公共英语三级精讲unit21-30.doc

公共英语三级精讲unit21-30
Dialogue 1:
David is the Operations manager, of the Waldorf Meridien Hotel in London. Now he is answering questions about reservations.
1.       If you are a leisure traveler, is to book as early as possible because that’s when most of the discount or promotional offers will be available.
如果你是观光旅行者，尽可能早的预定，因为定的早会有打折和促销活动。
2.       When you make the reservation always, if you are making it by phone or the Internet, always ask for or write down the confirmation number.
当你预定的时候，如果你通过电话或网络预定，记得要求并记下你的确认号码。
3.       Most U.K. hotel will, if it is not guaranteed by a credit card, or some form of payment, will release the room between 2 and 4 p.m. now.
如果没有信用卡或别的形式的支付方式，大多数英国的旅馆将会在下午2点到4点把房间给别人。

Dialogue 2:
Clifford is a new arrival in London. He wants to know more about the cinemas in London. Now he is asking Kenneth about going to cinemas in London.
1.       You can wander around and see which film is to your appetite.
你可以走走看那部电影和你的胃口。
to one’s appetite 和某人的胃口
2.       This cinema often shows films a few weeks later than some of the others, so if you don’t mind being a bit behind the times and want to save a couple of quid this could be the precise place for you.
这家电影院经常放映电影比别的电影院晚，所以如果你不介意落后与时代想省钱，这家电影院将是个最好的地方。
1）  mind doing sth 介意做某事
2）  precise 恰好的，准确的
3.       It shows a wide variety of movies but tends not to show more mainstream films.
它放映很多的电影，但是不放映太多的主流电影。
1）a variety of
2）tend to do sth
4.       These films are made by independent filmmakers and are not aimed at mass audience.
这些电影是独立制片者们拍的，并且目标不是大众的观众。

Dialogue 3:
Myrtle is now at a Fast-food Restaurant. He is ordering his food and asking for the information about discount. A clerk is greeting him.
1.       I’m going to have the bacon cheeseburger with a can of orange soda.
我要咸肉奶酪汉堡和一听橘子水。
2.       And, you’re having an introductory special for free French fries with every sandwich order, is that right?
任一款三明治都可以免费配备一份你们正在介绍的薯条，是吗？
3.       Do I enjoy special privileges for being a senior citizen?
我可以享受老年顾客的特权吗？
4.       While you’re waiting for your order, here are two of our big prize game cards.
当你在等待的时候，我们这儿有两张大奖的奖券。
5.       You have to scratch the surface of the cards and match the numbers up there on our bulletin board.
你刮开卡片的表面，把它的数字和布告板的号码对照。
6.       If you’re ever in the mood for a fast and easy breakfast, we have a wide selection which we serve from 6:30 to 10:30 a.m.
如果你想要快速方便的早餐，我们从6:30 到10:30 提供了很多的选择。

Dialogue 4:
Peter and Louis are feeling tired since they have been driving for a whole day. They decided to stop for the night at a motel.
1. Especially in this heat.
特别在这样的温度下。
2. I’m anxious to get to Mom’s but I don’t think we should overdo it.
我很想去妈妈那儿，但是我不想过度劳累。
3. Let’s pull over and have a look.
我们停车去看看。
pull over 停车
4. “No vacancy” sign
房间已满的标记
5. Please fill out this registration card and be sure to list your car’s license number.
清填写这张申请表并写下你的车牌号码。
Passage:
Background knowledge:
licensing laws 酒类专卖法
on the premise 只卖给在店里喝的
off the premise 只卖给在店外喝的
off-license （商店的）卖酒执照
Language points:
1. The sale of alcohol in Britain is strictly controlled by licensing laws.
在英格兰销售酒严格受到酒类专卖法的控制。
2. In order to open a bar or wine bar the owner must obtain the approval of the local magistrates who must be satisfied with he or she is a suitable person to sell alcohol.
想开酒吧店主必需获得当地政府官员的允许。政府官员必需与他/她满意，认为他/她是卖酒的合适人选。
3. If magistrates are not happy with the way a pub is being run they can cancel the license.
如果政府官员对酒馆经营方式不满意，他们可以取消执照。
4. Many pubs are licensed to sell alcohol for drinking on or off the premises.
很多酒吧获得执照可以卖在店里与店外喝的酒。
5. Some towns are dry, i.e. no alcohol can be sold there at all.
很多城镇根本酒不能卖酒。
6. In some states alcohol for drinking at home is sold only in special liquor stores; in other places it is sold in any food shop.
在一些州，在家里饮用的酒只有一些商店才出售，在另外一些地方，在任何食品店都能买到。
1.       The most common restriction is that alcohol may not be sold early on Sunday mornings.
最普遍的限制是在星期天早晨酒是无法出售的。

Exercises:
Reading Comprehension
1.       global全球的, regional地区的, local当地的, rural农村的
8.       outgoing离开的，将离任的, incoming正来临的, delivering发送的
14. obtain获得,
15. urgent紧急的, alarm警告, emergency紧急情况, automate自动的
18. earnest认真的，真诚的

便条解题方法与技巧
（一）便条的写作
便条是一种简单的书信形式, 它的特点是格式简单,内容简短, 主要包括以下四个部分:
1.       日期: 写在便条的右上角, 经常省去年份,只写月份与日期。
2.       称呼用语：熟人朋友间可以随便些，直呼其名，不需任何头衔。
3.       正文：用词尽量通俗口语化，简明扼要。
4.       署名：经常省去书信中的结束敬语，一般写上留条人的姓名，非常熟悉的，署上自己的名或姓即可。
（二）示例
1.       Telephone message:
Date: July 8 Time: A.M. [ ]
P.M. [ ]
From: Mr. Walker Sales Manager of Fashion Company
To: Mr. Green
Telephone [ ] Please ring [ ]
Call to see you [ ] will call again [ ]
Want to see you [ ] urgent [ ]
Message: There will be a new product
Please conference of 2003, held by Fashion Company in China. Hotel at 9:00 am. in July 15 Mr. Walker called to invite you to attend the conference
2.       Notice/ Poster
Date: Time:
Message for: Thomas Schwartz
From: Juliet Taylor
Re/ Message: brochures about executive secretary courses
She hasn’t got any brochures about the executive secretary coursed. Please send her some --- about 50 next week
Her address: 114 Canal street
Telephone number: 534825
Taken by: Sam Stuart
3.       Fax, E-mail, memo
Fax

To: Fax:
From: Date:
Re: Inquiry Page: 1
CC: Mr. Allan broad Sales Dept
[ ] urgent [ ]urgent [ ] Please comment
[ ] Please reply [ ] Please recycle
Dear Miss Karen Thompson,
We intend to buy two printers, MODEL ----, produced by your company. Will you please kindly send me detailed information about the two models as well as latest quote?
I’m looking forward to your reply.

Yours sincerely,
E-mail
From:
To:
Cc:
Subject: Inquiry about reservation and Price
Date: May 5
Dear Miss Mary Brown,
I send this e-mail to inquire about reservation in your hotel.
There will be a telecommunication seminar held by --- from May 10 to May 15, with 30 candidates attending the seminar. We’d like to make a reservation of 18 double rooms with bathroom for 5 days and a meeting room of 30 persons for 3 days.
I look forward to getting a reply of detailed information about the following aspects 1. the price of the rooms 2. the rent of a meeting 3. the dinning service, etc.

Sincerely your,
Fang Dawei

Memo
To: All staff
From: Peter Chiligiris (manager of HR)
Subject: Mandatory Staff Meeting
Message:
On Tuesday, June 1st, we will have our annual mandatory staff meeting at 9:00 am. We expect the meeting to last an hour; the agenda is attached. If you have anything else you think should be addressed, please let me know no later than Mary 25th.

精讲22

Dialogue 1:
Zhang Jun, a young Chinese student of 22, is now pursuing his ph. D. of law at the University of Arizona, U.S.A. though he has stayed in Tucson for a couple of weeks, he is still puzzled about the mailing service in America. So he’s now turning to Mary, his fellow student yet a native American, for help.
1.       I’m desperately in need of your help。
我非常需要你的帮助。
1）desperately 非常的
2）be in need of 需要
2.       You can also find places for outgoing mail outside your dormitory.
你在宿舍外面能看到外埠信件的投放地点。
outgoing 外部的，离开的
3.       You should check with the post office for current overseas airmail rates.
你可以在邮局查询当前海外信件的费用。
rate 花费，费用
4.       Using self-folding airmail forms, called “aerogrammes”, can save you money on postage.
使用折叠式信纸的航空邮件。可以节省邮资。
5.       Within the United States, packages can often be sent cheaper and faster using independent package and delivery services, such as United Parcel Service, UPS.
在美国，使用独立包装和运送服务货物可以被运送的更便宜和更快，比如联邦快递。
Dialogue 2:
Donna Gregory has arranged an appointment with Mr. Thomas, her new business partner. She is now calling to cancel the arrangement. But Mr. Thomas isn’t in his office. His secretary answers her phone instead.
1.       He’s gone for the rest of the day.
他今天一天都不在。
rest 剩下的，其余的
the rest of the world, my life, her money
2.       I can reach him, I presume, around eight o’clock.
我认为大概晚上八点我会找到他。
presume 假定，假设，认为
I presume that an agreement will eventually be reached.

Monologue 1:
If you want to get something done quickly, it’s a good idea to spend some time getting the proper information first. If you don’t, you’ll generally spend more time doing it in the end. With pay telephone calls, you may spend more money, too. Adam’s story is an example.
Background knowledge:
civil engineering 土木工程学
Beijing Institute of International Relations 北京国际关系学院
Language points:
1.       After a delay, she was able to find the number for the eighth floor.
耽搁以后，她找到了八层的电话号码。
2.       Then someone hung the phone up.
不知是谁把电话挂上了。
hung up 挂断电话

Monologue 2:
A brief introduction to China EMS at a seminar.
Background knowledge:
The International Express Service (EMS) 国际邮政特快专递
State Post Bureau of China 中国邮政局
CCSC (China Courier Service Corporation) 中国邮政速递公司
Language points:
1.       To satisfy the further requirements of the service, State Post Bureau of China set up its specialized postal express company CCSC (China Courier Service Corporation) in 1985, which is in charge of the operations, marketing and management of nationwide EMS service.
为满足服务的需要，国家邮政局与1985年建立了中国邮政速递公司，用来负责运作、市场经营、和对国家邮政特快专递的管理。
2.       Taking “Best service and time guaranteed” as its sole purpose, CCSC provides the customers with worldwide, domestic and local EMS services, the internet-post service, the domestic COD service, the gift service, the PBA (paid by addressee) service and so on.
以“快速准确的服务”作为唯一的目的， 中国邮政速递公司给顾客提供了国际、国内和本地的国际邮政特快专递服务、国内邮政服务、国际COD服务、国内礼品专送服务、收件人付费服务等等。
3.       The company also offers some extended services such as declaring, packaging, storing, insuring and advertising as well.
公司也扩展了服务，如报关、包装、储存、保险和广告服务。
4.       From the moment when the service started, EMS constantly stick to serving the economic reform and opening to the outside world by reorganizing the operational procedures and accelerating the transmission of the items to meet the various needs of the people, by increasing the investing to the production capacity and adopting high-tech to improve services by offering 11185, the hotline and desk-to-desk, door-to-door service to qualify the services.
从这项业务开始，国际邮政速递公司一直坚持为经济改革服务，对外开放，通过机构重组提高快递的速度满足人们的需要，通过对生产量的投资的提高，采用高科技提高11185的服务、热线服务、面对面服务提高服务质量

Passage:
Background knowledge:
checking account 银行活期帐户
savings account 储蓄存款帐户
initial deposit 客户在银行开户时存入帐户的第一笔钱
savings certificate 由银行开具的储蓄证明
travel’s check 旅行支票
Language points:
1.       Then you would be given a passbook in which your initial deposit would be recorded.
这样给你一个存折，你的第一笔钱被存在里面。
2.       All you would have to do is fill out a withdrawal order and present it, along with your passbook, to the teller.
你所有需要做的只是填写一张取款单，并且把它和你的存折一起交给出纳员。
3.       But the majority of them pay semiannually.
它们中的大多数都是半年付的。
4.       When you buy a savings certificate, you sign a contract with the bank stating that you will not be able to get your money back until the date when the certificate is due.
当你购买储蓄证明的时候，你和银行签订一个协议，表明你直到证明到期的时候才取回银行存款。
5.       When you cash the check, you must sign again in the presence of the person who gives you the money at the bottom.
在你用支票兑换现金的时候，你必需当着给你现金的人的面在底下签字

Exercises:
Part A
1．第一段第三四句“Once the first rush was over, business generally became easier as the progressed. But for half an hour the bell tinkled incessantly as men from the troop ships arrived, ---”。
2.
3. 第二段最后一句“The examination would be conducted with the utmost intensity, seeming to have its sensitive point, its assessing faculty, in her long nose”。
4. 第三段最后一句“A list of the object’s defects would proceed like ticker tape from her mouth; its depreciating market value was known to her; this suit of clothes would never fit another man; that ring was not worth the melting”。
5. 最后一段“Should the first-comer still linger, hesitant, perplexed, it was --- his swift clinging of the bargain.”。

Part B

表格解题方法与技巧
（一）表格常填项目
要求考生根据汉语提示的相关信息填写适当的内容, 需填写的内容主要包括姓名,住址, 婚姻状况, 健康状况,教育背景, 工作经历, 语言程度, 资格证书,兴趣爱好等等.
首先要清楚表格中英语表达的汉语意思, 下面是常填的项目
1. 称呼: Mr.（先生）， Mrs.（夫人）， Ms. （女士），Miss. （小姐）
2. 名字: last name, family name, surname （姓）
        First name, given name, forename （名）
3. 联系方式:
   mailing address寄信地址， permanent address 永久住址，telephone电话
   mobile phone手机，email address电子邮件地址， fax传真
   英文地址顺序是由小到大依次为：门牌号和街名—城市名—省名—邮政编码—国名
   如，
   No. 22, Zhongshan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210000, P. R. China
4. 个人信息:
   Gender/Sex（性别）: Male（男性）/Female（女性）
   Date of birth（出生日期）:
Place of birth（出生地）:
   Nationality: 在这一项应填Chinese 而不是China
   Marital status: Single 未婚 / Married已婚
   Health condition: excellent（极佳）/ very good（很好）/ strong（强壮）
5. 教育背景:
   经济管理类：会计学， 市场营销学，人力资源管理， 经济学，国际贸易，管理学， 房地产管理
   教育类：
6.       业余爱好:
运动项目：playing basketball打篮球，play volleyball打排球， play football踢足球，play tennis 打网球，playing table tennis打乒乓球，playing badminton打羽毛球， swimming游泳， wresting摔跤， jogging慢跑， long distance running长跑， playing chess下棋， playing bridge打桥牌， boxing拳击，skating滑冰， skiing滑雪
娱乐项目：playing the violin拉小提琴， dancing跳舞， playing the guita弹吉他， playing the piano弹钢琴， playing the flute吹笛子， play the pipe奏管乐， listening to synphony听交响乐， see films看电影， Peking opera京剧
其他：reading阅读， collecting stamps集邮， sewing缝纫， traveling旅游， take pictures拍照，cooking烹饪， collecting coins收藏硬币， collecting lithographs收藏字画，collecting antiques 收藏古董， collecting toys收藏玩具
（二）示例
1. 姓名: 李爱华, 男, 1980年5月16日生, 未婚, 家住北京市复兴路61号. 2001年以优异成绩毕业于华光技术学院计算机系. 大学3年期间一直学习英语, 有很好的阅读能力, 具有用英语交流的能力.喜欢游泳和上网.欲求计算机程序员工作.
Resume     
Name: (1) __________________________
Address: (2) _________________________
Date of birth (3) _________________________
Sex: male
Marital status: Single
Job objective: (4) Seek a job as ____________________
Education: (5) graduated _____________________
Foreign languages: (6) studied English ______________________
Hobbies: (7) ___________________________

参考范文:
Resume     
Name: (1) Li Aihua
Address: (2)  No. 61 Fuxing Road, Beijing
Date of birth (3) May 16, 1980
Sex: male
Marital status: Single
Job objective: (4) Seek a job as a computer programmer
Education: (5) graduated from the Computer Department of Huaguang Technical College in 2001 with excellent scores
Foreign languages: (6) I studied English during the 3 years at college. I’m excellent at reading. I can communicate in English fluently.
Hobbies: (7) I like swimming and going online.

说明: 请以中国学生张锦秋(女)的身份填写下列表格          
具体信息如下:
出生年月: 1982年10月16日
联系地址:燕京市虹桥路496号
电话: [phone]
个人详细情况: 本人目前学历, 学习英语的目的和经历. 我的英语的强项和弱项,