Unit4全新版大學(xué)英語閱讀教程二知識點(diǎn)

1、unit 4 conversation 1mark: 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 ofthe wheelchair got stuck on the front of the loiry. when the lorry started

2、moving, it took the wheelchair and theman 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 unhurtbecause his seat belt had stopped him falling out.janet: what a terrible story! thank goodness the man was all r

3、ight!mark: the police asked the driver if he'd realized he had a passenger. the driver said he had no idea at allmark: 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 ca匚 the po

4、licemansuggested calling the mobile. when he did, the thief answered it. the policeman told the thief that he was answeringan 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 woma

5、n got her car back.janet: a happy ending!mark: you get these great stories in the papers 一 i alwayunit 4-conversation 2voice on radio: the news at one o'clocktornadoes have damaged homes in northern england.there is still no news of missing company director, alan marsden.scientists claim that gl

6、obal warming is accelerating.there are reports coming in of more fighting in mark: do you mind if i turn it off?janet: ifs fine, i wasn'l 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 re

7、ad articles from different paperskate: my dad does that.mark: well, fve 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 fve got into the habit of reading the papers in the

8、jcr 一 in a comfortable armchair, with lots of black coffeekate: don't either of you listen to the radio? ifs 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

9、 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. 1 love british tv.janet: we've noticed, kate. are you going to watch friends with me tonight?kate: you bet!unit 4-outside viewpart 1keith i saw robin wi

10、lliams come to the patio. i madethe run, jumped a couple of sawhorses 鋸木廠，climbed up a stairway,got in front of him, and saidj'robin, do you mind if i take a picture?” he goes, "after 汕 that, how could i stop you?” voice-over keith sykes has a long career in journalism, photography, and com

11、munications.keith i've taken pictures of a lot of celebrities cindy crawford. fve taken her picture a few times and, i, i think ifs impossible to take a bad picture of her. james garner. fve photographed famous politicians. i stood in the same position for two hours to get this picture. photogra

12、phing 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 in vitations to come to this award show, or this ben efit show i was showing up at all these events and seeing p

13、eople that i had seen on the screen and it was, uh, really, uh, a magical moment for me.part 2keith the word paparazzi means "the pest” in italian. fellini dubbed 配音 a character who played a pesky photographer in la doice vita "paparazzo： the roots of paparazzi photography were in europe a

14、fter world war ii. the countries were all subject to 受制 于 many political factions 派另ij 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

15、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 celebrities1 wild lives

16、. there are financial rewards. if i got a photograph of jennifer aniston and brad pitt holding hands, then fd 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 cel

17、ebrity. 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 hunterspart 3keith i decided

18、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 a

19、nd then just pulled it out and shot it with the flash we wanted to know what it felt like as an everyday person, how do you like the idea that someone can take pictures of you on the street? and almost universally, people feel you shouldn't have the right to invade their privacy. i think, as con

20、sumers of the media, we at least have to look at ourselves occasionally and evaluate what it is weye consuming. because whatever wete consuming, were encouraging to spreadunit 4-listening inpassage 1phil hello.tony hello, is that phil taylor?phil speaking.tony hi, phil, my name's tony, and tm a

21、reporter for sun.phil the uni paper! i suppose you want to talk to me about the fire.tony yes, if ifs ok with you. we'd like to do a piece on the fire for next week's paper. can you tell people how it happened?phil yeah, ok, it probably is a good idea.tony so when can i come and see you?phil

22、 um wednesday afternoon? three o'clock? i'm in south block, room 18.tony ok, i'll be there. tony ok, so let's get stalled. when did the fire happen?phil two days ago.tony november the 10th ok, so tell me how it happened.phil um it was about lipm. i decided to fry some chips, i use qu

23、ite a lot of oil -1 was deep-frying. um and i put the chips in. and then my girlfriend rang.tony ok.phil we'd had a quarrel, and i was pretty upset, so we started talking, and i completely forgot about the chips and went back to my room.to町you fool!phil thanks. we talked for quite a long time. n

24、ext thing i knew, there was this smell of smoke, and someone was shouting, nfire! fire!” and i realized immediately of course, it was my chips! and i rushed out of my room - the kitchen was next door and well. there were flames all over one wall.tony and it was all your fault!phil it was. but people

25、 were in the kitchen throwing blankets over the flames, and someone had already called the fire brigade and they came in ten minutes i think and put it out very quickl y.tony so what was the damage?phil theyte gonna to have to replace the cooker, two kitchen units, repaint one wall.tony sounds prett

26、y bad.phil it could have been a lot worsetony can i take a photo of you for the paper?phil do you have to? oh, ok.tony thanks it'll be front page newsphil oh dear! haven' you got anything else to write about?tony not this week there's not much happening on campus pm joking. you're on

27、 page 2.phil thanks!passage 2presenter today's discussion is about reality tv programmes, the programmes loved by millions and hated by just as many. we have three people on our panel tricia a student at liverpool university, rick from luton，and karen who is a full-time mumpanel hello.presenter

28、so lets begin with a very obvious question. do you watch reality tv programmes and if so, why?tricia yes, i do, i love them, fm addicted to them, pm afraidpresenter addicted to them?tricia yes, i think all my friends are really. i guess ifs just, you know, fascinating to watch real people put under

29、a bit of pressure and then see how they behave presenter that doesn'l sound very nice exactly.tricia no, it isn't but reality tv isn't very nice actually.presenter karen, how about you?karen yes, well i watch them but fm not like tricia. tm definitely not addicted to them i can take them

30、 or leave them but i do like to watch property programmes.presenter property programmes?karen you can learn a lot from them. and ifs -ifs great to see real people buying a property and then doing it up, the mistakes they make, that kind of thing. and yes, you know, there's the human interest fac

31、tor as well.presenter rick -ricki can't stand reality tv. i mean, ok, if its a property programme or a gardeningprogramme, fine, but most of them are just theyte set up to humiliate people.tricia not always.ricki disagree people are on show .it's likewatching animals in a zoo. i mean, would

32、you appear on a reality show?tricia maybe. i don know. probably not.rick there you are you see? you don't want to be humiliated karen some people do very well on reality shows. theywin a lot of money.rickok, thats true, but - standards on reality showscan be pretty low, you can't deny it.pre

33、senter tricia, what have you got to say to that?rgry -triciakarenpresenterwell, it's true, yes.i agree with rick.so, next question unit 5conversation 1mark: hi!kate: hi, janet! have you been waiting long?janet: not at all. what did you think of hero?kate: it was brilliant, thanks for suggesting

34、it.janet: well, it was nominated for an oscar, you knowkate: that figures its a beautiful film.mark: yes. the costumes, and scenery were amazing,kate: fd love to know more about the emperor, he was cool. who was he?janet: qin shi huang its said he was the first emperor in the history of china he uni

35、fied china.kate: did he? when?janet: er . 221 bc.mark: as long ago as that!waitress: hi guys! what can i get you?kate: yes, fll have a coke, thanksmark: er just a coffee.waitress: sure.mark: tell us more janet: um . well, before that, there were seven big states and they had been fighting each other

36、 for many years.mark: right.janet: its called the waning states period anyway 一 qin was king of the largest state and he defeated the six other states, one after another. it took him ten years to conquer them, each with a different strategymark: what kind of man was he?janet: well, he was brilliant,

37、 obviously and also wise. he had this huge army they were very powerful. after his army had attacked the first state, the next stale surrendered without much fight. they were so terrified.kate: wow!janet: what else? the army leaders were very clever, they used a river to flood a city.mark: that canl

38、 have been easy.janet: yes, anyway, after conquering the last state, qin made himself emperor of the whole of china.mark: was he the emperor who created the terracotta warriors?janet: that's right. he was so afraid of death that he wanted them to guard him in the afterlifeunit 5conversation 2bec

39、ky:kate:mark:ok.thank you.thankskate: so go on about emperor qin. its really interesting.janet: it is, isnt it? well, so he unified china and that was an incredible achievement. but as a result, huge numbers of soldiers were killedkate: about how many?janet: oh, i don't know, something like 500,

40、000 men?kate: that is huge.mark: so how do the chinese see qin?janet: he's seen as the greatest emperor in chinese historymark: why? because he unified china? thafs a very good reason, mind you.janet: not only that. the thing is, as a result of the unification, he did many amazing things. he bui

41、lt roads all across china, he standardized writing and also the money system. oh，and the system for measuring and weighing things as well.mark: so he was a great leader for china.janet: yes, he was, but he was also very cruel.mark: yes, but most emperors were cruel, werenft they? kate: well i guess

42、thafs true. youte right.mark: so did he have enemies?janet:of coursej think all great emperors have some enemies. some people hated him so much they tried to kill him!mark: was he the emperor who built the great wall of china?janet: he built the first great wall. you see, tribes from the north were

43、always trying to invade so he built a huge wall across china to stop them. hundreds of thousands of men died building it. kate: ifs so sad 一 all those thousands of people dying.mark: but then . that's war, isn't it?unit 5-outside viewon the 25th of april each year, australia and new zealand

44、celebrate anzac day, when they commemorate all the members of the australian and new zealand army corps who died in action during the first and second world wars, and in every armed conflict since then. wete here now at the australian war memorial at the start of the dawn service they shall grow not

45、 old as we that are left row oldage shall not weary them nor the years condemnat the going down of the sun and in the morningwe will remember themlesl we forget.a verse from the poem. ode to remembrance by laurence binyon, is recited during the cerem onyinside the hall of memory is the tomb of the u

46、nknown soldier. this is the grave of a solider whose identity is not known and it represents all those soldiers who died in battle but were not identified.twenty-four years after the ravages of world war i, war came to the mainland of australia where air raids killed hundreds of service personnel an

47、d civilians in malaya, korea and vietnam, we answered the call as we have in afghanistan and iraq. through it all the one unshakable truth has been a steadfastness, bom of the traditions of the australian servicemen. today, australia's special day, they remember in east timor, on bougainville, i

48、n afghanistan and iraq, on the island of crete, at gallipoli, they along with us, remember.anzac day is a public holiday in australia. it is one of the most important national days of the year and certainly the most solemn one. commemoration services are held in all the major cities in australia and

49、 huge crowds attend to pay their respects to those who died. servicemen and women from all the armed services in australia march in procession. they fought in the second world war and other conflicts since then that have happened around the world. the men in the trucks are all wearing decorations. t

50、heyte veterans from the second world war, and perhaps a few last survivors from the first world war. after the parade the veterans will gather in a pub or club to talk and share memories. this veteran fought in the second world war in western australia.interviewer and what does anzac day mean to you

51、?veteran well, it means remembering not only those who didn't go home but the, the fact that you keep in touch with a lot of your friendsunit 5-listening inpassage 1there are many war novels blit the novel i'm going to talk about today is unusual because it's war seen through the eyes of

52、 a child the "eyes” are those of jg ballard, one of britain's most respected novelistslet's begin with some information about ballard he was bom in 193(), in shanghai, where his father was a businessman, and he was only 11 years old when the city was occupied during world war ii. ballar

53、d and his family were placed in a prison camp and he has said that his experiences there affected him so deeply that it was 40 years before he felt able to write about them"twenty years to forget and 20 years to remember.”the result of ballard's experiences was a semi-autobiographical novel

54、 called empire of the sun, published in 1984. it quickly became a success and in 1987 it was made into a movie by hollywood director, steven spielberg.lets move on to the novel itself. empire of the sun tells the story of how a young boy, jim graham, survives the japanese occupation. interestingly,

55、jim is j g ballard's first name and his second name is graham. also, jim is the same age as ballard - 11 -when the occupation begins.at the start of the story, jim is living with his parents in a wealthy part of shanghai. when the invasion begins, many of shanghai's inhabitants flee from the

56、 city and jiirfs parents do the same. but the boy becomes separated from them and finds himself all alone. he goes back to their empty home and lives alone there inevitably， he's found and then he's sent to a prison campifs a terrible four years, but the boy somehow survives. he steals food,

57、 finds ways of getting in and out of the camp, and is befriended by some america ns and a japanese boy.is there a happy ending? yes and no. jim sees many people die; his japanese friend is killed by the americans. but at the end of the war, he gets back to shanghai and is reunited with his parents j

58、im's experiences are terrible, as a child who discovers the depths of human cruelty. but he learns also about the strength and courage that is possible, even in these circumstances.both the great power and the truth of the novel come from the fact that it's based on the author's own expe

59、riences. the general opinion of critics is that empire of the sun is one of the bestwar novels ever written - so read it, it's worth it.passage 2host on womens world, today, we look at women's role in the second world war and the important part they played in it. in the first world war, women had worked in factories and as n