新闻听力 | 美大学运动员将获薪
VOA慢速：美大学运动员将获薪US College Athletes May Soon Get Paid慢速| 四级 | 高考 | 6min7s刘立军供稿Part I. QUESTIONSListen to the news and choose the best answer to each question you hear.Q1. What is the role of the NCAA according to the text?A. It represents the interests of college athletes in legal cases.B. It is the organization that runs college sports in the United States.C. It is a group of schools that share television revenue.D. It is a federal agency that regulates education in the U.S.Q2. Why did the legal files argue against the NCAA and the conferences over the past 10 years?A. Because they were preventing athletes from joining labor unions.B. Because they claimed the athletes were not receiving fair compensation.C. Because the athletes were being treated as school employees.D. Because the athletes were being denied the right to vote on union matters.Q3. What does the settlement imply for the future status of student-athletes if approved?A. They will be considered employees of their schools.B. They will receive a one-time payment of $2.8 billion.C. They will be able to negotiate their contracts like professional athletes.D. They will be prohibited from receiving payments from outside groups.Q4. What is the main concern of the union representing the Dartmouth basketball players?A. The athletes should be allowed to receive payments from schools.B. The agreement does not clarify if student-athletes are considered employees.C. The settlement does not address the issue of equal pay for women.D. The NCAA should not be involved in the negotiation process.Q5. What is the potential impact of the settlement on less profitable sports, according to Tim Walton?A. They might receive a smaller share of the settlement funds.B. They will be dropped by the schools due to financial constraints.C. They will benefit equally from the new payment structure.D. They will be able to negotiate better contracts with the schools.Part II. TRANSCRIPTUS College Athletes May Soon Get PaidThe National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and the five biggest college sports conferences recently agreed to pay almost $2.8 billion to settle claims from college athletes.collegiate adj. 大学的；学院的；大学生的(Q1) The NCAA is the organization that runs college sports in the United States. It oversees about 500,000 college athletes from some 1,100 schools.The claims came up over the past 10 years. (Q2) The legal files argued that the NCAA and the conferences prevented college athletes from making money while playing sports for the schools.The greement calls for the NCAA and the conferences to pay $2.77 billion over 10 years to more than 14,000 former and current college athletes.The settlement still needs approval from a U.S. federal judge and different parties to the legal case. (Q3) If it is approved, students who play sports for their colleges will be permitted to be paid, like professional athletes, directly by the schools.Under current NCAA rules, college athletes, also known as student-athletes, can only receive payments from outside groups that use their names, images, and likenesses in commercial efforts, such as advertisements.In a statement, NCAA President Charlie Baker and the school representatives said the agreement was “an important step in the continuing reform of college sports.”Steve Berman, a leading lawyer in the cases, said with the settlement, “college athletes are finally able to receive a fair share of the billions of dollars of revenue that they generate for their schools.”Ramogi Huma, a strong supporter of college athlete’ rights, played football at the University of California, Los Angeles in the 1990s. He called the decision “groundbreaking”, adding that “there’s no going back from there.”More questions remainAlthough the decision provides a reason for celebration for some current and former students, it leaves more questions for others.Earlier in 2024, members of Dartmouth College’s basketball team voted to join a labor organization, called a union. The move means that the student-athletes on the team could have the right to negotiate a working contract like other university employees.Chris Peck is the leader of the union that represents the Dartmouth basketball players. He criticized the decision to settle by calling it “a workaround.”(Q4) Peck noted that the agreement, calling for universities to share money from television deals and ticket sales with athletes, does not answer whether students who play sports are school employees. The union wants a clear answer. Are students who play sports employees? Or, are they more like those who participate in non-study activities like singing in a group?Dartmouth has yet to accept the students’ union vote. And the NCAA is asking the U.S. Congress to step in and say student-athletes are not employees.Tim Walton coaches the women’s softball team at the University of Florida. The school belongs to one of the large conferences that will have to pay millions of dollars into the settlement.softball n. 垒球 (Q5) Walton wants to know what will happen to sports like women’s softball that do not bring in money like men’s football or basketball. He asked: “Are they dropping programs? Are they dropping sports?”In addition, there is a law in the U.S. known as Title IX that requires women and men to have equal rights in education. Does the law require female student-athletes to get paid like men?Michael LeRoy is a sports law professor at the University of Illinois. He said there will be a concern if “women get short-changed.”Christina Stylianou is a sports lawyer in New York. She and LeRoy both said regular payments from universities to students will make it easier for the students to argue that they are indeed employees.LeRoy said the NCAA would like to be able to pay student-athletes but not consider them employees. That, he noted, would mean the NCAA “is going to be treated differently than any other business in America. You cannot have separate pay.”But one college softball player, Tiare Jennings of the University of Oklahoma, did not seem too concerned about the legal questions. She was celebrating the fact that she might have some money saved after college.She said it will be nice for players to know they have money to, in her words, “kick-start your life.”kick-start v. 促使……开始；使（项目）尽快启动I’m Dan Friedell. And I’m Jill Robbins.Part III. KEYQ1. B. 细节题。根据：“The NCAA is the organization that runs college sports in the United States.”可知，NCAA在美国管理大学体育的组织，所以答案是B。Q2. B. 细节题。根据：“The legal files argued that the NCAA and the conferences prevented college athletes from making money while playing sports for the schools.” 意为：“法律文件认为NCAA和会议阻止了大学生运动员在为学校参加体育活动时赚钱。”也就是说运动员没有得到公平的补偿，因此答案是B。Q3. A. 推理题。根据：“...students who play sports for their colleges will be permitted to be paid, like professional athletes, directly by the schools.” 意为：“如果获得批准，为大学参加体育活动的学生将被允许像职业运动员一样直接从学校获得报酬。”可以推断，和解协议意味着如果获得批准，学生运动员可能会被视为学校的雇员，因此答案是A。Q4. B. 细节题。根据：“Peck noted that the agreement...does not answer whether students who play sports are school employees.” 可知，工会主要关心的问题是学生运动员是否被视为雇员，因此答案是B。Q5. D. 推理题。根据：“Walton wants to know what will happen to sports like women’s softball that do not bring in money like men’s football or basketball.” 意为：“Walton想知道像女子垒球这样不像男子足球或篮球那样赚钱的运动会发生什么。”可知，Tim Walton 担心像女子垒球这样不赚钱的运动项目可能会因为学校财务压力而被取消，因此答案是D。（本文图片来源于摄图网，版权归摄图网所有)