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[00:00.00] Unit 15 My Hometown [00:30.90]Integrated Skills Development [00:37.07]Dialogues [00:40.12]A. The Return Visit [00:46.00]Mr.Hall spent his childhood in Changchun,China. [00:53.45]However,he has lived most of his life in Newtown. [01:00.00]He is now returning to Changchun for the first time in twenty years [01:07.47]and is traveling by bus with his nephew. [01:12.72]Mr.Hall: We're nearly there. It's all coming back to me now. [01:19.39]I used to travel along this road to school every day. [01:24.56]Robert: Did you really? I thought you'd lived in Newtown all your life. [01:31.64]Mr.Hall: No,I used to live in Changchun when I was young. [01:36.97]Robert: Have you ever been back since you first left Changchun? [01:43.13]Mr.Hall: No,but I often thought about visiting my old birthplace. [01:48.88]In fact,I never made it because I had no time. [01:54.16]Robert: We're coming into the center of Changchun now,aren't we? [02:00.22]Mr.Hall: Er—are we? It's all changed. There didn't use to be a flyover here. [02:07.97]Robert: Look at those skyscrapers.Are they office build-ings? [02:14.45]Mr.Hall: I have no idea. I don't remember any huge buildings here. [02:20.70]There was a field—my family often had a picnic there. [02:26.65]B. It's All Changed! [02:33.81]Now,Mr.Hall and his nephew are passing through the town center. [02:42.17]There is a swimming pool on the right. [02:47.42]Robert: Did you often go there when you were a boy? [02:53.27]Mr.Hall: I've never been there. I would have gone if there was one then. [02:59.33]Robert:Look at that old building. It's the town library. [03:05.10]You must have been there. [03:08.94]Mr.Hall: Oh,yes,but not often.I didn't use to have time to read a lot. [03:16.10]Robert: Ah,we're coming into the bus station now. [03:21.14]Mr. Hall: What? The bus station didn't use to be here, [03:27.02]next to the town hall. [03:30.18]Robert: Where was it? [03:33.55]Mr.Hall: I an't remenber. The whole town's changed. [03:39.01]Let's get off and look around... Can you read the date over there? [03:44.97]Robert: It says 1955.The bus stations's been here all the time. [03:53.72]Mr.Hall: I never used to come here to catch the bus. [03:58.68]I can't remember a thing. [04:02.44]Maybe I've changed—not the town. [04:06.80]Passage My Hometwon [04:13.75]John Pizarro,the director of the Commercial Development in our company, [04:21.20]is going to travel to my hometown with me [04:26.06]to see the great changes taking place there. [04:31.02]My hometown is a beautiful place. [04:35.98]It stands beside a wide river at the foot of low green hills. [04:42.46]It has many fine buildings and wide streets. [04:48.10]Wherever you go,you may see trees and flowers. [04:54.35]But it has not always been like that. [04:59.49]When I was in high school, [05:03.36]it was a sad and dirty little town. [05:08.22]Some people lived in dark, [05:12.66]unhealthy rooms in old buildings and others in huts on narrow muddy streets. [05:20.42]Nearly everyone was poor and many had no work. [05:26.58]Great changes have taken place in my hometown since 1978 [05:33.95]when China started to put into effect the policies of reform [05:40.61]and opening to the outside world. [05:45.16]The people have got rid of the mud and dirt. [05:51.03]They have put up theaters,shops and flats in the center of the town. [05:58.58]They also have set up a hospital in the east of the town. [06:04.46]Along the river they have built schools,hotels and a big park. [06:11.83]Factories and businesses have sprung up. [06:17.70]On the river,steamers and boats come and go busily day and night, [06:24.68]carrying the products of our industries to all parts of the province. [06:30.92]Because the economy has developed rapidly and steadily, [06:36.98]the people's living stan-dard has been improved greatly. [06:42.55]I love my hometown,and I love its people. [06:48.42]They too have changed. If we continue to carry out the policies, [06:55.69]I am sure that my hometown will have an even brighter future.

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