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Unit 9
T
ask 1
【答案】
1) b,
2) a,
3) c,
4) c,
5) b,
6) a,
7) c,
8) b,
9) a,
10) b
【原文】
1) So, what
does your father do for a living?
2)
How many people are in your family?
3)
How old is your sister?
4) Where do
your parents live now?
5) How many
brothers and sisters do you have?
6)
What is your brother
’
s name?
7) Where does your mother work?
8) How long have you been married?
9) Do you have any children?
10) Where did you and your wife meet?
T
ask 2
【答案】
Name
Mary
John
Anne
Age
13
12
12
Position
eldest
youngest
middle
Feeling
“terrible”
“I
hate it.”
Reasons
do
housework;
go
shopping;
be
nice
to
her
younger
brother and sister
go
to
bed
earlier;
less
pocket
money;
smaller room; “No
one ever listen to me.”
“the
worst
place
not
special;
wear
old
clothes
and
use
old
of
all”
schoolbag of older
sister; no presents while
younger
brother has
【原文】
My name
is Mary and I’m 13.
I’m the eldest in my family. It’s terrible. I have
to help m
y
mother in the
house, and do the shopping too. But my younger
brother and sister don’t do
a thing.
They just play all day. And they come
into my room and break my things. My mother
says, “Y
ou
must
be nice to them. They’re smaller than you.” And my
father tells me, “Y
ou’re the
eldest, so
you must set a good
example.”
I’m
John, 12. I’m the youngest in my family. I hate
it. My two brothers are 18 and 16, and
my siste
r’s a year older
than me. But they all think I’m still a baby. They
can go to bed late, but I
have to go to
bed early. They get more pocket money than me too,
and they have bigger bedrooms.
I’ve
got
the smallest room in the family.
And no one ever listens to me.
My name is Anne and I’m 12. I’m the
middle one in my family. That’s the worst place of
all.
I’m
not the
eldest and I’m not the youngest, so I’m not
special. My elder sister does everything
first, and she gets everything new. I
have to wear her old
clothes and use
her old bag for school.
Then everyone
spoils my baby brother. They bring him presents
and talk about him all the time.
When I
grow up, I’m
going to have
two children only. That’s better.
T
ask 3
【答案】
1) c,
2) a,
3) a,
4) a,
5) b,
6) a,
7) c
【原文】
Ana Maria
Cavazos was born on June 9th, 1908, in Reynosa,
Medico. She was the eleventh
of twelve
children.
Her
father,
Jesus
Cavazos,
was
originally
from
V
ictoria,
Texas,
but
moved
his
family
to
Mexico around 1855.
Ana’s
mother, Juana Castro, was the oldest of six
brothers and sisters. Juana and Jesus
were
married
in
1880. Ana’s family came to the United States
during the Mexican Rev
olution in 1913.
Their
family
experienced
much
hardship.
Ana
grew
up
in
Texas
and
met
her future
husband
in
1929. Ana and Abel
Contreras were married in 1931 and were the
parents of eleven children.
T
ask 4
【答案】
1)
F
,
2) T,
3) T,
4) F,
5) F,
6) F
【原文】
Margaret: Is
family life in England very different from family
life in your country, Maria?
Maria: No,
I don’t think so. But I have noticed a few
differences.
Margaret: Oh,
such as what?
Maria: Well, the family unit seems to
be smaller here than in my country. For you, the
family is
simply Mum, Dad and the
children.
Margaret: Y
ou have a more
extended family circle, do you?
Maria:
Y
es.
It’s
quite
common
in
my
country
to
have
a
grandmothe
r
and
an
unmarried
aunt
or
uncle
living
in
as
part
of
the
family.
And
we
wouldn’t
dream
of
sending
an
elderly
relative to an old people’s home, for
instance
.
Margaret: Y
ou take care of
elderly relatives yourselves, I guess.
Maria:
Oh
yes.
We
haven’t
got
all
your
welfare
services
and
it’s
the
family’s
duty
to
loo
k
after an elderly parent, for example.
Margaret: What about hospitality? Do
you think English families do a lot of
entertaining?
Maria:
Y
es,
but
in
a
rather
f
ormal
way
.
Y
ou
don’t
like
people
to
“drop
in”
without
a
previous
invitation,
do
you?
In
my country
it’s
quite
usual
to
drop
in
on
friends
and
relatives.
Margaret: Have
you ever lived in with an English family?
Maria:
Y
es,
I
have. I was
an
au
pair
girl
for
a
year.
I
learned
a
lot
about
English
family
life
then. I’d never realized
how fond the Englishman is of his home and family,
his
garden
and his pets.
Margaret: Pets? What sort of pets did
they have?
Maria: Oh, all
sorts
—
dogs,
cats and goldfish.
Margaret: Did you
enjoy living in with the family?
Maria:
Oh,
yes.
They
were
very
kind.
Everybody
helped
with
the washing
up,
including
the
children, and we always found time to
sip tea and watch television in the
evenings!
T
ask 5
【答案】
1) b,
2) c,
3) b,
4) b,
5) a
【原文】
Susan: I
suppose that in England, too, family life has
changed a lot in the last 50 years,
hasn
’
t
it?
Marilyn: Oh yes, very much so. I think
families used to be much larger. My grandmother
was one
of fourteen children!
V
ery few people nowadays care to have
such large families.
Susan:
I
suppose
that’s
why
in
those
days
very
few
women
took
up
careers
outside
the
home. They were
too busy bringing up their families.
Marilyn:
Y
es,
but
most
well-to-
do
families
had
servants
to
do
the
housework
and
even
nannies to look
after the children.
Susan: Would you
like to have lived then, Marilyn?
Marilyn:
Not
particularly!
Women
weren’t
as
free
as
they
are
today.
They
often
had
to
marry
men
they
didn
’t
like
and
they
were
financially
dependent
on
their
parents
or
their husbands.
I think we’re much better off today
,
don’t you?
Susan:
Well,
I
suppose
we
have
more
freedom
of
choice
and
we’re
more
independent,
but,
you
know,
some
arranged
marriages
were
very
successful.
And
there
was
something rather charming about
courtship in those days.
Marilyn:
Really? Such as what?
Susan: Well, the
custom of asking a girl’s father for permission to
marry her, for example.
Marilyn:
An
d
supposing
he
didn’t
give
his
permission?
No,
thank
you.
I
think
family
life
is
much pleasanter today because it’s
freer and more informal. At least today we’re free
to
marry whoever we like and to take up
a job, if we wish.
Susan: That’s true.
But
I still think that family life in
the old days must have been very pleasant
and secure.
T
ask
6
【答案】
1) They
never interfered with her plans
too
much and she was allowed to take up the career she
wanted.
2) She became
independent financially. But she still stays with
her parents a lot.
3) Y
es.
4)
She doesn’t always get
along
well with her parents.
5) They treat her as a child and they
try to control her.
【原文】
Bella:
Do
you
think
young
people
are
given
too
much
freedom
nowadays
and
that
as
a
result
they’ve lost respect for
their parents and their elders generally,
Joyce?
Joyce: I don’t think
s
o. My parents never interfered with my
plans too much. They advised me but
never
forced
me
to
do
anything
I
didn’t
want
to
do.
I
was
allowed
to
take
up
the
career I wanted. I think I respect and
love them more for this.
Bella: Are you quite independent of
them now?
Joyce:
Y
es.
As
soon
as
I
left
school
and
started
my studies
as
a
nurse,
I
became
independent
financially. I have a government grant
which is enough for my keep. But I still stay with
them a lot, as you know.
Bella: Y
ou seem very close
to your parents.
Joyce:
I
am.
I
know
that
many
young
people
today
say
they
have
nothing
in
common
with
their
parents,
but
I’m
rather
lucky
because
I
get
on
well
with
mine.
What
about
you,
Bella?
Bella:
Well,
we
value
fam
ily
life
very
much
in
my country.
I’m
very
fond
of
my family,
but
I
don’t always get on very well with
them. They try to control me too much.
Joyce: But they allowed you to come to
study in England on your own!
Bella:
Y
es, but only after a lot of
persuasion! Y
our parents treat you as
an adult; mine treat me a
child.
Joyce:
As
I said,
I’m
lucky
.
Some
English
parents
are
like
yours.
They
interfere
too
much
and
they’re
out of sympathy with our generation.
T
ask 7
【答案】
A.
d
B.
1)
A
writer for
the “Agony Column” in
Flash
magazine.
2)
Fifteen in two
months’ time
.
3) Manchester.
4) Quite a rough city.
5)
Christine.
【原文】
Radio Presenter: Good afternoon. And
welcome to our midweek phone-
in. In
today’s programme
we’re
going to concentrate on personal
problems
. And here with me in the
studio
I’ve got Tessa Colbeck, who
writes the agony column in
Flash
magazine.
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 months’ 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 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. Y
ou live in
Brighton, was it? Well, Brighton’s ....
Rosemary: No. Manchester... I live in
Manchester.
Tessa: Oh. I’m sorry, love.
I’m getting mixed up. Y
es, 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
Centre
or
anything like
that. And Christine’s ho
use 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.
Radio Presenter:
Rosemary, have you talked about this with your
dad?
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