【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 bolted to the phone to ring for an ambulance. 9. It39。s nice to have someone with whom you can share your problem. 10. Since her brother had left, her mother bugged Sandy a lot more than before. Key: 1. (B) 2. (B) 3. (A) 4. (C) 5. (B) 6, (B) 7. (C) 8. (B) 9. (B) 10. (A) UNDERSTANDING PASSAGES Listening Task 1 Passage one Until now, happy parents found themselves ignored by their young rebels, who charged them with being too concerned with money and too anxious to influence the neighbors. Young people thought true success was a matter of selfsatisfaction. And selfsatisfaction included reaching one39。s goals and achieving happiness in one39。s own way without paying attention to rules, duties, or the opinions of others. Most parents found it hard to accept their children39。s thinking. They themselves had been brought up to respect traditional values。 they had also learned to respect money because it was hard to find during their teenage years. They had married in the late 1930s or early 1940s, at a time when it was difficult to give their children a carefree life. A married couple39。s first duty, therefore, was to think of their children39。s happiness. If the parents felt tired and unsatisfied, they didn39。t dare admit it: it was not done. On the other hand, while Mom and Dad were going without things, they expected their children to obey the rules of nice manners, and to grow up into adults that make parents proud. These were the very ideas against which the young rebels of the 1960s rebelled. Questions 1 to 5 are based on the passage you have just heard. 1. According to the passage, what did children think of their parents? 2. What was true success according to young people? 3. What did most parents learn to do when they were young? 4. What did parents think was their first duty? 5. What did parents expect their children to be? Key: 1. T 2. F 3. F 4. T 5. T Passage two My grandfather lives with us and he39。s making my life a pain. When I was small he was kind and happy. But now he39。s always negative and finding fault. I mustn39。t break in when he39。s talking. It39。s not polite. He doesn39。t like my clothes. Nice girls don39。t dress like that. I shouldn39。t wear make－ up. Existing beauty is best. Sometimes he disturbs my homework. When I was young we used to do maths differently, he says. Honestly, he39。s so old he doesn39。t know anything. But that doesn39。t stop him from finding fault with me. He doesn39。t like my friends or my favorite records. You39。re making too much noise, he calls, I can39。t get to sleep. When he39。s not being negative, he asks questions, Where are you going? Where have you been? Why aren39。t you helping your mother? He thinks I39。m six, not sixteen. Anyway, why can39。t I do what I like? It39。s my life, not his. Questions 6 to 10 are based on the passage you have just heard. 6. What is the talk mainly about? 7. What does the speaker39。s grandfather think she should do? 8. Why does the speaker39。s grandfather sometimes disturb her homework? 9. When does the speaker39。s grandfather stop being negative? 10. Why does the speaker39。s grandfather never stop bugging her? Key: 6. F 7. F 8. F 9. T 10. F Passage three David Brown and Ann Ramos are two patients participating in the Adult Day Care Program at Mercy Hospital. David Brown is seventytwo years old. He39。s friendly and likes to talk. He lives with his wife in a small flat in the city. But David is being fetful. His wife says, He39。ll heat up some soup, then fet to turn off the cooking equipment. She is sixtyone and still works. She39。s worded about leaving her husband alone by himself. Ann Ramos is eighty and lives with her daughter, who is sixty. Her daughter says that she needs a break. Mom follows me everywhere. She follows me from room to room when I clean. She sits down next to me when I read the newspaper. She even follows me out of the house when I take out the refuse. I need a break and she does, too. And so, several times a week, David and Ann39。s families take them to the Adult Day Care Center. Many hospitals now offer this program. Questions 11 to 15 are based on the passage you have just heard. 11. Who are David Brown and Ann Ramos? 12. What does the speaker say about Ann Ramos? 13. What39。s wrong with David? 14. How often do David Brown and Ann Ramos go to Mercy Hospital? 15. What can we learn about the Adult Day Care Program? Key: 11. T 12. T 13. T 14. F 15. F Task 2 Passage one When I was a child there were some people whose ideas I respected. My uncle John, I thought, knew everything about the world。 he had traveled and seen all there was to see. I believed anything he told me about places like Japan, Australia and America. When I was 16 years old I got the idea that my parents, while they were very nice people and I loved them, really didn39。t know very much. I, of course, knew everything. Then, when I was 18, I realized my mother and father had learned a lot in just two years. I now respected their opinions on different subjects. It took two years of growing up for me to realize that they had had these opinions and ideas all the time. Key： 1 A 2 B 3 C 4 D 5 A Passage Two Nine out often parents hit their children according to a report printed today. But many of them also feel that hitting is wrong. The report also says that parents often do not understand their children39。s bad ways. Although about nine out of ten parents use hitting as a punishment, half of them feel shame about using it, while the other half do hit their children and think they are right. It seems most parents we talked to hit their children more than once a week and five percent actually hit their children every day. Parents should make more efforts to understand their children。 hitting isn39。t always the best answer if chi