三校生大学新视界大学英语视听说教程2_Unit3

Unit

3

Inside view

This is just so crazy!

What?

This story I'm reading.

So teU us.

A

Man

was in a wheelchair crossing the road

in front of a lorry at some traffic lights.

Somehow, the back of the wheelchair got stuck

on the front of the lorry. When the lorry started moving,

it took the wheelchair and the man with it!

You're joking!

The driver drove for several miles at 80 kilometres an hour

before he stopped at a garage.

The

man

was unhurt because his seat belt had stopped him falling out.

What a terrible story! Thank goodness! The

Man

was all right!

The police asked the driver if he'd realized he had a passenger.

The driver said he had no idea at all.

Do you want to hear another one? A funny one this time.

Go on.

A

woman

reported that her car had been stolen

and that she'd left her mobile phone in the car.

The policeman suggested calling the mobile.

When he did, the thief answered.

The policeman told the thief that he was answering an ad

in the paper and that he wanted to buy the car.

And the thief agreed to sell it!

He didn't!

So they arranged to meet and the thief was arrested

and the

woman

got her car back.

A happy ending!

You get these great stories in the papers -

I always read them.

Conversation

2 V

oice on Radio

The news at one o'clock.

Tornadoes have damaged homes in Northern England.

There is still no news of missing company director, Alan Marsden.

Scientists claim that global warming is accelerating.

There are reports coming in of more fighting in ...

Do you mind if l turn it off?

It's fine. I wasn't listening.

Do you follow the news?

Yeah, I do. But I don't often listen to the radio,

I mostly get my news online.

Do you?

Yes, I read articles from different papers.

My dad does that.

Well, I've got used to reading real newspapers.

You should try reading the news online.

You get lots of different views,

it's very stimulating.

True, it is stimulating.

But I've got into the habit of reading the papers in the JCR

–

in a comfortable armchair, with lots of black coffee.

Don't either of you listen to the radio?

It's a great way to wake up.

Yeah, I do that. And I download podcasts.

And I watch the news on telly.

You're a news addict. We all know that.

You have to be if you read PPE.

You have to be really knowledgeable about current affairs.

You are.

Well, I'm a TV addict. I spend too much time watching the soaps.

I love British TV.

We've noticed,

Kate

. Are you going to watch Friends with me tonight?

You bet!

Outside view

A library containing archives of past stories

and photographs is an important resource in any newspaper office,

allowing journalists to research details of stories published in the past

and get facts and photographs very quickly.

Dempster is a librarian at one of Britain's biggest newspapers,

the Daily Express. He describes how in the past,

the library was quite slow and difficult to use

but today a computerized database makes researching past news stories

and finding photographs much easier.

How do you create a news database?

Each morning, seven days a week, 364 days a year,

because we don't include Christmas Day,

we archive our daily newspaper.

We also read other newspapers

and collect stories they have published.

We take around about 1,000 stories

that we cut out from the newspapers every day.

These are scanned onto a database

and then they can be searched using a keyword.

So, what we mean by

What? Why? When? and Where? as a reference for the information.

So, for example, a journalist will be able