[00:00.72]Exercise 6 Listen to the conversation. [00:04.11]Guess what the things refer to. [00:11.45]Sorry I've turned up late. [00:13.16]The Broadway- you know what the traffic's like. [00:15.68]I got beld up for ten minutes. [00:17.32]Mmm it's awfu...
[00:01.09]And he looks like that guy from EastEnders. [00:03.71]What's his name? [00:05.12]I know the one you mean. [00:06.93]And...why don't they make a decent park? [00:09.52]We could have one near the river,couldn't we? [00:11.33]There's space to...
[00:01.42]Exercise 7 Listen again and complete [00:04.93]the Function File with words and phrases. [00:08.07]Pronunciation [00:09.64]Exercise 8 Listen to eight more suggestions. [00:14.06]Which of them sound tentative [00:16.44]and which sound strong...
[00:03.05]Unit 24 Society [00:06.28]3 A Changing World [00:09.71]A Every year thousands of tourists flock [00:13.37]to China to wander along the majestic Great [00:16.00]Wall and gaze in awe at the Forbidden City. [00:19.28]They come to see these gra...
[00:01.45]B The majority of Beijing's hutongs [00:04.38]were built between the 13th and 19th centries [00:07.40]during the Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties. [00:10.60]To help them maintain control over the city, [00:13.15]the Emperors during these period...
[00:01.53]C By connecting people's homes, [00:04.83]the hutongs in fact connected people's lives, [00:07.81]whether the lives of the rich or the lives [00:09.94]of the ordinary citizens. [00:12.01]Because the houses were built facing each other [00:1...
[00:01.08]E Hutongs are still an integral part [00:05.48]of Beijing life. [00:07.14]They make up one third of the city's [00:08.86]residential areas and house [00:10.85]almost half the city's population. [00:13.39]And it is not surprising that touris...
[00:03.22]Unit 24 Society Literature Spot 8 [00:07.59]No Crime in the Mountains [00:09.38]by Raymond Chandier [00:10.96]Exercise 2 Listen and read the extracts [00:15.00]from the story.Order these events in your book. [00:19.41]The letter came just b...
[00:00.81]It was hot in the valley, [00:02.44]hotter still in San Bernadino, [00:04.46]and it was still hot at five thousand feet, [00:06.95]fifteen miles up [00:07.79]the high-gear road to Puma Lake. [00:10.44]I had done forty of the fifty miles of...
[00:00.75]I said:Is Mr Fred Lacey there? [00:03.58]Who is calling, please?Evans is the name. [00:07.15]Mr Lacey is not here right now,Mr Evans. [00:09.81]Is he expecting you? [00:11.66]That gave her two questions to my one. [00:14.09]I didn't like it...
[00:00.67]Lacey? Oh, yes, they just had a phone put in. [00:03.89]They bought the Baldwin cabin. [00:05.54]It was vacant for two years, [00:06.70]and they just bought it. [00:08.12]It's out at the end of Ball Sage Point, [00:10.17]a big cabin on high...
[00:01.09]At the end of half an hour I got up [00:03.27]and duga hole in the soft ground [00:04.88]with my heel and knocked my pipe out [00:07.60]and stamped dwon the dirt over the ashes. [00:09.97]For no reason at all, [00:11.30]I walked a few steps...
[00:02.88]Exercise 6Listen to the rest of the story [00:06.47]and find out what happens in the end. [00:10.01]After finding the body in the wood, [00:12.06]Evans went back to his car. [00:14.04]Suddenly, someone jumped out from behind a bush [00:16.6...
[00:00.53]Back at the hotel, [00:02.06]Evans spoke to the maid, Gertrude. [00:04.08]She had a German accent and was very unfriendly [00:07.25]She called the assistant manager, [00:08.95]Weber, who was very angry [00:10.52]and tried to attack Evans. [...
[00:00.98]A tall, grey-haired man was there [00:02.88]with Mrs Lacey.It was Frank Ludders. [00:06.51]Mrs Lacey claimed that she had never seen Evans [00:08.73]before and Ludders asked him to show the letter [00:11.38]he had received from Mr Lacey. [0...
