英语听力精选进阶版 14195

BBC Learning English 

Video Words in the News  

20  March  2013 

Culture shock for Amazon student  

Transcript: 

From the  rainforest  to the concrete jungle … 

New York is where the son of the traditional chief of an  indigenous¹ community  

in Brazil has come to study. His dream is to speak English well and become a 

documentary film - maker². 

It is a far cry from the village in the Amazon where Nilson Tuwe Huni Kui' s 

people live.  

Tuwe carries the  responsibility  of making his people's culture a nd problems 

known to the world. 

Vocabulary: 

rainforest  

a tropical area where it rains a lot and there are lots of trees 

concrete jungle  

city with many buildings 

indigenous community  

group of people who come from a particular area, and lived there before any 

other people 

a far cry from 

extremely different from 

responsibility  

obligation, duty  

Exercise: 

Use one of the words or phrases below to complete e ach of these sentences from 

news report s.   

Note that you may have to change the form of a word to complete the sentence 

correctly.  

rainforest  / concrete jungle / indigenous community  / a far cry from / 

responsibility  

1.  Primary schoolteacher Antonio Clima was with his class of 11 - year- olds 

when the building starting shaking, bricks came loose, and a piece of the 

roof ledge³ collapsed⁴. "I was very calm as I felt it was my  __________  to be 

strong for the children, but they were screaming and crying. It's all been 

too much for them." 

2.  Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has approved a law giving __________ 

the  right to be consulted about development on their lands.  

3.  Once a mainly desert outpost, Mecca's Grand Mosque⁵ is now encircled by a 

__________  made up of high- rise apartment blocks and five- star hotels.  

4.  The further you drive up winding⁶ roads, the worse your mobile phone signal 

gets. It's hard to spot a telephone tower anywhere, but for miles on end you 

can see emerald green paddy fields peppering the hills. It is peacefully quiet 

-  __________ the hustle⁷ and bustle⁸ of Jakarta. 

5.  More than 60% of Liberia's virgin⁹ __________  has been granted to logging 

companies since Nobel Prize winning President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, came 

to power in 2006, according to a Global Witness report. It says the majority 

of these have been unregulated private contracts . 

Answers: 

1.   Primary schoolteacher Antonio Clima was with his class of 11 -year-olds when the 

building starting shaking, bricks came loose, and a piece of the roof ledge 

collapsed. "I was very calm as I felt it was my responsibility  to be strong for  

the children, but they were screaming and crying. It's all been too much for 

them." 

2.  Peruvian President Ollanta Humala has approved a law giving  indigenous 

communities the right to be consulted about development on their lands.  

3.   Once a mainly desert outpost, Mecca's Grand Mosque is now encircled by a 

concrete jungle  made up of high-rise apartment blocks and five-star hotels.  

4.   The furth er you drive up winding roads, the worse your mobile phone signal gets. 

It's hard to spot a telephone tower anywhere, but for miles on end you can see 

emerald green paddy fields peppering the hills. It is peacefully quiet - a far cry 

from  the hustle and bu stle of Jakarta. 

5.    More than 60% of Liberia's virgin rainforest  has been granted to logging 

companies since Nobel Prize winning President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, came to 

power in 2006, according to a Global Witness report. It says the majority of 

these have been unregulated p rivate contracts . 

1 indigenous   

adj.土产的，土生土长的，本地的

参考例句：

• Each country has its own indigenous cultural tradition.每个国家都有自己本土的文化传统。
• Indians were the indigenous inhabitants of America.印第安人是美洲的土著居民。

2 maker   

n.制造者，制造商

参考例句：

• He is a trouble maker，You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼，你不要跟他在一起。
• A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。

3 ledge   

n.壁架，架状突出物；岩架，岩礁

参考例句：

• They paid out the line to lower him to the ledge.他们放出绳子使他降到那块岩石的突出部分。
• Suddenly he struck his toe on a rocky ledge and fell.突然他的脚趾绊在一块突出的岩石上，摔倒了。

4 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

5 mosque   

n.清真寺

参考例句：

• The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
• Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前，清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。

6 winding   

n.绕，缠，绕组，线圈

参考例句：

• A winding lane led down towards the river.一条弯弯曲曲的小路通向河边。
• The winding trail caused us to lose our orientation.迂回曲折的小道使我们迷失了方向。

7 hustle   

v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌)

参考例句：

• It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
• I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。

8 bustle   

v.喧扰地忙乱，匆忙，奔忙；n.忙碌；喧闹

参考例句：

• The bustle and din gradually faded to silence as night advanced.随着夜越来越深，喧闹声逐渐沉寂。
• There is a lot of hustle and bustle in the railway station.火车站里非常拥挤。

9 virgin   

n.处女，未婚女子；adj.未经使用的；未经开发的

参考例句：

• Have you ever been to a virgin forest?你去过原始森林吗？
• There are vast expanses of virgin land in the remote regions.在边远地区有大片大片未开垦的土地。