语音讲解:
Dictation: Please prepare your paper and pen.
__________, you can ______ pick up a ________ without seeing a ________ that a _____ will soon be doing _______ your work. Do you know that the name of the _________________ or ______ comes from the _____? Karl ?apek, a Czech __________, _________________ R.U.R. The play was about ___________mechanized _______ who ________against their _____. ?apek ______ one of his ________ machinemen a "_____", which is __________________ of the Czech ____ robota _______ "work".
Dialogue Completion: Listen to the tape repeatedly and try to complete the following dialogues, using the exact words or phrases that you hear on the tape.
A
A: What do you keep looking at, ___?
B: _______, I wasn't looking at _______.
A: Don't ____ me, " Nothing." I know who you are and you know me.
B: You're Miss Gahagan, _____ you?
A: Right. Miss Gahagan, your _________________________ third grade _______ of Chatsworth Avenue School. Look at me, kid. You're Billy Hanson, right ?
B: Yes, ________. I am.
A: I remember you. You were ____ of my _______ underachievers. ____________ you're _______________?
B: Actually, this is my own _____. I own it. Well, I own _____.
A: You own _______?
B: Yes.
A: Wow, I'll bet Donald Trump is looking _______________. You're just busting to know what I was cracked for.
B: No, I really don't.
A: ___________. They ________ me __ the Grand Union with __________ smoked turkey and two pairs of pantyhose in my crotch. The bird had one of those.What do they ___ it? _____ things in it, set off the ______. _________ in _________. What a ______! And I don't even want to _______ the number of ______ who swallowed those things and are choking to _____ on them. What a world! Eat _________ turkey, you go _______ to hell.
B: Right.
B
A: Can I help you?
B: Yeah, we'd like____________.
A: Okay, they're ____ apiece.
B: No problem, I've got this.
A: This would be what?
B: This would be _______________ flier __________.
A: So?
B: So you've got a room ________.
A: No, we don't.
B: Oh, yes you do, because I've ____ about it in __________ in-flight ___________.
A: Did you ____ about it yesterday?
B: No, I didn't ___ yesterday. I ____ with my friend here.
A: Well, that's too bad. You might have _____ that yesterday the offer _____.
B: This offer never really _______________, right?
A: Listen, if you have _____.
B: Yes, I have _____, but I have been buying this mileage _____with my poor addled ___ for _____ now, and it ________ to be totally ___________, ________? This whole offer is just like every other ____ dream in the U.S.A., right?
听力部分注解
Dictation :
robot:机器人
prediction: statement about the future预言
mechanized monster: a monster who is mechanized (mechanical). So, it means "an evil, human-like robot."邪恶的机器怪物
imaginary: not based on fact想像的
Dialogue Completion:
A
underachievers:学习上落后的学生
用法:From the poor track records of Tom, you can see that he is one of the underachievers in the class.
看看Tom那些糟糕的记录,你就会知道他在班上是个落后生。
Donald Trump:美国社会名流。他原是房地产和金融商人,做生意赚了大钱。二十世纪九十年代曾红极一时,成为巨富的同义语。
smoked:熏制的(食品)
pantyhose:连裤袜
crotch:人体两腿分叉的地方,胯部
B
Frequent flier miles:累计飞行里程
in-flight:指搭乘飞机;也用来指称飞机上的物品,比如杂志等
mileage:指交通运输工具驶过的里程
用法:The car is available at a price lower than the usual market value, because its mileage is very high.
这部车比市场通常的售价低,因为它驶过的里程比较长。
Addled brain:头脑糊涂的、愚蠢的
pipe dream:不可能实现的希望;白日梦
用法:John has some ambitious plans ,mostly pipe dreams.John有一些雄心勃勃的计划,但大部分都是无法实现的空想