大学英语听力教程2原文

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第一部分 1.Woman: 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.

2.Man: 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.

3.Man: 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.

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. 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. 第二部分

John: It's super, Mary. It's just what I wanted. Mary: Well, I know you said your old calculator was

no good any more.

John: Well, it wasn't that it was no good. It just

wouldn't do all the things I need to do at work.

And it certainly wouldn't remember telephone

numbers for me like this one.

Mary: I suppose you're going to start putting in

numbers straightaway.

John: I've put in one while we've been chatting. I've

put in our solicitor's number. You know how

often I need to call him on company contracts.

Mary: So what others are you going to put in?

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John: Well, number one. Accountant, I think.

Mary: The company's accountant?

John: Yes. Now just let me put in the number. That's

it.

Mary: And number two, the bank.

John: OK. Bank. Now, that's 345674. Oh ... And number

3, the doctor.

Mary: Yes. His number's, er, let me think. 76763. And

then the dentist, of course.

John: What's that? Number 4, isn't it? Dentist.

Mary: Yes, the number's 239023. I remember, because

I rang yesterday about Robbie's appointment.

John: That's fine. And now — the garage. 757412.

Mary: And then how about the station number? You're

always hunting around for that in a panic.

John: Yes, you're right. What is the number anyway?

Mary: Oh, I can't remember. I'll just look it up in

the telephone directory.

John: All right. Now, number 7, the flower shop, I

think. Yes, florist. And that's 989024. Oh, I

mustn't forget the new London office number.

So that's number 8, new London office.

Mary: John, here's the station number. 546534.

John: 546534. Thanks. Now that was number 6 on my

list.

Mary: How far have you got now?

John: Well, I've added a couple more. The next one

will be 9.

Mary: What about Bill and Sue?

John: No, I can always remember their number. But I

always have to look up John and Jane's 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 hairdresser's number? No, I

thought this was my pocket calculator. Oh, I

tell you one number we do need quite often —

the sports club!

Mary: the sports club!

John: Great minds think alike! OK, number 10. Sports

Club. And that's —

Mary: 675645.

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John: 675645. Well that's enough for the moment, I

think. Now, as it's my birthday, what about

taking me out for a meal?

Mary: I don't think I can remember the 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

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 pounds a week and I

suppose our rent was about twelve shillings

a week, you know as rent was - I'm going back

a good many years. We didn't have an easy

life, you know and I think that's 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 a sense I would say not very close but we,

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at that time, didn't feel that way, we didn't

think about it very much I don't think. I

think today people are much closer to their

parents and talk about everything, which we

didn't. Then, of course, we used to play a

lot of games, because we didn't have 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 wasn't until I was probably 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, Josephine's mother also looked after her children and did the cleaning in the house.

3. Gertrude's father earned two pounds a week.

4. Gertrude's 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

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

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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,"Oh, who's this then?" 'cause I

thought it was the bride's 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 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?

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6. Who was the guy on the photos with a beard and glasses?

第二单元

第一部分

When parents make a lot of rules about their

children's 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 can't I?" or "Why can't I play with Angela? Jack's mum doesn't mind who he plays with" or "Jack can drink anything he likes. Why can't I drink wine too?"

Jack's 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 don't mind how late you get up" and "Yes, dear, you can play with Angela as often as you like."

The results have been marvelous. They don't want to get up late any more, they've decided they don't like wine, and, most important, they've stopped playing with Angela. I've now realized (as Jack's mum realized a long time ago) that they only wanted to do all these nasty things because they weren't allowed to.

第二部分

Radio Good afternoon. And welcome to our midweek

presenter: 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 agony column

inFlash 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're outside London, two two two,

two one two two. And we have our first

caller on the line, and it's Rosemary, I

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think, er calling from Manchester. Hello

Rosemary.

Rosemary: Hello.

Radio How can we help you, Rosemary?

presenter:

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 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, Brighton'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.

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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.

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 do get too much of it occasionally.

2. I think talking to them, trying to explain why you're 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 don't think that is a solution to anything.

3. My experience as, 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 it's um it's a very bad thing punishing children, because it remains being er an awfully er dark experience, and so it was it for me too, because when I'm thinking about my parents I can't help thinking about these days where they punished me.

4. I wouldn't be as strict as my dad was, definitely not, cos I don't think that works. That only makes you rebel.

5. Well, there's smacking and smacking. I don't at 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. It's quick and the child understands it.

6. I can't really defend it when I, when I hit my child, I don't do it often but something about it makes me think that it's not … 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 you're 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 their room, you can not let them …

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have any pudding for the dinner, or something, but I mean to me a little spank, to me it's quick, it's honest, it's physical, but having said all that I still try not to do it.

第五部分

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would let me go out until ten o'clock 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 don't think were too good for me at that time. I think 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 naive, 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 that's what my parents were doing, I think there's 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 village. And my parents never asked questions, and if they only knew they would be shocked.

State

ments:

1. When the boy was 15 years old, he could stay out until ten o'clock.

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

because 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 you'd 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

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here. And… er … on the left are dining room table

and chairs.

Woman: Oh yes.

Man: Yes.

House agent: And er… straight ahead of us … um … foldaway

double bed and mattress, which I think you'll

agree is quite a novel idea.

Man: Oh yes.

House agent: And then… um… to …

Woman: Behind the armchair.

House agent: Yes, behind the armchair. To our right, um … in

the corner there, a fitted wardrobe. And another

one on my left here.

Woman: On either side of the bed?

House agent: Yes, that's right. That's right, so you can put

all your … er … night attire or what… whatever

you like in there.

Man: Yes, that's good.

House agent: Then, there … the … we have the sofa here … er …

in front of the … um … the window.

Man: Oh yes.

House agent: Er … so there's plenty of light coming through

into the room and as you can see there's a nice

view through the windows there.

Woman: No curtains, though.

House agent: No curtains, but we've got roller blinds.

Woman: Oh.

House agent: Yes, they're nice and straight forward. No

problems about that — don't have to wash them

of course. And … um … on the left of the … er …

sofa there, you can see nice coffee tables.

If … if we move straight a … straight ahead,

actually, into the … er … the kitchen you can

see that um … on my left here we've got a washing

machine, tumble dryer and … um … electric cooker …

Woman: Oh,yes.

Man: Mmm.

House agent: All as you can see to the most modern designs.

And there um… on the other side of the kitchen…

um… refrigerator there in the… in the corner.

Man: Oh yeah, yes.

Woman: Oh, what a nice little cubbyhole! Yes, very neat. House agent: Yes. Well… um… I don't know whether you've got

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any questions. That's it of course.

Woman: Well, could… could we perhaps see the bathroom,

because we… we didn't see that?

House agent: OK, yes, yes. Let's… um… let's go on out of here

and… um… end up in the bathroom …

第二部分

1. My dream house would be a canal boat. I'd like to wake up every

morning and see the water. Erm, I'd paint it bright red, and it would have a little roof-garden for all my pot-plants.

2. My ideal house would be modern, ermm, it would be made of bricks, and it would have white pillars outside the front door. And it would be detached … oh yes, it would have a garage.

3. My ideal home would be to live in a cottage in a small village by the sea. Er, somewhere like Cornwall, so it's unspoilt and there are cliffs and trees around.

4. I think if I could have any sort of house, I'd like one of those white-walled villas in Spain. (It'd) Be marvelous to be able to just fall out of bed and into the sea first thing in the morning. (It'd) Be absolutely great. All that heat. Marvelous.

5. I've always wanted to live in a really big house in the country, a big family house with, erm … at least two hundred years old, I think, with a big garden, and best of all I'd like to have a dry-stone wall around the garden. I've always loved dry-stone walls.

6. D'you know, I may sound daft but what I've always wanted to do is live somewhere totally isolated, preferably somewhere enormous like a castle or something, you know, right out in … by the sea or even sort of in a little island, on an island, you know, out at sea, where you have to get there by a boat or something, where it's cut off at high tide. I think it'd be really great. Questions:1. According to the first speaker, in what color would her dream house be painted?

2. Where would she put all her pot-plants?

3. In the second speaker's opinion, what would there be outside the front door of his ideal house?

4. What would there be around the third speaker's ideal home?

5. When the fourth speaker got up in the morning, what would he do first?

6. What is Spain famous for?

7. According to the fifth speaker, what would she like to have around the garden of her dream house?

8. How should one get to the last speaker's ideal house?

第三部分

Wendy Stott: Oh hello. (Hello.) My name's Wendy Stott. Did the

estate agent ring you and tell you I was coming?

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House owner: Oh yes, yes I was expecting you. Do come in. (Thank

you.) Have you had the particulars and

everything? Did the estate agent give you, you

know, all the details?

Wendy Stott: Oh yes. Yes I have, and I was rather interested;

that was why I came round this afternoon. You seem

to have decorated quite recently …

House owner: Yes, oh, yes, it was decorated last year. Now this

is the … this is the kitchen.

Wendy Stott: Yes … er … What kitchen equipment are you leaving

behind or are you going to take it all?

House owner: Well, you know it rather depends on what I end

up buying. I've got something in mind at the

moment but as you know these things can take ages

(Yes.) but the place I'm going to has no gas so

I'll probably be leaving this stove, this oven

here.

Wendy Stott: Is it ... is it quite new? Have you had it long? House owner: Oh, no, not long. It's about five or six years

old. (I see.) I've found it very reliable but I

shall be taking that fridge but you can see

everything else. It's a fully fitted kitchen …

Wendy Stott: Yes, what about the dishwasher … um … is that a

dishwasher under the sink?

House owner: No, no, that's a washing machine, I shall be

taking that, yes, I will, but there is plumbing

for a washing machine. (Right.)

Wendy Stott: Is the gas cooker the only gas appliance you've

got?

House owner: No, no, there is a gas fire but I don't use it

very much; it's in the main room, the lounge.

Wendy Stott: Oh. Right. That seems fine.

House owner: Well, then across here if you'd like to come in

with me, this is the sitting room. (Oh. Yes.) Well

you can see for yourself it is really.

Wendy Stott: Oh I like the windows, right down to the floor,

that's really nice …

House owner: Yes, yes, they are nice. It's got a very pleasant

view and there's a balcony you can sit out on in

the summer. (Yes, it's a nice view.) Yes, it is

nice. Now then across here this is the smallest

bedroom; (Yes.) there are three rooms, this is

the smallest and it's no more really than a box

room but of course you can get a bed in.

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Wendy Stott: You could make it into a study. It would be more

useful I think.

House owner: Yes, well I think somebody else has got this room

as a study. Then this… this is the second bedroom.

(Yes.) As you can see it's got a fitted cupboard

and those shelves there they are also fitted.

Wendy Stott: Have you got an airing cupboard anywhere?

House owner: Oh. Yes, there's one in the bathroom. I'll show

you that in a moment. (Oh right.) Now this is the

third bedroom, this is the largest bedroom. (Oh.)

Of course it's got the wash basin, double fitted

cupboard, plenty of space really, there, (Very

nice.) and of course this room does take the

double bed. Now … um … this is the bathroom.

There's the airing cupboard. (Is that the airing

cupboard?) Yes, that's right. It's nice and warm

in there; it's rather small but I mean it is

adequate, you know, and of course there is … there

is the shower.

Wendy Stott: Is that, did you put that in yourself or was it

in with the flat?

House owner: Oh, no. No that was in when the flat was built. Wendy Stott: Is it quite reliable (Oh, yes.) because I've had

problems with a shower recently? (Yes, no I've

never had problems with that. No. It's really

good.) Is it gas heated at the water point?

House owner: No, that is electric. (Ah.)

Statements:1. Wendy Stott knows nothing about the flat before she comes to have a look at it.

2. The flat was decorated five or six years ago.

3. The house owner has used the oven and the stove for about five or six years.

4. The windows in the largest bedroom are right down to the floor.

5. There is a balcony in the sitting-room.

第四单元

第一部分

Sam: I won't be able to do the exam tomorrow.

I just don't feel that I'm ready.

Counselor: You say that you don't feel ready for

tomorrow's exam ... what do you feel

like right now?

Sam: Well, I'm angry with myself because I'm

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Counselor:

Sam:

Counselor:

Sam:

Counselor:

Sam:

Counselor:

Sam:

Counselor:

Sam:

Mrs.

Daniels:

Mr.

Thompson:

Mrs.

Daniels: going to have to quit the exam and, well, I guess I'm anxious. Yes, I feel very anxious. When you think about this anxiety, what image do you have of yourself? Well, I see myself trying to explain to my Dad why I didn't make the grade on this course ... and I see him getting angry ... and, well, I start to feel I've let him down again. You don't feel ready for your exam, you feel anxious and you don't want to let your Dad down again. Tell me about the last time you let your Dad down. Oh, well, it was a year ago ... He'd entered me for a chess competition and I got knocked out in the first match ... he was angry because he'd told all his friends how good I was. What did you tell him ... as an explanation when you lost the chess game? I told him that I wasn't ready to play in that league. And now you are preparing to tell him that you're not ready to sit this examination? Yes, I suppose I am. O.K. Sam, so what you are saying to me is that you feel reluctant to take the exam tomorrow because you do not like the thought of having to explain a poor grade or a failure to your father. Is that right, Sam? Yes. That's exactly it. Oh, hello, you must be Tracey's parents? Er, yes. Are you her class teacher, Mrs. Daniels? Yes, that's right. Now, just let me find my notes. As you know I don't actually

teach Tracey, but I do see her every day

before classes begin. Is there anything

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Mr.

Thompson:

Mrs.

Daniels: you want to ask me? Well, yes, to be honest we're a bit worried about her last report — she doesn't seem to be doing as well as she was. Well now, let's see. Oh, yes, her math teacher says she's finding the work more

difficult now that they're getting near

to the exams.

I was never any good at math.

And Dr. Baker feels that Tracey isn't

concentrating very hard in biology

lessons.

Oh, but she really likes biology and

she’s so good at drawing.

Yes, but even in art her teacher thinks

she tends to spend too much time talking

to her friends. In fact, several of her

teachers have told me that she isn't

giving in her homework. Mr. Brock has

complained to me that he hasn't had a

single piece of geography homework from

her all term.

Yes, we don't know what to do about it.

She doesn't seem to be interested in

school any more.

I don't think we should give up on her.

Tracey's a very intelligent girl. In

English her marks are well above the

average and her teacher says she always

has a lot to say in lessons.

Yes, that's part of Tracey's trouble.

She talks too much.

Well, nevertheless, oral skills are

very important and if we can all guide

her back to a more positive attitude to

school work, she'll do very well.

Well I hope so. I'm very disappointed

in her. She was doing so well, especially

in English and French, and now

everything seems to be going to pieces.

She came bottom of the class in French

this term. Mrs. Thompson: Mrs. Daniels: Mrs. Thompson: Mrs. Daniels: Mr. Thompson: Mrs. Daniels: Mrs. Thompson: Mrs. Daniels: Mr. Thompson: