本材料由贸贸论坛www.nbutrade.cn 整理，原材料来源于互联网 Some single-parents are still besitant about remarrying. Now that you‘ve heard my story, I hope you won‘t hesitate and let golden opportunities slip through your fingers. Changes in the Speaker’s Reasons or Detailed Description Attitude to Remarriage For two years after my divorce, remarriage was the last word I‘d consider. 1. High rate of remarriage failure. 2. Remarriage would affect my son. ① He drew a picture of the three of us. ② My parents married and divorced eight times and I hope my son would have no such pain. ③ My primary focus was my son, not a wife. I ignored my son‘s suggestion that I consider dating. I reconsidered m reservation about dating and began to date Maria I was concerned about my son‘s respond to her. He grew up and became conscious of my loneliness and anxiety. The second time he brought the issue up. At first his affection for her was lukewarm: his hug was mechanical; but several months later he warmed up to her. I asked Maria to marry me and she Seeing time was ripe. accepted. Our family of two became a family of I believe my remarrying was the right three. choice. Debate SAMPLE
A: On the whole I don‘t support remarriage. Too many remarriages have turned out to
be unsuccessful and end in divorce.
B: If you say many remarriages have failed, that means other remarriages have survived, or even bloomed. We should not only look at the dark of the issue.
A: But there‘re too many factors contribute to the failure of a second marriage. For example, as you become older, you may find it increasingly difficult to adjust to a different pattern of life with a new mate. Once there‘s a conflict neither is willing
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B: There‘re conflicts everywhere, but you should not neglect that an adult has psychological and physical needs. Without a companion, one may feel lonely and anxious.
A: In a new family the husband tends to compare his new wife‘s weak point with his ex-wife‘s strong point. And the wife does the same.
B: I wish you‘d seen the film The Sound of Music. The governess Maria blended so smoothly into the Captain‘s family.
A: It is not easy for children to accept the new mother or father. It is simply impossible for them to forget their birth-mother‘s loving care and the happy moments in their childhood.
B: But how happy are the Captain‘s seven children with their adopted mother Maria! If the new mother shows genuine care for the kids, they will gradually warm to her. On the other hand, many children in a single-parent family are under psychological pressure and suffer from anxiety attack. So, the single life is not the right choice.
VI. Further Listening and Speaking Task1: Early Marriage Script
At the age of 12, Lisa has been married for three years to a young man she met just after finishing secondary school. He treated her well. She almost died during the birth of their first child, born a year after their marriage. The second child, born 18 months later, was also a girl. Lately she and her husband quarrel frequently. She wants to go to vocational school to learn skills to add to the family income, but his mother insists she stay home and produce a son. This example is by no means exceptional. Early marriage is common in many parts of the world. Early marriage leads to early motherhood. In some developing countries, 20 percent or over half of the women give birth to their first child before the age of 18.Expectations from parents, in-laws and society are to produce a child as soon as possible. Many young wives feel pressure to bear son. This typically results in early and frequent pregnancies.
In developing countries, more than half a million women die every year from causes related to pregnancy. There are four important reasons for these deaths. Birth are either ―too soon, too close, too many, or to late‖. According to statistics, it is young women who most die during pregnancy.
11. At what age did Lisa give birth to her first child? 12. What does Lisa want?
13. Why do women in some developing countries have babies early?
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本材料由贸贸论坛www.nbutrade.cn 整理，原材料来源于互联网 14. What are the reasons women die from childbirth? 15. What is the main idea of the passage?
Keys: 1.B 2.D3.A 4.D 5.C
Task 2: Nuclear Family Living Patterns Script A nuclear family is typical in high-industrialized societies. Beginning in the early 20th century, the two-parent family known as the nuclear family was the predominant American family type. Generally children live with their parents until they go away to a college or university, or until they acquire their own jobs and move into their own apartment or home. In the early mid-20th century, the family typically was the sole wage earner, and the mother was the children‘s principle care giver. Today, often both parents hold jobs. Dual-earner families are the predominant type for families with children in the United States. Increasingly, one of the parents has a non-standard shift; that is, a shift that does not start in the morning and end in later afternoon. In these families, one of the parents manages the children while the other works. Prior to school, adequate day care of children is necessary for dual-earner families. In recent years, many private companies and home-based day care centers have sprung up fulfill this need. Increasingly, a company‘s arrangement of day care as well as government assistance to parents requiring day care is occurring.
Task3: They are coming for Christmas,
Script
A man in Phoenix calls his son in New York the day before Christmas and says, ―I hate to ruin your day, but I have to tell you that your mom and I are divorcing, Forty-five years of misery is enough..‖
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本材料由贸贸论坛www.nbutrade.cn 整理，原材料来源于互联网 ―Dad, what are you talking about?‖ the son screams.
―We can‘t stand the sight of each other any longer,‖ the father says. ―We‘re sick of each other, and I‘m sick of talking about this, so you call your sister in Chicago and tell her.‖
Frantic, the son calls his sister, who explodes on the phone.
―Oh, heck, they‘re getting divorced,‖ she shouts. ―I‘ll take care of this.‖ Losing no time, she call her father and screams at him, ―You are not getting divorced. Don‘t do a single thing until I get there. I‘m calling my brother back, and we‘ll both be there tomorrow. Until then, don‘t do anything! DO YOU HEAR ME?‖ Then she quickly hangs up.
The old man hangs up his phone and heaves a sigh of relief. He turns to his wife and says merrily, ―Okay, they are coming back for Christmas and paying their own way.‖
For Reference:
1. He and the boy‘s mother are divorcing.
2. Forty-five years of misery is enough. They can‘t stand the sight of each other any longer. They‘re sick of each other. 3. He gets frantic and calls his sister.
4. They will come back home and stop the parents from divorcing. 5. He is happy, for his son and daughter will come back for Christmas and pave their own way. News Report Prince More Precious Than the Diamond Script People have long known the saying ―Diamonds are a girl‘s best friend.‖ But this may be changing. There‘s a new stone on the gem market, tanzanite, and it is giving diamonds some serious competition. Tanzanite was one of a number of gems discovered in East Africa in the 1960s. The new colors and varieties changed the gem market. But the real gem among these stones was tanzanite, discovered in 1967 in Tanzania. The stone was named after its country of origin by New York‘s Tiffany and Co. which introduced it to the world. It draws one‘s attention quickly with its color—blue, purple or bronze, depending on the direction it is viewed from.
More important for its value, though, is its rarity. Tanzanite has been found in only one small area, near Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. And its supply will probably be
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