2016届高考英语高分冲刺特训听力素材1（word版）19_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语高分冲刺特训听力素材1（word版）19

　　Monologue 2:

　　I was born in Scotland. In Glasgow to be exact. In the early 1950s and I suppose like everybody else, I went to school. Primary school, then secondary school. The only difference really is that I always went to the same school from when I was 5, aged five, right through until I was aged eighteen. So there wasn’t really much to relate about that part of my life. I suppose it was much the same as everybody else’s. I lived in my hometown, Paisley, all that time. But then aged eighteen, like most British people of my sort of class and so on, I left my hometown and moved away to university. A lot of British people don’t go to their local university—they go to another one which is further away. Possibly because they’d rather not stay at home with their parents. So I left my hometown of Paisley and I went to St. Andrews on the east coast of Scotland. There I studied English and then Modern History, and so for four years I studied those subjects and was very happy. Later I left St. Andrews with a degree in Modern History, and not really knowing what I wanted to do. I wasn’t sure whether I’d go on to do some research of whether I’d like to be a teacher. So I took a year off to think about it. And then one year later I decide I wanted to be a teacher and I went to Teacher Training College. And this time yet again it was in another part of the country. In Newcastle in the northeast of England, so there I trained to be a teacher and I qualified as a teacher of History and English. And after that year I began work—real work for the first time in my life. I suppose this would be around 1977.