Reading comprehension.
Soap Update: Family Businesses
In the popular radio drama Family Business, things aren't looking good for the Black family. They own
The Full Moon restaurant, but a new restaurant called The Angel is taking all their customers. The Full Moon
also has serious money problems and relationships between the family members are getting worse every week.
For new listeners here's our guide to the main characters in radio's most popular drama.
Lydia Blake and her husband Clive own The Full Moon restaurant. Lydia is bright and extremely stubborn,
and she's very worried about the restaurant. She wants to borrow some money from the bank-if she can't,
The Full Moon might have to close.
Clive Black is the chef (厨师) at the Full Moon-but being married to Lydia isn't easy. He thinks she's
impatient and inconsiderate and would like to ask her for a divorce (离婚). But if he does, what will happen
to the restaurant he loves?
Darren is the oldest of Lydia and Clive's three children (their other son, Nick, left the programme a year
ago. Darren works as a waiter in his parents' restaurant when he's not stealing cars or staying out all night.
The most dishonest and unreliable(不可靠的) member of the family, he's the one we love to hate.
Kathy is Darren's lovely wife and mother of three-month-old Elizabeth. Kathy is quiet, easy-going and
unselfish, but does she have a secret past?
Eve King is the owner of The Angel restaurant, which opened in the same street as The Full Moon last
month. Eve is attractive, ambitious and single.
Answer the questions according to the passage you read
1．Is The Full Moon restaurant successful? Why?
2．Do Lydia and Clive has a good relationship?
3．When did Nick leave the programme?
4．Who are Elizabeth's parents?
5．Where is the Angel restaurant?
