参考答案
The people in the podcast talk about whether they like to live in the countryside or in the city, what animals they like and what animals they are scared of.
听力原文
F = Finn; M1 = Man 1, etc.; W1 = Woman 1, etc.
Part 1
F: I like being in the countryside, but I’m always happy to come back to the city. How about you?
M1: I actually really love the countryside. I grew up on a farm.
W1: I love being in London. I have loved my time in London, but as I’m getting older, I increasingly want to visit the countryside more and more.
M2: It’s nice; it’s, it’s quiet – you know, you can forget about the city.
W2: I love it. I was brought up in the countryside.
M3: I love being in the countryside. I love the quiet; I love the fresh air. It’s great.
W3: I love being in the countryside. Um, I’ve come, I come from Hertfordshire, so, although it’s not … where I live isn’t actually directly in the countryside. If you drive for 10 minutes, you’re in it and it’s beautiful.
W4: I love the countryside. It’s a nice change to living in London and I enjoy taking weekends out. Um I enjoy camping.
M4: I enjoy the countryside because I’ve, I’ve lived there for about 37 years. And particularly I enjoyed (enjoy) gardening – growing a lot of vegetables.
Part 2
F: The thing I like most about being in the countryside is watching animals and birds. How about you? Do you like wildlife?
W1: Well, I am, er, an animal lover. Er, I’m a vegetarian as well.
W4: I like wildlife and animals. Er, since I was a little girl, I’ve always really liked foxes for some reason. And I know a lot of people don’t, but foxes have always been my favorite animal.
M1: I love wildlife. Er, I really, sort of, enjoy things that you don’t see every day – um … enjoy sort of very exotic wildlife that I haven’t seen before.
M4: I like, um, watching them on the telly.
W2: I think, I think animals are living beings and should be treated as so – should be treated with respect.
M3: I like, um, big cats. They’re very graceful; they’re very beautiful. Um, and um, something I’ve, I’ve always just had a fascination with from an early age. Er, I also quite like large snakes. A friend of mine used to keep them.
W3: My nephew and niece have a guinea pig, which I love.
Part 3
F: Are there any animals you’re frightened of?
M2: Snakes and scorpions. Um, just ’cause I know that usually one bite could mean that’s the end.
W3: I don’t like spiders. It’s not really an animal – but I hate spiders.
M1: I am very scared of spiders. Um, and even though in Australia, we get some very small but very dangerous spiders – I’m afraid of very big spiders.
M4: I don’t particularly like horses because they’re big, and they frighten our dog.
W1: I’m not really frightened of any animals. I love them all.
M3: There’s nothing that scares me – that I haven’t got any memories of animals scaring me as a child.
W4: I’m quite scared of sharks. I don’t really like the sea and so whales and um, animals such as that, I don’t really like. Um, I suppose because it’s the unknown, I just find it quite scary.
