1、Unit1Part 1B1. 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

2、 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. 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

3、 my wife June, 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 hi

4、gh 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. Shell graduate next year. Anne is two years younger. My son Dan is in college. It seems

5、like the kids are never home. I see them for dinner and sometimes on Saturday mornin gs, but thats about it. Theyre really busy and have a lot of frie nds.CWoman: 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 beau

6、tiful 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 bee n away, she must have bee n in the kitche n or somethi ng (mm) and we got these scissors and sat my brother down and kept him quiet and (strapped him dow n)Thats

7、right, and cut off all his curls, you see. And my mother just was so upset, and in fact its the first . I think it the few times r ve ever see n my father really an gry.Man: What happe ned 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 o

8、f pattern, were nt you close to your brother at all?Woma n: Well as I grew older I thi nk that er I just ignored him .Man: What about . youve got an older brother too, 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

9、 and we thought we were both very grow n up and he was just a . a kid . so we deliberately, I thi nk, 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

10、 lose con tact with him for a long time.Man: What was he doing dow n there?Woma n: Well, he was a travel age nt, so he went dow n there to work .And, erm, I did nt, I cant eve n remember, erm sending a card, eve n, whe n he got married. But I re . I do remember that later on my mother was show ing m

11、e pictures of his wedd ing, 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, whos this then? cause I thought it was the brides brother or something like this (mm) . and my mother said frostily, That

12、. is your brother! (laughter)Questi ons for memory test:1. Accord ing to the passage, how many brothers does the lady have?2. Whe n the sister saw her mother coo over her youn ger brother, how did she feel?3. Whats her fathers reacti on whe n he got to know that the sister had cut off her youn ger b

13、rothers hair?4. How old was her youn ger brother whe n she left home?5. Where did her brother eve ntually live?6. Who was the guy on the photos with a beard and glasses?PART 2A and BRadio prese nter: Good after noon. And welcome to our midweek Phon e-I n. In todays program we re going to concen trat

14、e on pers onal problems. And here with me in the studio Ive got Tessa Colbeck,who writes the.in Flash magazine, and Doctor Maurice Rex, Student Medical Adviser at the Un iversity 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 w

15、e 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 dadwIH t let me stay out after ten oclock at ni ght and all my friends can stay out much Ion ger tha n th

16、at. I always have to go home first. Its really embarrass in g.Tessa:Hello, Rosemary, love. Rosemary, how old are you, dear?Rosemary: Im fifteen in two months time.Tessa:A nd where do you go at n ight?-Whe n you go out?Rosemary: Just to my frien ds house, usually. But every one else can stay there mu

17、ch later tha n me. I have to leave at about a quarter to ten. Tessa:A nd does this friend of yours-does she live n ear you?Rosemary: It takes about ten minutes to walk from her house to ours.Tessa:I see. You live in Bright on, was ntit? Well ,Bright on Rosemary: No, Man Chester - - live in Man Chest

18、er.Tessa:oh. I sorry, love. I gett ing mixed up. Y es, well Man Chesters quite a rough city, is nt it ? I mean, your dad.Rosemary: No, not really. Not where we live, it isn I dont live in the City Cen ter or any thi ng like that. And Christ in es house is in a very quiet part.Tessa:Christine. Thats

19、your friend, is it?Rosemary: Yeah. Thats 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 the n he says he wont let me go out at all if I cant come home on time.Maurice: Why dont you just tr

20、y to sit down quietly with your dad- sometime whe n hes relaxed-a nd 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 ni ght.Tessa:Y es. And maybe you could persuade him to come and pick you up from Christ in es house o

21、nce or twice.Rosemary: Yesdont think hell agree to that, but r II talk to him about it . Than ks.Part 3Josephine:We did feel far more stability in our lives, becauseyousee . in these days I think theres always a concern that families will separate or somethi ng, but in those days no body expected th

22、e families to separate.Gertrude:Of course there may have been smoking, drinking anddrug-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

23、its right or wrong. Oh, thi ngs are very differe nt I think.Questi on:What was your pare nts role in family life?Joseph ine:Well, my mother actually did nt do a treme ndous amount inthe house, but she did do a great deal of work outside and she was very interested, for example, in the Nursing Associ

24、ation collecting money for it. We had somebody who looked after us and the n we also had some one who did the clea ning.Gertrude:Well, we lived in a flat, we only had three rooms and abathroom. Father worked on the railway at Victoria Station and my mother did nt work, obviously. My fathers wage I t

25、hi nk was about two pounds a week and I suppose our rent was about twelve shilli ngs a week, you know as rent was - Im going back a good many years. We did nt 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.Quest

26、i on: Did you have a close relati on ship with your pare nts?Joseph ine:In a sense I would say not very close but we, at that time,did nt feel that way, we did nt thi nk about it very much I dont thi nk. I think today people are much closer to their parents and talk about everythi ng, which we did n

27、t. Then, of course, we used to play a lot of games, because we did nt have a televisi on or eve n a radio and we would play games in the eve nings rather tha n have conv ersatio n, I think.Questi on: Was there more discipli ne in families in those days?Joseph ine: Oh yes, I do thi nk so, yes. We wer

28、e much more discipli ned and we went about as a family and it was nt un til I was probably about 18 before I would actually go out with any friends of my own.Stateme nts:1. Seve nty years ago young people ofte n smoked and drank in front of others.2. Apart from a great deal of work outside, Josephin

29、es mother also looked after her childre n and did the clea ning in the house.3. Gertrudes father earned two pounds a week.4. Gertrudes family had to pay ten shillings a week for their flat.5. Young people seve nty years ago deeply felt that they did not have a very close relatio nship with their par

30、e nts.6. Nowadays people are much closer to their parents and talk about everythi ng to them.Part 4Q: Pare nt Li nk is an orga ni zati on that looks at the problems that pare nts and children face. Its director, Tim Kahn, told us about the changing roles of pare nts and childre n.T: The authoritaria

31、n model was one in which the child had no rights and I guess in the 60s and perhaps the 70s many people rejected that and we had the sort of the permissive era-the age where many pare nts felt they had to allow their childre n to do whatever they wan ted to do and so in a sense the roles were revers

32、ed and it was the childre n who were the bosses and the pare nts who ran around behi nd them. The ideas that we offer to parents are kind of a third position in which we rdooking at equals, where pare nts and childre n are differe nt but equal.Q: What about cha nges in the male-female roles?T: Socie

33、ty has cha nged a lot. As well as tech no logy leadi ng to great changes, people rsles have changed very much, in particular the women s movement has very much questioned the role of women and led many wome n to dema nd a freer choice about who they are and how theyt changed,can be. There s a lot of

34、 frustration with how men haven seems to me that the more the frustration is expressed the more stuck in and being the same men are and we need to find ways of appreciating men for the amount of work that they have to do in being bread-w inn ers and providers for families and appreciating the effort

35、s men are making to be more invo Ived with their childre n.Q: Are there any changes you would like to see in the attitude to family life in Britai n?T: In the past there were arranged marriages and I wonder if part of having an arranged marriage is knowing that you have to work at it to create the l

36、ove and that now people are getting married out of love and there s a kind of feeling that yolove is there and it will stay there for ever and we don have to work at it and when it gets tricky we don t know how to work at it and so we opt out. I thi nk help ing people lear n to work at their relati

37、on ships to make their relatio nship work would be a significant thing that I d like to see happening.Part 5BLouisa: She does nt let me watch that much TV after school, which is really annoying because most of my friends watch Home and Away and Neighbors but I on ly get to watch one of them. I somet

38、imes dont I mea n I thi nk thats really un fair so sometimes I just watch both any way.Mother: First and foremost, Louisa watches a fair amount of television whether she thinks shes deprived or not, she must watch at least 45 minu tes per day. And whe n rm not around you know I know the child sn eak

39、s in a fair amount more tha n that. So she gets in a fair amount of televisio n, certa in ly on the weeke nds. But I am of the opin io n that television, very very very few programs will teach them anything. And I think when a child is under your care for 18 years its the parents resp on sibility to

40、 make sure that the in put is of value, and I dont think televisi on, much televisi on is of any value at all, I think readi ng a book and doing her pia no less ons are far more valuable tha n watchi ng crummy America n soap operas.Questi ons for memory test:1. How many TV plays are men ti on ed?2.

41、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 thi nk are far more valuable?CMy parents gave me a lot of free time. After dinner, during the week whe n I was say eve n 15 years old they would let me go out un til ten oclock and they would n ever ask where I wen t. I would smoke cigarettes and drink beer, at 15 years old I would hang out in the . in the local pubs and these we