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新视野大学英语(第二版)听说教程4_Passage部分_听力原文_(纯文本非截图)Unit1-Unit8
UNIT 1
The Dangers of Fame
You young people go crazy over famous people. Will you listen to me when I tell you your generation is wrong about this? Let me use an example to illustrate my point to you.
Marilyn Monroe, you might not even know who she is. Back in my day, when I was your age, she was a big movie star. But she wasnt born a movie star, no sir. She was a simple girl with beauty and innocence until she went to Hollywood to make movies. Thats right. Instead of living out a simple life of integrity and hard work or trying to develop a respectable name in her profession, she sought fame. Well, Ill tell you, she got her wish. She made her movies -- All About Eve in 1950, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes in 1953, Some Like It Hot in 1959, and more. She got into trouble throughout -- drugs, abuse.... All of this came crashing down on her head, and she died at an early age in 1962. Sad, really.
I hope that this example shows you the dangers of fame. Believe me, its best just to live a simple life.
UNIT 2
Charlie Chaplin
Some people stand out as truly special and one of a kind. Charlie Chaplin, a superstar of silent comedies and one of the great icons of the 20th-century film, is one of those unique people. Chaplin had a rotten childhood and an early start on stage, performing even as a child in vaudeville. He went to Hollywood in 1914 and began acting in silent comedies. By 1915, he controlled most aspects of his films, in which he usually appeared as a character called simply the Little Tramp: a lovably shabby dreamer with a bushy moustache, bowler hat and cane. Chaplin was one of the founders of United Artists Studios and was one of the first movie makers to have complete control over his features His best-known films include 1925s The Gold Rush, 1931s City Lights, and 1936s Modern Times. Famously outspoken and sympathetic to communism, Chaplin left the United States in 1952 because of increased political pressure. He settled in Switzerland, where he and his wife Oona r
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