Unit 4-Conversation 1

Kate: So, what did you think of the movie?

Mark: It was good but I thought it was too long.

Kate: Yes, me too.

Kate: Hey, where's my bike? I don't believe it! It's gone!

Mark: It was next to mine, you chained it up!

Kate: Someone's stolen it! Oh, how could they!

Mark: Oh, Kate!

Kate: How could someone have done this! The creep!

Mark: It's a really mean thing to do, steal a bike.

Kate: It was a mountain bike and it cost a fortune —I don't have the money to buy another one.

Mark: Listen, I'll go down the street and see if I can see anyone with it. Why don't you go into that shop and see

if they've seen anything suspicious? I'll be back in a minute.

Kate: OK.

Kate: Well?

Mark: No luck. What did they say in the shop?

Kate: I asked the shopkeeper if she'd seen anything —

Mark: And?

Kate: She said she hadn't. I guess it was a long shot. She advised me to report it to the police. But according to

her, bikes get stolen all the time around here.

Mark: Listen, let's get back so you can report it.

Kate: I've got no bike. I'm just so upset!

Mark: It's not far to college. Come on!

Unit 4-Conversation 2

Mark: So did you ring the police?

Kate: Yes. I went to the police station to report it.

Mark: What did they say?

Kate: No one's found it. This woman said that Oxford has the fifth highest rate of bike theft in the country!

Mark: You're joking!

Kate: That's what she said.

Mark: What else did she say?

Kate: She told me that sometimes you do get bikes back — the thieves use them and then abandon them, apparently, and then people find them and report them.

Mark: So you might get it back.

Kate: I hope so, Mark, I really do. It's just too much, you know? But ... um ... what else? She told me to go to this sale they have of abandoned bikes. She thinks I might find it there. But it's only every two months, I can't wait till then! Honestly, Mark, I'm really furious!

Mark: You can always buy a cheap bike on eBay.

Kate: Hello ... Speaking ... You found it! Where was it? Is it ...? Oh, that's fantastic news! There was a lamp and a basket on it ... Right ... OK, thank you, I'll be in tomorrow morning to pick it up. Unbelievable! This guy found it!

Mark: Brilliant! Was that the police?

Kate: Yes. What they said was, someone dumped it outside this guy's backyard.

Mark: That's so strange!

Kate: The lamp's been stolen and the basket.

Mark: Forget about it! You're lucky to get it back!

Unit 4-Outside view

Reporter：The trade in endangered animals is booming, as this collection of items seized by border agents shows. Ivory（象牙） and rhino horn（犀角）, trophy（纪念品，战利品） animals and Chinese medicines, it's a multimillion pound black-market industry. This year, Sky News has filmed with rhinos in South Africa, clearly seeing the damage done by poachers（猎者）, and it's thought the number of rhinos killed there might reach a record high this year.

Interviewee 1：Poaching levels are at... you know, unprecedented levels now, you know, they've gone through the roof. The rhino ... they're anticipating（预感） 1,000 rhinos to be slaughtered(屠杀） in South Africa, er, this year alone.

Reporter：In the past year, UK customs officials have seized 2.5 million illegal items. That’s ten times more than the year before. Included in that, almost 4,000 kilos of illegally imported medicines, 93 endangered live animals, and over 300 items made from ivory.

Interviewee 2：Here we've got a pair of, er, snakeskin shoes of some sort, look like python（巨蟒）.

Reporter：The items held in this warehouse（仓库） have also been smuggled（偷运） illegally, often in the form of packages sent by courier（送快信的人） or parcel post, and intercepted（拦截） at the UK's ports and airports. Endangered animals brought in alive are rehomed across the country.

Interviewee 3：There's a huge trade in reptiles, tortoises for example are enormous problems, and turtles, often confiscated（没收）. And it's extremely difficult trying to find homes for these, these, these sorts of animals.

Reporter：Many of these items will be passed on for education or research. But the rhino horn will be destroyed, and prevented from ever hitting the black market again. Harriet Hadfield, Sky News.

Unit 4-Listening in

News report

Over the past few years, the true crime genre（类型，种类） has grown in popularity in the US. First, there was the podcast Serial, which revisited the case of Adnan Syed. He was imprisoned（下狱） for the 1999 murder of his high school classmate and former girlfriend, which he claims he did not commit. Then Netflix came out with the documentary series Making a Murderer. The series follows the real-life story of Steven Avery，a man who was wrongly imprisoned for 18 years for a crime he didn’t commit. But soon after he was released from prison, he was arrested（逮捕） for the murder of a photographer. Again, he claims that he didn’t commit the crime.

Some fans are even investigating the crimes and trials themselves. They have gathered and analyzed evidence and shared theories on other possible suspects. Both Serial and Making a Murderer have had impacts on the cases involved. Syed was given another chance to present evidence to prove he is innocent after his case became a pop cultural phenomenon, and more than 500,000 people asked for Steven Avery to be freed after the release of Making a Murderer.

1. What is the news report mainly about?

2. What do the cases in the programs have in common?

Passage 1

Patrick I read a funny story today in the paper - true story.

Steve Go on, then.

Patrick OK. This 72-year-old guy stole a pair of trousers裤子 from a department store百货公司 in Paris. A security man saw him and alerted the police and they were waiting for him when he came out of the shop. The shoplifter started running, but the policeman soon caught up with him. The man then bit the policeman on his arm several times.

Steve He bit the policeman?

Patrick Yes - you have to remember, he was 72.

Steve I'd forgotten that.

Patrick Problem was, it didn't hurt the policeman at all, 'cause the guy had forgotten to put his false teeth in before he left home.

Steve Very funny!

Patrick And the moral of the story is -

Steve Always remember to wear your false teeth if you're going to bite someone.

Patrick That's good. I read a funny crime story the other day. Let's see ... yeah ... this guy... this guy robbed a supermarket somewhere in America -1 can't remember where exactly -anyway, he got away with about 4,000 dollars. The next week the local newspaper reported the story but said he'd stolen 6,000 dollars. The thief rang the newspaper office to complain. He said, "Look, I only took 4,000 dollars. I'm wondering if the supermarket manager took another 2,000 and said I'd taken it. I did not take 6,000, I promise you."

Steve He was probably telling the truth.

Patrick He probably was. Anyway, the newspaper managed to keep the guy talking while they rang the police. And the police traced the call - the guy was ringing from a phone booth - and they arrested him while he was still talking to the newspaper.

Steve That's good. Stupid guy! I've got another true story ... This - this - old guy was in court for some crime - and he fell asleep. His case began and his lawyer stood up and said, "My client pleads 恳请not guilty." The man suddenly woke up, but wasn't sure what was happening. He jumped up and shouted, "I plead guilty! I plead guilty!"

Patrick So what happened?

Steve The judge allowed him to plead not guilty.

Patrick That's the best, I think.

Passage 2

Presenter You're listening to Kevin Fallen and my topic for today is street crime. Being mugged is something that can happen to anyone - and it's a very frightening experience. So it's positive when you hear of someone who was attacked by a mugger and defeated them - especially when that person is a woman. Anna Black was attacked by a mugger. She's here to tell us about it. How long ago did this happen, Anna?

Anna Just over a week ago. The day it happened,

I was coming home from work a bit later than usual -1 think it was about seven. I was on my mobile phone, talking to my husband.

Presenter And it was still daylight?

Anna Yes. Anyway, suddenly, someone pulled my hair from behind - and at the same time they grabbed my mobile phone. Now, I'm a karate空手道 black belt -

Presenter Really!

Anna Yes, I practise three times a week - so I'm ready for situations like this.

Presenter I bet you are.

Anna Yes, I can react very fast. So as soon as this guy grabbed me, I did what you're told to do in these situations.

Presenter And what's that?

Anna I fell backwards onto him.

Presenter You fell backwards onto him!

Anna Yeah! I'm tall and quite heavy - so we both fell to the ground together.

Presenter Goodness!

Anna I er, yeah -1 was ready to hit him but then next thing I knew, two men had seized the guy. They were driving past and they, they stopped to help. They were big strong guys. They called the police who came in five minutes.

Presenter So the mugger was arrested?

Anna Yes, he was.

Presenter Do you think, if that hadn't happened, you could have injured him?

Anna Oh, I'd like to think so. I'm a black belt,

that's what I'm trained to do.

Presenter Well, it's great to hear of women coping处理 well in situations like this. Perhaps we should all learn karate.

Anna I think it's a good idea to have some kind of defence training. Yes, especially if you live in an area that isn't very safe.

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