教你怎么聽2 Lesson16
Unit sixteen Problems
1.Listne to each situation.
Write the question.
Then try to find a soulution.
1.A: Here is a puzzle, a riddle.
There is a man who leaves the thirteenth floor apartment and goos to work every day.
He gets in the elevator, presses the button for the ground floor,
gets ont and goos to work.
However when he goes home, he presses the button for the twelfth floor
and gets out at the twelfth floor and walks up to the thirteenth floor.
Why? Why do you think?
B:The elevator won't go up to the thirteenth floor?
A:No, it goes up to the thirteenth floor.
B:Er...no. Can you give me a hint?
A:OK. Here is the hint.
If he carries an umbrella or a tennis rocket,
he gets off at the thirteenth floor.
2.A: Here is another riddle.
One day Bill and Mary were found dead in the middle of the floor of their living room.
The window was open and some broken glass and water was found next to their bodies.
However there was no blood on the floor.
How did they die? Here is a hint.
Bill and Mary are names used not only for people.
3. A: Now this is a difficult one.
A gardener was told to plant four trees.
All the trees must he in the same distance from the other trees.
How did he plant the trees?
B: How about like this?
This tree is in the middle of the other three trees
and other three trees are in a triangle.
A: Then the tree in the center
is closer to the other trees than the trees in the triangle are from each other.
B: Ah,all four same distance from each other.
A: From each other, yeah.
B: Can you give me a hint?
A: Well, they don't all have to be at the same level.
B: Oh.
4. A: There are nine dots arranged in three rows, three dots in row.
Now what you have to do is to connect all the nine dots using only four straight lines,
and you can't lift your pen from the paper. OK?
So, how will you do that?
B: Well, let's see...Let's do it this way...mm.
Let's go this way....And this way is three lines?
A: Three lines !
B: Gee ... got a problem here.
A: Yeah, it doesn't look that you could make it.
B: Let's try again. Can you give me a hint?
A: OK. The lines can he extended beyond the boundaries created by the dots.
B: Ah, yes, yes, yes ...
Listen to the dialogue and complete the table below.
The first one has been done for you.
A: Oh Rod!Um,welcome back!
B: Hi Jim. My goodness. What on earth happened to the flat?
A: Er, I had a party with a few friends.
B. A few! It looks like a bomb fell on it.
A: kook. I'm really sony.I wasn't expecting you hack so soon.
I was going to tidy everything up before you got back.
B: Hmm. Hey, the leg on this table's broken,
A: Urn, yes. I think someone fell over it.I'll fix it, don't worry.
B: These are my records, aren't they?
This one's scratched.
A: Is it? Well I'll replace it,of course.
B: I've only just bought it.
A: Yes. I feel really bad about all this.You know what it's like, Rod.
Everyone was having fun and things just got,um,a bit out of hand.
B: Some of our glasses are broken too.Look.
A: Oh, I'll buy some new ones.
Urn,I'm afraid the record player doesn't work,
but I'll take it to the shop this afternoon.
B: Have you seen all this rubbish on the floor?
Empty cans, bottles,food, serviettes, cigarette ends
A: Yes, l was just about to clear it up.
I should have been more careful.
B: Whata disaster! What about these stains on the sofa
and the cigarette bums on the carpet?
A: Urn,I'll clean the sofa immediately and the cigarette bums. I'll ... well ...
3.Listen to Brian talking about an experience he had in Africa.
Then decide whether the following statements are ture or false.
Jan:Brian you've had some fairly horrifying experiences in your life,haven't you?
I mean, having lived all over the world and things like that.
Brian:Yes, I've been in earthquakes,
hurricanes, tornados, seen tidal waves, volcanos erupting,just about everything--
all possible--floods,all possible natural disasters,
but I think the most frightening experience was being involved in a bus crash.
Jan: In this country?
Brian: No, this was in Africa,
in a bus which was going through the countryside on a dirt road.
Er it was a bus crowded with people,
crowded with luggage and the bus had stopped at a small town,
at a bar,where the driver had a few beers
and then loaded a crate of beer on the bus on the roofrack.
When we eventually set off from that place the driver got up speed and suddenly ran off the road.
Er,I remember the bus turning over two or three times and grabbing hold of a handle
and eventually the bus came to rest upside down.
All I could feel was a tremendous bang on the head
which later turned out to be the crate of beer.
The only sound was of the engine still running.
Jan:People weren't screaming, and things like that?
Brian:No, there was a dead silence,absolute shocked silence
and it was a long way from any town or any village
and the only thing you could hear was the engine.
The driver ran away into the bush, he was frightened,
so what happened was everybody crawled out through the back window
and left their suitcases and possessions
and everyone was terrified the bus would explode
and eventually someone had the sense to turn the engine off
and we all crawled back in again to get our possessions,
and no one seemed particularly injured,
everyone was just shocked and stunned
and it was only after about ten or fifteen minutes of sitting on the ground
that people began to collapse
and become unconscious and suddenly appear very seriously injured.
Eventually a lorry came and took us to hospital
and it was only in hospital I realised just how serious it was.
A girl sitting next to me on the bus was also sitting next to me in the hospital
and the nurse was asking her her age, her religion, etc.etc.,
and suddenly the girl just lay down and died,
and three other people who'd been sitting near me also died.
So I think even though I've been in earthquakes and floods,
that was the most frightening experience,
being in the bus as it turned over and over.
