English--描述穿着的情景用语
伤感七夕-谢文东语录
Unit 3
What Did the Person Look Like?
Woman: Officer! Officer!
Officer: Yes,
ma’am.
Woman: Somebody just took my purse! My
money, my credit cards__ everything’s gone!
Officer: All right. Just calm down a minute.
OK. Now., what did the person look like?
Woman: He was kind of tall and thin.
Officer: About how tall was he?
Woman:
Around 5’10”.
Officer: 5’10”. And how much did
he weigh?
Woman: I’m not sure. Maybe around
140 pounds.
Officer: And about how old was he?
Woman: Oh, he was fairly young_in his mid-
teens, I think sixteen or seventeen.
Officer:
And what color was his hair?
Woman: Blond, and
it was long and straight.
Officer: Eyes?
Woman: I don’t know. It all happened so fast.
Officer: Yes, of course. What was he wearing?
Woman: Jeans and a T-shirt. Oh, and a denim
vest.
Officer: Fine, and now tell me about
your purse. What did it look like?
Woman:
Well, it was dark brown, and it had a shoulder
strap.
Officer: What was it made of?
Woman: Leather.
Officer: OK, now I’ll need
your name and address.
Isn’t he the one who…
Joan: Do you know who
that guy is?
Ellen: Which one?
Joan: The
one in the light slacks.
Ellen: Oh, that’s Bob
Wilson. He’s the one who just moved into the
penthouse apartment.
Joan: Oh, really? He
looks kind of interesting. Do you know anything
about him?
Ellen: Yeah, he’s from England. He
works for British Airways.
Joan: Have you
spoken to him? What’s he like?
Elle: He seems
like a very nice guy. He’s very friendly and he’s
got a good sense of humor.
Joan: Is he the one
whose wife has the green Volvo?
Ellen: Yeah,
that’s right.
Joan: We should invite them over
for coffee. Do you know if they have any children?
Ellen: No, they just got married, I think.
Joan: Well, let’s invite them and the Colbys
over sometime this weekend.
Pattern:
The one in the light slacks( wearing light
slacks; with glasses)
I have no idea.( Never
saw him before in my life.)
Do you know where
he’s from?9(what country he’s from? who he is?;
what he does?)
What’s he like?
He seems
like a very outgoing person.( pretty moody woman,
an easy(difficult) person to get
along with,..
nice, outgoing sweet friendly outspoken arrogant,
moody …
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What’s the person
like?
Voc:
Hard and conscientious,
determined, tough and uncompromising, cherish
independence, stubborn
and obstinate, poor
loser, neat and well-organized, punctual, gifted,
caring and kind, sincere, loyal
and
unpretentious, down-to-earth character, reserved,
distant and aloof, strong-willed and
ambitious, original thinker, brimming with new
ideas, impulsive, adaptable, open and honest,
hate hypocrisy, rebellious, indecisive,
sensitive, generous, intelligent, well-mannered,
witty and
intelligent, efficient,
considerate, sociable, enjoying entertaining,
quick-witted, proud and lively,
blunt and
forthright, frank, gullible, scornful,
adventurous, demanding, shrewd, arrogant,
authoritative, be good-natured and simple,
calm and placid, hardworking, outgoing, self-
centered,
imaginative and creative, easy-
going, hesitant, athletic, nostalgic, inquisitive,
helpful, reliable,
crafty and cunning,
dishonest, dignified, ambitious, direct and
straightforward, quick-witted,
alert, kind and
understanding, tolerant, naïve, charming, popular,
critical, strong-willed, active,
energetic,
open, cheerful and friendly
How to listen to
Section A
In Section A, there are 9
or 10 dialogues conducted between a man and woman.
After the
dialogue, a third voice will ask one
question related with it. Listeners will have to
choose the best
answer among the 4 choices
given. Between the 2 questions there are 13
seconds for you to
choose the right answer.
Some points that need attention:
1. Pay
special attention to the conversation background
or environment
and the contents of the
conversation.
A conversation can not be
isolated with language environment and some
necessary
information exchanged in such an
environment. For example, In a store, a shop
assistant and a
customer might discuss the
articles and prices; In hospital, doctors and
patients might discuss
problems of health and
treatment. In school, teachers and students might
discuss problems of
study, exercises ,
homework and examinations. At airports, clerks
and passengers might discuss
problems of
flights, flight number, departure and arrival
time. If we are familiar with the
conversation
environment, generally. we can expect and predict
the contents of the
communication. On the
other hand, if we know the contents of the
communication, we can infer
the relationship
of the two speakers.
2. We have to be clear
about the purpose of the speakers.
A
conversation as a communicative language is
intended to achieve certain purpose or
aim.
For example, One person of the dialogue might seek
help, or offer help; One might
suggest or ask
for advice, and the other might agree, refuse,
support or reject. Therefore , when
you are
listening, pay attention to the whole situation,
understand the purpose of the speaker,
and
grasp the important information.
3.
Understand the questions by the 3
rd
person
after the conversation.
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Most of the questions by the
3
rd
person start with wh- question words
such as what, Who, why,
where , when, which,
whose, how. Most often, the questions might be
related with the content of
the second
speaker. So, It is important to understand what
the second speakers says.
4. Be good at
predicting questions.
There are close
relationships among the contents of the
conversation, questions asked about
them, and
written choices on the paper. When you complete
the choice of the previous question,
you have
to spend a few seconds to read through the four
written choices for the next question
and at
the same time predict the contents and question
for the next conversation. Keep this in
mind,
you can do much better to grasp some important
information related with it.
5. Get rid of
disturbance.
The right choice among the 4
choices given most often are closest or similar in
meaning to the
original words or expressions
in the tape. But the other choices might be
similar in pronunciation,
spelling and form
that might disturb your right choice.
So you
have to understand the speakers and the choices in
order to make your right decisions.
My Views on Gambling
Most of life is a gamble. Very many of the things
we do involve taking some risk in order
to
achieve a satisfactory result. We undertake a new
job with no idea of the more indirect
consequences of our action. Marriage is
certainly a gamble and so is the bringing into
existence
of children, who could prove sad
liabilities. A journey, a business transaction,
even a chance
remark may result immediately or
ultimately in tragedy. Perpetually we
gamble—against life,
destiny, chance, the
unknown—call the invisible opponent what we will.
Human survival and
progress indicate that
usually we win.
So the gambling instinct must
be an elemental one. Taking risks to achieve
something is a
characteristic of all forms of
life, including humanity. As soon as man acquired
property,
the challenge he habitually issued
to destiny found an additional expression in a
human contest.
Early man may well have staked
his flint axe, his bearskin, his wife, in the hope
of adding
to his possessions. The acquirement
of desirable but non-essential commodities, must
have
increased his scope enormously, while the
risk of complete disaster lessened.
So long
as man was gambling against destiny, the odds were
usually in his favor, especially
when he used
commonsense. But as the methods of gambling
multiplied, the chances of success
decreased.
A wager against one person offered on average even
chances and no third party profited
by the
transaction. But as soon as commercialized city
life developed, mass gambling became
common.
Thousands of people now compete for large prizes,
but with only minute chances of success,
while
the organizers of gambling concerns enjoy big
profits with, in some cases, no risk at
all.
Few clients of the betting shops, football pools,
state lotteries, bingo sessions, even
charity
raffles, realize fully the flimsiness of their
chances and the fact that without
fantastic
luck they are certain to lose more than they gain.
Little irreparable harm results for the
normal individual. That big business profits from
the satisfaction of a human instinct is a
common enough phenomenon. The average wage-earner,
who leads a colorless existence, devotes a
small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive
with extraordinary constancy the dream of
achieving some magic change in his life. Gambling
is in most cases a on-toxic drug against
boredom and apathy and may well preserve good
temper,
patience and optimism in dreary
circumstances. A sudden windfall may unbalance a
weaker, less
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intelligent
person and even ruin his life. And the lure of
something for nothing as an ideal
evokes
criticism from the more rigidly upright
representatives of the community. But few of
us have the right to condemn as few of us can
say we never gamble—even if it is only investing
a shilling a week in the firm’s football sweep
or the church bazaar “lucky dip”.
Trouble
develops, however, when any human instinct or
appetite becomes overdeveloped.
Moderate
drinking produces few harmful effects but
drunkenness and alcoholism can have terrible
consequences. With an unlucky combination of
temperament and circumstances, gambling can become
an obsession, almost a form of insanity,
resulting in the loss not only of a man’s property
but of his self-respect and his conscience.
Far worse are the sufferings of his dependants,
deprived of material comfort and condemned to
watching his deterioration and helplessness.
They share none of his feverish excitement or
the exhilaration of his rare successes. The fact
that he does not wish to be cured makes
psychological treatment of the gambling addict
almost
impossible. He will use any means,
including stealing, to enable him to carry on. It
might
be possible to pay what salary he can
earn to his wife for the family maintenance but
this
is clearly no solution.
Nothing—education, home environment, other
interests, wise
discouragement—is likely to
restrain the obsessed gambler and even when it is
he alone who
suffers the consequences, his
disease is a cruel one, resulting in a wasted,
unhappy life.
Even in the case of the more
physically harmful of human indulgences,
repressive legislation
often merely increases
the damage by causing more vicious activities
designed to perpetuate
the indulgence in
secret. On the whole, though negative, gambling is
no vice within reasonable
limits. It would
still exist in an ideal society. The most we can
hope for is control over
exaggerated profits
resulting from its business exploitation, far more
attention and research
devoted to the unhappy
gambling addict and the type of education which
will encourage an interest
in so many other
constructive activities that gambling itself will
lose its fascination as
an opiate to a dreary
existence. It could be regarded as an occasional
mildly exciting game,
never to be taken very
seriously.
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Unit 3
What Did the Person Look
Like?
Woman: Officer! Officer!
Officer:
Yes, ma’am.
Woman: Somebody just took my
purse! My money, my credit cards__ everything’s
gone!
Officer: All right. Just calm down a
minute. OK. Now., what did the person look like?
Woman: He was kind of tall and thin.
Officer: About how tall was he?
Woman:
Around 5’10”.
Officer: 5’10”. And how much did
he weigh?
Woman: I’m not sure. Maybe around
140 pounds.
Officer: And about how old was he?
Woman: Oh, he was fairly young_in his mid-
teens, I think sixteen or seventeen.
Officer:
And what color was his hair?
Woman: Blond, and
it was long and straight.
Officer: Eyes?
Woman: I don’t know. It all happened so fast.
Officer: Yes, of course. What was he wearing?
Woman: Jeans and a T-shirt. Oh, and a denim
vest.
Officer: Fine, and now tell me about
your purse. What did it look like?
Woman:
Well, it was dark brown, and it had a shoulder
strap.
Officer: What was it made of?
Woman: Leather.
Officer: OK, now I’ll need
your name and address.
Isn’t he the one who…
Joan: Do you know who
that guy is?
Ellen: Which one?
Joan: The
one in the light slacks.
Ellen: Oh, that’s Bob
Wilson. He’s the one who just moved into the
penthouse apartment.
Joan: Oh, really? He
looks kind of interesting. Do you know anything
about him?
Ellen: Yeah, he’s from England. He
works for British Airways.
Joan: Have you
spoken to him? What’s he like?
Elle: He seems
like a very nice guy. He’s very friendly and he’s
got a good sense of humor.
Joan: Is he the one
whose wife has the green Volvo?
Ellen: Yeah,
that’s right.
Joan: We should invite them over
for coffee. Do you know if they have any children?
Ellen: No, they just got married, I think.
Joan: Well, let’s invite them and the Colbys
over sometime this weekend.
Pattern:
The one in the light slacks( wearing light
slacks; with glasses)
I have no idea.( Never
saw him before in my life.)
Do you know where
he’s from?9(what country he’s from? who he is?;
what he does?)
What’s he like?
He seems
like a very outgoing person.( pretty moody woman,
an easy(difficult) person to get
along with,..
nice, outgoing sweet friendly outspoken arrogant,
moody …
1
What’s the person
like?
Voc:
Hard and conscientious,
determined, tough and uncompromising, cherish
independence, stubborn
and obstinate, poor
loser, neat and well-organized, punctual, gifted,
caring and kind, sincere, loyal
and
unpretentious, down-to-earth character, reserved,
distant and aloof, strong-willed and
ambitious, original thinker, brimming with new
ideas, impulsive, adaptable, open and honest,
hate hypocrisy, rebellious, indecisive,
sensitive, generous, intelligent, well-mannered,
witty and
intelligent, efficient,
considerate, sociable, enjoying entertaining,
quick-witted, proud and lively,
blunt and
forthright, frank, gullible, scornful,
adventurous, demanding, shrewd, arrogant,
authoritative, be good-natured and simple,
calm and placid, hardworking, outgoing, self-
centered,
imaginative and creative, easy-
going, hesitant, athletic, nostalgic, inquisitive,
helpful, reliable,
crafty and cunning,
dishonest, dignified, ambitious, direct and
straightforward, quick-witted,
alert, kind and
understanding, tolerant, naïve, charming, popular,
critical, strong-willed, active,
energetic,
open, cheerful and friendly
How to listen to
Section A
In Section A, there are 9
or 10 dialogues conducted between a man and woman.
After the
dialogue, a third voice will ask one
question related with it. Listeners will have to
choose the best
answer among the 4 choices
given. Between the 2 questions there are 13
seconds for you to
choose the right answer.
Some points that need attention:
1. Pay
special attention to the conversation background
or environment
and the contents of the
conversation.
A conversation can not be
isolated with language environment and some
necessary
information exchanged in such an
environment. For example, In a store, a shop
assistant and a
customer might discuss the
articles and prices; In hospital, doctors and
patients might discuss
problems of health and
treatment. In school, teachers and students might
discuss problems of
study, exercises ,
homework and examinations. At airports, clerks
and passengers might discuss
problems of
flights, flight number, departure and arrival
time. If we are familiar with the
conversation
environment, generally. we can expect and predict
the contents of the
communication. On the
other hand, if we know the contents of the
communication, we can infer
the relationship
of the two speakers.
2. We have to be clear
about the purpose of the speakers.
A
conversation as a communicative language is
intended to achieve certain purpose or
aim.
For example, One person of the dialogue might seek
help, or offer help; One might
suggest or ask
for advice, and the other might agree, refuse,
support or reject. Therefore , when
you are
listening, pay attention to the whole situation,
understand the purpose of the speaker,
and
grasp the important information.
3.
Understand the questions by the 3
rd
person
after the conversation.
2
Most of the questions by the
3
rd
person start with wh- question words
such as what, Who, why,
where , when, which,
whose, how. Most often, the questions might be
related with the content of
the second
speaker. So, It is important to understand what
the second speakers says.
4. Be good at
predicting questions.
There are close
relationships among the contents of the
conversation, questions asked about
them, and
written choices on the paper. When you complete
the choice of the previous question,
you have
to spend a few seconds to read through the four
written choices for the next question
and at
the same time predict the contents and question
for the next conversation. Keep this in
mind,
you can do much better to grasp some important
information related with it.
5. Get rid of
disturbance.
The right choice among the 4
choices given most often are closest or similar in
meaning to the
original words or expressions
in the tape. But the other choices might be
similar in pronunciation,
spelling and form
that might disturb your right choice.
So you
have to understand the speakers and the choices in
order to make your right decisions.
My Views on Gambling
Most of life is a gamble. Very many of the things
we do involve taking some risk in order
to
achieve a satisfactory result. We undertake a new
job with no idea of the more indirect
consequences of our action. Marriage is
certainly a gamble and so is the bringing into
existence
of children, who could prove sad
liabilities. A journey, a business transaction,
even a chance
remark may result immediately or
ultimately in tragedy. Perpetually we
gamble—against life,
destiny, chance, the
unknown—call the invisible opponent what we will.
Human survival and
progress indicate that
usually we win.
So the gambling instinct must
be an elemental one. Taking risks to achieve
something is a
characteristic of all forms of
life, including humanity. As soon as man acquired
property,
the challenge he habitually issued
to destiny found an additional expression in a
human contest.
Early man may well have staked
his flint axe, his bearskin, his wife, in the hope
of adding
to his possessions. The acquirement
of desirable but non-essential commodities, must
have
increased his scope enormously, while the
risk of complete disaster lessened.
So long
as man was gambling against destiny, the odds were
usually in his favor, especially
when he used
commonsense. But as the methods of gambling
multiplied, the chances of success
decreased.
A wager against one person offered on average even
chances and no third party profited
by the
transaction. But as soon as commercialized city
life developed, mass gambling became
common.
Thousands of people now compete for large prizes,
but with only minute chances of success,
while
the organizers of gambling concerns enjoy big
profits with, in some cases, no risk at
all.
Few clients of the betting shops, football pools,
state lotteries, bingo sessions, even
charity
raffles, realize fully the flimsiness of their
chances and the fact that without
fantastic
luck they are certain to lose more than they gain.
Little irreparable harm results for the
normal individual. That big business profits from
the satisfaction of a human instinct is a
common enough phenomenon. The average wage-earner,
who leads a colorless existence, devotes a
small percentage of his earnings to keeping alive
with extraordinary constancy the dream of
achieving some magic change in his life. Gambling
is in most cases a on-toxic drug against
boredom and apathy and may well preserve good
temper,
patience and optimism in dreary
circumstances. A sudden windfall may unbalance a
weaker, less
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intelligent
person and even ruin his life. And the lure of
something for nothing as an ideal
evokes
criticism from the more rigidly upright
representatives of the community. But few of
us have the right to condemn as few of us can
say we never gamble—even if it is only investing
a shilling a week in the firm’s football sweep
or the church bazaar “lucky dip”.
Trouble
develops, however, when any human instinct or
appetite becomes overdeveloped.
Moderate
drinking produces few harmful effects but
drunkenness and alcoholism can have terrible
consequences. With an unlucky combination of
temperament and circumstances, gambling can become
an obsession, almost a form of insanity,
resulting in the loss not only of a man’s property
but of his self-respect and his conscience.
Far worse are the sufferings of his dependants,
deprived of material comfort and condemned to
watching his deterioration and helplessness.
They share none of his feverish excitement or
the exhilaration of his rare successes. The fact
that he does not wish to be cured makes
psychological treatment of the gambling addict
almost
impossible. He will use any means,
including stealing, to enable him to carry on. It
might
be possible to pay what salary he can
earn to his wife for the family maintenance but
this
is clearly no solution.
Nothing—education, home environment, other
interests, wise
discouragement—is likely to
restrain the obsessed gambler and even when it is
he alone who
suffers the consequences, his
disease is a cruel one, resulting in a wasted,
unhappy life.
Even in the case of the more
physically harmful of human indulgences,
repressive legislation
often merely increases
the damage by causing more vicious activities
designed to perpetuate
the indulgence in
secret. On the whole, though negative, gambling is
no vice within reasonable
limits. It would
still exist in an ideal society. The most we can
hope for is control over
exaggerated profits
resulting from its business exploitation, far more
attention and research
devoted to the unhappy
gambling addict and the type of education which
will encourage an interest
in so many other
constructive activities that gambling itself will
lose its fascination as
an opiate to a dreary
existence. It could be regarded as an occasional
mildly exciting game,
never to be taken very
seriously.
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