[00:05.38]Lesson 97 1.Dialogue
[00:12.15]Mary and Lizzy are organizing a large medical conference.
[00:18.08]What a lot of invitations to send out!
[00:22.83]Yes,there must be over two hundred here.Can you ring up the bus company?
[00:29.39]We shall need two buses to meet people at the station.
[00:34.25]What time?
[00:37.30]6 a.m....er... sorry,6 p.m.on the 26th.
[00:44.28]OK.I'll do that.
[00:48.22]I can't get through.The line's busy.I'll try again later.
[00:54.39]Can you have a look at this?Is this a "D"or a "P"?
[01:00.34]It must be a "D".
[01:03.90]2 Dialogue
[01:07.97]Hello.Capital Buses.
[01:11.92]Hello.Could I speak to Pat,please?
[01:16.36]Hold on please.
[01:19.52]I'm sorry.She's not in the office right now.Can I take a message?
[01:26.05]Yes.This is Mary speaking.Can you ask her to ring me back please?
[01:32.11]Does she have your number?
[01:36.24]Perhaps not.It's 6674044.
[01:44.70]I'll ask her to call you. Goodbye.
[01:48.83]Bye.
[01:51.70]Lesson 98 Reading
[02:01.65]Read the story fast to find the answer to this question:
[02:07.29]What happened to Dr Baker at the conference?
[02:12.15]AT THE CONFERENCE (1)
[02:17.51]"That's funny!"said Dr Baker to himself,looking at the invitation.
[02:23.75]"An invitation to the 1996...Medical Conference in London.
[02:30.60]They don't usually invite me."
[02:34.64]He looked at his diary and found that he would be free that week.
[02:40.21]He decided to attend the meeting though he was still a bit surprised.
[02:45.88]He wondered why they had invited him.
[02:50.32]Dr Baker replied to the invitation,accepting it.
[02:55.60]A few months later,Dr Baker arrived at the conference.
[03:01.16]He knew several people there.
[03:04.71]One or two of them were surprised to see him.
[03:09.75]"I didn't know you were coming,"said one.
[03:13.72]On the morning of the second day of the conference,
[03:18.37]everybody was waiting in the main conference room for the speaker.
[03:23.73]She had not yet arrived.
[03:27.88]After about twenty minutes,
[03:31.72]one of the organizers of the conference came into the hall.
[03:37.29]"Ladies and gentlemen,may I have your attention,please?"he said.
[03:43.32]"Dr Lively was going to give a talk this morning.
[03:48.75]I'm afraid her plane will be very late because of bad weather at the airport.
[03:55.00]So she will be unable to give her talk today.
[04:00.14]However,we are lucky to have another world-famous expert here at the conference
[04:07.20]I hope very much that he will be able to give a talk on a different subject.
[04:13.75]If Dr Baker is in the hall,will he please make himself known to me?"
[04:20.31]Dr Baker got up and went over to the organizer.
[04:25.35]"I'm Dr Baker,"he said."How can I help you?"
[04:30.21]"Ah!Dr Baker.I'm so glad you're here.
[04:35.49]I'm looking for another speaker who could give a talk,
[04:40.53]as our main speaker can't get here today.
[04:45.10]Would you mind giving a talk today about DNA?"
[04:50.56]"About DNA?"said Dr Baker.
[04:55.11]"You must be joking!I know nothing at all about that subject."
[05:00.67]"But Dr Baker,you're world-famous.""You can't be serious!"
[05:06.91]"Everybody knows that you're an expert on the subject.
[05:12.16]Everybody here has read Peter Baker's'Introduction to DNA'."
[05:18.51]"That may be so," said Dr Baker."But I'm not Peter Baker;I'm David Baker!"
[05:26.06]Lesson 99 1 Reading
[05:37.82]AT THE CONFERENCE (2)
[05:42.07]"There must be some mistake."said Dr Baker
[05:46.75]He told the organizer that he had been surprised
[05:51.79]to receive an invitation to the conference but had decided to accept it.
[05:58.64]They went to the organizer's office and there they discovered the mistake
[06:04.80]The organizer had put Dr P Baker's name on title list of speakers,
[06:11.64]but when the invitation list was being done,
[06:16.32]someone had made a careless mistake and had written 'Dr D Baker' instead.
[06:23.27]"Now I understand!"said Dr Baker.
[06:28.34]"Dr Peter Baker is an expert on DNA,and I'm an expert on ENT."
[06:36.28]"ENT?What does that stand for?"asked the organizer.
[06:42.13]"Illnesses of the ear,nose and throat.
[06:48.06]I'm doing research in ENT at Lincoln College in Tennessee."
[06:54.93]"But Dr Lively was going to talk on that very subject today.
[07:00.68]I suppose you could give a talk instead."
[07:05.74]"Sure.I'd be very happy to help.I've got my notes with me.
[07:12.09]Just tell me at what time you would like me to give my talk."
[07:18.05]Dr Baker gave a very good talk later that day
[07:23.69]and everyone at the conference was very interested.
[07:29.15]"You must come to our conference next year."said the organizer.
[07:35.03]"I'd like to very much."said Dr Baker.
[07:39.89]"Just put the right name,the right date.the right time
[07:45.35]and the right place on my invitation and I promise I'll be there!" |