Lesson Twenty-Five
Section One:
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A.Numbers:
1.At the third stroke, the time sponsored by Accurist will be twelve one and fifty conds.
2.The code for Didcot has been changed. Plea dial 05938 and then the number.
3.In the train crash in India, three hundred and twenty-five people are feared dead.
4.The 3.45 at Ascot was won by Golden Dove, ridden by Willie Carson.
5.Well, um, for a trip like that, we are speaking in the region of, er, two thousand eight hundred pounds a head.
6.Er, Celtic three, Manchester City nil; Queen’s Park Rangers two, Motherwell United one.
7.In New York, the Dow Jones Index fell by point four to a low of two oh six four point eight. While in London, the FT Index ro eight points to one ven nine four point three.
8.That’ll be sixty-eight p, plea.
包饺子作文300字9.The, er, latest figures show an incread profit of venty-eight thousand, nine hundred and fifty-six pounds.淮安十大著名景点
10.And how can we continue like this with unemployment running at three million, two hundred and fifty thousand. It really is unaccept ...
11.Yes, we can give you a special rate of, er, five point six eight per cent.
12.We’ll have to adjust all our figures by an eighth.
13.Well, that’s your choice. Eleven pounds forty-five for this one, fourteen pounds, or fifteen pounds ninety-nine.
14.So, it’s two thousand three hundred and ninety-eight plus two thousand four hundred
cookie是什么and eighty-nine plus two thousand four hundred and sixty-three. I’ll just total that up for you.
B.Dialogues:
二三三乐Dialogue 1:
Woman: So, you’ll take the cream at three pounds five, the pills are four pounds thirty and then, um, this if fifty-five p. That’s ven pounds ninety-five.
Man: Sorry. I think perhaps it’s ven pounds ninety.
Dialogue 2:
Woman: Is ten pounds all right?
Man: Yeah, that’s fine. It comes to six pounds thirty-five. Your change.
Woman: Thanks.
Man: Can I help you, sir?
Woman: Oh, just a minute, I think you’
Man: Oh, I am sorry. Of cour. Here you are.
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Section Two:
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A.Memories:
亏心事Well, we met at a party in London. You e, I’d just moved to London becau of my job and I didn’t really know anybody, and one of the people at work had invited me to this party and so there I was. But it was one of tho boring parties, you know everybody was just sitting in small groups talking to people they knew already, and I was feeling really bored with the whole thing. And then I noticed this rather attractive girl sitting at the edge of one of the groups, and she was looking bored too, just about as bored as I was. And s
o we started, um, we started looking at each other, and then I went across and we started talking. And as it turned out she’d only just arrived in London herlf so we had quite a bit in common—and well that’s how it all started really.
B.Married Life:
—What’s the matter with you, then? You look mirable.
—It’s us.
—What do you mean “us”?
—Well, we ud to talk to each other before we were married. Remember?
—What do you mean? We’re talking now, aren’t we?
—Oh, yes, but we ud to do so much together.余额宝怎么关闭
—We still go to the cinema together, don’t we?
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Yes, but we ud to go out for walks together. Remember?
—Oh, I can remember. It’s getting wet in the rain.
—And we ud to do silly things, like running bare foot through the park.
—Yes. I remember. I ud to catch terrible colds. Honestly, you are being totally ridiculous.
正直的人—But we never ud to argue. You ud to think I was wonderful. Once ... (sound of the door opening) Where are you going?
—Back to live with my parents. That’s something el we ud to do before we were married. Remember?
C.Superstitions:
Not long ago I was invited out to dinner by a girl called Sally. I had only met Sally twice, and she was very, very beautiful. I was flattered. “She likes me,” I thought. But I was in for
a disappointment.
“I’m so sorry we asked you at such short notice,” she said when I arrived, “but we suddenly realid there were going to be thirteen people at the table, so we just had to find somebody el.”
A superstition. Thirteen. The unlucky number. Recently I came upon a little group of worried people, gathered round a man lying on the pavement beside a busy London road. They were waiting for an ambulance, becau the man had been knocked down by a passing taxi. Apparently he had stepped off the pavement and into the street, to avoid walking under a ladder.
They say this superstition goes back to the days when the gallows were built on a platform. To get up on to the platform you had to climb a ladder. To pass under the shadow of that ladder was
