新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案 Unit 9.doc

Unit 9 History’s Mysteries Unit Goals Talk about the out-of-the-ordinary Present a theory about a past event Discuss how believable a story is Evaluate the trustworthiness of news source Write about one mysterious phenomenon Lesson 1 Lead-in On-the-Street Interview: I don’t believe everything I read… A. Check each statement True or False. 1. False 2. False 3. True 4. False 5. True B. Use information from the video segment to complete each sentence. 1. the Internet, newspapers; television 2. newspapers 3. Austria, the USA, Great Britain 4. spam, or unknown sources Video Script Interviewer: Do you use the Internet at all? Mauro: Yes I do. Quite a lot, in fact. Interviewer: Do you use it to gather news, to ... like a newspaper, but ... ? Mauro: Well, I surf around a lot, actually. I tend to look for new sites and get information that is not so common in newspapers, for example. Interviewer: And do you feel that when you get information from the Internet, that you can trust it to be true? Do you feel comfortable that it’s real? Mauro: You can never trust information, even from the newspapers. The newspapers sometimes print information that is not true for the mere fact that it comes from sources that are not true. And the same goes for the Internet. Maiko: I get news from Internet more than a newspaper or watching TV I think it’s, in terms of speed in how fast it gets to people, I think Internet is very good. In terms of credibility, I think; well, I think it’s almost the same thing, Internet, newspaper, and news on TV Rob: I probably put too much faith in what I read although I try to use various sources in getting my news. That’s one way I judge to know if what I’m reading is ... is, you know, the truth or not. Christiane: I get my news over the Internet every day. I actually get three different newsletters on a daily basis. I get one from Austria, I get one from the USA, and I get one from Great Britain. So I get international news and thus can also evalu