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| 发布时间：2006-9-1 12:18:33 | 信息来源：本站原创 | 浏览： | |
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(Pause.)
Salesgirl: How's it going then?
Interviewer: Fine. Give us a packet of Seniors, will you. I'm dying for a smoke.
Salesgirl: That's 60p.
Interviewer: What about you. Don't you smoke ...?
(1) Interviewer: Why do the actors wear roller-skates?
Designer: Well, they're all playing trains, you see.
Interviewer: Trains?
Designer: Yes, singing trains and they have to skate all round the audience at very high speeds. We've designed special lightweight costumes for them out of foam rubber, otherwise (pause) they'd be exhausted at the end of each performance.
(2) I found it took me rather a long time to get into the book. I mean, I kept wondering when we were going to begin with the plot, when we were going to get the actual story. Apart from that I must say that (pause) I enjoyed it very much.
(3) I found it very exciting and moving. I couldn't put it down and (pause) I stayed up very late to finish it.
(4) Well, I do agree with Jane that the book took a long time to start. In fact, for me, it's only honest to say that (pause) the book never really got started at all.
(5) I'm one of those impatient readers who want to get straight into a book from the beginning. Otherwise (pause) I tend to skip parts that don't really hold my interest.
(6) A: I'm afraid I did quite a lot of skipping with Alan Bailey's novel. And with over five hundred pages it was a bit of a disappointment really.
B: Yes, I must admit that (pause) it was rather long.
Books Belong to the Past
Sir,
I visited my old school yesterday. It hasn't changed in thirty years. The pupils were sitting in the same desks and reading the same books. When are schools going to move into the modern world? Books belong to the past. In our homes radio and television bring us knowledge of the world. We can see and hear the truth for ourselves. If we want entertainment most of us prefer a modern film to a classical novel. In the business world computers store information, so that we no longer need encyclopaedias and dictionaries. But in the schools teachers and pupils still use books. There should be a radio and television set in every classroom, and a library of tapes and records in every school. The children of today will rarely open a book when they leave school. The children of tomorrow won't need to read and write at all.
M.P. Miller
London
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