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Talks and Conversations 4

As a normal person, you see colors everywhere, so long as you have good eyesight. In fact, color plays a central role in our life. For example, color is used to communicate life-saving information. To the driver of a vehicle, the green color means “go”, and the red color means “stop”. You should always pull up when the traffic light turns red. Besides, colors can irritate or soothe your eyes, raise your appetite, or even change your mood. A delicious meal with appropriate colors can certainly make your mouth watering. Good colors also help us in many other ways. Statistics show, that in sports competition a team wearing red has a higher chance of winning. Of course, it’s largely due to the psychology of wearing red. Luck and ability can be more important.

For animals, color reflects their environments and their characteristics. For instance, a male peacock has its tail feathers of bright colors to win the attention of female peacocks. A tree frog can be so green as to indicate its poisonous nature. So don’t eat it, or you might die. A wasp, with its bright yellow color, may warn us that it has a sting, and it is not afraid to use that sting. People often think that rainbow is the most colorful, but for our artists, all they need are three colors, namely, red, blue and yellow. They are called the primary colors——colors that cannot be made by mixing others together. And our artists can mix them together to create any color in the rainbow, and hundreds of other shades in making art.

Questions：

23. Why are green and red colors important to drivers?

24. According to statistics, what team has a higher chance of winning in sports competition?

25. which animal has green color that warns us of its poisonous nature?

26. what is a primary color?

點(diǎn)評：本篇文章探討了關(guān)于顏色的話題。顏色在我們生活中扮演了很重要的角色，既可用于交通中給司機(jī)傳達(dá)指令，又可在日常生活中發(fā)揮其他的作用。此外，顏色對于動(dòng)物來說也很重要。有的動(dòng)物利用顏色來吸引雌性;而有的動(dòng)物則利用身上的顏色來警告其他動(dòng)物禁止侵犯。雖然在我們眼里，顏色是多種多樣的，但是所有的 顏色都來源自三種顏色：紅、藍(lán)和黃。文章內(nèi)容貼近我們現(xiàn)實(shí)生活，文中也并沒有出現(xiàn)很多生詞?？忌恍枰m當(dāng)?shù)刈鲂┕P記，結(jié)合平常的生活常識，在聽的過程中即可選出正確答案。

Talks and Conversations 5

W: Of course, we ought to be permitted to think, speak, and feel as we like, provided we don’t do any harm to anyone else.

M: How do you know when you are doing harm or not?Would you permit people to take drugs, for example?

W: That depends on the drugs, some of them can be harmful in all sorts of ways, like too much drink and smoking as many cigarettes as you do.

M: Well, I have been trying to give up smoking for a long time. But you know, it’s not easy. And I’m afraid I don’t have that strong will.

W: I think the government should banned smoking in all the public places and they should levy heavier taxes on selling and buying cigarettes.

M: What really makes me mad is the attitude toward morals. Some people are really shocked, because in the theaters today actors are allowed to walk about the stage with little or without any clothes on. And they think it’s right that the police should be able to walk into our galleries and decide whether pictures are works of art or obscene. But the same people aren’t shocked by advertisements which persuaded the public to buy things which can do real harm, like cigarettes and alcohol, for example. I think a lot of advertisements are much more immoral than so-called pornographic or dirty plays and books. Because they lie, or at least disguise the truth.

W: How do you know that pornographic pictures in books don’t do harm?

M: I didn’t say they did no harm, I’m just suggesting that the whole question of morality is relative. I think the behavior of some businessman is relative more immoral than that of some of the young people they criticize.

W: You seem to think that everything will be alright if you just allow people to be natural. I personally feel we all need some kind of outside authority to help us discipline ourselves.

Questions:

27. What has the man been trying to do for a long time?

28. According to the man, what things can do real harm to people?

29. Why does the man think that advertisements are much more immoral than dirty place and books?

30. According to the woman, what do we need to discipline ourselves?

點(diǎn)評：此對話主要是談?wù)撃男┬袨槭菚λ嗽斐蓚?。女士認(rèn)為煙酒對他人造成極大傷害，因此國家應(yīng)該禁止公眾場合的吸煙行為或者征收更多的稅，而男士卻認(rèn)為只要不過量，煙酒就不會造成傷害。男士認(rèn)為人們的道德觀會對他人造成極大傷害，并以人們對現(xiàn)代藝術(shù)和廣告的虛假信息兩種事物的態(tài)度來舉例說明。最后，女士總結(jié)男士的觀點(diǎn)是人們應(yīng)順其自然地要求自我，而女士的觀點(diǎn)則是希望通過外界的權(quán)威來約束自我。

本文緊緊圍繞中心觀點(diǎn)進(jìn)行討論，其中關(guān)于不良書籍的說法可能會造成一定干擾，但切忌勿因小失大，而忘記聽真正要考查的重要信息。

1. Sydney is an important commercial, industrial and tourist center on the south-east coast of Australia. It is Australia’s largest city with a population of more than 3 million.

譯文：位于澳大利亞東南部海岸的悉尼，是澳大利亞重要的商業(yè)、工業(yè)和旅游中心。悉尼擁有300萬人口，是澳大利亞最大的城市。

2. For those who worry too much about their future, my advice is to live for the present, find some joy in each day, and help others in need.

譯文：對于那些過度為自己未來擔(dān)憂的人來說，我的建議就是活在當(dāng)下，每天都要找到生活的樂趣，并且為需要幫助的人伸出援助之手。

3. A woman lawyer has some advantages in the court. For example, if my client is a woman who claim rights from her divorced husband, a woman lawyer can understand better and do a better job.

譯文：在法庭上，女性律師是有些優(yōu)勢的。比如說，如果委托人是一名與離婚丈夫發(fā)生權(quán)利糾紛的女性的話，那么女性律師更能夠理解這位委托人，也就能夠更好地完成工作。

4. Researchers suggest that playing video games has similar effects to observing violent television content. Children imitate the aggressive actions from a video game just as they imitate violent television content.

譯文：有研究表明，玩電子游戲產(chǎn)生的負(fù)面影響和觀看暴力電視節(jié)目產(chǎn)生的影響有些類似。小孩子會像模仿電視節(jié)目中的暴力行為一樣模仿電子游戲中的過激行為。

5. Every day, Americans use 450 billion gallons of water, such amount would cover New York City to a depth of 96 feet. We must remember that water is not inexhaustible on earth.

譯文：美國人每天要使用4500億加侖的水。這個(gè)用水量可以把紐約市淹沒至高達(dá)96英尺的水位。我們必須謹(jǐn)記，地球的水資源不是取之不盡用之不竭的。

解析：這一部分總體難度適中，所涉內(nèi)容基本與日常生活相關(guān)，幾乎沒有出現(xiàn)生僻的詞匯。句型都比較簡單，對理解題意不會造成影響。第四題的句式較其他幾句稍復(fù)雜，需要理順句中進(jìn)行對