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1、Unit2Listening in Passage1 One of the strangest feelings I‘ve ever had was when I returned by chance to a place where I‘d been happy as a child. My husband and I were visiting some friends for the weekend-----they lived about 200 kilometers away. We
2、were driving along when I suddenly saw a church in the distance that I recognized. My favorite aunt had lived very near it on a farm that my brother and I used to visit once a year with our parents. We were city kids, brought up in the middle of Londo
3、n, and this was a working farm-----the real thing-----with cows in cowsheds, fields with ponds and a muddy yard full of smelly pigs-----we had the run of the whole place-----it was just paradise for us. And then-----there was the food-----home-made ja
4、m and bread and cakes, milk fresh from the cow. And my aunt Lottie-----a farmer‘s wife-----and her husband, uncle George and their kids, Katie and Ben, our two cousins who my brother and I really got on with. It was heaven that week we used to spend t
5、here. They moved from the farm when I was… how old? --------about 14. So I‘d never been back or seen it again. Anyway, there we were, and I‘d just seen the church-----, so we turned off and drove down this really narrow lane. And before I knew it we w
6、ere in front of Aunt Lottie‘s farm. The extraordinary thing was that it hadn‘t changed------ not one tiny bit. It was a lovely old place with a typical country cottage garden, full of flowers. There were lots of barns and sheds-----they were next to--
7、--next to the farm. And you know, I can‘t even begin to describe the feeling I had standing there. It was--oh, what was it? an incredibly powerful feeling of longing-----nostalgia for the past-----for times I‘d been very very happy. But it was the pas
8、t. I hadn‘t been there for 20 years and I couldn‘t go back, so also I had a feeling of huge sadness, that I couldn‘t have those times again. And-----at the same time-----great sweetness, because those times had been so happy, so innocent-----b