Luyện nghe bài hát Inside Susan

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