Step by Step 3000 第1册 Unit4:Approaching Culture(2)

 　　Part 2. Places to enjoy.

　　A. Keywords. museum, visit, reproduction, audience, appearance, guided tour, educational service, children's department,

　　Vocabulary. privileged¹, vacationer, metropolitan², reproduction, stegosaurus, architecture, represent, lifestyle, Stockholm.

　　A1. Listen to some statements taken from a passage on the changes in today's museums.

　　Supply the missing³ information.

　　Museums have changed.

　　They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days.

　　More and more museum directors are realizing people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.

　　The purpose is not only to provide fun but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.

　　A2. Now listen to the whole passage, while listening, pay special attention to the specific museums mentioned in the passage.

　　Complete the following chart with key words.

　　Museums have changed.

　　They are no longer places for the privileged few or for bored vacationers to visit on rainy days.

　　At science museum on Ontario Canada, you can feel your hair stand on end as harmless⁴ electricity passes through your body.

　　At metropolitan museum of art in New York city, you can look at 17th century instruments while listening to their music.

　　At modern museum in Sweden, you can put on costumes provided⁵ by the Stockholm Opera.

　　At New York's American museum of natural history recently, you could helped make a bone-by-bone reproduction of the museum's stegosaurus, a beast that lived 200 million years ago.

　　As these examples show, museum are reaching out to new audiences, particularly the young, the poor and the less educated members of the population.

　　As a result, attendance⁶ is increasing.

　　Many museums are changed on appearance.

　　Some of the old, gray museums have been rebuilt, and the newer ones are open and modern in their architecture.

　　Inside, there is modern light, color and sound.

　　Instead of display everything they own, museum directors show fewer objects and leave open spaces where visitors can gather and sit down.

　　They also bring together in one display a group of objects drawn⁷ from various parts of the museum in an effort to represent the whole lifestyle of a region⁸ or a historical period.

　　In one room, for instance⁹, you may find materials, clothing, tools, cooking pots, furniture and art works¹⁰ of particular place in time.

　　More and more museum directors are realizing the people learn best when they can somehow become part of what they are seeing.

　　In many science museums, for example, there are no guided tours.

　　The visitor is encouraged to touch, listen, operate and experiment so as to discover scientific principles for himself.

　　He can have the experience of operating a spaceship or a computer.

　　He can experiment with glass blowing and paper making.

　　The purpose is not only to provide fun, but also to help people feel at home in the world of science.

　　The theory is that people who do not understand science, will probably fear it, and those who fear science will not use it to best advantage.

　　Many museums not provide educational services and children's departments.

　　In addition to the usual displays, they also offer firm showings and dance programs.

　　Instead of being places that one should visit, they are places to enjoy.

　　A3. Now listen again, and complete the outline according to the information given on the tape.

　　B. Keywords. amusing¹¹, confuse, understand, French,canoe.

　　Vocabulary. squid, deposit¹².

　　Now listen to two short stories. In each of the stories, there is one person who makes a fool of himself.

　　Listen carefully and try to fill in the words in the charts below.

　　Well, I had quite an amusing time in Greece on one holiday because I confused the word for "Good morning" which is "Kalimera",

　　and "squid" is "Kalamari".

　　So foe¹³ few several days, I was going around smiling broadly at people, saying "squid" to them.

　　And I couldn't understand why they look at me as if I was totally crazy until someone pointed¹⁴ out.

　　I was in France on holiday, staying in a friend's cottage.

　　And one day, we decided¹⁵ to go for a trip on the river, so we went along to a place on the river where you could hire canoes¹⁶.

　　And a friend, who prided himself on being rather good at speaking French, went in to hire the canoes.

　　We decided we needed three, so he asked for "trois canneurs", which he thought was the French for "three canoes".

　　We got our canoes ; we spent the afternoon on the river ; we came back.

　　And Stephen went in to return canoes and collect the deposit he'd paid on them.

　　And as he walked in the door, they said, "Ah, hello, Mr Troiscanneurs...".

　　C. Keywords. trip, Brazil, street vendors¹⁸, unusual things, fortune teller¹⁹, eating, France, performer, portrait.

　　Vocabulary, vendor¹⁷, fortune-teller, specialty²⁰.

　　C1. In this part, you are going to hear two people talking about Brazil and France.

　　While listening, pay special attention to the interesting things they can see or do on streets in both countries.

　　Then complete the chart by filling in the missing information.

　　Hi, Cathy. Welcome back.

　　How is your trip to Brazil?

　　Oh, I loved it every minute of it.

　　Brazil is so different from any place I've been ever to.

　　And there are so much to see there.

　　Yeah, well, how is it different?

　　Well, you can find all sorts of street vendors in this cities.

　　I went to some street markets where they sold really unusual things like special powders that attract men or objects to cure snake bite. Wow.

　　And in one city I went to, I got my fortune told on the street.

　　Oh, yeah? Yeah, the fortune-tellers use shells to tell you fortune.

　　They throw the shells on a cloth and the way they land tells about your future.

　　Huh. I have never heard of that before.

　　Mmm, but my favorite street activity was eating.

　　In Bahia, you can buy these round cakes made of bean flours and filled with hot spices.

　　they are fried²¹ and they are delicious. Hum.

　　They are a speciality²² there.

　　Well, that sounds great.

　　You know, I remember that when I went to France two years ago, I saw some pretty unusual things on the street, too.

　　Really, like what?

　　Well, in Paris, you could watch all kinds of street performers.

　　There were folk singers with guitars, classic²³ musician. Oh, wow!

　　Sometimes you could even see actors performing in plays. That sounds like a lot of fun. Oh, it is.

　　You really see all sorts of things on the street of Paris.

　　In fact, you can even have your portrait painted right on the street. Wow.

　　Yeah, the art students do them to practice drawing and painting.

　　Did you have your portrait down there? Yeah, I did.

　　In fact, I had done it twice.

　　C2. Now listen to the dialogue again and answer the following questions with keywords.

1 privileged   

adj.享有特权的；特许的，专用的；秘密的，保密的；幸运的

参考例句：

• Those in authority were in a privileged position. 有地位者自有特权。
• a privileged Wasp background 享有特权的盎格鲁&dash1;撒克逊裔白人新教徒出身

2 metropolitan   

adj.大城市的，大都会的

参考例句：

• Metropolitan buildings become taller than ever.大城市的建筑变得比以前更高。
• Metropolitan residents are used to fast rhythm.大都市的居民习惯于快节奏。

3 missing   

adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的

参考例句：

• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具，看有无丢失。
• All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了，就短他一个。

4 harmless   

adj.无害的，无恶意的

参考例句：

• This experiment was harmless to the animals.这个试验不会对动物造成伤害。
• He was a harmless sort.他是一个不怀恶意的人。

5 provided   

conj.假如，若是；adj.预备好的，由...供给的

参考例句：

• Provided it's fine we will have a pleasant holiday.如果天气良好，我们的假日将过得非常愉快。
• I will come provided that it's not raining tomorrow.如果明天不下雨，我就来。

6 attendance   

n.出席，出席人数，护理，照料

参考例句：

• The attendance of this class never dropped off.这个班的出席人数从未下降。
• The young man danced attendance on his rich aunt.这个年轻人小心侍候他有钱的姑妈。

7 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

8 region   

n.地区，地带，区域；范围，幅度

参考例句：

• The students went to study the geology of that region.学生们去研究那个地区的地质情况。
• It is unusual to see snow in this region.这个地区难得见到雪。

9 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！

10 works   

n.作品，著作；工厂，活动部件，机件

参考例句：

• We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。

11 amusing   

adj.有有趣的，好玩的

参考例句：

• The girl was amusing herself with a doll.那女孩在玩洋娃娃自娱。
• He related some amusing stories in his childhood to his children.他向孩子们述说了他少年时代的一些趣事。

12 deposit   

n.定金，存款，矿藏；vt.使沉淀，寄存，储蓄

参考例句：

• There is too much deposit in a bottle of wine.酒瓶里有太多的沉淀物。
• The hotel requires a deposit for all advance bookings.旅馆规定凡预订房间都要先付订金。

13 foe   

n.敌人，仇敌

参考例句：

• He knew that Karl could be an implacable foe.他明白卡尔可能会成为他的死敌。
• A friend is a friend;a foe is a foe;one must be clearly distinguished from the other.敌是敌，友是友，必须分清界限。

14 pointed   

adj.尖的，直截了当的

参考例句：

• He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
• She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。

15 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

16 canoes   

n.小而轻的舟，独木舟( canoe的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This is the Rolls-Royce of canoes. 这是独木舟中的极品。
• Paddles are used especially to propel canoes and kayaks. 短桨特别用于划独木舟和小艇。 来自《简明英汉词典》

17 vendor   

n.卖主；小贩

参考例句：

• She looked at the vendor who cheated her the other day with distaste.她厌恶地望着那个前几天曾经欺骗过她的小贩。
• He must inform the vendor immediately.他必须立即通知卖方。

18 vendors   

n.摊贩( vendor的名词复数 )；小贩；（房屋等的）卖主；卖方

参考例句：

• The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
• At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓

19 teller   

n.银行出纳员；(选举)计票员

参考例句：

• The bank started her as a teller.银行起用她当出纳员。
• The teller tried to remain aloof and calm.出纳员力图保持冷漠和镇静。

20 specialty   

n.(speciality)特性，特质；专业，专长

参考例句：

• Shell carvings are a specialty of the town.贝雕是该城的特产。
• His specialty is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。

21 fried   

adj.油煎的；油炒的

参考例句：

• I ate everything fried.所有油炸的我都吃。
• I prefer fried peanuts.我选择炸花生。

22 speciality   

n.专业，专长，名产，特产

参考例句：

• Silk is the speciality of this village.丝绸是这村子的特产。
• His speciality is English literature.他的专业是英国文学。

23 classic   

n.经典作品；adj.经典的，一流的；古典的

参考例句：

• The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
• The football match was a classic.那场足球比赛堪称典范。