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I'm Margery Hooper, your course coordinator. I'd like to welcome you all to Grange Manor Summer Music school. I hope you'll enjoy your life here. If you have anything unclear, don't hesitate to ask. As you know, we are running three - weekly courses currently this year: History of Music, Principle Tutor professor Hepworth; Choral Singing, conducted by Archibald Blake from the Royal Institute of Music; and, last but not least, a new departure for us, classical Guitar for Beginners, Tutor Clive Mortimer.
Now you all know - at least I hope you do what course you are registered for. As soon as you've had tea, we'd like you to report to our secretary, Miss Mathews - you'll find her in the office on the first floor. She'll give you your course number and timetable and explain where the various classrooms are, what books you'll need, and whether they are available in the library. Besides, she'll give you detailed information about how you are scored. If books are not available in the library, you can try in the bookstore. Our book store is next to the reception in the main hall. It's open from 9 to 10 a.m. daily.
Now about meals breakfast 8: 30 to 9, full evening meal 6: 30 to 8: 30 in the dining room. I' m afraid you have to make your own arrangements about lunch, but the cafeteria in the canteen is open from 10 to 4 for sandwiches and coffee. Classes finish at 5.
If you look at the notice board in the main hall, you'll see that we have arranged a variety of evening entertainments for you, and Saturday excursions. Anyone who wants to go on an excursion should inform. the secretary, as soon as possible as the coach company need to know numbers.
I hope you'll all have a very enjoyable time, and make a lot of new friends.
Margery Hooper is _______.
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听力原文： The world's No. 3 record company, EMI became the first major music company to sell a large selection of its recordings on line on Tuesday.
It related more than 100 albums and 40 singles from acts of famous singers of various styles for fans to download from their computers.
EMI'S downloading trial came as Legal battles rage over copyrights and digital music distribution between the re- cording industry and online music providers like MP3. com Inc.. MP3. com provides access to music via the popular MP3 technology, a compression format that turns music on compact discs into small computer fibres. EMI' S music will be available in the future in secure format, after the company develops a player that supports the format.
Current MP3 technology allows fans to copy songs again and again, the encoded software being used by EMI will limit consumers from hard drives. A consumer can turn the song to a CD twice and send it to a portable device three times.
EMI is _______.
Family Matters
This month Singapore passed a bill that would give legal teeth to the moral obligation to support one's parents. Called the Maintenance of Parents Bill, it received the backing of the Singapore Government.
That does not mean it hasn't generated discussion. Several members of the Parliament opposed the measure as un-Asian. Others who acknowledged the problem of the elderly poor believed it a disproportionate response. Still others believe it will subvert relations within the family; cynics dubbed it the "Sue Your Son" law.
Those who say that the bill does not promote filial responsibility, of course, are right. It has nothing to do with filial responsibility. It kicks in where filial responsibility fails. The law cannot legislate filial responsibility any more than it can legislate love. All the law can do is to provide a safety net where this morality proves insufficient. Singapore needs this bill not to replace morality, but to provide incentives to shore it up.
Like many other developed nations, Singapore faces the problems of an increasing proportion of people over 60 years of age. Demography is inexorable. In 1980, 7.2% of the population was in this bracket. By the turn of the century, that figure will grow to 11%. By 2030, the proportion is projected to be 26%. The problem is not old age per se. It is that the ratio of economically active people to economically inactive people will decline.
But no amount of government exhortation or paternalism will completely eliminate the problem of old people who have insufficient means to make ends meet. Some people will fall through the holes in any safety net.
Traditionally, a person's insurance against poverty in his old age was his family. This is not a revolutionary concept. Nor is it uniquely Asian. Care and support for one's parents is a universal value shared by all civilized Societies.
The problem in Singapore is that the moral obligation to look after one's parents is unenforceable. A father can be compelled by law to maintain his children. A husband can be forced to support his wife. But, until now, a son or daughter had no legal obligation to support his or her parents.
In 1989, an Advisory Council was set up to look into the problems of the aged. Its report stated with a tinge of complacency that 95% of those who did not have their own income were receiving cash contributions from relations. But what of the 5% who aren't getting relatives' support7 They have several options: (a) get a job and work until they die; (b) apply for public assistance (you have to be destitute to apply); or (c) starve quietly. None of these options is socially acceptable. And what if this 5% figure grows, as it is likely to do, as society ages？
The Maintenance of Parents Bill was put forth to encourage the traditional virtues that have so far kept; Asian nations from some of the breakdowns encountered in other affluent societies. This legislation will allow a person to apply to the court for maintenance from any or all of his children. The court would have the discretion to refuse to make an order if it is unjust.
Those who deride the proposal for opening up the courts to family lawsuits mixes the point. Only in extreme cases would any parent take his child to court. If it does indeed become law, the bill's effect would be far more subtle.
First, it will reaffirm the notion that it is each individual's -- not society's -- responsibility to look after his parents. Singapore is still conservative enough that most people will not object to this idea. It rein-forces the traditional values and it doesn't hurt a society now and then to remind itself of its core values.
Second, and more important, it will make those who are inclined to shirk their responsibilities think twice. Until now, if a person asked family elders, clergymen or the Ministry of Community Development
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听力原文： Martin Edwards, chief executive of Manchester United PIC, will step down from the top job at Britian's richest soccer club on August 1 st, 2000.
Edwards had been expected to leave in September, but the club's website on July 14 cited "various sources" saying the move had been brought forward to allow his successor, Peter Kenyon, time to settle in before the new season beagn.
_______ will replace ______ to become chief Executive of Manchester PLC
The popular MP3 technology______.
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