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1. Do you think we should make
reservations for dinner tonight?
I doubt we’ll need one, Lusia seems to be one of those
places that is only crowded on weekends.
2. Did you realize that our meeting this afternoon was
supposed to be for 2:15, not 2:30.
I’m really sorry. I think my watch has been running slow.
I’m going to do something about it soon.
3. I’m really disappointed; there are a couple of required
courses I have to take before I can take the history class
I’m interested in.
Don’t be disappointed yet. You may be able to get special
permission from the professor.
4. Do you know who won the baseball game?
They had to postpone it because of the rain. It’s been
rescheduled for next week.
5. Hi, I hope you can help me, I need the 2nd edition of
United States’ government for my class on Monday afternoon,
but I only see the 1st edition on the shelf and I’ve already
checked other book stores around here.
Yes, some one else had asked me about the book earlier. I
called the warehouse and they’re shipping copies to us, we
should have them Monday morning.
6. I’ll never catch up in my classes after being at sick all
last week. It took me over 3 hours just to do last night’s
assignment. Maybe I’ll need a tutor.
Sounds like you could use one.
7. I’m still not sure which brand of ice cream I should buy.
Oh, not that one, it’s cheaper but these other brand taste
much better.
8. Losing the championship must have been a big
disappointment to the players on our volleyball team.
Yeah, but they really played their hearts out. They are
still champions in my book.
9. Hey, did you hear that they’re going to raise the dorm
fees again.
Really? Am I glad I decide to move off campus?
10. Do you have any idea why David wants to see me tomorrow?
Is he having problems with his accounting project?
Yeah, he’s been struggle with it from day one and I’m told
you’re an expert on that stuff.
11. I have to borrow enough money to buy a plane ticket. My
archaeology class is taking a future trip to Alaska and I
may never get another chance like this.
Look, when push comes to show, the people you can rely on
most are your family.
12. I’ve been in a library studying all day. What do you say
to a walk around Grain Lake?
I’ve got to go to the computer lab. Can I take a ring check?
13. Hey, it was great to see you at the French club meeting
yesterday. You know we could really use your help getting
ready for the activity’s affair.
I don’t know. I don’t really have that much extra time.
14. Do you mind if I put on some music? It helps me relax
while I’m studying.
Well, en, do you have to? I’m having a hard time
concentrating on this chapter as it is.
15. I’m pretty confident the company where I worked the
passed 2 summers will hire me full time after graduation.
Well, just in case that it doesn’t work out, career’s
service is having a work shop on campus next Thursday on
applying for a job. They have one here last year, and I know
a lot of people find it helpful.
16. I washed this sweater according to the directions on the
label and look what happen to it.
It could be a manufactures’ defect, we’ll exchange it for
you.
17. I was wandering if you wanna to join my parents and me
for dinner Friday night.
I won’t miss it for the words.
18. Thanks for lending me your history notes. They were
really very helpful. Can I ask you for a few questions about
it, though.
Sure, but could we make it for tomorrow. I have a report to
finish before my 2 o’clock class and I’m running behind.
19. Are you going to spend your vacation in New York again
this summer?
Actually I’ve got a different destination in mind this year.
20. I can’t believe how much that student who was just in
here looks like you. She could be your daughter.
I know, people are always assuming that we’re related.
21. I just realize my telephone isn’t working and I’m just
expecting for an important phone call in a few minutes.
Well, you can use my phone to make a call to the phone
company, but it looks like there’s not much that can be done
about the one you’re expecting.
22. I was in line for 2 hours today waiting to drop a class.
Not me, when I saw the line snarling around the building, I
said no, I’ll just try tomorrow.
23. Could you take a look at my printer? It doesn’t seem to
be working.
I can’t offer to se up this new one. Just give me a few
minutes, OK?
24. Did you bring your blue and yellow sweater for me to
wear at the game today. You know I like to wear school
colors at these games.
Oh, I know I’ve forgot something and it’s too fatigual to
get back. Will my yellow scarf do?
25. The doctor says I’ve to cut down on fattening foods. All
the ones I like..
So that explains your mood.
26. I missed the election returns on TV last night. What was
the outcome?
You remember last time when C B won easily, well, this time
he barely won.
27. Excuse me, I bought the wrong math book a couple of
weeks ago. Here is the receipt. Can I get my money back?
Oh, I’m sorry not after 10 days, but you can still exchange
it for something else.
28. I just got back from the new art gallery downtown. Have
you seen their collection yet?
It’s a lot smaller than what I was expecting, but what they
do have is impressive.
29. I’m sorry Bob, I wouldn’t invite you over to eat lunch
with us, but we’re in the middle of working on a math
problem.
Oh, I can understand. Anyway, I can tell you’re working.
30. I just wrote the speech for the election. You know, I’m
running for a class president. I was wandering if you would
mind looking it over.
Hey, what a friend’s for?
-Excuse me, I’ve been using this old book for a research
project and I noticed that a lot of pages are turning brown
and becoming brittle.
-Yes, unfortunately, that’s a common problem with books made
from wood pulp.
-I suppose to make paper from wood that you have to add a
lot of chemicals and acids to make it turn white.
-Exactly and it’s the acid that eventually eats away the
paper.
-Oh, that actually make sense, but this book’s not even 75
years old and I’ve seen books in museum that are hundreds of
years old and they’re in fine condition.
-Well, you see, books have been made from wood pulp only
since 1850’s, before that they were made from materials
mostly animals’ skins or C, no chemicals were added.
-It’s a shame those older wood pulp books are going to fall
apart some day. Is there anything that can be done to
preserve them.
-En, currently the only way to stop the books from decaying
is to remove the binding and treat each page individually to
remove the acid.
-That doesn’t sound very economical.
-No, it isn’t. It’s not practical to treat a large number of
books with this process, so we only try to rescue the most
valuable 1st edition books in our collection.
-Well, thanks for the explanation. I’d better get back to my
project.
-Good luck, and I hope the old book hold long enough for you
to finish it.
31. What are the speakers mainly discussing?
32. According to the man, why do modern books decay?
33. What does the man say about books published before 1950?
34. What does the man say is a drawback to the process of
restoring books?
35. What will the women probably do next?
OK, as you all know, tomorrow we’re be going to the museum
to see a special exhibit of screemshore carvings. So today,
I’d like to take a few minutes to talk about the article on
screemshore you read for today’s class. Let me start by
asking exactly what is screemshore?
Well, basically it’s a kind of artwork that was done by
sailors on whaling ships. When there weren’t any whales
around, there might not be much for the sailors to do and
they often get pretty bored. So to entertain themselves,
they started carving stuff on whale bones and whale teeth.
OK, so basically the term screemshore refers to the artwork
that sailors created. Usually out of whale bones and whale
teeth. Can you give me an example or something that sailors
might have carved.
Well, for one thing, I remember reading that they carved
things that could be used around house, you know, cooking
and sowing utensils, that kind of stuff.
Good.
You know, I noticed from the pictures in the article that
some of the carvings have really detailed images on them,
like they have some pretty sophiscated pictures of famous
people and historical themes and stuff like that. And I was
wandering just how they did that.
That’s a very good question and it brings us your assignment
for tomorrow. While at the museum, I’d like each of you to
take some notes on the various technique used in making
screemshore. So that we can discuss them when we come back
to class.
36. What is the purpose of the discussion?
37. From what material dose screemshore usually made?
38. According to the discussion, why did sailors begin
making screemshore?
39. According to the discussion, what was done with the
screemshore objects?
A lot of people think that cultural anthropology is just
about studying the special and strange aspects of a society,
but anthropologists are also interested in the aspects of
life that seems so ordinary that the people in the society
think they’re not significant. Let me give you an example, I
see lots of T-shirts here in class today, but you probably
don’t think of them as an important part of your culture,
but anthropologists could learn a lot about the culture of
the US just by studying the T shirt. For one thing, T shirts
are a mark of how casual clothing has become in America. No
one was quite sure where they came from, but the T shirt
first become popular in this country as an under shirt for
sellers in the 1940s. Then in the 1950s, it became a sign of
rebellion for teenagers to wear this white under shirt by
itself, not under anything. By the 1960s and 70s, T shirts
have become accepted as part of the uniform views. You could
even say that they came symbolized that generation’s
attitude towards informality and all thing, including dress.
On another aspect that anthropologists would find
interesting is that T shirts are used to express personal
opinions. Look around this room, you know who likes watch TV
show, who went where on vacation, who belongs to what
organizations on campus. All of these aspects of our culture
are printed on your T shirts. OK, I want to stop for a
minute and ask you to try to write down five different
conclusions you could reach about American culture from just
the T shirts in this classroom.
40. What is the speaker’s mainly discussing?
41. Why does the speaker use T shirts as her example?
42. Why does the speaker mention what is printed on certain
T shirts?
43. What does the speaker ask the students to write down
next?
Finally there is one more element to business success that
we haven’t talked about. I know what you think I’m going to
say, luck and you’re partially right. Good entrepreneurs
know how to make their own luck and that means being in the
right place at the right time with the right product. Let me
give you a little example, early in this century, if you’re
a traveler by train and subway and you happen to get a
little thirsty in the station, where would you go for some
water? There were no big soda machine at every corner or
even drinking fountains, yet there were thousands of thirsty
travelers out there, well, what they did was drank water out
of one little tin cup that was passed from one thirsty
commuter to the next. That’s right, everybody drank out of
the same cup, and you can bat it didn’t get washed after
every user. Will, that was the right time for the right
product and there was a man who had it. His name is H M and
his product was the disposable paper cup. He came up with it
just as the nation was becoming concerned about their health
risks associated with the tin cups. Laws were passed
outlying the things; reports were published showing just
what sorts of germs can be passed around from sharing them.
Mr. M road that way to become the best known producers of
one of the most successful paper products of all time. He
originally called his product health cups, but later changed
the nature, so can anyone guess what that name might be?
44. What general topic has the class been discussing?
45. In the earlier 20th century, what did train travelers do
when they got thirsty?
46. What is the purpose of the professor’s story?
A number of insects rely on leaping or jumping as a way of
escaping from enemies. Grosshoppers probably have the most
remarkable jumping ability of all these insects. If we think
of it in human terms, a grosshopper’s high jump is like a
human jumping over a five story building. Imagine that a
person jumping over a five story building. Well, we’ll take
a look at the structure of grosshopper’s leg to see why it’s
able to jump so well, but first I wanna talk about the
sensory organ that tells grosshoppers when to jump in the
first place. En, OK, a grosshopper has two sensory organs
located at the end of its abdomen. Whenever these organs
sense of change in air pressure which might be produced by
an enemy approaching, and impulses transmitted to the legs,
this first impulse deactivates the nerves that control
normal working and sets the grasshopper’s jumping muscles
into a sort of pre-jumping position. Now at this point, if
the sensory organs don’t detect additional air pressure
changes, the jumping muscles relax and a grosshopper goes
back to its normal walking, but if the organs continue to
send danger, another set of impulses put the jumping muscles
in motion. The distance of the jumping is determined by just
how many impulses are transmitted in the second set, the
more impulse the longer the jump. OK now let’s see why the
grosshopper can jump so far. Open your books at the part of
that muscle structure of the grasshopper’s leg. I think it’s
in chapter 9.
47. Whet does the professor mainly discuss?
48. Why does the professor mention a five story building?
49. What is the function of the sensory organs that the
professor discusses?
50. According to the professor, what determines the distance
of a grosshopper’s jump?
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