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新概念第四册课文及生词Lesson4

　　【课文】

　　First listen and then answer the following question.

　　听录音，然后回答以下问题。

　　How did Vera discover she had this gift of second sight?

　　Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people who can read and detect colours with their fingers, and even see through solid doors and walls. One case concerns an eleven-year-old schoolgirl, Vera Petrova, who has normal vision but who can also perceive things with different parts of her skin, and through solid walls. This ability was first noticed by her father. One day she came into his office and happened to put her hands on the door of a locked safe. Suddenly she asked her father why he kept so many old newspapers locked away there, and even described the way they were done up in bundles.

　　Vera's curious talent was brought to the notice of a scientific research institute in the town of Ulyanovsk, near where she lives, and in April she was given a series of tests by a special commission of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federal Republic. During these tests she was able to read a newspaper through an opaque screen and, stranger still, by moving her elbow over a child's game of Lotto she was able to describe the figures and colours printed on it; and, in another instance, wearing stockings and slippers, to make out with her foot the outlines and colours of a picture hidden under a carpet. Other experiments showed that her knees and shoulders had a similar sensitivity. During all these tests Vera was blindfold; and, indeed, except when blindfold she lacked the ability to perceive things with her skin. It was also found that although she could perceive things with her fingers this ability ceased the moment her hands were wet.

　　ERIC DE MAUNY Seeing hands from The Listener

　　【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

　　solid adj. 坚实的

　　safe n. 保险柜

　　ulyanovsk n. 乌里扬诺夫斯克

　　commission n. 委员会

　　opaque adj. 不透明的

　　lotto n. 一种有编号的纸牌

　　slipper n. 拖鞋

　　blindfold adj.& adv. 被蒙上眼睛的

新概念第四册课文及生词Lesson5

　　【课文】

　　First listen and then answer the following question.

　　听录音，然后回答以下问题。

　　How does the writer like to treat young people?

　　People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one--which I take leave to doubt -- then it is older people who create it, not the young themselves. Let us get down to fundamentals and agree that the young are after all human beings--people just like their elders. There is only one difference between an old man and a young one: the young man has a glorious future before him and the old one has a splendid future behind him: and maybe that is where the rub is.

　　When I was a teenager, I felt that I was just young and uncertain--that I was a new boy in a huge school, and I would have been very pleased to be regarded as something so interesting as a problem. For one thing, being a problem gives you a certain identity, and that is one of the things the young are busily engaged in seeking.

　　I find young people exciting. They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort. They are not anxious social climbers, and they have no devotion to material things. All this seems to me to link them with life, and the origins of things. It's as if they were, in some sense, cosmic beings in violent and lovely contrast with us suburban creatures. All that is in my mind when I meet a young person. He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders -- as if mere age were a reason for respect. I accept that we are equals, and I will argue with him, as an equal, if I think he is wrong.

　　FIELDEN HUGHES from Out of the Air, The Listene

　　【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

　　leave n. 允许

　　fundamentals n. 基本原则

　　glorious adj. 光辉灿烂的

　　splendid adj. 灿烂的

　　rub n. 难题

　　identity n. 身份

　　dreary adj. 沉郁的

　　commitment n. 信奉

　　mean adj. 吝啬，小气

　　social climber 追求更高社会地位的，向上爬的人

　　devotion n. 热爱

　　cosmic adj. 宇宙的

　　suburban adj. 见识不广的，偏狭的

　　conceited adj. 自高自大的

　　presumptuous adj. 自以为是的，放肆的

　　fatuous adj. 愚蠢的

　　cliche n. 陈词滥调

新概念第四册课文及生词Lesson6

　　【课文】

　　First listen and then answer the following question.

　　听录音，然后回答以下问题。

　　How does the writer describe sport at the international level?

　　I am always amazed when I hear people saying that sport creates goodwill between the nations, and that if only the common peoples of the world could meet one another at football or cricket, they would have no inclination to meet on the battlefield. Even if one didn't know from concrete examples (the 1936 Olympic Games, for instance) that international sporting contests lead to orgies of hatred, one could deduce it from general principles.

　　Nearly all the sports practised nowadays are competitive. You play to win, and the game has little meaning unless you do your utmost to win. On the village green, where you pick up sides and no feeling of local patriotism is involved, it is possible to play simply for the fun and exercise: but as soon as the question of prestige arises, as soon as you feel that you and some larger unit will be disgraced if you lose, the most savage combative instincts are aroused. Anyone who has played even in a school football match knows this. At the international level, sport is frankly mimic warfare. But the significant thing is not the behaviour of the players but the attitude of the spectators: and, behind the spectators, of the nations who work themselves into furies over these absurd contests, and seriously believe -- at any rate for short periods -- that running, jumping and kicking a ball are tests of national virtue.

　　GEORGE ORWELL The sporting spirit

　　【New words and expressions 生词和短语】

　　goodwill n. 友好

　　cricket n. 板球

　　inclination n. 意愿

　　contest n. 比赛

　　orgy n. 无节制的，放荡

　　deduce v. 推断

　　competitive adj. 竞争性的

　　patriotism n. 地方观念，爱国主义

　　disgrace v. 使丢脸

　　savage adj. 野性的

　　combative adj. 好斗的

　　mimic warfare 模拟战争

　　behaviour n. 行动，举止

　　absurd adj. 荒唐的

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