新标准大学英语视听说-4

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目录

  • 1 Unit 1 Nine to five
    • 1.1 Part I Before Listening
    • 1.2 Part II While Listening
    • 1.3 Part III After Listening
    • 1.4 Part IV Answers
  • 2 Unit 2 A good read
    • 2.1 Part I Before Listening
    • 2.2 Part II While Listening
    • 2.3 Part III After Listening
    • 2.4 Part IV Answers
  • 3 Unit 3 Fashion statements
    • 3.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 3.2 Part II While Listening
    • 3.3 Part III After Listening
    • 3.4 Part IV Answers
  • 4 Unit 4 Money talks
    • 4.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 4.2 Part II While Listening
    • 4.3 Part III After Listening
    • 4.4 Part IV Answers
  • 5 Unit 5 Gender studies
    • 5.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 5.2 Part II While Listening
    • 5.3 Part III After Listening
    • 5.4 Part IV Answers
  • 6 Unit 6 All in the past
    • 6.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 6.2 Part II While Listening
    • 6.3 Part III After Listening
    • 6.4 Part IV Answers
  • 7 Unit 7 Architecture: frozen music
    • 7.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 7.2 Part II While Listening
    • 7.3 Part II After Listening
    • 7.4 Part IV Answers
  • 8 Unit 8 The human spirit
    • 8.1 Part I  Before Listening
    • 8.2 Part II While Listening
    • 8.3 Part III After Listening
    • 8.4 Part IV Answers
Part I Before Listening
  • 1 Theme
  • 2 Inside View
  • 3 Outside View
  • 4 Talk
  • 5 Passage1-2

 

  • “少学琴书，偶爱闲静，开卷有得，便欣然忘食。”出自晋陶渊明的《与子俨等疏》，意在鼓励人们多读书，读好书。比较名人西塞罗的名言 "A room without books is like a body without a soul" 。请同学们思考一下：陶渊明，西塞罗，谁的话语更契合我们二单元的英语标题 A Good Read 所反映的主题呢？让我们跟随Janet从Charles Dickens开始来一场说走就走的英国文学、文化之旅。

  • Marcus Tullius Cicero（西塞罗）, a Roman philosopher, statesman, orator, and political theorist, was born on January 3, 106 B.C. and was murdered on December 7, 43 B.C. His life coincided with the decline and fall of the Roman Republic, and he was an important actor in many of the significant political events of his time, and his writings are now a valuable source of information to us about those events. He was, among other things, an orator, lawyer, politician, and philosopher. Making sense of his writings and understanding his philosophy requires us to keep that in mind. He placed politics above philosophical study; the latter was valuable in its own right but was even more valuable as the means to more effective political action. The only periods of his life in which he wrote philosophical works were the times he was forcibly prevented from taking part in politics.While Cicero is currently not considered an exceptional thinker, largely on the (incorrect) grounds that his philosophy is derivative and unoriginal, in previous centuries he was considered one of the great philosophers of the ancient era, and he was widely read well into the 19th century. Probably the most notable example of his influence is St. Augustine’s claim that it was Cicero’s Hortensius (an exhortation to philosophy, the text of which is unfortunately lost) that turned him away from his sinful life and towards philosophy and ultimately to God. Augustine later adopted Cicero’s definition of a commonwealth and used it in his argument that Christianity was not responsible for the destruction of Rome by the barbarians.

        (Reference: https://www.iep.utm.edu/cicero/)