2019专八听力全真模拟练习mp3附文本（14）

2019专八听力全真模拟练习mp3附文本（14）

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2019专八听力全真模拟练习二十篇

　　[00:20.19]TEST 14

　　[00:24.23]SECTION A MINI-LECTURE

　　[00:27.71]In this section

　　[00:29.19]you will hear a mini-lecture.

　　[00:30.95]You will hear the mini-lecture

　　[00:33.04]ONCE ONLY.

　　[00:34.07]While listening to the mini-lecture,

　　[00:35.84]please complete the gap-filling task

　　[00:38.39]on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write

　　[00:40.61]NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS

　　[00:42.56]for each gap.

　　[00:44.05]Make sure the word(s) you fill in

　　[00:47.51]is (are) both grammatically

　　[00:49.95]and semantically acceptable.

　　[00:51.91]You may use the blank sheet

　　[00:54.25]for note-taking.

　　[00:55.41]You have THIRTY seconds

　　[00:57.13]to preview the gap-filling task.

　　[01:28.09]Now listen to the mini-lecture.

　　[01:31.13]When it is over,

　　[01:32.47]you will be given THREE minutes

　　[01:34.35]to check your work.

　　[01:35.52]Character Analysis

　　[01:37.66]of Shakespearean Plays

　　[01:39.38]Good morning, everyone.

　　[01:41.27]Last time I just gave

　　[01:43.29]a brief introduction

　　[01:44.37]to the Shakespearean play,

　　[01:46.10]today we will go further

　　[01:48.07]to discuss together

　　[01:49.26]how to understand

　　[01:51.02]a Shakespearean play.

　　[01:52.30]The most obvious way

　　[01:53.68]to begin an interpretation

　　[01:55.50]of a Shakespearean play is

　　[01:57.77]by evaluating the characters.

　　[01:59.58]Any play involves characters

　　[02:02.09]in a particular setting,

　　[02:03.57]doing particular things.

　　[02:04.92]The plot will develop a conflict,

　　[02:07.49]which will usually inflict pain

　　[02:09.50]or distress on some people,

　　[02:11.53]and will lead to a final resolution

　　[02:13.93]of sorts

　　[02:14.73]in which some characters may die

　　[02:17.08]or be punished severely,

　　[02:19.32]while other characters survive

　　[02:21.06]or triumph

　　[02:22.04]or get substantially rewarded.

　　[02:24.13]Hence,

　　[02:25.02]one clear entry into such a work is

　　[02:27.54]to put the characters on trial:

　　[02:29.67]Who is good? Who is bad?

　　[02:31.90]Why do certain people act

　　[02:33.42]in certain ways?

　　[02:34.58]Do any of the characters change?

　　[02:36.64]where are my sympathies

　　[02:38.29]as I make my way through this play?

　　[02:40.73]As an interpreter,

　　[02:42.16]I am, in essence, the judge,

　　[02:44.24]and how shall

　　[02:45.82]I apportion my verdicts?

　　[02:47.53]Interpreting a play

　　[02:48.71]by analyzing the characters in it,

　　[02:50.96]judging them,

　　[02:52.09]and coming to some final evaluation

　　[02:54.42]of them is a natural way

　　[02:56.23]to approach Shakespeare

　　[02:57.91]for three main reasons.

　　[02:59.58]The first is

　　[03:01.06]that these are plays,

　　[03:02.18]and they inevitably feature

　　[03:03.84]active characters

　　[03:05.21]more or less recognizably

　　[03:07.05]like people around us.

　　[03:09.02]That, indeed, is the chief appeal

　　[03:11.10]of the genre.

　　[03:12.02]So it is entirely natural

　　[03:14.19]to treat the play as we treat life itself,

　　[03:17.20]by responding to the people we see,

　　[03:19.44]the actions they carry out,

　　[03:21.38]the words they use,

　　[03:22.85]and the decisions they make.

　　[03:24.88]On the basis of these observations

　　[03:27.56]we will come to some conclusions

　　[03:29.34]about their characters

　　[03:30.72]and will discuss the play

　　[03:32.20]in those terms.

　　[03:33.82]The second reason is

　　[03:35.33]that Shakespeare is famous,

　　[03:36.79]more than anything else,

　　[03:38.39]for his astonishing ability

　　[03:40.21]to create interesting, complex,

　　[03:42.62]and natural characters.

　　[03:44.19]Unlike many other dramatists

　　[03:46.75]whose characters do not invite

　　[03:49.19]very complex investigation,

　　[03:51.20]Shakespeare has the ability

　　[03:53.25]to fill a play with scores

　　[03:54.97]of characters,

　　[03:55.92]each of whom talks in a language

　　[03:58.14]and acts in a way

　　[03:59.41]which indicates a sharply

　　[04:01.19]focused individual personality

　　[04:03.34]with a very particular response

　　[04:05.56]to experience.

　　[04:06.51]Hence, it is, once again,

　　[04:08.50]natural to treat them

　　[04:10.33]as fully realized people

　　[04:11.92]whose conduct requires

　　[04:14.02]an evaluative judgment.

　　[04:15.42]Then, too, the fact

　　[04:17.24]that we are dealing with plays

　　[04:18.99]always keeps the approach

　　[04:20.61]through character analysis alive,

　　[04:22.70]because theatre productions

　　[04:24.26]depend on individual actors,

　　[04:26.50]and individual actors need to

　　[04:28.54]reflect upon the motivations

　　[04:30.72]for their characters.

　　[04:31.92]They have to, in a sense,

　　[04:33.41]discover their human qualities

　　[04:35.44]and become the stage people

　　[04:37.08]whose lives they enact.

　　[04:38.98]Thus, the dramatic tradition

　　[04:41.27]of continuing to mount

　　[04:42.66]Shakespeare productions ensures

　　[04:45.09]that the analysis of character

　　[04:46.63]will remain a powerful force

　　[04:48.61]in the interpretation of the plays.

　　[04:51.02]The third major reason

　　[04:52.22]why character analysis

　　[04:53.65]is an important approach

　　[04:55.59]to Shakespeare's plays is

　　[04:57.59]that Shakespeare's characters

　　[04:59.10]are often intrigued or puzzled

　　[05:01.01]by their own characters.

　　[05:02.24]That is, they may

　　[05:04.03]make their characters part

　　[05:05.62]of the dramatic "problem"

　　[05:07.12]of the fiction we are exploring.

　　[05:09.33]When, for example,

　　[05:10.61]Hamlet or Macbeth or Othello

　　[05:13.19]starts to wrestle

　　[05:14.37]with his own character,

　　[05:15.79]trying to understand

　　[05:16.81]his own motivation, feelings,

　　[05:18.94]and actions,

　　[05:19.85]that moment places the nature

　　[05:21.72]of the character

　　[05:22.60]as an essential element in the work.

　　[05:25.11]In other words,

　　[05:26.41]the plays themselves

　　[05:27.69]put character analysis directly

　　[05:29.99]on the table.

　　[05:30.76]The approach to a Shakespeare play

　　[05:33.09]which places the analysis

　　[05:34.86]of character at the centre

　　[05:36.62]of the process was

　　[05:38.15]particularly strong

　　[05:39.11]in the nineteenth century,

　　[05:40.68]and the literary interpretations from

　　[05:43.32]that period often illustrate

　　[05:45.26]the strengths

　　[05:46.35]and weaknesses of that approach.

　　[05:47.82]The great value

　　[05:49.32]of character analysis is

　　[05:51.05]that it always reminds us

　　[05:52.39]that,

　　[05:53.20]whatever else we may want to

　　[05:54.90]talk of, the central concern

　　[05:56.63]is particular human beings.

　　[05:58.91]Whatever else King Lear is about,

　　[06:01.16]it is centrally

　　[06:02.26]about a suffering old man,

　　[06:03.72]whose unique character brings

　　[06:05.71]upon him almost unimaginable

　　[06:08.04]suffering.

　　[06:08.89]Whatever we make of Hamlet,

　　[06:10.23]we cannot forget that the people

　　[06:12.25]in the play drive

　　[06:13.73]Ophelia insane and lead her

　　[06:16.37]to suicide, and that she is

　　[06:18.13]an innocent

　　[06:18.98]and loving young woman.

　　[06:19.98]Focusing upon the characters

　　[06:22.19]in the play

　　[06:23.16]always keeps us in touch with

　　[06:24.84]a major reason

　　[06:25.84]why Shakespeare matters—

　　[06:27.39]his works constantly illuminate

　　[06:29.89]human nature

　　[06:30.77]in all sorts of moving ways.

　　[06:32.41]That said, however,

　　[06:34.50]treating the interpretation of a play

　　[06:36.71]as primarily a matter

　　[06:38.19]of evaluating character

　　[06:39.78]can create problems.

　　[06:41.62]One major problem, of course, is

　　[06:44.89]that in many instances

　　[06:46.13]we do not know enough

　　[06:47.67]about a character to arrive at

　　[06:49.64]a sufficiently full understanding

　　[06:51.60]of his or her personality.

　　[06:53.51]We know almost nothing

　　[06:55.04]of Hamlet's childhood,

　　[06:56.83]or Bolingbroke's inner thoughts,

　　[06:58.73]or Lady Macbeth's sexuality.

　　[07:01.22]Thus, key elements required

　　[07:03.60]in any full character analysis

　　[07:05.53]are missing.

　　[07:06.54]Of course,

　　[07:07.52]we can speculate on such matters,

　　[07:09.33]but such speculations can often

　　[07:11.26]end up in inconclusive

　　[07:13.15]and often trivial debates,

　　[07:15.22]because there is

　　[07:16.32]not enough evidence.

　　[07:17.27]So we can find criticism

　　[07:19.01]by the analysis of character

　　[07:20.87]degenerating into explorations

　　[07:23.85]of the girlhood of Shakespeare's

　　[07:25.63]heroines,

　　[07:26.31]endless arguments

　　[07:27.74]about whether

　　[07:28.58]or not the Macbeths had

　　[07:29.66]any children,

　　[07:30.43]how old Hamlet might be

　　[07:31.87]or whether he is really insane

　　[07:34.38]or not,

　　[07:35.13]whether Falstaff is a coward or not,

　　[07:37.52]how black Othello really is,

　　[07:39.66]or what Antony

　　[07:41.24]and Cleopatra really talk about

　　[07:43.07]when they are alone together.

　　[07:44.57]Shakspearean plays

　　[07:46.34]are great inheritance as

　　[07:48.10]well as wealth for the humankind.

　　[07:49.64]The characters in his plays give us

　　[07:52.99]lots of insights to know

　　[07:54.65]and to talk with Shakespear's soul.

　　[07:56.72]I hope my lecture has led you

　　[07:58.71]on the way to the thought

　　[08:00.00]of this great player.

　　[08:01.15]Thank you for listening.

　　[08:02.45]Now, you have THREE minutes

　　[08:05.29]to check your work.

　　[11:06.32]This is the end

　　[11:07.33]of Section A Mini-lecture.

　　[11:09.56]SECTION B INTERVIEW

　　[11:13.11]In this section

　　[11:14.87]you will hear ONE interview.

　　[11:16.80]The interview will be

　　[11:18.18]divided into TWO parts.

　　[11:20.19]At the end of each part,

　　[11:21.80]five questions will be

　　[11:23.41]asked about what was said.

　　[11:24.87]Both the interview

　　[11:26.31]and the questions

　　[11:27.53]will be spoken ONCE ONLY.

　　[11:29.60]After each question

　　[11:31.12]there will be

　　[11:32.01]a ten-second pause.

　　[11:33.12]During the pause,

　　[11:34.67]you should read

　　[11:35.63]the four choices

　　[11:36.92]of A, B, C and D,

　　[11:39.08]and mark the best answer

　　[11:41.15]to each question

　　[11:42.19]on ANSWER SHEET TWO.

　　[11:44.20]You have THIRTY seconds

　　[11:45.74]to preview the questions.

　　[12:16.08]Now, listen to Part One

　　[12:19.14]of the interview.

　　[12:20.19]Questions 1 to 5

　　[12:22.21]are based on

　　[12:23.01]Part One of the interview.

　　[12:24.64]W: An extremely competitive

　　[12:27.17]spirit of confidence

　　[12:28.22]and perhaps a little bit of hatred

　　[12:30.61]are just some of the guiding principles

　　[12:32.94]that help one guy from Queens

　　[12:34.47]rise to the top of the advertising world.

　　[12:37.06]Donny Deutsch says

　　[12:38.90]the key to his success

　　[12:40.60]was asking one simple question

　　[12:42.89]of himself-"Why not me?"

　　[12:44.73]Now the advertising whiz

　　[12:46.24]who turns CNBC talk show host

　　[12:48.79]offers up his winning formula

　　[12:51.07]in his first book,

　　[12:52.14]Often Wrong,

　　[12:53.18]Never in Doubt,

　　[12:54.17]Unleash the Business Rebel Within.

　　[12:56.52]Donny,

　　[12:57.42]good morning.

　　[12:58.12]Nice to see you.

　　[12:58.83]M: Good to see you.

　　[12:59.84]W: "Why not me?"

　　[13:00.88]How did you come up with that?

　　[13:02.79]M: Every time I've met

　　[13:04.54]a successful person in business

　　[13:06.24]or the President of the United States,

　　[13:08.21]just somebody

　　[13:09.07]who's made it to the pivotal,

　　[13:10.55]beyond the obvious toolbox

　　[13:12.32]of being bright and hard-working,

　　[13:13.56]they have this almost naive sense

　　[13:15.60]of entitlement of:

　　[13:16.80]Why shouldn't I

　　[13:18.08]be the President of the United States?

　　[13:19.58]Why shouldn't I

　　[13:20.70]be the anchor of TODAY Show?

　　[13:22.47]And until you say that,

　　[13:24.29]that next level cannot have…

　　[13:26.07]it doesn't mean

　　[13:27.13]that you are guaranteed,

　　[13:28.42]but if you don't believe it,

　　[13:30.06]if you don't feel entitled,

　　[13:31.42]it isn't going to happen.

　　[13:32.93]W: You write about this a lot

　　[13:35.19]in the book.

　　[13:36.15]It's all about confidence.

　　[13:37.85]M: Yes.

　　[13:38.69]W: I would say after knowing you

　　[13:40.53]for a year or two now,

　　[13:41.64]you have a certain amount

　　[13:42.90]of confidence

　　[13:43.70]that some people who know you

　　[13:45.62]probably think is healthy

　　[13:47.02]and other people think

　　[13:48.66]it crosses the line into cocky.

　　[13:50.36]Is that fair?

　　[13:51.42]M: Yes.

　　[13:52.28]That's fair.

　　[13:53.08]I mean

　　[13:53.79]if you don't believe in yourself,

　　[13:55.02]nobody else is going to,

　　[13:56.53]but at the same time,

　　[13:57.80]you know the title of the book is

　　[13:59.38]"Often Wrong, Never in Doubt".

　　[14:01.18]W: Right.

　　[14:02.08]So where did the confidence come from?

　　[14:03.85]Who instilled that in you?

　　[14:05.67]M: You know the bottom line is

　　[14:07.78]it's OK to fail,

　　[14:08.93]and you have to embrace failure.

　　[14:10.77]As I have met many people

　　[14:12.09]in my agency,

　　[14:13.16]such as all the Fortune 500 CEOs,

　　[14:15.84]I've yet to meet the genius…

　　[14:17.24]W: Wait.

　　[14:18.26]Just now

　　[14:18.86]you talked about the genius,

　　[14:19.93]and you don't think

　　[14:21.39]you meet people

　　[14:22.24]who are smarter than you?

　　[14:23.15]M: I think a lot of people are smart,

　　[14:25.28]but I've still yet to meet a genius one.

　　[14:27.21]As you go through life,

　　[14:28.50]when you meet the top of the heap,

　　[14:30.37]you know they are smart,

　　[14:31.65]terrific.

　　[14:32.56]Once you understand

　　[14:33.66]that all the people you read about

　　[14:34.82]are very talented,

　　[14:35.43]bright people,

　　[14:36.54]but you know,

　　[14:37.29]not as bright as you think

　　[14:38.36]sometimes,

　　[14:38.97]so once you realize that,

　　[14:39.71]it's very empowering.

　　[14:40.70]Just like people think

　　[14:41.73]what we do for a living

　　[14:43.52]is incredibly difficult,

　　[14:45.86]yet if they sat in the chair,

　　[14:47.21]and did it for a while,

　　[14:48.31]they can also do that!

　　[14:49.33]This is the end of

　　[14:51.06]Part One of the interview.

　　[14:52.75]Questions 1 to 5 are based on

　　[14:55.29]what you have just heard.

　　[14:57.08]1. What is mentioned as a principle

　　[15:00.32]to guide Donny to success?

　　[15:10.39]2. Which field did Donny work in?

　　[15:23.92]3. How did Donny come up

　　[15:27.18]with the question "Why not me?"

　　[15:39.21]4. What does Donny emphasize

　　[15:42.16]in his book?

　　[15:53.02]5. What does Donny think

　　[15:55.09]of all the people he has met?

　　[16:06.96]Now, listen to Part Two

　　[16:08.59]of the interview.

　　[16:09.94]Questions 6 to 10

　　[16:11.59]are based on

　　[16:12.38]Part Two of the interview.

　　[16:14.40]W: By the way,

　　[16:15.63]in your book,

　　[16:16.79]you also say

　　[16:17.73]women are superior in business.

　　[16:19.59]M: Well, yes,

　　[16:20.72]that's what I believe in business.

　　[16:22.24]Give me a man and a woman

　　[16:23.73]of the same talent,

　　[16:24.89]I will take the woman every time.

　　[16:26.60]I think women are superior

　　[16:28.19]in business,

　　[16:28.95]because I have found

　　[16:29.85]throughout my career

　　[16:30.60]that males were so much more concerned

　　[16:32.40]with whose office is bigger

　　[16:33.86]and pals are winning,

　　[16:35.43]whereas women,

　　[16:36.48]almost added an exception,

　　[16:38.24]wanted to be paid fairly,

　　[16:39.86]got the job done.

　　[16:40.94]W: Have you met these people?

　　[16:43.24]M: Eight of my top ten partners

　　[16:45.30]in business are women.

　　[16:46.26]It's a reasonable exception.

　　[16:47.84]W: What's the deal with the statement

　　[16:50.27]you make in the book

　　[16:51.03]that a little hatred is good?

　　[16:52.93]In fact,

　　[16:53.89]you're saying your current job

　　[16:55.82]is a talk show host,

　　[16:57.31]and you hate Larry King,

　　[16:58.55]who happens to be

　　[16:59.84]one of the nicer guys

　　[17:00.90]you choose to be.

　　[17:01.75]M: First of all,

　　[17:02.85]I love Larry King.

　　[17:04.34]He is the best.

　　[17:05.40]My point in the book is

　　[17:07.28]that you have to personify,

　　[17:08.57]for example,

　　[17:09.54]who's the best in what I do.

　　[17:11.15]W: That's envy, not hatred.

　　[17:13.52]M: OK, it's a book.

　　[17:14.68]You know,

　　[17:15.41]we'd like this a little metaphor.

　　[17:17.19]And the point is

　　[17:18.78]that you have to say:

　　[17:19.87]Why did he

　　[17:20.87]get Martha Stewart as a guest?

　　[17:22.54]I should have that guest

　　[17:24.41]and it's actually built with the respect.

　　[17:26.46]You put someone to be your model,

　　[17:28.50]and if that is a competitive spirit,

　　[17:30.73]you added the competitive spirit

　　[17:32.33]with the other morning shows and,

　　[17:33.96]as I say Larry King to me

　　[17:35.85]is one of my heroes.

　　[17:37.28]But the point is:

　　[17:38.84]you have to be a little angry.

　　[17:40.40]I have to get there.

　　[17:41.76]I want to be there.

　　[17:43.00]So wherever you are going in life,

　　[17:44.86]shoot somewhere and say

　　[17:46.13]"That's what I want."

　　[17:47.31]W: You say you've thought

　　[17:48.95]about the possibility

　　[17:49.93]of becoming the mayor

　　[17:50.99]of New York City.

　　[17:52.03]Are you going to make that happen?

　　[17:53.89]M: Now I say

　　[17:55.39]that I would love to get into politics,

　　[17:57.00]but it doesn't mean

　　[17:57.95]it's going to happen

　　[17:58.75]but until I say: "Wait a second.

　　[18:00.78]Why not me?"

　　[18:01.61]Bloomberg was a great businessman.

　　[18:04.03]He is a great mayor.

　　[18:05.67]Until I said that,

　　[18:07.12]it actually cannot happen.

　　[18:08.43]It doesn't mean it's going to,

　　[18:10.09]but it can't unless you say it.

　　[18:11.77]W: Well.

　　[18:12.89]Good to have you here today,

　　[18:14.43]Donny.

　　[18:15.31]M: Pleasure.

　　[18:16.45]This is the end of

　　[18:18.09]Part Two of the interview.

　　[18:19.88]Questions 6 to 10 are based on

　　[18:22.51]what you have just heard.

　　[18:24.03]6. According to Donny,

　　[18:27.19]what do women care more about

　　[18:29.47]when compared with men?

　　[18:40.39]7. What percentage

　　[18:42.82]of the man's top ten partners

　　[18:44.50]in business is male?

　　[18:55.30]8. What is Donny's current job?

　　[19:06.35]9. What can we learn

　　[19:10.77]about Donny's attitude

　　[19:11.79]towards Larry King?

　　[19:22.87]10. What must Donny do

　　[19:25.51]in order to become the mayor

　　[19:26.95]of New York City?

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