第一部分1.Woman: This is my family. I'm married. My husband's nameis Bill. We have two children — a boy and a girl.Our little girl is six years old, and our little boyis four. Jennie goes to kindergarten, and Aaron goesto nursery school. My father lives with us. Grandpa'sgreat with the kids. He loves playing with them andtaking them to the park or the zoo.2.Man: This is a picture of me and my three sons. We're ata soccer game. Orlando is twelve, Louis is ten, andCarlos is nine. All three of them really like sports.Orlando and Louis play baseball. Carlos is intoskating.3.Man: This is my wife June, and these are my three children.Terri on the right is the oldest. She's in highschool. She's very involved in music. She's in theorchestra. Rachel — she's the one in the middle —is twelve now. And this is my son Peter. He's oneyear older than Rachel. Rachel and Peter are bothin junior high school. Time really flies. June andI 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 Jillon the right. She'll graduate next year. Anne is twoyears younger. My son Dan is in college. It seemslike the kids are never home. I see them for dinnerand sometimes on Saturday mornings, but that's aboutit. 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 telephonenumbers for me like this one.Mary: I suppose you're going to start putting innumbers straightaway.John: I've put in one while we've been chatting. I've put in our solicitor's number. You know howoften I need to call him on company contracts.Mary: So what others are you going to put in?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, becauseI 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, Imustn'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, Itell 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.John: 675645. Well that's enough for the moment, I think. Now, as it's my birthday, what abouttaking 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 thinkthere's always a concern that families willseparate or something, but in those daysnobody expected the families to separate.Gertrude: Of course there may have been smoking,drinking and drug-taking years ago, but itwas all kept very quiet, nobody knew anythingabout it. But these days there really isn'tthe family life that we used to have. Thechildren seem to do more as they like whetherthey know it's right or wrong. Oh, things arevery different I think.Question: What was your parents' role in family life? Josephine: Well, my mother actually didn't do atremendous amount in the house, but she diddo a great deal of work outside and she wasvery interested, for example, in the NursingAssociation collecting money for it. We hadsomebody who looked after us and then we alsohad someone who did the cleaning.Gertrude: Well, we lived in a flat, we only had three rooms and a bathroom. Father worked on therailway at Victoria Station and my motherdidn't work, obviously. My father's wage Ithink was about two pounds a week and Isuppose our rent was about twelve shillingsa week, you know as rent was - I'm going backa good many years. We didn't have an easylife, you know and I think that's why mymother went out so much with her friends. Itwas 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,at that time, didn't feel that way, we didn'tthink about it very much I don't think. Ithink today people are much closer to theirparents and talk about everything, which wedidn't. Then, of course, we used to play alot of games, because we didn't have atelevision or even a radio and we would playgames in the evenings rather than haveconversation, I think.Question: Was there more discipline in families inthose days?Josephine: Oh yes, I do think so, yes. We were much moredisciplined and we went about as a family andit wasn't until I was probably about 18before I would actually go out with anyfriends 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 wasquite jealous of him. I remember he had beautifulred curls (mm) ... my mother used to coo overhim. One day a friend and I played, erm, barbershop, 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 brotherdown and kept him quiet and (strapped himdown) ... That's right, and cut off all his curls,you see. And my mother just was so upset, andin fact it's the first ... I think it’s one ofthe few times I've ever seen my father reallyangry.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 wethought we were both very grown up and he wasjust a ... a kid ... so we deliberately, I think,kind of ignored him. And then I left, I left homewhen he was only still a schoolboy, he was onlyfifteen (mm) and I went to live in England andhe eventually went to live in Brazil and I reallydid 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 evenremember, erm sending a card, even, when he gotmarried. But I re ... I do remember that lateron my mother was showing me pictures of hiswedding, 'cause my mother and father went downthere (uh huh) to the wedding, and er, there wasthis guy on the photos with a beard and glasses,and I said,"Oh, who's this then?" 'cause Ithought it was the bride's brother or somethinglike 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?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 theirchildren's behavior, they make trouble for themselves.I used to spend half my time making sure my rules wereobeyed, 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 presenter: G ood 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 agony columnin Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the University of Norfolk.T he 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, Ithink, er calling from Manchester. HelloRosemary.Rosemary: H ello.H ow can we help you, Rosemary?Radiopresenter:Rosemary: W ell, it's my dad. He won't let me stay out after ten o'clock at night and all myfriends can stay out much longer than that.I always have to go home first. It's reallyembarrassing …Tessa: H ello, Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you dear?Rosemary: I'm fifteen in two month's time.Tessa: A nd where do you go at night —when you go out?Rosemary: J ust to my friend's house, usually. But everyone else can stay there much laterthan me. I have to leave at about quarterto ten.Tessa: A nd does this friend of yours … does she live near you?Rosemary: I t 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: N o. Manchester … I live in Manchester.Tessa: O h. 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: N o. Not really. Not where we live it isn't.I don't live in the City Center or anythinglike that. And Christine's house is in avery quiet part.Tessa: C hristine. That's your friend, is it? Rosemary: Y eah. That's right. I mean, I know my dad gets worried but it's perfectly safe.Maurice: R osemary. Have you talked about this with your dad?Rosemary: N o. He just shouts and then he says he won't let me go out at all if I can't come homeon time.Maurice: W hy don't you just try to sit down quietlywith your dad —sometime when he's relaxed- and just have a quiet chat about it? He'llprobably explain why he worries about you.It isn't always safe for young girls to goout at night.Tessa: Y es. And maybe you could persuade him tocome and pick you up from Christine's houseonce or twice.Rosemary: Y es. I don't think he'll agree to that, butI'll talk to him about it. Thanks.第三部分1. Discipline needs to be there in a certain amount but toomuch 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 cantalk 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, cosI don't think that works. That only makes you rebel.5. Well, there's smacking and smacking. I don't at all agreewith 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'tdo it often but something about it makes me think that it's not … a terrible thing to do. I mean, what are thealternatives? 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 r oom, you can not let them …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Louisa: She doesn't let me watch that much TV after school, which is really annoying because mostof my friends watch Home andAway and Neighbors but I only get to watch oneof them. I sometimes don't — I mean I thinkthat's really unfair so sometimes I just watchboth anyway.Mother: First and foremost, Louisa watches a fair amount of television whether she thinks she's deprivedor not, she must watch at least 45 minutes perday. And when I'm not around you know I knowthe 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 theopinion that television, very very very fewprograms will teach them anything. And I thinkwhen a child is under your care for 18 yearsit's the parents' responsibility to make surethat the input is of value, and I don't thinktelevision, much television is of any value atall, I think reading a book and doing her pianolessons are far more valuable than watchingcrummy American soap operas.Questions 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 Louisa's mother think arefar more valuable?My parents gave me a lot of free time. After dinner, during the week when I was say even 15 years old theywould 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, andI think that they, they felt that this was a thing thatwas 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.Statements:1. When the boy was 15 years old, he could stay outuntil ten o'clock.2. At the age of 15, the boy was not allowed tosmoke cigarettes or drink beer.3. The boy thought his parents were very goodbecause 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: T hank you.Man: Y es.House agent: E r… on the right here we have the … er … the bathroom, which as you can see is fully … fullyfitted. If we just move forward now, we … er …com e into the er … main … main bed-sitting roomhere. And… er … on the left are dining room tableand chairs.Woman: O h yes.Man: Y es.House agent: A nd er… straight ahead of us … um … foldaway double bed and mattress, which I think you'llagree is quite a novel idea.Man: O h yes.House agent: A nd then… um… to …Woman: B ehind the armchair.House agent: Y es, behind the armchair. To our right, um … in the corner there, a fitted wardrobe. And anotherone on my left here.Woman: O n either side of the bed?House agent: Y es, that's right. That's right, so you can put all your … er … night attire or what… whateveryou like in there.Man: Y es, that's good.House agent: T hen, there … the … we have the sofa here … er …in front of the … um … the window.Man: O h yes.House agent: E r … so there's plenty of light coming through into the room and as you can see there's a niceview through the windows there.Woman: N o curtains, though.House agent: N o curtains, but we've got roller blinds.Woman: O h.House agent: Y es, they're nice and straight forward. Noproblems about that — don't have to wash themof course. And … um … on the left of the … er …sofa there, you can see nice coffee tables.I f … if we move straight a … st raight ahead,actually, into the … er … the kitchen you cansee that um … on my left here we've got a washingmachine, tumble dryer and … um … electric cooker …Woman: O h,yes.Man: M mm.House agent: A ll as you can see to the most modern designs.A nd there um… on the other side of the kitchen…um… refrigerator there in the… in the corner.Man: O h yeah, yes.Woman: O h, what a nice little cubbyhole! Yes, very neat. House agent: Y es. Well… um… I don't know whether you've gotany questions. That's it of course.Woman: W ell, could… could we perhaps see the bathroom, because we… we didn't see that?House agent: O K, 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 everymorning 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 villageby 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 thosewhite-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, Ithink, 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 dois 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 idealhouse?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 dreamhouse?8. How should one get to the last speaker's ideal house?第三部分Wendy Stott: O h hello. (Hello.) My name's Wendy Stott. Did the estate agent ring you and tell you I was coming?House owner: O h yes, yes I was expecting you. Do come in. (Thank you.) Have you had the particulars andeverything? Did the estate agent give you, youknow, all the details?Wendy Stott: O h yes. Yes I have, and I was rather interested;that was why I came round this afternoon. You seemto have decorated quite recently …House owner: Y es, oh, yes, it was decorated last year. Now this is the … this is the kitchen.Wendy Stott: Y es … er … What kit chen equipment are you leaving behind or are you going to take it all?House owner: W ell, you know it rather depends on what I end up buying. I've got something in mind at themoment but as you know these things can take ages(Yes.) but the place I'm going to has no gas soI'll probably be leaving this stove, this ovenhere.Wendy Stott: I s it ... is it quite new? Have you had it long? House owner: O h, no, not long. It's about five or six years old. (I see.) I've found it very reliable but Ishall be taking that fridge but you can seeeverything else. It's a fully fitted kitchen …Wendy Stott: Y es, what about the dishwasher … um … is that a dishwasher under the sink?House owner: N o, no, that's a washing machine, I shall be taking that, yes, I will, but there is plumbingfor a washing machine. (Right.)Wendy Stott: I s the gas cooker the only gas appliance you've got?House owner: N o, no, there is a gas fire but I don't use it very much; it's in the main room, the lounge. Wendy Stott: O h. Right. That seems fine.House owner: W ell, then across here if you'd like to come in with me, this is the sitting room. (Oh. Yes.) Wellyou can see for yourself it is really.Wendy Stott: O h I like the windows, right down to the floor, that's really nice …House owner: Y es, yes, they are nice. It's got a very pleasant view and there's a balcony you can sit out on inthe summer. (Yes, it's a nice view.) Yes, it isnice. Now then across here this is the smallestbedroom; (Yes.) there are three rooms, this isthe smallest and it's no more really than a boxroom but of course you can get a bed in.Wendy Stott: Y ou could make it into a study. It would be more useful I think.House owner: Y es, 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 cupboardand those shelves there they are also fitted. Wendy Stott: H ave you got an airing cupboard anywhere? House owner: O h. Yes, there's one in the bathroom. I'll show you that in a moment. (Oh right.) Now this is thethird bedroom, this is the largest bedroom. (Oh.)Of course it's got the wash basin, double fittedcupboard, plenty of space really, there, (Verynice.) and of course this room does take thedouble bed. Now … um … this is the bathro om.There's the airing cupboard. (Is that the airingcupboard?) Yes, that's right. It's nice and warmin there; it's rather small but I mean it isadequate, you know, and of course there is … thereis the shower.Wendy Stott: I s that, did you put that in yourself or was it in with the flat?House owner: O h, no. No that was in when the flat was built. Wendy Stott: I s it quite reliable (Oh, yes.) because I've had problems with a shower recently? (Yes, no I'venever had problems with that. No. It's reallygood.) Is it gas heated at the water point? House owner: N o, 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 fortomorrow's exam ... what do you feellike right now?Sam: Well, I'm angry with myself because I'mgoing to have to quit the exam and,well, I guess I'm anxious. Yes, I feelvery anxious.Counselor: When you think about this anxiety, whatimage do you have of yourself?Sam: Well, I see myself trying to explainto my Dad why I didn't make the gradeon this course ... and I see him gettingangry ... and, well, I start to feelI've let him down again.Counselor: You don't feel ready for your exam, youfeel anxious and you don't want to letyour Dad down again. Tell me about thelast time you let your Dad down. Sam: Oh, well, it was a year ago ... He'dentered me for a chess competition andI got knocked out in the first match ...he was angry because he'd told all hisfriends how good I was.Counselor: What did you tell him ... as anexplanation when you lost the chessgame?Sam: I told him that I wasn't ready to playin that league.Counselor: And now you are preparing to tell himthat you're not ready to sit thisexamination?Sam: Yes, I suppose I am.Counselor: O.K. Sam, so what you are saying to meis that you feel reluctant to take theexam tomorrow because you do not likethe thought of having to explain a poorgrade or a failure to your father. Isthat right, Sam?Sam: Yes. That's exactly it.Mrs.Daniels:Oh, hello, you must be Tracey's parents?Mr. Thompson: Er, yes. Are you her class teacher, Mrs. Daniels?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。