4+1听力口语MP3-思维 03

UNIT THREE
　　
Part One

Warm Up
Dialogue 1
　　A和B来参加Leo举办的Party，但出乎他们预料的是晚会不是很热闹，所见到的女孩也不太酷，因此很是失望。


A: I thought this was supposed to be ⑴a big bash.
B: Oh, it will be. Leo said it’s going to be huge. We’re just early, that’s all. So, What do you think of her house?
A: This place is really cool. Hey, ⑵look! There’s that ⑶chick, Jane! Guess what, she’s a real ⑷show–off! Don’t ⑸ya think she’s a ⑹turn-on?
B: ⑺*Absolutely not! ⑻Are you out of it? Look at her face, really ugly! Come on, let’s go scarf out on some chow before it’s gone.
A: What is this stuff¹?
B: ⑼Beats me. *Just go for it.
A: ⑽Ugh! *This makes me sick! Hey, ⑾buddy, this party is a drag. I don’t know about you, but I’m heading directly for the door. I’m leaving!

Dialogue 2
　　A(Jenny)想约B(Leo)出去游泳，但B有论文要写、数学题要做，Jenny主动提出可以帮他学习数学。
　　
　　

A: Hi, Leo, Would you like to go swimming this afternoon?
B: ⑴*I wish I could, but I have to ⑵stick around the library the rest of the day in. I have a ten-page paper⑶due tomorrow.
A: Oh, is that for Professor Smith’s class?
B: Yeah, I have to do an analysis of a poem we read in class.
A: That’s hard. ⑷How is it going so far?
B: ⑸Not very well. And I also have to study a lot for math. I don’t know how I’m gonna do at all.
A: Listen, Leo, I’ve been doing well in math, * if you want, I’d be happy to help you.
B: ⑹Holy cow! That will be great, Jenny. 　
　　
Dialogue 3
　　Joe极力表白自己，想讨好Kathleen，但Kathleen 对Joe的谈话态度、内容特别反感……


Joe: I think you’d discover a lot of things if you really know me.
Kathleen: ⑴If I really knew you, I know *what I’d find instead of a brain, a cash register². Instead of a heart, a bottom line.
Joe: ⑵What?
Kathleen: I just had a ⑶breakthrough.
Joe: What is it?
Kathleen: I have you to ⑷think for it. For the first time in my life, when ⑸confronted with a horrible, insensitive person I knew exactly what I wanted to say and I said it.
Joe: Well, I think you have the gift for it. That was a perfect ⑹blend of poetry and meanness.
Kathleen: Meanness let me tell you something about meanness.
Joe: *Don’t misunderstand me, I’m trying to pay you a compliment³.
Kathleen: Oh, why are you touching⁴ that? What are you doing?
Joe: Is this a red rose? No, no, you know, it’s crimson⁵ rose. Something you read about in a book no doubt.
Kathleen: ⑺It’s funny to you, isn’t it? Everything is a joke to you. *Please leave. Please, please leave, I beg you, thank you.

Part Two

Everyday Expression

　　谈话高手的技巧在于随时洞察话题线索，拓展广度，挖掘深度。详细叙述和描述一个事件或物体，这是美语会话的一个硬功夫。好奇心会丰富你的知识。

Small Talk 1:
Mary: Excuse me, Tina, but I don’t know what this file is for.
Tina: Let me see. Seems like a data analysis of the market, but I’m not sure who made it.
Mary: Jim told me it was from the former manager.
Tina: What is he doing here?
Mary: I’ve no idea. So this staff meeting is supposed to be on this weekend?
Tina: I guess.

Small Talk 2:
A: Excuse me, do you happen to know how they started quarrelling?
B: Sorry but I was not present at that very hour. And you?
A: For all I know, it was about the color of a bowl.
B: Well, who can believe this?

Small Talk 3:
A: Got any idea why the bus is late?
B: The accident at the intersection⁶, so they were saying.
A: But I think something weird⁷ is going on.
B: Nothing much, hopefully.

Small Talk 4:
A: I’d like to know, please, when the plan takes off.
B: With this kind of storm, I’m sorry to tell you that you’ll have to wait.
A: Will it be all right by tomorrow afternoon?
B: Sorry, sir, but I have no idea.

Small Talk 5:
A: Happen to know his name?
B: Nope. But I know he’s a new comer in the Marketing⁸ Dept.
A: But I thought the department was going to size down!
B: Well, you can never tell.

1 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

2 register   

n.登记簿，花名册，注册员；v.登记，注册

参考例句：

• Please list your name in the attendance register.请在点名册上登记你的名字。
• He was looking over a hotel register.他正在仔细检查旅馆住宿登记表。

3 compliment   

n.[pl.]问候，致意；n./v. 称赞，恭维

参考例句：

• The manager paid her a compliment on her work.经理赞扬了她的工作。
• Your presence is a great compliment.承蒙光临，不胜荣幸。

4 touching   

adj.动人的，使人感伤的

参考例句：

• It was a touching sight.这是一幅动人的景象。
• His letter was touching.他的信很感人。

5 crimson   

n./adj.深(绯)红色(的)；vi.脸变绯红色

参考例句：

• She went crimson with embarrassment.她羞得满脸通红。
• Maple leaves have turned crimson.枫叶已经红了。

6 intersection   

n.交集，十字路口，交叉点；[计算机] 交集

参考例句：

• There is a stop sign at an intersection.在交叉路口处有停车标志。
• Bridges are used to avoid the intersection of a railway and a highway.桥用来避免铁路和公路直接交叉。

7 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

8 marketing   

n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西

参考例句：

• They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。
• He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。