英语初级口语(mp3+lrc字幕)Lesson16

[00:00.00]Lesson 16
[00:03.53]Text A
[00:05.15]The Charcoal Pit
[00:07.21]Erika was worried.Her restaurant was losing customers. The new restaurant across the street now had more customers than she did.
[00:07.26]She had even seen some of her own customers going to eat at The Charcoal Pit.What was she going to do?
[00:13.90]One thing she could do was revise her menu.Maybe not everyone wanted hamburgers.She might add omelets and casseroles.The menu might help.
[00:24.45]Perhaps the decor of her restaurant was dated.She could redecorate the place.Erika decided to consult an interior decorator
[00:33.93]who could give her some new ideas.A face-lift for Burger Haven would certainly lift her spirits.
[00:40.49]In fact,she felt better after thinking of some improvements.Erika would fight to make her restaurant the most popular one in town.
[00:49.82]Text B
[00:51.17]There Is Hope for Us!
[00:53.63]Tina and leela are talking to each other.They are standing outside a dance-hall and they are talking about dancing.
[01:01.68]TINA:I haven't danced for a long time.
[01:04.44]LEELA:Neither have I.
[01:06.35]TINA:We must go to a dance soon,or we'll forget how to dance.
[01:10.45]LEELA:Yes,we must.What have you been doing since I last saw you?
[01:15.57]TINA:I've been studying hard for my examinations.And you?
[01:19.91]LEELA:I've been learning Japanese every evening.
[01:23.33]TINA:Why have you been learning Japanese?Why not English?
[01:27.46]LEELA:I hope to visit Japan next year.
[01:30.67]TINA:Well,we'll both have to start learning all the new dances.
[01:34.88]LEELA:Yes,let's go into the dance-hall and ask if we can take dancing-lesson.
[01:40.55]TINA:A good idea.They can teach elephants to dance nowadays:perhaps there's hope for us!
[01:48.62]7.
[01:50.50]Read the following passage once.Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
[01:59.93]When I looked out the window and saw the snow drift in driveway,
[02:03.98]I thought to myself that I should never hafe gotten out of bed.
[02:08.65]I had been making preparations for more than two days for a large dinner party to be held that night
[02:08.76]and knew that several of the people I was expecting to come would be calling to cancelf if the snow continued much longer.
[02:16.99]I called upstairs to tell Jerry to look out the window.
[02:22.03]Jerry heard me and quickly got out of bed.He knew that the weathere people had been predicting snow.
[02:29.69]Now it had really come.