跟讀練習: RE2 Unit 11B - 通過影片學習英語口語
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Track 22, Reading 11B.
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The Limits of Lying.
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Lying is a part of human nature, but how far will people go?
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Psychologist Dan Ariely became interested in dishonesty about 15 years ago.
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During a long-distance flight, he came across an IQ test in a magazine.
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He answered the first question and checked the answer key to see if he got it right.
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He then took a quick look at the next answer before looking back at the quiz.
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He continued in this way through the whole test.
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Not surprisingly, he scored very well.
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When I finished, I thought, I cheated myself, he says.
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So why did he do it?
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Presumably, I wanted to know how smart I am, but I also wanted to prove I'm this smart to myself.
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The experience led Ariely to develop a lifelong interest in the study of lying and other forms of dishonesty.
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To find out more about lying habits, Ariely developed a series of studies known as the Matrix Experiments.
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In the experiments, volunteers completed a test with 20 simple math problems.
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They were given five minutes to solve as many as they could.
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For each correct answer, they were told they would receive a sum of money.
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When the time was up, the volunteers counted the number of problems they solved correctly.
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They were then asked to destroy their answer sheets in a shredder.
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After reporting their own test scores, they were paid accordingly.
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However, there was something the volunteers didn't know.
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Their answer sheets were never actually destroyed by comparing actual test
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scores to reported scores arieli's research team found out how many volunteers lied
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and how much they lied by the results of the 40 000 people who participated in the experiment nearly 70
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percent lied about their test score.
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On average volunteers said they solved six problems but it was closer to four.
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The results are similar across different cultures.
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Most of us lie but only a little.
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The question Ariely finds most interesting is not why
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so many of us lie but rather why we don't lie a lot more.
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In one version of the experiment participants were offered significantly more money for each correct answer.
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However, this did not cause them to cheat more.
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Here we give people a chance to steal lots of money and people cheat only a little bit.
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So something stops us, most of us, from not lying all the way, Ariely says.
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The reason, he believes, is that we want to see ourselves as honest
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because honesty is a value taught to us by society.
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This is why most of us place limits on how much we lie.
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We may be able to come up with an excuse for taking post-it notes from an office fairly easily.
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But it is much more difficult to come up with an excuse for taking $10,000," Ariely explains.
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The extent of our lying is determined largely by what is acceptable by society.
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Cheating is easier, he says, when we can justify our behavior.
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為何這個影片是絕佳的口語練習素材?
這個關於“說謊界限”的影片不僅內容有趣,還非常適合用來練口語。它的語速適中,用詞貼近日常,包含大量實用的從句和連線詞,比如“Presumably, I wanted to know... but I also wanted to...”,能幫助學習者熟悉自然的英語表達邏輯。對於想要提升“英語影子跟讀”或“雅思口語練習”的同學來說,這樣有故事性又有思考深度的素材,既能練發音又能積累觀點,一舉兩得。
拆解自然表達,學習地道口語
我們來看看影片裡的幾個精彩句子,分析它們為何聽起來自然:
- “The experience led Ariely to develop a lifelong interest in the study of lying and other forms of dishonesty.” 這裡用“led sb. to do”結構簡潔地表達“促使某人做某事”,比生硬的“make sb. do”更符合英語思維,適合在“shadow speech”練習中模仿其流暢度。
- “Most of us lie but only a little.” 簡單的“but”轉折,卻精準傳達了“說謊但不多”的意思,口語中這樣的短句最能體現native speaker的表達習慣,練習時要注意語氣的輕緩。
- “Cheating is easier, he says, when we can justify our behavior.” 插入語“he says”的位置很巧妙,讓句子顯得自然不刻意,這也是“提高英語發音”時需要注意的節奏點。
簡單有效的影子跟讀練習法
想要用好這個影片,試試“repeat-and-record”迴圈法:首先播放影片片段(比如30秒),專注聽發音和語調;然後暫停,用“英語影子跟讀”的方式立刻重複,儘量模仿語氣和節奏;最後用手機錄音,對比自己和原音的差異。每天花15分鐘練習,不僅能提升“shadowspeaks”的熟練度,還能為“雅思口語練習”積累實用表達。比如練到“we want to see ourselves as honest”時,注意“honest”的重音和“as”的弱讀,這樣慢慢就能說出更地道的英語。
什麼是跟讀法?
跟讀法 (Shadowing) 是一種有科學依據的語言學習技巧,最初開發用於專業口譯員的培訓,並由多語言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。這個方法簡單而強大:您在聽英語母語原聲的同時立即大聲重複——就像是一個延遲1-2秒緊跟說話者的影子。與被動聽力或語法練習不同,跟讀法強迫您的大腦和口腔肌肉同時處理並模模擬實的講話模式。研究表明它能顯著提高發音準確性,語調,節奏,連讀,聽力理解和口語流利度——使其成為雅思口語備考和真實英語交流最有效的方法之一。
































