大学英语听力b2-U4-listening_Unit_4_Psychology_in_Our_Daily_Life.doc

新编大学英语视听说教程 Book 2 Unit 4 Psychology in Our Daily Life Part 1 Listening, understanding and speaking Listening I 1. FTTFFF 2. 1. prison 2. the digging 3. ten 4. the money - the gun 5. plant the potatoes Script: A potato farmer was sent to prison just at the time when he should have been digging the ground for planting the new crop of potatoes. He knew that his wife would not be strong enough to do the digging by herself, but she could manage to do the planting; and he also knew that he did not have any friends or neighbors who would be willing to do the digging for him. So he wrote a letter to his wife which said, Please do not dig the potato field. I hid the money and the gun there. Ten days later he got a letter from his wife. It said, I think somebody is reading your letters before they go out of the prison. Some policemen arrived here two days ago and dug up the whole potato field. What shall I do now? The prisoner wrote back at once, Plant the potatoes, of course. Listening II 1 4,5 2. 1) the lift service 2) engineers 3) Add more lifts 4) faster ones 5) too expensive 6) a psychologist 7) Place a large mirror 8) simple 9) inexpensive Script: The manager of a large office building received many complaints about the lift service in the building. He hired a group of engineers to study the situation. They suggested two solutions: 1. adding more lifts of the same type; 2. replacing the lifts with faster ones. The manager decided that both suggestions were too expensive. So he asked a psychologist to study the problem. The psychologist noticed that many people felt angry and impatient because they thought they had to wait too long for the lifts. However, the psychologist found that they had to wait only a relatively short time. It occurred to him that the reason they felt angry and impatient was that they had nothing to do while they were waiting for the lifts. He suggested a simple, inexpensive solution to the manager. This was adop