【正文】 e truth is, my job is very hard. I have to be very organized and very disciplined. and pretty selfmotivated. And when I have a problem, there is no one around to help me I have to solve it myself. And sometimes I worry about money. So when I get stressed, I take a hot bath to relax, and then I curl up in front of the TV with a cup of hot tea. And that usually does the trick at the end of a long and very hard day. Sean: Traffic stresses me out. I do a lot driving to school and to my parttime job. Drivers can be so rude, especially during rush hour. I try to ignore them by listening to my favorite music in the car. Then, when I get home, I try to something fun to relax. I39。m a freelance writer, and that means that I work at home. And a lot of people think my job is easier because I don39。請(qǐng)發(fā)送私信，我會(huì)予以修正，以方便后續(xù)的讀者。已經(jīng)整理教材CDA中的聽力原稿，CDB的聽力原稿會(huì)在接下來(lái)的日子里上傳。親愛的讀者們：由于工作的原因，需要《劍橋國(guó)際英語(yǔ)教程4》（Passage 4）的聽力原稿。在網(wǎng)絡(luò)上搜索到一些，但是它們有一些小錯(cuò)誤，并且缺失幾個(gè)單元的聽力原稿。由于時(shí)間倉(cāng)促，且筆者的水平有限，難免會(huì)有錯(cuò)誤和遺漏。想出來(lái)的智慧2018年1月10日Unit 1Luis: Well, I guess the biggest change in my life over the last five years is that I got married. I used to be single, and now I’m not! I used to enjoy going out with friends every weekend you know I was a lot more sociable. Now a more of own body, I liked to stay at home, watch TV that kind of thing. It’s not so bad. I guess you could say that I grew up I was tired of going out all the time and ready to settle down and start a family.Celine: For me the change has been with my work. I used to work in a large pany. I worked in their corporate headquarters downtown in the accounting department. It was a great job good money, decent benefits. When I first started at that pany, I was very young and very ambitions. But after a while, I got tired of it. I was so unhappy there, and the mute was killing me! But one evening two years ago, I attended a seminar on working for yourselfyou know, being selfemployed and starting your own pany. So I quit my job and gave it a try. It was scary at first, but after a little while I could see it was going to work out just fine for me. I couldn’t be happier.Diana: Gosh, five years ago I was a pletely different person. You wouldn’t have recognized me if you’d seen me then! I talk a lot now, but I was more reserved then. And I hardly exercised at all. I never played any sports and rarely spent time outside. I was in terrible shape and worried about my health. But all that changed when I met my friend Judy. See, she convinced me to start slowly, you know, by walking every morning before work and swimming twice a week. Well, now I spend most of my free time outside hiking, swimming when the weather’s good, playing tennis or racquetball those kinds of things. I’m in pretty good shape now and feeling wonderful.Luis: Well, my wife is always saying that I’m not very good with money, not practical at all. She’s always teasing me about spending habits, but she’s right. When I see something I want, I just go and buy it, even if it is something I don’t really need. I guess I waste a lot of our money. We’re expecting our first child in December, and now that there’s going to be three of us, well , I think I do need to be more careful.Celine: working at home has been a real struggle. It’s been a lot harder than I imagined. I need to be more organized, that’s for sure. So, I ’ve decide to hire at a parttime secretary you know, someone who can e in couple of times a week and help out with me phones, the filing, and just clean up in general. I’m so busy that sometimes I kind of let things get out of hand the office gets really messy! I sure could use some help.Diana: Well, I started mountain climbing a year and a half ago, and I just love it. Well, the next step for me is to concentrate on that sport and see where I can go with it. I’d love to someday say, five or ten years from now go mountain climbing in the Himalayas. They have some of the highest and most beautiful mountains in the world. That would be a real adventure! But before I do anything like that, I have to practice, practice, practice! And I have to get stronger –mentally as well as physically.Paul: So, Andrea, you going home for the holidays?Andrea: I sure am. I’ve booked a fight for tomorrow afternoon and I can’t wait!Paul: That sounds great.Andrea: What about you? Going home, too?Paul: I haven’t decided yet. I ‘m still debating…Andrea: Haven’t decide? Oh, you’re never going to get a flight out of there. I’m sure all the seats have been reserved by now. It’s the holiday season, after all!Paul: Well, it’s not such a big deal for me. My family only lives about a hundred and fifty miles from here. I usually drive or take the train. It’s a short trip.Andrea: You don’t sound very excited about it.Paul: Well, we are not really a very closeknit family. I have three brothers, and they’re spread out all over the place. One lives on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast. I even have a brother in Montreal!Andrea: oh, wow! What does he do?Paul: Translation work! It’s kind of strange, but we rarely get together as family anymore.Andrea: Well, I try to get home as much as possible. We’re a big family there are six of us children so it’s always a lot of fun.Paul: Six kids?Andrea: Yep! And we’re all really close. You should see it most of us are married, too, so it makes for a very crowded house over the holidays.Paul: I can imagine.Andrea: Of course. There are too many people to cook dinner for. It’s a real headache for my parents. So we end up going out to dinner a lot. It’s pretty crazy.Paul: Well, at my house my mother loves to cook. So, when all of us do get home which isn’t that often she always cooks big, homemade meals. We have leftovers for days!Unit 2Carol: Well, I went away to college when I was seventeen. I’d never lived away from my parents before, and I was really looking forward to it. But I was also scared because I was leaving my friends behind, and I didn’t know anyon