新世纪大学英语视听说教程3(第三版)听力原文

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bicycle to work, but there is too much traffic on the streets. We need safer places for bicycling and walking. Another problem is the parks. We have some nice parks, but we don’t take good care of them and they are often dirty. We need cleaner parks, where children can play and adults can relax. One more problem is nightlife. There’s nothing to do in the evening. We should build a big theater for plays and concerts.

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Two neighbors meet on a city sidewalk. They talk about planting more flowers along their street, or asking the city council to add bike lanes to a busy road. In small but important ways these people are changing the face of their cities.

All around the world people are speaking up and working hard to make their cities safer and more pleasant pedestrians. Cities have painted cross walks on their streets, made their streets narrower put in traffic lights and speed bumps and made plans to help more kids walk all bike to school.

Many people have learnt from a man from Brisbane Austrian, named David Engwicht. His book reclaiming our cities and towns has a simple message. He says that in the past, streets belong to everybody. Kids played there, and neighbors stopped there to talk.

But now, streets are just for cars and trucks. People stay inside to get away from the noise and dangerous traffic, and we lose contact with our neighbors. Engwicht says that we should use streets for more than just transportation. People need to take back their streets.

Engwicht travels around the world, helping people think differently about pedestrians, streets and neighborhoods. Besides his books and articles, he gives many speeches. He has worked in neighborhoods from Honolulu to Scotland. While Engwicht was writing his book he learnt about how neighbors in the city Delft, in the Netherlands, stopped dangerous traffic on the street.

They put old couches, tables and planters in the streets. Cars could still pass, but they had to drive slowly. When the police arrived, the saw the value of these illegal actions to make the streets safer. Soon city officials started planning ways to make cars slow down, and “calm” the traffic. Engwicht says we’d think about streets as our “outdoor living room”. “Calming” the traffic is just the beginning. Streets will be safe places for children again, and our neighbors will become our friends.

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Creating spaces

Jin Hee Park is a student at Stanford University in California. She studies

hard, \for the academics,” she says. \that the campus is so beautiful. I walk around sometimes just to relax.\

Alejandro Vega, a banker in New York City jogs almost every evening after work in Central Park. \

never get bored. The park is so big. I can always find a different path with a new view.\

Niagara falls was on Ross Howard's list of places to visit in upstate New York. \

you to get a wonderful view. You can even feel the spray from the falls on your face.\

What do these three places- Stanford University, Central Park, and Niagara Falls State Park- - --all have in common? They were all landscaped by Frederick Law Olmsted. Olmsted (1822-1903) has been called the \of landscape architecture.\

In the 1800s, more and more people were moving to the cities. Some community leaders became

worried about the quality of life. They began a beautification campaign.

In 1857, a design contest was held for a new park in New York City. Olmsted and his partner, Calvert

Vaux, won the contest. Central Park was the finished product---- the first landscaped public park in the

United States. Today, no trip to New York is complete without a visit to this beautiful park.

Later in his life, Olmsted designed landscapes for college campuses, including Stanford University. In the late 1860s, he joined the \Members of the movement wanted to preserve the beauty of Niagara falls. Despite opposition and pressures from business to industrialize the area. Olmsted and others resisted. Olmsted designed footpaths to give visitors better views of the falls. In all his work, Olmsted preferred to preserve the natural beauty of an area.

Today, there are pressures again to develop Niagara. On Goat Island, an island in Niagara Falls State

Park, there are now souvenir shops. There may be signs that say \but there is still a lot of

trash on the island. Most of the animals have disappeared. What would Frederick Law Olmsted say to all this?

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Alejandro Vega, a banker in New York City jogs almost every evening after work in Central Park. \never get bored. The park is so big. I can always find a different path with a new view.\

Niagara falls was on Ross Howard's list of places to visit in upstate New York. \

from the falls on your face.\

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