B1U8课前听力

英语点学 2022-06-09

新世纪大学英语综合教程1

Unit 8

Task 1: Focusing on the Main Ideas

Choose the best answer to complete each of the following sentences according to the information contained in the listening passage.

1. The talk mainly talks about ________.

A) how to improve one’s communication skills with people of the opposite sex

B) what has gone wrong in men’s and women’s communication with each other

C) howmen and women should communicate to each other

D) what research has shown about gender differences in communication

2. The popular view about how men and women communicate is that ________

A) they differ greatly in how they communicate

B) they need to communicate more with one another

C) they can both be aggressive in their communication

D) they can both be patient in their communication

3. Research has shown that ________.

A) men and women come from different cultures

B) men and women havea lot in common in their communication

C) women are more loving than men in their communication

D) men are less patient than women in theircommunication

4. What really differs between men and women is that ________.

A) they heardifferent messages from each other’s talk

B) they enjoy different status in society

C) they talk about different topics

D) they read different books

5. When a husband shares with his wife a problem about his work, the wife would be morelikely to ________.

A) offersome solutions to his problem

B) criticizehim for not working hard enough

C) empathize aboutthe amount of work he has to do

D) help him finish his work at home

Task 2: Zooming In on the Details

Listen to the recording again and fill in each of the blanks according to what you have heard.

Although many people think that there are huge differences in what menand women say and in how they communicate, research has actually shown thatthere are ________________in their way of communication. It has also been shown that both men and womencan be ________________,patient or impatient in their communication. ________________ between the genders is that theyhear different things ________________. Women are more likely to be sensitive to ________________ or read between the lines about ________________ while men are more likely to readbetween the lines about ________________. For example, when a man tells his wife thathe is tired but still hasn’t finished all his work, his wife’s reply of “Iknow, it just sometimes seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day” wouldbe interpreted by the man as ________________ him for getting too little done although hiswife intends to ________________ about all the work he has to do.

Task One: Focusing on the Main Ideas

1.D) 2. A) 3. B) 4. A) 5. C)

Task Two: Zooming in on the details

Although many people think that there are huge differences in what men and women say and in how theycommunicate, research has actually shown that there are very few gender differences in their way of communication. Ithas also been shown that both men and women can beaggressive or loving, patient or impatient in their communication. The real difference between the genders is that theyhear different thingswhenthe other is talking. Women are more likely to be sensitive tohidden messages or read between the lines about social implicationswhile men are more likely to read between the lines about status implications. For example, when a man tells his wife that he is tired but stillhasn’t finished all his work, his wife’s reply of “I know, it just sometimesseems like there aren’t enough hours in the day” would be interpreted by theman as criticizing him for getting too little donealthough his wife intends to sympathizeand empathizeabout all the work he has to do.

Today I’m going to talk to you about gender differences in communication.Now research has shown that there are actually very few differences in the waymen and women talk. In the public consciousness there’s this idea that thereare huge differences between what men say and what women say and how mencommunicate and how women communicate. And it’s actually been shown that bothmen and women can be aggressive or loving, patient or impatient in theircommunication.

What the real difference is between the genders is what they hear when theother is talking. Women are much more likely to be sensitive to hidden messagesor read between the lines about social implications. Men are much more likelyto read between the lines about status implications. And this comes from theirdifferences in society. So if you have this difficult conversation at home,where the woman says or where the man says, “Wow, I’m so tired, I don’t knowhow I’m going to get all my work done” and the woman says, “Oh, I know, it justsometimes seems like there aren’t enough hours in the day.” And the man says, “Thereyou go again, criticizing how much I get done”. In this situation the woman wassensitive to the social implications to what the man said and she was trying tocommunicate a message about how she sympathizes and empathizes about all thework that he has to do whereas what the man heard was a confirmation of you’renot getting enough done. So it is in this situation that it’s important toremember that we might hear different things or we might be more sensitive todifferent messages and what the other person says.