新通用大学英语综合教程第四册听力及答案 Unit 4.docVIP

Unit 4 Looking Good Unit Goals Discuss appropriate dress Comment on fashion and style Evaluate ways to change one’s appearance Describe what makes a person beautiful Write a description of people Lesson 1 Lead-in TV Documentary: Selling Them Short A. The report mentions some problems short men face. What are they? buying clothes, getting a date, seeing around people in elevators, seeing a movie screen, driving cars B. Use words from the box to complete the statement. You will not use all of the words. 1. mature and respected 2. submissive, childish, weak Video Script Lynn Sherr: Imagine a world where nothing fits. Where pants are too long. Craig: The crotches are down to here, the seat’s down to here, the pants are up to there. Lynn Sherr: Where elevators are filled with giants. Rob: You kind of get cramped. And you know, it’s kind of hard to breathe sometimes. Lynn Sherr: Where driving a car means your feet don’t reach the pedals. David: You have to fumble down here, and some have bars underneath and some have these little electronic things on the side you have to figure out. Lynn Sherr: And where you can’t see the movie screen, let alone find a date to there. lst woman: I don’t care hair color, eye color, skin color-they need to be tall. Sorry. Lynn Sherr: Welcome to the world of short men. Ralph Keyes, 5’7”, wrote a book about height. Ralph Keyes: We just assume anybody we’re looking up to has power…has power over us. Lynn Sherr: We put Chris and Debbie, colleagues here at ABC News, in front of our camera, posing at different heights. Half the shots showed Chris as the taller of the pair. Chris: The air’s kind of thin up here. Lynn Sherr: In the other half, Debbie was taller. Then we gave the photos to students at Fairleigh Dickinson University, and asked them to tell us a story about what was going on. When Chris was taller, the adjectives used to describe him were mature and respected. When Chris was shorter than Debbie, they called him submissi