英语初级口语第16课至20课

初级口语

Lesson 16 Text A

The Charcoal Pit

Erika was worried. Her restaurant was losing customers. The new restaurant across the street now had more customers than she did. She had even seen some of her own customers going to eat at The Charcoal Pit. What was she going to do? One thing she could do was revise her menu. Maybe not everyone wanted hamburgers. She might add omelets and casseroles. The menu might help.

Perhaps the decor of her restaurant was dated. She could redecorate the place. Erika decided to consult an interior decorator who could give her some new ideas. A face-lift for Burger Haven would certainly lift her spirits.

In fact, she felt better after thinking of some improvements. Erika would fight to make her restaurant the most popular one in town.

Text B

There Is Hepe for Us !

Tina and Leela are talking to each other. They are standing outside a dance-hall and they are talking about dancing.

I haven't danced for a long time. Neither have I.

We must go to a dance soon, or we'll forget how to dance.

Yes, we must. What have you been doing since I last saw you?

I've been studying hard for my examinations. And you?

I've been learning Japanese every evening.

Why have you been learning Japanese? Why not English?

I hope to visit Japan next yesr.

Well, we'll both have to start learning all the new dances.

Yes, let's go into the dance-hall and ask if we can take dancing-lessons .

A good idea. They can teach elephants to dance nowa days perhaps there's hope for

us !

1. Neither 两者都不、既不..也不、也不

2. Examinations 考试; 检查( examination的名词复数 ); 考查; 试题;

3.

dance-hall 舞厅

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Questions on Text B

7. Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.

When I looked out the window and saw the snow drift in the driveway, I thought to myself that I should never have gotten out of bed. I had been making preparatioris for more than two days for a large dinner party to bc held that night and knew that several of the people I was expecting to come would be calling to cancel if the snow continued much longer. I called upstairs to tell Jerry to look out the window. Jerry heard me and quickly got out of bed. He knew that the weather people had been predicting snow. Now it had really come. To Jerry, two or three inches of fresh snow would be just what was needed to make the ski trip a big success.

1. charcoal n.木炭；炭画笔；木炭画 2. pit 坑 凹陷

3.restaurant n.饭店；餐馆；饭馆；菜馆 4.customers n.[商业]客户 [计算机]用户

5.across prep.穿过；横穿，横过；与……交叉；在……对面；

adv.横过，越过；在对面；交叉；斜对面；

6. revise vt.修订；改变；修正

7. add vt.增加；补充；附带说明；把…包括在内； 8. omelets n.煎蛋饼，煎蛋卷（ omelet的名词复数 ） 9. casseroles 砂锅菜； Perhaps 或许；（表示不确定）也许；（用于粗略的估计） 10.decor n.布置，装饰；布景；装饰风格 11. dated adj.有日期的； v.过时（ date的过去式和过去分词 ）；显示出…时代（或年龄）； 12.redecorate vt.& vi.（给建筑物的内部）再装修

13. consult vi.商议，商量；咨询；vt.请教；翻阅；求教于；顾及； 14.i interior decorator n.室内设计家

15. face-lift v.翻新门面，作整形手术

16. certainly adv.无疑地，确定地；当然地；必定；准 lift 举起 抬起，电梯 17. spirits n.情绪；灵魂；神灵；

18. fact 事实 felt v.摸索（ feel的过去式和过去分词 ）深感；以为； 19. improvements n.增加或修改（ improvement的名词复数 ）；改进；改善；改良； 20. popular adj.流行的，大众化的；

21. drift vi.漂泊; 流动; 随意移动; vt.浮现; 漂流; 堆积成堆 22. driveway n. 马路，汽车道; 马车道

23. preparatioris 制备 a large 大的 dinner party 宴会 24.several adj.几个的；专有的，独占的； pron.几个，数个；数人； 25. expecting v.期望（ expect的现在分词 ）；预料；要求；认为（某事）会发生； 26. cancel vt.取消，注销；抵消，偿还；〈数〉约去 n.撤销，注销； 27. continued adj.继续的，延续的；v.继续，连续 、持续 continue的过去式和过去分词 28. upstairs adv.在楼上，往楼上；在高空

29. predicting v.预言，预测，预示（ predict的现在分词 ） 30. inches n.英寸 少量 fresh snow 初雪

31. success n.成功，成就；好成绩，好结果；成功的人（或物） 32. ski trip 滑雪之旅

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Lesson 17

The Coustry Schoollhouse

The country schooihouse was three miles from my uncle's farm. It stood in a clearing in the woods and would hold about twenty-five boys and girls. We attended the school° with more or less regularity once or twice a week in summer. We walked to it in the cool of the morning by the forest paths, and back in the dusk at the end of the day. All the pupils brought their dinners in baskets-corn dodger, buttermilk, and other good things. We sat in the shade of the trees at noon and ate them. It is the part of my education which I look back upon with the most

satisfaction. My first visit to the school was when I was seven. A strapping girl of fifteen, in the customary sunbonnet and calico dress, asked me if I \-meaning did I chew it. I said no. It roused her scorn. She reported me to all the crowd , and said :

\tobacco. \

I learned to smoke fairly well , but that did not win over anybody. I remained a poor thing, and characterless. I longed to be respected, but I never was able to rise. Children have but little charity for one another's defect.

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

stood v.坐落（ stand的过去式和过去分词 ）；维持原状；停着； woods n.森林；木（ wood的名词复数 ）

regularity n.规则性，规律性；整齐；正规； attended v.参加 照顾；伴随； dusk n.黄昏 v.变暗；使变暗 pupils n.学生（ pupil的名词复数 ）；瞳孔； buttermilk n.脱脂乳，酪乳 shade n.遮阳，vt.遮蔽；挡风物，险胜 upon prep.在……上面；当……时候 satisfaction n.满足，满意

7.strapping 高大结实的 customary sunbonnet 普通的太阳帽 8. chew vt.& vi.咀嚼，咬；深思，考虑

9. tobacco n.烟草，烟叶；烟草制品；卷烟；纸烟 10. roused v.醒来，唤醒

11. scorn n.鄙视；轻蔑；不屑一顾；笑柄

12. crowd n.人群；群众；一群； fairly 适当，相；公平地 13. remained v.留下（ remain的过去式和过去分词 ）；保持；留待；仍然是 14. characterless adj.缺乏特征的，平凡的，不出众的 15. respected

v.尊重（ respect的过去式和过去分词 ）；尊敬；关心；慎重对待；

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Text B

On a Camping Holiday

My Booth and Donald Black are on a camping holiday. They have brought only a lithem. Jimmy is hungry and he is looking at some rice in a tin. There is only a little rice in t

JIMMY: There isn't much rice, is there? DoNALD: No, there isn't, but there are some vegetables. JIMMY: Are there any potatoes? DONALD: No, there aren't. I'm sorry. JIMMY: I'm very hungry, Donald. What can I eat? DONALD: There's a little bread and there are a few biscuits. JIMMY: But I want some rice and some meat. DONALD: All right, I'IL walk to the village and I'll get some meat.

JiMMY: Good. By the way, who's going to cook the meat? DoNALD: You'll cook it of course!

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Booth n.售货棚，摊位；公用电话亭； Vegetables n.蔬菜（ vegetable的名词复数 ） Biscuits n.<英>饼干 <美>软烤饼；松饼

4.village n.村民；乡村，村庄；群落

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Question on Text B

7. Read the foilowing dialogue once. Underline the key words while reading and retell to your partner the dialogue in your own words. Peter: Hello, Jim. What was the film like? Jim: Awful. It was a complete waste of time. Peter: Why? What was it about?

Jim: It was about a married couple. They had to live with the wife's mother, because

they didn't have enough money to buy a house of their own.

Peter: A lot of young people have to do that.

Yes. but the husband had to work overtime three times a week, so he was always Jim:

tired.

Peter: lt sounds like the story of my life.

jim: Yes, it does, doesn't it? But this man was always over-tired, and he couldn't sleep.

So he used to take two sleeping pitla every night.

Peter: I take sleeping pills sometimes.

Jim: Yes, but not two every night. Anyway, the strain was too much for him. He had

a nervous breakdown and had to go to hoapital.

Peter: It sounds a very depressing film.

Not really. His wife was able to find a good job as an interpreter, because she Jim: rnuld speak French and German fluently. After a few months' work, she had a

better job than y weher huaband. So in the end, there able to buy a house, and he didts't have to work any more. Stupid, wasn't it? Peter:

I don't know. My wife used to speak French. I must tell her to brush it up.

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Lesson 18

Text A

Christmas Cards

It mas two weeks before Christmas. and Mrs Smith was very busy. She bought a lot of Christmas cards to send to her friends and to her husband's friends, and put them on the table in the living-room. Then, when her husband came home from work, she said to him, \cards for our friends, and here are some stamps, a pen and our book of addresses.

WiII you please write the cards while I am cooking the dinner?\

Mr Smith did not say anything , but walked out of the Iiving-room and went to his studys. Mrs Smith was very angry with hims , but did not say anything either.

Then a minute later he came back with a box full of Christmas cards. All of them had addresses and stamps on them.

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Text B

New Year Resolutions

Peter and John are admiring the Christmas decorations on the houses. Peter invites John to see the tree at his house, but , John can't go. He has to buy a present for his mother. Later the boys and Mary talk about New Year resolutions. Peter tells Mary about one she should make. Mary, as you will see, has a good answer for him.

PETER: I'm glad we live in a small town. JOHN: Why?

PETER: Because the houses look so nice at Christmas time. JoHN: Yes , they do. Do you have a Christmas tree this year?

PETER:

Yes , we have a big tree this year. I bought the decorations at the five-and-ten- centstorel?yesterday. Do you want to come and see it?

JoHN : I can't now because I have to buy a present for my mother. PTEER: When can you come?

JoHN: I don't know when I can come. I'll let you know later.

MARY: Hi, boys. Are you going to make any New Year resolutions this year? PETER: No, I never make any.

JOHN: I make them, but I break them the next day. Are you making any, Mary? MARY: Yes, but I can't tell you what they are.

PETER: You'd better make Qne about losing 20 or 30 pounds.

MARY: Meanie! You'd better make one about saying nice things to girls.

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Question on Text B

7. Read the following dialogue once. Underline the key words while reading and retell to your partner the dialogue in your own words.

Frank is very busy. He is talking to Jimmy, his best friend. Jimmy: Did you play football yesterday? Frank: Yes , I played with Tony and John.

Jimmy: What did you do after you'd played football? Frank: We all went swimming.

Jimmy: Are you going swimming again this afternoon?

Frank: No , we aren't. We're going to help Mr Smith to plant some flowers. Jimmy: Are you helping him all afternoon?

Frank: Yes, we are. We can neither play football nor do our homework today.

Jimmy: You're,going to be very busy.

Frank: Yes, we certainly are. But Mr Smith is going to pay us for all the work we'll do.

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Lesson 19 Text A

A Lesson to Learn

John was the only son of a wealthy American businessman. Usually he was taken to school by the chauffeur in his father's beautiful car, before the chauffeur took John's father to his office. One evening his father told him that he had to go to the airport early the next day, so he would need the car at the time that John had to go to school. He said that John's mother, who possessed another car, would still be in bed at the time he had to leave the house .

\John asked. His father thought this was a good opportunity to teach him a lesson about how hard life was for the less fortunate people of the world , so he answered , \

Text B

What's Going on Here?

PoLIcEMAN: What's going on here?

MAN: You mean, what's happening? Well, constable, I'm trying to get out of the window

and Fred here is helping me.

PoLIcEMAN: Why are you climbing through the window and not leaving by the front door?

MAN: Well , you see I can't find the key and I'm in a hurry. Come on, Fied, We're

wasting time.

POLICEMAN: Just a minute you two. I don't think you're telling me the truth. This isn't your

house, is it?

MAN: No, it's my brother's. I'm staying with him for a while.

PoLIcEMAN: Is he at home?

MAN: I'm afraid not. He's in jail for house-breaking at the moment.

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Question on Text B

7. Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.

Todd heard all the hammering behind the Marsey's house. He went to see what was going on. Jeff Marsey was making something from long pieces of wood. \ \

Todd knew that stilts could make you several feet taller. Jeff was putting blocks of wood on the stilts. These were for his feet to rest on. Once you got used to them, you could walk anywhere on stilts.

\and cover the stilts. I'll look like a giant. \

As the summer went on, Todd forgot all about the stilts.

One night Todd was watching television. His cousin came running in the front door. He'd never seen her so excited.

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following me. He wore big baggy pants. He was very stiff and straight. Each step was a huge step. I'm going to call the police. \

\was!\

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Lesson 20 Text A

Honesty

A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured.

The manager of the office asked him how old his parents .were when they died. \when he was thirty-five. \

\were not healthy. \

As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a elerk who had overheard the conversation.

\you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little. \

The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room. \

\ninety-eight and he died while he was playing football. \

Text B

Can You Deliver It?

MAN: Can you deliver9 it, please'?

SALESwOMAN: It depends where you live , sir.

MAN: In Camden Town.

SALESwOMAN: Yes, we deliver there. But it. costs two pounds fifty.

MAN: All right. But I'm only in on Saturday.

SALESwOMAN: Morning or afternoon?

MAN: Afternoon, please, if that's possible.

They Are Here in My Hand !

Mrs Williams loved flowers and had a small but beautiful garden. In the summer, her roses were always the best in her street. One summer afternoon her bell rang, and when she went to the front door, she saw a small boy outside. He was about seven years old,,and was holding a big bunch of beautiful roses in his hand.

\Five pence for a big bunch. They are fresh. I picked them this afternoon. \ \don't pay anything for them, because I have lots in my garden. \

\your garden - because t.hey are here in my hand!

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Lesson 20 Text A

Honesty

A man went to an insurance office to have his life insured.

The manager of the office asked him how old his parents .were when they died. \when he was thirty-five. \

\were not healthy. \

As the man was leaving the office, depressed, he met a elerk who had overheard the conversation.

\you if you speak like that. Use your imagination a little. \

The man went to another office and was shown into the manager's room. \

\ninety-eight and he died while he was playing football. \

Text B

Can You Deliver It?

MAN: Can you deliver9 it, please'?

SALESwOMAN: It depends where you live , sir.

MAN: In Camden Town.

SALESwOMAN: Yes, we deliver there. But it. costs two pounds fifty.

MAN: All right. But I'm only in on Saturday.

SALESwOMAN: Morning or afternoon?

MAN: Afternoon, please, if that's possible.

They Are Here in My Hand !

Mrs Williams loved flowers and had a small but beautiful garden. In the summer, her roses were always the best in her street. One summer afternoon her bell rang, and when she went to the front door, she saw a small boy outside. He was about seven years old,,and was holding a big bunch of beautiful roses in his hand.

\Five pence for a big bunch. They are fresh. I picked them this afternoon. \ \don't pay anything for them, because I have lots in my garden. \

\your garden - because t.hey are here in my hand!

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