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1、英语中级口语教程lesson 1Lesson 1Too CleverText AA farmer who lived in a small village suffered from a severe pain in the chest.This never seemed to get any better.The farmer eventuallydecided that he would consult a doctor in the nearest town.But as he was a miserly person he thought he would find out what

2、he would have topay this doctor.He was told that a patient had to pay three pounds for the first visit and one pound for the second visit.The farmer thought aboutthis for a long time,and then he decided to go and consult the doctor in the town.As he came into the doctors consulting room,he said caus

3、ally/Good morning,doctor.Here I am again.The doctor was a little surprised.Heasked him a few questions,examined his chest and then took the pound which the farmer insisted on giving him.Then the doctor said with asmile,W ell,sir.Theres nothing new.Please continue to take the same medicine I gave you

4、 the first time you came to see me.Text BA man went to see his doctor one day because he was suffering from pains in his stomach.After the doctor had examined him carefully,hesaid to him,Well,theres nothing really wrong with you,Im glad to say.Your only trouble is that you worry too much.Do you know

5、,I had a man with the same trouble as you in here a few weeks ago,and I gave him the same advice as Im going to give you.He was worried because he couldnt pay his tailors bills.I told him not to worry his head about the bills any more.He followed my advice,andwhen he came to see me again two days ag

6、o,he told me that he now feels quite all right again.Yes,I know all about that,answered the patient sadly.Ybu see,Im that mans tailor.,Additional InformationDoctor:Good morning.How are you?Patient:Im very worried;doctor.Doctor:Oh?What are you worried about?Patient:Im afraid that Im very ill.Doctor:I

7、m sorry to hear that.Why do you think so?Patient:Because I feel tired all the time,even when I wake up in the morning.I findit very difficult to do any work.1 have no appetite.My wife cooks me delicious meals but I can only eat a little.Doctor:How do you sleep?Patient:Very badly,doctor.Doctor:Do you

8、 find it difficult to get to sleep,or do you wake up early?Fatient:Both,doctor.I never get to sleep until 2 oclock and I always wake at 5.Doctor:Are you worried about anything?Patient:W ell,yes,I am.Im worried about my work.Ive just taken a new job.I earn a lot of money but its difficult work.Pm alw

9、ays afraid ofmaking a mistake.Doctor:I see.Please take off your shirt and lie down on the couch.Patient:Yes,doctor.(The Doctor examines the patient)Doctor:W ell,theres nothing very much wrong with you,Im glad to say.Youre working too hard and worrying too much.Do you take muchexercise?Patient:No,doc

10、tor.I never have enough time for exercise.I start work very early in the morning and finish late in the evening.Then I cant getto sleep.Can you give me some medicine to help me to sleep?Doctor:I can,but Im not going to.Ybu dont need medicine.Vbu need advice.Dont work so hard.Too much work is bad.for

11、 you.Dont worry about your work.Its silly to worry.Take regular exercise.Patient:But I may lose my job,doctor!Its hard to get a job like mine.Doctor:Then get an easier one,even if you earn less money.Which would you rather have,health or wealth?Patient:You re right,doctor.Its more important to be he

12、althy than wealthy.Ill change my job.Im grateful for your advice.Doctor:Come and see me again in a months time.I think youll be a different man I英语中级口语教程lesson 2Lesson 2Au Pair GirlText AGretel comes from Austria.She is eighteen years old.She is going to stay with the Clark family for a year.Gretel

13、has come to Englandbecause she wants to improve her English.She works as an au pair girl.She helps Mrs Clark in the house and attends English classes regularlyin her spare time.Gretel hasnt been in England long and everything is strange to her.She often compares life in London with life in Vienna.So

14、me things arenicer in London;other things are not so nice.For instance,the shops are bigger in London than in Vienna and there is greater variety.But itsmore expensive to enjoy yourself in London.Its expensive to have a meal at a restaurant or to go to a theatre.Gretel has got used to many things al

15、ready,but she cant get used to breakfast in England.You English eat so much in the morning,sheoften says.Fruit juice,porridge,bacon and egg,tea,toast and marmalade!How can you face all that food so early in the day?Text BMaria had decided that as soon as she had finished school she would become an a

16、u pair girl in London.Two of her friends had already spenta year with a family in Kensington,and told her they had had an interesting time and had managed to learn a lot of English.She was advised byher Head Teacher to get her parents consent and to make all the necessary arrangements prior to her d

17、eparture:have enough money for herreturn fare,know exactly what kind of a family she was going to live with and what they expected of her.Shortly after her eighteenth birthday Maria received a letter from Mrs Hutchinson,the wife of an advertising executive,stating the terms onwhich she would be empl

18、oyed.The Hutchinsons lived in a house in Chelsea.They had three children;two boys,aged fourteen and ten.both atboarding schools,the elder at a Public School in the Midlands and the younger at a Preparatory School in Surrey;the youngest child was a girlaged eight,and she went to the French Lycee in S

19、outh Kensington.During term time Maria would have to take the girl to school in the morningand fetch her in the afternoon.She would have to help Mrs Hutchinson in the house-washing up,making the beds,laying the table,dusting therooms,answering the door,taking telephone messages,shopping and running

20、errands.She would be guaranteed three evenings a week free and could attend English classes either from eleven till one in the morning or from halfpast one till four in the afternoon.She would receive 3 a week pocket money.Maria was delighted with the conditions and thought that they werefair.She al

21、so liked the look of the family,as Mrs Hutchinson had thoughtfully enclosed a photograph with her letter.Additional InformationIt was nothing for a girl t.o be sent away to service when she was eleven years old.That meant leaving the family as she had never beenparted from for a day in her life befo

22、re,and going to some place miles away to be treated like a dog.Ive got nothing against girls going into goodservice.In my opinion,good service in a properly run big house was a wonderful training for a lot of girls who never would have seen anythingdifferent all the days of their lives if they hadnt

23、 gone.It was better than working on the land,then,and if it still existed now,I reckon Id rather seeany of my daughters be a good housemaid or a well-trained parlour maid than a dolled-up shop-assistant or a factory worker.But folks are too proud to work for other folks,now.even if its to their own

24、advantage,though as far as I can see you are still working for otherfolks,whatever youre doing.Big houses didnt want little girls of eleven,even as kitchen maids,so the first few years had to be put in somewhereelse,before you got even that amount of promotion.Big houses expected good service,but yo

25、u got good treatment in return.It.wasnt like that at the sort of place my friends had to go.Mostlythey went to the farmers houses within ten or twenty miles from where theyd been born.These farmers were a jumped Up,proud lot who didntknow how to treat the people who worked for them.They took advanta

26、ge of the poor peoples need to get their girls off their hands to get littleslaves for nearly nothing.The conditions were terrible.英语中级口语教程lesson 3Lesson 3Who Took the Money?Text AMr Smith gave his wife ten pounds for her birthday-ten pretty pound notes.So the day after her birthday,Mrs Smith went s

27、hopping.Shequeued for a bus,got on and sat down next to an old lady.After a while,she noticed that the old ladys handbag was open.Inside it,she saw awad of pound notes exactly like the one her husband had given her.So she quickly looked into her own bag-the notes had gone!Mrs Smith was sure that the

28、 old lady who was sitting next to her had stolen them.She thought she would have to call the police;but.as shedisliked making a fuss and getting people into trouble,she decided to take back the money from the old ladys handbag and say nothing moreabout it.She looked round the bus to make sure nobody

29、 was watching,then she carefully put her hand into the old ladys bag,took the notes andput them in her own bag.When she got home that evening,she showed her husband the beautiful hat she had bought.How did you pay for it?he asked.zWith the money you gave me for my birthday,of course,she replied.Oh?W

30、hats that,then?he asked,as he pointed to a wad of ten pound notes on the table.Text BGoodbye,darling,said Mr Macklin.Ill be late tonight.Poor George,she thought.He was always in a hurry in the morning,and it wasntunusual for him to come home late at night.He worked for a shoe company in Leeds,and th

31、ere was such a lot of work that he normally stayed inthe office till seven or cite.When George had left the house Mrs Mackin sat down,in an armchair and turned on the radio.It was a few minutes past eight,and sheheard the last words of the news:.woman who escaped from Iced prison yesterday is still

32、free.The police warn you not to open your door tostrangers.She turned off the radio.The housework was waiting for her.She made the beds and washed the dishes.There wasnt any shopping to do.and so she thought for a moment of all the Work in the garden.The Machines lived in a house with a large garden

33、 in a suburb of Leeds.Behind the garden there were some trees.and then the epen fields.Suddenly Mrs Mackin remembered the news.She laughed uneasily.That prison is only 15 miles away,she thought.She didnt work in thegarden,she mended her husbands shirts instead And she carefully locked the front door

34、 and closed all the windows.It was getting dark.She turned on the lights in the livingroom.Then she noticed that she had turned on the lights in most of the rooms in thehouse.How silly I am!she said nervously and went into the other rooms and turned the leghts on.The person at the door said somethin

35、g loudly,but she was so frightened that she didnt understand a word.Additional InformationDo you believe in ghosts?I dont,emitter-or at least I didnt until I heard a strange story the other day from Mr Mike Paton,of 19 Marlboroughloll.It all began on November 28,when Mr Patons eight-year-old son,Bob

36、,was playing in the big back garden of his parents house.He met anold man with a long white beard.The old man told Bob he was building the underground railway there,but Bob didnt believe him.Bob told meafterwards that he knew the underground ran under Marlborough Hill itself.The old man said there h

37、ad been an accident the day before.Then hewent away.At first the Pitons didnt believe Bobs story.Mrs Paton told me that Bob often made up stories about ghosts and monsters,like other childrenof his age.But Mr Patton was curious and decided that he would go to the library to check up on the facts.He

38、found that the railway company had started to build the line to the west of Marlborough Hill in 1881.but they had run into an undergroundriver.Ten workmen had died in an accident and the Company had changed the direction of the line and built the present tunnel underMarlborough Hill.At first I didnt

39、 believe Mr Pattons storv either,so I did some research myself.Inspector Bright of the Metropolitan Police said itwas natural to find tramps in the district in winter,but no one had reported one answering the description I had given him since last August.Mr Joseph Griffiths of London Transport check

40、ed the files on the accident for me.He told me that the accident had apparently taken place onor very near the junction of Marlborough Hill and Woodstock Avenue on 27 November 1881.Mr Patons house stands on the corner!The source of this extraordinary story was not affected by the news.I told Mummy i

41、t was true,young Bob Paton told me yesterday.When Ileft the house he was playing happily with his toy cars-in the garden!英语中级口语教程lesson 4Lesson4Musical Half-NotesText AA musician who played Pop Music in a CLub lived in boardinghouse in the centre of London.He always used to get back to his room very

42、 lateat night and sometimes in the early hours ofthe morning.He was so tired when he got back that he would si ton the edge of his bed,take off his shoes and throw them on the floor andsay.Thank goodness.another day is over.He would then get into had and fall fast asleep.But the poor lodger who had

43、the room under the musicians was woken up cold night,or carrying the morning,by the two thuds that the twoshoes made as they landed On his ceiling.Finally,he could not stand it any more and went and complained to the musician.Naturally the musician was very upset and promised that,in future,after ta

44、king off his shoes,he would put them down as quickly as possibleon the carpet.The next day,he got back from his club at about one oclock in the morning,went up to his room,sat on the edge of his bed,took off one shoeand threw it on the floor.He was just about to do the same with the other when sudde

45、nly remembered the promise he had made the day before.So with great care heput the second shoe down silently on the carpet.Then he got into bed and fell fast asleep.An hour later,he was woken up by a violent knockingon his door.It was the lodger who slept in the room just under his.Please,places,ple

46、ase,the Lodger pleaded,drop the other shoe.I have been waiting for a whole hour for you to drop it.As soon as you do Ican go to sleep.TextBOf all the men who ever liked fresh air,not one liked it more than James Wilson.He took long walks in the fresh air.He ran long distances inthe fresh air.He play

47、ed football and other games in the fresh air.He liked to climb mountains and breathe the fresh air at the top.He used to go tosit by the sea and watch the great waves in the fresh air.He always slept with his windows wide open.He had an open car with no roof,and hedrove it madly through the fresh ai

48、r.If Wilson entered a room where the windows were shut,he immediately opened them.He did this even when snow was falling outside.Ksomeone else shut the windows again,he walked out of the room in a manner which showed his opinions without any doubt.When he traveled bysea,he could usually be found in

49、a place on board where the wild wind was blowing through his hair.One winter Wilson went to Finland on business.Good hotels in Finland are heated during the cold winter,and this winter was even colderthan usual.When Wilson reached his room in the hotel,he found that the windows were closed to keep t

50、he icy air out.He did his best to openone,but failed.It was absolutely impossible to open it:the manager had very wisely arranged that.Wilson undressed and got into bed.He was a very angry man.The bedroom was very pleasant.Two or three pictures on the walls showed views of some beautiful parts of Fi