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Text B
1. Listen to Text B twice. Do not look at your book.
Put down the key words while listening. Then answer the following
questions on Text B.1) What is the text about? 2) What do people say, according to the text, about middle-aged women? Is it true? 3) How many times has the speaker¡¯s mother tried at match-making? 4) Why do you think the speaker says that the match-making was doomed from the start? 5) Why do you think her mother still tried to bring the two young people together knowing that they were choosy? 6) What were Xiao Wu¡¯s demands of his future wife? And why did Xiao Liu fail to meet such demands? 7) Why wasn¡¯t Xiao Wu satisfactory to Xiao Liu? 8) What did the speaker¡¯s mother accuse Xiao Liu of? And what was her father¡¯s complaint about Xiao Wu? 9) Why do you think there was an argument between the parents of the speaker? 2. Listen to Text B again. Then try to retell the story in your own words with the help of the following phrases. an attempt at put demand on go to the trouble of meet one¡¯s demand put the blame on jump at to the lengths of |
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