Luyện nghe bài hát Inside Susan

Susan catches the bus into town at ten-thirty a.m. she sits on the seat. she looks at
The man in front's head and thinks how his fat wrinkled neck is a large carrot
Sticking out from the collar of his shirt. she adds up the numbers on her bus to
See if they make twenty-one, but they don't. maybe she shouldn't going to school at
All, then. her friends will be in the yard with their arms on their chests,
their breasts to try and make them look bigger, whilst the boys will be too busy
Playing to notice. the bus is waiting on the high street when suddenly it begins
To rain torrentially and it sounds like someone has emptied about a packets of
Dried peas on top of the roof of the bus. 'what if it keeps raining,' she
to herself, 'and it was just like being in an aquarium except it was all the
Shoppers and that were floating passed the window instead of fish? '
She's still thinking about this when the bus passed caroline lee's house where there
Was a party last week. were some german exchange students there who were very
they all ended up jumping out of the bedroom window. one of them tried to get her
To kiss him on the stairs, so she kicked him. later she was sick she drunk too
Much cider. caroline was drunk as well; she was pretending she was married to a boy
In glasses, and she had to wear a polo-neck for three afterwards to cover up the
Love-bite on her neck. by now the bus is going the market. outside is a man who
Spends all day forcing felt-tip pens into people's hands and then trying to them pay
For them. she used to work in the pet shop, but she got sacked for talking to when
She was supposed to be working. she wasn't too though, she hated the smell of the
Rabbits anyway. 'maybe bus won't stop,' she thinks, 'and I'll stay on
It until I'm old enough to go into pubs on my own. or it could drive me to a where
People with black hair drink special brew and I can make lots of by charging fat old
Men five pounds a time to up my skirt. oh, they'll be queuing up to take me out to
Dinner...' I suppose you she's just a silly girl with stupid ideas, but i
Remember her in those days. they about people with a fire within and all that stuff,
Well, she had that alright. it's just that no-one to jump into her fire; they would
Have been consumed. instead, they put her in a corner and let her up the room,
Warming hands and backsides in front of her, and then slagging her off around town.
No-one ever got inside susan, and, and, she always ended up getting off the bus at
The terminus and then home.