英语听力教程二 unit 3

Unit3 一 House agent: … right, if you'd just come this way. Woman: Thank you. Man: Yes. House agent: Er… on the right here we have the … er … the bathroom, which as you can see is fully … fully fitted. If we just move forward now, we … er … come into the er … main … main bed-sitting room here. And… er … on the left are dining room table and chairs. Woman: Oh yes. Man: Yes. House agent: And er… straight ahead of us … um … foldaway double bed and mattress, which I think you'll agree is quite a novel idea. Man: Oh yes. House agent: And then… um… to … Woman: Behind the armchair. House agent: Yes, behind the armchair. To our right, um … in the corner there, a fitted wardrobe. And another one on my left here. Woman: On either side of the bed? House agent: Yes, that's right. That's right, so you can put all your … er … night attire or what… whatever you like in there. Man: Yes, that's good. House agent: Then, there … the … we have the sofa here … er … in front of the … um … the window. Man: Oh yes. House agent: Er … so there's plenty of light coming through into the room and as you can see there's a nice view through the windows there. Woman: No curtains, though. House agent: No curtains, but we've got roller blinds. Woman: Oh. House agent: Yes, they're nice and straight forward. No problems about that — don't have to wash them of course. And … um … on the left of the … er … sofa there, you can see nice coffee tables. If … if we move straight a … straight ahead, actually, into the … er … the kitchen you can see that um … on my left here we've got a washing machine, tumble dryer and … um … electric cooker … Woman: Oh,yes. Man: Mmm. House agent: All as you can see to the most modern designs. And there um… on the other side of the kitchen… um… refrigerator there in the… in the corner. Man: Oh yeah, yes. Woman: Oh, what a nice little cubbyhole! Yes, very neat. House agent: Yes. Well… um… I don't know whether you've got any questions. That's it of course. Woman: Well, could… could we perhaps see the bathroom, because we… we didn't see that? House agent: OK, yes, yes. Let's… um… let's go on out of here and… um… end up in the bathroom … 二 1. My dream house would be a canal boat. I'd like to wake up every morning and see the water. Erm, I'd paint it bright red, and it would have a little roof-garden for all my pot-plants. 2. My ideal house would be modern, ermm, it would be made of bricks, and it would have white pillars outside the front door. And it would be detached … oh yes, it would have a garage. 3. My ideal home would be to live in a cottage in a small village by the sea. Er, somewhere like Cornwall, so it's unspoilt and there are cliffs and trees around. 4. I think if I could have any sort of house, I'd like one of those white-walled villas in Spain. (It'd) Be marvelous to be able to just fall out of bed and into the sea first thing in the morning. (It'd) Be absolutely great. All that heat. Marvelous. 5. I've always wanted to live in a really big house in the country, a big family house with, erm … at least two hundred years old, I think, with a big garden, and best of all I'd like to have a dry-stone wall around the garden. I've always loved dry-stone walls. 6. D'you know, I may sound daft but what I've always wanted to do is live somewhere totally isolated, preferably somewhere enormous like a castle or something, you know, right out in … by the sea or even sort of in a little island, on an island, you know, out at sea, where you have to get there by a boat or something, where it's cut off at high tide. I think it'd be really great. Questions: 1. According to the first speaker, in what color would her dream house be painted? 2. Where would she put all her pot-plants? 3. In the second speaker's opinion, what would there be outside the front door of his ideal house? 4. What would there be around the third speaker's ideal home? 5. When the fourth speaker got up in the morning, what would he do first? 6. What is Spain famous for? 7. According to the fifth speaker, what would she like to have around the garden of her dream house? 8. How should one get to the last speaker's ideal house? 三 Wendy Stott: Oh hello. (Hello.) My name's Wendy Stott. Did the estate agent ring you and tell you I was coming? House owner: Oh yes, yes I was expecting you. Do come in. (Thank you.) Have you had the particulars and everything? Did the estate agent give you, you know, all the details? Wendy Stott: Oh yes. Yes I have, and I was rather interested; that was why I came round this afternoon. You seem to have decorated quite recently … House owner: Yes, oh, yes, it was decorated last year. Now this is the … this is the kitchen. Wendy Stott: Yes … er … What kitchen equipment are you leaving behind or are you going to take it all? House owner: Well, you know it rather depends on what I end up buying. I've got something in mind at the moment but as you know these things can take ages (Yes.) but the place I'm going to has no gas so I'll probably be leaving this stove, this oven here. Wendy Stott: Is it ... is it quite new? Have you had it long? House owner: Oh, no, not long. It's about five or six years old. (I see.) I've found it very reliable but I shall be taking that fridge but you can see everything else. It's a fully fitted kitchen … Wendy Stott: Yes, what about the dishwasher … um … is that a dishwasher under the sink? House owner: No, no, that's a washing machine, I shall be taking that, yes, I will, but there is plumbing for a washing machine. (Right.) Wendy Stott: Is the gas cooker the only gas appliance you've got? House owner: No, no, there is a gas fire but I don't use it very much; it's in the main room, the lounge. Wendy Stott: Oh. Right. That seems fine. House owner: Well, then across here if you'd like to come in with me, this is the sitting room. (Oh. Yes.) Well you can see for yourself it is really. Wendy Stott: Oh I like the windows, right down to the floor, that's really nice … House owner: Yes, yes, they are nice. It's got a very pleasant view and there's a balcony you can sit out on in the summer. (Yes, it's a nice view.) Yes, it is nice. Now then across here this is the smallest bedroom; (Yes.) there are three rooms, this is the smallest and it's no more really than a box room but of course you can get a bed in. Wendy Stott: You could make it into a study. It would be more useful I think. House owner: Yes, well I think somebody else has got this room as a study. Then this… this is the second bedroom. (Yes.) As you can see it's got a fitted cupboard and those shelves there they are also fitted. Wendy Stott: Have you got an airing cupboard anywhere? House owner: Oh. Yes, there's one in the bathroom. I'll show you that in a moment. (Oh right.) Now this is the third bedroom, this is the largest bedroom. (Oh.) Of course it's got the wash basin, double fitted cupboard, plenty of space really, there, (Very nice.) and of course this room does take the double bed. Now … um … this is the bathroom. There's the airing cupboard. (Is that the airing cupboard?) Yes, that's right. It's nice and warm in there; it's rather small but I mean it is adequate, you know, and of course there is … there is the shower. Wendy Stott: Is that, did you put that in yourself or was it in with the flat? House owner: Oh, no. No that was in when the flat was built. Wendy Stott: Is it quite reliable (Oh, yes.) because I've had problems with a shower recently? (Yes, no I've never had problems with that. No. It's really good.) Is it gas heated at the water point? House owner: No, that is electric. (Ah.) Statements: 1. Wendy Stott knows nothing about the flat before she comes to have a look at it. 2. The flat was decorated five or six years ago. 3. The house owner has used the oven and the stove for about five or six years. 4. The windows in the largest bedroom are right down to the floor. 5. There is a balcony in the sitting-room. 四 Man: Refrigerators are large machines that keep foods cold. But a lot of people use them to hold more than just food. Woman: Call it refrigerator art. In some homes the refrigerator works like a museum to show collections of refrigerator magnets. People use magnets to stick papers like messages and children's drawings to the metal of a refrigerator. But a refrigerator magnet can be a work of art itself. Some people just enjoy looking at them. Countless numbers of refrigerator magnets can be found in stores. Some have small copies of foods or animals on the front. Some show colourful designs or pictures of famous people. Some refrigerator magnets are electronic. They make noises, like this one that is shaped like a motor-cycle and sounds like a motor-cycle engine starting. Other magnets are extremely small like sets of magnetic word word文档格式规范word作业纸小票打印word模板word简历模板免费word简历 s and letters for writing poetry on the refrigerator. One example of this kind of magnets set is for children. It makes it possible to write frightening Halloween messages that shine in the dark. Businesses often give refrigerator magnets to people as a marketing tool to sell their services. Some government agencies also have them. For example, the American Space Agency sells magnets shaped like astronauts and space shuttles. Refrigerator magnets can be educational. Student engineers at the University of Wisconsin at Madison use them in experiments. And young children use refrigerator magnets that are letters to play and learn. They move the letters in different positions to make words. A refrigerator door covered with a lot of magnets can be educational in simpler ways, too. Children can learn about the laws of physics just by watching what happens when someone closes the door too hard. The magnets all fall off. Refrigerators can become as crowded with magnets on the outside as they are with food on the inside. So when people say they need a bigger refrigerator, what they might really mean is they need a bigger refrigerator door. 五 Sarah: What about this insurance then, Morris? Morris: What insurance? Sarah: You know, the warranty. Morris: Warranty? What warranty? Sarah: Don't you ever listen! This warranty covers all kinds of household things … things like … TVs and fridges … that kind of thing. It's an extra cover … a kind of insurance … in case anything goes wrong. Morris: None of our things are going wrong, are they? Sarah: Well, not at the moment, but you never know. Our new television is only guaranteed for a year, so, if anything goes wrong with it after that, we'll have to pay for the repairs. Morris: Well, nothing ever went wrong with the old black-and-white one and we had that for years. Sarah: Yes, but repairs to color TVs can be expensive. If we pay to extend the warranty now, it'll probably work out cheaper in the long run. Morris: How much does it cost? Sarah: Let's see … a color television over 18 … 25 pounds. Morris: Hmm. You could practically get a secondhand one for that. Come on then, hand the form over and let's have a look. Yes … fridge, ovens, cookers, hobs … Sarah: Hobs… how about extending the warranty on the new hob we had installed last week? Morris: Well, at least that's only 12 pounds. Strange that … television sets don't break down that often and it costs double to insure them. Sarah: I'll go and check the washing machine as well … I've a feeling we only had a two-year warranty with that. Morris: Now don't go mad … this'll cost us a fortune the way you're going on. Sarah: No, it seems all right … the washing machine's guaranteed for three years, anyway. Morris: Good job too! Now let's fill in the form. Where's my pen? Sarah: In your pocket. Morris: What?… Oh, yes, so it is. Right now, name. Mr. M. Lewis. Sarah: 27 Abbey Road, London NW1. Morris: I do know my own address, dear. Sarah: All right, I was only trying to help. Morris: Well, go and see when we bought the television … the guarantee should be in the desk in the study … and check the date of the hob while you're there as well. Now, make … well the hob's a Moffat … I wonder if you spell it with an "e" or an "a"… ? "a" I should think … wonder what model it is? Hang on, wasn't it a Cresta? Yes, that's it, Cresta. And the original warranty was for one year, the same as the telly. Sarah: I've got the dates of purchase: the TV was on 10 August 1983 and the hob 24 August 1983. Morris: Right. What make's the telly? Sarah: It's a Philips … a Philips 2000. Morris: Oh, just has a number does it? … no name. There, I think that's everything. Name, address, purchase dates, makes, models and both have one year on the original warranties. Sarah: Don't forget to tick in the boxes for the things we want insured. Morris: I'm not quite stupid. Now … what's that come to … telly 25 pounds and hob 12 pounds … 37 pounds. Throw the check book over, dear and go and make a nice cup of tea …