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 1B1.Woman: This is my family. Im married. My husbands name is Bill. We have two children a boy and a girl. Our little girl is six years old, and our little boy is four. Jennie goes to kindergarten, and Aaron goes to nursery school. My father lives with us. Grandpas gre

2、at with the kids. He loves playing with them and taking them to the park or the zoo.2.Man: This is a picture of me and my three sons. Were at a soccer 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 skat

3、ing.3.Man: This is my wife June, and these are my three children. Terri on the right is the oldest. Shes in high school. Shes very involved in music. Shes in the orchestra. Rachel shes the one in the middle is twelve now. And this is my son Peter. Hes one year older than Rachel. Rachel and Peter are

4、 both in junior high school. Time really flies. June and I have been married for twenty years now.4.Woman: 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 c

5、ollege. It seems like the kids are 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 remem

6、ber he had beautiful red curls (mm) . 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 d

7、own) . Thats right, and cut off all his curls, you see. And my mother just was so upset, and in fact its the first . I think its one of the few times Ive ever seen my father really angry.Man: What happened to you?Woman: Oh . I was sent to my room for a whole week you know, it was terrible.Man But wa

8、s that the sort of pattern, werent you close to your brother at all?Woman: Well as I grew older I think that er I just ignored him .Man: What about . youve got an older brother too, did . were they close, the two brothers?Woman: No, no my brothers just a couple of years older than I . so the two of

9、us were closer and we thought we were both 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 home when 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

10、I really did lose contact with him for a long time.Man: What was he doing down there?Woman: 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 showin

11、g me pictures of his wedding, cause my mother 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) . and my mother said frostily, Tha

12、t . is your brother! (laughter)Questions for memory test:1. According to the passage, how many brothers does the lady have?2. When the sister saw her mother coo over her younger brother, how did she feel?3. Whats her fathers reaction when he got to know that the sister had cut off her younger brothe

13、rs hair?4. How old was her younger brother when she left home?5. Where did her brother eventually live?6. Who was the guy on the photos with a beard and glasses?PART 2A and B Radio presenter:Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek Phone-In. In todays program we re going to concentrate on personal

14、 problems. And here with me in the studio Ive got TessaColbeck, who writes the.in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at theUniversityofNorfolk. 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

15、caller on the line, and its Rosemary, I think, er calling fromManchester. Hello, Rosemary.Rosemary:Hello.Radio presenter:How can we help you, Rosemary?Rosemary:Well its my dad. He wont let me stay out after ten oclock at night and all my friends can stay out much longer than that. I always have to g

16、o home first. Its really embarrassing.Tessa: Hello, 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 out?Rosemary:Just to my friends house, usually. But everyone else can stay there much later than me. I have to l

17、eave at about a quarter to ten.Tessa:And does this friend of yours-does she live near you?Rosemary:It takes about ten minutes to walk from her house to ours.Tessa:I see. You live in Brighton, wasnt it? Well ,BrightonsRosemary: No, ManchesterI live in Manchester.Tessa:oh. Im sorry, love. Im getting m

18、ixed up. Yes, well Manchesters quite arough city, isnt it ? I mean, your dad.Rosemary:No, not really. Not where we live, it isnt. I dont live in theCityCenteror anything like that. And Christines house is in a very quiet part.Tessa:Christine. Thats your friend, is it?Rosemary:Yeah. Thats right. I me

19、an, I know my dad gets worried but its perfectly safe.Maurice:Rosemary. Have you talked about this with your dad?Rosemary:No. He just shouts and then he says he wontletme go out at all if I cant come home on time.Maurice:Why dont you just try to sit down quietly with your dad- sometime when hes rela

20、xed-and just have a quiet chat about it? Hell probably explain why he worries about you. It isnt always safe for young girls to go out at night.Tessa:Yes. And maybe you could persuade him to come and pick you up from Christines house once or twice.Rosemary:Yes .I dont think hell agree to that, but I

21、ll talk tohim about it . Thanks.Part 3Josephine: We did feel far more stability in our lives, because you see . in these days I think theres always a concern that families will separate or something, but in those days nobody expected the families to separate.Gertrude: Of course there may have been s

22、moking, drinking and drug-taking years ago, but it was all kept very quiet, 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.Ques

23、tion: What was your parents role in family life?Josephine: 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

24、 and then we also had someone who did the cleaning.Gertrude: Well, we lived in a flat, we only had three rooms 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 tw

25、elve shillings a week, you know as rent was - Im going back 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.Question: Did you have a close relationship with your parents?Josephine: In

26、a sense I would say not very close but we, at that time, didnt 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 tele

27、vision or even a radio and we would play games in the evenings rather than have conversation, I think.Question: Was there more discipline in families in those days?Josephine: Oh yes, I do think so, yes. We were much more disciplined and we went about as a family and it wasnt until I was probably abo

28、ut 18 before I would actually go out with any friends of my own.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 ea

29、rned two pounds a week.4. Gertrudes family had to pay ten shillings 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: P

30、arent Link is an organization that looks at the problems that parents 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 rejecte

31、d that and we had the sort of the permissive era-the age where many 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

32、 to parents are kind of a third position in which were looking at equals, where parents and children are different but equal.Q: What about changes in the male-female roles?T: Society has changed a lot. As well as technology leading to great changes, peoples roles have changed very much, in particular the womens movement has ver