M3U2（10分钟）

1.Mrs Li is over seventy years old.

2.She has lived in Beijing all her life.

3.I asked her about life today and in the past.

4.Betty:What was your life like in the past? 

5.Mrs Li:My family lived in a tiny house

6..There were no electric lights, only candles.

7.My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat.

8.My mum was a farm girl before she met my father.

9.She was a kind and loving mother. 

10.She didn’t go out to work.

11.There were five children in my family, and looking after us was more than a full-time job.

12.I remember the family meals.

13.The food was simple.

14.We could only eat meat once or twice a year.

15.I wasn’t sent to school because my family couldn’t afford it, and what’s more,because I was a girl.

16.Betty:How has life changed? 

17.Families have got smaller than they were in the past.

18.Today most people only have one child! 

19.The role of women has changed too

20..My daughter is really lucky.

21.She has a good education, and she goes to work even after getting married.

22.I’m happy to see she’s busy working

every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she can’t come to see me often.

23.Transport and travel are easier today.

24.When I was young,I went everywhere on foot or sometimes by bike.

25.Now you can take the bus everywhere, and there’s also the underground.

26.And you young people can take a plane to anywhere in the world.

27.The only thing I don’t like, though, is that there’s so much more traffic.

28.It’s so difficult to cross the road.

29.Of course, we didn’t have television when I was a child.

30.I really enjoy watching television

today.

31.There’re so many good programmes, like the Beijing Opera and old films.

32.But some of the shows are too noisy for me.

33.Generally speaking, I think life is better today.

34.We eat better and we live longer. 

生词表

over超过

in the past 在过去

tiny 小的

electric light 电灯

candles蜡烛

postman邮递员

heat温度

kind善良的

look after照顾

full-time job全职工作

remember记得

meal饭

simple简单

twice两次

afford供应

role角色

education教育

get married结婚

is busy working忙于工作

lonely孤单

transport交通

everywhere每个地方

underground地铁

anywhere任何地方

though然而

traffic交通

programmes节目

Beijing Opera京剧

noisy吵闹

generally speaking总的来说

汉语译文

过去与现在的生活

1.李老太太已经 70 岁了。

2.她一辈子都生活在北京。

3.我向她了解了过去各现在的生活状况。

4.贝蒂：你过去的生活是什么样的？

5.李太太:我们家住在一间小房子里。

6.没有电灯，只能点蜡烛。

7.我父亲是个邮递员，无论严寒酷暑，他经常每天在户外工作 12 小时。

8.母亲在遇到父亲之前是个农家女。

9.她是一位善良而慈爱的母亲。

10.她没有外出工作。

11.我家有五个孩子，照料我们比做一份全职工作还要辛苦。

12.我还记得当时家里的饭菜。

13.食物很简单。

14.我们一年只能吃一两次肉。

15.我没被送去上学是因为家里负担不起，还因为我是个女孩。

16.贝蒂：生活发生了怎样的变化？

17.现在家庭成员比过去少。18.如今大部分人只有一个孩子！

19.女性的角色也发生了变化。

20.我女儿真的很幸运。

21.她接受了良好的教育，婚后还能上班工作。

22.我乐意看到她每天忙忙碌碌地工作，但是有时候我也感受到孤独，因为她不能常来看我。

23.如今出行变得更便利了。24.我小时候去哪里都要走路，或者有时候骑自行车。

25.现在到处都能坐公交车，还有地铁。

26.你们年轻人还能坐飞机飞往世界各地。

27.但是有一件事情我不喜欢，就是交通比以前拥挤多了。

28.过个马路都很费劲。

29.当然，我小的时候还没有电视。

30.现在我非常喜欢看电视。31.好节目太多了，比如京剧和老电影。

32.但是也有些表演对我来说太嘈杂了。

33.总的来说，我认为今天的生活更好了。

34.我们吃得更好，也更长寿了。