2010年9月上海高级口译考试听力全文4

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　　2010年9月上海高级口译考试听力全文4

　　Question 11-15 are based on the following interview.

　　When most couples marry, they may discuss some things in advance, like how many children they want, or where they want to live. But most of the day-to-day details and problems in married life are worked out after marriage. Not so with Steven Karen Parsons who have a 15 page pre-not-to agreement that state the rule they must follow in almost every aspect of their married life.

　　Today Karen is here with us.

　　A: Karen, first I’d like to ask you why you decided to write this agreement. You have both been married before, am I right?

　　K: Yes, I’ve been married twice and Steven was married once before. So we have some experiences about what goes wrong in a marriage.

　　A: And that’s why you wrote this agreement?

　　K: Yes. We found that many problems happen when a person has different expectations from his or her spouse. They want to talk about everything openly and honestly before we start living together. Also we both know how important it is to respect each other’s quotes.

　　When you are bothered by things that seems small to someone else, like it used to really bother me that my ex-husband left his dirty cloth on the floor. So we put that in the agreement: dirty clothing must be put in the laundry bag. Now Steven knows what my expectations are.

　　A: I’m sure that some people hearing this report were thinking this contract isn’t very romantic.

　　S: Well, we disagree. We think it’s very romantic. Disagreement shows that be set down, and talked and really try to understand the other person. A lot of problems occur in the marriage because they don’t talk about what they want. That’s right. When they disagree about something, we work out solution. That’s good for both of us. I’d much rather do that than get some romantic gifts like flowers or candy.

　　A：Some of these rules sound like, well a business agreement . Many of your rules can save money in some way. Even the rules about having children.

　　S: No experiences disagreement about money can cause a lot of problems. So we talked about how we want to spend our money and put that in this agreement as well.

　　A: So do you spend a lot of time checking on each other to see if the rules are being followed?

　　S: No, not at all. And we don’t argue about that, either. As matter of a fact, I think we spend less time arguing than most couples because we both know what the other person expects. We can spend all our times doing things we enjoy and just being with each other.

　　A: What happens if one of you break your rule?

　　S: We don’t see that will be a problem. No, because we do agree on these rules.

　　A: But what if, say, you don’t want to co-dinner one night. What happens? Well, we’ve talked about it, we need to compromise. Maybe there is a good reason.

　　A: But if you break a lot of rules all the time…

　　S: Then, we have to ask. Is this marriage really working? Because if we can’t follow all our own agreement, there is no point making it.

　　A: So it sounds that you two are happy with your agreement. Do you think other couple should follow your example and write pre-not-to agreements of their own?

　　S: There is a lot of work to write an agreement, but I think it could be useful to a lot of people. May be there would be fewer divorces if they have rounded this

　　Question 11: About which of the following topics is the woman being interviewed?

　　Question 12: What can be learned about the man and the woman from the interview?

　　Question 13:According to the woman, why there is many problem happen in the marriage?

　　Question 14: What does the woman think of this contract?

　　Question 15: What happened if one of the couple sometimes break the contract?

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