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in this section, you will hear a mini-lecture. you willhear the lecture once only. while listening, takenotes on the important points. your notes will not bemarked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture. when the lecture isover, you'll be given two minutes to check yournotes, and another 10 minutes to complete thegap-filling task. now listen to the mini-lecture.
good morning. we'll continue with our introduction of american minorities. today's focus is onchinese americans. for many years it was common in the united states to associate chineseamericans with restaurants and laundries. people did not realize that the chinese had beendriven into these occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that used to face them inthis country. the first group of chinese came during the california gold rush of 1849. likemost of the other people there, they had come to search for gold. in that largely unoccupiedland, they stated a claim for themselves by placing markers in the ground. however, eitherbecause the chinese were so different from the others or because they so patiently that theysometimes succeeded in turning a seemingly worthless mining claim into a profitable one,they became the scapegoats of their envious competitors. they were harassed in many they were prevented working on their claims; some localities even passed regulationsforbidding them to own claims. therefore, these chinese had to seek out other ways ofearning a living. some of them began to do the laundry for the white miners; others set upsmall restaurants. there were almost no women in california in those days, and the chinesefilled a real need by doing this “woman's work”. some others went to work as farmhands or asfishermen. in the early 1860's, a second group of chinese arrived in california. this time, theywere imported as work crews to construct the first transcontinental railroad. the work was sostrenuous and dangerous, and it was carried on in such a remote part of the country, that therailroad company could not find other laborers for the job. as in the case of their predecessors,these chinese were almost all males and they encountered a great deal of prejudice. thehostility grew especially
in this section you will hear everything once carefully and then answer the questions ons 1 to 5 are based on an the end of the interview, you will be given 10seconds to answer each of the following 5 listen to the interview.
interviewer (w): well, mr. fox. would you pleasedescribe your feelings towards criminals?
superintendent(m): it is true to say there arecriminals, certain types of criminals who policemenhave...er...i have to be very careful with what i say.
w: umm.
m: you see, i know a...a person who has been caught so many times that he's...he becomespart and parcel of the station.
w: umm. he's been brought in all the time.
m: he's always in and he's a cheerful sort of character. and it's his way of life. and this sort ofpeople of course...are people that you...well, i say, have an affinity with, that's not the rightword to use, but you have a closeness with, you know.
w: they are part of your work, aren't they?
m: you know, old sam is always in. and you can always guarantee that old sam is always you can always guarantee that old fred will do something stupid about a week beforechristmas so that he can spend christmas in a certain prison.
w: which he likes.
m: which he likes because he has a good christmas. then, of course, you go to the other endof the scale where you have a hard-core minority who are the professional criminals. and ofcourse, one has no sympathy for them.
w: british policemen are not armed, that is they do not carry guns. how do policemen feelabout this?
m: i don't think the average policeman really thinks about it, you know. i honestly think he doesnot think about it at all. i am sure he did, he would probably be a worried man.
w: umm.
m: the reason i say that is this, that the average policemen in this country feels that theaverage englishman or britisher is such a person that the use of arms and that sort of thing isforeign to his nature.
w: um, he just wouldn't think of using a pistol or something.
m: of course, it is true to say that there are certain elements in the world whoare...er...resorting to firearms.
w: the organized professional criminals?
m: the organized professional criminals, this sort of people. well, of course, one takes one'schances which you don't think about, you know?
w: but your impression is that england is not a violent society.
m: well, i don't think we are a violent people. you see, i think as a nation, if i can put it thatway, we are...er...we love compromise, you know?
w: umm.
m: everything we do is a compromise and i think in that...er... because of that i think probablywe are not so violent.
w: have you faced a man with a weapon for instance?
m: i haven't faced a man with a weapon. i have had an occasion where i had a man hehas...er...locked himself into a house and he wouldn't come out and he was threatening peoplewith all sorts of things.
w: what did you do in that particular case?
m: well, you just go and sit down and have a chat with him. you talk to him. you start talkingoutside the building and you walk in and you eventually get to the bottom of the stairs andyou talk and talk and you try to build up some understanding or some common point, somecommon denominator between you.
w: understanding?
m: understanding...once you do that then you have this...
w: you mean you have to get his trust first?
m: i think so.
w: this is what you did on this particular occasion?
m: yes, and i hope this doesn't sound pompous?
w: no.
m: and this is it and of course, everything works out quite well. you have got to be patient.
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in this section, you will hear everything once carefully and then answer the questions thatfollow. questions 6 to 7 are based on the followingnews. at the end of the news item, you will be given10 seconds to answer each of the two listen to the news.
this month reader's digest is publishing its 1,000thissue. the magazine boasts a mammoth circulationof 41 million worldwide, reaching 48 countries and ispublishing in 19 languages. recently, it held a galaparty in new york city with a futuristic theme. the robot greeting partygoers to reader'sdigest's celebration of the publication of its 1,000th issue is not really high tech, just an actorhiding behind a wall with a microphone. and some of the futuristic trends showcased at thisparty don't seem all that new. the car of the future is no ingenious hybrid running oninnovative fuel, it is a gas-guzzling mercedes suv and some of the furniture in the home of thefuture has a distinctly 1960s look. reader's digest?founders dewitt wallace and his wife lilalaunched the magazine in 1922 with a mission: to help new immigrants learn how to becomeamerican citizens. they reprinted condensed articles from around the country. articles thatheralded the individual's triumph over adversity, but in as few words as possible. professordon ranly, head of the magazine department at the university of missouri's school ofjournalism, says brevity was mr. wallace's genius. question 8 is based on the following the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the question. now listen tothe news. the european union is not on its knees, said jean-claude juncker, prime minister ofluxembourg and president of the european council at the recent summit in washington. yet,several days earlier, mr. juncker declared in brussels the continent is in a state of deep crisisover the failure of european leaders to agree on the union's budget. failure to find commoneconomic ground came just weeks after voters in france and the netherlands dealt, what someobservers call, a lethal blow to the union's proposed new constitution. and they say the firstcasualty of europe's latest crisis is eu's further expansion. questions 9 and 10 are based onthe following news. at the end of the news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer each ofthe two questions. now listen to the news. india's textile exports to western countries havesurged following the abolition of global quotas earlier this year. the old quotas limited theamount of textiles any country could export to another. india's textile and garment exports toeurope between january and may rose by 11 percent compared with the same period last year,and to the united states by more than 20 percent. however, india has only a four percentshare in the global textile and garment market -- far behind china. indian exporters say somewestern retailers have begun increasing purchases from india partially to offset any futureappreciation of the chinese yuan, which beijing allowed to rise by two percent recently. butexporters such as mr. hinduja warn that the indian industry must introduce economies of scaleand better technology to remain competitive. officials estimate that india's exports will risenearly four times, to $50 billion by 2010, up from $13.5 billion last year.
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