for.formen but er nowadays an open shirt is donthave to wear a tie and sometimes on a Friday you can wear a pair of jeans to work.P:

36、Oh,right the dress down FridayE:The dress down Friday thats right.P:Does that still happenE:Yes, yes sure it does.P:And how about in BrazilPenny:Um, its fairly casual,quite informal,um I mean you need to look neat and tidy obviously,but you,you have your own choice rely on what you would wear,there

37、are no rules and s important to look smart but comfortable.P:Right,yeah do you have meal breaks or is that.you just fit in meals when you can or.E:Lunch,lunch is usuallyan hour sometimes a little shorter if you have to do a lot of work from your desk.P:Yeah,how about BrazilPenny:Thats the same, abou

38、t an hour.P:And,and with overtime,I mean,if you.I mean youre obviously contracted to do a certain number of happens if you do more than the hours that you.thats in you.that are in your contractE:I have to make a fairly um strict record of my hours so if I go beyond 5 oclock on most days I put in for

39、 overtime. P:Right.E:And its.the first hour is one of overtime and then theres I think 15minute periods after I could worka quarter .P:And youd be paid for the quarter hoursE:Thats right,by the quarter hour.P:How about in Brazil9 until innecessarilyan hour andPenny:Its,its a lot looser in Brazil we

40、often end up66doing overtime but unfortunatelynot paid.v1.0 可编辑可修改 P: s hard what about holidays,what about in the StatesYou dont have much holidays in the States do youE: you start at a company you gettwo weeks holiday or two weeks vacationas we say.P:YeahE:Um then its usually not until youve been

41、at the company for about five ears that they give you another you get three weeks after youve been there for five years.P:And what about in BrazilPenny:Um its quite good actually-30days .P:Sounds very generous.Penny:Yeah I can pop back to.P:Is that 30 working days or 30 days in totalPenny:Thats 30 w

42、orking daysP:Wow,thatsPenny:Yes,yeah its a good deal.P:What about retirementI know its a long way of there!When do you retireE:Generally speaking its at 65 .P:And the same for women.E:Um its I think a little sooner than that for I think62or 63 .P;Right , in Brazil is it similarPenny:Similar to the s

43、 umafter 60 for for men,or if youve clocked up about 30 or 35 years of service then you canretire after that.P:Right and when.do you have a pay dayWhen is pay dayE:Um,well ,we gt paid twice a month,so we get paidat the beginning of the month and then we get paid in the middle ofthe month at the 15 t

44、h give or take（ 大约 ）.P:Yeah,and what about in Brazil？Penny:I think it all depends which company youre working the one I am working for right now I get paidtwice a monthbut when I began,with a different company that was once a month,so,it varies.P:And are there any company benefits that you have in t

45、he StatesDo you have a company car or a pension？lease a car in effect but its a company car that weget for 18 months to twoE:Yeah,we get a company re able to.we77v1.0 可编辑可修改 years and then we.we canmove on to another modelfrom s a fairly good pension scheme,thats still working,andhospitalization as

46、well.P:Oh,thats importantE:Yeah,a health plan through work is very important.P: what about in BrazilPenny:Yeah,excellent benefits like I mean it does depend on the company and the status of your or your job but you might get a car,living accommodation,school for the children ,theyll pay for your lun

47、ch,travel passes,gasoline,health insurance ,all sorts of benefits actually its very good.P:Sounds very good,with the holiday and all those benefits it sounds a great place to work.Unit 2Outside viewConversation 1Joe: OK, when you finished chatting, lets get down to work.Andy: OK, sure.Janet : Fine b

48、y me. Whats on the agendaJoe: First up today is Read all about it! Now, I assume everyone has read all the books for the future Has anyone readany of the booksAndy: Well, Joe,there are over 20 new books coming out next month, soJoe: Im sorry, I really think thats quite unacceptable. Its your job! Wh

49、at about you, JanetJanet: Im sorry but this is the first time Ive worked on Read all about it! And I didnt know I was meant to read allthe books.Andy: Have you read themJoe: No, but thats why youre my assistants. Youre meant to assist me.Andy: Its true that we need to read the books, Joe, but we hav

50、entJoe: OK, there you go. You are always making excuses!Andy: And whats more, we havent even chosen the books yet.Joe: OK, lets get down with it. Whats on the list伦敦视角）Janet: I suppose were looking for books with a London angle88v1.0 可编辑可修改Andy: Not necessarily.Janet: Is it OK to look for non-fictio

51、n tooJoe: Absolutely.Janet: OK, heres an idea. Theres a new biography（自传） of Charles Dickens which Im reading.Andy: Sounds good-his books are always on TV.Janet: You see Im studying Dickens at university, and I noticed it in the bookshop last week. Its really interesting.Joe: OK, tell us more.Janet:

52、 Well, its a description of the London locations where he set many of his books like Oliver Twist and DavidCopperfield.Andy: Sounds right up your street （拿手的） !Joe Well done, Janet. Maybe you can show Andy how to plan the feature. OK, thats it everyone. Lets get to it!Conversation 2Janet: Whats the

53、matter with Joe todayAndy: No idea. Hes a bit like that sometimes. He gets annoyed with me, but I dont really know why.Janet: He wasnt being at all fair. How often does he get like thisAndy: Well, I suppose its not very often. But sometimes he really gets on my nerves（使某人心烦意乱） .Janet: Dont let it ge

54、t to you. Hes probably got too much work, and hes stressed.Andy: Well, he should keep his problems away from the studio. Anyway, youre the expert on Dickens, tell me somethingabout him.Janet: Well, Charles Dickens was one of the most popular novelists in 19th century Britain . Many of his novels fir

55、st appeared in magazines, in short episodes. Each one had a cliffhanger at the end that made people want to read the next episode （集，一集） .Andy: And was he a LondonerJanet: He was born in Portsmouth but his familymoved to London when he was ten years old.Andy: And he set most of his stories in London

56、, didnt heJanet: Thats right. He knew the city very well.Andy: Whereabouts in London are his stories setJanet: Around the Law Courts in the centre of London. Heworked as a court reporterand many of the real life stories 99he heard in court inspired some of most famous characters in his novels.Andy:

57、I think some of his stories take place south of the riverJanet: Thats right, especially aroundDocklands. The thing was Dickens was a social commentator （社会评论员） as muchas he was a novelist -his stories describe the hardship, the poverty, and crime which many Londoners experienced in the 19th century.

58、 It makes me want to read some Dickens again. Maybe Ill just go shopping for a copy of Great Expectations.Andy: Anyway, you did me a huge favour. That was a real brainwave（突然想到的妙计，灵感） to suggest the new biography.Janet: Cheer up Andy. It wasnt your fault.Andy: No, its OK, Ill get over it. Go on, off

59、 you go and enjoy your shopping!Outside viewBritish people read a lot. They read books, newspapers and magazines. And of course they read text messages on their mobile phones. Sixty-five percentof British people list reading for pleasure as a major hobby.A quarter ofthe populationreads more than 20

60、books each year. So where do these books come from Well, there are bookshops where you can buy books. And there are lots of public libraries where you can borrow books for free. In this library you can borrow books, but you can also buy a cup of coffee, look at an art exhibition, sit in a quiet stud