王强口语 第二册 Dialogue Completion 08A

　　Lesson Eight
听力部分
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 Trump¹ is looking _______________. You're just busting² 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.

1 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

2 busting   

打破，打碎( bust的现在分词 )； 突击搜查（或搜捕）； （使）降级，降低军阶

参考例句：

• Jim and his wife were busting up again yesterday. 吉姆和他的妻子昨天又吵架了。
• He figured she was busting his chops, but it was all true. 他以为她在捉弄他，其实完全是真的。