英语专业四级听写答案

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Town and Country Life in England

There is a big difference between town life and country life in England. In the country, everybody knows everybody else. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you have for dinner. If you want help, you will always get it and you will be glad to help others.

In a large town like London, however, it can sometimes happen that you have never seen your next door neighbor and you do not know his name or anything about him. People in London are often very lonely. This is because people go to different places in the evenings and at weekends. If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on Sunday, it is like a town without people. One is sorry for old people living on their own. They could die in their homes and would not be discovered for weeks or even months.

A Change in Women’s Life

The important change in women’on women’that age, and though women tend to marry younger, work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new marriage, with the husband wife sharing more equally in providing the money, the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. life-pattern生活方式

2. share

A One of the best the people of any nation is watching what the do then a window box or something growing in a pot will do. Looking at each other’s gardens is a popular pastime with the English.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. window box:窗台上的花盆箱

2.pastime 消遣，娱乐

Swimming is my favorite pastime.

British and American Police Officers

Real policemen, both in Britain and the U.S., hardly recognize any common points between their lives and what they se on TV—if they ever get home in time.

Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of them