新视野大学英语第三版视听说4

Unit 1 How we behave is who we are

Listening to the world

Sharing

P = Pasha; W1 = Woman 1, etc.; M1 = Man 1, etc.

Part 1

P: Hello. City life can be quite impersonal, so I try to smile at people and thank them whenever they behave kindly, but some forms of anti-social behavior really do get on my nerves. Today I’m talking to people about good and bad behavior. What kind of behavior in public places gets on your nerves?

Part 2

W1: I think what mostly gets on my nerves is when people listen to their music really loudly on a stereo when you’re on the train, or in a lift. I think that’s a bit antisocial.

M1: Um, probably noise more than anything actually. Um, I suppose it’s one of those sorts of things you see in effect in towns, areas now get louder and louder – probably later into the night as well.

W2: Well, screaming babies, in, like shops and just generally around and the parents, kind of standing there and not really, just kind of ignoring the child and you just want to, just, tell the baby to just “shut up” but, obviously, you can’t.

M2: Loud noise: people with loud voices. Er, people, er, bad manners.

W3: When you’re on public transport, like on a train, and cou ples start kissing in front of you.

M3: Smoking within the vicinity. Um, as someone who personally doesn’t smoke, er, I find it, it can, er ... it can get on my nerves at times.

Part 3

P: Give a recent example of when you experienced good or bad manners.

M3: The other day, just as an example, um, recent lack of m anners I think, was in a … a local park and er, there was a rubbish bin nearby, but that person instead of taking the extra effort to just simply walk over and drop it in, decided carelessly to just drop their rubbish on the ground where they were.

M1: I travel a lot on the trains and things like that, so I find, increasingly, the actual noise on trains from people using mobile phones, things like that really.

W1: Well, recently, it’s …I’ve seen it a few times, you know, when, when you’re shopping or when you’re in a restaurant and you’re trying to … and you’re speaking to the person that’s serving you and maybe somebody’s, they’re on their phone, or they’re not really paying attention. You see that quite a lot, I think, in London particularly.

W3: On the bus this morning, when an old gentleman got on and someone got up to give him a seat.

Part 4

P: Do you think our attitude towards behavior changes as we get older?

W1: Yeah, I think it does. I think as you get older, you become, probably, a bit more intolerant of certain, sort of, anti-social behavior and, as, when you’re younger you’re probably not as aware of it.

M2: I think the older people, er, definitely appreciate manners, good behavior and a good attitude. M1: I suppose so. I suppose we learn how to be more tolerant of it. Um, we can be, probably, more short-tempered of it because we’ve probably had it all of our lives and we want it to,sort of, come to an end, but I think we learn how to, sort of, either walk away from it or ignore it, that sort of things.

W2: Yeah, definitely.

W4: It becomes more important as you get older. You have to impress more people, therefore, be more polite. W2: Yeah, and you gain a conscience as you get older as well. As kids, like, you just say whatever you want to each other, kids, but you kind of realize what you can and can’t say as you get older.

Listening

I = Interviewer; S1 = Speaker 1, etc.

Part 1

I: Now I’ve always thought it has to do with what ti m e of day you’re born. I arrived at 10 o’clock at night and consequently I’m an owl –coming to life late in the evening and capable of dancing till dawn –which is a pity really because this job requires that I am a lark, getting up every morning at 5:30. Well, which are you and why?

Part 2

S1: I am up usually between five and half past most m ornings. I’m bright and breezy. I sing in the morning. I’m wide awake. I love watching the sunrise. Whenever we go on holiday, my husband thinks I’m mad because quite often I get up with a cam era, and I’m out there at half past four, five o’clock in the morning watching the sunrise and taking photographs. And I just love it. It is just so peaceful and so beautiful. It’s a lovely part of the day.

S2: Definitely not a morning person. Evening, without a doubt. I despise getting up with a passion. There is a real, real sense of dread, and, oh no, and there’s sort of lots of denial about … no, it didn’t really go off. And I sort of set it again for five minutes later, then I set it again for another five minutes later, and I stay there until the absolute last second.

S3: If I’m groggily out at nine or 10 in the morning, I do look at other people walking their dogs, or, walking along with a bounce in their step and I just think, “Where does it co me from? How can you do that? Should I just eat more vegetables or more fruit or should I get up earlier to be more awake?” None of it works.

S4: My father and my mother are very m uch sort of early birds, and so when I was a teenager I’d sleep in and I’d have comments all the time like, “You …you’re sleeping your life away”,“Y ou’ve wasted the best part of the day”, and it’s taken me until very, very recently actually to be able to stop the guilt at getting up late ...

S5: Late evening is best for me to be focusing rather than partying. That’s when I’m really thinking straight. Everyone’s going to sleep at hom e here when I’m really mentally becoming most awake. That’s when I really feel at my sharpest.

S6: At the end of the day, nine o’clock, 10 o’clock,I’m exhausted, and so I want to go to bed. Anybody m entions “party” to me and I cringe.

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