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:

Woman: Hey, Brandon. What are you doing?
Man: Oh, You'll like this. It's a new Web 1 site that helps you improve your writing skills for free.
 
Woman: Really? Yeah. That would be really helpful.
 
Man: Yeah and I'm signing up right now.
 
Woman: Wow. Let me see that.
 
Man: Yeah. It's easy. You just enter your name, your birthday, your address, your bank information. [ What? ] Your credit 2 card number.
 
Woman: Wait, wait, wait. [ What? ] I thought you said it was free.
 
Man: It IS free.
 
Woman: Then, why do they need your bank and credit card information?
 
Man: Well, you know, it's just, you know, just . . . just to check your identity 3 or something like that. But, but it's all free. What?
 
Woman: That doesn't sound free to me.
 
Man: Well, you don't understand.
 
Woman: It sounds pretty fishy 4 to me. How do you know that this is a trusted Web site. Look. That doesn't look like a secure 5 URL.
 
Man: Well, you don't understand. Look. It says right here on their page. Right here: "Our goal is help you learn. Trusting us. We knows how to help you in 15 days or below." What? What?
 
Woman: That's terrible English. Who wrote this? What country are they in? You need to help THEM with their English. I mean, this is a sure sign that they are trying to probably steal your personal information and your identify.
 
Man: No, no, no, and look. Here is a picture of some of their staff. And they look honest. Hey . . .
 
Woman: You're so gullible 6.
 
Man: Hey, hey. What are you doing?
 
Woman: I'm shutting down your computer. I can't watch my own brother fall for a scam like this.
 
Man: You just don't understand.

1. The man is looking at a Web site that helps people improve their ___________ skills.
A. writing 
B. reading 
C. computer
2. How much does the Web service cost?
A. $10 a month
B. $5 a month
C. free
 
3. The Web site asks for the man's name, birthday, and _____________ information.
A. job
B. bank
C. family
 
4. The woman feels that the Web site can't be trusted because ________.
A. the site's design is terrible.
B. the site uses poor English.
C. the site charges too much money.
 
5. The woman ________________ to protect her brother from the Web site.
A. calls the police
B. blocks the Web site
C. turns the computer off 
 
正确答案:

1. writing
2. free
3. bank
4. the site uses poor English.
5. turns the computer off

 

1 web
n.网,蛛丝,蹼,织物,圈套,卷筒纸;vi.生蹼,形成网;vt.织蜘蛛网于,使落入圈套
  • The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
  • You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网?
2 credit
n.信用,荣誉,贷款,学分;v.归功于,赞颂,信任
  • I credit him with a certain amount of sense.我认为他有一定的见识。
  • He got the credit,and we did the dirty work.他得荣誉,我们做不讨好的工作。
3 identity
n.身份,本体,特征;同一(性),一致
  • He never revealed his identity.他从未暴露过自己的身份。
  • He showed his identity card and went in.他把工作证亮了一下就进去了。
4 fishy
adj. 值得怀疑的
  • It all sounds very fishy to me.所有这些在我听起来都很可疑。
  • There was definitely something fishy going on.肯定当时有可疑的事情在进行中。
5 secure
adj.无虑的,安心的,安全的;adj.牢靠的,稳妥的;vt.固定,获得,使...安全;vi.(海上工作人员)停止工;vi.(船)抛锚,停泊
  • He found a secure foothold and pulled himself up.他找到了一个稳固的踏脚处并爬了上去。
  • Extra men are needed to secure the camp against attack.需要增加兵力以保护军营免受攻击。
6 gullible
adj.易受骗的;轻信的
  • The swindlers had roped into a number of gullible persons.骗子们已使一些轻信的人上了当。
  • The advertisement is aimed at gullible young women worried about their weight.这则广告专门针对担心自己肥胖而易受骗的年轻女士。
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accretion of discount
Aggadoth
aurometer
autophosphorylates
Ban Kon Bun
bhunia
blahss
bonzerer
brushmark
Burn Hall
capacitance-variable transistor
Cargo Ship Safety Equipment Certificate
casuals
churroes
collectivises
condolement
converter substation scheme
Cullingworth
deep seepage
desids
Dillenburgite
Diskeeper
dispersoid particle
dry adiabatic lapse rate
Eadie plot
electric probe
Estate Duty Ordinance
eye-testings
fistulous witherss
floo-floo bird
footfall
function response
George Forster
glucostrophanthidin
Half-gate
handlebar mustache
heavenly stem-prescription of point selection
heavy gage
heterocentron roseum nand.
high moisture food
in low water
in waves
inaudibly
interference phase contrast microscope
interleaved sweep
internal ramp
khedivate
klooches
likin'
long space disconnect
low-test-gasoline
megre
meshy filter
Mesobins
methodological anarchism
minioluteic acid
Monterey County
multidomain structure
musicfest
non-genetic gene
O-type star
Olenacea
opens fire
P.G.T.
partial-penetration weld
peders
perforated plate distillation column
petrogeologist
piggledy
polyadelph
Polystichy
psychotherapist
Pyrus sinkiangensis
radio source
radio-paging service
resistance to insecticides
rivers
rope someone into something
search for application
secule
Shaveh-Kiriathaim
short-circuit control
socio-technical system school
sorbefacient
stay over
stepless speed changing
suivi
swine enzootic pneumonia
Symplocos congesta
system components
test of vibration caused by carbody bending
the activity of selling
the influence
the natural world
transport ball screw
two bottom plow
valve spring seat pin
Vinh Tan
visual aphasias
West Dorset
writing in
xinxing