Unit 3 听力原文
Part I
B
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 going to have to quit the exam and, well, I guess
I’m anxious. Yes, I feel very anxious.
Counselor: When you think about this anxiety, what image do you have of yourself?
Sam: 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.
Counselor: 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.
Sam: 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.
Counselor: What did you tell him ... as an explanation when you lost the chess game?
Sam: I told him that I wasn’t ready to play in that league.
Counselor: And now you are preparing to tell him that you’re not ready to sit this examination?
Sam: Yes, I suppose I am.
Counselor: 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?
Sam: Yes. That’s exactly it.
C
1. A: When I read in English, I always want to understand every single word and so I spend a lot
of time looking words up in my dictionary. This makes reading difficult for me because by the
time I’ve looked up the word in my dictionary, I’ve forgotten what the rest of the sentence was
about. That’s my trouble really — I rely too much on my dictionary.
B: Well, why don’t you try to read a text without using your dictionary the first time you read it?
You’ll probably be able to understand most of it and guess what some of the words mean.
2. A: I have to read a lot of books and articles in English for my work — I’m a consultant in
business management. What I find most difficult is finding the main point in an article or a
paragraph. I always try to take notes when I’m reading and so sometimes I find that I’m almost
copying out the whole article because I can’t decide what the really important points are.
B: It might help if you read through the book or article very quickly first just to get an idea of
what it’s about. I think it’s difficult to read something for the first time and take notes as well.
3. A: I like reading novels and short stories in my own language and in English, but there’s one
thing I find very difficult in English. I’m never quite sure if the writer is being serious or not.
Several times I’ve read something I thought was serious and later I’ve found out it was supposed
to be funny.
B: I have exactly the same problem. I suppose the only thing to do is to read as much as
possible. Then one day perhaps we’ll understand the British sense of humor.
4. A: I have to read a lot in English in my studies and this is causing me problems. I read too
slowly in English. Do you think I can train myself to read quickly and at the same time understand what I’m reading?
B: Well, there are special courses in speed reading, I think. But you could probably help
yourself if you set yourself a time limit and try to read as much as you can within the time. I’ve
done that and it’s helped me a lot.
PartⅡ
(Part I)
Yes, the teacher I remember best was a teacher I had for French when I was at school ... er ...
er ... Many years ago - more years than I care to remember, I’m afraid. Yes, I studied French with
him for, um, ooh, let me see, it must have been five years, because I had him when I was in my
first year there, when I was thirteen, and he was the main French teacher till I left. It was mainly
because of him that I went on to study languages — French and German — at university. I mean,
French was really the first language I ever learned. Well, I don’t count Latin, because I never
managed to speak any Latin at all. Er, well, this ... this teacher didn’t make it easy ... he didn’t
make it easy at all, but I found that with him I really learned a lot.
When I think back, I ... don’t really know why I liked him so much, because he was very
strict with us. He made us work very hard — I mean, lots of grammar exercises, vocabulary tests,
that sort of thing — er, and he wasn’t very friendly either, for the first two or three years. Oh, as
well as that, he didn’t really try to make the classes interesting — I mean, no ... no video, of
course, in those days, no cassettes ... but, er, we had a few films in French every term. No, in fact,
the only time we really practiced trying to speak French was, er, was with the wife of one of the
music teachers, who was French, er, and she gave us an hour’s conversation class every week. But,
you know, because of that man — some people might say in spite of him ... no, that wouldn’t be
fair, no — but quite a lot of us began to like France and the French a lot, and, er, to visit France in
the summer holidays to see it for ourselves.
(Part II)
Yes, I think with him I learned that when you learn a foreign language ... it’s, it ... well, it’s
like opening a door or a ｗｉｎｄｏｗ into a foreign country. And that’s good for you, I think,
because you begin to see that the way they do things and think in your country is, um, isn’t
necessarily the only way or, indeed, the best way.
It’s funny, I still have a very clear picture of that teacher. He was English but he didn’t look
English somehow, ‘cos he had very, very black hair and very dark eyes, and he wore glasses with
black frames, but you could see his eyes very well, and everyone in the class always had the
feeling that he was looking at them. And he had very thick, bushy eyebrows that made him look
very, er, very serious.
Yes, I remember he was very musical — played the piano very well and sang. Now, he
was quite a good rugby and tennis player. Great family man, too. He had three children and a very
interesting wife. I suppose he must have been in his thirties when I knew him ...
Part Ⅲ
Children of a Decade
keep in touch with：保持联系
soak： 浸泡
come to：到达;共计;突然想起
put sb. off：使人离开、气馁
bring tears to：使落泪
