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1、CAMPUS CONVERSATION CD 1 Track 2PAGE 6, FIRST LISTENINGStudent: Professor Babcock, can I, uh, can I talk to you for a minute?Professor: Sure, Lisa, this is my office hour. Whats up?S: Well, OK, Im working on that paper you assignedthe one on drug addictionand, well, I was wondering. You said the pap

2、er should be two to three pages, but could I write one thats, like, six pages?P: Thats a request I dont get too often.S: Its just that Ive done all this Internet research and Ive found so much stuffall these interesting detailsand, you know, Id just hate to leave any of them out of my paper.P: But t

3、his paper is supposed to be an overview of the topic, Lisa, not a description of every drug addiction that ever existed.S: I know. But Ive spent so much time looking up stuff.P: How much time are you talking about?S: Well, lets see. I started two days ago and, uh, I think I spent about a couple of h

4、ours that day. Then, yesterday, I really started finding some good websites, so it was probably about five hours. Its just amazing how much stuff there is out there.P: Thats a lot of time. You know, the Internet is a wonderful toolI use it for my own researchbut you have to be careful that you dont

5、become addicted to it. You dont want it to start doing your thinking for you.S: But you can learn so muchthere are so many websitesP: And some of them are a lot more reliable than othersso, you need to be discriminating in your research. But apart from the reliability issue, theres just a point wher

6、e you need to stop accumulating information. where you need to start understanding it. This paper will be a good exercise for you youll need to take all that information youve gathered, and summarize it in two to three pages. You cant just copy over every detail that turns up.S: Well, I would never

7、just copy material. I know it needs to be in my own words.P: Im sorry, Lisa, I wasnt suggesting youd do anything unethical. In fact, its obvious youre very hardworking. What Im trying to get at. Look, Id like every student to know how to do research, but what really matters is this: can you communic

8、ate the information you uncoverin a genuinely meaningful way? Being able to grasp. being able to describe the key points is a lot more important than knowing a bunch of facts and details.S: So, I cant write a longer paper. Youre saying I just have to throw out all these interesting details.P: Not al

9、l of themselect a few to illustrate your papers main themes. Tell you what, why dont you plan a little talk for the classsay, about five minutesand you can share some of what youve learnedafter everyones turned in their papers.S: OK. I wonder if anyone else spent as much time on the Internet as I di

10、d.P: Honestly. As I said, its a great tool, but I dont want to create a bunch of Internet addicts in this class.S: Ill remember that. Thanks, professor.ACADEMIC LISTENING 4PAGE 7, FIRST LISTENINGWarren Levinson: Its Newsweek on Air, Im Warren Levinson of the Associated Press.David Alpern: Im David A

11、lpern of Newsweek.WL: David Brooks, you argue that we already live in an overcommunicated world that will only become more so in the next tech era. What exactly do you mean by that?David Brooks: The problem is that weve developed technology that gets us so much information that weve got cell phones

12、ringing every second, weve got computers and laptops, weve got personal organizers and its justwere just being bombarded with communication and every advance and technology seems to create more and more communications at us. I do believe at the end of the day it shapes our personality because we are

13、 sort of overwhelmed by the information flow.DA: Seriously though, just last week we reported on research suggesting that all the multi-tasking may actually make our brains work better and faster, producing, as its been reported, a world-wide increase in IQ up to 20 points and more in recent decades

14、. Can you see any benefit in all these mental gymnastics we now have to go through?DB: Yeah, I, I dont think were becoming a race of global idiots, uh, but I think certain skills are enhanced and certain are not. You know, the ability to make fast decisions, to answer a dozen e-mails in five minutes

15、, uh, to fill out maybe big SAT-type tests. Thats enhanced. But creativity is something that happens slowly. It happens when your brain is just noodling around, just playing. When it puts together ideas which you hadnt thought of or maybe you have time, say, to read a book. You are a businessperson,

16、 but you have time to read a book about history or time to read a book about a philosopher and something that happened long ago or something or some idea somebody thought of long ago. Actually, you know, it occurs to you that you can think of your own business in that way, and so its this mixture of

17、 unrelated ideas, ah, that feeds your productivity, feeds your creativity, and if your mind is disciplined to answer every e-mail, then you dont have time for that playful noodling. You dont have time for those unexpected conjunctions, so I think maybe were getting smarter in some senses, but I thin

18、k it is a threat to our creativity and to our reflection.DA: So how wired or wirelessly are you tied into the new technology?DB: A total addict. When Im out there with my kids playing in our little league or something like that, Ive got my cell phone in my pocket. Fm always wondering, “Gee, did I ge

19、t a voicemail?” uh and thats why I think Im sort of driven to write about this because I do see the negative effects its having on my own brain patterns.DA: Could be Newsweek on Air calling. David Brooks thanks a lot.DB: Thank you.INTEGRATED TASK PAGE 14, LISTENING 7Teresa: Hi. Im Teresa. I became a

20、 compulsive shopper almost overnight. My job had become just too stressful. So, to unwind after work, Id head off to the mall. I started buying small things I really didnt need, but then I started spending more and more, and coming home later and later. It was “shop til you drop.“ My spending spun o

21、ut of control until I was overwhelmed with debt.Olivia: Sounds familiar, Teresa. Hi, everyone. Im Olivia. For me, work was not problematic at all. Rather, my personal life was a mess. The guy I had been dating for twelve years suddenly left me for another woman. So I ended up feeling nervous and uns

22、ettled; I started having sudden anxiety attacks.Maria: You mean headaches, rapid heartbeat, and sweaty palms?Olivia: Yeah, those were the symptoms. But as soon as I pulled out my credit card, my best friend, I felt better, kind of energized. I felt strangely satisfied and enhanced.Maria: I feel the

23、same when I hold that little piece of plastic. Oh. sorry. I forgot to introduce myself. Im Maria. Whenever I feel sad or depressed, charging a hundred bucks on my card just cheers me up. Ive tried a bunch of different strategies to try to kick the habit, but so far I havent found a way to do it. So,

24、 now here I am. hoping you all will help.UNIT 2: Communities 8CAMPUS CONVERSATION PAGE 24, FIRST LISTENINGStudent 1: Hey, Sam.Student 2: Hi, Tamara. Hows it going? Have you found a roommate yet?SI: Yeah. Jen and I have decided to live together. We want to live off campus, but its so difficult findin

25、g decent housing that isnt too expensive.S2: How about looking in the Museum district? There are tons of reasons to live there: Its close to campus. You wouldnt even have to take a bus. Ive seen a lot of for-rent signs. Theres also so much to do theremuseums nearby, and great shopping. And theres a

26、twenty-four-hour supermarket and video store right in the center. And its very safe. I always see people walking around late at night.SI: Do you know how much apartments in the Museum district go for? Its ridiculous! A couple of my professors live around there. As a matter of fact, I already checked

27、 into a few apartments around there, and the rents are sky high. When you add utilities, well, theyre way out of my league.S2: Hmmm, lets see, what other options are there? I know. What about Fairmont? The rents are cheap, but Im not so sure about that neighborhood.SI: I definitely dont want to live

28、 there. Parties on every corner: They go on all night long.S2: You know, Tamara, I live in Lawndale. I like it a lot everyone is very friendly. And its a pretty safe neighborhood. And the rent is reasonable, even with utilities. But its really far from campus. I take two buses to get hereat the bus

29、stop no later than 7:20, rain or shine!. an hour and a half on crowded buses, and I still have to run to make my 9:00 class! Id take my own car, but the parking fees are outrageoussixty dollars a term! And you know how plentiful parking spaces are at 8:45 in the morning!SI: I know what you mean. We

30、considered Lawndale, but youre rightits too far from everything. Both of us work downtown, so it would be a real pain to figure out the bus routes from home to school and then to work. Fm about to give up!S2: Hey, what about using an apartment locator?SI: No way. One company kept my friends $200 dep

31、osit even though they didnt end up finding him a decent apartment.S2: Well, what can I say? Ive run out of ideas. The Museum district is too expensive, Fairmont is too noisy. Lawndale is too far, and using an apartment locator is a waste of money!S1: Hmmm Maybe we could rent a huge house, large enou

32、gh for all of our friends!S2: Great idea! So. where is this ideal house?SI: It would be one block from campusonly a short walk away. A big brick house, two stories. With six huge bedrooms, a big, modern kitchen, a pool.S2: Rightkeep dreaming. Lets go get some lunch and well look at the classifieds i

33、n the campus newspaper. Maybe well even find your dream house!ACADEMIC LISTENING 12Page 26, first listeningDouglas Frantz, co-author: You know, theyve tried to look backward at small-town America and take the best of those planning elementsyou know, houses close together, sidewalks, front porches, t

34、ree-lined streets, easy, non-automobile-dependent access to the town center and to your neighbors and to the school and the other institutions that are vital. And theyve tried to take some of those ideas and update them and come up with a livable, workable place where people can go and rekindle the

35、sense of community that seems to be missing from suburbs all across the country.Terry Gross, host: So give us a sense of how this new town, Celebration, was designed.DF: Houses are all very close together. We were just 10 feet apart from our neighbors on either side of us, and thats pretty much the

36、standard for the town. So, you have houses that are close together, houses that surround open areas. They have a lot of big parks, a lot of common areas. The theory is that youre willing to sacrifice your private yard spaceyou dont need a quarter of an acre or half an acreif you have a public area w

37、here you can go and enjoy the facilities there importantly, you can interact with your neighbors, That helps to create this sense of community thats so important to many of these “new town“ developments.TG: You know, this whole sense of, like, “Its going to be a new town, but were going to do it wit

38、h a sense of nostalgia for the past so nothing can be designed past what existed in the 1940s“it seemsit just seems a little contradictory, and some of the designs from the 1940s didnt really transfer that well into the 90s. Like, a lot of the houses had porches.DF:. what Disney expected with these

39、front porches, what the planners envisioned was it would create a “front porch culture“that people would be out on their porches talking to their neighbors next door and to people walking down the street or people riding their bikes, and there would be this culture that, you know, either existed or

40、existed in somebodys imagination, you know, 30, 40, 50 years ago.But that really has been one of the failures that we observed during our two years in Celebration, and people dont spend very much time at all on their front porches. There are a couple of things going on. One is its central Florida, a

41、nd its hotter than hell a good part of the year, and sitting on your front porch, even if you have a fan going, can be a very uncomfortable thing. People prefer to be inside in the air-conditioning.Page 33, listeningProfessor: OK, today were going to continue to discuss urbanization, focusing on urb

42、an sprawl. So, can anyone define urban sprawl? Matt?Student 1: When cities keep spreading out, getting bigger?P: Yes. This is part of urban sprawl. Most people define it as the growth of cities in an unplanned manner.Urban sprawl is low density, outward growthmostly single-family residencesnot upwar

43、d, like a city with multi-family residences.Many consider urban sprawl to be very harmful, including environmental groups like the Sierra Club, which calls sprawl “irresponsible,“ a “cancer,“ a “virus“ on the land. Sprawl misuses land that should be preserved for wildlife, parks, farmland, and its r

44、obbing us of our nature, they say.Traffic is another negative effect of sprawl. traffic jams between cities and suburbs. especially during morning and evening commutes.But some people see benefits to sprawl. Lets see. real estate development, home construction, new businesses, better schools, less n

45、oise and crime. all are considered positive features.Now, which U.S. cities have the greatest sprawl? Any guesses? Lets see. Emily?Student 2: Los Angeles? Maybe Houston, Texas? Its amazing how spread-out those cities are.P: OK, good guesses! In the 1990s, big California cities like L.A. were booming

46、 and sprawling. But recently, southern cities have had the greatest sprawl. Atlanta, Georgia, is number one, with Houston, Texas, next.So. many see sprawl as a problem. And is anything being done to stop it? Actually, several major anti-sprawl movements have emerged, including New Urbanism.New Urban

47、isms first principle says that regionally we must create transportation systems and environment protections like forbidding tree removal, water pollution, or animal habitat destruction.And next, cities should provide housing and jobs that are close together.And finally, neighborhoods should have sin

48、gle and multi-family housing where residents can walk to stores, or they need public transportation, parks. New Urbanists believe that parks and walking will make people actually connect socially.So you know. New Urbanism may bring some changes to cities in years to come.UNIT 3: Personality 15CAMPUS

49、 CONVERSATIONPage 44, first listeningStudent: Professor Boukhlif? Do you have a minute?Professor: Hi, Katy. Yes, come on in. Ive got a few minutes. Take a seat. Im just grading this weeks test. I didnt see yours. Wait, you werent in class on Monday, were you?S: No. I. urn. wasnt. I thought. Well, to tell the truth, I didnt feel ready for the test. Im really feeling overwhelmed by Arab