人人说英语(高级口语) 1_un6-10

[06:56.76]This morning he got up late
[07:01.43]He went without breakfast and hurried out to the car
[07:08.09]but he locked the door with both the house
[07:14.34]and car keys inside the house and car keys inside the bouse.
[07:19.38]He had to break a window to get into the house for his keys
[07:28.05]When Henry finally got to the store,
[07:33.02]there were a lot of people waiting for him to open up
[07:40.07]He opened the store and started waiting on these people
[07:46.00]Then Henry had to bread a roll
[07:50.15]of quarters against the cash register drawer to make change
[07:57.81]and they spilled all over the floor
[08:02.56]He got down on his hands and knees to pick up the coins
[08:10.11]When he came up,he bumped his head on the open cash drawer
[08:18.36]It made him stagger back against a showcase
[08:24.61]with a bunch of perfume bottles in it
[08:29.07]and half of them hit the floor and broke
[08:34.53]E-mail(M)
[08:37.88]Ben goes to apply for a job as a floor cleaner with a computer company
[08:44.04]The manager says,"You will be employed at $5 an hour
[08:49.82]Let me have your e-mail address
[08:53.58]so I can send you a form to complete
[08:57.23]and tell you where to report for work on your first day."
[09:01.68]Taken aback,Ben says he doesn't have an e-mail address
[09:07.53]To this,the manager replies,
[09:11.68]"Well,then,that means you can hardly expect to be employed
[09:16.83]Ben leaves.Not knowing where to turn and having only $10 in his wallet
[09:23.88]he decides to buy a 25-pound box of potatoes in a supermarket
[09:29.76]Getting up early every day and going to bed late,he makes profits quickly
[09:37.02]Just in a few year,he is the owner of a fleet of pick-up trucks
[09:42.97]and manages a staff of a hundred formerly unemployed people,all selling potatoes
[09:50.34]Ben is doing business with a woman,
[09:54.00]and the woman asks him for his e-mail address
[09:58.36]in order to send some papers electronically
[10:02.33]When Ben says he has no e-mail,the woman asks,
[10:07.66]"What,you don't have e-mail,?
[10:11.50]How on earth have you managed to do business without e-mail?"
[10:16.15]Just imagine where you wold be now,
[10:20.70]if you had been connected to the Internet from the very start!"
[10:25.24]After a moment of thought,Ben replies,"
[10:29.08]Why,of course!I would be a floor cleaner at a computer company!"
[10:35.32]Unit 9  People
[10:49.40]Thanks Anyway(M)
[10:52.93]A man was walking on a railroad
[10:58.18]when suddenly he got his foot caught in the tracks
[11:04.56]He tried to get it out but it was really stuck
[11:10.41]He heard a noise and turned around to see a train coming
[11:16.57]He panicked and started to pray,
[11:21.30]"God.please get my foot out of these tracks and I'll stop drinking!"
[11:28.07]Nothing happened,it was still stuckk,and the train was getting closer!
[11:36.32]He prayed again,"God,please get my foot out and I'll stop drinking and smoking."
[11:45.38]Still nothing happened,and the train was just seconds away!
[11:52.54]He tried it one more time,"God,please,if you get my foot out,
[12:01.08]I'll quit drinking,smoking,and gambling."
[12:06.65]Suddenly his foot shot out of the tracks,
[12:11.38]and he was able to dive out of the way just in time
[12:16.97]He got up,dusted himself off,looked toward heaven and said,
[12:24.10]"Thanks anyway,God.I got it myself."
[12:29.53]$100,000(M)
[12:33.37]Nick won $100,000 from gambling
[12:37.92]After he came back,he immediately went to the backyard of his house
[12:43.69]dug a hole and planted the money in it
[12:47.63]The following morning he walked outside and found only an empty hole
[12:53.09]He noticed footsteps leading from the hole to the house next door
[12:58.97]which was owned by a Russian woman
[13:02.52]On the same street lived a professor who spoke Russian
[13:07.07]and was a friend of the Russian woman
[13:10.54]Grabbing his gun,Nick went to awaken the professor
[13:15.40]He dragged the professor to the Russian woman's house
[13:19.84]"You tell her if she doesn't give me back my $100,000,I'm going to kill her!"