Bài thực hành nghe Tiếng Anh nâng cao - Bài 04 - Thẩm Tâm Vy - Năm 2018 (Có âm thanh)

 Thẩm Tâm Vy, October 24th, 2018 PRACTISE LISTENING ESSON 4 
PRACTISE LISTENING ENGLISH 04 ~ ADVANCED 
Interviewer: Legendary veteran comic writer Stan Lee co-created Spider-Man and the 
Fantastic Four, amongst others. We asked him how he thought of Spider-Man and this 
was his response: 
Stan Lee: When trying to create a superhero, the first thing you have to think of, or at 
least the first thing I have to think of, is a super power. What super power would be 
different, that people hadn't seen before? I had already done the Hulk, who was the 
strongest character on Earth; I had done a group called the Fantastic Four: one of them 
could fly, one was invisible, and one's body could stretch and I was trying to think, 
'What else can I do?' And I've told this story so often that for all I know it might even be 
true! But I was sitting and watching a fly crawling on the wall, and I thought, 'Gee – 
that would be great – what if a character could crawl on walls like an insect?' So I had 
my super power, but then I needed a name. So I thought, 'Insect-man'  that didn’t 
sound good. 'Crawling-man?' And I went on and on. 'Mosquito-man?' And then 
somehow I said 'Spider-Man' and it just sounded dramatic and mysterious to me. So that 
was my name. 
Interviewer: When asked why he made Spider-man a scientist, he replied: 
Stan Lee: I had always resented the fact that in most superhero stories, or actually in 
most comic books, the hero is some sort of a rugged, muscular outdoorsman, a 
sportsman, an adventurer. And anybody who was literate or scholarly  they were  
he was always considered to be somewhat of a nerd. And I thought, 'My gosh, people 
don't have enough respect for intelligence.' So again, in trying to be different, and in 
trying to be realistic, I thought I would make my teenage hero a scholarship student, 
extra-bright; he was studying science. 
 And just to show that there's no reason why a hero couldn't also be a kid who likes 
science and is good in school and is smart  and that was the thinking behind it. 
Interviewer: When asked if he was at all scientific, he replied: 
Stan Lee: I'm not much of a scientist. I love reading science-fiction but when it comes 
to actual science, I'm  I'm a dummy. But I like to make things seem scientific! 
Interviewer: Our final question asked if Stan Lee thought there would ever be real 
superheroes. 
Stan Lee: I believe that they will be able, through cloning, through genetics, they will 
be able to find a way to abolish most diseases. They will be able  they will have to, 
see? Once these wars are finished with, if they ever are, we're going to want to go to the 
planets. They're going to want to go to Mars. Now it's such a long trip, and it will be so 
hard to get back again, they're going to have to make human beings able to adapt to 
Mars, adapt themselves. Or is it adopt? I never  I always get those two mixed up! But 
at any rate, I believe that they will find a way to make people able to live in the 
atmosphere of Mars, through altering them genetically. Because of genetics, I think we 
can do virtually anything.