初一英语上册听力材料,初一英语听力材料：为什么不快乐

【#英语听力# 导语】听力理解是九年义务教育新大纲规定的学生学习英语所必须掌握的听、说、读、写四种基本技能之一。下面是®文档大全网分享的初一英语听力材料：为什么不快乐。欢迎阅读参考！

　　材料一：为什么不快乐

　　There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong. We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten. People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example. Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.

　　材料二：坐云霄飞车

　　Each summer the fall Fair comes to Cranbrook. They set up their games and rides on the west side of the river near the empty car lot. Every year little Tommy watches the strong men pound the tent pegs into the ground. He watches them build the stages and finally when the Fair is open he watches all the people line up to get on the roller coaster. He watches as the cars twist and turn upside down. He wishes he were brave enough to go on it.

　　One day, one of the older boys sees Tommy and calls out, "Hey kid. Do you want go for a ride?" Tommy is shy,"No, I'm scared." The older boy says,"Come on. I'll let you ride for free." Still Tommy shakes his head. "What if I ride with you?" Then will you come? This is my chance, Tommy thinks to himself. "Ok, I'll do it." The older boy took and strapped him into the car then sat down beside him. As the rolle coaster started to move, Tommy squeezed his eyes shut.

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