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A、Because it makes him embarrassed. B、Because he hates strangers in shops. C、Because it is always time-consuming. D、Because tele
A、Because it makes him embarrassed. B、Because he hates strangers in shops. C、Because it is always time-consuming. D、Because tele
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2023-01-28
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问题
W: Bill, do you know Stephen Fry?
M: Not personally, but I know of him. Stephen Fry is an English writer and comedian and is well known for being extremely intelligent and very knowledgeable about many things cultural, historical and linguistic.
W: Yes. He knows a lot about something. I wish I were half as knowledgeable as he is!
M: I wish I were a quarter as knowledgeable!
W: Stephen Fry is also known as a technophile.
M: I know that. He loves technology, but it seems he’s not a fan of the telephone. He said the telephone was an old technology and a really annoying blip in our communications.
W: Really? Telephone has made a great contribution to human society.
M: Yeah, we are all beneficiary of telephone.
W: But why does he dislike telephone?
M: Well, as soon as an English person speaks, another English person despises them.
W: So, what is it about the English person’s voice that leads others to despise them?
M: Yes. You know, there is a lot of information about people that you get from their voice. From the way that they speak and the vocabulary they use, you can make a judgment about their age, level of education and class.
W: Class? Well, class used to be a lot more important in British society but there are still different prejudices and negative feelings related to the relationship between the classes.
M: Exactly. In Britain, we talk about three classes: upper class, middle class and working class. The family into which you are born dictates your class. So hearing someone’s voice on the telephone might make you think something negative about someone based on very old-fashioned ideas of class. For Stephen Fry, it is embarrassing and awkward to learn personal information from phone voice.
W: So Stephen Fry may be a technophile, but he’s not a fan of the phone!
M: Right. He hates being on the telephone to people, especially strangers in shops and things like that. What makes it worse is that telephone conversations happen in real time. So you have no time to really think about it.
W: Agree.
M: But do you think he’s right?
W: Well, actually, I don’t like to talk to strangers on the phone very much myself, but that’s just me. But I do think that although the class divisions in British society are much less obvious and much less important than in the past, we still do make judgements about people based on how they speak. And I afraid those judgements can often be completely false.
6. What is the feature of a technophile?
7. What are the speakers’ attitudes towards telephone?
8. What forms the judgement about people on phone calls?
9. What can we learn about class in Britain society?
10. Why does Stephan Fry hate telephone talk?
选项
A、Because it makes him embarrassed.
B、Because he hates strangers in shops.
C、Because it is always time-consuming.
D、Because telephone has been out of date.
答案
A
解析
题目问Stephan Fry为何讨厌打电话。录音中男士提到,对Stephan Fry来说,从电话中的人声得知一个人的情况会使他尴尬,而后女士说所以Stephan Fry不喜欢电话。因此选A项“因为电话交谈使他尴尬”。B项“因为他不喜欢商店里的陌生人”,录音是说他不喜欢通过电话与商店里的陌生人交谈,所以B项排除。C项“因为这总是很耗时”,录音未提到打电话的耗时问题。D项“因为电话已经过时了”,虽然Stephan Fry认为电话是个老旧的技术(that’s old technology) ,但这与他讨厌打电话的原因关联不太,从电话中得知别人的信息才是让他尴尬、讨厌的原因,故可排除D项。
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