新视野大学英语(第三版)视听说3 音视频脚本(9)

nice: We got to see lots of amazing sights.

W3: Um, getting into university. It was really er, difficult ‘cause there was a, there’s (there were) a lot of applicants, um, at very high standard and I managed to er, get a spot.

W4: The best thing that happened to me this year was getting a job um, as a trainee solicitor at a firm in London. I’m really excited about it: It’s very difficult to get into and it’s um, like, the culmination of

a lot of hard work over a long time. So, I’m really happy about it.

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R = Radio presenter; C = Clip; P = Professor; M = Man

R: Welcome to Start the Day!

C: Hello. Can I help you? Your call is important to us. Hello. Can I help you? Sorry, all our operators are busy at the moment. Please hold.

M: They put you in a queue for ages, listening to this terrible music. When you finally speak to someone, you’re so angry, you just want to shout...

R: Anger. We all know the feeling. A report out last year shows that people are getting angrier. One in 10 people say that they’ve trouble controlling their temper. Traffic jams, airports, call centers, computer crashes - they can all leave us feeling angry, and anger is difficult to control. Or is it? Professor Miller from the Metropolitan University is here to tell us about two very different therapies to help deal with stress. First of all, destruction therapy. What’s that about?

P: Well, basically, the idea is that a lot of p eople, when they get angry, they don’t know what to do with their anger - they don’t deal with it very well. They just keep it inside. But, if you don’t deal with your anger, sooner or later it will explode. So, with destruction therapy, you use your anger to destroy something, but in a controlled way, and the idea is that if you do that, it helps you to feel better.

R: OK, I get angry a lot. Can destruction therapy help me?

P: Perhaps. We can try it. What we do is we take you to a place full of old cars. W hen we get there, I’ll give you a hammer, and you can use it to smash a car to pieces.

R: Really? Is it that simple? If I smash the car to pieces, will I feel better?

P: Yes, a little. But that’s only the beginning. Then, I’ll ask you to think about a situ ation in the past when you felt really angry. And when you think about that anger situation, you’ll hit the car much harder.

And the therapy will be much more satisfying. When we finish the session, you’ll feel much better. R: That’s amazing, and businesse s are using this kind of therapy in Spain, is that right?

P: Yes, there are some old hotels in Spain. You can pay to go and destroy the hotel. So, some companies who feel that their workers are stressed, or they need to build a team, send their workers to destroy the hotel. And it’s a good way for them to get rid of that stress. It works.

R: That’s incredible. But there’s another idea I want to ask you about. People say that laughter is the best medicine. And nowadays, laughter therapy is used in hospitals to help people with pain.

P: That’s right.

R: So, how does that work?

P: Well, if people laugh about something, they feel better. On average, children laugh up to 400 times

a day, but when we grow up, we only laugh about 17 times a day. And it5s not enough, because

when you laugh, your body produces chemicals - and these chemicals make you feel happier. And they also make you feel less pain. So, in Mexico, for example, they use laughter therapy in