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1、-外研版九年上M3U2 课文及习题-第 4 页Unit. I think life is better today.Life now and thenMrs Li is over 70 years old, she has lived in Beijing all her life. I asked her about life today and in the past.What was your life like in the past ?My family lived in a tiny house . There were no electric lights ，only candl
2、es. My father was a postman, and he often worked twelve hours a day outside in the winter cold or in the summer heat . My mum was a farm girl before she met my father. She was a kind and loving mother. She didnt go out to work . There were five children in my family and looking after us was more tha
3、n a full-time job . I remember the family meals . The food was simple. We could only eat meat once or twice a year. I wasnt sent to school because my family couldnt afford it，and whats more ，because I was a girl.How has life changed?Families have got smaller than it were in the past. Today most peop
4、le only have one child! The role of women has changed too.My daughter is really lucky. She has a good education ,and she goes to work even after getting married. Im happy to see she is busy working every day, but sometimes I feel lonely because she cant come to see me often. Transport and travel are
5、 easier today. When I was young I went everywhere on foot or sometimes by bike. Now you can take the bus everywhere, and there is also the underground .And you young people can take a plane to anywhere in the world. The only thing I dont like ,though, is that there is so much more traffic. Its so di
6、fficult to cross the road. Of course，we didnt have television when I was a child. I really enjoy watching television todahere are so many good programmes,like the Beijing opera and old films. But some of the shows are too noisy for me. Generally speaking，I think life is better today.We eat better an
7、d we live longer!任务型阅读：1. There are_ children in my family and we could only eat meat_. I wasnt sent to school because_. 2. The underlined word “ education” in the passage means in Chinese _ A: 求学 B: 脾气 C:教育 D:气候3. Why the writer thinks that his daughter is so lucky?4. From the passage we learn that
8、 life _ today.5. Why the transport and travel are easier today?用单词的正确形式填空：Candles, cold, generally speaking , postman, tiny, traffic Mrs Lis father was a _. He often worked outside for twelve hours a day in the summer heat or in the winter _. They lived in a _ house and used _ for light. Mrs Li says that _ , life is better today. But not everything is satisfying. There are some things that she is not happy with, for example, the _.