新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第四册 课文 4t05b

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[00:-1.00]Identical twins Katie and Sarah Monahan
[00:-2.00]arrived at Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College last year
[00:-3.00]determined to strike out on independent paths.
[00:-4.00]Although the 18-year-old sisters had requested rooms in different dorms,
[00:-5.00]the housing office placed them on the eighth floor of the same building,
[00:-6.00]across the hall from each other.While Katie got along with her roommate,
[00:-7.00]Sarah was miserable.
[00:-8.00]She and her roommate silently warred over matters ranging from
[00:-9.00]when the lights should be turned off to how the furniture should be arranged.
[00:10.00]Finally,they divided the room in two and gave up on oral communication,
[00:11.00]communicating primarily through short notes.
[00:12.00]During this time,Sarah kept running across the hall to seek comfort from Katie.
[00:13.00]Before long,the two wanted to live together again.
[00:14.00]Sarah's roommate eventually agreed to move out.
[00:15.00]“From the first night we lived together again,
[00:16.00]we felt so comfortable,”says Sarah.“We felt like we were back home.”
[00:17.00]Sarah's ability to solve her dilemma
[00:18.00]by rooming with her identical twin is unusual,
[00:19.00]but the conflict she faced is not.
[00:20.00]Despite extensive efforts by many schools to make good roommate matches,
[00:21.00]unsatisfactory outcomes are common.
[00:22.00]One roommate is always cold,
[00:23.00]while the other never wants to turn up the furnace,
[00:24.00]even though the thermometer says it's minus five outside.
[00:25.00]One person likes quiet,
[00:26.00]while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet,
[00:27.00]or turns up his sound system to the point where the whole room vibrates.
[00:28.00]One eats only organically produced vegetables
[00:29.00]and believes all living things are holy,even ants and mosquitoes,
[00:30.00]while the other likes wearing fur and enjoys cutting up frogs in biology class.
[00:31.00]When personalities don't mix,
[00:32.00]the excitement of being away at college can quickly grow stale.
[00:33.00]Moreover,roommates can affect each other's psychological health.
[00:34.00]A recent study reports that depression in college roommates
[00:35.00]is often passed from one person to another.
[00:36.00]Learning to tolerate a stranger's habits
[00:37.00]may teach undergraduates flexibility and the art of compromise,
[00:38.00]but the learning process is often painful.
[00:39.00]Julie Noel,a 21-year-old senior,
[00:40.00]recalls that she and her freshman year roommate
[00:41.00]didn't communicate and were uncomfortable throughout the year.
[00:42.00]“I kept playing the same disk in my CD player for a whole day once
[00:43.00]just to test her because she was so timid,”says Noel.
[00:44.00]“It took her until dinner time to finally change it.”
[00:45.00]Although they didn't saw the room in half,near year's end,
[00:46.00]the two did end up in a screaming fight.
[00:47.00]“Looking back,I wish I had talked to her more
[00:48.00]about how I was feeling,”says Noel.
[00:49.00]Most roommate conflicts spring from such small,irritating differences rather
[00:50.00]than from grand disputes over abstract philosophical principles.
[00:51.00]“It's the specifics that tear roommates apart,”
[00:52.00]says the assistant director of residential programs at a university in Ohio.
[00:53.00]In extreme cases,roommate conflict can lead to serious violence,
[00:54.00]as it did at Harvard last spring:
[00:55.00]One student killed her roommate before committing suicide.
[00:56.00]Many schools have started conflict resolution programs
[00:57.00]to calm tensions that otherwise can build up like a volcano preparing to explode,
[00:58.00]ultimately resulting in physical violence.
[00:59.00]Some colleges have resorted to “roommate contracts”
[-1:00.00]that all new students fill out and sign after attending a seminar
[-1:-1.00]on roommate relations.
[-1:-2.00]Students detail behavioral guidelines for their room,