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华尔街英语学习软件在线客服QQ：624409007中级（Upper.Waystage）2亲爱的朋友：您好！华尔街英语学习软件主要效果在于锻炼口语和完美发音,内含初级、基础、中级、高级所有课程。真实场景设置、人物鲜活、语言地道,无处不体现欧美人的幽默。内容涉及交流、聊天、争论、自白、抱怨、责骂等；场景有生活、工作、婚礼、酒会、推销、商场.不胜枚举，堪称全球经典英语学习教材。本套软件绝非网上卖的华尔街核心听力课程等，那些都是单纯的音频和视频，只能听和看，无法交互式学习！(网址: QQ:303062982)Section 29.1A Dialogue.SECRETARY: There it is - the black Toyota! Go!ROGER: What fools! Did they really think I was stupidenough to stay in the car? Aah, I knew he was going to tryand kill me. Ill get that bastard sooner or later; but first Ithink Id better write to Hugo.JOHN: Hello, Hugo. Back from your holiday?HUGO: Yes, thats right. What are you doing sitting on thesidewalk, John?JOHN: Theyve thrown me out of my apartment!HUGO: Oh, what a shame!JOHN: Because I havent paid the rent, because I cantafford to. If I had a job Id pay the rent, of course. But whatcan I do when I havent got a job? See what I mean?HUGO: Yes, I quite see. Well, I expect something willcome along. Bye-bye!HUGO: Lets see if theres any mail. Hold on, someonessent me a postcard from Trinidad!ROGER: “Dear Hugo, Thank you for the money. Mr Phasnt been very helpful so far. It would be a good idea ifyou got in touch with me. All the best, Roger the Cobber.”HUGO: Oh my God! That means he didnt go to Australia!And hes obviously spoken to Mr P, so that means. I donteven dare to think about it. Well, Id better not stay here, tostart with! Ive got just the idea!HUGO: John! Could you come up here for a moment?JOHN: I cant leave my TV here. What if someone stole it?Like, its the only thing Ive got left!HUGO: Well, why dont you bring it with you, then?JOHN: Hello, Hugo. Are you looking for someone to cleanyour toilet, or something?HUGO: No no, John, nothing like that. No, I was justthinking, you see: Ive got to go away for afew days, and, asyou obviously havent got anywhere to stay, I waswondering if youd like to move into the apartment whileIm away.JOHN: Gosh, Hugo, really? Thats real kind of you! I dontknow how to thank you!HUGO: Thats quite alright, John. Oh, by the way, Id justlike to move out one or two antiques and items of furniture.Would you mind giving me a hand?JOHN: Gee, no, not at all! Im always happy to help afriend.HUGO: Ill call a truck, then.JOHN: Is that all, then?HUGO: Yes, I think thats all. Make yourself at home, wontyou, John?JOHN: Hey, what about Annie? Wont she come aroundlooking for you? Should I offer her a drink or two, perhaps?HUGO: No, its alright, John. Shes still away on vacationin Sweden. Ill get in touch with her myself.JOHN: Oh, look, theres a postcard!JOHN: Hey, its from Annie! “Dear Daddy, Ive finallydecided to do what Ive always known I should do. Imgoing to -HUGO: Give that to me! Let me see what she says.HUGO: Shes walked out! Why? Whats going on?Everythings going wrong!JOHN: Gee, are you alright? What did she say, then?HUGO: Oh, nothing; shes just moved. She just wanted togive me her new address, thats all.JOHN: I thought you said she was away on vacation.HUGO: I think Ill just go and say hello to her - and find outwhat the hell she thinks shes doing!JOHN: Oh, gosh! Well, at least hes left some drink behind.I think Ill have a glass of port!DJ: This is KPOX, bringing you all the music that reallyhurts! And this next one is totally sick; it should do well:“Nervous Equipment - Suicide Jive!”ANNIE: But Chris, he is still my father!CHRIS: So whatll you do if he comes here?ALICE: When he comes here. Hes certain to try and gether back.MARK: Youll go back with him, wont you?CHRIS: Back to Daddys comfortable apartment, and hisfast car.ALICE: And a nice safe job as his secretary.ANNIE: No, I wont! Ive already said Ill never go back tothat way of life! I mean it!MARK: You know, something: if - or when - he comeshere, I dont think we should even let him in.ALICE: Youre right. Why the hell should we?CHRIS: Lets take a vote on it, then. Whos for keeping himout? One, two, three. And whos against? Only Annie.Right, thats decided, then, by a majority of three to one.HUGO: Annie! Are you there? Annie, please! Will youanswer?Section 29.2A Dialogue.HUGO: Annie, please! Are you there?CHRIS: Here we go. Hey, are you Annies dad?HUGO: Yes, and I want to -CHRIS: Get lost!HUGO: What? Look here, young man, I want to see mydaughter. What have you done with her?ANNIE: Im alright, Dad!HUGO: Look, whats going on, Annie?ANNIE: Theyve - I mean, weve - decided not to let you in.HUGO: What? Have they kidnapped you, or something?Do you want me to call the police? Please, Annie, tell mewhats going on!ANNIE: Look, Ill have to speak with him. It wont takelong, OK? Its alright, Dad, Ill come out. Ill just go out withhim for a quarter of an hour or so.MARK: Oh yeah?ANNIE: Ill come back, dont worry!HUGO: Now what is all this about, Annie?ANNIE: We cant talk here. Theres a diner just around theblock; well go there.HUGO: Would you mind giving me some sort ofexplanation?ANNIE: Ill tell you everything when we get to the diner,OK? Its only a short way away.ANNIE: This is it.HUGO: What, this place? Its totally disgusting!ANNIE: Is anybody sitting here?TEAMSTER: No, lady, go for it.WAITRESS: What are you having?HUGO: Oh! Er anything you havent made yourselves - abottle of orange juice.WAITRESS: We dont have bottles. We only have cans.HUGO: A can, then.ANNIE: And Ill have a fried egg sandwich, and a coffee.WAITRESS: One fried egg sandwich, one orange juice,one coffee.ANNIE: Thats it.HUGO: Now, then. Im waiting to hear your explanation,Annie.ANNIE: First of all, Dad, please dont talk to me as if I wasa child. Im grown up now; Im almost twenty years old!HUGO: Yes, of course, Annie. Im sorry.ANNIE: I dont know how to say this, but you know,when I was younger, I used to think you were wonderful,really! I used to think: “Ive got such a clever Daddy; hemakes so much money, and we live in a such a lovelyapartment, and we go on all these expensive vacations.”But you see, Im an adult now, not a child, and I can seethings that I just couldnt see then.HUGO: What sort of things?ANNIE: Ive seen what its done to you, Dad. Ive seen thekind of person youve become. Look, Im sorry, but I dontwant to become like you. Do you understand?HUGO: Become like what?ANNIE: There are so many things that matter to me morethan money, Dad! And Im not going to go and marry somehorrible, rich, fat businessman or some successful robot thatI dont care a damn about - like David and his darlingJuanita!HUGO: But I havent asked you to! Look here Annie, withthis disgusting money of mine Ive sent you to school inSwitzerland. Ive paid for you to go on vacation in theSeychelles, in Bali, and in Bermuda. You did that veryexpensive secretarial course, and I paid for it. Ive boughtyou designer clothes from the best stores in Washdon, and ifyou wanted a car you know Id be happy to buy you one.Are you trying to tell me that all this has been total hell?ANNIE: You just dont want to understand, do you?WAITRESS: Heres your fried egg sandwich. And yourorange juice.HUGO: Its alright, Ill open it! And would you mindbringing me a clean glass, please?WAITRESS: Very well!HUGO: Obviously nobody does any washing-up in thisplace!ANNIE: Youre such a snob, Dad!HUGO: Oh, I see! So its snobbish to want to be clean now.I thought you wanted to live in a clean environment, not adisgustingly filthy one. I suppose your boyfriend has taughtyou all this nonsense, has he? Is he the one who shouted atme?ANNIE: We dont have “boyfriends and girlfriends”, Dad -thats so old-fashioned. We dont believe in being someoneelses property.HUGO: I see. You mean everybody sleeps with everyoneelse?ANNIE: No, I dont mean that! If you really want to know, Idont sleep with any of them!HUGO: No, I dont want to know. I really think Ive heardenough of this nonsense! Im going!ANNIE: Please yourself! Youll be alright, Dad; youve stillgot your money, havent you?HUGO: I cant just leave things like that!HUGO: Listen Annie, Im sorry about some of the things Isaid.ANNIE: Thats alright; its what I expected. Can you passthe pepper and salt, please?TEAMSTER: Here you are, lady.HUGO: Look Annie, if you want to get in touch with me,Ill be at the Marlborough Hotel for the next few weeks,OK?ANNIE: Whats the matter with the apartment?HUGO: Oh, nothing; there are some men painting it, thatsall. So, if you want to get in touch, you know where to findme.ANNIE: OK, Dad. Got it.HUGO: Well, bye-bye Annie. See you soon.ANNIE: Maybe. So long.Section 29.2E Dialogue.HUGO:The Marlborough Hotel101 Grand Avenue42321 WashdonDear Annie,As I havent heard anything from you for quite a long time, Ithought Id write you this little letter, just to give you mylatest news.Im still in the hotel, as you can see; Ive left someone tolook after the apartment while the men are working on it. Itsa bit lonely really, staying in this hotel, when I think aboutthe old days in our apartment together.I got another postcard from David, by the way; he andJuanita have gone to Peru. I dont think theyll be back inEngland till next month. They both send you their love,anyway.The point is this, Annie; I understand that youve got to liveyour own life, and if you dont feel like living with your oldfather any more; well, thats perfectly understandable too.Its just that it would be nice to hear from you every nowand then, if only to know that youre alright. Surely thatsnot much to ask?Well, thats all for now, Annie. Please get in touch soon; youcan get me either at the office or here.Looking forward to hearing from you.All my love,Daddy.Section 29.3A Dialogue.ROWLAND: John - you are a professional broadcaster andjournalist and youre also very keen on football. When didthat interest start?JOHN: As a small boy. And I think youll find this is acommon story all over the world, not just in England. Uh,my dad took me to a football match. And I can rememberbeing lifted over the turnstiles. So, in other words, I was sosmall that the man on the gate didnt want me to pay, or mydad to pay, so I was lifted over the turnstiles and taken intothe stand. So, right from that point onwards I was hookedreally.ROWLAND: And you used to play.What position did youplay?JOHN: I was a winger, a right-winger. I was on the rightwing. But you see today all those expressions have nowgone. Youre either a striker, or a mid-fielder, or a backfour.But in those days I was an outside right.ROWLAND: You mentioned memories of how the gameused to be played and youve talked about how the game isplayed today. What are the differences?JOHN: Amateur football, I dont think has changed all thatmuch. The professional game clearly has changed and thatswhat Im concerned with today. In other words, the gamethat I used to see as a schoolboy when taken over theturnstile and sitting in the stands, thats changedenormously. In those days of course players werent paidvery much money. We didnt pay very much money to go into the game. Er, but now of course players as we all knoware paid enormous fees. And to get into the ground you haveto pay a lot of money. And, for example, a programmetoday at any English football league match will probablycost you about one pound fifty. One pound fifty would havegiven you a centre stand seat in those early days when I wasa schoolboy. So things have changed. And its largely in theprofessional game. A financial change, I would say.ROWLAND: Clubs buy and sell players, and on thestrength of the players they buy and sell they either becomea better club or indeed they get worse. Do you agree withthe way money dictates how good a club can be?JOHN: No. I dont. I dont like the way that money dictatesfootball today. What I object to are the really big clubs. Andthis is not only confined to England but its throughoutEurope of course where simply a very, very rich man andfellow directors pour money into the club and say to themanager, go out and buy whoever you like. Now that to meis not what its all about. Sadly its the way that football, topfootball, is going today. So the rich clubs are getting richerand the poor clubs not only are getting poorer but many ofthem are having to go out of the game altogether.ROWLAND: Does all of this affect the game as a spectatorsport? How it looks? Do you think thats changed at all?JOHN: Yes. I do, again. Because today particularly in whatwe now call the Premier League, that was the First Division.By and large the important thing now is to stay in thatdivision and to survive effectively at any cost. Literally atany cost. That means that youve got to win. And to me, itmay be perhaps an old-fashioned view but sport is not aboutnecessarily winning but its competing and if you loseoccasionally thats something that you must accommodate.Today winning is crucial. Winning by one goal is all thatmatters and so much of the flair and creativity has gonebecause there is so much at stake. And that has definitelyaffected the game for the worse.JOHN: If youre playing a top club then the training isgoing to be very intense. The manager or the coach willhave observed the other team. Come back with lots of notesand therell be lots of little plans about how to counter thatman, this man, their long ball approach, in other words,technique, tactics. And thats what the whole thing will beabout.ROWLAND: Looking at the players for a moment, theyseem to start very, very young. They become professionalalmost when theyve left school, dont they?JOHN: They do in fact, yes. And most clubs will tell youthat the young players are the most important playersbecause they are the future of the game, the potential isthere, so if you can get them at the age of 13, 14 or 15 thenyou can mould them into the game you want to play.Whether its the game they want to play is a another matter,because again I go back to the point to the point thatwinning is all important and so much of that creative flairthat you saw in the early days, in the forties and fifties, hasgone. And I think thats very sad indeed.ROWLAND: What does a footballer do when he retires?Because they retire very young, maybe before theyre 30years old?JOHN: In the past many of them chose to stay in the gameperhaps on the training side, the coaching side. There arecourses that they can go on. That is not quite so true today.Largely because of the nature of the game and also becauseI think players see the way the game is going and decide, notheres no way that I want to be part of management infootball today. I wouldnt want to be a manager. And theyoften point to their own manager jokingly saying, I wouldntwant to be like him and have his problems. So a lot of themleave the game and many of them end up running pubs.Thats a popular pastime for footballers, running pubs. Andalso many of them use their sporting ability and work forsports organisations selling shoes, or sporting equipment, orassociating with golf clubs and things like that. Many ofthem try to stay within sport but not necessarily football.ROWLAND: Football of course is a team game isnt it?However, what we tend to hear about all the time are theindividuals the soccer stars, our heroes on the football field.Is it difficult for a football player to learn not to be apersonality but to be part of a team do you think?JOHN: It is. Yes. Thats a very good question and one thatmany clubs have never totally resolved. Obviouslymanagers want to encourage the individuals but they alsoknow that if theyre going get those results that I spokeabout earlier, in other words, if theyre going to win thegame its got to be a team effort.ROWLAND: And teams of course have different ways ofplaying, a different style of approaching the game.Sometimes England, especially in World Cup competition,have been called a bit pedantic, a bit slow, a bit stodgy inthe way they play football, whereas other teams play withmore energy and flair. Do you think thats fair?JOHN: Very often the English approach appears to be asyou put it pedantic and rather slow and certainly the clubthat I follow has that same approach. Their tactic is simplythe goalkeeper gets the ball and he punts it high up into theother half and they hope that somebody will be underneathit from our side wholl be able to control that ball, sweep itout to the wing, the winger sweeps it back in again andbang, its in the net. Thats the theory, but in practice itdoesnt work out that way and the trouble is that spectatorsdo get a bit fed up with one type of football.ROWLAND: Finally, John, you obviously love the game offootball and as a professional commentator youve beenlooking at the game for some years now. What do you thinkthe future holds for English football?JOHN: Im very concerned about the future and I thinkmost people associated with football are concerned with thefuture of English football, or football in general. Largely forthe reasons Ive stated. The big money is entering the field.The television companies are entering the field, literally.The spectators are not being given enough attention andconsideration. Its becoming less of a sport and more of abusiness and that concerns me very much indeed.Section 30.1A Dialogue.THACKER: So