2023年高考英语全国甲（乙）卷听力真题 对话4

W: So Robert, I guess you must be well into your third decade as a writer. How is life treating you?

W：那么，罗伯特，我想你已经进入了你作为作家的第三个十年。你过得怎么样？

M: Fourth decade as a writer. Hmm, let me get my calculator out. Well, I guess I have been writing novels since the 1980s. So you’re right.

M：当作家的第四个十年。嗯，让我把计算器拿出来。嗯，我想我从20世纪80年代起就开始写小说了。所以你是对的

But I have been writing all of my life. And to answer your question, life has been treating me excellently.

但我一生都在写作。为了回答你的问题，生活一直对我很好。

W: Can I ask you about your childhood? Were you a bookish child?

W：我能问一下你的童年吗？你是个书呆子吗？

M: In a strange way, I was a non-readeruntil I turned 9. I used to play basketball in the schoolyards of Brooklyn. My father was a high school teacher of physics and chemistry.

M：奇怪的是，我在9岁之前一直是个不读书的人。我以前常在布鲁克林的校园里打篮球。我父亲是一名高中物理和化学老师。

And he was a big reader. He would bring books back from his high school library. One day I read the last chapter of a book, the title of which I’ve long since forgotten.

他是个大读者。他会把高中图书馆的书带回来。有一天，我读了一本书的最后一章，书名早已被我遗忘。

I liked it so much that I started reading the remainder. Interestingly, I read the chapters backwards until I got to the beginning.

我非常喜欢它，所以我开始读剩下的。有趣的是，我倒读了这些章节，直到我读到开头

I really loved the experience, and I soon became an eager reader. Then my father would bring piles of books home from the library.

我真的很喜欢这段经历，很快我就成了一名热心的读者。然后我父亲会把成堆的书从图书馆带回家。

And I would read them all, and they were all fiction. I must add that I started reading the books from the start, as opposed to working backwards.

我会把它们全都读出来，它们都是虚构的。我必须补充说，我从一开始就开始阅读这些书，而不是向后看。

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