Dictation
Travel Books
There are three kinds of travel books. / The first are those that give a personal, subjective account of travels/ which the author has actually made himself. / If these books are informative/ and have a good index, / they can be very useful to you/ when you are planning your travels. / The second can be classified as selective guidebooks/ whose purpose is to give a purely objective description of things to be done and seen. / The third are those books which are called “a guide” to some place or other./ They will give an analysis or an interpretation./ They can be as inspiring and entertaining as the first kind, / but their primary function is to assist the reader / who wishes to plan his tour / in the most practical way
Conversations
1.
M: [1] Flight reservations, can I help you?
W: I’d like to book two seats to Alicante on a flight leaving this evening, please.
M: [2] There aren’t any direct flights, madam. You’ll have to change in Madrid.
W: That’s all right.
M: There’s a flight leaving Heathrow this evening at 6:10, and there are two seats available on that.
W: Fine.
M: I’ll just check the connecting flight. I am afraid all seats on that flight have been booked for tonight. The next one is tomorrow morning, leaving Madrid at 10:40.
W: All right, in that case, can you reserve two seats on the flight from Heathrow tonight, with the connection in the morning?
M: Certainly. What name, please?
W: Mr. and Mrs. John Laing.
M: Two seats for Mr. and Mrs. John Laing on Flight BE 486, leaving Heathrow at 6:10 tonight, and two seats on Flight IB 240 to Alicante, leaving Madrid at 10: tomorrow. Has Mr. Laing got a number where we can contact him if necessary?
W: Yes. His office number is 542 6378.
M: 542 6378. [3] The tickets should be collected at least forty-five minutes before departure this evening, madam.
W: All right. Thank you very much.
2.
W: Dan, you know the lab you missed? You can have my notes.
M: Thank you.
W: So how are you feeling?
M: Much better now that I began taking an antibiotic. Students Health gave me one, and it’s really help. You know that it amazes me that the human races survive before antibiotics.
W:Ｉagree. When my father was a young boy in the 1940’s, he got blood poisoned and would have died. But his doctor had heard of this new drug, called penicillin.
M: [5] Wow, he was really lucky. And now we have lots of antibiotics that kill bacteria.
W: Well, [4] penicillin kills bacteria, but not all antibiotics do. Some just slow the bacteria down until our normal immune defenses can finish the job. Tetracycline works that way.
M: Wow, how do you know all these?
W: My mother used to look up all our medicines, prescription and nonprescription. There are lots of books around. It’s interesting. What antibiotic are you taking?
M: I don’t remember. It’s on the bottle. [6] I think I’ll take a new look at the label and drop by the library to see if they have any reference books on medicines. See you in lab tomorrow.
3.
W: Excuse me, Professor Taylor.
give a personal reactionM: Yes, Jerry. How can I help you?
W: [10] I need to get your signature on my schedule card here, on the line above advisor’s approval.
M: Sure, but let’s look at it over together first. How many courses do you have here?
W: Six.
M: [9] That’s quite a heavy load. Any particular reason?
W: [7] I have to drop my Theoretical Dynamics last semester when I went into the hospital, so I need to take it again.
M: So you’ve already learnt a lot of the material.
W: Right. And a Methods of Mathematical Physics is a part of the third year requirement.
M: Let’s see, Physics, Methods of Mathematical Physics. OH, I see you’ll be in my seminar of computer science.
W: I’m looking forward to it and the fascinating seminar of optical computer, too.
M: Two seminars? Can you handle the work?
W: I think so. [8] The Introductory Economics is fairly easy and so is the course of Mechanical Drawing.
M: Well, I’ll be happy to sign the card. [9/10] However, I insist that you come to see me after the first week of classes so we can make sure this isn’t too much for you.
Passages
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We have no idea about when men first began to use salt, but we do know that it has been used in many different ways throughout history. For example, it is recorded in many history books that people who lived over three thousand years ago ate salted fish. [11] Thousands of years ago in Egypt, salt was used to preserve the dead. In some periods of history, a person who stole salt was thought to have broken the law. Take the eighteenth century for example. If a person was caught stealing salt, he would be thrown into prison. History also records that only in England about ten thousand people were put into prison during that century for stealing salt! About four hundred and fifty years ago, [12] in the year 1553, if a man took more than his share of salt, he would be thought to have broken the law and would be seriously punished, and his ear would be cut off. Salt was an important item on the dinner table of a king. It was always placed in front of the king when he sat down to eat. Important guests at the king’s table were seated near the salt. Less important guests were given seats farther away from it.

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