Unit 1 Task 1: 【答案】 A.
Event Year
Kenny G was born. 1956
He toured Europe with his High School band. 1971 He made his first solo album. 1982
He won released his most successful album. 1993 He won the Best Artist Award. 1994
He broke the world record for playing a single note. B． 1) F 2) F 3) T
1997 【原文】
Saxophonist Kenny G is now the world's most successful jazz musician. He was born in 1956 as Kenny Gorelick in Seattle, USA, and he learned to play the saxophone at an early age. When he was just 15 years old, he toured Europe with his High School band. After studying at Washington University he started his career as a musician. In 1982 he signed for Arista Records and made his first solo album Kenny G.
Success came slowly at first, but during the 1990s Kenny became well-known on the international scene. He released Breathless, his most successful album so far in 1993, and in 1994 won the Best Artist Award at the 21st American Music Awards held in Los Angeles.
As well as making records, he also found time to play in front of another famous saxophone player—US President Bill Clinton—at the \for the President\concert in Washington, and to break the world record for playing a single note (45 minutes and 47 seconds!) at the J & R Music World Store in New York in 1997.
During the last 20 years, Kenny G has played with superstars
like Aretha Franklin, Michael Bolton and Whitney Houston, and he has sold more than 36 million albums worldwide... and he hasn't sung a note!
Task 2: 【答案】 1) c 2) d 3) c 【原文】
Senn: Everybody always has this misconception that female policemen don't do the same thing as men do, you know. I've worked..
Interviewer: That's not true
Senn: That is not true! I've worked my share of graveyard shifts, and, you know, split
shifts, and double-back and no days off, and...
Interviewer: Uh-huh...
Senn: ...as much as the next guy. There's no distinction used if there's a male or female officer on duty. Two men on duty—I'll refer to as two men, ’cause in my field there's no difference between the genders. We're still the same. Okay, if there's two men on duty—just because one's a female, she still gets in on the same type of call. If there's a bar disturbance downtown, then we go too. There's been many times where being the only officer on duty—that's it! It’s just me and whoever else is on duty in the county. They can come back me up if I need assistance. And it does get a little hairy. You go in there, and you have these great big, huge monster-guys, and they're just drunker than skunks, and can't see three feet in front of them. And when they see you, they see fifteen people, and you know... But still, there's enough...
Interviewer: That's where the uniform is important, I should imagine.
Senn: Sometimes, you know. If somebody is going to…or has a bad day, and they are
out to get a cop, you know, it doesn't matter if you're,
you know, boy, girl, infant or anything! When you've got that cop uniform on, they'll still take it out on you. Interviewer: Yeah...
Senn: But I think there's one advantage to being a female police officer. And that is the fact
that most men still have a little respect, and they won't smack you as easy as they would one of the guys. Interviewer: Uh-huh...
Senn: But I'll tell you one thing I’ve learned—I'd rather deal with ten drunk men that one drunk woman any day of the week! Interviewer: Well, why is that
Senn: Because women are so unpredictable. You cannot ever predict what a woman's going to do.
Interviewer: Hmm...
Senn: Especially, if she's agitated, you know. Interviewer: Emotionally upset.
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