【正文】 matrimonial Sapphire Anniversary hurdle sacred patible with agony mortgage 泰斗，名人，杰出人物 放松，變松 婚姻的 藍(lán)寶石婚 障礙 神圣的 與 ?? 相容的 痛苦 抵押 Section A Listen Task Listen to a passage and try to get its main ideas by taking notes. Fill in the blanks according to your notes. Prelistening Task 1 Listen and Take Notes Task 2 Listen for Details Part A Part B Listening 1. The main topic of this listening material is the . the future of marriage __________________Section A Listen Task Prelistening Task 1 Listen and Take Notes Task 2 Listen for Details Part A Part B Listening 2. Based on the listening material you’ve just heard, tick (√) the right box. For Against Not Given 1st speaker 2nd speaker 3rd speaker 4th speaker √ √ √ √ Task Listen to the passage again and try to answer the following questions. 1. When did the first speaker get married? 45 years ago. 2. According to the first speaker, what could the government do to encourage marriage? The government could help by reintroducing the married persons’ allowance. Prelistening Listening Task 1 Listen and Take Notes Task 2 Listen for Details Part A Part B Task 3. How long has the second speaker been married? Four years. 4. What is the word the second speaker used to describe her attitude toward marriage? Sacred. 5. According to the third speaker, whom does marriage benefit? Women. Prelistening Listening Task 1 Listen and Take Notes Task 2 Listen for Details Part A Part B Task 6. What is the fourth speaker’s job? He is a teacher. 7. When will the fourth speaker’s daughter get married? This Sunday. Prelistening Listening Task 1 Listen and Take Notes Task 2 Listen for Details Part A Part B Part A Part B What does the Future Hold for Marriage? Eighty years ago, Arnold Bent, Hilaire Belloc, Rebecca West and other luminaries predicted the future of marriage － did they get it right? Despite its decline in popularity and rising divorce rates, Bel Mooney argues against the loosening of matrimonial ties. But does marriage really have a future in the 21st century? I’m Richard Right. My wife and I have recently celebrated our Sapphire Anniversary (45 years), with, hopefully, Part A Part B hopefully, many years to e. We made a mitment to each other and, through thick and thin, have stuck by that mitment. Today’s generation is always in a hurry and doesn’t see anything beyond the next hurdle, so they give up if the wall ahead looks too high. We must encourage people in the belief that marriage is the best social institution ever invented, but we must be prepared to work at it. The government could help by reintroducing the married persons’ allowance. Part A Part B I feel very disappointed that so many men feel the way they appear to about marriage. To me marriage is sacred. I didn’t promise to love, care for and be with my husband until next week, or until another offer es along. I promised to love him and be with him in sickness, health, riches or poverty for the rest of our lives. I meant it. I still mean it almost four years on. Things have not been easy, but I didn’t expect a bed of roses, or everything to be Part A Part B to be plain sailing. I have never expected someone else to support me in the style to which I would like to bee accustomed. I expect to have to work hard for the things that we want. The notion that caring and sharing is somehow oldfashioned and out of tune with modern life, and living together is in any way patible with the lifetime mitment of marriage is just wrong. Some of us do care, and some of us do mit to another and mean it. Part A Part B Any man that praises the delights of marriage has never experienced the agony of divorce and the loss of his children. Marriage is very much for the benefit of women. I don’t know about marriage but the future of the wedding industry is more than secure. My daughter is getting married this Sunday in a beautiful ceremony in Santa Barbara. We had to take a second mortgage on the house to pay for it. I am going to quit teaching school and bee a wedding planner － she makes twice my salary! Eighty years ago, Arnold Bent, Hilaire Belloc, Rebecca West and other luminaries predicted the future of marriage － did they get it right? Despite its decline in popularity and rising divorce rates, Bel Mooney argues against the loosening of matrimonial ties. But does marriage really have a future in the 21st century? I’m Richard Right. My wife and I have recently celebrated our Sapphire Anniversary (45 years), with, Part A Part B What does the Future Hold for Marriage? Part A Part B hopefully, many years to e. We made a mitment to each other and, through thick and thin, have stuck by that mitment. Today’s generation is always in a hurry and doesn’t see anything beyond the next hurdle, so they give up if the wall ahead looks too high. We must encourage people in the belief that marriage is the best social institution ever invented, but we must be prepared to work at it. The government could help by reintroducing the married persons’ allowance. Part A Part B I feel very disappointed that so many men feel the way they appear to about marriage. To me marriage is sacred. I didn’t promise to love, care for and be with my husband until next week,