英文 C1 聽力練習 第 2 回
English listening practice, C1, round 2 — 6 recordings, 30 questions
每一段都是母語錄音。建議先到網站聽、作答，再回來看逐字稿。
內容
第 1 段 你聽到兩位同事在討論一門訓練課程。
逐字稿（聽完再看）
旁白You hear two colleagues discussing a training course.
你聽到兩位同事在討論一門訓練課程。
女So, was the leadership course worth the two days?
那麼，領導力課程值得花那兩天嗎？
男The trainer clearly knew her stuff, I'll give her that. But so much of it was common sense dressed up in jargon.
講師顯然很懂，這點我承認。可是很多內容只是用術語包裝過的常識。
女That's what Sarah said. Though she found the role-plays useful.
莎拉也這麼說。不過她覺得角色扮演很有用。
男Funnily enough, so did I — they were the one part that felt like real life.
說也奇怪，我也這麼覺得，那是唯一感覺像真實情況的部分。
第 2 段 你聽到一位作家談為傳記做研究。
逐字稿（聽完再看）
旁白You hear a writer talking about researching a biography.
你聽到一位作家談為傳記做研究。
女When I began researching the composer's life, I assumed his letters would be the most revealing source. In fact they were rather guarded — he knew they might be published one day. It was his household accounts that told me the most: what a person spends money on, and when, says a great deal about their priorities. I've since become slightly obsessed with receipts.
我開始研究這位作曲家的生平時，以為他的信會是最能透露真相的資料。事實上那些信寫得很保留，他知道有一天可能會出版。告訴我最多的反而是他的家用帳本：一個人把錢花在什麼上、什麼時候花，很能說明他重視什麼。從那之後我就有點迷上收據了。
第 3 段 你聽到兩個朋友在討論城市新的自行車道。
逐字稿（聽完再看）
旁白You hear two friends discussing their city's new cycle lanes.
你聽到兩個朋友在討論城市新的自行車道。
男I know the drivers are furious, but the new cycle lanes have changed my commute completely. I actually arrive at work in a good mood.
我知道開車的人很火大，可是新的自行車道徹底改變了我的通勤。我現在到公司時心情都很好。
女I'm all for them in principle. What bothers me is that nobody asked the shopkeepers on the high street. Some of them say they've lost half their trade since the parking went.
原則上我完全支持。讓我在意的是，沒有人問過大街上的店家。有些人說停車位取消後，生意少了一半。
男That's a fair point. The council could have handled it much better.
這說得有道理。市議會本來可以處理得好很多。
第 4 段
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女Hello. I'm going to talk about the Northern Star, a merchant ship that sank off the coast of Cornwall in 1762. It was discovered in 2014 by two amateur divers who were actually looking for a different wreck. The ship lies at a depth of about thirty metres, which means divers can only work for around twenty minutes at a time. Visibility is often poor, so much of the work is done by touch. The most surprising discovery so far has been a box of oranges, still recognisable after more than two hundred and fifty years, thanks to the cold, airless mud. We've also recovered over four hundred pieces of china, which tell us the ship was returning from Portugal. One of the biggest challenges is protecting the site from treasure hunters, so its exact location is kept secret. Next summer we plan to use underwater cameras to create a three-dimensional model, so that the public can explore the wreck online.
大家好。我要談談「北極星號」，一艘 1762 年在康瓦耳外海沉沒的商船。它在 2014 年被兩位業餘潛水員發現，他們其實是在找另一艘沉船。船沉在大約三十公尺深的地方，所以潛水員一次只能工作二十分鐘左右。能見度常常很差，所以很多工作是靠觸摸完成的。目前最令人意外的發現是一箱柳橙，在冰冷缺氧的泥巴保護下，兩百五十多年後仍然認得出來。我們也找回了四百多件瓷器，顯示這艘船是從葡萄牙返航的。最大的挑戰之一是保護遺址不被尋寶者破壞，所以確切位置是保密的。明年夏天我們打算用水下攝影機建立一個立體模型，讓大眾可以在網路上探索這艘沉船。
第 5 段
逐字稿（聽完再看）
男My guest is Rosa Lind, an architect known for her school buildings. Rosa, what first drew you to designing schools?
今天的來賓是以設計校舍聞名的建築師羅莎·林德。羅莎，最初是什麼吸引你設計學校？
女Honestly, a bad experience. My own secondary school was a grim concrete block with tiny windows, and I was miserable there. Years later, as a young architect, I visited a school in Denmark full of light and wood, and the children seemed completely different. I thought: buildings can't be irrelevant to how people feel.
老實說是一段不好的經驗。我念的中學是一棟陰沉的水泥建築，窗戶很小，我在那裡過得很痛苦。多年後我還是年輕建築師時，去參觀丹麥一所充滿光線和木頭的學校，那裡的孩子完全不一樣。我心想：建築不可能和人的感受無關。
男What do you do first on a new project?
接到新案子時你先做什麼？
女I spend at least a week in the existing school, just watching. Where do children gather at break? Which corridors get blocked? Teachers often tell me one thing, but the way people actually move tells me another.
我至少花一週待在原本的學校裡，就只是觀察。下課時孩子聚在哪裡？哪些走廊會塞住？老師常告訴我一件事，但人們實際的動線告訴我的是另一件事。
男Is there a feature you always include?
有沒有什麼設計你一定會放？
女Places to be alone. We design schools as if every child wants to be in a crowd, but many of them don't. A small window seat or a quiet corner can make a huge difference to a shy child.
可以獨處的地方。我們設計學校時好像每個孩子都想待在人群裡，但很多孩子並不想。一個窗邊的小座位或一個安靜的角落，對害羞的孩子影響很大。
男Some critics say your buildings are too expensive.
有些批評者說你的建築太貴了。
女They can cost more at the start, I admit. But they use far less energy, and the materials last longer, so over thirty years they usually work out cheaper. The problem is that budgets are set for a single year.
我承認一開始可能比較貴。但它們耗能少得多，材料也更耐用，所以三十年下來通常反而比較便宜。問題在於預算是一年一年編的。
男What's been your biggest mistake?
你最大的失誤是什麼？
女An open-plan library I was very proud of. It looked wonderful in photographs, but it was so noisy that nobody could read in it. We had to add glass walls a year later. I learnt to trust photographs less and teachers more.
一間我很得意的開放式圖書館。照片上看起來很棒，可是吵到沒人能在裡面看書。一年後我們只好加裝玻璃牆。我學到要少相信照片，多相信老師。
第 6 段 說話者 1
逐字稿（聽完再看）
旁白Speaker 1
說話者 1
女I'd always been rather dismissive of people who couldn't manage their money. Then my business failed, and I lost almost everything. It's humbling to realise how quickly it can happen. These days I volunteer at a debt advice centre two evenings a week — I want to make sure nobody feels as alone as I did.
我以前一直很看不起不會理財的人。後來我的生意失敗，幾乎失去了一切。發現事情可以來得這麼快，讓人很謙卑。現在我每週兩個晚上在債務諮詢中心當志工，我想確保沒有人像我當時那麼孤單。
旁白Speaker 2
說話者 2
男I used to think travel was a waste of money — why go abroad when you can watch documentaries? Then my company sent me to Vietnam for a month, and I came back a different person. When I remember the lectures I used to give my friends about it, I can only laugh at myself.
我以前覺得旅行是浪費錢，看紀錄片就好，何必出國？後來公司派我去越南一個月，回來後我像變了一個人。想起以前對朋友說的那些大道理，我只能笑自己。
旁白Speaker 3
說話者 3
女I was firmly against having children; I thought it would end my career. Then, at thirty-eight, I found myself pregnant. I won't pretend the first year was easy, and I still don't know whether I've made the right choices about work. Ask me again in ten years.
我以前堅決不要孩子，覺得那會終結我的事業。後來三十八歲時我懷孕了。我不會假裝第一年很輕鬆，而且到現在我還不知道自己在工作上的選擇對不對。十年後再問我吧。
旁白Speaker 4
說話者 4
男My father had told me for years to retrain, and I'd ignored him. It took a stranger on a long train journey — a nurse who'd changed career at fifty — to make me actually listen. I'm thankful every day that I sat in that seat.
我爸多年來一直叫我去學新技能轉行，我都不理他。結果是長途火車上的一個陌生人——一位五十歲才轉行的護理師——讓我真的聽進去。我每天都很感謝自己坐了那個位子。
旁白Speaker 5
說話者 5
女I'd always laughed at people who worried about diets and wellness. Then I was diagnosed with diabetes, and suddenly what I ate really mattered. I was rude to a lot of people who tried to help me early on, and I still cringe when I think about it.
我以前總是嘲笑那些在意飲食和養生的人。後來我被診斷出糖尿病，突然間吃什麼變得很重要。一開始很多人想幫我，我卻對他們很沒禮貌，現在想起來還是很尷尬。