时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:听英文对话做选择


英语课
原文:

Woman: Hey. Uh, you look really unhappy. What's going on?
Young Man: Ah, you don't want to know.
 
Woman: Okay, see ya.
 
Young Man: Wait, wait, wait! Why are you walking away?
 
Woman: Well, you said I didn't want to know.
 
Young Man: No, wait. You see my parents really don't love me.
 
Woman: What do you mean? When I met them last week, they seemed really caring.
 
Young Man: Uh, you don't understand! You see. I want a new smart phone . . . I mean, I need one, and my parents won't buy me it!
 
Woman: Uh, excuse me, but uh, don't you already have a iPhone?
 
Young Man: Man, yeah, but it's three months old, and it has a small scratch 1 on it.
 
Woman: Where? Let me see. [Look!] I don't see a scratch.
 
Young Man: Look, look right here!. [THAT?] [Do] you see it?
 
Woman: It's just a speck 2 of dust.
 
Young Man: Anyway. And my other phone . . .
 
Woman: What? You have two phones?
 
Young Man: That's beside the point.
 
Woman: So, so, did your parents give you a reason for not buying you a new phone?
 
Young Man: Not a good one. Only something about being self-reliant and not being so entitled 3, or something like that. And now they want me to work . . . on the neighbor's farm to pay for it. [Good idea!] It's not fair.
 
Woman: Hey, I think I know the problem. [What?] Take a look in the mirror. You'll see both the problem and the solution.
 
Young Man: Uh! You're no help.
 

1. The young man says he needs a new phone because __________.
A. his parents took his last one
B. someone stole his last one
C. his phone is an older model 
2. How many phones does the young man already have?
A. two
B. three
C. four
 
3. According 4 to the conversation, what are the young man's parents like? 
A. friendly
B. generous 5
C. kind
 
4. What do his parents want their son to do to get a phone?
A. take out money from his bank account 6
B. find a job and work to earn money
C. ask his brother if he can use an old phone
 
5. What is the BEST word to describe the young man's personality 7
A. talkative
B. mean
C. self-centered
 
正确答案:

1. his phone is an older model
2. two
3. kind
4. find a job and work to earn money
5. self-centered

 

1 scratch
n.草稿,抓痕,搔,抓,擦伤,刮擦声,乱写,零,起跑线,未中的一击;vt.搔,抓,挖出,擦
  • Scratch my name out please.请把我的名字划掉。
  • The suggestion is that they should start from scratch.提出的建议是,他们从头开始。
2 speck
n.微粒,小污点,小斑点
  • I have not a speck of interest in it.我对它没有任何兴趣。
  • The sky is clear and bright without a speck of cloud.天空晴朗,一星星云彩也没有。
3 entitled
有资格的
  • You will be entitled to your pension when you reach 65. 你到65岁就有资格享受养老金。
  • He entitled us to enter his office at any time. 他授权给我们可以随时进入他的办公室。
4 according
adj.按照,根据
  • According to the Bible we are all the seed of Adam.根据《圣经》所说的,我们都是亚当的后裔。
  • We must cut our coat according to our cloth this year.今年我们必须学会量入为出。
5 generous
adj.慷慨的,大方的,慷慨给予的
  • She was kind and generous.她心地善良,宽容大量。
  • She was generous with her money.她很乐于仗义疏财。
6 account
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
7 personality
n.个性,人格,名人
  • Einstein was a great personality.爱因斯坦是个伟大的人物。
  • She has a powerful personality.她有坚强的个性。
学英语单词
1-phenylpropyne
acupiction
adamant bend
aircraft cannon
alimony drone
antisialogog
arcatures
as though one owned the place
Badenweiler
bilateral surface
bisquit
bitter spar
bring into use
broken bag
burst type error
car-bottom furnace
Ceylon cinnamon
chamaeprosopic
constant risk estimator
cooking out
credendums
devotionalists
Ehrlich diazo reaction
eigenequations
energy spectrum analysis
engine wear
epiblastic hyloma
exclusion or function
fill joints with mastic
finger-flowers
front-tipping bucket
Fukuma
full-time employee
Genevad
head section
heptaparallelohedron
iced firm
industrializer
inflammable substance
interdental splint
Juan Stuven, I.
just-noticeable differences
kahless
key note speaker
knee sideward
labuntsovite
Laufenburg
lignum millettiae
line of fate
liquid film developer
lock on circuit
mesocolpium
methanotrophic
microstamping
military flag
moins
mountstuarts
noise flashes
oddzounds
on the rims
operating scale
over the counter stock
overdraft interest
ozer
para-amino-benzene-sulfonamide
PBEM
percha
phase orbit
photovolt densitometer
piece of writing
plummer block keep
polynomial interpolation function
prejudizes
pressure tube extension
rage quitting
recurvatum
rotary core
scuttlesand
service header
sinosstemonine
slasht
sound barrier, sonic barrier
spatial economic adjustment
store (basic symbol)
Tali glaciation
team-building
telemetered seismic network
thematic material
therapeutical
thiller
Tindur
to chew the cud
tone separation
transversal valley
trench mortar
unconstrained restoration
vanga
viana
vorst
weight at recruitment
yarfed
you can may rest assured