英语听力教程二册第三版unit1听力原文

Unit1

Part 1

B

:

This is my family. I'm married. My husband's 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. Grandpa's great with the 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.

We're

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

skating.

:

This is my wife June, and these are my three children. Terri on

the right is the oldest. She's in high school. She's very involved in music.

She's in the orchestra. Rachel

—

she's the one in the middle

—

is twelve

now. And this is my son Peter. He's one year older than Rachel. Rachel

and Peter are both in junior high school. 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.

She'll

graduate

next year. Anne is two years younger. My son Dan is in college. It seems

like

the

kids

are

never

home.

I

see

them

for

dinner

and

sometimes

on

Saturday mornings, but that's about it. They're really busy and have a lot

of friends.

C

Woman:

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) ... 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) ... That's right, and cut off all his curls, you see. And

my mother just was so upset, and in fact it's the first ... I think it’s one of

the few times I've 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 was that the sort of pattern, weren't you close to your brother at

all?

Woman:

Well as I grew older I think that er I just ignored him ...

Man:

What

about ...

you've

got

an

older

brother

too,

did ...

were

they

close, the two brothers?

Woman:

No, no my brother's just a couple of years older than I ... so the

two of 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 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 didn't, I can't even remember, erm sending a card, even, when

he got married. But I re ... I do remember that later on my mother was

showing 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,

thought it was the bride's brother or something like this (mm) ... and my

mother said frostily,

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. What's her father's reaction when he got to know that the sister had cut

off her younger brother's 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 2

A and B

Radio

presenter:

Good

afternoon.

And

welcome

to

our

midweek

Phone-In.

In

today's

program

we'

re

going

to

concentrate

on

personal

problems.

And

here

with

me

in

the

studio

I've

got

Tessa Colbeck,

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,

er

calling

from Manchester.

Hello,

Rosemary.

Rosemary:

Hello.

Radio presenter:

How can we help you, Rosemary?

Rosemary:

Well it’s my dad. He

won

’

t let me stay out after ten o'clock at

night and all my friends can stay out much longer than that. I always have

to go home first. It's really embarrassing...

Tessa:

Hello, Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you, dear?

Rosemary

: I'm fifteen in two month's time.

Tessa:

And where do you go at night?--When you go out?

Rosemary:

Just to my friend's house, usually. But everyone else can stay

there much later than me. I have to leave 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, wasn

’

t it? Well ,B righton

’

s

…

Rosemary:

No,

Manchester…I

live in Manchester.

Tessa:

oh.

I’

m sorry, love.

I’

m getting mixed up. Yes, well Manchester's

quite a rough city, isn't it ? I mean, your dad...

Rosemary:

No,

not

really.

Not

where

we

live,

it

isn

’

t.

I

don't

live

in

the City Center or

anything

like that.

And

Christine's house

is in a

very

quiet part.

Tessa:

Christine. That's your friend, is it?

Rosemary:

Yeah. That's right. I mean, I know my dad gets worried but

it’

s perfectly safe.

Maurice:

Rosemary. Have you talked about this with your dad?

Rosemary:

No. He just shouts and then he says he won't let me go out at

all if I can't come home on time.

Maurice:

Why

don't

you

just

try

to

sit

down

quietly

with

your

dad--

sometime

when

he's

relaxed--and

just

have

a

quiet

chat

about

it?

He

’

ll

probably explain why he worries about you. It isn't 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 Christine's house once or twice.

Rosemary:

Yes .I don't think he'll agree to that, but I'll talk to him about

it . Thanks.

Part 3

Josephine:

We

did

feel

far

more

stability

in

our

lives,

because

you

see ...

in

these

days

I

think

there's

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

smoking,

drinking

and

drug-taking

years

ago,

but

it

was

all

kept

very

quiet,

nobody

knew

anything about it. But these days there really isn't the family life that we

used

to

have.

The

children

seem

to

do

more

as

they

like

whether

they

know it's right or wrong. Oh, things are very different I think.

Question:

What was your parents' role in family life?

Josephine:

Well, my mother actually didn't 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.

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 didn't work, obviously. My father's wage I think was about two