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Unit 1
LISTENING TEXT
Dear Lisa,
There is nothing
wrong with you and this boy being friends and
studying course a boy
and a girl can
be good friends. Ending your friendship with this
boy would be a stupid thing to do.
You
would lose a good friend and someone to study ers
like to gossip, and they often
see
something that isn't real .Perhaps your classmates
cannot
understand
your
friendship
with
this
boy.
That's
no
reason
to
stop
it.
My
advice
is
to
ignore your classmates.
That way you will show them that you are more
grown-up than they are.
Yours
Miss Wang
Part I
Leslie Clark, a Canadian
from Vancouver, arrives in China
to do some business. Her company
sells buses. During her stay she meets
many Chinese people. Most of them are very kind to
her. A
few
of
them
invite
her
to
dinners
with
delicious
food
and
drink.
They
take
her
to
interesting
places and to a
mountain in the countryside. Some people even
invite her to be a guest in their
homes.
Leslie
is
asked
whether
she
thinks
the
Chinese
are
friendly.
Yes,
she
says,
I
think
Chinese people are very
friendly.
Part 2
When
she
gets
on
the
plane
to
fly
home,
another
Canadian
asks
her,
did
you
make
any
friends
in
China?
Leslie
replies,
I
made
some
good
friends.
Of
course
they
are
business
friends. No one can
become a close friend when you see them for such a
short time. I think some
of them really
liked me but others may have been trying to be my
friend for their own reasons .
On Saturday
evening I talked to Daddy about my friendship with
Peter. Daddy said,
must be careful,
Anne. We live very close together here.
Then on Sunday morning he called me and
we talked about it again. He said,
about
what
you
told
me.
I
think
you
should
not
talk
to
him
alone
so
often.
This
is
a
special
situation. If you were outside you
could see many other boys and girls. You could do
all kinds of
other things. But here you
are together all the time and if you want to get
away you can't. In fact
you see each
other 24 hours a day. What happens if you quarrel?
I did not agree with him and continued
to talk to Peter every evening. A few days later
Daddy
showed he was not pleased with
me. He had thought that after our talk I would not
go upstairs
every evening. He was
disappointed that I had not followed his advice.
Unit 2
Part
1
Hey, y'all, this here is
Buford. I come from a big oil town
in Texas. Now, y'all need to understand
that we ain't really a state, but a
whole nother country. Now let me tell ya a story
about when I
was just a pup. One hot
summer's day I was swimmin with my cousins Little
Lester and Big Billy
Bob. We was
jumpin' in the water and feelin'good .Then along
comes this catfish ' bout the size of
a
house. Well, alright, maybe a little smaller than
that. Little Lester starts to thinkin it's goin'
to
eat him sure 'nough. Man, you
shoulda seen him! He got outta the water fast as
lightning and
climbed up a tree. Big
Billy Bob and I just laughed and laughed. To this
day, Lester won't go near
that place
Part 2
Hello, everyone, I am
Buford's teacher, Jane, from Britain. Perhaps you
didn't quite understand
everything
Buford said. He said that he lives in Houston, a
city in Texas. He wants everyone to
know that he doesn't believe Texas is a
state in the USA but a different country. Buford
says that
he would like to tell you a
story about him when he was a small child. One hot
summer's day he
was swimming with Big
Billy Bob and Lester. They were jumping into the
water, which felt good.
Then he says
that they saw a catfish almost the size of a house
but, he adds, that the catfish was
really smaller. Buford says that Lester
thought he was going to be eaten by the catfish.
He says,
goodness,
you
should
have
seen
Lester!
He
says
that
Lester
got
out
of
the
water
faster
than
lightning and climbed up a tree. Buford
and Big Billy Bob just laughed a lot. To this day,
he says,
Lester won't visit that place.
S1: I live in
South Asia. My country is thousands of years old
and now has more than a
billion
people.
Unlike
many
other
countries,
our
people
speak
a
lot
of
languages.
So
we
use
English,
which we got from
British rulers hundreds of years ago. Of course,
we have our own way of using
English .
S2: Well, I live on a huge green island
in western Europe .Hundreds of years ago, my
people spoke
a
very
different
language
from
English.
Then
the
British
rulers
came.
Now
the
old
language
is
spoken in only a few
villages in the western part of my country.
S3:My country has more than
7,000 islands. Some of them are very large but
most of them are
quite small. Hundreds
of years ago, the Spanish rulers changed the way
we live. Much later, the
American
rulers taught their own kind of English in our
schools. Nowadays, we speak a kind of
English that borrows words from
American English but is mostly our own.
S4: My country is very small. In fact,
it's really a city. It is in southeast Asia and is
very rich. People
come
from
all
over
Asia
to
do
business
here.
Today,
you
can
hear
our
kind
of
English
spoken
everywhere in the
city and on many ships that come here.
CP= Chen
Peng(male)
WT=
Wang Ting
CP: What are you doing this
weekend, Wang Ting?
WT: I'm
going to buy some CDS to improve my English.
CP: What? Are you kidding ?
WT: No. I often listen to English songs
and learn them. It's an easy way to learn some
idiomatic
English expressions.
Sometimes I watch films too.
CP: No,
not me! I used to watch English films but I can't
understand them without the Chinese
subtitles. I think English is too hard
.
WT: You give up too easily. Why not
watch CCTV 9 or listen to songs like me? CP: I
sometimes do
that.
I
like
watching
the
news
and
the
interviews
on
CCTV
9.
They
often
have
Chinese
people
talking and they give subtitles in
English to explain what they are saying. I find
that very useful.
WT: Yes,
that's a good way to practise your understanding
of English. Why don't you also listen to
the native speakers and improve your
listening skills?
CP: Yes,
I think I'li do that more regularly. My teacher
always says that
to learn. She'll be
proud of me!
WT: I'm sure she will.
Unit 3
JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG
Part 3 CHATTING WITH A GIRL
The next day the travellers
see a girl(G) walking along the road. Wang
Kun(WK)speaks to her.
WK: Hello!
G: Hello! Are you
travellers?
WK: Yes. We're travelling
along the Mekong River. We've been all through
China and now we're
going to follow the
river through Laos.
G:
I'm
Laotian.
The
Mekong's
our
most
important
river.
Did
you
know
that
it
appears
on
our
national
flag?
WK: Really?
G: Yes. We use the river for washing,
fishing and transporting things around the
country. We'd be
lost without it. It's
better than a road.
WK:
Well,
no
wonder
I've
seen
boats
going
up
and
down---
they're
transporting
goods
and
people.
G: Yeah. We call it
useful
to us as the sea.
WK: How interesting!
In Tibet the river's called
about the
river, don't they?
G: Yes,
they do. Watch out for the temples, caves and a
waterfall along the river.
WK: Wow! Can we sleep by the river?
G: Yes, of course you can.
There are many small villages along the river. You
can stay there if you
wish.
WK: Thanks a lot.
JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG
Part 4 OUR JOURNEY THROUGH LAOS The
next day we crossed the border into Laos. We were
interested to learn that most of the
western border of Laos is formed by the Mekong
River. The
country also has the
smallest number of people in Southeast Asia, so
there is plenty of space for
villages
and fields. As we cycled across the plains, we
could see many low mountains covered in
trees. Autumn is the best time to
travel here. The weather was so cool and dry that
it was very
pleasant to ride alongside
the river.
On our third night we slept
in a small village on little pieces of wood. The
village had no lights. In
a few houses,
however, we could see candles. It was very quiet.
On the small road near the village,
we
heard only one truck all night. However, the river
sounded like a man singing in a low voice.
The
next
morning
we
made
an
early
start
and
travelled
quite
far
before
lunch.
Along
the
way,
strange buses called tuk-tuks passed
us. For lunch we ate a special noodle soup. After
lunch we
were
tired
so
we
put
our
bikes
on
a
bus
going
to
Vientiane---the
capital
of
Laos.
A
cage
of
chickens sang to us all the way!
JOURNEY DOWN THE MEKONG
Part 5 BY THE RIVER IN LAOS
After leaving noisy and crowded
Vientiane, we cycled on to the south. On our way
we saw an old
man fishing on the
Mekong. We stopped to talk to him. We put our
hands together to greet him
in the way
of his people. He smiled and moved his head down a
bit. Then he spoke to us.
M= Man WK=
Wang Kun WW= Wang Wei M: Good morning. Where are
you going ?
WK: We're travelling along
the Mekong. Can you tell us about life by the
river?
M: Well, it's changed a lot. In
the past there were many small villages along the
river. The fisher
men caught many
different kinds of fish and sold them.
W: Has life changed much?
M:
Er, the new dams made a difference to many
people's lives. Some villages disappeared and
now those people live and work in the
towns. They live a better life there, but I prefer
the old
way of life and so I'm still
here. I like the peaceful life along the river and
I don't like the noise of
the city
because I am a good fisherman.
WK: Do
you catch many fish?
M: I catch enough
for my family and I sell what's left over to other
people.
W: That sounds good. What else
can you see by the river?
M:
There
are
many
different
kinds
of
animals
and
plants
as
well
as
temples,
caves
and
a
a
protected area so you can tell that it's very
special.
Unit 4
A reporter is asking a man to describe
his experience in the San Francisco earthquake of
1906 .
R= reporter
M= man
R: What
was the first thing you remember?
M:
Oh, my goodness. It was about 5 o'clock in the
morning. I remember, I woke up when I was
thrown
out
of
the
bed.
When
I
tried
to
walk.
the
floor
shook
so
that
I
fell.
I
felt
terrified
and
rushed downstairs.
R: What did you see outside?
M: Oh, I saw things I never
want to see again. It seemed as if the end of the
world came. People
were
crying,
shouting
and
running
everywhere.
Bricks
were
falling
down
from
some
buildings
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