Unit 1
Part I - A
87, 80, 53, 48, 24, 17
Script:
The Porter Family
Mr William Porter is very old. He is 87. And Mrs Catherine Porter is 80. Mr Porter is from Wales. John Porter and Mary are brother and sister. John Porter is 53 and he is a lawyer. His wife Susan is 48, and she is an architect. James Porter and Joan Lee are cousins. James Porter is 24 and Joan Lee is 17.
Part I - B
1. spending special time together.
2. specific, complain, request, prai.
3. fatigue, incurities, foxhole, striking out , protect.
4. distant
5. all marriages, Work together o understand
6. Respect, danger, professional, physical, verbal
7. Understand, win
腾挪劲Part I - C
如何制作ppt40, excel, domestic argument, losing
借过印子月win-win, lo-lo, win, a gift, returns
argue over, aren't, who, in control, fear, didn't need, ought not to , couldn't, tried to, destroy, marriage
love, loved, cure, discover, garden, cultivate, the most precious, own lf, bloom. obtain, our partner, loved and respected, control.
Part II- A
A2
1. similar social backgrounds.
2. the same race or same ethnic background.
3. the same religion.
A3
Japan / 9.2% / arranged marriages
3% / between blacks and whites
Many people in Western cultures choo their own wives and husbands. In many other countries, spou are often chon by the parents. In China and Japan before this century (20th century), upper-class marriages were arranged by the older males. In many cultures in the Middle East, Asia, and pre-industrial Europe, the man's family negotiated a "bride price" with the woman's family; the man's family was expected to pay it. In Hindu India, the bride's family paid a "groom's price" to the family of the man. The customs are weakening;for intance, only 9.2 percent of Japane
marriages are now arranged.
What are the criteria for choosing mates? Most marriages-whether arranged by families or occurring from personal attraction or love--are bad on similar social backgrounds. In other words, the man and the woman come from the same social class (or el a class that is only slightly higher or slight lower). Among many people in Egypt, key members of the man's family must go to the family of the woman and propo marriage. The family members must be able to show that the man's family is at least of the same social class as the woman and that a certain amount of money exists to allow the marriage to go forward.
Having the same race or the same ethnic background is the cond main criterion for marriage throughout the world. In the U.S,. Where there are many different races, only 3 percent of all marriages are between blacks and whites, meaning that the races are still largely parate in marriage.
In many countries, marriage is also bad on the woman and man having the same religion; this is a third common criterion for choosing a mate. In culture in which religion is very strong value, marriages would often not take place if there were religious differences.
Part II - B
1. physical appearance;
2. what somebody looks like, ....., look beyond the physical appearance
3. the high percentage of divorces.
4. falling love with somebody,..... ,loving somebody
Script:钢琴家的英语
What do you think it is that attracts people to each other, that makes people want to be together?
I think that perhaps unfortunately in the initial stages it's the physical appearance that attracts. I think unless you find somebody attractive, unless there's something about them-it could only perhaps be the way they smile or they laugh, or a twinkle in their eye, or the way of a curl falls over their forehead. But something like that has to make you interested enough to find out more about that person, unless that's there I think you just don't bother. So initially physical attraction I think is all important.
Why do you say "unfortunately"?
Becau in fact it shouldn't be what somebody looks like that is important. You should be able to look beyond he physical appearance and e what sort of a person he or she is, whether they are lfish or lfless, whether they are kind, caring. But I think initially you are not bothered with that. That come perhaps later.
In pop songs and magazines and newspapers and son on, the idea of falling love in s always emphasized, so people have this idea that you have to fall in love. Do you
think this is misleading for people? Do you think people expect something that in fact doesn't exist?
Y es, I do. In fact I think we can probably lay the blame for the high percentage of divorce--it's a third I think now, isn't it? I think one in three people get divorced. Probably as far as I can e it, the reason is that they go into marriage or into a relationship with a very romantic view of love which I think has been created by the pop songs, by all the love stores, by the Barbara Cartland novels, etc. , that young people read. Really, you meet someone, you fall in love, and that's it., it's the beginning, they live happily even after. And I think that's the problem, becau people just expect that, and it's not like that.
So what is it, do you think, that really sustains a relationship, that keeps a relationship going?
Well, I think you have to differentiate between falling in love with somebody, which I e as more superficial, and loving somebody, which I e as a deeper emotion and one that perhaps lasts. Falling in love is superficial attraction, being attracted to somebody physically, having fun together, whereas loving somebody I think is an emotion that grows, it comes with shared experiences, perhaps enjoying doing the same things together, shared hobbies, shared interests, suffering together as well, going through the bad times, helping each other, supporting each other. I think all that needs time to grow, and I'd call that love, and I think that's what makes a relationship last.
Part II - C
one of the biggest decisions they will make in life,
as the "just-right" wife for him,
definition of what the "just-right"wife is,
the millionaire man and the poor man ,
her physical qualities,
different words,
by her physical qualities,
in two different atmospheres,
also have their definition of the "just-right" wife,
the German man's definition is different from the Spanish man's.
Script:
Part III
A baball diamond frizzly hair / glass/ funny/ monologue
生日祝福语句A wine bar pizza
A fancy-dress party the man dresd as Cheshire Cat
Outside a cinema coincidence/ he'd also misd the film
石油王国A boat/ the river bank fell in river/ he dived in and rescued her
Kate: I was on my way home from junior high and in order to get to my hou you have to walk by this baball diamond. And there was a game of baball going on and it looked kind of interesting, so I stopped. There weren't very many people watching. And there was this guy and he wasn't really very good-looking, but he had frizzly hair and glass and he was really funny. He did this kind of monologue thing, which war great. And I went home and I told my mother I was going to marry him after talking to him for half an hour. And when I got to high school, he was president of the student body and he asked me we've got our picture in the yearbook together holding hands, and it's really nice.
素描画板Ke: Well, I'd arranged to have a drink with a friend of mine, a woman friend of mine who's a platonic friend of mine. And she insisted on bringing this friend of hers who she said I'd like to meet and I thought she was trying to fix us up and I said, "Plea don't!" But she did bring this friend and we hit it off. And after the wine bar we went to have a pizza and we all had a few more drinks and the other woman who ended up ordering a pizza that had a bunch of stuff on it that she really liked, so we picked at each other's pizzas all night and we realized that we were sort of had an ideal relationship, so that we could order really any pizza on the menu and we'd both
be happy. And anyway we ended up living together and still are.
Coralyn: We met at a party and it was fancy-dress party. A friend of mine's twenty-first and it was quite big and I went dresd as Alice in Wonderland and this person, this guy that I married was dresd as the Cheshire Cat. And it just emed
so amazing that, you know, we were both from the same thing and we started chatting and ended up being together.
Jill: I'd arranged to go to the cinema with a group of friends and unfortunately I misd the train that would have got me to standing outside--the film had started. So I wasn't allowed in. And there was a chap outside, he'd also misd the film and we started to talk and we talked quite a bit and he said,"Let's go down the road and e that film, becau that one hasn't started at the Odeon." So we went down there and we've been going out ever since!
Carole: I first met my partner when he was on a boat and I was on the river bank, standing and looking generally into the distance and he was coming in to land with his boat and he threw me a rope and said,"Would you mind catching this?" and I caught it and misd and tripped over it and fell in the river and he had to dive in and rescue me. And that was it!
Part IV
Book, choked, disappointment, take you to dinner, tolerant smile, went by, ro, big restaurant, test, understand and admire
John Blanchard stood up from the bench, straightened his army uniform, and studied the crowd of people making their way through Grand Central Station. He looked for the girl who heart he knew, but who face he didn't, the girl with the ro. His interest in her had begun thirteen months before in Florida library. Taking a book off the shelf he found himlf intrigued, not with the words of the book, but with the notes penciled in the margin. The soft handwriting reflected a thoughtful soul and insightful mind. In the front of the book, he discovered the previous owner's name, Miss Hollis Maynell.
高配电脑With time and effort he located her address. She lived in New York City. He wrote her a letter introducing himlf and inviting her to correspond. The next day he was
shipped overas for rvice in World War through the mail. Each letter was a ed falling on a fertile heart. A romance was budding. Blanchard requested a photograph, but she refud. She felt that if he really cared, it wouldn't matter what she looked like. When the day finally come for him to return from Europe, they scheduled their first meeting -- At the Grand Hotel Station in New
York. "Y ou will recognize me,"she wrote, "by the red ro I'll be wearing on my lapel." So at 7:00 he was in the station looking for a girl who heart he loved, but who face he'd never en. I'll let Mr Blanchard tell you what happened.
A young woman was coming toward me, her figure long and slim. Her blonde hair lay back in curls from her delicate ears. Her eyes were as blue flowers. Her lips and chin had a gentle firmness, and in her pale green suit she was like spring time coming alive. I started toward her, entirely forgetting to notice that she was not wearing a ro. As I moved, a small, provocative smile curved her lips. " Going my way, sailor?" she murmured. Almost uncontrollably I made one step clor to her, and then I saw Holllis Maynell. She was standing almost directly behind the girl. A woman well past 40, she had graying hair tucked under a worn hat. She was more than plump, her thick-ankled feet thrust into low-heeled shoes. The girl in the green suit was waking quickly away.
I felt as thought I was split into two, so keen was my desire to follow her, and yet so deep was my longing for the woman who spirit had truly companioned me and upheld my own. And there she stood. Her pale plump face was gentle and nsible, her gray eyes had a warm and kindly twinkle. I did not hesitate. My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her. This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even bett
er than love.
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