听力题
M: So, Andrea, are you going home for the holidays?
W: I sure am. I''ve booked a flight for tomorrow afternoon and I can''t wait.
M: That sounds great.
W: What about you? Going home, too?
M: I haven''t decided yet. I''m still debating. . .
W: Haven''t decided? Oh, you''re never going to get a flight out of here. I''m sure all the seats have been reserved by now. It''s the holiday season, after all.
M: Well, it''s not such a big deal for me. My family only lives about a hundred and fifty miles from here. I usually drive or take the train. It''s a short trip.
W: You don''t sound very excited about it.
M: Well, we are not really a very close-knit family. I have three brothers, and they are spread out all over the place. One lives on the East Coast and the other on the West Coast. I even have a brother in Montreal!
W: Oh, vow! What does he do?
M: Translation work. It''s kind of strange, but we rarely get together as a family anymore.
W: Well, I try to get home as much as possible. We''re a big family — there are six of us children — so it is always a lot of fun.
M: Six kids?
W: Yep. And we''re all really close. You should see it — most of us are married, too, so it makes for a very crowded house over the holidays.
M: I can imagine.
W: Of course, there are too many people to cook dinner for. It is a real headache for my parents. So we end up going out to dinner a lot. It is pretty crazy.
M: Well, at my house my mother loves to cook. So when all of us get home — which isn''t that often — she always cooks big homemade meals. We have left-overs for days!