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◆Conversation
one
W: Hi, David, I haven't seen you in class for almost two weeks.(1)We thought
you had disappeared on holiday early or something.
M: Hi Sarah.Well, it's a bit of a long story,
I'm afraid.I got a throat
infection last week and had to go to the hospital to get some antibiotics as
I really wasn't getting any better.
W: Oh,yeah. There've been so many viruses going around this winter. The weather
has been so awful for the last few weeks.
M: And,
(2)
on the way back from the hospital,I slipped on some ice and fell
and then had to go to the hospital to get an
x-ray because I basically thought
I'd broken my wrist.
Although thankfully it's not broken.But I need to be
careful with it for the next few weeks.
W:Oh, that's too bad.How unfortunate.
M: To make things worse, I managed to fall
right in front of four girls from
the ninth grade. So, it was utterly humiliated. Plus, the laptop in my bag
was broken too.
W:
No!
What
a
complete
catastrophe!
Is
the
laptop's
still
under
warranty?
(3)
If it is, then you can easily send it back to the
manufacturer
and they’ll send you a brand new one for free, surely.
M: The warranty ran out three days before I broke it. And all my essays are
in there and I need to have them in before we break for the Christmas holidays.
W:
Listen,I have the number of a really good affordable computer repair shop
at home. My dad has used this guy before and he can work miracles.
(4)
Let's
go back to my house and we can call the repair shop,and you could have some
tea and cookies too.
M: Wow. Thanks, Sarah. That would be great. Let me just call my mom and let
her know I’ll
be home a little bit later.
Q1: What did Sara think David was doing for the last two weeks?
Q2: What happened to David on his way back from the hospital?
Q3: What does Sarah say they should do with the damaged computer?
Q4: What does Sarah say she is going to do?
◆Conversation
Two
M: Welcome to this week's episode of Book Talk. (1)
With me today is Heidi
Brown,
a historian who has written five critically acclaimed books about
military history.
W: Thanks for having me, John. I'm so excited to talk about my latest book,
which was published last month.
M: So this book is a novel, your first attempt at that genre. And that's a
bit of a departure for you.
W:
(6)
I'd say it's a major departure as it's not just a work of fiction,
it's set 200 years in the future.
M: Right. So how did that happen? You spent three decades writing about the
past and focusing on the 18th and 19th centuries. And now you're speculating
about the future.
W: Well, after years of researching soldiers and chronicling their lives during
battle,
I
just started wondering about other facets of their lives,
especially their personal lives.
M:I can see that. Your novel is about soldiers, but it focuses on their
relationships, especially the bonds between sons and mothers, and men and their
wives.
W: Yes.
(7)
That focus came about when
I still intended to write another
book of history,
I
started by researching soldier's actual personal lives,
studying their letters home.
M: So how did that history book become a novel?
W: Well,
(8)
I realized that the historical record was incomplete.
So I'd
either have to leave a lot of gaps or make a lot more assumptions than a
historian should.
M: But why write a novel set in the future,when your credentials are perfect
for a historical novel? As a historian, any historical novel you write would
have a lot of credibility.
W: I felt too constrained working with the past. Like what I wrote needed to
be fact as opposed to fiction.
But writing about the future gave me more
freedom to imagine, to invent.
M: Well, having read your book,I'm glad you made that choice to move into
fiction.
Q5:
What does the man say about the woman?
Q6:
What does the woman say about her newly published book?
Q7:
What did the woman do before writing her new book?
Q8: What does the woman say about her writing history books?
◆Passage
One
(9)
Whether it's in the hands of animated polar bears or Santa Claus,
there's one thing you'll find in nearly all ads for Coca-Cola, the
characteristic glass bottle.
Most Americans don't drink soda out of the glass
bottles seen in
Coke's ads anymore.But this week,the company is celebrating a century of
the bottle that's been sold in more than 200 countries. (10)
Flashback to
1915, when a bottle of Coca-Cola costs just a nickel as the soft drink gained
in popularity, it faced a growing number of competitors, counterfeits, even
trying to copy Coke's logo.
So according to Coca-Cola historian, Ted Ryan,
the company decided to come up with packaging that couldn't be duplicated.
A
product request was sent to eight different glass makers. Workers at the root
glass company got the request and began flipping through the encyclopedia at
the local library,
Landy gone cocoa's seed.
The cocoa's seed is not an ingredient of the soda.
(11)
They designed
their bottle based on the seeds that shape and large middle.
It wasn't
overcoat executive's in Atlanta and would go on to receive its own trademark
spur collections and earn Coca-Cola an iconic image that made it part of
American culture for a century.
It was 100 years ago this week that the bottle earned a package by world
war
II, Coke bottle sales had ballooned into billions. Americans mostly
consumed Coke out of aluminum or plastic today, but the glass bottle remains
a symbol of America that's readily recognized around the world.
Q9. What does the passage say appears in almost all ads for Coca-Cola?
Q10. Why did the Coca-Cola company decide to have special packaging designed?
Q11. What do they learn about the Coca-Cola bottle designed by the root glass
company?
◆Passage Two
Trying to create some measurable improvement in mood. But most of us are
reluctant to start these conversations because we presume the opposite.
(12)
In an experiment, commuters who talk to nearby strangers found that
commute more enjoyable than those who didn't.
They were asked to predict
whether
they'd
enjoy
the
commute
more
if
they
converse
with
other
people.
Intriguingly, most expect the more solitary experience to be more
pleasurable. Why is this?
(13) Social anxiety appears to be the problem.
People's reluctance to start conversations with nearby strangers comes partly
from underestimating others'
interest in connecting.
The sad thing is that people presume that a nearby stranger doesn't want
to converse and don't start a conversation.
Only those who force themselves
to chat because it was required by the experiment found out what a pleasant
experience
it
could
be.
Human
beings
are
social
animals.
Those
who
misunderstand the impact of social interactions may not, in some context, be
social enough for their own well
being.You should be chatting with the
strangers you encounter.You may occasionally have a negative encounter that
might stick in your memory. (15)
This is because the human brain is biased
to dwell on negative events.
But starting conversations with strangers is
still well worth the risk of rejection.
It may surprise you that conversing with strangers will make them happier
too. (16)
The pleasure of connection seems contagious. People who I talk to
have equally positive experiences as those who initiate a conversation.
Q12: What does research show about a conversation between strangers?
Q13:What prevents people from starting a conversation with strangers?
Q14:Why does a negative encounter with strangers stick in one's memory?
Q15: What does the passage say the pleasure of connection seems to be?
◆Recording
One
The Caribbean islands are divided into two worlds, a rich one, and a poor
one. (16)
This tropical region's economy is based mainly on farming. Farmers
are of two types. One is the plantation owner who may have hundreds of thousands
of acres. In contrast, this small cultivator is working only a few acres of
land.
Most visitors to the Caribbean are rich. Like the plantation owner. They
do not realize or do not want to realize that many farm families barely managed
to get by on what they grow. The Caribbean produces many things. (17)
Sugar
is the main product. Other export crops are tobacco coffee, bananas, spices,
and citrus fruits, such as orange lemon or grapefruit.
From the west Indies also come oil, mineral pitch, and many forest products.
Jamaica's aluminum or supplies are the world's largest. Oil comes from Trinidad,
Aruba and Carol co, but for many of the smaller islands, sugar is the only
export. Rum, a strong alcoholic. We just distilled from sugar cane is also
an export.
The world's best rum comes from this area. Local kinds vary from the light
rums of Puerto Rico to the heavier, darker rums of Barbados and Jamaica.
American tourists enjoy stocking up on inexpensive high-quality Caribbean rum
while they're on vacation. In correct.the well-known vicar of that name is
made for the thick, outer skin of a native orange ever since America's colonial
days, the Caribbean islands have been favorite places to visit.
Since world war two, tourism has increased rapidly because great numbers
of people go there. The Islanders have built elaborate resorts, developed
harbors and airfields, improved beaches and have expanded sea and air routes.
Everything is at the resort, hotel, beach, shopping and recreation, the
vacationer never has any reason to explore the island.
As in most places, those who have money live well, indeed, those who don't
have money live at various levels of poverty,
(18) but here the poor greatly
outnumber the wealthy. A visitor will find rich people living in apartments
or Spanish houses at the seaside or in the countryside. Their service might
include a cook, a maid and a nurse for the children.