跟讀練習: RE3 Unit 2A - 通過影片學習英語口語

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Reading 2A What is beauty?
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The search for beauty spans centuries and continents.
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Paintings of Egyptians dating back over 4,000 years show both men and women painting their nails and wearing makeup.
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On the other side of the globe,
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the ancient Maya of Central America considered crossed eyes beautiful and hung little balls between children's eyes to develop this look.
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In 18th century France, wealthy noblemen wore large wigs of long white hair to make themselves attractive.
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In cultures throughout the world, people have gone to extreme lengths to achieve beauty.
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Today, people continue to devote a lot of time and money to their appearance.
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According to a recent report, one out of three consumers globally say they are spending more money on beauty and health care products than ever before.
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Worldwide, sales of makeup, dieting, hair and skin care products, as well as gym memberships and cosmetic surgery,
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generate billions of dollars every year.
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And there is at least one good reason for the desire to be attractive.
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Beauty is power.
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Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are perceived as friendlier.
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But what exactly is beauty?
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Trying to define it is difficult, and yet we know it when we see it.
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Or so we think.
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Beauty is health, says one psychologist.
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It's a billboard saying, I'm healthy.
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I can pass on your genes.
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And our awareness of it may start at a very early age.
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In one set of studies, six-month-old babies were shown a series of photographs.
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The faces in the pictures had been rated for attractiveness by a group of college students.
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In the studies, the babies spent more time looking at the attractive faces than the unattractive ones.
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The idea that even babies judge appearance makes perfect sense to many researchers.
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In studies done by psychologists,
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such as Victor Johnston at New Mexico State University and David Perrette at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland,
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men regularly showed a preference for women with certain features, larger eyes, clear skin, fuller lips,
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and a smaller nose and chin.
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Another study suggests that women prefer men with large shoulders and a narrow waist.
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According to scientists, the mind unconsciously tells men and women that these traits, the full lips, clear skin,
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strong shoulders, equal health, and genetic well-being.
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In other words, it's a fundamental part of human nature to look for these qualities in a mate.
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Not everyone agrees with this notion, however.
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Our hardwiredness can be altered by all sorts of expectations, predominantly cultural, says C.
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Loring Brace, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan.
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What is considered attractive in one culture might not be in another.
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Look in most Western fashion magazines, for example, and the women on the pages are thin.
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But is this the perfect body type for women worldwide?
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Douglas Yu, a biologist from Great Britain, and Glenn Shepard, an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley,
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say no. For them, what is considered beautiful is subjective and varies around the world.
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Ewan Shepard found in one study,
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for example, that native peoples in southeast Peru preferred shapes regarded as overweight in western cultures.
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Take another example.
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In every culture, one's hairstyle sends a clear message.
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In the huli culture of Papua New Guinea, men grow their hair long as a symbol of health and strength.
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boys in this culture learn from a young age to style and decorate their hair,
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a behavior more commonly associated with the opposite gender in many cultures.
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It is also the men in this culture who are the objects of beauty.
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For certain festivals and celebrations, men dress up and paint their faces.
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The more colorful a man is, the more masculine and attractive he is considered.
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For better or worse, beauty plays a role in our lives,
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but it is extremely difficult to define exactly what makes one person attractive to another.
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Although there do seem to be certain physical traits that are considered universally appealing,
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it is also true that beauty does not always conform to a single, uniform standard.
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In the end, beauty really is, as the saying goes, in the eye of the beholder.

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該影片包含較多長句和學術詞彙,如“genetic well-being”“anthropologist”等,對發音和理解都有一定挑戰。以下是針對該影片的shadow speech練習建議:

步驟1:先聽後讀,攻克生詞

第一遍完整聽影片,標記聽不懂的詞彙(如“wig”“cosmetic surgery”),結合上下文猜測詞義後查閱詞典。重點練習“crossed eyes”“fuller lips”等描述外貌的短語,確保發音準確,為後續跟讀打下基礎。

步驟2:逐句跟讀,模仿語調

將影片按句子分割,每句播放後暫停,立即跟讀。注意長句的停頓(如“Studies suggest that good-looking people make more money, get called on more often in class, and are perceived as friendlier.”),模仿說話人的升調與降調,尤其關注“Beauty is power.”這類短句的重音位置,提升口語流暢度。

步驟3:段落複述,強化記憶

完成逐句跟讀後,嘗試複述整段內容。例如,描述不同文化的審美差異時,可結合“Western fashion magazines”“native peoples in southeast Peru”等案例,用自己的話組織語言。這一步能幫助學習者鞏固詞彙,同時訓練邏輯表達能力。

通過以上步驟,不僅能提高英語發音,還能掌握影子跟讀法的核心技巧。建議選擇專業的shadowing site,利用其逐句播放功能進行針對性練習,提升學習效率。

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