Margaret: Hello again, Stuart. What can I do for you? Stuart: Are you free for lunch today? Margaret: Yes, I think so. What time? Stuart: One o'clock? Margaret: OK, where?
Stuart: Lacy's, in Marston Street. Do you know where it is? Margaret: No.
Stuart: Well, you take a 47 bus from the office, get off at Grange Square, cross the road, turn left, take the first on your right, and Lacy's is a few yards down the road on you left, opposite a church. You can't miss it.
Margaret：But I won't be coming from the office. I've got a meeting at the town hall; I'll be coming straight from there.
Stuart: OK. Then get a number 17, get off in front of the cathedral, walk through the park, then go along the canal to the right and over the first bridge, and you'll come out opposite Marston Street. Lacy's is down the other end on the right. You can't miss it.
Margaret: No, I bet. Did you say one o'clock? Stuart: Yes. Is that OK?
Margaret: No, on second thoughts, can we make it a bit earlier? Say a quarter to?
Stuart: Quarter to one, OK.
Margaret: All right. See you then. Macy's, in Caxton Street, right.
Stuart: No!
Ex. Listen to the dialogue and complete the passage. Stuart asked Margaret to have (1) lunch together. They will meet at Lucy’s, in (2) Marston Street at (3) a quarter to nine. Margaret can take a (4) 47 bus from the (5) office, gets off at (6) Grange Square, (7) cross the road, turns (8) left, takes the (9) first on her (10) right, and Lacy’s is a few yards down the road on the (11) left, opposite a (12) church. However, Margaret won’t be coming from the office.
She’s got a meeting at the (13) town hall. She’ll be coming straight from there. Then she can get a number (14) 17, gets off in front of the (15) cathedral, walk through the (16) park, then go along the (17) canal to the (18) right and over the (19) first bridge, and she’ll come out (20) opposite Marston Street. Lacy’s is down at the (21) other end on the (22) right.
Part 2 Passages Passage 1 Sleep and Language learning
If you ask some people “how did you learn English so well?”, you may get a surprising answer: “In my sleep!” These are people who have taken part in one of the recent experiments to test learn-while-you-sleep methods, which are now being tried in several countries, and with several subjects, of which English is only one.
Specialists say that this sleep-study method speeds language learning tremendously. They say that the average person can learn two or three times as much during sleep as in the same period during the day- and this does not affect his rest in any way. A word of warning, however: sleep-teaching will only hammer into your head what you have studied while you are awake.
In one experiment, ten lessons were broadcast over the radio at intervals of a fortnight. Each lesson lasted twelve hours- from 8 p.m. to 8 a.m. The first three hours of English grammar and vocabulary were given with the students awake. At 11 p.m. a soothing lullaby was broadcast to send the student to sleep and for the next three hours the radio whispered the lesson again into his sleeping ears. At 2 a.m. a sharp noise was sent over the radio to wake the sleeping student up for a few minutes of revision. Then he was lulled
back to rest again while the radio purred on. At 5 o’clock his sleep ended and he had to go through the lesson for three hours before his hard-earned breakfast.
Exercise: 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. D 5. C 6. C 7. A 8. B Part3 News News Item 1
In many developing countries, weather reports remain trapped in the capital. National weather services have the information, but no way to get it to farmers and other people in rural communities.
This is the job of an international project called RANET-Rural Communications using Radio and the Internet. RANET works with national weather services to improve their reach.
The project develops networks of satellite receiver systems, community radio stations and other technologies. Communities often are provided with some equipment, but the systems are locally owned and supported. RANET is working to improve communications in countries with limited power supplies.
Exercise A: Listen to the news item and complete the following summary.
This news item is about getting weather reports to rural communities. Exercise B: Listen to the news item again and answer the following questions.
1. What’s the situation of weather services in many developing countries?
In many developing countries, national weather services have the information, but there is no way to get it to people in rural communities. 2. What does RANET mean?
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