Unit4 PartⅠ Warm-up A. Look and listen
Look at the pictures. Listen to the statements and fill in the blanks with the words in the list.
trap covered final
pressure trip merit
suicide morals
discovered wronged terrible
corrupt
worship desirable
1. The world-famous photo taken by a South African photographer brought him so much criticism and (pressure ) that he ended up committing (suicide).
2. The (morals ) of the photographer of this picture were questioned by the public, as he seemed to have anticipated the accident caused by the hole in the street (covered ) by rainwater.
3. The 2006 World Cup (final ) will be remembered more for a headbutt (用头撞人) by the French soccer star, Zidane, than the fact that Italy won the world's most (desirable ) sporting prize for the fourth time.
4. It is a shame that an innocent driver would fall into a (trap ) set by a hitchhiker pretending to be sick, and be (wronged ) and fined for his kindness.
5. Some (corrupt ) officials (worship ) money to such an extent that, in their eyes, money is everything while shame means nothing. No wonder their motto is no longer to serve the people but to serve the RMB.
B. Ask and answer the questions
Ask and answer the following questions with a partner.
1. Do you think it is justified to succeed by making a victim of someone else? Your answer：
Reference answer： No, no one has the right to sacrifice others for their own purposes. 2. Do you know anyone who often defames others? How do you deal with such people? Your answer：
Reference answer： Yes, one of my classmates seems to enjoy defaming anyone that displeases him. I always stay away from such people.
Part Ⅱ Listen and watch
Section One Listen for skills
A. Listen and practice
Listen to the expressions of time and put them down in the blanks. 1. in (the 3rd century) 4. in (the late 1590s) 7. (378 B.C.) 9. (year) (1998)
2. in (the '90s)
5. in (the 18th century) 8. (year) (1609) 10. (789 A.D.)
3. in (the early 1770s) 6. (year) (2010)
Section Two Special English programs
Item 1
1) Listen to the report and choose the best answer to the following question. Which parts of the woman's face were severely injured by her dog? (b)
a. Her eyes, cheeks, and lips. b. Her lips, chin, and nose. c. Her ears, nose, and forehead. d. Her nose, mouth, and ears.
2) Now listen to the report again and choose the best answer to the following question.
Why won't some doctors perform a face transplant? (d)
a. They might lose their job if they did. b. It's cruel to cut tissue off another person. c. A face is an important part of a person's identity. d. There are medical and moral issues.
Notes
1. brain-dead: The brain of a person who is brain-dead has completely ceased functioning, as evidenced by absence of brain activity on an electroencephalogram for a specific length of time. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death. The significant point is that the brain is no longer capable of sustaining the rest of the body's systems without artificial life support.
《巴黎人》。2. Le Parisien: A French daily newspaper covering both international and national news, and local news of Paris and its suburbs. It is the best-selling national
newspaper in France.
Transcript
Doctors in France have carried out the first partial face transplant. They took the nose, lips, and chin from a woman who was declared brain-dead and used them to repair the face of another woman. The thirty-eight-year-old French woman who received the tissue had been severely injured in the face by her dog.
Last week the newspaper Le Parisien published a few comments that it said she made by telephone from her hospital bed. The woman, identified only as Isabelle D., said she was \peace.
There were still questions, however, about how the woman came to be injured by her dog earlier this year. Some news reports have said she tried to kill herself with sleeping pills. There have been suggestions that her Labrador retriever was just trying to wake her. Her doctors have said repeatedly that she did not try to kill herself. The dog was put to death.
Medical progress has made it possible for several years now for doctors to
transplant faces. But this is the first time they have performed the operation on a living patient. Doctors at the Cleveland Clinic in the United States had been expected to perform the first operation.
Many doctors, however, say they will not perform a face transplant. There are medical and moral issues. Medical experts note that a person does not need a face to survive. Many people wonder how patients would react when they see someone else's face on their body. A face is an important part of a person's identity.
Item 2
1) Listen to the report and choose the best answer to the following question. Which of the following is the most serious example of plagiarism? (c)
a. Stealing another person's words as your own. b. Cheating in an examination.
c. Buying a whole paper from someone.
d. Copying sentences from a book without giving credit.
2) Now listen to the report again and choose the best answer to the following question.
Which of the following punishments for plagiarism is NOT mentioned? (a)
a. Being expelled from school forever.
b. Being given a failing grade on the paper or in the course. c. Being taken to civil court and ordered to pay damages. d. Having the student's degree withdrawn.
Notes
1. Turnitin.com: An Internet-based plagiarism-detection service created by
iParadigms, LLC. Institutions, typically universities and high schools, buy licenses to submit essays to the Turnitin website, which checks the documents for plagiarism.
2. civil court: The court involved in the area of law relating to the affairs of private citizens rather than crime, in contrast to criminal court.
Transcript
Plagiarism is the act of representing another person's words or ideas as your own. The offense may be as small as a sentence copied from a book. Or it may be as extensive as a whole paper copied — or bought — from somebody else.
Intellectual dishonesty is nothing new. The only difference now is that the Internet has made it much simpler to steal other people's work. Yet the same technology that makes it easy to find information to copy also makes it easier to identify plagiarism. Teachers can use online services that compare papers to thousands of others to search for copied work. The teacher gets a report on any passages that are similar enough to suspect plagiarism. These services are widely used. Turnitin.com, for
example, says it is used in more than one hundred countries and examines more than 130,000 papers a day.
Professional writers who plagiarize can be taken to civil court and ordered to pay damages. In schools, the punishment for cheating could be a failing grade on the paper or in the course. Some schools expel plagiarists for a term; others, for a full academic year. Some degrees have even been withdrawn after a school later found that a student had plagiarized.
Item 3
1) Listen to the report and choose the best answer to the following question. Which of the following about the shocking news is NOT true? (a)
a. Emperors Club VIP operated in six big cities in the USA.
b. The governor spent tens of thousands of dollars on sex services. c. The governor has resigned.
d. The governor had impressed the public as a crime fighter.
2) Now listen to the report again and choose the best answer to the following question.
What will the governor most probably be charged with, according to legal experts? (c)
a. Paying for a high-priced sex service as Client Nine. b. Operating Emperors Club VIP in many cities.
c. Moving large amounts of money from two banks for sex services.
d. Bringing a 22-year-old woman into a hotel in New York for immoral purposes.
Transcript
This week, America's attention was directed away from a tight presidential race and troubled economy. The nation watched the fall from power of a politician widely
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