专业英语四级听力讲座在线练习四
时间：2021-01-07 练习：次
Test Four
In this section you will hear a talk.
You will hear the talk ONCE ONLY.
While listening,
you may look at the task
on ANSWER SHEET ONE and write
NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS
for each gap.
Make sure what you fill in
is both grammatically
and semantically acceptable.
You may use the blank sheet
for note-taking.
You have THIRTY seconds
to preview the gap-filling task.
Now listen to the talk.
When it is over,
you will be given TWO minutes
to check your work.
The Great Life
Good morning, everyone.
I'm David Winston.
Today I'd like to say something
about the Cherokee beliefs
regarding the environment
and conservation.
We believe that we're a part
of what we call the Great Life.
And we feel that
within the Great Life,
there are three great laws of nature,
and those are the laws that tell us
how we have to live in harmony
with everything else.
The first law of nature is
that you don't take any life
without a real reason.
And a real reason would be for food,
for medicine,
and for protection.
But basically, life is sacred.
So we shouldn't kill needlessly.
That would absolutely
include plants.
And so to us, taking the life
of a plant is just
as grave a responsibility as
taking the life of an animal.
So for instance,
when you go to gather a plant,
you don't want to go and say,
〝Wow, here's a whole patch of plants,〞
and go and gather them all.
You gather a few,
and then you gather a few
from another spot,
leaving the majority of the plants
so that they can grow
and continue to provide
not only for themselves,
but for us,
and for our children,
and for their children.
The second law is
that everything we do should serve
the Great Life.
Well, what we mean is
that we believe
that there's one spirit
that fills all things, humans,
plants, rocks, whatever.
And the sum of all of that is
what we call
the Great Life.
And so we all are
part of this same Great Life.
And everything we do
affects the Great Life,
and everything that happens
within the Great Life
affects us.
So it's very, very important
that within the second law of nature,
that what we do will not harm
other parts of the Great Life.
Well, I could give a lot of examples.
And on a very personal, simple level,
an example could be,
for instance, lots of people might
go out and get an electric toothbrush.
Uh, maybe it works a little bit better.
It's certainly easier.
The toothbrush
does all the work for you.
But to use the electricity necessary
to power
that electric toothbrush requires coal
or nuclear power
that harms the air, the water,
it harms the Great Life.
The third law basically is
that we don't pollute
where we live.
And where we live is
not just our home.
It's not just
our intimate, small community.
It's not just our country.
It's this planet,
this sacred planet
we call the Earth.
We don't pour chemical wastes
down the drain
because they all wind up in the water.
So basically
we don't pollute the Earth.
Well, it might seem a little bit difficult
to live by those three laws today
in this industrialized society.
But we still have a lot of options.
There're small things that each one
of us can do,
things like recycling,
things like choosing
what we buy
and buying things carefully.
There are other things we can do.
Instead of using the car for every
short trip to the store, save them up
so we use the car as little as possible.
We can do things
like organic gardening.
There are
a lot of things that we can do
to bring these
laws into our lives.
And ultimately,
our lives really depend on these.
The Great Life can live
without us,
but we can't live
without the Great Life.
OK, this brings us to the end
of today's lecture,
thank you for your attention.
Now, you have TWO minutes
to check your work.
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