2003年英语专业八级考试真题听力原文本B

　　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.
　　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 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 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·file', don't go away.