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W: The doll is five dollars.
M: All right, I’ll take it. Will you wrap it for me
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M: Where have you been all this time The plane is about to leave.
W: I’m sorry I’m late, but I was waiting for you at the hotel. It’s lucky I had caught up with you here on the airport.
[听力原文]11-15
All the housewives who went to the new supermarket had one great ambition: to be the lucky customer who did not have to pay for her shopping. For this was what the no rice just inside the entrance promised. It said: "Remember, once a week, one of our customers gets free goods. This may be your lucky day!"
For several weeks Mrs. Edwards hoped, like many of her friends, to be the lucky customer. Unlike her friends, she never gave up hope. The cupboards in her kitchen were full of things which she did not need. In vain her husband tried to dissuade her. She dreamed of the day when the manager of the supermarket would approach her and say: "Madam, this is your lucky day. Everything in your basket is free."
On Friday morning, after she had finished shopping and had taken it to her car, she found that she had forgotten to buy any tea. She dashed back into the supermarket, got the tea and went towards the cash desk. As she did so,
[听力原文]11-15
All mammals, except man and the monkey, swim naturally from birth. For man, like the monkey, it is not instructive to float. Deaths by drowning are common every where. In the United States alone, about 7,000 children under four drown each year.
Everything possible is done to prevent such tragedies. One solution’ s particularly effective--teaching children to swim while they are still babies. Most large towns in Florida and California already run lessons for babies and infants. The idea has spread to Europe where, in several countries, special courses are now arranged for children from seven to twenty - four months.
The first step is to eliminate the child’ s fear of the water. Next, he’s taught to float. Once he can do this naturally and without fear, the child grasps the technique and can push forward himself through the water.
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