新编大学英语自主听力 2Unit 11

[22:35.36]R:Mrs White, you've already lived a hundred years and you look as if you might live another hundred years.
[22:41.63]What's your secret?
[22:43.03]M:Well, I've laughed a lot. That's very important. And I've kept busy.
[22:50.74]I taught school for over forty years. I've gotten a lot of exercise, too.
[22:58.22]I've always enjoyed sports-skiing, horseback riding, swimming.
[23:05.42]In fact, I still swim every day at the high school pool and now I've started jogging a little with my second husband.
[23:15.47]R:When did you remarry?
[23:17.77]M:Six years ago. I was ninety-four and he was a young man of eighty.
[23:25.48]A lot of people say I robbed the cradle!
[23:29.47]R:You've done so much in your life. Is there anything you haven't done yet that you'd like to do someday?
[23:35.92]M:Well, you know, I've read many, many books in my life, but I've never written one myself.
[23:44.27]So I'm writing one now. I'd like to finish it and maybe publish it.
[23:51.40]And now that I've started jogging, I think I'd like to run in a race-maybe even the Boston Marathon. Who knows?
[24:01.94]R:Mrs White, you're a hundred years old today. How do you feel?
[24:07.60]M:Wonderful! Not a day over ninety! (416 words)
[24:17.78]1)In all her life, Martha has never left her hometown.
[24:23.94]2)Martha White spent a lot of time looking after her children.
[24:29.30]3)It can be inferred that Martha still has deep love for her first husband.
[24:35.96]4)According to Martha, laughing helps her live a much longer life.
[24:42.05]5)Martha married a young man when she was ninety-six.
[24:47.59]6)This conversation implies that old people can also do what young people do.
[24:55.37]Exercise 2:Directions:Listen to the interview again and complete the following sentences with the information you get from the tape.
[25:06.31]Exercise 3:Directions:Listen to the interview for the third time and answer the following questions briefly.
[25:16.46]1)"People don't talk to each other anymore. They watch television." In what tone is Martha speaking?
[25:27.19]2)What is Martha's secret of living so long?
[25:31.94]3)What does "rob the cradle" probably mean in the conversation?
[25:39.04]4)What would Martha like to do someday?
[25:43.86]Happy Minute
[25:45.52]You are going to listen to a song by John Lennon and Paul McDartney. Read the lines and sing along.
[25:52.64]Yesterday
[25:54.16]Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away
[25:58.76]Now it looks as though they're here to stay
[26:01.82]Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be
[26:09.31]There's a shadow hanging over me
[26:12.12]Oh, yesterday came suddenly!
[26:15.04]Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say
[26:19.54]I said something wrong, now I long for yesterday
[26:24.14]Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play
[26:28.39]Now I need a place to hide away
[26:31.52]Oh, I believe in yesterday.