大学英语听力教程2原文

1、第一部分1.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 great with the kids. he loves pla

2、ying 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 skating.3.man:this is my wife june,

3、 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 both in junior high school. tim

4、e 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 college. it seems like the kids ar

5、e 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.第二部分john:its super, mary. its just what i wanted.mary:well, i know you said your old calculator was no good any more.john:well, it wasnt that it was no good. it ju

6、st wouldnt do all the things i need to do at work. and it certainly wouldnt remember telephone numbers for me like this one.mary:i suppose youre going to start putting in numbers straightaway.john:ive put in one while weve been chatting. ive put in our solicitors number. you know how often i need to

7、 call him on company contracts.mary:so what others are you going to put in?john:well, number one. accountant, i think.mary:the companys accountant?john:yes. now just let me put in the number. thats it.mary:and number two, the bank.john:ok. bank. now, thats 345674. oh . and number 3, the doctor.mary:

8、yes. his numbers, er, let me think. 76763. and then the dentist, of course.john:whats that? number 4, isnt it? dentist.mary:yes, the numbers 239023. i remember, because i rang yesterday about robbies appointment.john:thats fine. and now the garage. 757412.mary:and then how about the station number?

9、youre always hunting around for that in a panic.john:yes, youre right. what is the number anyway?mary:oh, i cant remember. ill just look it up in the telephone directory.john:all right. now, number 7, the flower shop, i think. yes, florist. and thats 989024. oh, i mustnt forget the new london office

10、 number. so thats number 8, new london office.mary:john, heres the station number. 546534.john:546534. thanks. now that was number 6 on my list.mary:how far have you got now?john:well, ive added a couple more. the next one will be 9.mary:what about bill and sue?john:no, i can always remember their n

11、umber. but i always have to look up john and janes number. what is it?mary:john and jane . john and jane . i know, 21463.john:ok. 21463. john and jane. and one more perhaps?mary:the hairdresser?john:why do i need the hairdressers number? no, i thought this was my pocket calculator. oh, i tell you on

12、e number we do need quite often the sports club!mary:the sports club!john:great minds think alike! ok, number 10. sports club. and thats mary:675645.john:675645. well thats enough for the moment, i think. now, as its my birthday, what about taking me out for a meal?mary:i dont think i can remember t

13、he telephone number of our favorite restaurant!第三部分josephine: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

14、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 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

15、 think.question: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

16、 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 didnt work, obviously. my fathers wage i think was about two pounds a week and i suppose our rent was

17、about twelve 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?josephi

18、ne:in 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

19、a television 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

20、 about 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 fathe

21、r earned 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.第五部分wo

22、man: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

23、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 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

24、really angry.man:what happened to you?woman:oh . i was sent to my room for a whole week you know, it was terrible.manbut was 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 to

25、o, did . were they close, the two brothers?woman:no, no my brothers 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

26、 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 didnt, i cant eve

27、n 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,oh, wh

28、os this then? cause i thought it was the brides brother or something like this (mm) . and my mother said frostily, that . 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 brot

29、her, how did she feel?3. whats her fathers reaction when he got to know that the sister had cut off her younger brothers 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?第二单元第一部分when parents

30、make a lot of rules about their childrens behavior, they make trouble for themselves. i used to spend half my time making sure my rules were obeyed, and the other half answering questions like jack can get up whenever he likes, so why cant i? or why cant i play with angela? jacks mum doesnt mind who

31、 he plays with or jack can drink anything he likes. why cant i drink wine too?jacks mum, i decided, was a wise woman. i started saying things like of course, dear. you can drink as much wine as you like and no, i dont mind how late you get up and yes, dear, you can play with angela as often as you l

32、ike.the results have been marvelous. they dont want to get up late any more, theyve decided they dont like wine, and, most important, theyve stopped playing with angela. ive now realized (as jacks mum realized a long time ago) that they only wanted to do all these nasty things because they werent al

33、lowed to.第二部分radio presenter:good afternoon. and welcome to our midweek phone-in. in todays program were going to concentrate on personal problems. and here with me in the studio ive got tessa colbeck, who writes the agony column inflashmagazine, and doctor maurice rex, student medical adviser at th

34、e university of norfolk.the number to ring with your problem is oh one, if youre outside london, two two two, two one two two. and we have our first caller on the line, and its rosemary, i think, er calling from manchester. hello rosemary.rosemary:hello.radio presenter:how can we help you, rosemary?

35、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 go home first. its really embarrassing tessa:hello, rosemary, love. rosemary, how old are you dear?rosemary:im fifteen in two months time.tessa:and whe

36、re 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 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

37、.tessa:i see. you live in brighton, wasnt it? well, brightons rosemary:no. manchester i live in manchester.tessa:oh. im sorry, love. im getting mixed up. yes, well manchesters quite a rough city, isnt it? i mean, your dad rosemary:no. not really. not where we live it isnt. i dont live in the city ce

38、nter or anything like that. and christines house is in a very quiet part.tessa:christine. thats your friend, is it?rosemary:yeah. thats right. i mean, 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

39、says he wont let me 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 relaxed - 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:

40、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 ill talk to him about it. thanks.第三部分1.discipline needs to be there in a certain amount but too much of it can be a bad thing i think and i certainly d

41、o get too much of it occasionally.2.i think talking to them, trying to explain why youre upset, what it is they have done wrong is better than hitting them, because if you hit them they learn to hit other things, other people, you, and i dont think that is a solution to anything.3.my experience as,

42、as, as a mother now is you can, you can talk with a child very much and, and the child is going to understand much more than you believe, even if it is a one-year-old or two-years-old child. and i think its um its a very bad thing punishing children, because it remains being er an awfully er dark ex

43、perience, and so it was it for me too, because when im thinking about my parents i cant help thinking about these days where they punished me.4.i wouldnt be as strict as my dad was, definitely not, cos i dont think that works. that only makes you rebel.5.well, theres smacking and smacking. i dont at

44、 all agree with beating a child, but i do think sometimes a quick, short smack on the hand or arm is better than a long drawn-out moan. its quick and the child understands it.6.i cant really defend it when i, when i hit my child, i dont do it often but something about it makes me think that its not

45、a terrible thing to do. i mean, what are the alternatives? you can shout at your child, you can try to sit down and reason with your child, which is incredibly difficult if youre trying to talk to a two-year-old. or what else can you do? you can send them out of the room, you can send them up to the

46、ir room, you can not let them have any pudding for the dinner, or something, but i mean to me a little spank, to me its quick, its honest, its physical, but having said all that i still try not to do it.第五部分louisa:she doesnt let me watch that much tv after school, which is really annoying because mo

47、st of my friends watchhome and awayandneighborsbut i only get to watch one of them. i sometimes dont i mean i think thats really unfair so sometimes i just watch both anyway.mother:first and foremost, louisa watches a fair amount of television whether she thinks shes deprived or not, she must watch

48、at least 45 minutes per day. and when im not around you know i know the child sneaks in a fair amount more than that. so she gets in a fair amount of television, certainly on the weekends. but i am of the opinion that television, very very very few programs will teach them anything. and i think when

49、 a child is under your care for 18 years its the parents responsibility to make sure that the input is of value, and i dont think television, much television is of any value at all, i think reading a book and doing her piano lessons are far more valuable than watching crummy american soap operas.que

50、stions for memory test:1. how many tv plays are mentioned?2. for how long a time does louisa watch tv per day?3. does louisa try to get more time to watch tv?4. which activities does louisas mother think are far more valuable?my parents gave me a lot of free time. after dinner, during the week when

51、i was say even 15 years old they would let me go out until ten oclock and they would never ask where i went. i would smoke cigarettes and drink beer, at 15 years old i would hang out in the . in the local pubs and these were type of things that i dont think were too good for me at that time. i think

52、 my parents should have, you know, maybe at least showed an interest as to where i was going. they never even asked where i was going and they, they gave me a lot of free time, and i think that they, they felt that this was a thing that was being a good parent. but i think that teenagers are very na

53、ive, and i was as a teenager very naive, and i think i could have used a little more direction from them. these days a lot of parents think they should be lenient with their children, they should let them grow and experience on their own. and i think thats what my parents were doing, i think theres

54、a biblical saying spare the rod, spoil the child and i think that really applies. and i think you need to direct especially young people. they can be thrown into such a harsh world, especially if you live in a city. i lived in a very small village and it was still a rough crowd that i found in that

55、village. and my parents never asked questions, and if they only knew they would be shocked.statements:1. when the boy was 15 years old, he could stay out until ten oclock.2. at the age of 15, the boy was not allowed to smoke cigarettes or drink beer.3. the boy thought his parents were very good beca

56、use they gave him a lot of free time.4. the boy lived in a very crowded city.第三单元第一部分house agent: right, if youd just come this way.woman:thank you.man:yes.house agent:er on the right here we have the er the bathroom, which as you can see is fully fully fitted. if we just move forward now, we er come into the er main main bed-sitting room here. and er on the left are dining room table and chairs.woman:oh yes.man:yes.house agen