大学体验英语听说教程听力原文【第四册Unit1】Identity.docxVIP

v1.0可编辑可修改 v1.0可编辑可修改 Scripts for Unit One Liste ning Task 1 The n eighborhood childre n my age played together: either active, physical games outdoors or games of dolls-a nd-house in doors. I, on the other hand, spe nt much of my childhood alone. I d curl up in a chair reading fairytales and myths, daydreaming, writ ing poems or stories and draw ing pictures. Sometimes around the fourth grade, my “big ” (often critical, judgmental) Grandma, who d been visiting us said to me, “ What s wrong with you Why don t the other children want to play with you ” I remember being startled and con fused by her questi on. I d n ever bee n particularly interested in playing with the other children. It hadn t, till then, occurred to me that that was either odd or someth ing with me. Nor had it occurrred to me that they didn t “want to play with ” me. Myfirst conscious memoryof feeling different was in the fourth grade. At the wardrobe, listening to classmates joking, chattering and laughing with each other, I realized I hadn t a clue about what was so funny or of how to participate in their easy chatter. They seemed to live in a uni verse about which I knew nothing at all. I tried to act like others but it was so difficult. I felt con fused and disorie nted. I turned back to my inner world: readi ng books, writ ing and daydream ing. My in ward ness grew me in ways that continued to move me further away from the world of my age peers. The easy flow of casual social chat has rema ined forever bey ond my reach and bey ond my in terest, too. Liste ning Task 2 The greatest difficulty for meis that as a pers on of mixed origi n I amat home neither here nor there. Wherever I am, I am regarded as being foreign, either “white ” or “blac k” . It happens to me when I live in my mother s country of origin, in Switzerland, and it happened to mewhen I was living in my father s country, Ivory Coast. I would feel at home where I could feel that people accept me just the way am! When you a