时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:听英文对话做选择


英语课
原文:

Man: Well, I couldn't have picked out a better spot to fish. What do you think?
Woman: Uh . . .
 
Man: I mean, the water is so clear here. Listen to the birds and the sounds of nature.
 
Woman: Well . . . .
 
Man: I mean, I'm not bragging 1 or anything, but I have a real sense for fishing. I mean, I was born to fish, you know, my dad used to say.
 
Woman: Really?
 
Man: Yeah.
 
Woman: When was the last time you caught a fish? Didn't you tell me that you went fishing six or seven times last month and didn't catch anything?
 
Man: Well, Well, I'm not making excuses or anything, but the weather was bad a couple of times, and, and . . . and a fish dragged my pole into the water while I wasn't looking another time [ No way! Serious? ] , and . . . and I wasn't wearing my fishing hat another day.
 
Woman: You have to have a fishing hat to catch fish?
 
Man: Well, today is different. Listen.
 
Woman: What's different about it? We've been here about an hour, and you still haven't caught anything.
 
Man: Well, do you think you can do any better, or are you just going to sit there and continue reading that book?
 
Woman: Okay, let me show you. Let me show you. Give me that pole. I'll show you. I'm just to cast 2 the bait 3 out right over . . . . there . . . perfect.
 
Man: Ah, right. You'll probably catch a tree branch or get your line snagged in a tree.
 
Woman: Yeah, you're going to see. Just wait.
 
Man: Some big shoe or something like that.
 
Woman: You just wait. You have to be patient. [ Yeah. ] Yeah . . . Oh, Oh, Oh, Oh! I got a bite. Oh, man, man, man. Look at that! That fish is huge.
 
Man: Wow, wait, wait, wait, wait. Can't . . . . that . . no, no, no.
 
Woman: Yes, it is, it is. Help me! Come on. Help me! Come on. Help me. I'm trying to reel 4 it in. Help me!
 
Man: I . . . I got to go back to the car.
 
Woman: No, no. Look! Look at thing jump! Go get the net! Get the net!
 
Man: Well, nah . . .
 
Woman: Come on. You gotta help me catch it!
 
Man: That's beginner's luck.
 
Woman: No. Come on. Wow! I got it Look at that. What are you going to say now? Huh? Huh? What are you going to say?
 
Man: Nothing!
 
Woman: So look who's teaching 5 who. I'm going to remember this day FOREVER.
 
Man: Forget it.

1. At the beginning of the conversation, the man feels that he ____.
A. is a natural fisherman
B. needs more fishing practice 
C. doesn't have the right equipment
2. Last month, the man didn't catch any fish because __________. 
A. he always went the wrong time of day
B. he was too busy at work to go
C. the weather wasn't very good
 
3. While the man is fishing, the woman is _____________.
A. texting her friends
B. reading a book
C. watching him fish
 
4. The man had been fishing for ___________ without success.
A. 20 minutes
B. an hour
C. a couple of hours
 
5. When the woman catches a fish, the man ____________.
A. starts taking pictures of the fish
B. encourages her to catch more
C. says she was just lucky
 
正确答案:

1. is a natural fisherman
2. the weather wasn`t very good
3. reading a book
4. an hour
5. says she was just lucky

 

1 bragging
v.自夸,吹嘘( brag的现在分词 );大话
  • He's always bragging about his prowess as a cricketer. 他总是吹嘘自己板球水平高超。 来自辞典例句
  • Now you're bragging, darling. You know you don't need to brag. 这就是夸口,亲爱的。你明知道你不必吹。 来自辞典例句
2 cast
vt./vi.(cast,cast)投掷;投射;抛
  • You can cast your vote at the local polling station.你可以在当地的投票站投票。
  • He cast off fear and decided to make a try.他去掉害怕心理,决定试一试。
3 bait
n.饵,引诱物;vt.用饵引诱,折磨,奚落
  • The fish took the bait.鱼吞饵了。
  • They are too knowing to bite at such a bait.他们很老练,不上这种当。
4 reel
n.卷筒,线轴;vi.蹒跚地走,旋转,骚乱,退缩,摇晃;vt.卷,卷...于轴上;旋转
  • He cast the line and then reel it back.他把线抛出,然后把线绕回。
  • The child could reel off many poems of the Tang Dynasty at the age of five.这孩子五岁时就能把许多唐诗倒背如流。
5 teaching
n.教学,执教,任教,讲授;(复数)教诲
  • We all agree in adopting the new teaching method. 我们一致同意采取新的教学方法。
  • He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
学英语单词
accessorone
accommodation trains
acute gangrenous appendicitis
acute suppurative apicitis
aequator-
analog audio synchronizer
anodize, anodised
antimatagen
assembler base
Back-up Intercept Control
balance of payments discipline
bar marker
breaking in overcast
bredekamp
breymann
carceag
charm quark
chuckey
collateralized loan
combined stop and reverse light
complete inner product space
contrabassist
crossbar switch organization
cubic crystal structure
dehydrotestololactone
desensitisations
detachable blades
diphenyl succinate
doaks
Dusnok
embryonic stage
etchers needle
fence silo
feverwort
gas deviation factor
giboulee
gleeson
globularias
goo-goo eyes
gradient of electrochemical potential
hand coordinate frame
handcar
hot-air band dryer
IASLC
iodine uptake rate
izvestiya
junction pipe
kenencephalocele
kolomenskoe
labyrinth with sharp-edged strip
lakotas
library statistics
linear inequality in two variables
mandelonitrile
mcgreevey
medium-resolution spectrometer
monocaryogamous
monopolistic
MSHCA
municipiall
non-Euclidean plane
one way rolling key clutch
overrecruiting
pico-amperes
placozoans
polyzooid
prism
prostibule
pyruvate oxidation factor
radio-allergo-sorbent test(RAST)
rail wing
Reading the tape
reape
refracted index
restriking dies
Rofrano
salchow
sand leach
Sayula
shower deck
situational control
skeme
spirographis heme
strepsipteran
stress and strain analysis
summer plumage (or breeding plumage)
summerhall
Tesla current
thermometry resistance alloy
thinbeer
thysanopterous insects
traitorousness
triacetyl glycerine
vanity numbers
VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning
water chestnut plant
wave-free anchorage
well-man
Wini Seamount
woodlessness
yield trial