时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:大学英语听力第二册


英语课

  Part B

Dialogue 《What Time Do You Leave for Work? 》

Larry: What time do you usually leave for work, Carol 1? Carol:A quarter past eight.

Larry: Do you take the subway or bus? Carol:I usually catch the 8:30 bus.

Larry: Oh, you start work at 9:30? Carol:Right.

Larry: What time do you have your coffee break in the morning?

Carol: Oh, usually around 10:45.

Larry: Hmm. Do they give you an hour for lunch?

Carol: Sure.

Larry: What time will you be at lunch?

Carol: Between 12:00 and 1:00.

Larry: What time do you finish work?

Carol: At 5:30.

Larry: Can you join me for dinner? I can pick you up after work.

Carol: But I have to meet my sister Jane at the airport in the afternoon.

Larry: When id the arrival 2 time?

Carol: It’s scheduled 6:30.

Larry: Then I’ll pick you up first at about 5:35 and then drive you to the airport to meet you sister at about 6:20.

Carol: You’re so nice, Larry. Thank you very much. I’ll be down at the front gate after work. I may be five minutes late. Is that OK?

Larry: No problem. Let’s go to a Chinese restaurant this time for a change.

Carol: That’s great.

PASSAGE 《I’ve Come to the Wrong Place》

It is often difficult these days to find someone to come and fix your television set,or your washing machine, or any other household appliance 3 if it breaks. Everybody wants to sell you new products, but nobody wants to fix them when they stop working.

One day Mrs Harris discovered that her bathroom faucet 4 wad leaking 5, so she phoned her plumber 6. Three days later, he arrived.

‘Well, you’ve finally arrived!’ she said to the plumber. ‘ I calle dyou three days ago.’

The plumber was not at all disturbed by this. He simply took a piece of paper out of his pocket and looked at it. ‘Three days ago?’ he said. ‘That was 21st,

Wasn’t it? Well, I’m sorry but I’ve come to the wrong place. I was looking for Mrs Smith’s house, not yours. She phoned me on the 20th.’



1 Carol
n.赞美诗,圣诞颂歌
  • Silent Night is my favourite carol.《平安夜》是我最喜欢的圣诞颂歌。
  • The people in the church are singing a christmas carol.教堂里的人们正在唱圣诞颂歌。
2 arrival
n.到达,达到,到达者
  • She's impatient for her father's arrival.她急切地盼望着父亲的到来。
  • The new arrival was none other than the President.刚到的不是别人,正是总统。
3 appliance
n.用具,器具,器械
  • This appliance is good for homes,offices,pubs,restaurants cafes and etc.本产品使用于:家庭,办公室,酒吧,酒店,咖啡馆等场所。
  • You must connect this appliance to a properly grounded branch circuit.你必须连接这个设备到正确地地面线路。
4 faucet
n.水龙头
  • The faucet has developed a drip.那个水龙头已经开始滴水了。
  • She turned off the faucet and dried her hands.她关掉水龙头,把手擦干。
5 leaking
n.漏泄,耗散v.漏( leak的现在分词 );渗入,漏出;使泄露
  • The roof was leaking. 屋顶在漏雨。
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
6 plumber
n.(装修水管的)管子工
  • Have you asked the plumber to come and look at the leaking pipe?你叫管道工来检查漏水的管子了吗?
  • The plumber screwed up the tap by means of a spanner.管子工用板手把龙头旋紧。
学英语单词
academicalism
act of war
agriothymia
airflow drier
altometers
ampereturns
anchor as a lead
Asiarchs
axm
british alsatian dog
bullock-cart
bunkie station
centrifugal cyclone
college man
concealingly
cross-border ticket
date of service
degree of gross start-stop dist-ortion
demilitarized zones
dialogized
drugproofs
east-enders
ecology of birds and animals in forest
economic conversion
El Hadjar
electron capture detectors
enwrapped
external channel program
FD (forced draft)
five-plywood
fuzed
galvannealing
geosynclinal polarity
gibowski
Girardinia
gonadotrophic activity unit
grand ballroom
hartia micrantha chun
hip circle
holpe
hydaticus vittatus
ictometer
imposing stone
instalment guarantee
kidgell
LevelUp
Modot
modular microprogramming
moralize
mosheh
nitrogen molecularlaser
nonmuseum
nonnumeric word
ohanian
olea europaea l. var oleaster dc.
OSTD
overbuilding
oxyosphresia
parallel degraded channel
pattern spotlight
Pearl Harbor Glacier
perichromatin granule
phase error of strain meter
plus time shift
potter away one's time
propene dicarboxylic acid
protomagmatic deposit
punch the clock
pursuant to
quartz crystal electronic watch
quizzicality
rain rot
regulator drive
reichardtite
reliability and maintainability demonstration
reordinate
sale warrant
salisbury
Santa Jorna
savignac
septal defect
shallots
side-board
slaton
spinal vein
stickleback
storry
strategised
tacleine
tapeinocephalic
ten-year
Thalphinine
theocentrically
trap rocket
uninformed market
uptalking
utility tape processor
vanadic anhydride
Walterville
weldless steel pipe
Wollaston, L.
woven canvas tyre