全国商务英语专业四级考试样题听力录音文字稿.PDF

附录3 全国商务英语专业四级考试样题 听力录音文字稿 The National Testfor Business English Majors-Band 4 (Sample Listening Test Transcripts) Section one Mark: So John. John: Yeah. Mark: You are working on a dissertation for a PhD. That is for an American university? John: Yeah, that is right. It is a university in San Francisco, California. Mark: And what is the area? John: I am studying… It is philosophy but with an emphasis on Buddhist studies, you know, and Buddhist philosophy. Mark: In any particular country? John: Well, yeah, I am mainly interested in Thailand even though I live in Japan, you know. I like Thailand’s version of Buddhism better. Mark: Is that Theravada? John: Yeah. That is right. Mark: Ok. So are you studying any particular temple or any particular aspect of Buddhism? John: Yeah. I am doing research on a couple of temples there in Thailand. One is called Suen Mok, which is pretty famous. It has got a very good program for ten-day meditation retreats and they are geared for teaching foreigners meditation – meditation techniques. Mark: What is the other temple? John: The other one is north of Bangkok about three hours’ bus ride and it is called Tam Krabok. Mark: Uh-huh. John: And it is… Well it does different things but one thing it does is it helps addicts recover, you know. It has probably cured about one hundred thousand addicts; mostly heroin or opium addicts, you know, and so I am really interested in how meditation can replace an addiction. You know what I mean? Mark: Wow! So they are like teaching people to meditate and overcome the problems that caused them to become addicted to drugs? John: Right. Exactly. Mark: Wow! Isn’t that a wonderful thing ! A hundred thousand ! John: Yeah. Mark: Wow! That is really amazing. You have been to the temple? John: Yeah. I have interviewed several of the head monks or some of the other people there and it is just a