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(文传芳主编)新视野大学英语视听说教程1  听力原文Unit 8

Unit 8

Lead in > Task 1

In my opinion, invading another country is the most serious crime because it can cause a large number of deaths. More importantly, an invasion is a violation of international law and can lead to war.

Hacking and text message scams have both came into existence in modern times when the Internet and cell phones gained popularity. Hackers cause billions of dollars in damage and are responsible for billions more in identity thefts.

Bullying, serial killings and terrorism are not always concerned with money; sometimes they are related to such factors as an overwhelming need for power, a mental illness, an anti-social attitude, or a political purpose.

Listening skills: Identifying signal words

To keep our children safe from dangerous criminals, these tips might be helpful. First, children should be encouraged always to ask permission from their caregivers before they go anywhere. They should not only tell the caregivers where they will be at all times, but also who will be looking after them. Also, children should never walk or ride their bikes alone. Instead, they should travel in groups whenever possible. More importantly, children should be taught to stay away from strangers, though they may offer to show them a puppy or give them candy. Children should be taught to say "no" and run, scream, or fight if necessary. Moreover, children should be told that no problem is too big or too small to ask grown-ups. In fact, it is never too late to ask for help, and to keep asking until they get the help they need. Last but not least, we should realize that many child-attack cases involve a family member or family friend, for example, a stepfather, sister's boyfriend, babysitter, neighbor, and so on.

Listening in > Task 1

Girl:Yes, I'd like to report a mugging.

Police

OK. Can you tell me exactly what happened?

officer:

Girl:Well, I was walking home from work when this woman knocked me right off my feet, seized my stuff, and ran off. I was so scared

that I didn't go after her.

Police

officer:

Can you describe the woman for me?

Girl:Yeah. He is quite tall, about six feet three.

Police

officer:

You said a woman robbed you.

Girl:Well, I'm not really sure. Hmm. You see, the person was wearing

a white dress, a light red sweater over it, and she or he was

wearing a pair of basketball shoes.

Police

officer:

Hmm. What else can you remember?

Girl:Well, the person... had a beard.

Police

officer:

Ah! What was, uh, taken exactly?

Girl:Well, just my left shoe. Strange, isn't it?

Police

officer:

Ah. The "Bearded Woman" has struck again!

Girl:The "Bearded Woman"?

Police officer:Well, this "Bearded Woman" is a man. He dresses up like a woman and, for some unknown reason, likes to take the left shoe from his victims. He's really harmless and usually returns the shoe to the crime scene a couple of days later.

Girl:Hey, he can keep my shoe, and I'll just take off my left shoe every time I walk through the park.

Listening in > Task 2

A young man comes up to the border on his bicycle. He has two large bags over his shoulders. The border guard stops him and says, "What's in the bags?"

"Sand," answers the young man.

The guard is a bit suspicious and asks the young man to open the bags for inspection. The guard empties the bags, but finds nothing in them but sand. Then he has the sand analyzed, only to discover that there is nothing but pure sand in the bags. So the young man is allowed to ride across the border with his sandbags.

A week later, the same young man presents himself at the border with his bags. The guard asks, "What have you got?"

"Sand," says the young man.

The guard does his thorough examination and discovers that the bags contain nothing but sand. He gives the sand back to the young man who then rides across the border on his bicycle with the sandbags.

This happens every week for three years. Finally, the young man no longer appears at the border crossing. Many months go by and the border guard meets the young ma n in an expensive café.

"Hey," says the guard, "for three years you were smuggling something through my crossing station. It's driving me crazy. Just between you and me, what were you smuggling?" The young man drinks his coffee and says, "Bicycles."

Listening in > Task 3

It is important to keep your personal information secure. Here are some ways to help you fight identity theft. After all, you don't want someone else to ruin your good credit rating and perhaps keep you from getting the loan you want to get.

The first thing you want to do is to watch how much information you give out on the Internet. For example, never put your credit card number into an email. If you do make purchases online, you need to be careful. One way to be extra careful is to only use sites that offer a high level of encryption. Another way to be extra careful is to only use one credit card for all of your Internet purchases. Make sure that credit card has a low limit.

Another thing you have to do to help you avoid ID theft is to destroy all your outgoing mail completely. Some thieves will pick up garbage, search through it, and pull out the credit card offers that you threw away because they were junk mail. Remember that a lot of your information is already there. All a thief has to do is forge your signature and mail the form back with a note that says you've changed your mailing address (to their address).

The third way to avoid identity theft is to make sure that your mailbox is safe. Have a slot in your front door for the mail to fall through. Even

though that is not completely safe, it is still much safer than the post box outside your front door.

Speaking out > Model1

Speaking out > Model2

Speaking out > Model3

Let's talk > Task 1

Texas police say they have arrested a 91-year-old man, J. L. Hunter Rountree, who is accused of robbing a bank, making him probably the oldest bank robber in U.S. history.

Police said Rountree, who was not armed, asked a teller to put money into a large envelope with the word "robbery" written on it. A witness took down the license number of his car, and he was arrested on a highway about 15 miles outside the city.

If he is proved guilty, Rountree will face from 10 to 20 years in prison. He told police he needed the money, and he had a complaint against banks.

Rountree left a prison in Florida, where he was the oldest prisoner in the state, about a year ago. Before that, he served a three-year sentence for a bank robbery in Florida in 1999.

In a prison interview with a journalist, Rountree said he had been a businessman in Texas but had fallen on hard times. He said he robbed his first bank when he was about 80 because he wanted to get revenge against banks.

"A bank that I'd done business with had forced me into bankruptcy. I haven't liked banks since," he told the journalist. "I decided I would get even. And I have."

Let's talk > Task 2

Let's talk > Task 3

Further listening and speaking > Further listening > Task 1

Detective:OK, Ms. Brown, just calm down. Could you start from the beginning and tell me what happened?

Ms. Brown:Well, let's see. I was sitting at the table near the window when two men rushed in and told everyone to freeze.

Detective:Can you describe the men?

Ms. Brown:One was tall and with a long coat on. The other was shorter in a red jacket.

Detective:After they burst in what did they do?

Ms. Brown:Well, the tall one pointed his gun at the clerk and told him to open the cash register. The short one was watching the rest of us. The clerk

hesitated a minute and just then the restaurant manager came out of his

office. That surprised the thieves.

Detective:Yeah, let's see... The manager's name is Mr. Jackson. I guess he had the key to the safe?

Ms. Brown:Yeah! That's right! Because the thieves told him to open the safe. The shorter one went with him. As the manager turned to go back to the office,

he told the clerk to cooperate with them.

Detective:Did the boss open up the safe?

Ms. Brown:Yeah, he went back into the office and opened it. He seemed pretty calm, not like the customers. I think that guy deserves a medal or something.

Detective:You all do. Living through a robbery is a tough experience. Further listening and speaking > Further listening > Task 2

A passing police car heard loud screams and responded immediately. When the police arrived at the scene, they found Pete's dead body in his backyard, with many knife wounds and blood everywhere. The officer immediately went to question the three neighbors that had been outside in the past 30 minutes.

Blake Smith had just finished painting his porch when the officer came.

A young, polite man, Blake wiped his hands on his clean jeans before shaking hands, and said, "I've been outside all morning. Painting the porch ceiling took a long time. Pete lives two doors away. I really didn't see or hear anything," he added apologetically.

Nelson Brown had been in his garden, right next door to the victim's yard. He said, "I was in and out of the house. Weeding." His hands were dirty. Then he added, "Inside, I was repairing a chair. It all must have happened when I was indoors. Sorry."

Kenny Green's story seemed less believable. "I was on a ladder, washing my windows," the middle-aged man admitted. The officer could see that Kenny's yard overlooked the victim's. But Kenny claimed, "I never looked over into Pete's yard, nor did I hear anything."

Now the officer believed that one of the guys was lying. Who was this man? Further listening and speaking > Further listening > Task 3

The list of institutions where personal information was reported to have been stolen or lost this year is long, including many large banks, hospitals, universities and automobile stores. These places contain large numbers of precious records coveted by ID thieves. Even the Department of Justice is reported to have lost personal records when a laptop was stolen!

The most common causes of these incidents are reported to be hacking and lost records. Also, the theft of personal records can be an inside job, where employees who have access to computer systems are tempted to steal large volumes of customer personal data records. This temptation can be real, because stolen personal data can sell anywhere from $10 to $60 per record.

Identity theft could be happening to you right now and you wouldn't know it until the damage was done. Even more disturbing is that newborns and the elderly are often the favorite victims of identity thieves, because the abuse of their personal information can go on longer before it is found out.

Further listening and speaking > Further speaking > Task 1

DNA Crime Evidence 犯罪证据

Narrator:Harry and Sue are policemen.

旁白: 哈里与苏是警察,

Narrator:They have just attended a presentation on the use of DNA to solve crime.

旁白:他们刚刚参加了一场关于利用DNA破案的讲座。

Harry:Do you think that collecting DNA samples from every convicted criminal is worth it?

哈里:你认为从每一个罪犯的身上取DNA样本值得吗?

Sue:It sure is.

苏:当然啦,

Sue:That way we'll be able to keep records on all known criminals

苏:那样一来我们可以保存有前科者的纪录,

Sue:and use the information in solving new crimes.

苏:将来可用来协助破案。

Harry:Yeah, and we'll be able to save time and money.

哈里:没错,我们可以节省很多时间跟金钱。

Sue:I heard about this case where a girl was raped

苏:我听说有一个女孩被强暴的案子,

Sue:and the police took DNA samples from every man in the area!

苏:警察从那个地区所有男人的身上都取了DNA样本。

Harry:That must have been a difficult task.

哈里:那肯定很不容易。

Sue:Not really, and the local men welcomed it.

苏:也不会啦,因为那个地方的男人都很合作。

Harry:Wow. I'd have expected them to be unhappy about that.

哈里:哇,我以为他们会反对呢

Sue:No, not at all.

苏:才没有呢,

Sue:DNA samples prove innocence as well as guilt!

苏:DNA 样本可以证明有罪,也可以证明清白。

Harry:I never thought about it like that.

哈里:我以前倒是没那样想过,

Harry:Wow! This could change the way that crimes are solved!

哈里:哇,这种做法可能会使破案的方式变得很不一样。

The MP3 Controversy MP3 争议

Narrator:Rick and Kate are talking about downloading music off the Internet.

旁白: 里克与凯特在谈从网上下载音乐的事。

Rick:Do you want to hear the latest Destiny's Child single?里克:你想听天命真女的最新单曲吗?

Situation: I downloaded it last night onto my hard drive.

场景:我昨天晚上下载到我的硬盘上了。

Kate:Sure! Hey, there's been a lot of stuff about downloading music on the news lately.

凯特:当然要啦!最近有很多关于音乐下载的消息,

Kate:Record companies say that it's illegal.

凯特:唱片公司说这样是违法的。

Rick:Yeah. They would.

里克:对啊,唱片公司当然这么说,

Rick:But I think it's a great way for people to hear songs before they buy them.

里克:但我觉得让大家买歌曲之前先试听是件好事。

Kate:You mean, you're actually going to buy this song?

凯特:你是说你会买这首歌吗?

Rick:Sure, that's why I downloaded it, just to check it out.

里克:当然会啦,我下载只是要先听一听。

Kate:But don't most people just download the songs and then not buy the CD?

凯特:一般人不是只下载,不买CD的吗?

Kate:I think that's why record companies are complaining—loss of sales.

凯特:我想唱片公司就是为了这个原因在抱怨,他们损失了销售量。

Rick:I guess some people do,

里克:可能有些人是这么做,

Rick:but real music lovers, like me, will buy the original at some point!

Kate:

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