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UNIT 13 Lesson 2 Talking about others 谈论别人

One per cent 百分之一

角色： WENDY     SIMON

WENDY: He was talking to Anne. At first I thought he was so mean. A real snob, you know?

SIMON: He’s not, though. He said he barely got through school. He told me he did really badly at university.

WENDY: Well, he learned to run a company somewhere. He makes a ton of money.

SIMON: That’s the thing. He said he was bad at maths.

WENDY: At what?

SIMON: Maths.

WENDY: You mean “math?”

SIMON: We say “maths.”

WENDY: You must mean all the different maths. Because I mean the one basic math.

SIMON: Whatever.

SIMON: But Wendy, listen to this. He told me making money is easy. He said, “If I buy something for one dollar, and sell it for two, I make money from that one per cent difference.

WENDY: One per cent? You mean a hundred per cent.

SIMON: Right. The man can’t figure a percentage to save his life.

WENDY: Tell me about it. You should see the tip he left me!

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UNIT27 Lesson 1 Agreement and disagreement 赞成和不赞成

The future 将来

角色 KEVIN     DEAN

KEVIN: So what’s your plan, Dean? I mean, after your internship?

DEAN: I finish school. After school, I look for a job.

KEVIN: With your qualifications, you won’t have much of a problem.

DEAN: I wish that were true. Lots of qualified people can’t get work.

KEVIN: Because businesses can’t afford to hire people?

DEAN: That’s what they say. Especially with benefits.

DEAN: So I may not get a job for a long time. And if I can’t get a job, unemployment must be too high.

DEAN: Of course, I still have to pay off my student loans.

KEVIN: You have to pay for university yourself? Doesn’t the government subsidize you?

DEAN: Not much. You’re pretty much on your own.

KEVIN: Funny how the newspaper headlines start to affect your life. Unemployment, inflation…Well, that’s not very cheerful, is it?

DEAN: If only the sports pages were better!