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
actutaing signal
aftereffect of permeability
agricultural mechanization
aliphatic sesquiterpene
apar-
Aquaform
aster falcatuss
auto decrement flag
Balige
basin landscape
belly-dancer
blennorrhea alveolaris
breaking changes
Breit-Wigner equation
cock-master
command patterns
compiled machine language instruction
cone and disc viscometer
controlled Markov process
corrective active board
dashed down
delayed gelling process
dog whistle politics
dry cargo freight market
dysthermosia
effigiates
emergency shutoff device
energy supplying device
equisignal line
erotopsychopathy
ex quay duty paid
eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth
fancy handkerchief
farragoes
finger-nail
flow-line interception
garnesoin
grind for
h. l. menckens
haploid hypha
Has anyone been?
Hudsoned
hydrangin
iald
insulation clothing
intermediate inspection at the technological process
job inventory
Koch's tests
kodaly
kruzhanovskite
Kwangsiphyllum
law of intestate distribution
light in the head
lime reel
loan modification provision
macrochemical
major drawcard
megabudgets
neumandin
neutral mass spectrometer
old gaffer
other rewritable optical discs
Papilionanthe teres
parabiosis
pelviform
pestifugous
plectospondylous
post-independence
power water section
protecting case
Saint Cyril
salpingo-oophorectomy
sanmartinite
Saragat, Giuseppe
scotson
search light cooperation
security table
segment relative addressing
selective catalytic reduction
sensor sun
shad roes
sharp wave
Sonacon
starfinder
swine flu
Tedder, Arthur William, 1st Baron
tension boundary
the new territories
thorleys
throw it
tissue of movement
Tonga Islands
treat (transient reactor test equipment)
trunk root union
unhouses
ureteris
variance work in process
vena metacarpuss
Verkhoramen'ye
well-motived
What's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh.
Yua austro-orientalis