Unit 6 FearPart II LISTENING AND SPEAKINGLesson A / ListeningSCRIPTTrack 6-1What are some of the things people are afraid of? A recent survey asked more than 1,000 people what they were afraid of and snakes are number one on the list. According to the survey, 51 percent of people are afraid of them. Next, the survey found that 40 percent of people are afraid of speaking in public. Only 11 percent of people said they are afraid of crowds, and just five percent of people are afraid of the dark. Mice, however, were quite high on the list—20 percent of people are afraid of them.SCRIPTTrack 6–21. I have an unusual fear. It happens to me when I’m on public transportation sometimes. I’m fine if there aren’t a lot of people, but if it’s crowded, I freak out a little. I can’t relax. Crowded subways are the worst. If I’m on a crowded car, I usually get off and wait for the next one.2. It’s strange; I like my classmates and I have no trouble talking to any of them. But every time I have to speak in front of the class, I get really nervous. I talk too fast, or I forget information. It’s frustrating. Once I start talking, I’m usually okay, but I have a really hard time at first.3. I don’t know why I’m afraid of them; I’m much bigger than they are, but they still freak me out. Mice just run so fast everywhere! Sometimes, I’ll see one run across the kitchen fl oor and I can’t go into the kitchen for hours. I can’t even set a trap for them. It’s crazy.ConversationTrack 6–3A: What’s something you’re afraid of?B: Nothing really. When I was a kid, I was scared of bugs, like spiders and roaches.A: Oh yeah. Me too. But some things still make me nervous.B: Really? Like what?A: Going to the dentist.B: Yeah, that freaks me out, too.Lesson B / Listening 1Exercise 1SCRIPTTrack 6-4Narrator:Journalist Sebastian Junger—who has reported from places like Afghanistan and Sierra Leone—talks about taking risks and controlling fear.Sebastin Junger:One of our primary emotions is fear. It is one of the worst emotional experiences we can have. Many people do almost anything they can to avoid it, but some actively seek it out. In many ways, doing things that make us afraid is crazy. No other animal intentionally risks its life for thrills or excitement, and yet humans do it all the time. We climb mountains, jump off bridges with parachutes, or kayak in dangerous waters.I used to work as a tree climber, removing old branches from trees. Many times I climbed as high as 24 meters, and then I had to cut six meters of tree above me. It was very dangerous and I had to make just the right cut so that the top of the tree fell forward rather than back on top of me. To deal with my fear, I would wait five or ten minutes before I made the cut. But I wasn’t waiting for courag e; I was waiting for emptiness. For those five to ten minutes, I would care and care and care, and then at some point, I would stop caring. Inside, I’d feel empty. Then I’d make the cut.I imagine that every skydiver who steps out of an airplane or every bungee jumper who jumps off a bridge experiences the same thing. Maybe we’re attracted to these sports not because they’re exciting, but because they give us the chance to face our biggest fear—that someday our lives will end. We’re the only animal that k nows this, and we’re the only one that seems to need to practice for it again and again. Questions:1. According to Sebastian Junger, why do we do things that make us afraid?2. How did Sebastian Junger deal with fear when he was cutting tall trees?1. parachute：降落伞2. kayak：皮划艇Exercise 2SCRIPTTrack 6-5Narrator:Journalist Sebastian Junger—who has reported from places like Afghanistan and Sierra Leone—talks about taking risks and controlling fear.Sebastin Junger:One of our primary emotions is fear. It is one of the worst emotional experiences we can have. Many people do almost anything they can to avoid it, but some actively seek it out. In many ways, doing things that make us afraid is crazy. No other animal intentionally risks its life for thrills or excitement, and yet humans do it all the time. We climb mountains, jump off bridges with parachutes, or kayak in dangerous waters.I used to work as a tree climber, removing old branches from trees. Many times I climbed as high as 24 meters, and then I had to cut six meters of tree above me. It was very dangerous and I had to make just the right cut so that the top of the tree fell forward rather than back on top of me. To deal with my fear, I would wait five or ten minutes before I made the cut. But I wasn’t waiting for courage; I was waiting for emptiness. For those five to ten minutes, I would care and care and care, and then at some point, I would stop caring. Inside, I’d feel empty. Then I’d make the cut.I imagine that every skydiver who steps out of an airplane or every bungee jumper who jumps off a bridge experiences the same thing. Maybe we’re attracted to these sports not because they’re exciting, but because they give us the chance to face our biggest fear—that someday our lives will end. We’re the only animal that knows this, and we’re the only one that seems to need to practice for it again and again.1. parachute：降落伞2. kayak：皮划艇Listening 2SCRIPTTrack 6–61. I think probably the public has an idea that there is more danger than there really is, but still, there is some danger and my experience with that danger has been—uh, even small amounts of it—has been really quite traumatizing.2. You know I grew up in a really safe, comfortable suburb, and I think some of my—I don’t know what you’d call it—some of my interest that leads me in that direction,I think just comes … they’re really just a reaction to the incredible safety and, frankly, sort of boringness that I grew up in.3. You know when you’re … when you exercise really hard or if you experience fear, there’s a chemical reaction in your body … and those feel good—I mean, just chemically they feel good—and the human body responds to that experience in a positive way. And so anybody—from, you know, your grandmother to an eighteen year old guy who’s driving too fast—everyone responds to the thrill of risk with some positive response to risk. People just have different levels of risk, and thrill turns to terror at different places for different people.PART III VIDEOSCRIPTBoyd Matson:“The biggest spiders in the world are the aptly named ‘goliath’ tarantulas. Most people would run the other way if they saw a spider that was this big. But one intrepid researcher ... makes it his business to track them down and catch them.”Narrator:For many, tarantulas inspire fear. But for tarantula expert Rick West, they just inspire. West says these skilled hunters, which live mostly on insects, but may eatlarger animals like mice and birds, are misunderstood.Rick West:“They’ve been maligned in horror movies. These are the things that as we’ve come up through our years watching television, science fiction movies, it’s always the thing that creeps out of the shadow and goes for the jugular. And it does; it creeps people out and gives them the wrong impression.”Narrator:Rick has come to French Guiana in search of the largest spider in the world – the “goliath.” It can grow to nearly thirty centimeters across, with large sharp teeth called fangs which can be five centimeters long.But the fangs aren’t the tarantula’s only weapons. Its abdomen is covered with small hairs. The spider can shed these quickly if it is threatened. The hairs can stick to your skin or go inside your nose and cause painful irritation.For Rick, it’s best to look for spiders in the dark. Most tarantulas live underground and come out to hunt at night. And suddenly, right at his feet … a giant. Rick West:“This is a beautiful female. She is a monster. This is Theraphosa blondi, it’s the world’s largest tarantula and world’s largest spider. She’s gotta have a legspan of about 10 inches across. Just have to slow her down here. Unless you really do something to injure it or to scare it, they’ll just walk on you.”Narrator:Rick isn’t afrai d to have a giant tarantula on his shoulder, but he is careful about its irritating hairs, so he lets the spider climb down his arm and onto the ground again. For tiny creatures, this spider is truly a threat. But for most humans, a tarantula’s bite is no worse than a bee sting. West hopes that as he teaches the world more about these creatures, fear will turn into fascination.Theraphosa blondi：亚马逊巨人食鸟蛛，又名哥利亚巨人食鸟蛛，主要生活于南美洲北部的雨林中，体型巨大。