英语初级听力 Lesson33(mp3+lrc字幕)

[00:00.00]Lesson Thirty-Three
[00:02.69]Section One:News
[00:05.51]News Item 1:
[00:08.15]Actress Virginia Darlington, who plays Judy in the TV soap opera Texas,
[00:16.33]got married yesterday surrounded by armed bodyguards at the most luxurious hotel in Texas, the Mansion.
[00:22.54]The 39-year-old star exchanged vows with plastic surgeon Henry Jones under a bough of ivy and gardenias,
[00:29.86]wearing a wedding-dress designed by Britain's Saunders.
[00:33.04]Because this is the second time she has married a flautist marked the celebrations by playing
[00:38.14]Love is Wonderful the Second Time Around.
[00:40.70]News Item 2:
[00:45.92]The Football Association Secretary Mr. John Garner says he's delighted with the decision to lift the worldwide ban on English soccer clubs.
[00:56.71]As a result of serious incidents of hooliganism in European and international matches,
[01:02.35]football's international ruling body FIFA decided last June that English teams should not be allowed to play outside Britain.
[01:11.47]FIFA announced its new decision to lift the worldwide ban this morning,
[01:17.24]but the ban on European matches still stands.
[01:21.03]Now, the Football Association Secretary says it's up to the English fans to improve themselves
[01:27.82]and if they do behave the ban could be lifted in as short a time as twelve months.
[01:34.04]News Item 3:
[01:40.49]A group of twelve women are working hard to become the first all-female crew to sail around the world.
[01:47.28]At the moment the crew are busy trying to raise the three hundred and fifty thousand pounds needed to buy and equip a sixty-two foot yacht to make he record attempt.
[01:56.35]As part of their fund-raising the crew have been repainting the famous boat Gipsy Moth 4,
[02:01.73]on show at Greenwich, which has raised one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds from the British Yachting Association.
[02:08.50]The crew are also busy training to get ship-shape for their round-the-world sailing race which starts in September.
[02:14.69]The crew skipper says she doesn't think the fact the crew are all women will lessen their chances of winning.
[02:19.78]Section Two:
[02:25.06]A, Eskimos:
[02:28.30]Well, it's got two big wheels one behind the other,
[02:32.42]and there's a kind of metal frame between the wheels that holds them together.
[02:36.60]And there's a little seat above the back wheel that you can sit on,
[02:40.31]and above the front wheel there's a sort of metal bar that sticks out on both sides.
[02:45.09]And you sit on the seat you see, and you put your hands on this metal bar thing--and the whole thing moves forwards---it's amazing.
[02:54.24]What makes it move forward, then?
[02:56.17]Ah well, in the middle you see, between the two wheels,
[02:59.33]there are these other bits of metal and you can put your feet on these and turn them round and that makes the wheels go round.
[03:05.52]Hang on--if it's only got two wheels why doesn't the whole thing fall over?
[03:10.48]Well, you see, urn, well I'm not sure actually...
[03:17.62]B. Shoplifting:
[03:22.40]Speaker A: Well, to be honest, I'm not sure what I would have done.
[03:28.80]I mean, it would have depended on various things.Interviewer: On what, for instance?
[03:34.83]Speaker A: Well, on ... hmm ... on how valuable the things the boys stole were.
[03:39.98]The text doesn't ... it doesn't say whether they had just stolen a tin of peas or something like that.
[03:46.64]So, I can't really say ... except well  ....  I think I would have told the shop-keeper if they had stolen something really valuable.
[03:55.81]Otherwise, I suppose I would have just ... I don't know ... minded my own business, I suppose.
[04:02.29]Speaker B: Well, I think it's quite clear what I should have done.
[04:04.69]The boys had broken the law.
[04:07.20]You can't allow that sort of thing to go on, can you?
[04:10.62]After all, it affects all of us. If you let boys or anybody else get away with theft, they'll just go on stealing!
[04:20.10]So, I think the woman should have told--what's his name? --the shopkeeper.Interviewer: Mr. Patel.Speaker B: Patel.
[04:26.42]She should have told him and if necessary she should have held the boys while he got the police, or she should have gone for the police herself.
[04:33.95]Interviewer: So you're saying that that's what you would have done?
[04:35.85]Speaker B: Exactly. If I had been in that situation, that's exactly what I would have done.
[04:41.44]At least ... at least, that's what I ought to have done. That's what I hope I would have done!
[04:49.41]C. Frogs:
[04:55.76]Fred: A funny thing happened to me the other night.Man: Oh, yes? What happened, Fred?Fred: Well, you knowI usually go out for a walk every night just after dark.
[05:07.57]Well, I was out the other night taking my usual walk and I heard a funny noise coming out of the building site down the road,
[05:13.94]you know, the one where they dug a big hole lately.
[05:16.47]Going to make it into an underground garage, I believe.Man: Yes, I know it; go on.
[05:20.29]Fred: Well, as I said. I heard this funny noise and I thought perhaps there was a kid down there, you know how kids go playing on building sites.
[05:27.78]But as I got nearer I could tell it wasn't a kid,it sounded more like an animal.
[05:32.56]I thought it must be some dog or cat that had  got itself trapped or something.
[05:36.43]Man: So, what did you do?Fred: Well, I went down there to investigate.
[05:39.93]I climbed down, ruined my trousers because of all the mud. You see it had been raining heavily for three or four days.Man: Yeah.
[05:47.06]Fred: Well, when I got down there I found the hole was full of water and the water was full of frogs.Man: Frogs?
[05:53.23]Fred: Yes. You know, those green things that jump up and down and go croak croak.
[05:56.96]So I thought "What are they going to do when the bulldozers come to work tomorrow?"
[06:00.39]So I climbed back out, went home and got some plastic bags; big ones, like you use for the rubbish.Man: What for?
[06:07.54]Fred: I'll tell you.
[06:08.48]I went back and started collecting the frogs and putting them into the plastic bags.
[06:12.69]I thought I take them to the pond in the park. They'd be happy there.
[06:15.98]Man: I suppose they would.
[06:17.23]Fred: Next thing I know there are sirens screaming and bright lights everywhere.
[06:21.36]Man: What was going on then?
[06:22.77]Fred: It was the police. Two cars full of police with flashlights and dogs.
[06:26.59]Somebody had reported seeing me going into the building site and thought I was a burglar.Man: Well, what happened?
[06:31.92]Fred: They put me in one of the cars and took me down to the Station.
[06:34.58]Man: Why didntt you tell them what you were doing?
[06:36.43]Fred: I tried to in the car, but they just told reel would have to talk to the inspector on duty.
[06:40.48]Luckily I still had one of the bags on me full of frogs.
[06:43.70]A couple of them got out while the inspector was questioning me and you can imagine what it was like trying to catch them.
[06:49.44]Man: So what happened in the end?
[06:51.38]Fred: Oh, the inspector turned out to be a bit of an animal lover himself and he sent the two cars back to the building site and told his men to help me collect all the frogs.
[07:00.18]We did that and then they drove me home and I invited them all in for a cup of tea and we all had a good laugh.
[07:05.95]Man: Well, I never. If you wrote that in a book they'd say you made it up.
[07:17.92]D. Newspaper Editors:
[07:24.79]A newspaper has a complex hierarchy. The easiest way to show this is in the form of a chart.
[07:32.65]At the top of the chart there are four major positions.
[07:36.25]These are the Executive Editor, who talks to the unions and deals with legal and financial questions.
[07:42.50]Then there is the actual Editor of the paper and his deputy.
[07:46.08]The Editor makes decisions about what goes into the paper.
[07:49.47]The deputy has close contact with the House of Commons and the political contact.
[07:54.02]Finally there is the Managing Editor, who sees that everything runs smoothly.
[07:59.01]Below this there are three Assistant Editors and the heads of the five departments.
[08:04.78]Each of the three Assistant Editors has a different responsibility.
[08:08.28]For example, one is responsible for design.
[08:11.44]The five departments are City News, which deals with financial matters, then the Home, Foreign, Sports and Features.
[08:19.38]Features are the special sections including fdms, books and the Woman's page.
[08:24.01]So on the second level there are three Assistant Editors and the five Department Heads.
[08:29.15]Also on this level is the Night Editor.
[08:31.84]He looks after the paper, especiallythe front page, in the afternoon and evening,
[08:35.87]preparing material for publication the next morning.
[08:38.48]Below the second level there are,the reporters and specialists, who write the reports and articles,
[08:44.46]and the sub oditors, who check and prepare the copy for the printer.
[08:47.88]There is also full secretarial back-up.
[08:54.02]Seection Three:
[08:57.65]A. A Tour of the Airport:
[09:01.31]This lift is taking us to departures on the first floor.
[09:11.37]We are now in departures.
[09:21.63]Arrivals and departures are carefully separated, as you have seen.
[09:25.39]Just to the left here we find a 24-hour banking service,
[09:29.97]and one of three Skyshops on this floor--there are two in the departure lounge.
[09:34.90]And here, as you can see, you can buy newspapers, magazines, confectionery, souvenirs and books.
[09:42.01]If you will turn around now and look in front of you, you can see the seventy-two check-in desks,
[09:49.71]sixty-four of which are for British Airways.
[09:52.48]The airline desks, for enquiries, are next to the entrances on the far left and far right,
[09:59.12]and straight ahead is the entrance to the departure lounge and passport control.
[10:04.37]Shall we go airside?
[10:06.48]We have now cleared passport control and security, and you can see that security is very tight indeed.
[10:19.89]You are about to enter a departure lounge which is a quarter of a mile in length.
[10:25.79]But don't worry. There are moving walkways the length of the building, so you don't have to put on your hiking boots.
[10:33.26]Straight ahead of you is a painting by Brendan Neiland.
[10:38.64]As you can see it is a painting of Terminal 4 and it measures twenty feet by eight feet.
[10:45.12]On the other side of it are the airline information desks.
[10:49.04]Lefts walk around to those. Now, if you face the windows you can see the duty-free shops.
[11:02.07]There is one on your left and one on your right.
[11:04.71]They have been decorated to a very high standard,
[11:07.98]to make you feel like you are shopping in London's most exclusive shops.
[11:11.74]The duty-free shops sell the usual things but they also have outlets for fine wines and quality cigars.
[11:18.87]If we turn to the right and walk along in front of the duty-free shops,
[11:25.22]we will come to a buffet and bar opposite.
[11:28.51]You see, this one is called the Fourth Man I'm--all the bars, restaurants and cafeterias have names including the number four,
[11:38.23]and many of them have jokey signboards like this one, to brighten up a traveller's day.
[11:43.50]If we turn leftoutof here and goback along the concourse,
[11:50.84]we come to the plan-ahead insurance desk, on the far side of the first duty-free shop, with public telephones alongside.
[12:00.30]Notice that here we can see what is going on outside, through the windows.
[12:05.94]Opposite the insurance desk, next to the other duty-free shop, is the international telephone bureau.
[12:12.60]Let's just go across there.
[12:14.56]Across from this duty-free shop is an area just like the one we have just seen,
[12:24.86]with a buffet, bar and skyshops, and now let's go along the moving walkway to the gates, shall we?
[12:32.46]B. Lost Handbag:
[12:40.89]Mary Jones: Excuse me. Excuse me.Man: Yes, madam?Mary Jones: Can you help me.
[12:49.31]Please, look, I'm desperate. Are you responsible for lost property?
[12:52.94]Man: Yes, I am.Mary Jones: Well, I've got something to report.Man: What is it you've lost?Mary Jones: I've lost my handbag.Man: Your handbag?
[12:57.80]Mary Jones: Well, it's terrible. I don't know what to do.
[12:59.94]Man: Where did you lose your handbag, madam?Mary Jones: On the train, on the train. Look, we've got to stop the train.Man: Which train?
[13:05.58]Mary Jones: I've just come off the tube, this last train, in from Paddington.
[13:08.90]Man: Yes, the last train tonight. There isn't another one.Mary Jones: On the circle line, on the circle line.Man: Yes, yes.
[13:13.18]Mary Jones: Oh, it's terrible. We haven't got much time, I mean I have got so many valuable things in that bag.Man: Will you.., will you please explain ...
[13:21.12]Mary Jones: I was asleep on the train. I must have dropped off. I woke up, almost missed my station, so I rushed off the train and then I realised my handbag was still on it.Man: Yes?
[13:29.35]Mary Jones: By that time the doors were shut and it was too late.
[13:32.46]Man: So your handbag is still on the train.Mary Jones: It's on the train travelling ...Man: All right. All right, just a moment.
[13:37.74]Now, can I have your name and address?Mary Jones: Well, look the thing I've got to tell you is that there's money in that handbag.Man: Yes, we realise this, madam.
[13:44.97]We need your name and address first.Mary Jones: OK. My name's Mary Jones.Man: Mary Jones. Address?Mary Jones: 16 ...Man: 16 ...Mary Jones: Craven Road.Man: Craven Road. That's C-R-A-V-E-N?Mary Jones: Yes.
[13:56.10]Man: Now, can you tell me exactly what was in the handbag?Mary Jones: Well, there was money...Man: How much?
[14:01.27]Mary Jones: Nearly thirty pounds. I had my driving licence ...Man: So, thirty pounds, driving licence, yes ...
[14:05.69]Mary Jones: I had my keys, and I had the office keys, they'Il kill me when I go to work tomorrow,
[14:09.95]and I'd just been to the travel agent, I had my ticket to Athens ...Man: Just ... just one moment. House and office keys, ticket to Athens.Mary Jones: Yes, hurry please. You've got to phone the next station ...Man: Yes, all right, just a moment. Anything else?
[14:22.20]Mary Jones: I had myseason ticket.Man: Your season ticket for travelling on the tube.