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一、基础知识
1. Most of the elderly people have poor m________ because they are always forgetting something important.
2. Slavery was __________(废除) in the US in the 19th century.
3. Her __________ (优雅) manners impressed all the people present at the party.
4. He always asks so stupid questions that I get completely c________ many activities, feeling __________.
8. After the Civil War, America __________ slavery at last and the black slaves were set free.
9. Standing on the top of Mount Tai, we were lucky to see a _______________ sight—the rising sun.
10. In 1863 Lincoln gave _______________ to all American slaves.
11. We gathered for the ______________ of the fiftieth birthday of our school.
12. Before it could be _______________to the United States, a site had to be A. declared
B. have been declared
C. have declared
D. were declared 5. When he turned professional at the age of 11, Mike _____ to become a world champion by his coach and parents.
A. expected
B. was expecting
C. was expected
D. would be expected 1. The mayor of Beijing says that all construction work for the Beijing Olympics ________ by 2006.
A. has been completed
B. has completed
C. will have been completed
D. will have completed
sometimes.
5. I have a wonderful book ________ of (包括) thirty pictures.
6. The o_______ owner of the house was Thomas, but now it belongs to me. 7. About 230 leaders from more than 80 countries will attend the national _________(庆典) of our country.
8. Hospitals were already fully ________(使尽全力) because of the SARS.
9. Your mind must be w________ when I was speaking just now, so you didn’t catch me.
10.I couldn’t recognize her at the first sight because she was d________ in such a strange skirt and wearing sunglasses.
1.结束、完成______________2.把某人关进监狱 _______________ 3.追溯到______________
4. 与,,相似 _____________ 5. 或多或上；大体上________________
6. 穿上盛装；乔装打扮________________ 7.连续地_____________8. 脱落____________
9. 由,,.来组成 __________ /__________ /___________ 10.冲洗，冲下 ________________ 句型：
11.______________________(随着时间的推移)，Einstein’s theory proved to be true.
12.During the celebrations of carnival, many crimes ___________(逃脱了惩罚) 13.___________________(没有必要)for primary school pupils to work at their desks all day.
14.Ordinary people could pretend to be rich and important, while famous people could have romantic adventures ________(秘密地). 选词填空
parade, memory, wander, elegant, mark, import, abolish, magnificent, celebration, freedom, origin, relaxed, transport, extend, pretend
1. He __________ his arms in front of him as if he were praying to God.
2. The boys __________ around the town with nothing to do.
3. For many centuries people have been wondering about the __________ of humans, but nobody could give a satisfactory answer.
4. He sat at the table and stared at her way of eating ice creams, feeling it very __________and her beautiful.
5. A silver wedding __________ 25 years of marriage.
6. It is widely accepted that young people have a good ___________. They can remember things very quickly.
7. After the entrance examination for university, he could at last take part in
found for the statue.
13. None of the machines on display here are _____________, and they are all made in our own country.
14. The Olympic Games begin with a _______________of all the competing nations.
15. He ________________that he was ill so that he could stay at home.
II. 选短语填空
come to an end, consist of, dress up, give up, go wild, more or less, walk off, come out, in secret, date back to, make fun of, on end, take over, by force, at the end of, up to 1. When the present manager retires, Mr. Wang will_______________the factory. 2.The old man buried his money_______________and no one knew where it was. 3. The window was stuck, but father got it open_______________.
4. When they got there, they were told that the meeting
_______________one hour before. 5. Her job ______________ cleaning the house, cooking and helping the old man.
6. The custom _______________the Ming Dynasty.
7. We hope our explanation will prove_______________
helpful. 8. It is wrong of you to_______________the disabled people.
9. At the present time more and more peasants _______________
their houses and sought work in cities.
10. I’ve washed this shirt twice and the ink still hasn’t _______________. 11. Let’s _______________ and go to Tom’s wedding party.
12. Go ahead and you will find the bookstore _______________the street. 13. We had to stand the table _______________to get it through the door. 14. If you try your best, your vocabulary can be_______________5,000. 15. You mustn’t _______________ studying foreign languages for even a day. Grammar 1. The flowers were so lovely that they _________ in no time.（2007全国I）
B. had been sold
C. were sold
D. would sell 3.—I don’t suppose the police know who did it.
— Well, surprisingly they do.
A man has been arrested and ________ now.
A. has been questioned
B. is being questioned
C. is questioning D. has questioned 4.The moment the 28th Olympic Games_______ open, the whole world cheered.
2.---George and Lucy got married last week. Did you go to their wedding?
---No. I ________. Did they have a big wedding?
A. was not invited
B. had been waiting
C. hadn’t been invited
D. didn’t invite
3. More patients ________ in hospital this year than last tear.
A. treated
B. have treated C. had been treated
D. have been treated 4. According to the art dealer, the painting ________ to go for at least a million dollars.
A. is expected
B. expects
C. expected
D. is expecting 5. A new hospital _______ here. They hope to finish it next month. A. will be built
B. is built
C. has been built
D. is being built
6. It is clear that hundreds of jobs _______ if the factory closes. A. lose
B will be lost
C. are lost
D. will lose 7. Rainforests _________and burned at such a speed that they will disappear from the earth in the near future.
B. are cut
C. are being cut
D. had been cut 8. This is Wang Gang’s photo. We miss him a lot. He _______ trying to save a child in the flood. A. killed
B. is killed
C. was killed
D. was killing 9. ---What happened to the priceless works of art? ---_______.
in the earthquake
B. The earthquake was destroying them C. They destroyed in the earthquake
D. The earthquake has destroyed them
10. The chairman told the speaker that she ______ to speak a little louder so as
to make herself _____. A. heard
B. hear . C hear
D. heard 11. It _______ whether she will get her work in the company. A. hasn’t been decided
B. isn’t deciding
C. doesn’t decide
D. hasn’t decided 12. ---Why does Mary look so unhappy?—She has _______ by her classmates. A. laughed
B. laughed at
C. been laughed
D. been laughed at
13. I ___ ten minutes to decide whether I should reject the offer. A. gave
B. was given
C. was giving
D. had given
14. More than a dozen students in that school ________ abroad to study medicine last year.
B. were sent
C. had sent
D. had been sent 15. With more forests being destroyed, huge quantities of good earth ________ each year.
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Voice-over: A London library. Just one of the thousands of
lending libraries in Britain today. But are they as popular now as
they were 10 years ago? A recent report suggests that the number of
people borrowing books has fallen.
The report shows that since
1992 visits to libraries have fallen by 17%. And 9% fewer libraries
are open for 30 or more hours per week. And in the past three years
the number of books borrowed has fallen by 23% and more than 50% of
library services are either shabby
or in poor locations.
One of the possible reasons
for this, is the reduced amount of money spent on libraries by
local councils. The result is that
some library buildings are looking very tatty and do not carry the right sort of books
for modern readers.
Woman 1: If it is underfunded and
there’s shortage of staff, there’s no opening on a Saturday,
it’s... We loose out you
know. The knowledge and information is what people do
Voice-over: The first public library opened in 1852 in
Manchester and writers like Charles Dickens thought they would help
improve the education of people from poor backgrounds.
One hundred and fifty years
later many people now prefer to read books in smart high street stores, often places where
they can browse whilst enjoying food and a cup of
More competition comes from
Internet cafes, places where
people can surf the Internet for information, again in very
relaxed surroundings.
To encourage readers to
visit, some libraries now have computer and Internet services.
So if you were in charge of
your local library, what changes would you make to encourage people
to borrow books?
Voice-over: All day today India’s faithful moved relentlessly
to the point in which the country’s two holy rivers meet. According
to Hindu belief, this is the most auspicious day to bathe in the rivers here and
by doing so the pilgrims believe they can wash away their
This was almost certainly
the greatest movement of humankind to a single point ever. The
Indian authorities estimated this sea of people numbered more than
the population of New York, London and Tokyo combined.
Man 1: You can get a strong sense around me here of what it’s like
to be in a crowd of 20 to 30 million. There are miles and miles of
these dusty streets full of people. This is a dramatic illustration
of the fact that though India is modernizing in all kinds of ways,
it remains strongly in touch with its
spiritual roots.
Voice-over: The pilgrimage to the water’s edge began today in
the chilly hours of the early
morning. It was led by the Sadhus or Holy Men, who charged
into the water naked and covered in ash. But for all the
pilgrimshowever arduous their journeyevery step here has been worth it. Alka Sheeri
traveled from western India. She was so excited she did not want to
Woman 1: I will spend lifetime in this place.
Man 1: You want to spend your whole life here?
Woman 1: Yes.
Voice-over: For Westerners here it’s the size of the event
that’s overwhelming.
Man 2: The number of people, just immense number of people. I’ve
never seen so many people before. And I don’t think will ever
Voice-over: As the sun was setting, people still poured down
to the banks of the rivers. Today has
seen an act of faith on an epic scale.
The hustle and bustle of a
busy Christmas market, and this is one of the most
famousthe Nuremberg “Christ Child”
Christmas market in
Germany. The market’s opening ceremony includes an appearance of a
figure, the Christ Childwho represents the spirit of Christmas.
Each year, on the last
Friday of November at 5:30 pm, the bells of the Frauenkirche Church
in Nuremberg peal twice
and floodlights reveal the Christ Childa girl flanked by two
angels, on the church
balcony. It is her role to open the market by saying some words of
welcome to the crowd.
Over 180 decorated stalls
invite visitors to enjoy the Christmas spiritselling traditional gifts such as wooden toys,
sweets and cakes. Several thousand Christmas shoppers from all the
world stroll through the stalls, enjoying the smell of mulled wine a
special type of German sausagethe famous Nuremburg bratwurst. One of the most
popular sights at the market is the
Nativity display.
With plenty of food, drink
and attractive displays on show, no wonder this market is so
popular each year.
From the warm-up to
lay-up, on this Beijing court,
it’s more than just shooting
“My mother wanted me to do
this camp so I could grow taller,” says this
12-year-old.
It’s no secret the Chinese
are crazy for basketball and the NBA, so crazy they now want to buy
a piece of it. Kenny Huang, a Chinese-born businessman is
brokering a deal that would give
Chinese investors a 15% stake in the Cleveland Cavaliers, worth
an estimated 70 million dollars.
It would be the biggest international sporting investment ever made
by Chinese nationals, according to Huang’s business
“Simply having Chinese
ownership will increase significantly the visibility of that team
within China. There will be much more coverage of it on the
electronic news as well as the printed news over in China. So more
people will be following it, which means the team gets a much
broader brand and greater penetration in China.”
The Cavs will not provide
details but said when the deal is final, hopefully in the near
future, we look forward to discussing this exciting new
partnership. It’s good timing for the Cavs with the Cleveland
economic suffering, for the NBA, hoping
to raise its profile in China, and for Chinese
“It makes me proud,” this
boy says, “for a Chinese to work with my favorite team, it’s an
Cavalier’s gear is becoming
a bestseller in Beijing. Fans even have special nicknames for
players. LeBron James is “little emperor”, and the Cavs’ just
recruited another star with a huge local
following.
The guardian of the courts
here in Beijing is a
bigger-than-life-size statue of Shaquille O’Neil. His
Chinese nickname is quite fittingly, “big shark”. But here at an
NBA store across town, it’s clear which player comes out on top.
Injured or nor, Yao Ming is still Chinese’s favorite.
There is even a gossip on
Chinese blogs Yao Ming may join the Cavs, too, depending on how he
recovers from a broken foot, but again, it’s just speculation and
excitement about an American team that’s inspiring fans half a
world away.
Twenty-one-year-old Julian
Lage has been playing guitar since he was five.
“I certainly felt like it
was no effort to play the guitar. It’s fun. It was really fun and
it stayed that way for my whole childhood.”
The film, Jules at Eight gives a glimpse of
what life for Lage was like then when people began to understand
the talent he had.
“People would approach me
and my parents. And my parents were great at sinking through their offer and say you know
what, maybe sending Julian across the country do this and being on
this TV show, and maybe that’s not the best thing for him. If they
were looking to make money off me,
which a lot of parent might have to, or might want to, I would have
turned out quite differently.” which may be why he did not release
his first CD, Sounding Point, until this March. “I could have
recorded when I was younger, but I think the biggest issue for me
was wanting to step forward more than just music.”
Lage has an original sound
according to music critics. That originality is probably why we are
still hearing about Julian Lage.
According to psychologist
Ellen Winner, making the transition from
prodigy to adult performer is difficult. “Most of them are
unheard of when they grow up to be adults.” Winner is the author of
Gifted Children: Myth and
Realities. “A child prodigy is somebody who masters an area
that has already been invented by adults and masters it very, very
quickly. If you want to still be in the
limelight, you have to be somebody that is unusual and does
something in a new way.”
Rasta Thomas is doing that
with his company Bad Boys of Dance. He performed at Wolf trap
National Park for the Performing Arts this summer. Wolf Trap CEO
Terrance Jones, “He’s very exciting to watch and has a broad
appeal. His music and his choreography
are such that he really
attracts a young, and if you will, new audience to dance, because
it is so accessible.”
Thomas was called a child
prodigy. When he was 14, he won a gold medal competing against
adults in a prestigious dance competition. He built on his classical training by adding
moves from modern dance, jazz, musical theaters, and even Michael
Jackson to make ballet more appealing to his generation.
“It was an elite art form
and I want to make that, I wanted to do something about that. And I
thought, you know, having younger, fresher, hipper dancers and
making the production and performances a little more fun. And could
possibly be an anecdote to that issue.”
Rasta and his wife Adrienne
Canterna, another former child prodigy, insert playfulness and
humor into their dances. Their performances are a hit with both
young and old. Last month, 20,000 people came to see them in
Germany. As one critic wrote, they are taking Europe by
In Dharavi, the Mumbai slum
where the rags-to-riches story
Slumdog Millionaire was
set and filmed, residents cheered around television screens. The
film won eight Oscars at the Academy
Awards in the U.S. Some people broke into Bollywood-type dance numbers
in the streets.
The family of Rubina, the
actress who plays the role of young”Latika”, celebrated too.
Neighbors, playmates and family shared their happiness. Rafique is
Rubina’s father. “All of us will go to receive her at the airport
when she comes back. We will ensure a proper welcome and we will
play the drums aloud.”
The heart of the film
Millionaireabout a boy from an Indian slumis set in Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum. Some of
the child actors came from the neighborhood.
In Dharavi, the father of
one of the actors, Isamil, joined in celebration. “The fact that a
poor man’s child has made such a name for himself, that is what
makes me most happy.”
On one night, at least,
there as revelry on this Mumbai
street even as Hollywood partied.
“We are very happy, we are
also celebrating just like they are celebrating there,” “They are
rich, their way of celebrating would be different and we shall
celebrate differently.”
Indeed, the celebrations in
Hollywood continued after the Academy Awards ceremony. Many of the
winners headed to the official governor’s ball, considered the
“official” post-Oscar, sponsored by the Academy. Slumdog director Danny Boyle was
there, as well as some of the movie’s actors.
Some of the young cast
members had traveled far from the slums of Mumbai to Hollywood for
the awards ceremony.
Slumdog Millionaire won Best Picture at the awards ceremony in Los
Angeles, California. In all, the film won
top honors in eight categories, and the recipients included
British and Indian citizens.
Voice-over: This is the Waltham Forest Council taking out a takeaway.
Woman 1: I’m here today to serve you two notices on this
Voice-over: Half a dozen police officers, people in
vests. By any
measure, this is a pretty dramatic way to fight the flab.
Woman 1: After this time you’re not allowed to serve any hot food
from this premises.
Voice-over: They say they’re closing this place down because
it’s too close to local schools and parks and could contribute to
childhood obesity.
Man 1: So how are the Council able to weigh in like
this? Well they say it’s all down to planning permission. In March
they introduced a new rule which said you can’t open a new fast
food restaurant within 400 meters of a school, and they say this
place didn’t have planning
permission, so they’re closing it down.
Voice-over: They only have power to refuse planning permission
to those who don’t already have it. So, they can’t do anything
about the other takeaway places already here.
Man 1: Can’t people make their own decisions? Isn’t this
the nanny state?
Man 2: It isn’t a nanny state. As I’ve said before we’ve got
plenty of fast food outlets in Waltham Forest. Two hundred and
fifty five, one for every 355 families in the Borough. That’s
plenty. That isn’t a nanny state. This is actually about making
sure we have a good range and a good choice for people in Waltham
Voice-over: At this Girl’s school, pupils are already taught
that exercise and healthy eating are the best ways to stay in shape, and that dieting can cause
problems. Today’s research reveals just how serious those problems
can be. It says girls who diet strictly
in their early teens are 18 times more likely to
develop an eating disorder later
Woman 1: Dieting amongst young people, unless there is a medical
reason for doing so, should not be encouraged amongst young people.
And that young people and particularly adolescents should not
take on dieting unless it is under
medical supervision.
Woman 2: As cases of obesity among young people increase, dieting is
a hotly debated issue among teachers and doctors. And the problem
for them is how to persuade adolescents that exercise is the best
way to control weight.
Woman 3: There obviously is the exercise as part of the PE lessons,
but we try very hard to encourage exercise in all kinds of other
ways. Going to disco for example, is just as good in terms of
exercise or cycling to school. It doesn’t have to be formal
physical education.
Voice-over: The message from this study is to get the balance
right between eating enough and exercising. The Australian
researchers also warn that even moderate levels of dieting too soon
can lead to anorexia or
bulimia, and the
psychiatric problems that go with them.
Voice-over: Cakes pastries and other fatty foods are full of
high cholesterol and eaten in excess they can lead to heart
disease. The problem is, they taste so good. So what’s the
incentive to cut down? A report published in the British Medical
Journal today suggests VAT should be imposed to the cash till.
“Higher prices”, the reports’ author says, “will force people to
choose cheaper, healthier options.”
1: In Britain we’ve already have had high incidents
of heart disease, in particular it affects those with low incomes
particularly, because the diets of people with low incomes are not
as good as those on high
Voice-over: The British Nutrition
Foundation certainly isn’t convinced VAT would put anyone off on
healthy foods and says the evidence is already there.
1: People don’t stop smoking because they can just
stop smoking. Nicotine is an addictive
drug and food in a similar way can be quite addictive.
Cigarettes are highly taxed, but
if people don’t want to give up smoking, they’ll carry on smoking,
they’ll pay the money. The same with fatty food.
Voice-over: That’s
the expert’s line, but what’s the view on the shop floor?
Would higher prices change our diet for the better?
2: No, not really, no. Unless it went up by that
about 100% I think it doesn’t make any difference at
2: Personally it wouldn’t really stop me buying food
3: I would recommend that they take the fat out of
the food or not to have extra fatty food and to keep their price
Voice-over: This is the sort of
food we should be eating more often. But initial reaction to
today’s report suggest that while the
carrot isn’t tempting enough, the stick won’t work
Voice-over: Millions of Britons are overdosing on salt every day, not only adding
it to food but taking in high levels from processed products without even realizing it.
Now a study in America says cutting salt by 1/3 cuts the risk of
dying from heart attacks and strokes by 20%/
Man 1: What we now have is evidence that actually reducing salt
only by three grams a dayaround 30% reductionhas major, causes major reductions in stroke and
heart attacks.
Voice-over: Andy Jones was left partly paralyzed by a stroke
at only 40. Now he chooses his food more carefully.
Man 2: I was eating burgers, chips, takeaways, and it was off to
me having a stroke, leaving me paralyzed down the right-hand
Woman 1: So let’s take a look at just how much salt can be hidden in
three typical meals of the British diet. Remembering we should only
have around six grams of salt each day. Surely this is alright,
isn’t it, Anna Denny?
Woman 2: Most of the food we’ve got here are manufactured foods, so that means they can
contain a lot of processed food, lots of salts in the processed
food. If we take a look at breakfast, it could be about 0.4 grams
of salt in an average bowl of breakfast
cereals and up to 1.75 grams or more even in a slice of
beans in toast. It’s about two grams in a breakfast as a
Woman 1: And for lunch?
Woman 2: Anything four or more grams in a large parmesan with
large amounts of cheese or ham. Soup could contain between 1.5 and
2.5 grams of salt per bowl of soup and an average of 1 gram of salt
in a packet of
crisps. So that could be really 6-7 grams or more for
this lunch.
Woman 1: And for supper?
Woman 2: About 1 gram of salt probably in the fish and chips, but
that’s without any salt added, so if you add salt at the table then
you will obviously be increasing that. Bread and butter pudding 0.6
grams of salt. So a total for supper could be 2 grams or
Voice-over: Bringing the day’s total to over 10 grams of
Voice-over: No one wants to end up as an oversized cardboard
cut out. But this is what could happen if you don’t get a grip on those Christmas excesses
Today, a succession of poor souls who dragged themselves back from
land, were
congratulated by their guru, Rosemary Conley, on losing anything
from 6 to 10 stones. Losing another person, in effect.
Woman 1: I feel so proud of them and it is the highlight of what we
do. It’s what we’re about. But usually it’s some event like you’re
going off to Alton Towers and you get stuck in a ride or you see
yourself on video or a photograph. Those are often triggers that make you thinks: T I’m
not going to go there. I’ve had enough of being big and now I’m
going to do something about it.
Voice-over: But becoming healthy obviously has to be a
lifestyle change for good, which is why ITV is campaigning to get
Britain on the move and make walking, rather than driving, the
choice. Today, Karen Church has launched her Round Britain Great
Walk, which we can join in at any stage.
Woman 2: I just think that, you know, to get out, to be able to do
something with your family, and at the same time raise money for
charities or causes close to your hear, you know, that’s just a
positive way to start 2005, I think.
Voice-over: Now is the time of year to take out your gym
membership, buy a stunning workout suit and never go again. But
this year will be different. Make a personal trainer happy and see
it through for once.
Man 1: While you come into the gym and having a good workout around, it actually boosts your whole metabolism. So that when
you’re going away, you’re gonna be burning extra energy while
you’re away from the gym at the same time. And it can also take you
into a fat burning energy system
at the same time as well. So, there’s a lot of benefits from just
coming to the gym.
Woman 3: The thing is about going to the gym, or working out in any
way, no matter how much you hate itand believe me, I doit’s always worth it afterwards. You feel great
and you look an awful lot
Woman 4: I wouldn’t have looked in the shop window. I would have
even not trained thought that people won’t sit next to me because
I’m big. I’m fat. There’s no room next to me. Now, at first I
started doing a bit of double take... Who’s that, rather than it
was me. And yesterday I went to buy a pair of Gap jeans size
12 and the buzz. And my husband bought me some lingerie
for Christmas and it was too
big, because he bought me a size 14. And I was like, gosh! And he
even he was like. Oh right, OK, fine. It’s great.
Man 2: Since I’ve lost loads of weight, I’ve taken on motorbike
racing quite seriously, a bit of road racing, lots of motor cross
and I’ve got me a bit of an expert status
at motor cross, which has just been one of my dreams for a
long time, which is fantastic. But there’s lots of other things,
like I can fit on fairground
rides, where I
couldn’t fit in them before. And I can just do things with my
daughter and just be more active. I go cycling. I go to the gym
without feeling embarrassed about being at the gym. As I would
never have done anything like that before.
Voice-over: Liz Wickham. London Tonight. Kensington Roof
Voice-over: The first stop on my quest for celebrity stress beating tips was the Cabinet
office. I’ve been told that Mo Mowlam had interesting methods.
Although nothing prepared me for what I was about to discover
inside her office.
Woman 1: I have a lot of those little stress balls, which you get
given at conferences, which I don’t use. I throw them at people
when I have absolute stress.
Woman 2: Have you actually done that?
Woman 1: Oh yes. My servant is quite used to it.
Woman 2: During the Northern Ireland peace talks, did you ever throw
it at people?
Woman 1: Oh no, no, no. I do it more here now. In the Northern
Ireland you wouldn’t, it was too serious. You just kept
Voice-over: But Mo’s secret weapon for fighting stress is
hidden in a cupboard in the corner of her office.
Woman 1: You see, I have a dartboard and I don’t put faces up. I have
numbers attached to people when I get frustrated.
Woman 2: Oh. And can you give us any...
Woman 1: NO.
Woman 2: You couldn’t tell us which number the Prime Minister
Woman 1: If you ask me one more question it may be yours.
Woman 2: But which moments though, give me an example when you’ll be
tempted to have a game of darts?
Woman 1: I’m done now. I’m off to my next meeting. I think you’ve
got enough. Okay chaps, see you later.
Voice-over: I made a hasty retreat before Mo could use me for
target practice.
Woman 2: Now I’m off to meet Sir Alastair Morton, who used to run
the Euro tunnel and now he runs the Shadow Strategic Rail
Authority. And rail as we know is a pretty stressful business to be
at the moment. So I’m here because I think he’s going to have some
Man 1: It’s much better to cut down on
the amount of stress that is developing than it is to try
and vent the consequences of the stress. You’ve had the stress into
you by that time. And I know that over the years cumulatively I’ve
undoubtedly felt the effects of stress. There’s no doubt about
that. When I left Euro tunnel after nearly 10 years of considerable
difficulty, I pr I mean that is a fair
statement. I would say I have a really good personal assistant, who
in effect is your manager and is paid to be your manager, to
manage the logistics of your life,
the access to your time and so on. And frankly to help you in
a million and one ways in the
cause of the day. That makes a lot of stress off if you’re not
trying to do the small changes of life as well as the more
important things.
Voice-over: Of course you can always try autogenic
training, which is what Shebah Ronayactress and former star of Holly
oaksdoes when life gets on top of her.
Woman 3: You try and rid your mind of all the annoying things that
just keep coming in. I mean ten minutes is actually really a long
time to concentrate on not nothing, but on yourself and on your
body and on just observing yourself. You can have little messages
that you can give yourself like, “I’m calm” or ”I’m happy” or
“there’s nothing to worry about” or whatever it is that you want or
even something based on something that might be putting you
stressed later in the day. Like “I won’t have any problem having
this interview”.
Man 1: A record number of students will receive their degrees this
month, but up to a quarter of them face months of unemployment or a
series of temporary low-paid jobs. A survey by the Association of
Graduate Recruiters shows that while student numbers are
booming, the number of graduate
vacancies is at its lowest for a
Even those with specialist
qualifications are not immune from
the effects of the recession. As Alex Thomson has been finding out,
a good degree is no longer a ticket to a
Voice-over: In true tepid style,
two-one degree in social policy, Gerald Finnegan has got on
his bike. It hasn’t worked. Even after successful spells working abroad, training
schemes at home in Birmingham and responding to the needs of
potential employers.
Man 2: So what they say is quite important. Because if they say,
“Well, you know, you demonstrated that you do know all that, but
you haven’t got this,” then I always adapt my application to
address those issues. “Cause initially I found out there’s a common
threat and that was lack of experience, so in a way I tried to
manufacture some experience for
Voice-over: Experience gained in over 150 job applications.
But it has reached a stage where some people now tell him to ignore
being a graduate altogether.
Man 2: Yeah, I’ve heard this. I disagree personally. People said,
you know, “Exclude the fact that you’re a graduate from your CV.
It’s a liability. Don’t say you’re a graduate. ”Now...
Voice-over: What can that be? What do they mean by
Man 2: It means that people... I think it’s a perception that
employers don’t want to employ people who may have a little more
ambition than them.
Voice-over: Career advisors in York believe graduates must now
have transferable skills,
languages, computing for instance, to widen their survival chances in the shrinking jobs
market. Future prospects is a job information center for all
unemployed people in the city center. But the director of York
University’s career service comes in regularly to interview
unemployed graduates. Liz Roberts wants information about a new
Woman 1: I don’t want to look at teaching.
Man 4: Well, why don’t you come in? OK, you don’t know. That’s
perfectly reasonable. Why don’t you do some exploring? Go and do
shadowing.
Voice-over: On the university campus, the days of the Milk Crown where companies recruited graduates by
the busloads, have long since passed. Transferable skills
above and beyond the degree are
now what count, as Martin Biggs knows only too well.
Man 4: It’s as bad as it’s been for 10 years, when the 1980-81
recession was on, recession graduate recruitment. But in fact now
it’s really rather worse this time, because it has hit the technical side as well. I think that
has something to do with the reduction of the manufacturing base in
the country.
Voice-over: But a technical degree, a higher degree, relevant
work experience and transferable skills still might not be enough.
Take Julie Wroe with a two-one in biology from Manchester
University and an MSC in pollution control, currently doing
voluntary work for an environmental consultant.
Woman 2: I have applied for absolutely everything. From air hostess
jobs to laboratory technicians to environmental consultants, I’ve
gone to the whole range. Even just tending jobs, bar jobs, that sort of things.
I’ve tried everything. But people don’t seem to take you seriously
if you’re applying for positions, even for laboratory technicians
seeing I have an MSC.
Silicon Valley: British Internet
entrepreneurs
Voice-over: Thirty miles south of San Francisco lies Silicon
Valley, the epicenter of a high-tech
industrial revolution. Welcome to the land of the dotcom. The driving force
behind the longest economic boom in America’s history.
Man 1: It’s reckoned that a quarter of a million computer
millionaires live in Silicon Valley and the Ferrari
dealership here
are the busiest in the world. Unemployment is virtually zero.
Average wage’s the highest in the United States. And now the
British are coming, looking for ideas, inspiration or simply cash
to make their Internet dreams come true.
Voice-over: Jeremy Tapp is from Devon and a student at
Stanford University, the hothouse for
aspiring Internet billionaires. Earlier this month,
an American venture capital fund
gave this 26-year-old and his partners around a million dollars to
kick start their website
Man 2: This is one of many sites that we are building. This is
bike magic...
Voice-over: It all began as an experiment in his brother’s
bedroom, but now offers consumers information on a range of hobbies
including cycling and sailing.
Man 2: I mean Stanford and the surrounding area, the Valley, is
where it’s all happening at the moment in terms of the Internet.
The companies and the things they are doing over here are six to,
six months to a year ahead of what we’re doing in the UK. It’s a
fantastic place to be, to learn and also to make business
partnership for the business.
Voice-over: Our whistle stop tour of Silicon Valley begins in
Sandhill Road, which enjoys near
legendary status among would-be millionaires like
Man 2: This is the top of Sandhill Road. It’s kind of the
important road in the area from where all the capital is raised for
all the new start-ups in the Bay
area. Different from the UK. UK starting up is really
starting to explode, but over here they’re rolling there deals out
all the time.
Voice-over: Jeremy is meeting his chief financial backer here.
The venture capitalist tells him there will be a big shake-out before
Christmas with many Internet companies collapsing in an overcrowded
market place. But he says he will help Jeremy form an alliance with
an American website competitor, before Jeremy too is forced out of
Man 3: You should view us as a booster for the Space Shuttle. We
have now super engineers like Jeremy building this Space Shuttle.
This Space Shuttle doesn’t have enough fuel to go in orbit and they have very little time to
catch the eclipse.
Voice-over: Dominic and Heidi have the perfect partnership.
They’ve been a couple for ten years and now they run a greeting
card business together in Spitalfieds. Heidi is the business brain. Dominic meanwhile is the
creative one, who designs many of the cards himself.
Man 1: This is where Dominic started his card design business six
years ago. In fact it was this stall here that he used to rent. And
as the business grew, Dominic decided to move up in the world. But
you just can’t drag him away from Spitalfields. So now he rents
this shop here, not a million miles away from his humble
beginnings.
Man 2: I chose here because there’s a great clientele
here and I
think that the people who come here are looking for something
different. And I think when you’re a small business and you’re
doing something different, this is the perfect mix of people to
start showing your stuff to and selling your stuff to.
Voice-over: Just up the road Taylor Glasby and David Ferminger
are examining the proofs for the latest copy of their music and
fashion magazine. They set it up a year ago as a way to help
student journalists get some work experience on a proper
publication. Now the mag is about
to go national. It’s been a tough
year setting up a new business, but they’ve had loads of help and advice from the local
enterprise agency next door.
Woman 1: Well the East London Small Business Center has offered us
lots of support with business plans. They have premises that we
rent from them quite cheaply, which is perfect for a start-up
business. Around us is venues, band venues, pubs, clubs, young
designers, graphic designers, you name it, it’s all here. So we’re
in the kind of hub of everything
around the East End at the moment and all the young creatives come
to East London because it’s affordable, there’s studio
space and it’s a great place to
Man 1: Well Vincent, this is obviously a very vibrant, bustling
area. But why do you think it’s the No. 1 place for business
start-ups now in the UK?
Man 3: Well I think it’s a combination of reasons. There are major
projects like Canary Wharf, which are close by, generating
benefits to
business. There’s affordable accommodation and premises for
businesses here, which make it an attractive place to
Voice-over: And of course our Olympic bid is giving the area
an extra boost too. If our bid does get
the go-ahead, you can expect the East End at the top of the
list for business start-ups for many years to come. Glen Goodman.
London Tonight. Old Spitalfields Market.
Voice-over: Some customers are waiting years for this plumber.
People are deserting professions to enroll at this school for
plumbers. And now customers are paying more per hour for a plumber
than for a lawyer. Government wants more school leavers to join trade courses like the
one I sample today. The answer to a national skill shortage that
some are already trying to cash in
Man 1: IT company directors, solicitors, policemen. Y
they all come in here to try to be restrained as
Man 2: Because they’ve heard there’s a shortage and they’ve heard
that you can make good cash.
Voice-over: Ministers want plumbers and electricians to talk
in schools. Money will go into training, but it won’t be easy to
interest youngsters.
Girl 1: I’d like to be something like a lawyer.
Man 1: Hopefully go into performing arts.
Girl 2: Well, hopefully go into either accountancy or
engineering.
Man 2: So, just how will the Education Secretary turn this into
the new glamour occupation? It’s
possible he will appeal to our sense of
national duty. Britain needs an extra 30,000 plumbers. More
likely he’ll highlight this, an hourly rate up to 90 pounds that
can leave costumers facing post-traumatic
shock, but could lead a whole generation to want its careers
to go down
Voice-over: It takes four years to become fully qualified.
Plumbers can earn anything up to 70,000 pounds a year. And costumers are begging to hand over
Man 3: If you phone up now, you will be put up on the list that is
getting closer to Easter. We’re just finishing jobs that people
have been hanging around waiting for something close on three
Voice-over: Tomorrow it’s the Education Secretary’s job to
clear a blockage in the pipeline,
supplying new plumbers. He’ll need to persuade thousands to
put their livelihoods firmly down the
drain. Chris Chot. ITV News.
Voice-over: Curry. It’s the future. At least as far as
S&A Foods is concerned. This East Midlands factory
currently employs 800 people, supplying exotic meals for corporate
customers in the UK and beyond. S&A this year had a
of 45 million
pounds. But back in the 80s it was just one woman, some cooking oil
and a bunch of coriander.
Woman 1: Before I started the business I knew what I wanted to do. I
did have the vision. And my vision was for the long term. I wanted
to bring really, really high quality, authentic food, new ideas
into the marketplace, which could be available throughout the
country. And that’s what I wanted to do.
Voice-over: Mrs. Farzi undermines the notion Britain lacks
entrepreneurs. In fact, firms with under 200 workers, which
thrive on innovation, account for
59% of total UK employment. That compares to 57% in Germany and 49
in Ireland. The proportion is much higher in the US, at
This is partly because it is
not always easy for start-up British
firms to find the finance to grow.
Woman 1: We did go to a lot of banks and we weren’t very successful,
and it was very difficult to raise funds. Especially when the
company is new, when they are trying to sell their ideas and sell
the vision without any track
records. It was very difficult.
Voice-over: It’s even harder now than when Mrs. Farzi started.
Back in the 80s, 61% of small firms’ finance was provided by banks.
It’s down to 47% today. This is one reason the government has
targeted its Competition White
Paper at small firms. But the man behind a thriving Internet
business in West London says ministers must talk more to Britain’s
commercial minnows rather
than rely on their powers in big business. So is the government too
Man 1: I don’t think it’s necessary out of touch. I think that
they are in touch and that they are addressing this. However, you
don’t speak to BT about
entrepreneurs. You speak to start-ups and entrepreneurs about
entrepreneurs.
Voice-over: Mr. Shapkuss says more should be done to encourage
the Internet. Despite a recent announcement of legislation allowing
UK firms to trade in cyberspace.
Man 1: I think they would do better to speak to people who
actually are in the trenches doing
the job. One of the things for instance regarding e-commerce and
taxation. They’re trying all to meet up and discuss how they’re
going to do it. While in the US, for instance, there are no
net taxes. So we’re penalized here with 17.5% VAT.
Voice-over: Peter Mandelson has worked to convince the public
that he’s serious about business. The Trade Secretary shows ample
enthusiasm for high-tech commerce, but now business wants
Man 2: We think there’s a very ambitious program from Peter
Mandelson and it’s focusing on the right issue. On enterprises, on
entrepreneurship, and the knowledge-driven economy, as he calls it.
Of course he won’t really add up to rope beans if
it’s not followed by real action. And that’s what we want to
Voice-over: Five years ago, it was unthinkable curry would
become Britain’s favorite dish. But it has. And many entrepreneurs
doubt Whitehall’s ability to keep up with latest trends. And
given the multitude of business schemes over the decades, many
small firms remain skeptical.
Voice-over: Dawn Schamp had been a civil servant before
joining British Rail a year ago. Unlike many little boys, she
didn’t grow up wanting to be an engine driver. As a woman, she’s a rare breed at BR, only one
of ten female train drivers. In contrast, there are 15,000
qualified men.
Woman 1: I think it’s the change. My work for the railway certainly
is a change.
Woman 2: In what way?
Woman1: You’re out and about all
the time. Different places.
Voice-over: The British Rail has a problem. Women don’t
consider careers on the trains.
Woman 1: I don’t think women really think about being train drivers.
It certainly raises
Voice-over: Like Dawn, Teresa Shearer switched jobs to join BR. A mother of tow,
she’s been a fully-qualified driver for two years. British Rail
wants to recruit more women, not as a
concession to feminists, but to boost its shrinking
workforce. Is she aware of any problems facing women in this
male-dominated job?
Woman 3: I’ve heard stories enough, met a few of, had a few
problems, but I think that is all blowing out now. This is going
back a few years and I think women are becoming more accepted
Voice-over: Male drivers on the whole welcome the presence of
more women colleagues, but there have been few teething
Man 1: I think they’ve had a bad run from some of the drivers,
some of the main drivers you know. Mainly the older ones. They
haven’t really sort of come to the likes of them.
Man 2: It’s a long lifetime career and I’m not sure whether women
can give that when it comes to birth, children, time off, for that
sort of thing.
Voice-over: British Rail say they will try to change
Man 3: We’ve got to look at ways in which we can accommodate the special requirements of women,
and we are indeed doing that. We have, for example, a career break scheme, and that is
topical for today
with the report that has just come out.
Woman 4: Traditionally, women have not been expected into the big
macho jobs: fire
fighting, driving trains, being in the police, being in the prison
service. Slowly but surely that is changing. Women are becoming
doctors. That’s accepted as part and
parcel of everyday life. This will become part and parcel of
everyday life shortly, I’m sure.
Voice-over: BR is to advertise for drivers in women’s
magazines. It hopes that the more it recruits, more women will come
forward helping to break the male
stranglehold on train driving.
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