雅思听力提分训练素材+音频MP3：自闭症少年

本期雅思听力提分训练素材：在自闭症谱系中漫游校园生活(Navigating Life On Campus When You're On The Autism Spectrum)。本听力素材来自NPR，NPR新闻是美国的国家公共广播，纯公益，所以内容更加去纯粹，直击心灵。可作为雅思听力泛听训练的日常素材，坚持长期听，除了锻炼英语听力，还能积累雅思听力词汇。

英语泛听听力MP3素材下载：http://m.newstudy.cn/listinfo-156-0.html?/thread-416824-1-1.html

雅思听力泛听内容原文：Navigating Life On Campus When You're On The Autism Spectrum

KELLY MCEVERS, HOST:

James Carmody always knew he'd go to college. He loved learning. He worked hard.

James Carmody总是知道他会去上大学。他热爱学习。他努力工作。

And he wanted to be an environmental engineer. But he was also worried about college. James has Asperger's syndrome. It's a form of autism spectrum disorder that can make it hard to interact with people. Sometimes James had a hard time knowing the right thing to do or say. Or he'd get really focused on a particular thing, like this time at his high school job at McDonald's.

他想成为一名环境工程师。但他也担心大学。杰姆斯有阿斯伯格综合症。这是自闭症谱系障碍的一种形式，会使人难以与他人交流。有时杰姆斯很难知道该做什么或说什么。或者他会专注于某件特定的事情，比如这次在他高中时在麦当劳的工作。

JAMES CARMODY: I remember one time when a machine was being cleaned, I wanted to learn how to clean the machine. But I didn't ask how to get help. I just went ahead and start touching buttons and, in the end, made a mess out of it. And that's a theme in how I behave. And I didn't want my condition of Asperger's to be an impediment to having a fulfilling college career.

MCEVERS: Going to college and leaving his family, meeting a lot of new people and living on his own for the first time. And this is challenging for anybody but especially for somebody with Asperger's. James wanted to talk to someone who made it through that.

CARMODY: Hello, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH BORESOW: Hi, James.

CARMODY: How are you today?

BORESOW: I'm nervous. How are you?

CARMODY: I'm doing very well - been looking forward to this moment for months.

BORESOW: Excellent.

MCEVERS: That's Elizabeth Boresow. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in music therapy from the University of Kansas in 2013. And she's also on the autism spectrum. We connected her with James for our series Been There. And when they talked, James had just arrived for his freshman year at the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.

CARMODY: I'm really having all my time in college so far. I've made a few social blunders already - nothing catastrophic. I just sometimes antagonize people for no good reason. I try to do what I want to do instead of what I've agreed to do. And as a result, I'll end up looking like a joke.

BORESOW: Well, one thing I like to do is - I decided that it was more important to me to spend time with people than they get to do what I wanted. Because if not, you spend a lot of time by yourself. So even though I didn't always have the same idea of fun as everyone else, I spent time going and walking around stores with people, even though I think that's really boring.

CARMODY: Yeah, it sounds like you really made himself as available as possible.

BORESOW: Yeah. You know, you talked about social blunders. I have quite a few of them myself. You know, I learned from experience not to ask, can I pet your baby? I learned to ask, can I rub your baby's back?

CARMODY: Yeah.

BORESOW: So how are you doing this semester?

CARMODY: I'm doing all right. I haven't done as well as I hoped to. That's mainly because I didn't prepare myself as well as I could have.

BORESOW: Yeah. When I was in college, I had to talk to my teachers about accommodations. Have you had to do that?

CARMODY: I considered it. I've never really needed accommodations in high school.

I'm going to see how I deal with this first semester and see if college really is so demanding that I'll need more support.

BORESOW: You definitely have to remember that the style of teaching changes a lot.

And also, it's more your responsibility. You don't have a whole team of support that comes and gets together around the same table and says, how are we going to make sure James succeeds, you know?

Even if you don't need as much accommodations, I enjoyed knowing that I had them in place. And it wasn't that I needed necessarily help with the coursework as much. I had teachers help me when they assigned a group project because they would just say, find a group of two or three and do the assignment. I had trouble initiating getting a group together. So one of my accommodations was that a teacher would help me find a group. There's lots of accommodations that you can use if you figure out how to talk about your disability or challenges.

CARMODY: I know, but I want to push myself...

BORESOW: You're determined. I hear you. That's awesome.

CARMODY: Yeah. I read the textbook. And I pursue knowledge on my own.

BORESOW: So I think what you just got to do is give yourself permission to ask, you know? There's nothing wrong from learning from your professors. And there's really nothing wrong from learning from other people at your work or that you live with.

Like, I just don't get stuff sometimes, and I have to ask. And I can learn from other people telling me. And I think it's OK for you to figure things out by asking.

CARMODY: It can help. But a lot of things in life I've wanted an explanation to do.

Take laundry. I am terrible at folding my laundry. It just never clicks in my mind how to do it, no matter how often I explained or shown to me.

BORESOW: You know, that's a good point. There are certain things that no matter how many times you try I feel like I just don't get. Like, I get lost on a regular basis in places that are familiar. And so what I did was I took meticulous notes on how to enter the building, where I needed to my badge, how to navigate to the classroom. So maybe if being shown how to fold clothes isn't enough, maybe if it's pictures or maybe it's just a work-around solution of folding clothes is hard, so I'm going to hang them up instead.

CARMODY: Yeah.

BORESOW: But there's a way around.

MCEVERS: That was Elizabeth Boresow who graduated college in 2013 talking to college freshman James Carmody. They're both on the autism spectrum. And they got together for our series Been There. If you want advice about a big change in your life, email us at nprcrowdsource@npr.org and put Been There in the subject line.

雅思听力高频词汇

semester 学期

permission 许可

Navigate 导航

made it through 通过了

living on his own 靠自己生活

initiate 启动

hang up 挂断

fulfill 完成

freshman 大一新生

folding clothes 折叠衣服

figure out 找出

disorder 混乱

coursework 课程

catastrophic 灾难性的

blunders 错误

更多雅思听力训练素材，请关注牛学雅思频道哦。