新通用大学英语综合教程第三册听力原文Unit 3

新通用大学英语综合教程第三册听力原文Unit 3Lesson 1Part 1 Meeting on the StreetSue: You look like youre in a hurry!Kim: I am. Ive got to get 50 color copies made a.s.a.p. I hope they can do a rush job.Sue: They must get requests like that all the time.Kim: I sure hope so. But thats not all.Sue: What else?Kim: Then Ive got to get it all air expressed so it arrives in Singapore first thing Monday morning.Sue: I wont keep you then. Actually, Im in a bit of a hurry myself. I need to have the tailor putnew buttons on this jacket.Kim: OK. Ill call you tonight.Sue: Great.Part 2 Items and ServicesConversation 1M1: Can you recommend a good dry-cleaner? I want to get my shirts done and I dont like the place Im for a good tailor. My new pants are too short.F2: You should take them to mine. Im sure you could get them lengthened there.Conversation 3M: I wonder if you could help me with something. My camera isnt working right. Do you know a goodplace for repairs?F: You can try Hoyt Camera. People say theyre very good.Conversation 4M: Thats a terrific painting. Whered you get it?F: Oh, we bought that on our trip to New Zealand.M: Really! You should get it framed.F: Id like to. Got any suggestions where to get that done?M: Ill ask around.Part 3 Where to Get the ServicesJulia: Hi, Im your new neighbor. I just moved into apartment number twelve. Im Julia Frost.Mark: Im Mark Fines. Welcome to the neighborhood. Let me know if you need anything.Julia: Actually, can you recommend a housecleaning service? Id like to get the apartment cleanedbefore I unpack.Mark: Sure. Almost everyone in the building uses Maid to Clean. Theyre very honest.Julia: Great. And what about a copy service? I have to get some things copied before Monday.Mark: Go to Edisons. Its just down the street. Theyre really fast.Julia: Edisons for coping. And can you tell me where you get your car repaired?Mark: I always go to Tonys Auto Repair. Theyre not very efficient, but theyre extremely helpful.Theyre around the corner.Julia: And just one more question. Can you recommend a tailor?Mark: Sure. Sew Good is great for tailoring. Their work is excellent, and theyre very reasonable.Theyre across the street.Julia: Thanks so much for your help. I appreciate it.Mark: No problem. See you around!Part 4 Having Things DonePassage 1 Paoding Carves up a CowOne time, a butcher named Paoding was commissioned to butcher a cow for King Hui. As he worked,his movements were graceful and faultless. The sound of the knife between the bones was like a whisper inthe night. When Paoding was finished, the cow didnt even know it was dead. The king said, “Your skill isamazing”. Paoding said, “It was nothing really. When I butcher a cow, its not skill that I use, it is the Dao.When I first took up the butchers trade, what I saw was the whole cow. But after I had been at it for a fewyears and butchered a good number of cows, what I saw was no longer the whole cow, but just its skeletalstructure. Ever since then, I stopped using my eyes and used my mind instead, to intuit my way around thecow. The good cook changes knives every year, because he merely chops but doesnt hack. Because I neitherhack nor chop, I have used this same knife for 19 years, and its still like new. My knife glides in and outbetween the bone joints, moving as it pleases; so, the cow suffers no pain and in the end, doesnt even knowit is dead.” The king was enlightened. He understood the good way of living ones life. The complexities oflife are like the skeletal structure of the cow, and those who dont understand how to approach them end uprunning around in circles, wasting all their energy.Passage 2 The Beginning of StampsRowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England, was the first to put forward a proposal to use stamps. Hethought it would be much easier for people to use stamps to cover postage. They could go to the nearby postoffice to buy stamps and put them on envelops before they sent the letters. The post office could simply putseals on the stamps so that people could not use the stamps again. In this way, the post office did not needto send postmen to collect postage. It only needed to send postmen to deliver letters. That was a good ideaand the government finally accepted it.Passage 3 “Dry” CleaningDespite its name, dry cleaning is actually not a dry process. Clothes are washed in liquid chemicals, butwithout water, and that is why the process became known as dry cleaning. But who came up with this idea,and how did it happen?The invention of dry cleaning was an accident. In 1855, a Frenchman named Jean Baptiste Jolly made adiscovery: a lamp filled with kerosene fell on a greasy cloth in his home. Kerosene is a type of oil that burnswell. When the kerosene dried, the cloth was cleaner where the liquid had been.Based on this discovery, people began to use chemicals to clean clothes. But most of these chemicals,such as kerosene and gasoline, could easily catch on fire, so dry cleaning was very dangerous.In the 1930s, people started to use a new chemical called perchloroethylene, or perc for short. This chemicaldidnt catch on fire easily, so it was much safer than the earlier ones. It is still used today by most drycleaners.Lesson 2Part 1 Find a Good Courier ServiceSteve: Hey, Maya, can you recommend a courier service? I need to send this package.Maya: Sure, Steve. Why dont you have Pack Express take care of it?Steve: Do you think that they can get it to Lima overnight?Maya: They must be able to. They have service all over South America. Theyre really reliable.Steve: I should have asked you for a recommendation earlier! Last week I used Aero Fast, but theywere expensive and not very efficient.Part 2 It is Urgent.Anna: Hello. Can I help you?Greg: I hope so. This photo is too small. Can you enlarge it?Anna: Absolutely.Greg: I need this done right away. Do you have express service?Anna: Sure. When do you need it?Greg: Well, can you do it in an hour? Its urgent.Anna: Let me seeis 4:30 OK?Greg: It is great. Thanks. I really appreciate it.Part 3 News and IntroductionPassage 1 Book of the MonthHome and Family magazine talked to Pamela Darby, author of the new book Time Management. Heressome of the advice that she gives:Making time for special treatments and things you enjoy is important. You make time for a lot of thingsthat you dont enjoy, like work and housecleaning. Choose something that you really like to have done,make an appointment, and go. You could get your nails done or have someone massage your back. Theimportant thing is to choose something that you enjoy having done.Accept offers of help. People are so used to doing things on their own, that they dont think aboutletting people help them. If someone asks, “How can I help?” tell them what you need done! For example,if youre planning a class party for one of your children, get some of the other parents to bring food. Whensomeone offers to watch the kids, let them do it.But, you dont have to wait for people to offer to help. Assign responsibilities to other family members.Have your spouse drop off the dry cleaning on the way to work. Get your kids to help around the house.Even young children can be responsible for certain tasks, such as putting away their toys or setting the table.Passage 2 The Beginnings of Mass ProductionUntil the early twentieth century, the normal method of manufacturing was that one person produceda whole item. This system was transformed by Frederick W. Taylor, an American engineer who developedthe theory of scientific management. His aim was to make factory work as fast and efficient as possible: increasing workers productivity in this way would mean that large quantities of goods could bemanufactured cheaply.Taylor recommended that the manufacturing process should be broken down into tasks, and that workersshould specialize in particular tasks, instead of making the whole item. Through this division of labor, eachworker would become very good at certain activities. Henry Ford, the American car manufacturer, was thefirst industrialist to base production on Taylors ideas. Although this approach keeps production costs to aminimum, it has been blamed for making factory work boring.Passage 3 Lost LuggageApproximately one airline passenger in every thousand arrives at their destination to find that some orall of their baggage has not arrived with them. For many passengers this means a wait of hours or days,with all the associated inconvenience, whilst the missing item is being located and forwarded. Others, lessfortunate still, have to resign themselves to the fact that their bags are actually lost and, as the days turn intoweeks, face the fact that