step_by_step_3000第4冊材料和答案.doc

Unit 1 The less traveled path Part I Warming up A. Tapescripts: Man 1 What makes me happy is slowing down. I think that we live in a very fast, speedy world and we often forget to take stock and take time. Well, the problem with happiness is of course that sometimes when you are happy, you are infected with the spirit of the fact that it’s going to stop, so sometimes you can’t enjoy happiness because you know it’s going to end. Man 2 I think it is a very good thing to try and aim to be happy. Happiness is a difficult concept. You’re aiming for sort of contentment and satisfaction with a few of joy. And for me, like most people actually, what the evidence tells you is it’s about having good relationships and making time for them, so I’m never happier than when I’m with my wife and child and also having fulfilling and satisfying work. Man 3 Again there’s a wealth of evidence about this-above a certain point wealth and possession don’t contribute to happiness. Of course there’s a minimum, if you’ve just lost your job and you can’t pay the mortgage, you’re going to be miserable. But above a certain level, and it’s actually relatively low in a society like ours, money doesn’t actually buy happiness. B. Tapescripts 1. I don’t remember very much about my childhood, actually. My wife’s always asking me “when you were a boy, did you use to…” and I reply “I don’t know, I can’t remember.” We didn’t … we didn’t use to talk very much, we weren’t very close, or if we were, we didn’t show it. I remember I used to have my hair cut every Friday. My father and I would go together. I had the shortest hair in the school. When they’d finished cutting it, they’d burn the ends with a sort of candle. Oh I’ll never forget that smell. 2. I got on very well with my mother. I used to tell her everything—or nearly everything—and she’d talk to me very openly too. Sometimes she’d say to me “Don’t go to school today. Stay with me.” And we’d go out shopping or something like that.