[00:33.99]Unit 1 Personal Identification and People
[00:41.74]Conversations
[00:45.09]Daisy is introducing Sally to Smith.
[00:52.35]Good morning,Smith.Could I take a few minutes of your time?
[00:58.31]Oh,it's you,Daisy!What can I do for you?
[01:03.58]May I introduce my friend Sally to you,Smith?
[01:08.62]She's an outstanding student in our college.She speaks good English.
[01:15.10]And also she is good at operating computer.
[01:20.07]How do you do,Smith?
[01:23.83]Pleased to meet you,Sally.I have heard a little about you from Daisy.
[01:29.89]Would you like to work for two months in my company?
[01:35.16]Of course I'd love to.
[01:39.00]I really want to get some real experience through my work here.
[01:45.27]Ok,please come to work at 8:00 tomorrow morning.
[01:50.92]See you tomorrow.Goodbye!
[01:54.99]Alice receives Jack in a morning.
[02:00.63]Good morning.
[02:03.69]Good morning.Is this Mr.Brown's office?
[02:08.97]Yes,that's right.Can I help you?
[02:13.83]I have an appointment with Mr.Brown at 10 o'clock.
[02:18.97]Your name,please,sir?
[02:22.63]Jack Clark.
[02:26.49]Just a moment.Oh,yes,Mr.Clark from Universal Trade Corporation.
[02:34.36]Would you please take a seat,Mr.Clark?I'll tell Mr.Brown you are here.
[02:41.02]Thank you.
[02:44.26]Hello,Mr.Brown,Mr.Clark is here for his appointment..
[02:50.42]OK.(To Mr.Clark)Mr.Brown will come down to see you in minute.
[02:56.67]Thank you very much.
[03:00.30]You're welcome.
[03:03.22]A couple talking about their neighbour,Mr.Wang.
[03:09.99]Darling,do you know anything about our new neighbour,Mr.Wang?
[03:16.65]Nothing except that he goes to work at 7:30 every morning.
[03:22.58]He is quite special.
[03:26.21]Special?What's special about him?
[03:31.04]Well,for one thing,he is Wang Li's boyfriend.Mrs.Li has told me that.
[03:39.59]What else?
[03:42.51]He's from a distant village three years ago
[03:47.55]with only 20 yuan in his pocket but now..
[03:52.52]What has happened?
[03:55.99]He has set up his company with about 200 employees.
[04:01.84]It's reported that he has built a new school for his poor hometown.
[04:08.32]A rags-riches story!
[04:12.68]Passage
[04:15.95]Ambulance Girl
[04:19.71]When I became a volunteer EMT,my friends were puzzled.
[04:26.97]They know me tol be deeply terified of sick and dying people.
[04:32.82]If there was an accident on the road,
[04:37.26]I tucked my head in my hands to avoid seeing blood or broken glass.
[04:44.21]My husband and I had been married 30 years.
[04:49.38]We loved to travel,read amd write.
[04:53.93]But at age 52,I felt stuck in a midlife funk,cut off from others.
[05:02.18]Passing the local firehouse one day,I saw a sign:
[05:07.93]"Volunteers wanted:Fine/EMT."
[05:14.10]The EMT part pointed to everything cowardly in me-my fear of death and disease.
[05:22.74]Maybe I could help others if I did this
[05:28.02]and could also save myself by facing what scared me most.
[05:34.26]As time goes by,I was able to work through my fears.
[05:40.43]Now I understand that the closest I have ever felt to God
[05:46.20]is in the back of an ambulance.
[05:50.46]When I rush out to help sick strangers,
[05:55.42]I am part of something larger than myslef.
[06:00.88]Sometimes I truly connect with someone
[06:06.34]who I would never have met otherwise-as I did with Nellie.
[06:12.72]One midngiht,the AIDS hospice needed help.
[06:18.64]A colleague and I were shown to a bedroom.
[06:23.22]Lying there was a thin black woman with wild hair.
[06:28.86]When I was given a printout of her medical history,I thought,
[06:35.02]this lady should be dead over ten times.She had AIDS,hepatitis and TB.
[06:43.36]She ahd had brain surgery.Tonight she had a seizure.
[06:49.52]"Hello,I'm Clarissa,are you in pain?"I asked.
[06:55.87]she replied by cursing ar me.I didn't take offense.
[07:01.83]When I rode alone with her in the back of the ambulance as EMT drove,
[07:09.19]I reread the printout.Nellie was 33 years old.
[07:15.85]No previous address.No family members.No next of kin.
[07:22.83]Her whole life as presented here was jsut a list of medicines,
[07:29.96]symptoms and illnesses.
[07:33.80]One line catched my attention:hobbies.
[07:39.44]Nellie's hobbies were sewing and gospel singing.
[07:45.21]I could not sew,but I loved gospel music.
[07:51.07]"Nellie,it says here that you like gospel music,"I said.
[07:56.94]I expected another curse,but it didn't come.
[08:03.11]"I really like Shirley Caesar,"I continued,
[08:08.57]thinking of the singer's heartbreaking song
[08:13.24]about a mother's love for her ungrateful son,
[08:18.10]pouring her soul into every word.
[08:22.47]Suddenly Nellie's eyes moved back and forth.
[08:27.93]"I like her too,"Nellie said weakly.I was stunned she could speak.
[08:35.37]I started naming other gospel singers.
[08:40.02]With each one,Nellie nodded back,and I saw her try to smile.
[08:46.99]I was not a singer,but I decided to pretend that I was.
[08:53.94]It was not unthinkable that Nellie might die during this ride to the hospital,
[09:00.60]that I would be the last face she ever saw,the last voice she ever heard.
[09:07.97]I wanted to say something meaningful to her,
[09:12.93]something other than"Where does it hurt?"So I started singing,
[09:19.99]and I held Nellie's hand has I sang.
[09:24.66]We reached the hospital,and she was whelled to one of the ER rooms.
[09:31.51]I touched her thin shoulder.
[09:35.87]"Nellie,"I said.She fixed her eyes on me.
[09:41.43]"Take care fo yourself."She gave me one long last look,
[09:47.60]and then turned her face to the wall.
[09:51.75]When I climbed back into the ambulance,there was no more trace of Nellie.
[09:58.88]The driver had cleaned adn sanitized everything.
[10:03.85]"Let's go,"I told him.As the ambulance pulled out,I felt like crying.
[10:11.89]But my eyes remained dry,like Nellie's.
[10:16.93]Hobbies:sewing and gospel music,
[10:22.52]I though as we glided in the darkness of the night toward home.
[10:28.38]Words and Expressions
[10:32.24]ambulance volunteer puzzle terrified
[10:36.26]n.救护车 adj.志愿的，义务的 v.(使)迷惑，(使)为难 adj.恐惧的，受惊吓的
[10:40.29]tuck avoid midlife funk
[10:43.83]vt.挤进;塞 vt.避开，避免 n.中年 n.怯懦,恐惧
[10:47.37]local firehouse cowardly scare
[10:51.44]adj.地方的，当地的 n.消防队;消防站 adj.胆怯的,胆小的 v.惊吓,受惊
[10:55.52]hospice colleague printout seizure
[10:59.34]n.收容所,济贫院 n.同事,同僚 n.打印件 n.突然发作
[11:03.17]curse offense previous kin
[11:07.10]vi.诅咒，咒骂 n.触怒，冒犯 adj.以前的，事前的 n.家属;亲戚
[11:11.03]symptom gospel performance stun
[11:15.11]n.症状，征兆 n.福音 n.表演，演出 vt.使晕倒;使惊吓
[11:19.18]unthinkable wheel trace
[11:22.37]adj.不能想像的，想象不到的 vt.推动 n.痕迹，踪迹
[11:25.56]sanitize feel like
[11:28.20]vt.消毒，进行卫生处理 想做..,具有的倾向或欲望
[11:30.83]glide
[11:32.41]vi.滑行，滑动
[11:34.00]Exercises
[11:37.94]Section I Listening Comprehension
[11:43.11]Listen to the record.Answer each question by choosing
[11:49.88]A,B,C or D from the four possible choices.
[11:57.32]A
[12:00.09]1.It seems to be a little long now,but if it's curled,it will just fine.
[12:08.45]I will give it a little trim if you want.
[12:12.81]What do you think?
[12:16.47]All right,go ahead.
[12:20.52]2.Do you know the old man there?
[12:25.56]Yes,he is often fond of pulling your leg.
[12:31.44]3.It seems that Jim never cleans his small room.
[12:37.79]Really?I think he has a bit of load in his mind after her got a new job now.
[12:45.83]4.Who's the man you were at the theatre last night?
[12:52.28]Oh,he's Mrtin,my English teacher.
[12:57.56]He's larning chinese from me now.The film was my lesson for him.
[13:04.40]5.Would you like to go with me to see my parents?
[13:10.47]They wish to get to know you.
[13:14.54]I'm afraid they will dislike me.
[13:18.90]B
[13:22.14]Henry,how do you like our new CEO,Mr.Black?
[13:27.92]His coming is an auspicious omen.I think he is the very man to help our company.
[13:35.28]Do you agree?
[13:38.83]That's true.I think he will find his own style of management
[13:44.71]to be different from our former leader,David Smtih.
[13:49.86]Mr.Black is appointed by board.
[13:54.12]I guess they have their own good reasons.
[13:58.87]You are right.He has quite impressive credentals:
[14:04.83]he graduated from Yale University with an MBA degree.
[14:10.57]Moreover,he has rich experience with major international companies
[14:17.34]and peculiar style of management.
[14:21.99]Could you tell me in great detail?
[14:26.06]Mrs.Johnson says that he runs the company just like he runs his family,
[14:32.91]his interest lies in how much contribution he has made to the society
[14:39.07]and his employees.
[14:42.73]That's great!Mr.Smith only knows how to drive us to work as long as we can.
[14:50.57]I even had the whim to leave our company at that time.Now..
[14:57.10]Now,we have the leisure time to enjoy ourselves.
[15:02.87]Young as he is,he has strong drive and determination to change our positon.
[15:10.13]Could you remember what he has said at the first meeting?
[15:15.28]Sure.He said we would spare no effort to promote the interests of our customers,
[15:23.53]stockholders and employees and change our company into one of the 500
[15:30.38]top companies in the world.
[15:34.63]With his leadership,maybe our stock will increase in value rapidly.
[15:41.90]Could you guess how much he can earn each year?
[15:46.94]He must earn much more money than us!
[15:51.98]Yes.It's believed that he is given a million dollars as a bonus
[15:58.64]and an annual salary of 1 million dollars.
[16:04.41]My God!I will strive to be a CEO too.
[16:10.66]Supplementary Reading
[16:14.81]Mister imagination
[16:18.96]There were very few places in the world that Jules Verne,
[16:24.42]the writer,did not visit.
[16:28.68]He went round the world a hundred times or more.
[16:33.83]Once he did it in eighty days,unheard of in the nineteenth century.
[16:40.80]He voyaged sixty thousand miles under the sea,
[16:46.26]toured around the moon,explored the center of the earth,
[16:52.51]and chatted with natives in Australia.
[16:56.95]Jules Verne,the man,was a stay-at-home.
[17:02.69]He was more likely to be tired from writing than from traviling.
[17:08.75]He did make a few visits to Europe and North Africa.
[17:14.11]And he made one six-week tour of New York State.
[17:19.75]But that was all.
[17:23.12]He spent less than one of his seventy-seven years really traveling.
[17:29.36]Yet he was the world's most extraordinary tourist.
[17:34.82]His books are crowded with hunting and fishing expeditions.
[17:40.78]Jules actually went hunting only once.
[17:45.93]Then he raised his gun and shot off the guard's hat!
[17:51.80]He never held a test tube in his hand.
[17:56.38]But he was an inspiration to the scientist in the laboratory.
[18:02.44]Long before radio was invented,he had TV working in his books.
[18:09.28]His name for it was phono-telephoto.
[18:14.84]He had helicopters fifty years
[18:18.92]before the Wright brothers flew their first plane at Kitty Hawk.
[18:24.38]In fact,there were few wonders of the twentieth century
[18:30.23]that this man of the nuneteenth century did not foresee.
[18:35.87]In his stories you can read about neon lights,moving sidewalks,
[18:42.64]air conditioning,skyscrapers,guided missiles,tanks,
[18:49.40]electrically operated submarines,and airplanes.
[18:54.76]Many people took his ideas seriously.
[18:59.20]One reason was that he wrote about these wonderful things in such exact detail.
[19:06.75]Learned men would argue with him.
[19:10.90]Experts in mathematics would spend weeks checking his figures.
[19:16.96]When his book about going the moon was published,
[19:22.32]five hundred persons volunteered for the next expedition.
[19:28.17]perhaps the best known of all his books is Around the World in Eighty Days.
[19:35.25]It first appeared as a serial in a paris newspaper.
[19:40.89]Its hero had made a bet that he could circle the globe in eighty days,
[19:47.16]and his progress aroused great interest.
[19:52.02]In every country of Europe people made bets on whether the imaginary Mr.Fogg
[19:59.28]would arrive in London in time to win his bet.
[20:04.32]Verne kept the popular interest alive.
[20:08.89]His hero rescued a widow from death and fell in love with her.
[20:14.75]He was attacked by Indians while crossing the American plains.
[20:20.21]Arriving in New York,he saw the ship that was to take him to England
[20:26.37]disappearing over the horizon without him.
[20:31.20]All the steamship companies offered Verne large sums of money
[20:37.24]if he would put Fogg on one of their ships.
[20:41.68]The author refused.Instead,he had Fogg charter a ship.
[20:48.94]As the world held its breath.
[20:53.20]Fogg reached London with only minutes to spare.
[20:58.34]Many of Verne's other books were set in the future.
[21:03.78]In these stories,
[21:07.54]people made diamonds and developed a kind of automobile-ship-helicopter-plane.
[21:14.91]They received news flashes on televisions,worked in giant skyscrapers,
[21:22.06]and rode to work on highways much like the ones we ride today.
[21:27.71]It is hard to believe that the books were written nearly one hundred years ago.
[21:34.79]Jules Verne had lived to see many of his fancies come true.
[21:40.53]But this had not surprised him,for he had once said:
[21:46.78]"What one man can imagine,another man can do."
