新编大学英语自主听力 4Unit 5

[00:00.00]Unit 5:Lesson One Working Lives
[00:06.66]Practice One Working Lives   Words You Need to Know
[00:14.08]hard up       cafe      raving     moderately    Dover
[00:25.02]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the dialogue and put the questions the woman asks in the right order according to the recording.
[00:39.46]Woman:Somebody told me that you once did some busking. Is that right?
[00:44.39]Man:Oh, yeah. I mean, I did it just after university, or was it while I was at the university?
[00:52.16]But anyway in the summer once in the south of France.
[00:56.23]Woman:Why was this? Were you hard up or something?
[00:59.72]Man:No. It's part of er - if you think you're a folk singer -
[01:05.38]Woman:Yeah.
[01:06.28]Man:If you've... if you imagine you're a folk singer, then you've got to go busking some time.
[01:14.02]It's part of the experience of being a folk singer.
[01:17.26]Woman:How did you get on? I mean, What happened?
[01:21.22]Man:Well, it wasn't bad. You see, I was a very lucky type of busker. I wasn't er doing it to stay alive.
[01:30.43]Woman:No.
[01:31.48]Man:I bought a return ticket from Dover to Nice, so that if anything went wrong, I could get straight back again.
[01:39.47]Woman:You are all right. Yes, yes.
[01:42.46]Man:It really went very well. I started by going round the cafes every evening, and passing a hat round.
[01:49.76]Woman:Yeah. Good Lord! What, what did you play? Guitar or something?
[01:55.92]Man:Yes, guitar, and sang sort of fairly ordinary folk songs. In those days it was... er all Dylan and Joan Baez type stuff.
[02:07.01]Woman:Yeah. And you were a raving success, weren't you?
[02:11.00]Man:(laughs) That might be a little exaggerating.
[02:16.22]I think I was moderately successful and I was joined by a young French guy I met who didn't sing and didn't play the guitar,
[02:25.15]but was a superb hat-carrier.
[02:27.53]Woman:Oh, I see.
[02:29.51]Man:Er - So I would sing the songs and he'd carry around the hat.
[02:35.38]Woman:Yeah, yeah.
[02:37.25]Man:It went pretty well. Quite a lot of people gave us quite a lot of money except for the English .
[02:43.62]They wouldn't give us a penny.  (312 words)
[02:45.64]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions briefly.
[02:57.98]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the dialogue again and decide whether the statements you hear are true (T) or false (F).
[03:14.51]1)The man bought a return ticket from Dover to Nice in case something should go wrong with his busking.
[03:24.98]2)The man started busking by going round the cafes every evening.
[03:32.18]3)The man was extremely successful at busking.
[03:38.34]4)He collected money himself after each performance.
[03:44.57]Practice Two Freelancing
[03:48.85]Words You Need to Know
[03:50.83]audio-visual      graphics     motivation    board game
[03:59.47]stability      block     kick
[04:05.09]Exercise 1:Directions:Listen to the passage and decide which is the best answer to each of the questions you hear on the recording.
[04:20.32]I'm a freelance audio-visual and graphics designer and I work for the conference industry.
[04:26.76]I designing the slide show, which we call AVs, short for audio-visuals.
[04:32.70]The first thing I think about in the morning is breakfast.
[04:36.41]I'm usually up at about 8.00 a.m. and sit down and start work at about 10.00 a.m. I can do all the designing part of my job at home,
[04:47.42]so I might sketch for a couple of hours before lunch.
[04:51.82]I'm lucky as I can design very fast. It might take me an hour to design something that would take someone else a day to do.
[05:01.50]The problem is that once I've done that, I'll stop and not work for the rest of the day!
[05:07.66]As a freelance, there's no one making sure I'm working, so motivation can be a problem.