全国英语等级考试教材第三级Unit01

[00:00.00]CHAPTER 1 PERSONAL IDENTIFICATION AND PEOPLE [00:33.99]Unit 1 Personal Identification and People [00:41.74]Conversations [00:45.09]Daisy is introducing Sally to Smith. [00:52.35]Good morning,Smith.Could I take a few minutes of your time? [00:58.31]Oh,it's you,Daisy!What can I do for you? [01:03.58]May I introduce my friend Sally to you,Smith? [01:08.62]She's an outstanding student in our college.She speaks good English. [01:15.10]And also she is good at operating computer. [01:20.07]How do you do,Smith? [01:23.83]Pleased to meet you,Sally.I have heard a little about you from Daisy. [01:29.89]Would you like to work for two months in my company? [01:35.16]Of course I'd love to. [01:39.00]I really want to get some real experience through my work here. [01:45.27]Ok,please come to work at 8:00 tomorrow morning. [01:50.92]See you tomorrow.Goodbye! [01:54.99]Alice receives Jack in a morning. [02:00.63]Good morning. [02:03.69]Good morning.Is this Mr.Brown's office? [02:08.97]Yes,that's right.Can I help you? [02:13.83]I have an appointment with Mr.Brown at 10 o'clock. [02:18.97]Your name,please,sir? [02:22.63]Jack Clark. [02:26.49]Just a moment.Oh,yes,Mr.Clark from Universal Trade Corporation. [02:34.36]Would you please take a seat,Mr.Clark?I'll tell Mr.Brown you are here. [02:41.02]Thank you. [02:44.26]Hello,Mr.Brown,Mr.Clark is here for his appointment.. [02:50.42]OK.(To Mr.Clark)Mr.Brown will come down to see you in minute. [02:56.67]Thank you very much. [03:00.30]You're welcome. [03:03.22]A couple talking about their neighbour,Mr.Wang. [03:09.99]Darling,do you know anything about our new neighbour,Mr.Wang? [03:16.65]Nothing except that he goes to work at 7:30 every morning. [03:22.58]He is quite special. [03:26.21]Special?What's special about him? [03:31.04]Well,for one thing,he is Wang Li's boyfriend.Mrs.Li has told me that. [03:39.59]What else? [03:42.51]He's from a distant village three years ago [03:47.55]with only 20 yuan in his pocket but now.. [03:52.52]What has happened? [03:55.99]He has set up his company with about 200 employees. [04:01.84]It's reported that he has built a new school for his poor hometown. [04:08.32]A rags-riches story! [04:12.68]Passage [04:15.95]Ambulance Girl [04:19.71]When I became a volunteer EMT,my friends were puzzled. [04:26.97]They know me tol be deeply terified of sick and dying people. [04:32.82]If there was an accident on the road, [04:37.26]I tucked my head in my hands to avoid seeing blood or broken glass. [04:44.21]My husband and I had been married 30 years. [04:49.38]We loved to travel,read amd write. [04:53.93]But at age 52,I felt stuck in a midlife funk,cut off from others. [05:02.18]Passing the local firehouse one day,I saw a sign: [05:07.93]"Volunteers wanted:Fine/EMT." [05:14.10]The EMT part pointed to everything cowardly in me-my fear of death and disease. [05:22.74]Maybe I could help others if I did this [05:28.02]and could also save myself by facing what scared me most. [05:34.26]As time goes by,I was able to work through my fears. [05:40.43]Now I understand that the closest I have ever felt to God [05:46.20]is in the back of an ambulance. [05:50.46]When I rush out to help sick strangers, [05:55.42]I am part of something larger than myslef. [06:00.88]Sometimes I truly connect with someone [06:06.34]who I would never have met otherwise-as I did with Nellie. [06:12.72]One midngiht,the AIDS hospice needed help. [06:18.64]A colleague and I were shown to a bedroom. [06:23.22]Lying there was a thin black woman with wild hair. [06:28.86]When I was given a printout of her medical history,I thought, [06:35.02]this lady should be dead over ten times.She had AIDS,hepatitis and TB. [06:43.36]She ahd had brain surgery.Tonight she had a seizure. [06:49.52]"Hello,I'm Clarissa,are you in pain?"I asked. [06:55.87]she replied by cursing ar me.I didn't take offense. [07:01.83]When I rode alone with her in the back of the ambulance as EMT drove, [07:09.19]I reread the printout.Nellie was 33 years old. [07:15.85]No previous address.No family members.No next of kin. [07:22.83]Her whole life as presented here was jsut a list of medicines, [07:29.96]symptoms and illnesses. [07:33.80]One line catched my attention:hobbies. [07:39.44]Nellie's hobbies were sewing and gospel singing. [07:45.21]I could not sew,but I loved gospel music. [07:51.07]"Nellie,it says here that you like gospel music,"I said. [07:56.94]I expected another curse,but it didn't come. [08:03.11]"I really like Shirley Caesar,"I continued, [08:08.57]thinking of the singer's heartbreaking song [08:13.24]about a mother's love for her ungrateful son, [08:18.10]pouring her soul into every word. [08:22.47]Suddenly Nellie's eyes moved back and forth. [08:27.93]"I like her too,"Nellie said weakly.I was stunned she could speak. [08:35.37]I started naming other gospel singers. [08:40.02]With each one,Nellie nodded back,and I saw her try to smile. [08:46.99]I was not a singer,but I decided to pretend that I was. [08:53.94]It was not unthinkable that Nellie might die during this ride to the hospital, [09:00.60]that I would be the last face she ever saw,the last voice she ever heard. [09:07.97]I wanted to say something meaningful to her, [09:12.93]something other than"Where does it hurt?"So I started singing, [09:19.99]and I held Nellie's hand has I sang. [09:24.66]We reached the hospital,and she was whelled to one of the ER rooms. [09:31.51]I touched her thin shoulder. [09:35.87]"Nellie,"I said.She fixed her eyes on me. [09:41.43]"Take care fo yourself."She gave me one long last look, [09:47.60]and then turned her face to the wall. [09:51.75]When I climbed back into the ambulance,there was no more trace of Nellie. [09:58.88]The driver had cleaned adn sanitized everything. [10:03.85]"Let's go,"I told him.As the ambulance pulled out,I felt like crying. [10:11.89]But my eyes remained dry,like Nellie's. [10:16.93]Hobbies:sewing and gospel music, [10:22.52]I though as we glided in the darkness of the night toward home. [10:28.38]Words and Expressions [10:32.24]ambulance volunteer puzzle terrified [10:36.26]n.救护车 adj.志愿的，义务的 v.(使)迷惑，(使)为难 adj.恐惧的，受惊吓的 [10:40.29]tuck avoid midlife funk [10:43.83]vt.挤进;塞 vt.避开，避免 n.中年 n.怯懦,恐惧 [10:47.37]local firehouse cowardly scare [10:51.44]adj.地方的，当地的 n.消防队;消防站 adj.胆怯的,胆小的 v.惊吓,受惊 [10:55.52]hospice colleague printout seizure [10:59.34]n.收容所,济贫院 n.同事,同僚 n.打印件 n.突然发作 [11:03.17]curse offense previous kin [11:07.10]vi.诅咒，咒骂 n.触怒，冒犯 adj.以前的，事前的 n.家属;亲戚 [11:11.03]symptom gospel performance stun [11:15.11]n.症状，征兆 n.福音 n.表演，演出 vt.使晕倒;使惊吓 [11:19.18]unthinkable wheel trace [11:22.37]adj.不能想像的，想象不到的 vt.推动 n.痕迹，踪迹 [11:25.56]sanitize feel like [11:28.20]vt.消毒，进行卫生处理 想做..,具有的倾向或欲望 [11:30.83]glide [11:32.41]vi.滑行，滑动 [11:34.00]Exercises [11:37.94]Section I Listening Comprehension [11:43.11]Listen to the record.Answer each question by choosing [11:49.88]A,B,C or D from the four possible choices. [11:57.32]A [12:00.09]1.It seems to be a little long now,but if it's curled,it will just fine. [12:08.45]I will give it a little trim if you want. [12:12.81]What do you think? [12:16.47]All right,go ahead. [12:20.52]2.Do you know the old man there? [12:25.56]Yes,he is often fond of pulling your leg. [12:31.44]3.It seems that Jim never cleans his small room. [12:37.79]Really?I think he has a bit of load in his mind after her got a new job now. [12:45.83]4.Who's the man you were at the theatre last night? [12:52.28]Oh,he's Mrtin,my English teacher. [12:57.56]He's larning chinese from me now.The film was my lesson for him. [13:04.40]5.Would you like to go with me to see my parents? [13:10.47]They wish to get to know you. [13:14.54]I'm afraid they will dislike me. [13:18.90]B [13:22.14]Henry,how do you like our new CEO,Mr.Black? [13:27.92]His coming is an auspicious omen.I think he is the very man to help our company. [13:35.28]Do you agree? [13:38.83]That's true.I think he will find his own style of management [13:44.71]to be different from our former leader,David Smtih. [13:49.86]Mr.Black is appointed by board. [13:54.12]I guess they have their own good reasons. [13:58.87]You are right.He has quite impressive credentals: [14:04.83]he graduated from Yale University with an MBA degree. [14:10.57]Moreover,he has rich experience with major international companies [14:17.34]and peculiar style of management. [14:21.99]Could you tell me in great detail? [14:26.06]Mrs.Johnson says that he runs the company just like he runs his family, [14:32.91]his interest lies in how much contribution he has made to the society [14:39.07]and his employees. [14:42.73]That's great!Mr.Smith only knows how to drive us to work as long as we can. [14:50.57]I even had the whim to leave our company at that time.Now.. [14:57.10]Now,we have the leisure time to enjoy ourselves. [15:02.87]Young as he is,he has strong drive and determination to change our positon. [15:10.13]Could you remember what he has said at the first meeting? [15:15.28]Sure.He said we would spare no effort to promote the interests of our customers, [15:23.53]stockholders and employees and change our company into one of the 500 [15:30.38]top companies in the world. [15:34.63]With his leadership,maybe our stock will increase in value rapidly. [15:41.90]Could you guess how much he can earn each year? [15:46.94]He must earn much more money than us! [15:51.98]Yes.It's believed that he is given a million dollars as a bonus [15:58.64]and an annual salary of 1 million dollars. [16:04.41]My God!I will strive to be a CEO too. [16:10.66]Supplementary Reading [16:14.81]Mister imagination [16:18.96]There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne, [16:24.42]the writer,did not visit. [16:28.68]He went round the world a hundred times or more. [16:33.83]Once he did it in eighty days,unheard of in the nineteenth century. [16:40.80]He voyaged sixty thousand miles under the sea, [16:46.26]toured around the moon,explored the center of the earth, [16:52.51]and chatted with natives in Australia. [16:56.95]Jules Verne,the man,was a stay-at-home. [17:02.69]He was more likely to be tired from writing than from traviling. [17:08.75]He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa. [17:14.11]And he made one six-week tour of New York State. [17:19.75]But that was all. [17:23.12]He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling. [17:29.36]Yet he was the world's most extraordinary tourist. [17:34.82]His books are crowded with hunting and fishing expeditions. [17:40.78]Jules actually went hunting only once. [17:45.93]Then he raised his gun and shot off the guard's hat! [17:51.80]He never held a test tube in his hand. [17:56.38]But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory. [18:02.44]Long before radio was invented,he had TV working in his books. [18:09.28]His name for it was phono-telephoto. [18:14.84]He had helicopters fifty years [18:18.92]before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk. [18:24.38]In fact,there were few wonders of the twentieth century [18:30.23]that this man of the nuneteenth century did not foresee. [18:35.87]In his stories you can read about neon lights,moving sidewalks, [18:42.64]air conditioning,skyscrapers,guided missiles,tanks, [18:49.40]electrically operated submarines,and airplanes. [18:54.76]Many people took his ideas seriously. [18:59.20]One reason was that he wrote about these wonderful things in such exact detail. [19:06.75]Learned men would argue with him. [19:10.90]Experts in mathematics would spend weeks checking his figures. [19:16.96]When his book about going the moon was published, [19:22.32]five hundred persons volunteered for the next expedition. [19:28.17]perhaps the best known of all his books is Around the World in Eighty Days. [19:35.25]It first appeared as a serial in a paris newspaper. [19:40.89]Its hero had made a bet that he could circle the globe in eighty days, [19:47.16]and his progress aroused great interest. [19:52.02]In every country of Europe people made bets on whether the imaginary Mr.Fogg [19:59.28]would arrive in London in time to win his bet. [20:04.32]Verne kept the popular interest alive. [20:08.89]His hero rescued a widow from death and fell in love with her. [20:14.75]He was attacked by Indians while crossing the American plains. [20:20.21]Arriving in New York,he saw the ship that was to take him to England [20:26.37]disappearing over the horizon without him. [20:31.20]All the steamship companies offered Verne large sums of money [20:37.24]if he would put Fogg on one of their ships. [20:41.68]The author refused.Instead,he had Fogg charter a ship. [20:48.94]As the world held its breath. [20:53.20]Fogg reached London with only minutes to spare. [20:58.34]Many of Verne's other books were set in the future. [21:03.78]In these stories, [21:07.54]people made diamonds and developed a kind of automobile-ship-helicopter-plane. [21:14.91]They received news flashes on televisions,worked in giant skyscrapers, [21:22.06]and rode to work on highways much like the ones we ride today. [21:27.71]It is hard to believe that the books were written nearly one hundred years ago. [21:34.79]Jules Verne had lived to see many of his fancies come true. [21:40.53]But this had not surprised him,for he had once said: [21:46.78]"What one man can imagine,another man can do."

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