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1、。第 1 课A: Do you have a date for the party yet?B: Actually,I dont.Do you think you could helpme find one?A: Hmm, what kind of guys do you like?B: Oh, I like guys who arenttoo serious andwho have a good sense of humor. You know, likeyou.A: Ok, what else?B: Well, I d prefersomeoneIhave something incomm

2、on with-who I can talk to easily.A: I think I know just the guy for you. BobBranson. Do you know him?B: No, I dontthink so.A: Let me arrange for you to meet him, and you can tell me what you think.A: So, what s the verdict? What did you think of Bob?B: Well, I was worried at first especially when I

3、saw that he wears not one but two earrings.I thought he might turn out to be one of those guys who are into heavy rock music and stuff like that. You know what I mean?A: But he s just a regular kind of guy, right?B: Yeah, we got along really well!A: I just knew youd like him.B: Yeah, I do, and hes r

4、eally funny. He hadmelaughing hysterically during dinner. I thinkthe people sittingnext to us in the restaurantthought we were crazy.A: So, are you two going to get togetheragain?B: Definitely,in fact,were going to a concerttomorrow night.A: That s great.第 2 课1.AndreaA: So, have you seen Andrea late

5、ly?B: Yeah, I see her pretty often. We worktogether at a caflatt.A: Hows she doing, I ve been meaning to call her.B: Well, to be honest! I ve always thought shes a little difficult. But these days, I find her impossible.A: What do you mean?B: Oh, you know how she is.She has strong ideasabout everyth

6、ing. And if you don tagree with her, she lets you know what she thinks of you.A: Yes, that s true. But that s why we love her, right?B: Yeah, I guess so. But shes changed a lotsince she started college. She talked about herself all the time and she always manages to mention how good she is at everyt

7、hing she does.A: Hmm. Maybe I won tcall her after all.2. JamesA: Are you going to Jamess party on Saturday?B: Of course, James always gives the best parties. And there are always lots ofinteresting new people to meet.A: That s true. I don tknow where he manages to find them all.B: Well, you know wha

8、t hes like. He makesfriendsreallyeasily. He reallylikestalkingto people, and he loves inviting people over.A: Ur Ur, he invited me for dinner lastSaturday, what a feast!B: Yeah, he s a great cook too.A: AfterdinnerI offeredto helpcleanup, buthe told me not to worry about it. He said hedtake care of

9、it in the morning. He was like，it s nothing, no big deal.B: Yup, that sounds like James.3. Mr. JohnsonA: Have you met the new apartment manager?B: Mr. Johnson? Hmm.Yeah, I met him last week.Hesa little strange.A: Yeah, he is. Im not sure I like him. Heshard to predict.Sometimes hes prettycheerfuland

10、 talkative,and the next day he doesnt evensay hello. I think he must have personalproblems or something.B: I think youre right. And have you noticedthat half the time when he says hes going todo something, he never actually does it? He told me three times he d come to fix the light in mykitchen, and

11、 he still hasntdone it.第 3 课A: Hello?。1。B: Hi. My names Jim Hunt. I m calling about the ad for a roommate.A: Oh, right.B: Are you still looking for someone?A: Yes, we are.B: Oh, good. I m really interested.A: Well, there are four of us, and it s a fairly small house, so we want someone who s easy to

12、 get along with.B: I m pretty easygoing.A: Great! So can I ask you a few fairly straightforward questions about yourself?B: No problem. I like it when people are direct.A: What do you do, Jim?A: Oh, well, I ve had a lot of different jobs, but I m not working right now.B: Yeah, I got fired from my la

13、st job about six months ago, so I ve been looking for something else. I haven tbeen very lucky so far.A: Uh-huh. Well, the rent here is $1,200 a monthuh, thats $300 a month for each person.B: Oh, Uh.A: Will you have enough money to pay the rent every month?B: Yeah, I probablywillifI can finda job.A:

14、 Yeah. Uh, look, where are you living now?B: Well, I ve been staying with a friend for the past couple of weeks.A: Uh-huh.B: Yeah, but he s asked me to leave by Friday,so I really need to find a place to live. Ivehad to move four times in the past year and,wellA: Listen, Jim. I appreciate your telli

15、ng meabout yourself.I likeitwhen people are honestwith me. Anyway, I have to talk to my other roommates about this, and I ll give you a call tomorrow to let you know what we decide. Why dontyou give me your number?B: Sure, its two, two, three4A: Good news! I ve found a summer job!B: That s great! An

16、ything interesting?A: Yes, working at an amusement park. Doesntthat sound fantastic?B: Sure, it does.A: So, have you found anything?B: Nothing yet, but I ve got a couple of leads.Oneis working as an internfor a record companymostly answering phones. Or I can get a landscaping job again.A: Being an i

17、ntern sounds more interesting than landscaping. And it s probably not as hard!B: Yeah, but a landscaper earns more money than an intern. And you get a great tan!B: So what will you be doing at the amusement park, exactly?A: Actually,I llhave two jobs.First,I llbeworking at a place calledChildren s W

18、orld. Theyhave all kinds of interesting games andeducational activities for young kids. I haveto go to a training program for three daysbefore I startto findout howeverythingworks.B: Three days? Wow,the equipment must be pretty high-tech!A: Oh, it is a lot of computers and interesting devices. It s

19、just the kind of stuff that kids love.B: Well, itsounds likethe perfectjob for you.I know how much you love kids.So what s your other job?A: Well. I ll also be one of the people who walks around the park greeting people.B: Do you mean you ll have to dress up in acostume?A: Yes, as a cartooncharacter

20、!I know, I know.It sounds silly. And its certainly not asrewarding as working in Children s World, but, it s part of the job.5A: So where are you working thissummer, Carlos?B: I m working as a tutor in a learning center for kids.A: Interesting. What kinds of things do the kids do there?B: They work

21、on subjects they need help in, uh, mainly .math and English.。2。A: Is your job hard?B: No, not at all. The kids work on computers most of the time. We have to help them get started and when they run into problems.A: Do you enjoy it?B: Oh, yes. Working with kids is so much morefun than working with ad

22、ults. And I get to choose my own hours. As long as I work eight hours a day, I can come in at any time from 8 A.M. TO 9 P.M.A: Lucky you!A: Paul, did you find a summer job, yet?B: Yeah, I m working in a restaurant.A: Oh, how s it going?B: Oh, the moneys not bad.A: What are you doing? Are you waiting

23、 tables?B: I wish! No. I m working in the kitchen. I cutup stuff for the chef vegetables and meat and things. I also wash the dishes.A: Oh, yuck.B: Yeah. It s pretty hard work. I didn t realize how hot it is in a restaurant kitchen until Itook this job.A: So why don tyou quit?B: I d love to, but I n

24、eed the money.A: So what kind of job did you find for the summer?B: I m working for a marketing company. Imdoing telephone marketing.A: Oh, so youre one of those peoplewho drivesmecrazy by callingmeup and tryingto persuademe to buy something that I have absolutely noneed for.B: Exactly.A: Do you lik

25、e it?B: Believe it or not, I do. Its mostly a bunchof students workingthere,and we have a lotoffun when we re not making calls. Its reallyeasy, too, since we just have to read from ascript.A: Are you doing this full time?B: Yes, but I work from two in the afternoonuntil eleven at night, so I get to

26、sleep as late as I want to in the morning.第 6 课Jack: Hi, Rod. This is Jack.Rod: Oh, hi, Jack. Whats up?J: I m going to my best friends wedding thisweekend. I d love to videotape it. Would you mind if I borrowed you video camera?R: Um, yeah. That s OK, I guess. I don tthink I ll need it for anything.

27、J: Thanks a million.R: Sure. Have you used a video camera before? It s pretty easy.J: Yeah, a couple of times. Would it be OK ifI picked it up on Friday night?R: Fine. No problem.B Listento two more telephone callsJack makes.Andy: Hello.Jack: Hi, Andy. This is Jack.A: Oh, hi, Jack.J: I was wondering

28、 if you could do me a favor.A: That depends.J: Well, I have to go to a wedding this weekend. Would it be OKif I borrowed your navy blue suit?A: Oh, sure. No problem.J: Thanks a lot. I ll come by and pick it up tonight.A: That s fine.Rose: Rose Rizzo.Jack: Hi, Rose. This is Jack.R: Oh, hello. How are

29、 you?J: Pretty good, thanks. Listen, the reason Imcalling is I have a really big favor to ask you. R: Yes?J: RememberI told you about that friend of mine whos getting married to a woman he met in Barcelona?R: Yeah, I remember. And?J: Well, the weddings this Saturday afternoon,and its out in the coun

30、tryabout an hour sdrivefrom here and Iwas wonderingifI couldborrow your car for theafternoon togetthere.。3。R: Gee, Jack, Id really love to help you out,but I m going to be needing my car all weekend. I ve got a friend coming in from out of town,and I promised to show her the sights.J: Oh, OK. I unde

31、rstand. Anyway, how are things? I haven tseen you for ages.R: Oh, pretty good.第 7 课Amy: Hello?Jeff: Hello. May I speak to Sophia, please?A: I m sorry,shes not inright now. Wouldyoulike to leave a message?J: Yes, please. This is Jeff.Would you tellherthat Tony is having a party on Saturday?A: Un-huh.

32、J: And would you ask her ifshed like to go withme?A: Allright,Peter.I llgiveher the message.J: No, this is Jeff, not Peter.A: Oh, Im .sorry.J: By the way, whos Peter?Sophia: Hi! Im home!A: Oh, hi.S: Did anyone call?A: Uh-huh. Your old friend Peter called a fewhours ago. Hes going to be in town on Sa

33、turday and wants to get together with you Saturdaynight. He said to call him.S: Oh, super! I haven tseen Peter in almost a year. Any other calls?A: Uh, yeah. Jeff called. He wants to know ifyou want to go to Tony s party with him. S: Oh. When is Tony s party? A: On Saturday.S: Oh, perfect. That s th

34、e same night I m going to get together with Peter, so I have an excusenot to go. Even ifI werent going out with Peter,I wouldnt go anywhere with Jeff. Oh, hes such a pain!A: Oh, he didn tsound so bad. He sounded kind of sweet.S: Yeah, yeah, I guess he is. Its just that Idont wanna go out with him an

35、d he just doesnt seem to get the message. Do me a favor, Amy: Ifhe calls again, could you just tell him I m not home?A: Hmm. OK.第 8 课A: What an awful story! A couple was sailing their yacht from Hawaii to Mexico. While theywere crossing the Pacific, their boat hit a whale and sank!B: Is that true? W

36、hat happened to the whale?A: It doesntsay! Oh and heres another one.A guy in Los Angles was robbing a bank. But ashe was escaping,he got caught in the revolvingdoor.B: I guess it was his first bank robbery!A: Yeah. Oh and listen to this. Some guy got locked out of his house, so he tried to get in th

37、rough the chimney.B: Donttell me! He got stuck in the chimney!A: Exactly. And he was still trying to get out two days later when the police rescued him.A manwho considered himselfa snake charmerwas strangled to death on Sunday by athree-and-a-half-meter boa constrictor in atown in Thailand. It seems

38、 that the man rushedto see the giant snake after friends told himthe serpent was seen beside one of the townsmain roads.The snake charmer put itaround hisneck; whilehe and his friendswere walkinghome,the snake strangled him to death.Early Tuesday morning in California, twopolice officers who were pu

39、rsuing a car thiefdown Hollywood Boulevardina high-speed chasewere rescued by the thief.Duringthe chase,theofficers car overturnedand fellintoa shallowriver.The officerscouldn tgetoutofthecar,which was rapidly filling up with water. Thethiefwent back tothe scene of the accidentandhelped rescue the o

40、fficers. The HollywoodPolice Department has decided to drop chargesagainst the thief for saving the officerslives.第 9 课A: Someone stole my wallet last night!。4。B: Oh no! What happened?A: Well, I was working out, and I had put mystuff in my locker, just likeI always do. WhenI came back, someone had s

41、tolen my wallet. Iguess I d forgotten to lock the locker.B: I m sorry. That s terrible!Did you lose muchmoney?A: Only about $20. But I lost my credit card and my driver s license. What a pain!B: Hmm. That reminds me of when I had my purse stolen last year.A: Really? What happened?B: Well,itwas when

42、I was in Belgium.Iwas onmy way totheairport,so Iwas standingon theside of the road withmy bags, tryingtofigureout the bus schedule.Anyway, thisbunch of guyscame by and asked if they could help me. Theyspoke verybroken English,and I couldn t reallyunderstandwhat theywere saying.Ireallyjustwanted them

43、 to leave me alone. Finally, theyleftand when I lookeddown, I realizedmy pursehad disappeared.Ithad my walletinitwith allmy travelers checks and my moneyand my creditcard.Well, luckily,Ihad put my airlineticketand my passport in one of my carry-on bags.A: How awful! So what did you do?B: Well,firstI

44、screamed at the topofmy lungsand triedtorunafterthe guys but they werelong gone. Then this sounds really cornyIdid just what I had seen people do on TV: Icalled my credit card company.A: Were they helpful?B: They were lifesavers! In no time at all,they d given me new traveler s checks and a new cred

45、it card, and sent me on my way.第 10课1 Taxi driversA: It really upsets me when taxi drivers drive so fast. I m always terrified of having an accident.B: That doesnt reallybotherme. I liketo getwhere I m going quickly. But I cantstand itwhen they have their radios turned up all theway full blast. You

46、canteven hear yourselfthink!2 People with dogsA: I hate it when people take their dogs into a park and let them make messes all over the place. It s so irresponsible!B: You know what bothers me?I hate itwhen theygo out and leave theirdog at home, barkingallday.3 TV commercialsA: I can tstand it when

47、 they show the same commercial twice in a row. Why do they do that?It drives me crazy!B: The thing that bothers me the most is when they interrupt a ball gameat the most excitingmoment to show some stupid commercial.4 Store clerksA: It really upsets mewhen store clerks pretend they haven tnoticed yo

48、u and just stand aroundchatting to each other. Its so rude.B: Yeah. Or on the other hand, they give you the hard sell, and try to get you to buy somethingyou don treally want.第 11课Clerk: Can I help you?A: Yes, Id like to return this jacket.C: Is there something the matter with it?A: Yes. I didn tnot

49、ice when I bought it, but there are a few problems. First, it has a tearin the lining.C: Hmm, actually, its torn in several places.A: And some of the buttonsare very loose,thisone came off, in fact. And theres a stain onthe collar.C: I m really sorry about this. Would you liketo exchange it for anot

50、her one?A: Well,to be honest,I dont thinkthisjacketis very well made. Id rather get a refund.C: I understand. Do you have the receipt?A: Hi.C: Yes?A: I wonder if you could take a look at theseshoes I bought here. They re pretty new, but they seem to be falling apart.。5。C: Hmm.Let mesee. Yes, thisdoe

51、snt look right.The stitching is coming out. How long did yousay you ve had them?A: Only about a month. Heres the receipt.C: Hmm yes. Well,letmeexchange these for you.I m sorry for the inconvenience.A: Excuse me.C: Yes, how can I help you?A: You see this shirt? I bought it here a few weeks ago, but t

52、he first time I washed it, the color change. It went from bright red to lightpink.C: How did you wash it?A: Well, I just tossed it into the washing machine with my other clothes.C: What temperature did you use?A: I usually wash my clothes in hot water, so I guess hot.C: Well, did you check the washing instructions?A: Um maybe not.C: Well, you see here on this label? It says,“Wash in cold water only.”A: Um-hmm.C: So I m really sorry, but since you