新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第四册 课文 4t05b
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[00:-1.00]Identical twins Katie and Sarah Monahan
[00:-2.00]arrived at Pennsylvania\'s Gettysburg College last year
[00:-3.00]determined to strike out on independent paths.
[00:-4.00]Although the 18-year-old sisters had requested rooms in different dorms,
[00:-5.00]the housing office placed them on the eighth floor of the same building,
[00:-6.00]across the hall from each other.While Katie got along with her roommate,
[00:-7.00]Sarah was miserable.
[00:-8.00]She and her roommate silently warred over matters ranging from
[00:-9.00]when the lights should be turned off to how the furniture should be arranged.
[00:10.00]Finally,they divided the room in two and gave up on oral communication,
[00:11.00]communicating primarily through short notes.
[00:12.00]During this time,Sarah kept running across the hall to seek comfort from Katie.
[00:13.00]Before long,the two wanted to live together again.
[00:14.00]Sarah\'s roommate eventually agreed to move out.
[00:15.00]“From the first night we lived together again,
[00:16.00]we felt so comfortable,”says Sarah.“We felt like we were back home.”
[00:17.00]Sarah\'s ability to solve her dilemma
[00:18.00]by rooming with her identical twin is unusual,
[00:19.00]but the conflict she faced is not.
[00:20.00]Despite extensive efforts by many schools to make good roommate matches,
[00:21.00]unsatisfactory outcomes are common.
[00:22.00]One roommate is always cold,
[00:23.00]while the other never wants to turn up the furnace,
[00:24.00]even though the thermometer says it\'s minus five outside.
[00:25.00]One person likes quiet,
[00:26.00]while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet,
[00:27.00]or turns up his sound system to the point where the whole room vibrates.
[00:28.00]One eats only organically produced vegetables
[00:29.00]and believes all living things are holy,even ants and mosquitoes,
[00:30.00]while the other likes wearing fur and enjoys cutting up frogs in biology class.
[00:31.00]When personalities don\'t mix,
[00:32.00]the excitement of being away at college can quickly grow stale.
[00:33.00]Moreover,roommates can affect each other\'s psychological health.
[00:34.00]A recent study reports that depression in college roommates
[00:35.00]is often passed from one person to another.
[00:36.00]Learning to tolerate a stranger\'s habits
[00:37.00]may teach undergraduates flexibility and the art of compromise,
[00:38.00]but the learning process is often painful.
[00:39.00]Julie Noel,a 21-year-old senior,
[00:40.00]recalls that she and her freshman year roommate
[00:41.00]didn\'t communicate and were uncomfortable throughout the year.
[00:42.00]“I kept playing the same disk in my CD player for a whole day once
[00:43.00]just to test her because she was so timid,”says Noel.
[00:44.00]“It took her until dinner time to finally change it.”
[00:45.00]Although they didn\'t saw the room in half,near year\'s end,
[00:46.00]the two did end up in a screaming fight.
[00:47.00]“Looking back,I wish I had talked to her more
[00:48.00]about how I was feeling,”says Noel.
[00:49.00]Most roommate conflicts spring from such small,irritating differences rather
[00:50.00]than from grand disputes over abstract philosophical principles.
[00:51.00]“It\'s the specifics that tear roommates apart,”
[00:52.00]says the assistant director of residential programs at a university in Ohio.
[00:53.00]In extreme cases,roommate conflict can lead to serious violence,
[00:54.00]as it did at Harvard last spring:
[00:55.00]One student killed her roommate before committing suicide.
[00:56.00]Many schools have started conflict resolution programs
[00:57.00]to calm tensions that otherwise can build up like a volcano preparing to explode,
[00:58.00]ultimately resulting in physical violence.
[00:59.00]Some colleges have resorted to “roommate contracts”
[-1:00.00]that all new students fill out and sign after attending a seminar
[-1:-1.00]on roommate relations.
[-1:-2.00]Students detail behavioral guidelines for their room,
[-1:-3.00]including acceptable hours for study and sleep,
[-1:-4.00]a policy for use of each other\'s possessions and how messages will be handled.
[-1:-5.00]Although the contracts are not binding and will never go to a jury,
[-1:-6.00]copies are given to the floor\'s residential adviser
[-1:-7.00]in case conflicts later arise.
[-1:-8.00]“The contract gives us permission to talk about issues which students forget
[-1:-9.00] or are afraid to talk about,"says the director of residential programs.
[-1:10.00]Some schools try to head off feuding before it begins
[-1:11.00]by using computerized matching,
[-1:12.00]a process that nevertheless remains more of a guessing game than a science.
[-1:13.00]Students are put together
[-1:14.00]on the basis of their responses to housing form questions
[-1:15.00]about smoking tolerance,preferred hours of study and sleep,
[-1:16.00]and self-described tendencies toward tidiness or disorder.
[-1:17.00]Parents sometimes weaken the process
[-1:18.00]by taking the forms and filling in false and wishful data
[-1:19.00]about their children\'s habits,especially on the smoking question.
[-1:20.00]The matching process is also complicated by a philosophical debate
[-1:21.00]among housing managers concerning the flavor of university life:
[-1:22.00]“Do you put together people who are similar — or different,
[-1:23.00]so they can learn about each other?”
[-1:24.00]A cartoon sums up the way many students feel the process works:
[-1:25.00]Surrounded by a mass of papers,
[-1:26.00]a housing worker picks up two selection forms and exclaims,
[-1:27.00]“Likes chess,likes football;they\'re perfect together!”
[-1:28.00]Alan Sussman,a second-year student,says,
[-1:29.00]“I think they must have known each of our personalities
[-1:30.00]and picked the opposite,"he recalls.
[-1:31.00]While Sussman was neat and serious about studying,
[-1:32.00]his roommate was messy and liked to party into the early hours of the morning.
[-1:33.00]“I would come into the room and find him pawing through my desk,
[-1:34.00]looking for postage for a letter.Another time,
[-1:35.00]I arrived to find him chewing the last of a batch of chocolate chip cookies
[-1:36.00]my mother had sent me.
[-1:37.00]People in the hall were putting up bets
[-1:38.00]as to when we were going to start slapping each other around,"he says.
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[00:00.00]，就把hxen.com复制到QQ个人资料中！Roommate Conflicts
[00:-1.00]Identical twins Katie and Sarah Monahan
[00:-2.00]arrived at Pennsylvania\'s Gettysburg College last year
[00:-3.00]determined to strike out on independent paths.
[00:-4.00]Although the 18-year-old sisters had requested rooms in different dorms,
[00:-5.00]the housing office placed them on the eighth floor of the same building,
[00:-6.00]across the hall from each other.While Katie got along with her roommate,
[00:-7.00]Sarah was miserable.
[00:-8.00]She and her roommate silently warred over matters ranging from
[00:-9.00]when the lights should be turned off to how the furniture should be arranged.
[00:10.00]Finally,they divided the room in two and gave up on oral communication,
[00:11.00]communicating primarily through short notes.
[00:12.00]During this time,Sarah kept running across the hall to seek comfort from Katie.
[00:13.00]Before long,the two wanted to live together again.
[00:14.00]Sarah\'s roommate eventually agreed to move out.
[00:15.00]“From the first night we lived together again,
[00:16.00]we felt so comfortable,”says Sarah.“We felt like we were back home.”
[00:17.00]Sarah\'s ability to solve her dilemma
[00:18.00]by rooming with her identical twin is unusual,
[00:19.00]but the conflict she faced is not.
[00:20.00]Despite extensive efforts by many schools to make good roommate matches,
[00:21.00]unsatisfactory outcomes are common.
[00:22.00]One roommate is always cold,
[00:23.00]while the other never wants to turn up the furnace,
[00:24.00]even though the thermometer says it\'s minus five outside.
[00:25.00]One person likes quiet,
[00:26.00]while the other person spends two hours a day practicing the trumpet,
[00:27.00]or turns up his sound system to the point where the whole room vibrates.
[00:28.00]One eats only organically produced vegetables
[00:29.00]and believes all living things are holy,even ants and mosquitoes,
[00:30.00]while the other likes wearing fur and enjoys cutting up frogs in biology class.
[00:31.00]When personalities don\'t mix,
[00:32.00]the excitement of being away at college can quickly grow stale.
[00:33.00]Moreover,roommates can affect each other\'s psychological health.
[00:34.00]A recent study reports that depression in college roommates
[00:35.00]is often passed from one person to another.
[00:36.00]Learning to tolerate a stranger\'s habits
[00:37.00]may teach undergraduates flexibility and the art of compromise,
[00:38.00]but the learning process is often painful.
[00:39.00]Julie Noel,a 21-year-old senior,
[00:40.00]recalls that she and her freshman year roommate
[00:41.00]didn\'t communicate and were uncomfortable throughout the year.
[00:42.00]“I kept playing the same disk in my CD player for a whole day once
[00:43.00]just to test her because she was so timid,”says Noel.
[00:44.00]“It took her until dinner time to finally change it.”
[00:45.00]Although they didn\'t saw the room in half,near year\'s end,
[00:46.00]the two did end up in a screaming fight.
[00:47.00]“Looking back,I wish I had talked to her more
[00:48.00]about how I was feeling,”says Noel.
[00:49.00]Most roommate conflicts spring from such small,irritating differences rather
[00:50.00]than from grand disputes over abstract philosophical principles.
[00:51.00]“It\'s the specifics that tear roommates apart,”
[00:52.00]says the assistant director of residential programs at a university in Ohio.
[00:53.00]In extreme cases,roommate conflict can lead to serious violence,
[00:54.00]as it did at Harvard last spring:
[00:55.00]One student killed her roommate before committing suicide.
[00:56.00]Many schools have started conflict resolution programs
[00:57.00]to calm tensions that otherwise can build up like a volcano preparing to explode,
[00:58.00]ultimately resulting in physical violence.
[00:59.00]Some colleges have resorted to “roommate contracts”
[-1:00.00]that all new students fill out and sign after attending a seminar
[-1:-1.00]on roommate relations.
[-1:-2.00]Students detail behavioral guidelines for their room,
[-1:-3.00]including acceptable hours for study and sleep,
[-1:-4.00]a policy for use of each other\'s possessions and how messages will be handled.
[-1:-5.00]Although the contracts are not binding and will never go to a jury,
[-1:-6.00]copies are given to the floor\'s residential adviser
[-1:-7.00]in case conflicts later arise.
[-1:-8.00]“The contract gives us permission to talk about issues which students forget
[-1:-9.00] or are afraid to talk about,"says the director of residential programs.
[-1:10.00]Some schools try to head off feuding before it begins
[-1:11.00]by using computerized matching,
[-1:12.00]a process that nevertheless remains more of a guessing game than a science.
[-1:13.00]Students are put together
[-1:14.00]on the basis of their responses to housing form questions
[-1:15.00]about smoking tolerance,preferred hours of study and sleep,
[-1:16.00]and self-described tendencies toward tidiness or disorder.
[-1:17.00]Parents sometimes weaken the process
[-1:18.00]by taking the forms and filling in false and wishful data
[-1:19.00]about their children\'s habits,especially on the smoking question.
[-1:20.00]The matching process is also complicated by a philosophical debate
[-1:21.00]among housing managers concerning the flavor of university life:
[-1:22.00]“Do you put together people who are similar — or different,
[-1:23.00]so they can learn about each other?”
[-1:24.00]A cartoon sums up the way many students feel the process works:
[-1:25.00]Surrounded by a mass of papers,
[-1:26.00]a housing worker picks up two selection forms and exclaims,
[-1:27.00]“Likes chess,likes football;they\'re perfect together!”
[-1:28.00]Alan Sussman,a second-year student,says,
[-1:29.00]“I think they must have known each of our personalities
[-1:30.00]and picked the opposite,"he recalls.
[-1:31.00]While Sussman was neat and serious about studying,
[-1:32.00]his roommate was messy and liked to party into the early hours of the morning.
[-1:33.00]“I would come into the room and find him pawing through my desk,
[-1:34.00]looking for postage for a letter.Another time,
[-1:35.00]I arrived to find him chewing the last of a batch of chocolate chip cookies
[-1:36.00]my mother had sent me.
[-1:37.00]People in the hall were putting up bets
[-1:38.00]as to when we were going to start slapping each other around,"he says.
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