听力题 M: Hey, Mary, you are not really reading it, are you? W: Pardon? M: The book, you haven’t turned a page in the last ten minutes. W: No, Jim. I suppose I haven’t. I need to get through it though. But I keep drifting away. M: So, it doesn’t really hold your interest? W: No. Not really. I wouldn’t be bothered with it, to be honest. But I have to read it for a seminar. I am at a university. M: It’s a labor of labor rather than a labor of love. W: I should say. I don’t like Dickens at all really, the author. Indeed, I am studying to like the whole course less and less. M: It’s not just the book. It’s the course as well? W: Yeah. In a way, or the course itself isn’t really that bad. A lot of it is pretty good, in fact. And the lecture is fine. It’s me, I suppose. You see, I want to do philosophy rather than English. But my parents talked me out of it. M: So, the course’s OK as such. It’s just that it had been left to you. You would’ve chosen a different one. W: Oh, they had my best interest at heart, of course, my parents. They always do, don’t they? They believed that my job prospects would’ve been pretty limited with a degree of philosophy. Thus, they gave me a really generous allowance. But I am beginning to feel that I am wasting my time and their money. They would be so disappointed, though, if I told them I was quitting.