大学英语精读听力第一册 unit4

[00:00.00]Unit Four　　Text
[00:23.75]Many people in the United States spend most of their free time watching television.
[00:30.17]Certainly,there are many worthwhile programs on television,
[00:34.22]including news, educational programs for children,
[00:38.37]programs on current social problems, plays, movies, concerts,and so on.
[00:45.30]Nevertheless,perhaps people should not be spending so much of their time in front of the TV.
[00:52.87]Mr Mayer imagines what we might do if we were forced to find other activities.
[01:00.26]TURNING OFF TV: A QUIET HOUR
[01:04.39]I would like to propose that for sixty to ninety minutes each evening,
[01:09.51]right after the early evening news,
[01:12.25]all television broadcasting in the United States be prohibited by law.
[01:17.51]Let us take a serious, reasonable look at what the results might be
[01:23.15]if such a proposal were accepted.
[01:26.00]Families might use the time for a real family hour.
[01:28.77]Without the distraction of TV,
[01:31.69]they might sit around together after dinner and actually talk to one another.
[01:37.02]It is well known that many of our problems--
[01:41.25]everything,in fact,
[01:42.72]from the generation gap to the high divorce rate to some forms of mental illness--
[01:47.97]are caused at least in part by failure to communicate.
[01:52.43]We do not tell each other what is disturbing us.
[01:56.56]The result is emotional difficulty of one kind or another.
[01:56.63]By using the quiet family hour to discuss our problems,
[02:01.31]we might get to know each other better, and to like each other better.
[02:05.36]On evenings when such talk is unnecessary,
[02:09.41]families could rediscover more active pastimes.
[02:13.98]Freed from TV,forced to find their own activities,
[02:18.92]they might take a ride together to watch the sunset.
[02:22.89]Or they might take a walk together (remember feet?)
[02:27.43]and see the neighborhood with fresh,new eyes.
[02:31.38]With free time and no TV,children and adults might rediscover reading.
[02:38.64]There is more entertainment in a good book than in a month of typical TV programming.
[02:45.98]Educators report that the generation growing up with television
[02:51.26]can barely write an English sentence,
[02:53.76]even at the college level.
[02:56.14]Writing is often learned from reading.
[02:59.48]A more literate new generation could be a product of the quiet hour.
[03:05.23]A different from of reading might also be done,
[03:10.12]as it was in the past:reading aloud.
[03:09.12]Few pastimes bring a family closer together
[03:13.45]than gathering around and listening to mother or father read a good story.
[03:18.31]The quiet hour could become the story hour.
[03:22.57]When the quiet hour ends,
[03:25.44]the TV networks might even be forced to come up with better shows
[03:29.91]in order to get us back from our newly discovered activities.
[03:34.40]At first glance, the idea of an hour without TV seems radical.
[03:39.98]What will parents do without the electronic baby-sitter?
[03:44.92]How will we spend the time?
[03:47.56]But it is not radical at all.
[03:50.82]It has been only twenty-five years since television came to control American free time.
[03:57.38]Those of us thirty-five and older can remember childhoods without television,
[04:04.22]spent partly with radio--which at least involved the listener\'s imagination
[04:10.57]--but also with reading,learning,talking,playing games,inventing new activities.
[04:19.51]It wasn\'t that difficult. Honest.The truth is we had a ball.
[04:26.98]New Words
[04:43.33]worthwhile
[04:44.66]a.值得花时间(或精力)的;用价值的
[04:45.99]program(me)
[04:52.22]n.节目
[04:58.45]educational
[04:59.68]a.教育的;用教育意义的
[05:00.91]current
[05:02.28]a.当前的
[05:03.65]social
[05:05.15]a.社会的
[05:06.65]movie
[05:08.09]n.电影
[05:09.53]nevertheless
[05:11.26]conj.然而,不过
[05:13.00]propose
[05:14.63]vt.建议
[05:16.27]broadcasting
[05:18.04]n.广播
[05:19.82]broadcast
[05:21.56]v.&n.广播
[05:23.29]prohibit
[05:24.61]vt.禁止 
[05:25.93]proposal
[05:27.45]n.提议,建议
[05:28.96]actually
[05:30.54]ad.实际上
[05:32.12]generation
[05:33.85](一)代n.
[05:35.57]gap
[05:37.06]n.缺口，间隙；分歧，隔离
[05:38.55]divorce
[05:40.23]n. 离婚
[05:41.92]rate
[05:43.18]率.
[05:44.45]mental
[05:45.78]a.精神的;思想上的
[05:47.12]communicate
[05:48.58]vi.交流意见,思想等
[05:50.04]disturb
[05:51.47]vt.使烦恼
[05:52.89]emotional
[05:54.04]a.感情的
[05:55.19]pastime
[05:56.84]n.消遣,娱乐
[05:58.48]sunset
[05:59.83]n.日落(时分)
[06:01.17]neighborhood
[06:02.65]n.邻近地区;
[06:04.13]adult
[06:05.56]n.成年人
[06:07.00]typical
[06:08.28]a.典型的
[06:09.56]educator
[06:09.59]n.教育家
[06:09.61]barely
[06:10.94]ad.仅仅,勉强;几乎没有
[06:12.28]literate
[06:13.74]a.能读写的;用文化的
[06:15.20]product
[06:15.26]n.产品
[06:15.31]network
[06:16.70]n.广播(或电视)联播公司;广播(或电视)网
[06:18.08]glance
[06:19.31]n.一瞥;扫视
[06:20.54]radical
[06:22.02]a.激进的
[06:23.51]electronic
[06:25.08]a.电子的
[06:26.65]electron
[06:27.01]n.电子
[06:27.38]baby-sitter
[06:28.87]n.(代人临时)照看婴儿者
[06:30.36]childhood
[06:32.04]n.童年
[06:33.73]partly
[06:35.07]ad.部分地;在一定程度上
[06:36.42]involve
[06:37.74]vt.包括
[06:39.06]imagination
[06:40.60]n.想象力
[06:42.14]learning
[06:43.54]n.学习;学问,知识
[06:44.93]invent
[06:46.27]vt.发明
[06:47.60]Phrases & Expressions
[06:51.07]generation gap
[06:52.47]代沟
[06:53.87]in part
[06:55.34]在一定程度上;部分地
[06:56.82]grow up
[06:58.18]长大,长成
[06:59.54]bring together
[07:01.27]使相聚
[07:03.01]come up with
[07:04.53]想出;提出
[07:06.04]at first glance
[07:07.75]乍一看;最初考虑时
[07:09.46]have a ball
[07:10.98]玩得开心
[07:12.49]Proper Names
[07:14.74]Mayer
[07:16.11]迈耶(姓氏)
[07:17.48]the United States
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