托?？谡Z話題

現(xiàn)在留學(xué)的學(xué)生越來越多，留學(xué)可以開闊眼界，也能學(xué)習(xí)不一樣的教育體制，而且國外名校眾多，教育水平也一流。下面小編就來和大家說說“托?？谡Z話題”這個問題

托?？谡Z話題：人才外流

It is said that Shanghai’s musicians abroad could form a world class symphony orchestra(2).

But the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra once failed to find a qualified conductor for a whole year!

A similar situation exists in science, medicine and sports circles.

Stopping the outflow of talent depends on creating a sound domestic environment rather than simply setting up barriers for those who wish to go abroad.

A handful of people go abroad to seek a comfortable life. But most Chinese intellectuals emigrate because they cannot bring their talent into full play in their motherland.

Many conductors trained by the Shanghai Conservatory of Music(3) have gone abroad either because they cannot find jobs in symphony orchestras due to the competition fro places, or because they cannot develop themselves in orchestras where promotion comes only by way of seniority.

We face a keen shortage of talent, but one batch of gifted people after another have gone abroad(4). The situation is grim.

It is impossible to improve the conditions for all intellectuals by a wide margin(5). But it is possible for governments at all levels to create a better environment for their development.

The outflow of talent is a loss to our nation as well as a pressure forcing us to optimize the environment (6) for the talented.

1. Brain Drain: 人才外流。

2. a world class symphony orchestra: 世界一流水平的交響樂隊。

3. Shanghai Conservatory of Music: 上海音樂學(xué)院。

4. one batch of gifted people after another have gone abroad: 一批又一批的有才華的人們相繼出國。

5. by a wide margin : 大幅度地。

6. to optimize the environment:盡可能改善工作環(huán)境。

托?？谡Z話題：電視機

I. Listen

Listen to the text with the help of the following notes.

1. it is more convenient ...in search of amusement elsewhere: (對四口之家來說)舒服地坐在家里，有著包羅萬象的娛樂節(jié)目供選擇，當(dāng)然比外出到別的地方尋找娛樂活動更為方便，更合算了。

2. only to discover... disappointing: 最終發(fā)現(xiàn)演出是那樣令人失望。此處only 表示出乎意料。

3. takes no initiative: 沒有任何主動性。

4. The most distant countries...into one’s sitting -room: 最遙遠的國度、最奇異的風(fēng)俗了情被直接送到人們起居室。

5. flickering pictures: 閃爍為定的圖像。

II. Read

Read the following passages. Underline the important viewpoints while reading.

1. Why Watch Television?

Matthew: Television is undoubtedly a great invention, but one of the main criticisms of it is that people just aren’t selective enough. Lesley, you’ve got a television; how do you pick out the sorts of programmes you want to watch?

Lesley: I try and look at the programmes that are on to decide which particular ones interest me, rather than you turning it on at seven o’clock and you leaving it on until half-past eleven when the programmes finish.

Matthew: Do you think of television though as a great time-waster?

Lesley: I think it can be a time-waster and it depends on how particular people are about what they want to see...Mm, it can just be a sort of total amusement for someone and totally consuming without really considering what it is they’re watching.

Matthew: Aha, but how do you prevent it coming into your life and taking over your evenings and at the same time perhaps get... get out of the television some of the sort of best things... best programmes that ... that undoubtedly are on television?

Lesley: Well, I suppose one of the problems is... will depend on what a person’s life style is, and that if he has other outside interests which are equally important to him as television, he will then, you know, mm... be more careful about which programmes he wants to watch because he has time which he wants to use for other things.

Matthew: Do you think though that ... that in... in a sense television has killed people’s own er...sort of, creativity or their ability to entertain themselves because if they’re bored all they do is just turn on the television?

Lesley: Yes, I think that is a danger, and I think that... in fact is what is happening to a lot of people who use it as their ... their main ... um field of amusement and ... because they don’t have other outside interests and even when people come round they’ll leave the television on and not be, you know,particularly interested in talking to them, you know the television will be the main thing in the room.

Matthew: Peter, have you a television?

Peter: I have, in fact I’ve got two televisions.

Matthew: Do you watch them a lot?

Peter: Er...no I ...I watch very seldom er... In fact, I find that I watch television most when I’m working which requires nothing of me, then I watch television a lot. When I’ve got more energy left...um ...in my own private time, then I find I do more different things. I do things like um reading, or going out, or working on anything ...my hobbies.

Matthew: Do you think though that people can live a perfectly happy life if they haven’t got a television?

Peter: Oh yes, I think people who don’t have a television or people who don’t watch television can be expected to be more happy. You can assume I think if they never watch television they are happier people than the people who watch a lot of television, because I think that television goes with the kind of life which leaves you with nothing to spare, nothing left, you have to be given potted, passive entertainment.

Matthew: But in that case you...you seem as though you’re completely against television, is that true?

Peter: No, it’s not. I ...I have a television in fact, I have two as I said, but er I ... I ... I think there’s a dilemma, a difficult situation. Television in itself is very good; a ... a lot of the information and a lot of the programmes are very instructive, they introduce you to things you may never have though of before or never have hard about before. But in watching, it makes you very passive; you sit for hour after hour and you get very receptive and very unquestioning and it seems to me the important thing in life is to be active, to ... to do things, to think things and to be as creative as possible, and television prevents this.

托?？谡Z話題：學(xué)生兼職II

1. when a film studio was there conducting auditions: 當(dāng)一個電影制片廠正在那里(為挑選演員)舉行面試時。

2. hopefuls: 指那些有希望入選的小孩。

3. capitalizing on high demand commodities not always available away from the big shopping centers:經(jīng)銷那些在大購物中心以外很難搞到的暢銷品。

4. an amateur wholesale dealer: 業(yè)余批發(fā)商。

5. the retail price: 零售價。

6. merged their activities to avoid price wars: 聯(lián)合經(jīng)銷以避免削價競爭。

7. High School Student Corporation Ltd of Exploitation of New Technology: 中學(xué)生新技術(shù)開發(fā)有限公司。

8. portfolio: 文件夾。

9. from American movie star Sylvester Stallone in Ranbo pose to Taiwan’s famous singer Qi Qin: 從美國影星西爾威斯特·史泰龍的《蘭博》劇照，到臺灣著名歌星齊秦。

10. a three per cent commission: 百分之三的手續(xù)費。

11. the State Commission of Education: 地區(qū)教委。

12. job stints: 零活兒

托?？谡Z話題：城市生活

常用詞匯：

apartment, banks, bookstore, building, cafeteria, capital, church, court, countryside, courtyard, district, flat, highway, hotel, house, hospital, junk shop舊貨店; library, market, metropolis大都市; monument紀(jì)念碑; municipal市的，市政的; municipality市政當(dāng)局; museum, newsstand報攤; outskirts, port, restaurant, school, scenery, shop, store, skyscraper摩天大樓; slums貧民區(qū); stadium體育場; station, suburb, theatre, university, urban, zoo, etc.

常用短語：

art gallery 美術(shù)館; barber shop, be up to one’s neck in work 忙碌; botanical garden 植物園; city centre, city hall市政廳，市政府; city planning, densely populated, department stores, down payment 分期付款的定金; employment agency職業(yè)介紹; garden city, get one’s hands full 很忙; modern buildings, modern industry, post office, public lavatory, public telephone, residential area, shopping center, snack bar, stock exchange股票交易所; traffic light, etc.

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