风铃声英语退出高考

2021年1月20日发(作者：叶世金)
1
、
Outrageous shopping bills are a familiar nightmare for many compulsive shoppers
．
And
contrary to the popular opinion
，
men 1)suffer that nightmare nearly as often as women
．
A new
survey
finds
that
both
2)genders
are
almost
equally
likely
to
suffer
compulsive
buying
disorder,
a
condition
marked
by
uncontrollable,
unnecessary
and3)unaffordable
shopping
sprees.
Researchers
used
to
estimate
that
between
2
and
16
percent
of
the
US
population
suffered compulsive
buying disorder, and that 90 percent of
4)sufferers were female.
But a
2004 telephone survey of more than 2,500 American adults found that 6 percent of women
and about 5.5 percent of men are compulsive shoppers; that's 5)more than 1 in 20 adults.
The sexes do not shop at the same aisles though. Experts say that women are more likely
to binge buy things like clothes or gilts for other people, while men tend to buy 6)expensive
electronics. This survey is the first to find 7)such a high number of compulsive shoppers in
the general population.
Study authors hope that this finding can convince doctors of how many people are hurt
by the disorder, so they can 8)make finding a cure a priority.

I'm Bill Blakemore in New York.
4
、
Beijing Opera is largely seen as a dying art in China. Louisa Lira wants to introduce us to
an
unlikely
new
champion
for
Chinese
opera.
He's
a
British
man
who
has
1)devoted
more
than a decade to bringing Chinese opera to new audiences.



Ghaffar: And I saw a Beijing Opera in London in 1993. And that just shocked me. It really
moved me.



Louisa: Ghaffar Pourazar is
British, born to Iranian
Azeri parents.
At the age
of 32, he
gave up his life as a 2)computer animator and enrolled in a Beijing Opera school, drawn by
the difficulty of mastering this art form.



Ghaffar: And there is no other culture which has put that much 3)discipline into training
the perfect performer. That is what the Beijing Opera is about, the perfect performer.



Louisa:
On
stage,
the
actors
not
only
act,
they
sing
and
dance
at
the
same
time
as
performing 4)heart- stopping feats of aerobatics and sword fighting. Once the show begins, it's
clear
that
Pourazar
has
taken
a
Chinese
classic
and
made
it
his
own.
The
cast
is
partly
non-Chinese.
And
there's
a
lot
of
5)explanation
in
English.
The
story
is
the
6)much-loved
legend
of
the
Monkey
King,
a
mischievous
monkey
ham
from
a
stone,
who
learns
7)supernatural
skills
and
uses
them
to
8)challenge
the
emperor
of
heaven.
Pourazar
is
the
multilingual monkey.





Ghaffar: It's within the rules of the art form that you perform for that audience. What I
have
done
is,
by
taking
it
to
London,
to
change
the
spoken
parts
into
English.
And
that's,
9)that's within the rules of the opera.(Singing)



Louisa: That even means adding a bit of comedy rap opera to the : And this
hybrid
bilingual
opera
10)wins
good
reviews
from
both
Western
and
Chinese
audience
members.



A Man: And that's really Chinese stuff, 11)expressing the more acceptable way. So it'll be
more popular.



Louisa:
12)But
the
popularity
of
Beijing
Opera
is
fading
fast,
with
young
Chinese
audiences turning to karaoke, DVDs and the Internet. Much to Pourazar's sorrow.

3
、
Reporter:
In
Vail,
Arizona,
a
new
school
with
a
new
idea:
no
textbooks.
White
other
students might be reading books, Empire students will read on their laptops. Jeremy Gypton, a
history
teacher
at
Empire
High
School
in
Vail,
Arizona.
Mr.
Gypton,
tell
us
about
the
assignment that you've already given, that might otherwise have involved a textbook, but 1)in
this case involves a computer.
Mr. Gypton: Well, with the, with history I try to use as many primary source documents
as possible. I actually just recently had my students, studying...my American History students,
studying
the
French- Indian
War
and
its
2)impact.
And
that
sort
of
document
is
just
not
3)available in a traditional textbook, 1 would have to say,
find
a
copy
whereas
with
the
laptops
and
with
the
4)resources
they're
using,
they
have
immediate access to it.
Reporter:
5)What's
the
point
here?
Is
it
to
get
Io
primary
sources
or
is
it
to
use
a
6)medium that youngsters today are more familiar with? How do you, how do you describe
what you arc doing'?
Mr.
Gypton:
When
it
comes
to
our,
I
guess,
our
7)reasoning,
these
are
the
students
who've
grown
up
with
the
computer,
with
the
Internet,
er,
as,
as
kind
of
organic
to
their
environment. It's not an add-on, like it, like it was to me. And this is 8)normal for them. And
so, limiting them, by like sort of a traditional, maybe thousand page textbook is, 9)from their
perspective, I think a little bit abnormal, because they are used to being able to reach out, and
view one topic from 20 different angles, as 10)opposed to just the one angle that a textbook
would present.
Reporter: Jeremy Gypton, thank you very much for talking with you.




Mr. Gipson: Thanks so much for your time.

5
、
Thank you very, very much.



Well, I just have to start with a 1)challenge to the President: Sir, I have seen your train
goby, and I think I can 2)beat it.



I'll even give you a head start.



And over the last few years we have heard a lot about something called
And
like
many
of
you,
I
have
struggled
to
3)figure
out
what
that
means.
And
since
my
accident, I've found a 4)definition
that seems to make sense. I think it means that we’re a
ll
family. And that we all have value.



Now, if that's true, if America really is a family, then we have to 5)recognize that many
members
of our family are hurting. And just to take one aspect of it, one in five of us
has
some kind of 6)disability. You may have an aunt with Parkinson's disease, a neighbor with a
spinal
cord
injury,
or
a
brother
with
AIDS,
and
if
we're
really
7)committed
to
this
idea
of
family, we've got to do something about it.



Now first of all, our nation cannot 8)tolerate discrimination of any kind. And that's why
the Americans with Disabilities Act is so important..



It must be honored everywhere. It is a Civil Rights Law 9)that is tearing down barriers,
both in architecture and in attitude.



Its
purpose its
purpose is to give the disabled access not only to buildings
but to every
opportunity in society.




Now, I strongly believe our nation must give its full support to the caregivers 10
）
who are
helping people with disabilities live independent lives.