中级英语听力教程Lesson 6 How It Feels When Parents DivorceWord文档格式.docx

1、m with him every weekend. And I really look forward to the weekends because its kind of like a break-its like going to Disneyland because theres no set schedule, no Be home by five-thirty kind ofstuff. Its open. Its free. And my father is always buying me presents. My Mom got remarried and divorced

2、again, so Ive gone through twodivorcesso far. And my fathers also gotten remarried-to someone I dont get along with all that well. Its all made me feel that people shouldnt get married-they should just live together and make their own agreement. Then, if things get bad , they dont have to get divorc

3、ed and hire lawyers andsueeach other. And. even more important, they dont have to end up hating each other. Id say that the worst part of the divorce is the money problem. Its been hard on my Mom because lots of times she cant pay her bills, and it makes her angry when I stay with my father and he b

4、uys me things. She gets mad and says things like If he can buy you things like this , then he should be able to pay me. And I feel caught in the middle for two reasons;first, I cant really enjoy whatever my Dad does get for me, and second, I dont know who to believe. My Dads saying, I dont reallyowe

5、her any money, and my Moms saying he does. Sometimes I fight for my Mom and sometimes I fight for my Dad, but I wish theyd leave me out of itcompletely. In a lot of ways I wish my Mom would get remarried, because then she wouldnt have to worry so much aboutfinances. But Im sorry that my Dad got rema

6、rried, because I feel left out a lot of times. And one thing I really worry about is that I think they want to have a baby, and I know that if they do, it will be just like areplacementfor me.Thats because I only see my Dad on weekends, and since he would see the baby more than hed see me, hed proba

7、bly grow to like it more than he likes me. It could be a lot like what happened with my dog Spunkur.Ive had him for about six years and Ive always said Ill never love any dog as much as I love him. Well, a year ago I picked up a little black Labradorpuppyfrom the pound, and now I find Im not as frie

8、ndly with Spunkur as I used to be. And I think Spunkur feelsjealous, just like I would if my Dad and my stepmother had a baby.My Dad said it wouldnt be that way, that wed be a whole family and Id have a little brother or sister, which would be a lot of fun, but I told him, Look, by the time the kid

9、is old ehougli to talk, Ill be out of college. Im not going to have anything to do with a baby. You know that its just a replacement for me ! If I livedfull-time with my Dad, it would probably be easier for me to accept a haby because wed be on an equal footing, but Id rather stay with my Mom, where

10、 life is normal-where welive like most people live, with breakfast at breakfast time and dinner at d;nner time. I do my homework, play with my friends-its all the way life should be. If I lived with my Dad, it might be more fun at times, but I would go crazy. I wouldnt want to be brought up that way

11、.Text B Sara, age twelve I guess the main reason I was mad at Daddy was because it all made my mother so unhapp.y, and I ended up feeling sorry for both of them-my mother because she was struggling to make ends meet, and my Dad because he couldnt really do much about it. Even though my parentssepara

12、tedmore than three years ago, its still veryvividin my mind and I doubt if Ill ever forget the way I felt at the time. Yet, as awful as it was, I never hoped theyd get back together. And now I think Id die if they did, because it would be soawkwardfor rne.I think theyre both much happier now,. and i

13、ts obvious to me that they both lead totally different lives. Since the breakup Ive been able to see my parents true colors especially my mothers. Ive seen a side of her that I never saw before. When she was married, she and Daddy were the perfect couple, always quiet, talking aboutdignifiedthings,

14、and they would never laugh or anything.Nowadays my mother is always happy and ggy. Another way shes changed is that she always used to hide her problems from me but now shes moreaptto discuss things. I think shes more relaxed-and sos my Dad. Both of my parents started dating other people right away,

15、 and I think theyll both get remarried eventually, which is fine with me. They dont discuss their love lives with me all that much, but of course Im not blind. For example, one night I had a sleep-over at a friends house and the next morning I came home earlier than Id planned to.Well, I just stormed into my mothers bedroom, and the