创新国际英语教程 3 Unit 13 Old friends

[00:00.00]Unit 13 Old friends  3  While you listen
[00:10.50]Long time,no see!
[00:15.05]Barry!Hi,how are you?I haven’t seen you for ages.
[00:23.51]Hello,Sharon.Long time,no see.I know.So how’re you doing?
[00:29.70]I’m all right,thanks.And you?
[00:33.46]Yeah,not too bad.So,what’s you been up to since I last saw you?
[00:39.42]Not a lot-working mostly-I’ve been working really long hours this week,
[00:45.95]getting really fed up with it,you know.Really?
[00:50.49]Yeah,but I went down to Kent last weekend,for my grandma’s birthday party.
[00:56.27]Oh,how old was she?
[00:58.31]Eighty-five.It was really great.
[01:03.16]We went for this lovely meal and then we went for a walk along the beach.
[01:09.43]It was good to get out of the city.
[01:13.27]I bet¹.I keep meaning to have a weekend away myself.
[01:18.92]I know.You get to the point where you really need it,don’t you?
[01:25.11]If you don’t get out of London from time to time,it starts driving you crazy,you know.
[01:31.56]Anyway,what about you?What’ve you been up to?
[01:37.23]Well,on Sunday morning I went and saw that exhibition at the Royal Academy².
[01:43.16]Oh yes,the one there’s been all that fuss³ about
[01:48.90]-dead sheep and pictures of toilet rolls and things.
[01:54.26]Yeah,my friend Angela-she’s at art school
[01:59.30]-she ketp nagging⁴ me to go and see it,so I went.
[02:04.26]And what did you think of it?Was it any good?
[02:09.10]Oh,I actually thought it was excellent,really good and challenging⁵.
[02:14.35]There’s only one thing that made you go’yuk’-the dead sheep.
[02:19.91]I think it’s meant to shock you,though.
[02:24.04]Anyway,after that,I popped round and saw a friend of mine,Richard,for a bit
[02:30.41] and we went up to Camden market to do a bit of shopping.
[02:35.06]Oh yeah,it’s nice up there on a Sunday,isn’t it?
[02:40.52]Yeah,it’s great.And then I spent the evening at my mum’s,which was nice.
[02:46.77]Oh,that’s sounds good.
[02:50.00]Yeah,and apart from that,I’ve been doing things for college,really.
[02:55.46]Uh-huh,still being a good student,then.
[02:59.83]Oh look,there’s my bus into town.I’d best be off.
[03:04.37]I’ll see you soon,then.Bye. Yeah,OK,bye.
[03:09.94]5 Pronunciation
[03:24.02]Listen to the intonation⁶ pattern of this line from the conversation.
[03:30.86]How are you?I haven’t seen you for ages.
[03:37.94]Practise the following,which have similar patterns.
[03:47.29]1.How are you ?We haven’t spoken for weeks.
[03:54.16]2.How are you?We haven’t had a chat for ages.
[04:02.99]3.How are they?I haven’t seen them for months.
[04:11.74]4.How is he?I hear he’s just got back.
[04:20.81]5.How is she?I haven’t seen her for ages.
[04:29.58]6.How’s your dad?I haven’t seen him for years.
[04:38.41]7.How is she?I heard she’s had a boy.
[04:47.56]8.How much was it?I heard it cos a fortune.
[04:57.30]1 While you read  Long lost friends
[05:13.05]Bob’s story
[05:17.20]When I was in the army,I was very friendly with a chap⁷ called Tom Ramsay from Leeds.
[05:26.06]We lost touch when we left and I wish we hadn’t.
[05:31.99]I would love to meet him again to talk about all the things we went through together.
[05:38.83]Jill’s story
[05:43.88]When I was a young girl of fifteen,I had a baby.
[05:50.15]My parents forced me to have it adopted.
[05:55.29]All I know is that she was born on March 14th,1975
[06:03.05]and the people who adopted her lived in York.
[06:07.80]I would love to meet her.I think about her every day of my life.
[06:14.65]Jim’s story
[06:19.12]I’m not eighty-five.When I was a young lad of fifteen,
[06:28.26]I spent a summer working on a farm in Kent,picking fruit.
[06:35.31]I fell in love with a girl called lrene Smithson.
[06:42.26]She came from Canterbury.At the end of that beautiful summer,
[06:49.84]we went our separate⁸ ways and never met again.
[06:55.58]My wife died last year.I would love to meet lrene again.
[07:03.76]I have three children and twelve grandchildren⁹.
[07:10.11]Hugh’s story
[07:15.17]I’m twenty-five and single.I live in Birmingham.
[07:23.64]Last month,I spent the weekend in London with some friends.
[07:29.38]On the Saturday night,I met a fabulous¹⁰ girl called Melanie Brown at a disco¹¹.
[07:36.75]We danced together all night and talked for hours.We just hit it off immediately.
[07:44.90]The trouble was she had a boyfriend who was abroad on business that weekend.
[07:51.38]She gave me her telephone number,but I’ve lost it.
[07:56.73]I’m desperate¹² to see her again.I wish I’d asked her for her address as well.
[08:03.58]The only thing I know is that she lives in Notting Hill Gate.
[08:09.93]But that’s all I know-except that she had huge brown eyes.
[08:17.16]1 I wish
[08:28.71]Listen and check your answers.
[08:33.75]1.I sometimes wish I’d known¹³ my grandfather on my mum’s side.
[08:41.51]He was supposed to have been a really interesting guy.
[08:46.65]2.I wish I hadn’t eaten so much earlier.I feel really sick!
[08:56.19]3.I often wish I had travelled more when I was younger.
[09:03.92]I just don’t have the time to do it now.
[09:08.18]4.I really wish I had gone to see the doctor about it earlier.
[09:17.14]It wouldn’t have got so bad if I had.
[09:21.21]5.I sometimes wish I hadn’t wasted so much time when I was at university.
[09:29.76]I wouldn’t be working here if I’d got a better degree.
[09:34.72]6.I wish hadn’t spent so much money while I was on holiday.
[09:42.09]I wouldn’t be so badly in debt¹⁴ if I hadn’t.
[09:47.42]7.I wish I’d met her earlier.
[09:52.74]I wouldn’t have had to spend so many years of my life on my own!
[09:58.62]8.I really wish I hadn’t lost my address book.
[10:04.97]I’m going to lose touch with loads of people now.

1 bet   

v.打赌，以(与)...打赌；n.赌注，赌金；打赌

参考例句：

• I bet you can't do this puzzle.我敢说，你解决不了这个难题。
• I offered to bet with him.我提出与他打赌。

2 academy   

n.(高等)专科院校；学术社团，协会，研究院

参考例句：

• This is an academy of music.这是一所音乐专科学院。
• I visited Chinese Academy of Sciences yesterday.我昨天去访问了中国科学院。

3 fuss   

n.过分关心，过分体贴，大惊小怪，小题大作

参考例句：

• My mother makes a fuss of me every time I come home.我每次回家，母亲总对我体贴备至。
• Stop all this fuss and do your homework.别大惊小怪了，去做你的家庭作业吧。

4 nagging   

adj.唠叨的，挑剔的；使人不得安宁的v.不断地挑剔或批评（某人）( nag的现在分词 )；不断地烦扰或伤害（某人）；无休止地抱怨；不断指责

参考例句：

• Stop nagging—I'll do it as soon as I can. 别唠叨了—我会尽快做的。
• I've got a nagging pain in my lower back. 我后背下方老是疼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 challenging   

adj.大胆的(复杂的，有前途的，挑战的)；n.复杂(有前途，大胆，挑战)

参考例句：

• She performed the most challenging task without a mistake.她毫无差错地完成了这一最富有挑战性的任务。
• We have changed the course to make it more challenging.我们改了课程以使其更具挑战性。

6 intonation   

n.语调，声调；发声

参考例句：

• The teacher checks for pronunciation and intonation.老师在检查发音和语调。
• Questions are spoken with a rising intonation.疑问句是以升调说出来的。

7 chap   

n.男人；小伙子；家伙

参考例句：

• This chap can't keep anything to himself.这人肚里藏不住话。
• This chap is quite a smooth character.这人很世故。

8 separate   

n.分开，抽印本；adj.分开的，各自的，单独的；v.分开，隔开，分居

参考例句：

• Are they joined together or separate?它们是合在一起还是分开的？
• Separate the white clothes from the dark clothes before laundering.洗衣前应当把浅色衣服和深色衣服分开。

9 grandchildren   

n.孙子；孙（女），外孙（女）( grandchild的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He left a bequest to each of his grandchildren. 他给他的孙辈每人留下一笔遗产。
• His grandchildren afforded him his greatest pleasure in his old age. 他的孙子和孙女们在晚年的时候给了他最大的欢乐。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

11 disco   

n.迪斯科舞厅，迪斯科舞会

参考例句：

• Can you find a disco?你能找到迪斯科舞厅吗？
• Disco was not my scene.我对迪斯科舞不感兴趣。

12 desperate   

adj.不顾死活的，危急的，令人绝望的，极渴望的

参考例句：

• They made a desperate attempt to save the company.他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力。
• The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.这个城市严重缺水。

13 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

14 debt   

n.债务，义务，负债状态，罪，过失

参考例句：

• The man was pressed to pay off his debt.那人被逼还债。
• The firm had to charge off the debt as hopeless.公司只得把那笔没希望要回的债务注销。