英语听力教程第二册第三版unit1听力原文.docx

1、英语听力教程第二册第三版unit1听力原文Unit1Part 1B: This is myfamily. Im married. Myhusbands nameis Bill.We have two children a boy and a girl. Our little girl issix years old, and our little boy is four. Jennie goes to kindergarten, and Aaron goes to nursery school. My father lives with us. Grandpas great with the

2、kids. He loves playing with them and taking them to the park or the zoo.: This is a picture of me and my three sons. Were at asoccer game. Orlando is twelve, Louis is ten, and Carlos is nine. All three of them really like sports. Orlando and Louis play baseball. Carlos is into skating.: This is my w

3、ife June, and these are my three children.Terri on the right is the oldest. Shes in high school. Shesvery involved in music. Shes in the orchestra. Rachel shes the one in the middle is twelve now. And this is myson Peter. Hes one year older than Rachel. Rachel and Peter are both in junior high schoo

4、l. Time really flies. June and I have been married for twenty years now.: This is a picture of me with my three kids. The girls,Jill and Anne, are both in high school. This is Jill on the right. Shell graduate next year. Anne is two years younger. My son Dan is in college. It seems like the kids are

5、 never home. I see them for dinner and sometimes on Saturday mornings, but thats about it. Theyre really busy and have a lot of friends.CWoman: Well, my brother was six years younger than I, and er,I think that when he was little I was quite jealous of him. I remember he had beautiful red curls (mm)

6、 . my mother used to coo over him. One day a friend and I played, erm, barber shop, and, erm, my mother must have been away, she must have been in the kitchen or something (mm) and we got these scissors and sat my brother down and kept him quiet and (strapped him down) . Thats right, and cut off all

7、 his curls, you see. And my mother just was so upset, and in fact its the first . I think it s one of the few times Ive ever seen my father really angry.Man: What happened to youWoman: Oh . I was sent to my room for a whole week you know, it was terrible.Man But was that the sort of pattern, werent

8、you close to your brother at allWoman: Well as I grew older I think that er I just ignoredhim .Man: What about . youve got an older brother too, did . were they close, the two brothersWoman: No, no my brothers just a couple of years older thanI . so the two of us were closer and we thought we were b

9、oth very grown up and he was just a . a kid . so we deliberately, I think, kind of ignored him. And then I left, I left homewhen he was only still a schoolboy, he was only fifteen (mm) and I went to live in England and he eventually went to live in Brazil and I really did lose contact with him for a

10、 long time.Man: What was he doing down thereWoman: Well, he was a travel agent, so he went down there to work . And, erm, I didnt, I cant even remember, erm sending a card, even, when he got married. But I re . I do remember that later on my mother was showing mepictures of his wedding, cause my mot

11、her and father went down there (uh huh) to the wedding, and er, there was this guy on the photos with a beard and glasses, and I said,Oh, whos this then cause I thought it was the brides brother or something like this (mm) . andmymother said frostily, That . is your brother! (laughter) Questions for

12、 memory test:1.According to the passage, how many brothers does the lady have2.Whenthe sister saw her mother coo over her younger brother, how did she feel3.Whats her fathers reaction when he got to know that thesister had cut off her younger brothers hair4.How old was her younger brother when she l

13、eft home5.Where did her brother eventually live6.Who was the guy on the photos with a beard and glassesPART 2A and BRadio presenter: Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek Phone-In. In todays program we re going to concentrate on personal problems. And here with me in the studio Ive gotTessa Col

14、beck, who writes the.in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the University of Norfolk.The number to ring with your problem is oh one, if you are outside London, two two two, two one two two. And we have our first caller on the line, and it s Rosemary, I think, ercallin

15、g from Manchester. Hello, Rosemary.Rosemary: Hello.Radio presenter: How can we help you, RosemaryRosemary: Well it s my dad. He won t let me stay out after ten oclock at night and all my friends can stay out muchlonger than that. I always have to go home first. Its really embarrassing.Tessa: Hello,

16、Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you, dear Rosemary: Im fifteen in two months time.Tessa: And where do you go at night-When you go outRosemary: Just to my friends house, usually. But everyoneelse can stay there muchlater than me. I have to leave at about a quarter to ten.Tessa: And does this fr

17、iend of yours-does she live near youRosemary: It takes about ten minutes to walk from her house to ours.Tessa: I see. You live in Brighton, wasn t itWell ,Brighton sRosemary: No, Man Chester I live in Man Chester.Tessa: oh. I msorry, love. I mgetting mixed up. Yes, well ManChesters quite a rough Cit

18、y, isnt it I mean, your dad. Rosemary: No, not really. Not where welive, it isn t. I dont live in the City Center or anything like that. AndChristines house is in a very quiet part.Tessa: Christine. Thats your friend, is itRosemary:Yeah. Thats right. I mean, I know my dad getsworried but it s perfec

19、tly safe.Maurice:Rosemary. Have you talked about this with your dadRosemary:No. He just shouts and then he says hewont letme go out at all if I cant come home on time.Maurice:Whydont you just try to sit down quietly with yourdad- sometime when hes relaxed-and just have a quiet chat about it He ll pr

20、obably explain why he worries about you. It isnt always safe for young girls to go out at night.Tessa: Yes. And maybeyou could persuade him to comeand pick you up from Christines house once or twice.Rosemary:Yes .I dont think hell agree to that, but Ill talkto him about it . Thanks.Part 3Josephine:W

21、e did feel far more stability in our lives,because you see . in these days I think theres always aconcern that families will separate or something, but in those days nobody expected the families to separate.Gertrude:Of course there may have been smoking,drinking and drug-taking years ago, but it was

22、 all kept veryquiet, nobody knew anything about it. But these days there really isnt the family life that we used to have. The children seem to do more as they like whether they know its right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think.Question: What was your parents role in family lifeJosephin

23、e: Well, my mother actually didnt do a tremendous amount in the house, but she did do a great deal of work outside and she was very interested, for example, in the Nursing Association collecting money for it. We had somebody who looked after us and then we also had someone who did the cleaning.Gertr

24、ude: Well, we lived in a flat, we only had threerooms and a bathroom. Father worked on the railway at Victoria Station and my mother didnt work, obviously. My fathers wage I think was about two pounds a week and I suppose our rent was about twelve shillings a week, you know as rent was - Im going ba

25、ck a good many years. We didnt have an easy life, you know and I think thats why my mother went out so much with her friends. It was a relief for her, you know really.Josephine:Question: Did you have a close relationship with your parentsIn a sense I would say not very close but we, at that time, di

26、dnt feel that way, we didnt think about it very much I dont think. I think today people are much closer to their parents and talk about everything, which we didnt. Then, of course, we used to play a lot of games, because we didnt have a television or even a radio and we would play games in the eveni

27、ngs rather than have conversation, I think.Question: Was there more discipline in families in those daysJosephine: Oh yes, I do think so, yes. Wewere much more disciplined and we went about as a family and it wasnt untilI was probably about 18 before I would actually go out with any friends of my ow

28、n.Statements:1.Seventy years ago young people often smoked and drank in front of others.2.Apart from a great deal of work outside, Josephines mother also looked after her children and did the cleaning in the house.3.Gertrudes father earned two pounds a week.4.Gertrudes family had to pay ten shilling

29、s a week for their flat.5.Young people seventy years ago deeply felt that they did not have a very close relationship with their parents.6.Nowadays people are much closer to their parents and talk about everything to them.Part 4Q: Parent Link is an organization that looks at the problems that parent

30、s and children face. Its director, Tim Kahn, told us about the changing roles of parents and children.T: The authoritarian model was one in which the child had no rights and I guess in the 60s and perhaps the 70s many people rejected that and we had the sort of the permissive era-the age where many

31、parents felt they had to allow their children to do whatever they wanted to do and so in a sense the roles were reversed and it was the children who were the bosses and the parents who ran around behind them. The ideas that we offer to parents are kind of a third position in which were looking at eq

32、uals, where parents and children are different but equal. Q: What about changes in the male-female rolesT: Society has changed a lot. As well as technology leading to great changes, people s roles have changed very much, in particular the women s movement has very much questioned the role of womenand led many womento demanda freer c