Unit 6
Part One
E = E.T. H = Human Being
H: Hey, why are you dressed in such a funny costume? Are you trying to tell me you
are from Mars? Don't be silly! It's not Halloween. Come on. Take off the costume.
E: Ouch! Stop! This is my life support! I landed on this planet only yesterday. How
can you treat a visitor so rudely!
H: I'm sorry. But did you say you just came to this planet?
E: That's right! I was traveling space the other day when I met a human being called
Yang Liwei. He told me that his homeland on Earth is extremely attractive. So I
decided to come here to have a look.
H: Wow! You are a real E.T.! Welcome, but I still don't believe it.
E: You'd better believe it. I'm a real E.T.! Good to meet you!
H: Welcome to Earth. Have you found anything different here?
E: Sure. There are so many people, bicycles and cars on the streets that they can
hardly move. And the bicycles and cars look like toys. I have never seen them before.
We don't need them at all. We can move freely whenever and wherever we want.
H: Well, it would be nice not to have traffic jams.
E: But it looks like you are enjoying life more than we do. It's beautiful here with all
the trees and flowers. I hear that there are lots of interesting places here.
H: There sure are!
E: And the food you eat attracts me very much, especially the vegetables and fruits.
H: Don't you have attractive and tasty foods at home?
E: No, we need only electricity. It gives us enough energy to keep alive and active.
H: Amazing!
E: And I notice that you play interesting and exciting games. I watched one game and
enjoyed it very much. There were ten people and one ball moving back and forth. Is it
called basketball?
H: Yeah, that's right. Basketball is one of the most popular sports. Many people here
love it. It's not strange that you liked it when you saw it. There are also many other
kinds of sports, such as football, tennis and volleyball. All of them are very exciting to
us.
E: I wish we had exciting sports. We spend too much time on high technology.
Everything in our world is controlled by computers and all we have to do is sit in
front of them to get what we want and need.
H: So, do you play computer games as sports? Some of us like them very much.
E: They were popular on our planet one hundred years ago. Now nobody has much
interest in them. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but I must say our computer
technology is much more advanced than yours.
H: You must be kidding. We have always thought that humans are the most
intelligent creatures in the universe. But anyway, I'd really like to take a trip to outer
space and see what exactly your life is like. Can I go back with you? That would be
great!
E: I'd love to take you there, but there are two problems. How would you survive on
my planet without oxygen? And how could you return to Earth by yourself?
H: Do you mean that it's impossible for me to go with you to your place?
E: That's right. But if it is ever possible, I promise you I'll show you around when you
get there. I do have to go back now because I've almost used up the electricity in my
body. It's been nice talking with you. I really do have to say goodbye for now.
H: One day I hope we do meet again and I hope you will keep your promise. Bye.
Exercise 2
1.D 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.A 6.B
Exercise 3
1.dressed in 2.costume 3.rudely 4.whenever wherever 5.much more advanced
6.creatures 7.what exactly 8,.survive 9.show you around ed up
Part Two
Listening I
Reporter: How do you do, Mr. Howard? I'm from the Morning Express. I'd like to
ask you some questions.
Mr. Howard: All right. What do you want to know?
Reporter: First, please tell me when and where you saw the UFO.
Mr. Howard: It was last night, around midnight. I had just fallen asleep when my
dog barked.
Reporter: What did you do?
Mr.Howard: I didn't know why he was barking, so I looked out of the window.
Reporter: Tell me what you saw in the yard.
Mr.Howard: Well, there was a huge silver rocket that glowed.
Reporter: Incredible! Our readers will want to know if there were people in the
rocket.
Mr.Howard: There were faces looking out of the windows, but I couldn't identify
them because of the curtains.
Reporter: Curtains on the windows of a UFO? Thank you very much, Mr. Howard!
Exercise 1
1.B 2,C 3.D 4.A 5.A 6.A
Exercise 2
1.midnight 2.barking 3.sliver 4.glowed 5.faces 6.windows 7. identify 8.curtains
Listening II
John: Sue, have you ever heard the story of King Umberto I of Italy?
Sue: King Umberto I? I don't think so.
John: It's a very interesting story. I read that on July 28th, 1900, King Umberto met a
man who owned a restaurant in Milan.
Sue: Mm-hmm.
John: And he and this man, they looked exactly alike.
Sue: Oh?
John: They were identical. And they talked to each other, and they found out that
both their wives were called Maria, both had sons named Vittorio and they were born
on the same day at exactly the same time.
Sue: Oh, gosh!
John: Get this: They started to work in the same year. I mean, Umberto became king
in the same year that this man opened his restaurant business.
