新编大学英语视听说第三版BOOK 2 UNIT 6

Simon: Can?t I even eat bread?

Dr. Young: You can have some bread, but you can?t have any butter. Simon: How about fruit?

Dr. Young: Fruit is Ok, but don?t eat much because it?s too sweet. Simon: What about pizza and spaghetti? Dr. Young: No pizza and no spaghetti.

Simon: How about potatoes? Can I have potatoes? Dr. Young: No, potatoes are also fattening food. Simon: Oh, boy! It?s going to be a long six weeks!

Listening III 1. T F T F T T

2. foreign owners, foreign food aware, very good Time, effort slower, hurry shopping, sightseeing Script:

Visitors to Britain frequently complain about English food. But they do not really know what they are talking about because they rarely get a chance to eat it. Most of the restaurants in large towns have foreign owners and serve foreign food.

When visitors are invited to eat in an English home, theur hosts often feel they must offer them something foreign and exotic. Those of us who do know English food are aware that at its best it can be really very good. On the other hand it is true to day that sometimes it is terrible. Part of the problem is that we are not really interested in food-we eat to live; we do not live to eat. So we don?t generally spend the necessary time and effort needed to cook really good meals. We prefer food that is simple and easy to cook, or ready prepared food which only needs heating up before eating. Ou can find the best English food in the country away from the large towns, where life is slower and people are not in such a hurry. But, of course, most visitors some to London. They come because they are interested in shopping and sightseeing. They do not come because of food, so why should they complain about it? Listening IV 1 C D E

2 Television Meat and potatoes Sugar-filled biscuits, cakes and chips Because chemicals make the hamburgers look good

One can remain healthy without meat Script:

All right! Enough biscuits, cola, and chips! It seems that junk food is all that the children want to eat these days. Television controls their tastes. The kids see well-known personalities eating potato chips, candy, and other processed food, and they want to be like their heroes. How do they do it? They eat the same food. I wish there were more characters like old Popeye the sailor, who ate spinach and not chips.

Just because I like brown rice, beans, ad fresh vegetables, I don?t expect my children to eat this “health food”. I?m glad to cook traditional meals of meat and potatoes for them. I really can?t be too upset with the kids because most adults aren?t careful about what they eat. The other night, my

wife and I went to a party where there was plenty to drink but very little for us to eat. They served hot dogs and hamburgers. I can?t eat hot dogs, with all those preservatives, and hamburgers are filled with chemicals so that they look good. Besides the meat, they had sugar-filled biscuits and cakes, and, of course, chips. Terrible! I don?t want the world to change because of me, but I think that people should realize that there are alternatives to eating meat. They always tell me that I probably don?t get my essential proteins. But I feel better than ever and I?m sure that it?s because I?m vegetarian. I would really like to see more television advertisements which show the benefits of good, healthy, natural food.