跟读练习: RE2 Unit 11B - 通过视频学习英语口语
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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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为何这个视频是绝佳的口语练习素材?
这个关于“说谎界限”的视频不仅内容有趣,还非常适合用来练口语。它的语速适中,用词贴近日常,包含大量实用的从句和连接词,比如“Presumably, I wanted to know... but I also wanted to...”,能帮助学习者熟悉自然的英语表达逻辑。对于想要提升“英语影子跟读”或“雅思口语练习”的同学来说,这样有故事性又有思考深度的素材,既能练发音又能积累观点,一举两得。
拆解自然表达,学习地道口语
我们来看看视频里的几个精彩句子,分析它们为何听起来自然:
- “The experience led Ariely to develop a lifelong interest in the study of lying and other forms of dishonesty.” 这里用“led sb. to do”结构简洁地表达“促使某人做某事”,比生硬的“make sb. do”更符合英语思维,适合在“shadow speech”练习中模仿其流畅度。
- “Most of us lie but only a little.” 简单的“but”转折,却精准传达了“说谎但不多”的意思,口语中这样的短句最能体现native speaker的表达习惯,练习时要注意语气的轻缓。
- “Cheating is easier, he says, when we can justify our behavior.” 插入语“he says”的位置很巧妙,让句子显得自然不刻意,这也是“提高英语发音”时需要注意的节奏点。
简单有效的影子跟读练习法
想要用好这个视频,试试“repeat-and-record”循环法:首先播放视频片段(比如30秒),专注听发音和语调;然后暂停,用“英语影子跟读”的方式立刻重复,尽量模仿语气和节奏;最后用手机录音,对比自己和原音的差异。每天花15分钟练习,不仅能提升“shadowspeaks”的熟练度,还能为“雅思口语练习”积累实用表达。比如练到“we want to see ourselves as honest”时,注意“honest”的重音和“as”的弱读,这样慢慢就能说出更地道的英语。
什么是跟读法?
跟读法 (Shadowing) 是一种有科学依据的语言学习技巧,最初开发用于专业口译员的培训,并由多语言者Alexander Arguelles博士普及。这个方法简单而强大:您在听英语母语原声的同时立即大声重复——就像是一个延迟1-2秒紧跟说话者的影子。与被动听力或语法练习不同,跟读法强迫您的大脑和口腔肌肉同时处理并模仿真实的讲话模式。研究表明它能显着提高发音准确性,语调,节奏,连读,听力理解和口语流利度——使其成为雅思口语备考和真实英语交流最有效的方法之一。































