高中英语听力材料

高中英语听力材料

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高中英语听力材料

If you listen to American music, watch American television or

magazines, you will probably agree that the most popular subject

of these forms of entertainment is love. Romantic love always

finds an audience in the country. Falling in love, solving the

problems of love, and achieving the happy ending — the big

wedding are subjects of interest to both the adult and the

teenage public. Millions of Americans celebrate Valentine's Day

with special cards and gifts that announce their love to their

mates, their friends, and their families. A popular saying is “Love

conquers all”. Numerous columns in magazines and newspapers

offer advice to those with difficulties of heart. To most Americans,

romantic love is central to a happy life. Not only do Americans

believe in romantic love but they also believe that it is the best

basis for making a happy marriage. Despite the high divorce rate

in the United States, young men and women continue to marry

on the basis of romantic love. Young Americans feel free to

choose their own marriage partners from any social, economic,

or religious background. The man or woman may have strong

ties with parents, brothers, or sisters, but when he or she falls in

love, the strongest feelings are supposed to be for the loved one.

When an American couple marries, they generally plan to live

apart from both sets of parents and build their own independent

family structure.

高中的英语听力材料

One of the qualities that most people admire in others is the willingness to admit one's mistakes. It is extremely hard

sometimes to say a simple thing like "I was wrong about that." I

had an experience recently with someone admitting to me that

he had made a mistake 15 years ago. He told me he had been

the manager of a certain grocery store in the neighborhood

where I grew up, and he asked me if I remembered the egg boxes.

Then he related an incident and I began to remember vaguely

what happened. I was about eight years old then, and I had gone

into the store with mother to do the weekly grocery shopping.

There must have been a special sale on eggs that day because

there was an impressive display of eggs in dozen and half dozen

boxes. I must have stopped in front of a display to admire the

eggs. Just then a woman came by pushing her grocery cart and

knocked off some of the boxes. For some reason, I decided it was

up to me to put the display back together, so I went to work. The

manager came rushing over to see what had happened. When he

appeared, I was on my knees inspecting some of the boxes to see

if any of the eggs were broken. But to him it looked as though I

was the wrong-doer. He yelled at me and wanted me to pay for

any broken eggs. I protested my innocence and tried to explain,

but it did no good. Even though I quickly forgot all about the

incident, apparently the manager did not.

高中的英语听力材料

No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are

in the world, but estimates suggest that the figure is over 450

million. The number of disabled people in India alone is probably

more than double the total population of Canada. In the United

Kingdom, about one in ten people have some disability. Disability

is not just something that happened to other people. As we get

older, many of us will become less mobile, hard of hearing or have failing eyesight. Disablement can take many forms and

occur at any time of life. Some people are born with disabilities.

Some people are disabled in accidents. Most people become

disabled as they get older. Many others may have a period of

disability in the form of a mental illness. All are affected by

people's attitude towards them. Disabled people face many

physical barriers. Next time you go shopping or to work or visit

friends, imagine how you would manage if you could not get up

steps, or on to buses and trains. How would you cope if you could

not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic? But

there are other barriers: prejudice can be even by far the greatest

barrier of all. It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully

appreciate what the severely disabled go through, so it is

important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is

the individual person and their ability, not their disability, which

counts.

高中的英语听力材料

There seems never to have been a civilization without toys,

but when and how they developed is unknown. They probably

came about just to give children something to do. In the ancient

world, as in today's world, most boys played with some form of

toy and most girls with another. In societies where social roles are