newfield新世纪大学英语综合课程2unit1-unit8listenandrespond听力原文

2021年1月19日发(作者：异步)
Unit 1 Living in Harmony

[00:]Listen and Respond

[00:]Smile

[00:]I
am
a
mother
of
three
and
have
recently
completed
my
college
degree.

[00:]The
last
project
the
professor
assigned
us
to
do
was
called
“Smile.”

[00:]The
class
was
asked
to
go
out
and
smile
at
three
people
and
then
write
down their reaction.

[00:]I am a very friendly person and always smile at everyone I meet and
say “hello.”

[00:]So I thought that it would be a piece of cake for me.

[00:]Soon after we were assigned the project, my husband,

[00:]the
youngest
son
and
I
went
out
to
the
local
McDonalds
on
a
cold
March
morning.

[00:]Just when we were standing in line, waiting to be served,

[00:]I
smelled
a
horrible
“dirty
body”
smell,
and
there
standing
behind
me were two poor homeless men.

[01:]As
I
looked
down
at
the
shorter
gentleman
close
to
me,
he
was
smiling.

[01:]His beautiful sky blue eyes were searching for acceptance.

[01:]He said, “Good day” as he counted the few coins he had.

[01:]The second man was mentally retarded.

[01:]The
young
lady
at
the
counter
asked
the
shorter
man
what
they
wanted.

[01:]He said, “Just coffee for the two of us.”

[01:]Obviously, it was all they could afford.

[01:]To sit in the restaurant and warm up, they had to buy something
—

they just wanted to be warm.

[01:]Then I was suddenly filled with sympathy.

[01:]All eyes in the restaurant
were
set on
me, judging my
every action.

[01:]I smiled and asked the young lady behind the counter to

[01:]give me two more breakfast meals on a separate tray.

[02:]I then walked to the table where the two men were sitting.

[02:]I put the tray on the table and laid my hand on the
blue-eyed
gentleman’s cold hand.

[02:]He looked up at me and said, “Thank you.”

[02:]I leaned over and said, “Just help yourselves.”

[02:]I started to cry when I walked away to join my husband and son.

[02:]As
I
sat
down,
my
husband
smiled
at
me
and
held
my
hand
for
a
moment.

[02:]I returned to college, with this story in hand.

[02:]I turned in “my project” and the professor was touched and read
it to the whole class.

[02:]The whole class was touched.

[02:]I graduated with one of the biggest lessons I would ever learn
—

UNCONDITIONAL ACCEPTANCE.


Unit 2 Optimism and Positive Thinking

[00:]Listen and Respond

[00:]Attitude Is Everything

[00:]Michael was a natural optimist.

[00:]He was always in a good mood, always up and always had something
positive to say.

[00:]If an employee was having a bad day,

[00:]Michael was there telling the employee how to look on the positive
side of the situation.

[00:]Seeing his optimism really made me curious, so one day I went up to
Michael

[00:]and asked him, “I don’t get it.

[00:]You can’t be positive all the time.

[00:]How do you do it”

[00:]Michael replied, “Each morning I wake up and say to myself: Mike,
you have two choices today.

[00:]You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad
mood.

[00:]I choose to be in a good mood.

[01:]Each
time
something
bad
happens,
I
can
choose
to
be
a
victim
or
choose
to learn from it.

[01:]I choose to learn from it.

[01:]Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept
the complaining

[01:]or I can point out the positive side of life, I always choose the
positive side of life.”

[01:]“Yeah, right.

[01:]But it isn’t that easy.”

[01:]I said.

[01:]“Yes, it is easy,”
Michael said.

[01:]“Life is all about choices.

[01:]Every situation in life is a choice.

[01:]You choose how you react to situations; you choose how people will
affect your mood; you choose how you feel.

[01:]The bottom line is: It’s your choice how you live your life.”

[01:]From Michael I have learned that every day we have a choice to live
fully.

[01:]So I will choose to be an optimist.

[01:]If I am an optimist I may feel better, enjoy life more, and maybe
have more chances of success.


Unit 3 The Road to Success

[00:]Listen and Respond

[00:]Follow Your Dream

[00:]One day in a high school, a senior named Monty Roberts was asked to
write

[00:]a paper about what he wanted to be and do when he grew up.

[00:]Monty Roberts was the son of a horse trainer.

[00:]He loved horses.

[00:]That
night
he
wrote
a
seven-page
paper
describing
his
goal
of
someday
owning a large horse ranch.

[00:]He wrote about his dream in great detail and he even drew a picture
of a 200-acre ranch.

[00:]He put a great deal of his heart into the dream ranch

[00:]and the next day he handed the paper in to his teacher.

[00:]Two days later he received his paper back.

[00:]He got a large red F for his paper.

[01:]He went to ask the teacher why.

[01:]The teacher said, “The dream is impossible for
you.

[01:]You have no money.

[01:]Owning a horse ranch needs a lot of money.

[01:]You
have
to
buy
the
land,
the
house,
and
the
machines
for
your
ranch.

[01:]There’s no way you could ever do it.”

[01:]Then the teacher added, “If you will write this paper a
gain

[01:]with a more realistic goal, I will reconsider your grade.”

[01:]The boy went home and thought about it long and hard.

[01:]He asked his father what he should do.

[01:]His father said, “Look, son, you have to make up your own mind on
this.

[01:]Ho
wever, I think it is a very important decision for you.”

[01:]Finally,
after
sitting
with
it
for
a
week,
the
boy
turned
in
the
same
paper, making no changes at all.

[01:]He
said
to
the
teacher,
“You
can
keep
the
F
and
I’ll
keep
my
dream.

[02:]I will follow
my heart, no matter what happens.”

[02:]Now years have passed.

[02:]This young man’s dream has finally come true.

[02:]He is the owner of a large horse ranch.


Unit 4 Being Creative

[0:]Listen and Respond

[0:]Creativity Is the Essence of Life and Nature

[0:]Creativity is the essence of life and nature.

[0:]The
world
itself
is
in
a
constant
act
of
creation,
so
we
human
beings
should ask ourselves
—
Why,

[0:]in
such
a
creative
world,
do
some
people
sometimes
appear
to
be
stupid,
dull, and uncreative

[0:]
—
Are people really dull

[0:]Or are we all, in fact, creative

[0:]To answer this, let’s look at a baby.

[0:]The
whole
essence
of
a
baby
is
creative
—

it
is
creative
in
learning
to walk, talk, sing, and play.

[0:]Just imagine, a child can create a world of its own imagination and
play with it for hours.

[0:]A scientist who creates a theory is just like that
—
it is a play
of ideas within the mind.

[1:]It is hard to stop creativity in a young child.

[1:]You can’t make your child creative.

[1:]It simply is creative.

[1:]Then, how can our children be still more creative

[1:]I would suggest that the first step is to allow ourselves to be
creative.

[1:]If
we
ourselves
are
creative,
we
can
guide
our
children
in
a
way
that
is free and unconditioned.

[1:]We should give our children a free and safe surrounding for them to
explore, make mistakes and create.

[1:]If
we
know
a
better
way
to
do
things,
we
should
guide
or
“help”
the
child.