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and slept in a poor hotel at night,sharing a room with six other men. ;
But soon he got a job as a barman in a pub.And a few weeks later, ;
Ind Coope,the company that owned the pub, ;
offered to train him as a publican (a pubmanager). ;
When Dave and Mags got their first pub,they had exactly 23p left in their pockets. ;
The people who came to the pub were rough, tough and difficult. So Dave was rough too. ;
He threw out the difficult customers, ;
and slowly changed the pub into a quieter,friendlier place, ;
The company was very pleased, ;
They offered Dave and Mags the Marlborough,a large old pub in Richmond, ;
one of London's most pleasant suburbs.The pub was in a good place, ;
but it needed a lot of work. ;
Mags moved in at four o'clock one afternoon, ;
and moved out again at four-thirty. ;
It was too dirty for a young family to sleep in. ;
Now,five years later, the beautifully clean bar is full of happy customers. ;
Children play in the colourful garden, ;
where the barbecue is always busy.Dave and Mags are well-known in Richmond. ;
People tell them their problem,and ask their advice. ;
"The vicar and I were talking about our jobs the other day. ;
"Dave said."We agreed that they are the same in some ways. ;
"And it's not only Richmond people who've heard of Dave and Mags. ;
"A man came in here the other day,"said Mags,"who had met a friend in Munich. ;
The friend had said to him,'You're going to London,are you? ;
Well,don't forget to go to the Marlborough in Richmond and ask the ;
lady to cook you her moussaka.'" ;
Lesson Seven ;
Words and Expressions ;
academic/,k'demik/ adj.学术的 actually/'ktjuli/ adv.实际上 ;
believe/bi'li:v/ vt.相信 boarding/'b:di/ adj.供膳宿的 ;
boarding school 寄宿学校 ;
businessman /'biznismn/n.商人 (复数businessmen) ;
clever/'klev/ adj.聪明的 ;
comprehensive /,kmpri'hensiv/ adj.综合的 ;
grammar/'grm/ n.语法 grow/gru/ vi.发展;增长 ;
grew/gru:/(过去式) grown/grun/(过去分词) ;
intelligent /in'telidnt/ adj.聪明的 ;
main/mein/adj.主要的 modern/'mdn/ adj.现代的 ;
percent/p'sent/ n.百分之... practical/'prktikn/ adj.实践的;注重实践的 ;
private/'praivit/ adj.私人的 ;
pronunciation /pr,nnsi'ein/ n.发音;语音 ;
result/ri'zlt/n.结果 scientist/'saintist/ n.科学家 ;
secondary/'sekndri/ adj.第二的,中级的 secondary school 中学 ;
social/'sul/ adj.社会的 status/'steits/ n.地位 ;
subject/'sbdikt/ n.学科;科目 system/'sistm/n.系统 ;
unfair/'n'f/ adj.不公平的 ;
upper/'p/ adj.地位较高的 upper class上层阶级 ;
TEXT Secondary School in Britain ;
Before the 1960s there were two main kinds of state secondary schools in Britain:" ;
grammar"schools and "secondary modern" schools. ;
The garmmar schools were for the most inteligent children ;
and the secondary modern schools were for the ;
"less intelligent" children. ;
Many people felt that this system was unfair. ;
During the 1960s and 1970s the government dicided to join the grammar ;
and secondary modern school.The new,bigger schools were called" ;
comprehensives" ;
More than eighty per cent of the state ;
secondary schools in Britain are now comprehensives. ;
Everyone hoped that comprehensive schools ;
would be the answer to the nation's education problems. ;
They hoped that children would do better ;
if they chose from many different subjects. ;
They believed that the not-so-clever would learn more when ;
working with the clever. ;
They thought that a more practical education would give the country better ;
scientists and businessmen. ;
But not everyone was pleased with the results. ;
The new schools brought new problems. ;
They were big and unfriendly. Some schools soon had a bad name. ;
By the beginning of the 1980s many comprehensive schools were doing better. ;
Both students and teachers were used to the new system and were making it work. ;
But the system is still not really fair. ;
In some areas the comprehensive schools can be very good.But in other areas, ;
especially in the city centres,there are still serious problems. ;
As well as the state schools,there are about 500 private schools in Britain. ;
Most of these are boarding schools,where the children actually live in the school. ;
Private schools are very expensive(up to 9,000 a year). ;
some private schools give a very good academic education. Some do not. ;
But nearly all private schools have good social status. ;
The boys and girls who go to ;
them learn to speak with upper-class pronunciation. ;
They make friends with children from families like their own, ;
and they often find it easier to find a job. ;
Many people feel that this is wrong,but the private schools are still growing. ;
Lesson Eight ;
Words and Expressions ;
allow/'lau/vt.允许 announce/'nauns/ vt.宣布 apart/'pa:t/adv.除去 ;
authority/:'riti/ n.权力;权威 blue/blu:/adj.蓝色的 ;
boot/bu:t/ n.[英](汽车的)行李箱 chat/tt/n.闲谈 clinic/'klinik/n.诊所 ;
coolly/'ku:li/ adv.冷静地;冷淡的 ;
elegant/'elignt/ adj.(举止服饰等)优美 雅致; ;
expect/iks'pekt/ vt.期待;盼望 fill/fil/ vt.装满;充满 ;
forward/'f:wd/ adv.向前 grey/grei/adj.灰色的 ;
ground/graund/ n.场地;庭院 knock/nk/ vi.敲;打 ;
lay/lei/vt.放置 laid/leid/ (过去式;过去分词) ;
leather/'le/ n.皮革 meal/mi:l/n.膳食;一餐 ;
obviously/'bvisli/ adv.明显地 ought/:t/v.aux.应该 park/pa:k/vt.停泊(车辆) ;
permission/p'min/ n.允许 ;
pullover/'pul,auv/ n.套衫 ring/ri/vi.打电话 ;
rang/r/(过去式) rung/r/(过去分词) scale/skeil/n.磅秤 ;
secretary/'sekrtri/ n.秘书 sheet/i:t/n.单 shirt/:t/n.衬衣 ;
slim/slim/adj.苗条的 sock/sk/n.短袜 stand/stnd/vi.站立 ;
stood/stud/ (过去式,过去分词) step/step/n.脚步; vi.步行 ;
strip/strip/ vt.剥去(衣服等) suit/sju:t/ (一套)衣服 ;
suitcase/'sju:tkeis/ n.衣箱 trousers/'trauzz/n. (通常用复数形式)裤子 ;
tulip/'tju:lip/ n.郁金香 ;
underclothes /'nd'kuz/ [通常复数形式]内衣裤 ;
vase/va:z/n.花瓶 weigh/wei/ vt.称...的重量 ;
welcome/'welkm/ interj.欢迎 Proper Nouns ;
Bernstein/'b:nstain/ (姓) Coffey/'kfi/(人名) Mercedes/'m:sidi:z/ (汽车牌名) ;
Tony/'tuni/(男人名) Zimmerman/'zimmn/ (姓) ;
TEXT A Special Clinic ;
It was just four o'clock as Tony drove up and parked his Mercedes ;
at the side of the fine,big house. He locked the car, ;
took his leather suitcase from the boot and went in through the front door. ;
A slim,elegant woman, wearing a white coat, ;
stepped forward to meet him."I"m Mrs Zimmerman,"she announced," ;
You must be Mr Coffy.Welcome.We've been expecting you." ;
"Oh,yes.I asked my secretary to ring." Mrs Zimmerman nodded. ;
"I believe this is your first visit to the clinic." ;
She spoke quietly,but with an air of authority. ;
"I'll show you your room and then you'd better come down to my office for a chat." ;
The room was clean and bright and a white vase filled with ;
yellow tulips stood on a table beside the window. ;
Tony took off his blue suit and put on a green shirt, ;
grey trousers and a yellow pullover. ;
Then he went downstairs and knocked at the door of Mrs Zimmerman's office. ;
She looked up from her desk and smiled at him coolly." ;
Please sit down,"she said."We have a few simple rules here and I'd ;
like to go over them with you."Tony nodded ;
"When you get your diet sheet, ;
you must study it carefully and you mustn't eat or ;
drink anything not on that sheet. ;
Also you mustn't eat anything outside the meal ;
times laid down by the clinic. ;
You obviously need to lose quite a lot of weight, ;
so apart from dieting,you ought to try and take as ;
much exercise as possible." ;
"Presumably we aren't allowed to leave the grounds?"asked Tony. ;
"No,you mustn't leave the grounds without permission from myself or Dr Bernstein," ;
replied Mrs Zimmerman. "Now,I want you to strip down to your underclother, ;
I'm going to weigh you...no,you needn't take off you socks... ;
right,stand on the scales,please..." ;
Lesson Nine ;
Words and Expressions ;
awful/':fl/adj.可怕的 calm/ka:m/ adj.镇静的;沉着的 ;
coldly/'kuldli/ adv.冷淡地 ;
detective/di'tektiv/ n.侦探 door/d,d/n.门 ;
enquire/in'kwai/ vi.询问 ;
examine/ig'zmin/ vt.检查 guilty/'gilti/ adj.内疚的 ;
hardly/'ha:dli/ adv.几乎不,简直不 inform/in'f:m/ vt.告诉,通知 ;
inform sb of sth 把某事告诉某人 kitchen/'kitin/n.厨房 lock/lk/n.锁 ;
missing/'misi/ adj.失去的;失踪的 police/p'li:s/n.警察 ;
polite/p'lait/ adj.礼貌的 pot/pt/n.壶 ;
proper/'prp/ adj.适合的;适当的 realise/'rilaiz/ vt.认识到 ;
relax/ri'lks/ vi.松弛,放松 relieve/ri'li:v/ vt.使宽慰 ;
shut/t/ vt.关上;关闭 shut/t/ (过去式;过去分词) ;
straight/streit/ adv.直接地 straight away 立刻;马上 ;
touch/tt/ vt.触摸,碰到 truth/tru:/ n.真相,实际情况 ;
unfortunately /n'f:tnitli/ adv.不幸的 ;
unwelcome/n'welkm/ adj.不受欢迎的;讨厌的 ;
vague/veig/ adj.含糊的,不明确的 wonder/'wnd/ vt.想知道 ;
Proper Nouns Derek/'derik/(男人名) Louise(女人名) Sybil/'sibil/(女人名) ;
TEXT The Unwelcome Visitor ;
Louise was 72 years old and she lived by herself. ;
The first thing she noticed when she came downstairs that Sunday morning ;
was that her kitchen window was open. ;
In fact it was so wide open that she had trouble shutting it. ;
Then she realised that things were not in their proper places. ;
Finally,when she found her empty purse on the kitchen table, ;
she realised the awful truth.At first she did not know what to do. ;
Then she decided to ring her son,Derek. Derek's wife Sybil answered the phone. ;
"It's your mother," she informed him, coldly. ;
Louise told Derek about the open window, ;
about things being in the wrong place ;
and about the money missing from her purse. ;
"All right,"said Derek, "don't touch anything. I'll be round in half an hour." ;
Louise relaxed and made herself a pot of tea and some toast. ;
Then she went from room to room wondering if anything else was missing. ;
When Derek arrived,he was realieved to find her looking so calm. ;
"Have you rung the police?" he enquired. ;
"No?Then I'll do that straight away." ;
So he rang the police. ;
As it was a Sunday,however,the police were polite,but vague. ;
Unfortunately the only detectives on duty were out. ;
"We'll send someone round as soon as possible," they said. ;
Derek telephoned his wife."I'm not sure when I'll be home, love,he told her. ;
"I've got to wait for the police." ;
While Derek and his mother waited, ;
Derek examined the catches on the windows and the locks on the doors. ;
All of them were old and some of the catches hardly worked at all. ;
Derek felt guilty. ;
His mother was an old woman,after all. ;
"I"ll have to change all these," he told her. ; |
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