strike, a ban on
working overtime, “working to rule”, that is when employees work
according to the company rule book, “go slows”, which means that
employees may spend more time doing the same job, and “picketing”,
which means the employees stand outside the entrance to the business
location, hoarding outside to show that they are in conflict with the
management. Every country has its own tradition of industrial relations,
so it?s difficult to generalize. In some businesses, unions are not
welcomed by the management, but it others, the unions play an important
role both in the everyday working relations of individual companies, and also in the social and political life of the country. SECTION B INTERVIEW
If you are going to create a TV show that plays week after week, it
needs an actor who can play a believer, you know, a person who tends to believe everything. Tonight in our show we have David Duchovney, who has starred in the popular TV series, “The X·Files”. Thanks to
his brilliant performance in the TV series, David has become one of
best-known figures in the country.
Interviewer: Good evening, David, I?m so glad to have you here.
David: It?s my pleasure. Thank you for inviting me on the show.
Interviewer: David, have you often been on the radio shows?
David: Oh, yes, quite often. To be frank, I love to be on the show. 262
Interviewer: Why? David: You know, I want to know what people think about the TV series
and about me, my acting, etc.
Interviewer: OK, David, let?s first talk about the character you
played in ?The X·Files?. The character, whose name is Mulder is
supposed to be a believer. He deals with those unbelievable, wild and
often disastrous events. He must be, I mean, Mulder, someone who really
believes in the things he meets in order to keep on probing into those mysteries. David: That?s true. Remember those words said by Mulder: What is so
hard to believe? Whose intensity makes even a most skeptical viewer
believe the paranormal and our rigorous government consipiracies,
without every reason to believe that life in the persistent survey is
driving us out of our territorial sphere, etc., etc.? Interviewer: I believe, I guess, David, your contribution to the hot
series is quite aparent. Now let?s talk about your personal experience. From what I have read, I know that starting from your childhood, you were always a smart boy, went to the best private school,
and were accepted at most of the Ivy League colleges. Not bad for a low middle class kid from a broken family on New York?s Lower Eastside.
It?s even more surprising when you, who were on your way to a doctorate
at Yale to took a few acting classes and got beaten by the book.
David: You bet. My mother was really surprised when I decided to give
up all that in order to become an actor.
Interviewer: Sure. But talking about Mulder, the believer in ?The
X·Files?, what about you, David? Do you believe at all in real life,
the aliens, people from outer space, you know, UFOs, government
conspiracies, all the things that the TV series deal with?
David: Well, government conspiracies, I think, are a little far
fetched. Because I mean, it?s very hard for me to keep a secret with
a friend of mine. And you can tell me that the entire government is 263
going to come together and hide the aliens from us? I find that hard
to believe. In terms of aliens, I think that they are real. They must be.
Interviewer: So you could believe in aliens? David: Oh, yeah. Interviewer: The character you played in ?The X·Files?, Fox Mulder,
is so dark and moody. Are you dark and moody in life? David: I think so. I think what they wanted was somebody who could be this hearted, driven person, but not behave that way and therefore
be hearted and driven but also appear to be normal and not crazy at
the same time. And I think that I could, I can, I can afford that. Interviewer: What haunts you now? What drives you now? David: What drives me is failure and success and all those things, so ...
Interviewer: Where are you now? Are you haunted and driven, failed
or successful, which? David: Yeah, both.
Interviewer: All of the above?
David: I always feel like a failure.
Interviewer: Do you mean now you feel like a failure? David: Yeah, I mean, sometimes you know, like I come back to New York,
so its like, everything is different. So I lie on bed and think, two
years ago, three years ago, very different. Maybe I?m doing well, but
then I think, you know there are just so many other things that I want to do and ...
Interviewer: Your father and mother divorced when you were eleven. Does 264 that have effect on your life today that you recognize? David: Well, yeah, I think that the only way to think of it is that,
you know, people are saying ?your wound is your goal?, you know,
?wherever you?re hurt, that?s where you?ll become stronger.? So,
that?s what, that?s what it?s really about ...
Interviewer: OK. It?s time for short break. We?ll be back in a minute.
David Duchovney in ?The X·Files?, don?t go away. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST
News Item 1 (For Question 11)
The Bush administration is warning that continuing mid-east violence
threatens to overwhelm US efforts to revise Israeli-Palestinian Peace
talks, using the recommendations of the Mitchell commission to bring
the two sides together. The administration officials are openly worried
the violence and particularly the car bomb attack injured Isreali
civilians could undermine what they see as a positive opening towards
renewed peace talks presented by the Mitchell report. The US appeal came in the week of the bomb blast Wednesday in Israeli coastal town
of Netanya that injured several Israelies. Responsibility for the
bombing was claimed by the Palestinian group, Islamic Jihad. At the state department, sopkesman, Phillip Reeker said there can be no
justification for terrorism and targeting its
civilians, and he urged
the Palestinian authority to do all they can to put an end to such
incidents which is said to threaten to overtake the latest peace efforts. News Item 2
Voters in Peru head to the post today to cast their ballots in a run off presidential election that many hope will mark the end of the nation?s political crisis. Opinion polls last week show the modern 265
candidate Arhumdred Toledo with a narrow lead over a left-leaning
former President Ellen Gaceya. Both candidates have campaigned on
similar populous platforms. Meanwhile pre-election Service indicates
that up to 25% of voters in Peru plan to spoil or leave their ballots
blank to show their dissatisfaction with both candidates.
News Item 3 (For Questions 13-15) Canada for the seventh consecutive year ranks the best place to live
in the world. But if you are a woman, you are better off in Scandinavia
since the UN Human Development Report (2000) released yesterday. Norway is in second place you know for ranking followed by the United States,
Australia, Iceland, Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands Japan and Britain.
Finland is in eleventh place followed by France, Switzerland, Germany,
Denmark, Austria, Luxembourg, Ireland, Italy and New Zealand. At the
other end of the scale, the ten least developed countries that provide the fewest service to their people, from the bottom up, a war-devastated
Sierra Leone, Niger, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Brandi, Guinean Bissau,