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学术综合英语听力原文学术综合英语听力材料导读:就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“学术综合英语听力材料”资讯，希望对您有所帮助，感谢您对的支持!Comprehensive Academic English For Graduates新编研究生英语系列教材学术综合英语Comprehensive Academic English For Graduates听力材料罗立胜Comprehensive Academic English For Graduates上海外语教育出版社Comprehensive Academic English For Graduates1目录Unit 1 Presenting aSpeech ............................................................. (1)RoadBuilding ........................................................... (1)The Mississippi River inAmerica ............................................................ .. (1)Unit 2 EnergyConservation ....................................................... .. (2)An Eyewitness to Changes inChina .............................................................. .. (2)Talk with ―Harry Potter‖ –Daniel Radcliffe AnswersQuestions form Fans (4)Unit 3Traffic ............................................................ . (5)2Driving While on a Cell Phone Worse Than Driving WhileDrunk (5)Quake Kills at Least 300 on IndonesianIsland ............................................................. .. (6)Unit 4 SocialBehavior ........................................................... .. (7)The Men’s Movement: What Does It Mean to Be aMan? (7)Husbands and Wives: a Caller formNorthbridge ........................................................ (8)Unit 5Population ......................................................... . (9)Suicide onCampus ............................................................. (9)China vs.India .............................................................. (10)Unit 6 A City inChina .............................................................. ..............................3 (11)What Does the Future Hold forMarriage? .......................................................... . (11)Should Teacher Have the Power to Search forKnives? ............................................................ .. 12Unit 7 Dishonoring the HonorSystem ............................................................. . (13)Opening Speech for the UK’s First Disabled People’sParliament (13)Opening Speech for the Sydney 2000 OlympicGames ...............................................................13Unit 8 PEI EnergyFramework .......................................................... . (14)Nuclear PowerPlants ............................................................. (14)Should There Be More Nuclear Power Plants in theUS? (15)14Comprehensive Academic English For GraduatesUnit 1 Presenting a SpeechRoad BuildingGood morning, everyone. Today I’ll be talking about therelationship between road building and the development of the American economy during the 18th century. About 300 years ago, theUnited States’ economy was growing rapidly, mainly because of a booming trade in two important agricultural products: grain and cotton.Grain output in the eastern part of America increased quickly atthat time due to the rapidly growing population and the large number of immigrants from Europe. As a result, the demand for grain almost doubled. For this reason, the trade in grain first developed in this part of the country. At the same time, the road system was gradually built up in order to transport the grain from the rural areas to various cities. The road building clearly helped develop the economy quickly in these areas and in the cities as well.During the same period, farmers in the South could get a largeamount of laborers from Africa, and they started to grow cotton. As the cotton output increased, the farmers5needed to sell it in other places. As a result, many roads werebuilt to link the rural areas to the cities.At first, this trade of grain and cotton took place along the coast, or near rivers and lakes. It took place there because it was easy and cheap to transport goods from one place to another. Before 1700, it was very expensive to move the goods by road. So, farmers had to rely mainly on rivers to move their crops to markets.At that time, there was only one continuous road that existed in the US. It ran from north to south along country roads, which were linked together to make one long road. Within a short time, the first east-to-west roads were built. They were called turnpikes. Private companies built these roads and collected fees from all vehicles that traveled on them.Eventually, because of the booming trade of grain and cotton, a network of roadways was completed that connected some major cities and towns. Although traveling was still costly for farmers, they soon preferred to move their crops to cities and other areas on roadways rather than by boat because it was faster and more convenient.So here we can see a rather clear picture of road building6in the United States and its impact on economic development during that period.The Mississippi River in America1Comprehensive Academic English For GraduatesUnit 2 Energy ConservationAn Eyewitness to Changes in China(Y: Yang Rui, anchor of Dialogue, CCTV-9R: Sidney Rittenberg, president of Rittenberg Associates, Incorporated. )Y: Mr. Rittenberg, you are a successful businessman and also a big name to the Chinesedue to your close association with the first generation of the PRC leaders. How do you look at the impact that that experience has had on your current perception of China’s reform and development?R: I feel in my heart that what I’m doing today is acontinuation of what I was trying to doin the that is, I had this ambition, this dream, from the time thatI began studying Chinese at Stanford University in71943，I had this dream of working to build bridges between Chinese people and American people, and to help them understand each other and cooperate together. And I tried to do that in the past, working in China in Mao’s day. Andthat’s exactly what I’m trying to do today. I really think that what I’m doing today is more effective than what I was able to do in the past.Y: At that time many foreigners came to China, but you were amongthe very few who gotclose to the Communist Party of China.R: You know, it’s quite obvious to me that the only r eason that the Communist Party ofChina was able to win in the final stages of the Civil War is because of their extremely close relations with the people. The Chinese people that came to know them, trusted them and considered them their representatives. This small peasant army led by Mao Zedong had no tanks,no big guns, no planes, and was greatly outnumbered by the opposition, which was the most powerful armed force in Asia after the Second World War. And yet in only three and a half years, the Nationalists were completely defeated and driven off to the island province of Taiwan. Why? Because the ties that8the Communists had with the Chinese people wereunbreakable. They had their trust. They had their confidence and support. And that was something that the Nationalists were not able to get.You know, the Revolutionary Army was a poor army, even in terms ofthe food they got. The soldiers had grass sandals that they made themselves along the march. But what made them do it? The fact that they had a vision. They believed that they were fighting for their land, for their family to have their own farmland, and for a fair government that would listen to the people and do what they needed. So this is the only explanation I can think of for why they were able to win.Y: In the Long March you just talked about, the Communist army hadto overcomeextreme difficulties. But in the new Long March of modernization today, we are also facing difficulties, though very different. What’s your view of this new Long March? R: I agree with calling this a new Long March, only the barriers are very different. Thosebarriers were certainly very grim and threatening. Some of these barriers look very good and inviting but actually9they are not. I mean, in the days before and during the Long2Comprehensive Academic English For GraduatesMarch, the leaders had the task of studying the Chinese reality and getting everybody that they could influence to study reality and from it to derive a set of policies, practical strategies to guide everybody. So people had a shared vision and dream. They were motivated by this common dream to work together. And I think, during the current Long March of modernization, China would need to do the same thing, to gradually study Chinese reality and develop a set of strategies, a common vision and a set of values that most people will share. And then you’ll find that you don’t have a problem of disconnection between the central government and local governments, or a problem of a big gap between city and country life.10。