做到生活充满意外。

Unit12 Life is full of the unexpected.

Section A  2d

Matt: Kevin, why are you late for class today?

马特：凯文，你今天为什么上课迟到了？

Kevin: my alarm clock didn't go off! I always go to sleep and when I wake up, it's 8 o 'clock in the morning. Matt: Oh, no!

凯文：我的闹钟没有响！我一直睡觉，当我醒来时，已经是早上8点了！马特：哦，不！

Kevin: so I quickly put on clothes and rushed out of the house.

凯文：所以我迅速穿上衣服冲出家门。

Matt: you didn't eat breakfast?

玛特：你没吃早餐吗？

Kevin: No, I didn't even brush my teeth and wash my face, but before I got to the station, the bus had already left.

凯文：没有，我甚至没有刷牙也没有洗脸！但在我到达车站之前，汽车就已经开走了。

Matt: so how did you come here?

马特：那你是怎么来这儿的？

Kevin: Fortunately, Carle's father saw me on the road, so I took his car.

凯文：幸运的是，卡尔的父亲看见我在路上，让我搭了他的车。

Matt: Well, at least when you get to school, you're only 5 minutes late for class.

马特：嗯。至少当你到达学校时，上课只迟到了5分钟。

Section A ,3a

Life is full of surprises.

生活充满了意外

Rise is probably in May 2001, I New York World Trade Center to find a job. 2001 September 11, I was in the morning at 8 and a half to reach the building. I was about to go upstairs, then I decided to go to buy a cup of coffee. I went to my favorite coffee shop, although it is in my office to the east two blocks away. When I am and other office workers waiting time, heard a loud noise. I haven't enough time to join the outside people to find out what what thing, the first plane hit my office building. We are anxious Leng Leng ground to stare at the burning building in the black smoke, can't believe (that) I think I'm lucky to be alive.

2001年5月，我在纽约世贸中心找到了一份工作。2001年9月11日，我大概在早上8点半到达了工作的大楼。我正要上楼，这时我决定先去买一杯咖啡。我去了我最喜欢的咖啡店，虽然它在我办公室东边两个街区以外。当我正在和其他办公室职员排队等待的时候，听到一声巨响。我还没来得及加入屋外的人群弄清究竟发生了什么事儿，第一架飞机已经撞上了我办公室的大楼。我们急愣愣地盯着燃烧的大楼上升起的黑烟，无法相信（这一切）。我觉得我能够活着很幸运。

About ten years later, February 21, 2011, I wake up, at ten o'clock in the morning and realized my alarm did not sound. From my bed jumped up and went straight to the airport. But when I got to the airport, I flew to New Zealand flight had taken off. "But this my first vacation this year, I actually miss the flight. Really unlucky"! I muse. Other flights are already full. I had to the next day. (results) the next morning, I heard the day before the New Zealand earthquake. My bad luck unexpectedly into a good thing.

大约十年之后，2011年2月21日，我早上十点醒来，意识到我的闹钟根本没有响。我从床上跳起来直奔机场。但是当我到达机场时，我飞往新西兰的航班已经起飞了。“这可是我今年的第一个假期，我居然误了航班。真倒霉”！我暗想。其他的航班都已经满员，我不得不到第二天。（结果）第二天早上，我听到新西兰前一天发生了地震。我的坏运气意想不到地变成了一件好事。