2016届高考英语高分冲刺特训听力素材1（word版）34_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）34

　　Richard: Mark, of course.

　　Gardening:

　　Chairman: Now Mr. Grant has a question, I think, on gardening. Mr. Grant?

　　Mr. Grant: Can the team please suggest any suitable gardening task that could be given to young children between eight and twelve years old.

　　Chairman: I usually get them to wash my car. But a gardening task, well, what do you suggest. Peter?

　　Peter: There’s a great tendency among some people I know to treat young children like slave labor. I don’t think you should. I think you should give them a job which is going to be useful to you, not one that you would object to doing yourself and, if possible, one which is going to be of some educational benefit to them. A job I would suggest is hand weeding.

　　Chairman: You must have thought about this, Jeff. What job would you give them?

　　Jeff: Well, I’d sooner have them eating ice cream. No, seriously, I like having young people in the garden. One thing that they enjoy doing, because they get very messy, is cleaning tools, you know spades, rakes and things like that. I mean you give a little boy an old rag to clean them with and he is so happy. Another job they love and which I hate absolutely is edging. You know, trying to give a shape to the lawn. They make a horrible mess of it cutting it smaller and smaller and giving it no shape at all, but they thoroughly enjoy it. The other thing that I like to give them to do is pot washing. They’re not so keen on that but I get them to wash the pots. But anything that’s going to get them messy, lovely!