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大学英语
4
听力课本填词题
Unit2
Rembrandt,
one
of
the
greatest
artiest
of
all
time,
was
born
in
Leiden
in
the
Netherlands. As a child, he liked to
sketch
the sun coming in
through a windmill where he
lived. He
continued this interest in light and 2) shadow
throughout life. His
paintings
often
show one hand of a person in light and
in the dark.
Many
artists
traveled
abroad
but
Rembrandt
always
stayed
within
50
miles
of
his
birthplace in Leiden, although he lived
to be 63.
Much artists life
was spent in Amsterdam, then the richest town in
Europe
. In some of
Rembrandt’s paintings, we see the rich
clothes and
jewels
worn by
people of that time in
Amsterdam.
Other Dutch artists of the
time painted cloth of
equate
texture, dishes and other such
things
simply because they were beautiful. The Dutch
artists
of Rembrandt’s day painted
pictures of rooms with handsome dressed
people in them.
Rembrandt was greater
because he painted people so that we
can tell how they felt and thought. He painted
their
personalities,
not
only the clothes and the lines of their
faces.
Rembrandt worked hard
all his life, constantly improving his art. But
his domestic life
was filled with
sorrow as all his children and his wife died
before him and his overspending
meant
that
his
later
years
were
filled
with
hardship.
The
people
of
his
time
stopped
honoring him, but
he was far
greater than he would ever become.
He
was a great artist
working on art
problems ahead of his time.
Unit 3
The London borough of Camden provides
many services for elderly residents, among
which
are
the
preparation
for
retirement
courses.
These
courses,
lasting
for
ten
afternoons,
are
run
three
times
a
year
from
September
to
June.
They
are
basically
designed
for
people
due
to
retire
within
a
few
years.
These
students
are
normally
released
for
half
days
by
their
employers.
But
those
already
in
retirement
are
also
welcome
to
join.
The
courses
last
about
ten
weeks
and
cost
six
pounds
per
person,
normally
paid
by
the
employer,
with
a
reduction
for
those
already
retired
or
receiving
supplementary
benefits. The courses include
practical
talks. These talks
are on relevant
subjects such as
pensions
and taxes. A wide
field of
leisure
activities
is also covered and
sufficient time is
left for questions and discussion.
These
is
also
a
senior
citizens'
club
held
at
the
Merry
Ward
Center
on
weekday
afternoons
form
one
thirty
to
three
thirty.
The
club
arranges
discussion
groups
and
handicraft
sessions
, including
dress-
making and carpentry. Membership
is
free
and
a
member
can attend any course held there free of
charge
. Other services at the center
include legal advice at reduced rates
to those who otherwise could not afford it and
free
financial advice from
the financial section on Mondays and
Wednesdays between six
and
eight
p.m.
Any
other
personal
problems
can
be
discussed
with
a
counselor
on
Tuesday and Thursday
afternoons from three thirty to four.
Unit 4
A new era is upon us.
Call it what you will: the service economy,
information age, or
the
knowledge
society.
It
all
translates
to
a
fundamental
change
in
the
way
we
work.
Already
we're
partly
there.
The
percentage
of
people
who
earn
their
living
by
making
things
has
fallen
dramatically
in
the
Western
world.
T
oday
the
majority
of
jobs
in
America, Europe and Japan are in the
service industry, and that number is on the rise.
More
women
are
in
the
workplace
than
before.
There
are
more
part-time
jobs.
More
people
are
self-employed
. But the
6)
breadth
of the economic
transformation can't be
measured by
numbers alone, because it is also giving rise to a
radical new way of thinking
about
the
nature
of
work
itself.
Long-help
notions
about
jobs
and
careers,
the
skills
needed to succeed,
even the relationship between individuals and
employers
–
all of these
are being challenged.
We only have to look behind us to get
some sense of what is ahead. No one looking
ahead 20 years could possibly have
foreseen the ways in which a single invention, the
chip,
would
transform
our
world
thanks
to
its
applications
in
personal
computers,
digital
communications,
and
factory
robots.
Tomorrow's
achievements
in
biotechnology, artificial
intelligence, or even
some
still unimagined
technology
could
produce a similar wave of
dramatic changes.
But one thing is
certain: information and
knowledge
will because
even more
vital,
and
the
people
who
possess
it,
whether
they
work in manufacturing or services,
will have the greatest advantage and
produce the
most wealth.
Computer knowledge will because as
basic a requirement as the ability to
read and write.
Unit 5
Thirty
years
ago,
anyone
blaming
loneliness
for
physical
illness
would
have
been
laughed at. But as scientists studied
different populations, loneliness kept
emerging
as a
risk
factor.
In
one
study,
Californian
researchers
followed
4700
residents
of
Alameda
County for 10 years,
starting in 1965.
At first, the
participants
reported their
key sources of companionship and estimated
the time they devoted to each other.
During the study, the people who reported the
least
social contact died at nearly
three times the rate of those reporting the most.
The source
of
companionship
didn't matter,
but time spent with others was critical.
Since
then,
researchers
have
studied
men,
women,
soldiers
and
students
from
countries all over the world. And the
same pattern keeps emerging . Women who say they
fell
isolate
go
on to die of cancer at several times the expected
rate. College students
who report
extraordinary
rates
of hypertension and heart disease
decades later, Heart-attach survivors
who happened
to live by
themselves die at twice the rate of those live
with others.
For
those
of us
who
are still healthy the lesson
should
be
obvious.
It’s
clear
that
reaching out to other
can have our body strong.
It's equally
clear that we're growing
more isolated.
In 1900,
only 5 percent of U.S.
consisted of the person living alone.
The proportion reached 13 percent in
1960s, and it stands at 25 percent today.