高中英语人教版必修3 03

[00:05.38]Reading   ACT ONE   Scene 3

[00:11.55]Now ladies and gentleman,you're about to hear the most incredible 1 tale.

[00:17.19]It is the summer of 1903,and Henry Adams,

[00:22.88]an American businessman,has had some very bad luck.

[00:27.45]He is lost in London.He has no money and does not know what he should do.

[00:34.90]Walking down the street,he hears someone calling him.

[00:39.37]Young man,would you step inside a moment,please?

[00:43.42]Who?Me,sir?       Yes,you.

[00:48.98]Through the front door on your left.

[00:51.91](a servant opens the door for him )Thanks.

[00:53.58]Good morning,sir,would you please come in?

[00:57.94]Permit me to lead the way,sir.

[01:00.81]Thank you,James.That will be all.

[01:04.76]How do you do,Mister-er-?

[01:09.02]Adams,Henry Adams.

[01:11.89]Come and sit down,Mr Adams.

[01:15.44]Thank you.

[01:16.90]You're an American?

[01:19.18]That's right,from San Francisco.

[01:22.34]How well do you know London?

[01:24.98]Not at all.It's my first trip here.

[01:28.42]I wonder,Mr Adams,if you'd mind us asking a few questions.

[01:33.70]Go right ahead.

[01:35.56]May we ask what you're doing in this contry and what your plans are?

[01:40.70]Well,I can't say that I have any plans.I'm hoping to find work.

[01:45.87]As a matter of fact,I landed in britain by accident.

[01:49.82]How is that possible?

[01:52.17]Well,you see,back home I had my own boat.

[01:56.24]About a month ago I was sailing 2 out of the bay-

[01:59.90]Well,go on.

[02:02.17]Oh,yes.Well,towards nightfall I found myself carried out to sea by a strong wind.

[02:09.31]I did not know whether I could survive until morning.

[02:13.15]The next morning I'd just about given myself up for lost when I was spotted 3 by a ship.

[02:19.65]And it was the ship that brought you to England.

[02:23.10]I earned my passage by working as an unpaid 4 hand,

[02:27.17]which accounts 5 for my appearance 6.(the brothers smile at each other)

[02:29.81]Well,you mustn't worry about that.It's an advantage.

[02:34.62]I'm afraid I don't quite follow you,sir.

[02:37.96]Tell us,Mr Adams,what sort of work did you do in America?

[02:42.93]I worked for a mining company.Could you offer me some kind of work here?

[02:48.28]Patience,Mr Adams.If you don't mind,may I ask you how much money you have?

[02:55.73]Well,to be honest,I have none.

[02:59.28](happily)What luck!Brother,what luck!(claps his hands together)

[03:03.54]Well,it may see lucky to you but no to me.

[03:07.30]If this is your idea of some kind of joke,I don't think it's very funny.

[03:12.47](Henry stands up to leave)Now,if you'll excuse me,I think I'll be on my way.

[03:16.41]Please don't go,Mr Adams.You mustn't think we don't care about you.

[03:22.76]Oliver,give hime the letter.

[03:25.51]Yes,the letter.The letter.

[03:29.74]For you.(Henry starts to open it)Oh,no,you mustn't open it.

[03:35.17]Not yet.You can't open it until two o'clock.

[03:40.60]Oh,this is silly.

[03:42.75]Not silly.There's money in it.(calls to the servant)James?

[03:47.92]Oh,no,I don't want yor charity 7.I just want an honest job.

[03:53.25]We know you're hard-working.That's why we've given you the letter.

[03:57.98]James,show Mr Adams out.

[04:01.24]Good luck,Mr Adams.

[04:04.09]Well,why don't you explain what this is all about?

[04:07.85]You'll soon know.In exactly an hour and a half.

[04:13.10]This was,sir.

[04:15.06]Mr Adams,not until 2 o'clock .Promise?        Promise.Good-bye.

[04:21.83]Using language     Reading and acting 8

[04:31.36]Act One,Scene 4

[04:34.81]Outside a restaurant Henry looks at the envelope with the letter and decides to go in.

[04:40.76]He sits down at a table next to the front window.

[04:45.52]That one's reserved 9.This way,please.

[04:49.46]Take this gentleman's order,Horace.

[04:52.62]I'd like some ham and eggs and a nice big steak.And make it extra thick.

[04:58.27]It'll cost a tiny bit.

[05:00.72]I understand.And I'll have a nice tall glass of beer

[05:05.16]My goodness 10!Why,look at him.He eats like a wolf.

[05:10.33]We'll see it he's clever as a wolf,eh?

[05:13.78]Ah,waiter.

[05:15.53]Same thing again,please.Oh,and another beer.

[05:19.79]Again,everything?

[05:22.85]Yes,that's right.Anything wrong?

[05:26.22]He's asked for more of the same.

[05:28.78]It is well-known that many Americans like to eat a lot.

[05:33.53]Well,we will have to take a chance.Go ahead and let him have it.

[05:39.59]All right.

[05:41.13]That's two orders of ham and eggs,two extra thick steaks,two tall glasses of beer,

[05:47.69]two cups of coffee and two desserts.

[05:51.76]Would you mind waiting just a few minutes?

[05:54.93]What's there to wait for?

[05:57.28]All right,Horace,I'll take care of this.

[06:01.22]That was a wonderful meal.

[06:03.65]It's amazing how much pleasure you get out of the simple things in life,

[06:08.01]especially if you can't have them for a while.

[06:11.25]Yes,very interesting.

[06:13.89]Now perhaps if you pay the bill I can help the other customers.

[06:18.57]Well,I see it's two o'clock.

[06:21.52]I'm very sorry.But...I..I..I don't have anything smaller.

[06:26.95]Well,er--er--just one moment.Maggie,look!Do you think it's real?

[06:35.81]oh,dear,I don't know.I simply don't know.Ask Mr Clemens.

[06:42.05]Mr Clemens,Mr Clemens!Could you-er-would you mind looking at this?

[06:48.40]Do you think it's genuine 11?

[06:50.75]Two notes in this amount have been ussued by the Bank of England this year.

[06:57.12]Anyway,it can't be fake 12.

[07:00.36]Why not?

[07:02.22]People will give too much attention to a bank-note of this amount.

[07:06.19]No theif would want that to happen.

[07:09.14]But look at the owner,Mr Clemens.He's in rags 13!

[07:13.87]Hmm,yes.I see.Well,I can only say that he must be a very strange but very rich man.

[07:23.01]Why,yes!That must be it!

[07:26.17]And you put him in the back of the restaurant!Go and see him at once!

[07:31.53]I'm so sorry ,sir,so sorry,but I cannot change this bank-note.

[07:38.08]But it's all I have on me.

[07:40.43]Oh,please,don't worry,sir.Doesn't matter at all.

[07:46.08]We are so very glad that you even entered our little eating places.

[07:51.04]Indeed,sir,I trust that you'll come here whenever you like.

[07:55.90]Well,that's very kind of you.

[07:58.54]Kind,sir?No,it's kind of you,sir.

[08:02.90]You must come whenever you want have whatever you like.

[08:07.63]Just having you sit here si a great honour!

[08:11.42]I may not return for some time.

[08:14.16]It would be wrong of me not to trust a gentleman such as yourslef,sir,

[08:18.52]even if you do dress in a rather unusual way.

[08:22.67]As for the bill,sir,please forget it.

[08:26.44]Forget it?Well..thank you very much.That's very nice of you.

[08:32.31]Oh,it's for us to thank you,sir and I do,sir,from my heart.

[08:39.08]Listening and writing

[08:47.26]1 Listen to Scene 5 on the tape and answer the following questions.

[10:33.60]ABOUT MARK TWAIN

[10:42.87]Mark Twain was born in Florida and spent his boyhood in Hannibal,Missouri,

[10:48.62]along the Mississippi River.

[10:51.08]Three of his most famous books describe people on this great river.

[10:55.93]They are The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,

[10:58.89]The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Life on the mississippi.

[11:04.24]Indeed,this author loved the river so much

[11:07.90]that even his pen name is about the river.

[11:11.06]"Twain"is an old word for "two."So,to"mark twain,"

[11:17.30]is to say that the water is two fathoms 15 deep.

[11:20.96]A fathom 14 is equal to six feet or 1.83 metres.

[11:26.21]Twain left school at the age of twelve to look at for work.

[11:30.36]Over the next two decades 16 he was a printer,a riverboat pilot,

[11:35.41]a soldier,a gold miner,a businessman and a newspaper reporter.

[11:41.26]His first successful story was about a jumping frog contest.

[11:46.22]his writing became famous for its description of common people

[11:50.90]and the way they talked,

[11:52.93]but especially for its his humour 17.He became rich from the many novels,

[11:59.20]short stories and travel journals 18 he wrote

[12:02.86]and was very popular at public readings.

[12:06.41]Yale and Oxford 19 Universities honoured him for his writing.

[12:10.67]However,the last years of his life were filled with sad events,

[12:15.50]loneliness and the loss 20 of much money.

[12:19.34]His writing lost most of its humour and became sad like him.

[12:24.20]Yet he is still one of most popular writers in the world today