基础综合英语听力材料邱东林.doc

目录　　　 Unit one Education　　 ****************Part one Problems with us Education***************　　 Listening Script one 　 When I was in college I had an English major and for a while I considered going into teaching. While I was exploring the possibility of becoming a teacher, I did a lot of thinking about the way that the education system in the United States is run. And I disagree with a lot of the ways that things seem to happen and have happened for a long time in our educational system.　　 Uh ... people dont seem to recognize various kinds of intelligence; they seem to just want to give standardized tests and peg you for what you are capable of very early on your education. Ive always felt that a lot of classes that you’re forced to take in high school are not really geared towards what you are going to be doing. There’s very little emphasis on your own special interests. Uh ... everybody’s sort of treated like theyre the same person. Everything is very generalized. There’s a lot of uh ... there’s a lot of pressure on students to be as well-rounded as possible. I think being well-rounded isn’t really possible because it becomes impossible to develop any one part of yourself, um ... to any great degree. And as a result people can’t get into good colleges if they, yaknow, haven’t, yaknow, scored the ... the right thing on the math section of SAT, even if they are brilliant writers, and vice versa. You know, um... people just really are not given a chance, I think, in a lot of cases.　 Another thing that really disturbs me is the way that students are separated from each other. I got involved with vocational education, uh ... which means that the kids go out to a technical or trade school for part of the week, and then they come back to the home school for the other part of the week and they take their academic classes. However, those kids are kept separate from the rest of the school almost as if they’re below them. The