新视野大学英语视听说教程 听力材料及答案 (第(15)

like a princess. She seemed perfectly content with that situation, so her friends were surprised when she announced she would soon get married. People who knew her well said the marriage wouldn't last long. But for the present, she and her new husband appeared happy.

As soon as the newly married couple returned from their honeymoon, the bride called her mother.

"How did everything go?" her mother asked.

"Oh, Mom," she began, "the honeymoon was lovely! So romantic! We had a wonderful time. But on our way back, Bob started using really terrible language. Stuff I'd never heard before. Really awful four-letter words. You've got to come get me and take me home. Please, Mom!" the new bride sobbed over the telephone.

"But, honey," the mother asked, "What four-letter words?"

"I can't tell you, Mom. They're too awful! Come get me, please!"

"Darling, you must tell me what has upset you so much. Tell me what four-letter words he used."

Still sobbing, the bride said, "Mom, words like dust, wash, iron, and cook."

原文2

After 17 years of marriage, my husband left me for my best friend, Monica. What I had

feared most became a reality: I became the single parent of two young children. My daughters grew increasingly unhappy. Seven-year-old Joanna had anxiety attacks whenever she was left alone for more than a few minutes. Five-year-old Sophie would vomit after every meal. Under the psychological pressure, I thought about remarriage. My friends arranged dinners with single men and invited me to parties to meet the latest "someone special".

But later I changed my mind. A colleague of mine said, "Second marriages usually end in divorce, and children are destroyed by it." There is some truth in his words. Research published in 2004 showed that children in blended families were no more emotionally healthy than those in single-parent families.

Not long ago, my now-teenage daughters and I went to lunch at our favorite Italian

restaurant. While eating, we talked about a friend of ours who was divorcing her second

husband. We were worried about how the break would harm her three children, two of whom were struggling to get free of drugs. Joanna put down her fork and looked at me. "Mom, I'm glad you didn't remarry," she said. "If you had divorced again, I might have tried drugs or even considered suicide." At that moment, I realized, once again, that singleness was the right choice for me.

Early Marriage

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