新视野视听说(第三版)B1U4-听力原文

新视野视听说（第三版）B1U4-听

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Unit 4 Getti ng from A to B

Liste ning to the world

Shari ng

Scripts

F = Finn; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woma n 1, etc.

Part 1

F: I usually get to work by bus. It takes about half an hour. Sometimes I read a book on the way.

How about you? How do you get to work?

M1: I travel by bus. Um, it ' s only one bus to work. It takes about 15 minu tes.

M2: I get to work by car.

W1: Bus.

W2: I walk to work.

M3: I get to work on the tube and I walk some of the way. W3: About five minu tes walk to the stati on, Waterloo Stati on, and the n I get on a bus which takes

about 20 …25 minu tes.

M4: On most days I use the tube -my journey into work and my jour ney home at the end of

the

day.

M5: I cycle to work. That ' s the quickest and easiest way.

W4: I cycle in to work every day on my bike.

Part 2

F: What do you do on your jour ney to work?

M3: I usually liste n to music or read.

M1: Sometimes I liste n to music and sometimes

I read a book.

M4: I either read the n ewspaper or I read

books.

W4: Take in the fresh air, the sce nery, um …and try to avoid holes in the road which are quite

dan gerous.

W3: I listen to my iPod.

M5: Well, sometimes, if ?…if it ' s a bit of a quiet road, I can think about what I ' m going to do that

day.

W1: I …I dream, usually. I just …I, I love love jour neys. I love just look ing out of the win dow.

t actually do very M2: Well, it ' s so short; I don much at all,

apart from making sure I don have

an accide nt.

Part 3

F: What do you like about it?

M4: It ' s fairly short, so my journey to work is only 30 minu tes.

W3: It ' s quick.

M2: It ' s short. It only takes me seven or eight mi nu tes.

W1: Seeing how the Ian dscape cha nges through the seas ons.

M3: I like liste ning to music and hav ing some time to thi nk before work.

M1: It ' s quite early in the morning, which means that the bus is always quite quiet, so um, I don ' t

have to fight for a seat.

M5: I like to have some fresh air and the

exercise.

W4: I just like the exercise that I get from it and

being outside in the ope n.

W2: It ' s not too far. I can walk or run .It

's walk, so I feel very

Part 4

F: What don ' t you like about your journey to work? M3: Um, I don ' t like it when it ' s very busy in the mornings and I don ' t like it when it and sweaty on the tube.

W1: It ' s a very full bus. It because it ' s the “ work bus ” M5: There are some very bad drivers on the road.

W3: Sometimes the buses get overcrowded and a lot of people are going to the same place.

W4: I really don ' t like cycling to work when it raining because I get wet, (and) all my books get about a quarter of an hour

healthy.

I don ' t have to catch a bus.

's he 's packed with peopl

's very cold that early in the morning and um, sometimes if I miss the first bus

I have to wait about 20 minu tes for the n ext one

's very windy coming over bridge and it makes my eyes water.

M2: It ' s so short; there ' s nothing to like or dislike about it. Liste ning

Scripts

G = Guide; V1 = Visitor 1; V2 = Visitor 2; V3 =

Visitor 3

G: So, ladies and gen tleme n. Let tran sport secti on now. Could you all come over this way? Let ' s look at these photos. As you see, these early methods of tran sport have two things in comm on … They ' re all great idea great ways to travel through the air rather than on the ground

…but they

weren ' t successful! There was a big problem with each M1: In the win ter it

to come along.

W2: In winter it

the 's mo ve into the can

V1: But the mono rail -that was successful. G: Well, yes and no. Look at this photo on the left. It ' s from the World Fair in Seattle. That was

in 1962. Mono rails were a very popular idea in America at that time. People wan ted to leave their cars at home and go to work by public transport. But they weren' t successful monorails are difficult to build and expensive to keep in good condition. So you ' re right.

? but There are some mono rails in the world not very

many!

V2: Hey. Look at this photo. Is that a car un der a pla ne? G: Oh, yes. This was a very in terest ing idea. People wan ted to fly from Los An geles to New York …and then drive straight into the city cen ter from the airport.

V2: No way! How?

G: Well, the idea was that the car came off the bottom of the pla ne and the n you got in and

drove

away. This was in the 1940s. Ah, yes. Look. Here ' s theade: 1948.lt was a nice idea -no airports or waiting around

—but it wasn ' t