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7Unit 40 Lesson11.Aiko!2.David! How nice to see you!3.and you, too. Hey, who’s washing have you got there?4.It belongs to one of my clients.5.Your what?6. It’s all part of the service, as they say.7.Yes, of course.8. Porter!9. Yes, madam?10.Could you take this up to room 2613, please?11. I’m sorry, madam. Would you please speak more slowly and clearly?12. Take this to room 2613, please.13. Ah, yes, room 2316. Certainly, madam.14. Not 2316, 2613!15 Ah yes, madam. Certainly.16.This hotel is dr eadful! Nobody understands English. You can’t have your laudry done. They don’t even clean the sheets properly.17 One of my clients refused to get into the bed. I had to change his sheets myself.18. Wow! If you don’t mind my asking, what kind of job are you doing nowadays, Aiko?19.I’m a tourist guide: I work with groups of Japanese people on vacation around the world.20.Oh I see! No, it’s just the way you were talking about “clients”-21.it kind of gives the impression that you’re, like, some kind of ge isha, if you see what I mean.22. Oh dear, was I using the wrong word? What should I call them-customers?23. But really-here I am, asking you for an English lesson one minute after meeting you again .You must forgive me.24.Hey, that’s alright, Aiko. That’s what teachers are for, giving people lessons.25. Then perhaps we can have a quick one later, as your saying in English?26. Yes.27. Look, why are we standing around in this dreadful lobby? Let’s go and have a coffee.28. Sure-why not?29.Would you like wine in a bottle, David?30. No thanks, I’m not hungry. So, how much longer will you be staying in Washdon?31. Just two more days, that’s all. Then we go to Copenhagen for one day, Manila for one day,32.and Johannesburg for a day and a half. And then back to Tokyo.33.It sounds exhausting! How many people are there on the tour?34. Fifty-five.35.None of whom speak English, I imagine?36. Hardly any of them.37.I'd go crazy. I suppose all the guys keep trying to flirt with you as well.38.Oh no they're very respectable gentlemen!39.They're all senior executive from the Japanese National Motor Vehicle Insurance Corporation.40 Oh, Geez! Travelling around the world from airport to hotel with fifty-five middle-agedinsurance executives!41 Oh well, I suppose you're well covered, if one of them goes crazy and burns the hotel down,42. or takes off his clothes in the middle of Kennedy Plaza.43. Sorry David, I don't understand.44. I mean you must be covered by insurance, if anything goes wrong. Just a joke, that's all.45.Oh yes, I have to be insured against accident, both to me and to the clients. That's the law in Japan.46.I see. Anyway, I'm sure you can't wait to escape from your clients and live dangerously from time to time.47. Oh, David no, I enjoy my job very much. But I was going to ask you to join me this evening for a drink.48 Hey, thanks. Where do you have in mind?49I'm not sure. Can you think of any really typical Washdon bars we could go to?50 Well yes, I know one or two bars. Let me think. I've got it: "Romeo's” in Jefferson Avenue.51, That's got a nice intimate atmosphere.52. What do you mean intimate?53. I mean you know, ideal for a quiet drink. Getting to know each other-that sort of thing.54. I see. So how do you get to this bar?55. Well, as I said, it's in Jefferson Avenue, near Brookless Bridge.56. Just tell your driver to take a right before the bridge, and park anywhere along Jefferson Avenue.57.You're very knowledgeable.58.It's all part of the service, as you said earlier.59.Well, I must go now, David. We're invited to tea with some representatives of the Britican Insurance Association.60.You could come to if you like. It should be very interesting.61.Hey, it's real nice of you, but, uh...I've got something else on, as it happens.62. OK. Well see you this evening, then. About 8:30 at "Romeo’s”.63. See you later, Aiko.64. Hi!65.Hello, darling You're back nice and early today.66Yeah, that's right.67.My six o'clock class was cancelled, because the students went on an excursion to Buckington Castle.68. I thought you already took them to Buckington Castle last week.69.Did I? Oh, yeah. Well. I guess they liked it so much they decided to go back there.70. Anyway, darling, it means we can have a nice, quiet evening together, eh?71.Sigismonda's asleep, and I'm cooking us a special dinner.72. Oh, right! Look, uh, darling, unfortunately, I've got to go out with some of the students this evening.73. It's a real drag, you know.74. I thought they'd gone to Buckington Castle.75. Yes, but they're coming back this evening, you know, especially for this -this, drink thing, Look, I'm sorry dear,76. but it's one of my duties as a teacher to entertain the students, and all that. You know I hate doing it.77. They why do you keep on doing it? Why do you keep on teaching at that school, complaining to me all the time,78. but never doing anything about it? I've had enough of this, David! enough --do you understand?79.When I married you, I thought you were going to do great things! I thought you were so clever!80.I thought you were capable of doing anything, but you’re not, David! You’re not a real man!81. You’re not strong enough-you’re just a weak frightened little boy, afraid of the world.82.When are you going to do something with your life? Well?? For God sake say something-don’t just stand there!83.Look, why don’t I call the school and arrange to go out with the students tomorrow night instead?84.Is that all you can say! No, go out with them now! This minute! Go on–go!85. Look darling, maybe if we just talked about this-86. Get out!87. Oh, hell!88.Henson reporting. David Peters has just left his apartment, sir, followed by a –wait a moment, sir-a dinner plate.89. No no, a soup bowl. Definitely a soup bowl. A new one, I’d say sir, probably of Italian manufacture.90. What are you go on about, Henson? Just follow him, will you? Where’s he going?91. He’s now going into McCarthy Park subway station, sir. I think he may be intending to catch a train.92. Well, get on the same train, and don’t lose him this time.93. There is just one problem, sir, about my travel expenses.94 . What about them? You can claim the subway ticket as a travel expense, obviously. Just get on with it!e to think of it, sir, I can use my commuter pass! That’ll save the Department a bit of money, won’t it?96. Can I see your ticket please, sir.97. I’ve got a commuter pass.98. Let me take a look at it, then.99.This pass isn’t valid, you know.100.Yes, it is. It’s valid till March 6th.101.It’s not valid at this station. See what it says here “valid only for travel in zones 1 and1a”. This station is in zone 2.102. Look, I’m a police officer, traveling on duty, and I’m in a hurry. Will you let me pass, please?103. I don’t give if you’re the Archa ngel Gabriel come to announce the end of the world, 104. You’ve still got to pay your fine, like everybody else.105. Oh, alright- here’s $10. Goodbye!106. Not so fast! Where did you get on?Unit40 lesson1sFMini-dialogueMiss Annie Peters26 Chernobyl Avenue42232 WashdonGREAT BRITICA Tokyo, Japan 12 MarchDear Annie,I know this will come as an enormous surprise to you, I hope it will be a pleasant rather than an unpleasant one. As you can see. I didn’t die in Trinidad although I came very close to it, and I have taken the opportunity during these past few years to look at my life and what really matters to me.I have realized, Annie, that my only purpose in life for as long as I can remember has beento make money as much as possible and as quickly as possible paying no attention to my relationships with other peopleThis is why your mother left me and this was why I was on the point of losing contact with both you and David.I want you to understand first of all that I have decided to change. Annie because I have realized how much I really care about you and David.For various obvious reasons, I can’t tell you in this letter how to get in touch with me but I’ll try and get a personal message to you or David in the next couple of weeks.You will easily understand that I may not be able to come to Washdon myself, but I hope we can meet somewhere not too far away. I’m sure you have hundreds of questions to ask me. I look forward to answering them more than I can tell you in words.Your loving father,HugoLesson3.sectionAToday EOL Travel welcomes you to New York City. Approaching over the bay we see the Statue of Liberty, the defining symbol in first sight of America for so many millions of immigrants over the years. New York City is the home of the skyscraper or highrise. The city’s tallest are the World Trade Center twin towers. However, the most famous is still the Empire State Building. It’s incredible to think it was constructed as long ago as 1929. St. Patrick’s Cathedral was built in the 19th century when huge numbers of Irish immigrants were pouring into the New York. Jewish immigrants from Russia and eastern Europe have also been immensely influential in New York’s cultural life. Today New York is one of the world’s leading centers for the arts. For painting and sculptures, it’s perhaps the leading center. It attracts artists and performers from all over the world. When you’ve performed in New York City, you know you’ve really arrived. And then you can treat yourself to a hot dog, which originated in New York along with so many symbols of the American way of life. The yellow cab is another example. A more leisurely and old-fashioned form of transportation is still available in Central Park. It’s all very relaxing unlike most other New York a ctivities. New York, of course, is about business and finance above all. It’s the United States’ number one financial center and one of the world’s big three. More sharesare traded on New York Stock Exchange than on any other exchange in the world. And for people all around the world, Wall Street symbolizes wealth, power, and success. Another World famous symbol of New York is the extensive subway system. Once notoriously dirty and dangerously crime infested, it has become much safer and cleaner in recent years. We’ll leave the subway. At Time Square Station with its huge advertising billboards by day, and its neon signs by night. New York is also the capital of the nation’s advertising industry. Sure, New Yorkers work hard but they also play hard. And at night the New York custom is to go out, often to the theater. If you’re lucky, maybe to Broadway, the most famous street name in the world of show business. And if a Broadway musical isn’t your idea of entertainment, you’re bound to find something else you like, whether it’s a movie or music or theater or dance. And you can go out looking at any time of the day or night. This is the city that never sleeps. New Yorkers love Christmas-even though many of them weren’t brought up as Christians-and exchange generous presents and hospitality at this time of the year. Winters are freezing cold in New York just as the summers tend to be baking hot. Temperatures of zero fahrenheit, that’s minus 20 centigrade, are not uncommon in January and February. Still, most New Y orkers are happy to put up with such inconveniences. It’s a price worth paying to live in what is probably the world’s most dynamic and exciting city.。