这是我用学生课本的词汇编写的读物:

家长们可以录音后当听力, 然后再阅读


Lead-in

笑哈哈老师最近刚刚搬了新房子,请大家去去开一个乔迁聚会,这里叫做“房屋温暖会”。在会上,大家问起老方自己的事。

Next is an overheard conversation of multi-parties. Listen carefully and answer the questions with the correct choice:

1. What is the issue that concerns Lao Fang's friends?
a. Too many people applying for housing
b. Lao Fang is too slow to get a house
c. Lao Fang's wife wants to live seperately
d. Lao Fang is too old to date an actress

2. Who made videos and wrote an article?

a. Lao Fang
b. a news reporter
c. the actress
d. Fang's parents

3. The actress

a. is not afraid of giving up her job if her would-be husband has secure job
b. is pretty and demands her would-be husband to be rich
c. Prefers to work for an all-managing work unit
d. had to sleep on the floor mattress when visiting Fang

4. According to one speaker

a. finding a girl friend is less urgent than finding a house
b. finding a a house is less urgent than finding girl friend
c. finding a house and a girl friend is more urgent than anything else
d. None of the above

5. Lao Fang's idea about finding a girl friend is:

a. finding someone from his hometown
b. finding someone where he works
c. finding someone who will join him
d. finding someone who tolerates seperate living

6. The house situation for Lao Fang is

a. lots of choices with abundant houses available
b. limited choices with most houses being far away
c. he is not qualified for most of the houses
d. he has few peope competing with him

6. Why did Lao Fang's parents visit him?

a. to see how he did in the troops
b. to spend the Chinese New Year' Eve
c. to introduce to him a girl friend
d. to spend an American holiday

7. What is Lao Fang's life style?

a. a generous spender
b. a careful economizer
c. a budget balancer
d. a dumpster diver

A:老方,你的房子问题解决了吗?
F: 没有,不好解决。现在房子少。申请的人太多。
B:你得赶紧动作啊,你看人家谁谁谁,比你来这里晚,房子问题都解决了。
A:老方哪能跟谁谁谁比啊,人家稳重,成熟,有责任感,做什么事情都自己有主意。 你看,老方的房子问题整个单位都知道, 而谁谁谁的房子不言不语就到手了。
C:可不是吗?老方性格太开朗了,什么事情都说出去。据说他把驻地附近的空房子都拍了录像, 拿回来跟大家讨论呢。
A: 是啊,他还写了《老方看房记》,放到因特网上。 全世界的华人都知道老方在找房子。
C:唉,我真怀念在单位工作的日子。他们管工资,管房子, 还管找对象。单位就像一个家啊。
B: 老方,说起来找对象的事,我给你介绍一个国内的文工团演员,人又漂亮,又大方, 就是年龄大了点。人家不在乎你没钱。这样的人现在很难得啊。
F: 算啦,我还是在驻地解决婚恋问题吧。不然两地分居很麻烦呢!
B:可是人家女方说了,只要你工作有保障,人家愿意提前退休,到驻地来随军。
C:我看老方还是先解决房子问题。 有了房子,什么问题都好办,婚恋问题就更不用说了。
A:听说现在本地的房子很紧张呢。
还好啦。目前蒙特雷有将近100套,海边市有将近40套,码头市有将近20套。
B:可是老方还没有提干。蒙特雷的房子就别想了。海边市的房子,也只有三、四套是老方可以考虑的。可是像老方这样条件的无房户太多了。老方争不过人家。
C: 没房子真不方便啊。前年老方的父母来蒙特雷看他, 为的是和他一起过独立日,可是老方只能给他们打地铺。二老很不高兴。
A:老方,什么时候你的房子问题解决了,我们也到你那里温暖一下。
F:我才不搞温暖会呢。你们温暖了一走。 我的房子就显得更冷了,因为我从来不开暖气的啊。