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。
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after-perpendicular
air inlet disk valve
alpha energy loss
anisotropisation
ante-mortem statement
attitude of combat
be scared witless
big-
Calmette's sera
carbofuran
carbonpoint
cast a compass
chams
chutspah
coal mine engineering exploration
Committee of the whole House
control(l)ing vane
crush frature
cytheropteron tumulosum
decision-making interface
deputy mayor
descense
desmear
digit receiver
directed cycle
epidithiodioxopiperazine
estuarine animal
ethyl gallate
Eunus
Eupelmidae
fallibilist
family Chamaeleonidae
fast loading
Fimbristylis dichotomoides
formative study of development strategies
frogeater
ganze macher
gervers
gingivo-axial
glucocerebrosidoses
Grundschule
haemoglobinopathy
half-chinese
henrys
HKMA
horrids
housing and urban developments
huddles
idler time
input threshold voltage
jowliness
Julcamarca Cord.
Knockando
Kosala
Lamasco
lamina of modiolus
laureateships
Marne River
Ministry of Defence
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Muricidae
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phosalone
phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
physician-scientist
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plessies
pneumocystis carinii pneumonia
practical plastic engineering
rangoon
reed gratings
remurmured
rheumarthritis
Richmondite
ruca
run on plate
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sealed germanium diode
serial scheme
servo type function generator
set at defiance
shankman
siddity
smectic compound
specific electrode consumption
spirator
spore surface
squalidize
stop-and-wait
strangulating
supervisionists
system thinking
temper-brittle
topological conservation law
trionic
Umm al Qulbān
undertenancies
volumometrical
wedge-shaped armor
work-groups
Wye, River