2019英语专八听力mini lecture全真模拟训练MP3附文本（二十）

2019英语专八听力mini lecture全真模拟训练MP3附文本（二十）

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　　[00:10.12]TEST FOR ENGLISH MAJORS--GRADE EIGHT

　　[00:13.51]Section A MINI-LECTURE

　　[00:16.97]In this section you will hear a mini-lecture.

　　[00:20.29]You will hear the mini-lecture ONCE ONLY.

　　[00:23.73]While listening to the mini-lecture,

　　[00:25.82]please complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE

　　[00:30.29]and write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each gap.

　　[00:34.70]Make sure the word(s) you fill in is (are) both grammatically

　　[00:39.23]and semantically acceptable.

　　[00:41.85]You may use the blank sheet for note-taking.

　　[00:45.67]You have THIRTY seconds to preview the gap-filling task.

　　[01:19.89]Now, listen to the mini-lecture.

　　[01:22.30]When it is over, you will be given THREE minutes

　　[01:25.05]to check your work.

　　[01:27.53]Will Chinese replace English?

　　[01:30.89]Good morning everyone.

　　[01:32.40]Today, we are going to talk about the possibilities

　　[01:35.65]of Chinese taking the place of English as the global language.

　　[01:40.85]As we all know, Chinese has been widely used in East Asia for thousands of years.

　　[01:47.38]It was supposed to be the leading global language, but an accident happened.

　　[01:53.25]English quite by chance took its place. Will Chinese seize the place?

　　[01:59.19]For me, I would say it is possible!

　　[02:02.64]Because Chinese has many advantages over European languages including English.

　　[02:08.80]Let me share my reasons with you.

　　[02:12.07]First of all, Chinese, especially Chinese characters,

　　[02:16.15]is more stable than European languages.

　　[02:19.71]An average student of higher schools in China can easily read the books,

　　[02:25.59]say The Analects, which were written 2000 years ago.

　　[02:30.21]But a Ph.D. of native England can hardly read the books

　　[02:34.57]their ancestor wrote 500 years ago.

　　[02:38.11]In China, a pupil of primary school can easily read The Romance of Three Kingdoms

　　[02:44.79]which was written more than 600 years ago.

　　[02:48.08]Because Chinese is an ideographic language

　　[02:51.71]in which the characters are generally true to their ideas

　　[02:56.02]while European languages including English are phonetic languages

　　[03:00.44]in which the words should be principally true to their pronunciations.

　　[03:05.18]For hundreds of years the pronunciation changed,

　　[03:08.62]as a result words of English changed;

　　[03:12.01]but characters of Chinese remained almost the same.

　　[03:15.57]In the next five hundred years, God alone knows what English will become.

　　[03:20.94]But Chinese, I predict confidently, will not change so much, especially its writing.

　　[03:28.27]Next in order, Chinese is more compatible especially the writing Chinese.

　　[03:34.49]Some experts in the ISO (international standard organization)

　　[03:38.92]classify Chinese as a language family which contains Mandarin Chinese,

　　[03:44.35]Cantonese Chinese, Minnan Chinese, Wu Chinese etc.

　　[03:50.29]In the speaking sense it's definitely right, but in writing sense it's absolutely wrong.

　　[03:57.37]We should admit that the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese

　　[04:01.37]is greater than that between English and German.

　　[04:05.43]But that is just in speaking. In writing they are almost the same.

　　[04:11.24]No matter what kind of Chinese you speak,

　　[04:13.73]you can easily communicate with others by writing,

　　[04:17.41]because all kinds of Chinese are compatible in the way of using Chinese characters.

　　[04:22.59]So Chinese should be identified as one language. But English is different.

　　[04:28.86]Although English is considered as one language,

　　[04:31.66]an American is quite hard to understand Indian English and African English.

　　[04:37.46]Within just 100 years of changing, Americans have difficulties

　　[04:41.63]to understand Indian English and African English.

　　[04:45.16]In another 100 years Indian English may be identified as an independent language,

　　[04:51.32]not English any more.

　　[04:53.19]So may African English, Singaporean English, and even Chinese English.

　　[04:58.48]But different kinds of Chinese, which underwent thousands of years of changing,

　　[05:03.37]are still well compatible. People in the UK have a pride of their language.

　　[05:09.57]"English — A global language; English — A global language!"

　　[05:16.48]Everyday everywhere they say this. But this is a false pride.

　　[05:21.06]Indians speak and write in English, but in their own English, not the global one.

　　[05:27.22]So do Chinese, Singaporeans and Africans.

　　[05:31.87]Thirdly, written Chinese is more informative.

　　[05:35.68]Chinese characters carry far more information than any other language.

　　[05:40.67]In the five official languages of the United Nations, Chinese is the most informative.

　　[05:46.79]According to the report by Benjamin K. Tsou

　　[05:49.79]in the Language Information Sciences Research Centre of

　　[05:52.42]City University of Hong Kong, the Entropy of Alphabets or Characters is

　　[05:58.10]Chinese 9.65 bits, followed by Russian 4.35 bits,

　　[06:04.29]then English 4.03 bits, Spanish 4.01 bits and French 3.98 bits.

　　[06:13.65]We can put it in another way to understand the report like this:

　　[06:17.95]if we use 100 pieces of paper to write a novel in English, it needs only 42 in Chinese,

　　[06:25.04]which is nearly 60 percent less than English.

　　[06:28.31]If the US uses Chinese as its official language,

　　[06:32.31]it will save at least half of its forest that is used to produce paper.

　　[06:37.72]So do computer disk and anything that is related to writing.

　　[06:42.28]The United States is always trying to save resources and protect the environment.

　　[06:47.19]One of the best ways, I suggest here, is to let Chinese become the official language,

　　[06:52.75]because Chinese is more informative and will save a lot of resources.

　　[06:58.36]Fourthly, Chinese runs faster. Take memorizing time table for an example.

　　[07:04.65]English students take 1.5 times longer to read the table than Chinese student do,

　　[07:11.26]and correspondingly take 1.5 times longer to memorize it,

　　[07:16.33]according to the essay Aspects of Chinese Sociolinguistics by Yuen-Ren Chao,

　　[07:22.77]a Chinese American linguist.

　　[07:25.42]It was also found that reading Chinese is also much faster than reading English,

　　[07:30.95]because Chinese is an ideographic language that is very suitable for silent reading.

　　[07:37.31]When a Chinese student reads three books, an American student may just read one.

　　[07:43.04]No wonder why Chinese students of high schools

　　[07:45.90]get more Olympic prizes in science.

　　[07:49.14]Finally, Chinese is more vigorous in front of the challenge

　　[07:53.11]what is called the information explosion.

　　[07:55.97]Everyday lots of English words or terms are coined.

　　[07:59.62]There is going to be a vocabulary explosion of English,

　　[08:02.55]which really become a big challenge.

　　[08:05.36]Lots of new words or terms are created in Chinese as well.

　　[08:09.17]But this does not become a problem, because a Chinese new word

　　[08:13.58]typically composes of two or three characters which imply its meaning.

　　[08:18.90]A Chinese person can easily understand a new word which he/she has never seen.

　　[08:24.89]Let's take a look at one example.

　　[08:27.39]China didn't have wine until the westerner brought it to China.

　　[08:31.62]In Chinese "wine" is translated as pu tao jiu in which pu tao means grape

　　[08:39.26]and jiu means a kind of beverage which contains alcohol.

　　[08:43.93]Every Chinese speaker can easily understand the meaning of pu tao jiu

　　[08:49.15]without any explanation or looking up a dictionary.

　　[08:52.92]All right. Here are all my reasons to entertain

　　[08:56.34]the possibilities of Chinese as a global language.

　　[09:00.20]A point of warning, though.

　　[09:01.82]I am not trying to say that Chinese is superior to English or vice versa.

　　[09:06.44]I am just saying that we should not take it for granted

　　[09:09.48]that English will be the solely possible global language in the world.

　　[09:15.29]Now you have THREE minutes to check your work.

　　[12:19.38]This is the end of Section A MINI-LECTURE.

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