翻译在最后Conversation OneM: Guess what? The worst food Ive ever had was in France.W: Really? Thats odd. I thought the French were all good cooks.M: Yes. Thats right. I suppose its really like anywhere else, though. You know, some places are good. Some bad. But its really all our own fault.W: What do you mean?M: Well, it was the first time Id been to France. This was years ago when I was at school. I went there with my parents friends, from my fathers school. Theyd hired a coach to take them to Switzerland.W: A school trip?M: Right. Most of them had never been abroad before. Wed crossed the English Channel at night, and we set off through France, and breakfast time arrived, and the coach driver had arranged for us to stop at this little caf. There we all were, tired and hungry, and then we made the great discovery.W: What was that?M: Bacon and eggs.W: Fantastic! The real English breakfast.M: Yes. Anyway, we didnt know any better so we had it, and ugh.!W: What was it like? Disgusting?M: Oh, it was incredible! They just got a bowl and put some fat in it. And then they put some bacon in the fat, broke an egg over the top and put the whole lot in the oven for about ten minutes.W: In the oven! Youre joking. You cant cook bacon and eggs in the oven!M: Well. They must have done it that way. It was hot, but it wasnt cooked. There was just this egg floating about in gallons of fat and raw bacon.W: Did you actually eat it?M: No! Nobody did. They all wanted to turn round and go home. You know, back to teabags and fish and chips. You cant blame them really. Anyway, the next night we were all given another foreign speciality.W: What was that?M: Snails. That really finished them off. Lovely holiday that was!Questions 1 to 4 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 1. What did the woman think of the French?Question 2. Who did the man travel with on his first trip to Switzerland?Question 3. What does the man say about the breakfast at the little French caf?推荐精选Question 4. What did the man think of his holiday in France?Conversation TwoM: You say your shop has been doing well. Could you give me some idea of what “doing well” means in facts and figures?W: Well, “doing well” means averaging 1,200 or more a week for about 7 years, making almost a quarter of a million pounds. And “doing well” means your earnings are rising. Last year, we did slightly over 50,000 and this year, we hope to do more than 60,000. So, thats good if we continue to rise.M: Now, thats gross earnings, I assume. What about your expenses?W: Yes, thats gross. The expenses, of course, go up steadily. And since weve moved to this new shop, the expenses have increased greatly, because its a much bigger shop. So I couldnt say exactly what our expenses are. They are something in the region of six or seven thousand pounds a year, which is not high. Commercially speaking, its fairly low, and we try to keep our expenses as low as we can.M: And your prices are much lower than the same goods in shops round about. How do the local shopkeepers feel about having a shop doing so well in their midst?W: Perhaps a lot of them dont realize how well we are doing, because we dont make a point of publicizing. That was a lesson we learned very early on. We were very friendly with all local shopkeepers and we happened to mention to a local shopkeeper how much we had made that week. He was very unhappy and never as friendly again. So we make a point of never publicizing the amount of money we make. But we are on very good terms with all the shops. None of them have ever complained that we are putting them out of business or anything like that. I think its a nice friendly relationship. Maybe if they did know what we made, perhaps they wouldnt be so friendly.Questions 5 to 8 are based on the conversation you have just heard.Question 5. What are the speakers mainly talking about?Question 6. What does the woman say her shop tries to do?Question 7. What do we learn about the goods sold at the womans shop?Question 8. Why doesnt the woman want to make known their earnings anymore?Passage OneBirds are famous for carrying things around.Some, like homing pigeons, can be trained to deliver messages and packages.Other birds unknowingly carry seeds that cling to them for the ride.Canadian scientists have found a worrisome, new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.推荐精选Way up north in the Canadian Arctic, seabirds are picking up dangerous chemicals in the ocean and delivering them to ponds near where the birds live.Some 10,000 pairs of the birds, called fulmars, a kind of Arctic seabird, make their nests on Devon Island, north of the Arctic Circle.The fulmars travel some 400 kilometers over the sea to find food.When they return home, their droppings end up all around their nesting sites, including in nearby ponds.Previously,