[00:07.89]Carl has left San Francisco and is now working at Disneyland.
[00:13.95]He is answering visitors' questions.
[00:18.10]A:Excuse me.Can you tell me the way to the Sleeping Beauty Castle?
[00:23.56]C:Yes.Go straight ahead till you see the entrance.
[00:28.63]It's about four hundred yards down this street.
[00:33.59]B:Excuse me.How can I get to Bear Country?
[00:38.74]C:Do you see the big gate over there? B:Yes.
[00:43.10]C:Go through the gate
[00:46.13]and you'll find the entrance to Bear Country on the other side.
[00:50.86]B:Thanks very much.
[00:53.81]D:Excuse me.Are the horse-drawn streetcars free?
[00:59.38]C:Yes,they're free.But there's usually a long line.
[01:04.65]You can join the line behind the clock tower.
[01:08.81]D:Where is the Tomorrow Land Building?
[01:12.75]C:The Tomorrow Land Building?It's behind the Sleeping Beauty Castle.
[01:18.71]Just take this street round to the right of the castle.
[01:23.46]It's about 400 yards from here.
[01:27.41]E:Excuse me,please.Where's the nearest men's room?
[01:32.55]C:Go down this street till you get to the clock tower.
[01:36.91]Then you'll see the sign for the rest rooms.
[01:40.68]Lesson 2 1 Reading comprehension Read the passage and answer this question:
[01:55.83]How did Disney get the idea for his first cartoon character?
[02:01.47]WALT DISNEY
[02:04.21]Walt Disney,the great film-maker,was born in Chicago in 1901.
[02:11.58]Disney's greatest wish was to be a famous artist.
[02:16.62]When he was a young man,
[02:19.96]he went to a newspaper office in Kansas City where he was living.
[02:25.74]He had some friends who worked in the office there.
[02:30.39]He took along some of his pictures in the hope of getting a job there.
[02:36.03]However,he had no luck.They looked at his pictures and said,"Sorry,young man.
[02:43.68]We don't think there is anything of interest in your pictures."
[02:48.65]Disney's friends tried to encourage him."Don't worry,Walt.
[02:54.39]We like your pictures.They're very good.
[02:59.07]We're sure you'll be well-known as an artist before long."
[03:04.11]Disney did not lose heart.He continued to draw lots of pictures.
[03:10.59]His family was poor and he used to sit in the family garage
[03:17.04]and draw pictures there.
[03:20.39]One day a mouse came into the garage and played on the floor.
[03:26.03]Disney stopped drawing and watched the mouse.
[03:30.39]The mouse came towards him,so he gave the mouse a piece of bread.
[03:36.42]Then the mouse came and sat on his desk.
[03:40.66]Day after day the mouse came back and was given more bread.
[03:46.51]In this way over several days the artist and his mouse became good friends.
[03:53.27]Some years later,Disney moved to the west coast of the USA.
[03:59.54]He tried to get work as an artist,but still he was unsuccessful.
[04:05.89]One day he remembered the mouse that used to come out in his father's garage.
[04:12.13]He picked up his pencil and started to draw.
[04:16.78]Day after day he experimented
[04:21.15]and drew different pictures of the mouse that he had known.
[04:26.11]At last he was pleased with one of his pictures of the mouse.
[04:31.26]He called it Mickey Mouse.Disney's success as a cartoon-maker had begun.
[04:38.41]He soon drew other cartoon characters like Donald Duck
[04:43.56]and during the 1920s and the 1930s he made scores of cartoons about them.
[04:51.13]These cartoons were all short ones.
[04:55.08]Before the days of television,
[04:58.87]they used to be shown in cinemas all over the country
[05:03.91]before the main film was shown.
[05:07.67]Later Walt Disney made longer films.
[05:12.03]All of them were liked very much by children.
[05:16.71]Disney died in 1966.But the studios which he started are still busy today,
[05:24.86]producing more and more interesting films.
[05:29.59]Lesson 3 1 Reading comprehension
[05:39.93]DISNEYLAND
[05:42.57]The company that Walt Disney started does not just make films
[05:48.13]In 1955 Walt Disney himself opened the first Disney park.
[05:54.98]This was Disneyland in Los Angeles on the west coast of the USA.
[06:01.04]Later,Disney World was opened on the east coast,in Florida,in 1971.
[06:08.90]It cost between $500 and $600 million to build.
[06:15.38]Tokyo Disneyland opened in Japan in 1983,
[06:21.44]and Euro Disney opened in France in 1992.
[06:27.00]All the Disney parks are operated by the same company.
[06:32.28]The workers have very strict orders.
[06:36.33]They must wear clean shoes and clean trousers.
[06:41.16]The men are not allowed to have beards.
[06:45.21]If the workers have long hair,it must be tied back.
[06:50.49]They always smile,and are always friendly and polite to visitors.
[06:56.34]The parks are the cleanest parks that you can imagine.
[07:01.30]In Disneyland you can find all the characters from Walt Disney's films.
[07:07.65]The Sleeping Beauty Castle is a favourite place for visitors.
[07:13.01]You get a wonderful view from the top of the tower.
[07:17.68]You can see as far as the coast.
[07:21.73]Many of the streets in Disneyland
[07:25.39]are built to look like streets in the USA in the 1890s.
[07:31.06]People walk around wearing nineteenth-century clothes.
[07:36.02]The Tomorrow Land is very interesting.
[07:40.07]You can go inside a spaceship and driveone too.
[07:45.03]In the Future House,everything is worked by the computer.
[07:50.36]If you press one button,a machine cuts the grass in the garden.
[07:56.00]If you press another,your meal is prepared and heated for you;
[08:01.57]then it is brought on along a very small railway line
[08:06.84]to your seat in front of your television
[08:10.79]so that you don't even have to stand up when you get what you need.
[08:15.96]Words and expressions Unit 1
[08:20.09]Disneyland castle the Sleeping Beauty Castle
[08:23.05]n.迪斯尼乐园 n.城堡 睡美人城堡
[08:26.02]ahead yard bear Bear Country
[08:29.35]adv.向前 n.码 n.熊 熊国
[08:32.68]horse-draw streetcar tower
[08:35.57]用马拉的 市内有轨电车 塔
[08:38.45]the Tomorrow Land Building men's room sign
[08:41.63]未来国大厦 男厕所 n.符号,标记
[08:44.80]Walt Disney cartoon film-maker Chicago
[08:48.63]沃尔特.迪斯尼 n.动画片 影片制作人 n.芝加哥(美国城市)
[08:52.45]Kansas City take along in the hope of well-known
[08:56.39]堪萨斯城(美国城市) 随身带着 怀着……的希望 出名的,众所周知的
[09:00.32]lose heart garage mouse(mice) day after day
[09:04.69]失去信心 n.汽车间 n.鼠,耗子 日复一日地
[09:09.07]in this way unsuccessful Mickey Mouse cartoon-maker
[09:13.20]用这种方法 adj.不成功的 米老鼠 动画制作者
[09:17.32]character Donald Duck studio Snow White
[09:20.95]n.人物,角色 唐老鸭 n.工作室 白雪公主
[09:24.58]Disney World Euro Disney operate strict
[09:28.46]迪斯尼世界 欧洲迪斯尼 vt.经营,管理 adj.严格的
[09:32.34]beard imagine view button
[09:35.83]n.胡须 vt.想象,设想 n.眺望观察 n.钮扣
[09:39.32]heat bring on magic
[09:42.10]n.热vt.把…加热 使…前进 adj.有魔力的
[09:44.88]the Magic Castle carriage
[09:47.21]神秘城堡 火车车厢 |