Lesson Twenty-Four
Section One:
Tapescript.
A.Calculations:
1.Add two and four; eight and ten; fourteen and ven.
2.Subtract six from eighteen; four from eleven; five from nineteen.
3.Multiply two by eight; five by three; six by four.
荆棘读音4.Divide six by three; eight by two; twenty by five.
B.Numbers and Symbols:
1.I’ll take a commission of ten per cent.
2.The current rate of interest is twenty-three per cent.
3.I only get three-eights of the total.
4.It’s only a fraction of the cost, about a sixteenth.
5.Divide nine by two and you get four point five.
6.You only get two point four six per cent.
C.Asking for Advice:
1.I have to get a new pair of jeans. Is there anywhere ...? Do you know a, a good shop where I can get a pair?
2.Look, er, I want something interesting. All I’ve eaten since I’ve arrived here is junk food. I want some good local food. Where should I go and what shall I ask for?
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3.The car’s giving problems again. I had it rviced last week but it’s as bad as it was before. I don’t know what to do about it.
4.Ooh, yes, I need your advice. The problem is that I have to go to this very formal dinner party next week and I haven’t got a dinner suit here. I really don’t want to buy one. What do you suggest?
5.Ever since I’ve been here I had this stomach problem, you know. I mean, it’s not rious. Well, I don’t think it is. I mean, you often get the things when you travel. Must be the different water or something. But it really is a nuisance and it ems to be getting wor ...
6.Damn! I’ve lost my wallet!
Section Two:
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A.Telegram:
Man: Telegram, miss.
Jean: Oh, thanks.
Jean: I wonder who it’s from. Oh, it’s for Helen. Helen, there’s a telegram for you.
Helen: For me? Oh, Jean, will you open it? I hate opening telegrams.
Jean: Do you? Why?
Helen: Well, it’s just that I think a telegram must mean bad news.
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Jean: I’m just the opposite. I love opening telegrams becau I’m sure they must mean something exciting.
Jean: Helen, you’d better sit down. You aren’t going to believe this. It says, ‘Congratulations, Nur of the Year. Letter follows.’
Helen: It can’t be true.
五儿孝母Jean: Here. You read it.
B.Interview Appointment:
Hello. This is Sophie Peters ringing from the Brook Organization. Um, we got your job application and I’m ringing just to arrange an interview with you. How about Monday morning at, er, 11.30? Would that be all right? That’s Monday morning of the 10th of August. Um, if you can’t make that time, could you plea give us a ring? The interview will be with mylf and Brian Shaw, so we, um, we look forward to eing you then. Bye-bye.
C.Henry:
“Henry!”
“Yes, dear?”
“I’m going up to bed now. Don’t forget to do your little jobs.”
“No, dear.”
Henry turned off the television and went into the kitchen. He fed the cat, washed up veral dishes, dried them and put them away. Then he put the cat out, locked all the doors and turned out all the lights. When he got to the bedroom, his wife was sitting up in bed reading a book and eating chocolates.
“Well dear, have you done all your little jobs?”
“I think so, my love.”
“Have you fed the cat?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you put him out?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you washed up the dishes?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you put them all away?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you tidied the kitchen?”
“Yes, dear.”
黄春菊“Have you turned out all the lights?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Have you locked the front door?”
“Yes, dear.”
“Then you can come to bed.”
“Thank you, dear.”
“Yes, dear.”
After a little while they heard a gate banging downstairs.
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“Henry.”
“Yes, dear.”
“I’m afraid you've forgotten to shut the garden gate.”
“Oh dear! ...”
D.Radio Talk:
—推销电脑Ladies and gentlemen, it’s the Lake Late Talk Show, with your host, Dickie Reeves. (applau)
—Nice to be with you again, folks. And among the line of interesting guests I’ll show you tonight is the lady you’ve all been reading and hearing about recently. She is beautiful. She is clever. And she is brave. She is the lady who makes friends with monkeys. She is with us tonight. Ladies and gentlemen, the apewoman herlf, Jophin Carter. (applaus
e) Hello, Jophin, or can I call you Joe?
—管道设计Plea do.
—The first question that I know everybody has been dying to ask you is, how long have you been living with monkeys?
—Apes actually. Well, I’ve been studying apes for quite a long time, ever since I was at university. But I’ve only been actually living with them for five years.
