听力材料
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M: Well, I wonder why the office is still not open.
W: But it’s not yet eight. In fact, it’s only a quarter to eight.
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W: Did you go to the theatre last Saturday?
M: Yes, I saw The Tea House. The acting was excellent.
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M: Shall we go to the cinema this evening?
W: Oh，sorry. I’m afraid I can’t. I’m seeing my mum off at the airport at 7:30.
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M: I hope it’ll be fine tomorrow. I’m going boating with Tom.
W: Oh. I think it will be fine.
M: Are you sure?
W: Yes. I heard it on the radio.
（Text 5）
M: Excuse me, Madam.
W: Yes?
M: Does this bus go to Zhongshan Road?
W: Yes, I think so.
M: Thank you.
W: You’re welcome.
（Text 6）
M: Oh, no, it’s Monday again. I always feel tired on Mondays.
W: Oh, yeah. What did you do last night?
M: Party at Lisa’s.
W: How interesting. How many people were there?
M: Seventeen including Lisa herself. What did you do last night?
W: I watched Gone with the Wind.
M: Really? I didn’t know it’s playing again.
W: It isn’t. My brother has a tape and he brought it over, so we watched it at home.
（Text 7）
M: Can I sit on the grass, Mum?
W: No, you can’t, Tommy. The grass is wet.
M: Look, Mum! I can see a chair near the tree. We can sit there.
W: No, you can’t sit there, either. The chair is wet too.
M: It’s not raining, Mum. The chair isn’t wet.
W: Can you see the notice on the chair, Tommy?
M: Yes, I can.
W: What does the notice say?
M: It says “Wet Paint”!
（Text 8）
W: What are you doing up there?
M: I’m getting dressed.
W: Well, hurry up. We’re already late.
M: OK. OK. Just a minute. By the way, Susan, where is my red tie?
W: It’s on the dresser next to the jewelry box.
M: Oh, yes. I’ve got it. Thanks. And do you know where my watch is?
W: Isn’t it in the top drawer on the right?
M: No, it’s not there.
W: Well, I don’t know where it is.
M: What time is it now?
W: It’s 6:45.
M: And when does the play start?
W: At 8:00 sharp.
M: All right. I’m coming... Well, what are you waiting for?
（Text 9）
W: Hey! You’ve got a new television.
M: Yeah! It was sent here yesterday. What do you think of it?
W: It’s huge. It takes up almost the entire side of the room.
M: I know. But you don’t think it’s too big, do you?
W: I didn’t say that. I mean, if you enjoy it, why not? What happened to your old TV, by the way?
M: It just stopped working last Friday. It was pretty old and didn’t work well. I thought you can afford it, why not get a new one?
W: It must have been expensive.
M: Well, not as much as you might think. I got it on sale for 50 percent off 2,400 dollars.
W: What? You spent 1,200 dollars on a TV? Did you think you watch TV that often?
M: Well, I don’t. Do you think I should return it? If I do it within a week, I can get my money back.
W: Honestly, I think you should. That’s too much money for a television.
M: I think you are right.
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Presenter: And now our weather report. Reporter: There will be nice sunshine all day long today, and soon it will become very warm, but a gentle wind will provide some relief from the heat. Even so, the temperature will get up to twenty-five degrees Celsius later today, and it’s already up to nineteen degrees Celsius now, at nine in the morning. Very little cloud at any stage of the day, just a few clouds early in the afternoon, so we should end the day with a good fourteen hours of sunshine going into the record books. That gentle wind is coming from the east so it’s going to keep the coastal areas a little bit cooler. Over night we can expect clear, dry weather with still a little bit of wind and the temperature down the sixteen degrees Celsius in central London and twelve or thirteen out of town.
