Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A 1b
Listen to Mary talking about her morning. Complete the sentences.
Boy: Hi, Mary. You look so tired.
Mary: I am. I had a bad morning.
Boy: Really? What happened?
Mary: Well, first of all I overslept. By the time I got up, my brother had already gotten in the shower.
Boy: Oh, what a pain!
Mary: So, after he got out of the shower, I took a quick shower and got dressed. But by the time I went outside, the bus had already left.
Boy: Oh, no!
Mary: Oh, yes! So I ran all the way to school. But when I got to school, I realized I had left my backpack at home.
Boy: No wonder you look stressed.
Section A 2a
Listen to Mary continue her story. Number the pictures1—4 in the correct order.
Boy: So then what did you do, Mary?
Mary: Well, I ran home to get my backpack. But when I got home, I realized I had left my keys in the backpack.
Boy: You’re kidding!
Mary: So I ran back to school without my keys or my backpack. But by the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.
Boy: Oh, no!
Mary: And by the time I walked into class, the teacher had started teaching already. She asked for our homework, but of course I didn’t have it.
Section A 2b
Fill in the blanks with the correct forms of the verbs in brackets. Then listen again and check your answers.
Boy: So then what did you do, Mary?
Mary: Well, I ran home to get my backpack. But when I got home, I realized I had left my keys in the backpack.
Boy: You’re kidding!
Mary: So I ran back to school without my keys or my backpack. But by the time I got back to school, the bell had rung.
Boy: Oh, no!
Mary: And by the time I walked into class, the teacher had started teaching already. She asked for our homework, but of course I didn’t have it.
Section A 2d
Role play the conversation.
Why were you late for class today ,Kevin?
My alarm clock didn't go off! I kept sleeping, and when I woke it was already 8;00 a.m.!
Oh, no!
So I just quickly put on some clothes and rushed out of the door.
You didn't eat breakfast?
No ,I didn't even brush my teeth or wash my face. But before I go to the bus stop, the bus had already left.
Then how did you get here?
Luckily ,Carl's dad saw me on the street and gave me a lift in his car.
Well, at least by the time you got to school ,you were only five minutes late fou class.
Section A 3a
Read the passage and answer the questions.
Life Is Full of the Unexpected
In May 2001, I found a job in New York at the World Trade Center. On September 11,2001, I arrived at my building at around 8:30 a.m. I was about to go up when I decided to get a coffee first. I went to my favorite coffee place even though it was two blocks east from my office.
As I was waiting in line with other office workers, I heard a loud sound. Before I could join the others outside to see what was going on, the first plane had already hit my office building. We stared in disbelief at the black smoke rising above the burning building. I felt lucky to be alive.
Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21,2011 and realized that my alarm never went off. I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken off.
“ This is the first holiday I’ve taken in a year, and now I’ve missed my plane. What bad luck!” I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquake in New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had unexpectedly turned into a good thing.
Section B 1c
Dave, Nick and Joe are talking about April Fool’s Day. Listen and write each person’s name under the correct picture.
Nick: Has someone ever tricked you on April Fool’s Day, Dave?
Dave: Yes. A friend once invited me to a costume party. When I got there, I found that it wasn’t a costume party. I was the only person wearing a costume, and I was really embarrassed. How about you, Nick?
Nick: Well, last April Fool’s Day, when my alarm went off, I got up, took a shower, got dressed, and went to school. But when I got there, the school was empty. I was the only one there. After an hour, the other kids showed up, and I realized that my brother had fooled me.
Dave: He had?
Nick: Uh-huh. He had changed the clock to an hour earlier. What about you, Joe? What happened to you on April Fool’s Day?
Joe: Well, my friend called me on March 31st last year and told me we had a math test the next day. By the time I got to math class, I was tired because I had stayed up all night studying. Then I found out that my friend had fooled me. We didn’t have a test at all!
Section B 1d
Listen again. Who says each of the phrases below? Write D for Dave, N for Nick and J for Joe.
Nick: Has someone ever tricked you on April Fool’s Day, Dave?
Dave: Yes. A friend once invited me to a costume party. When I got there, I found that it wasn’t a costume party. I was the only person wearing a costume, and I was really embarrassed. How about you, Nick?
Nick: Well, last April Fool’s Day, when my alarm went off, I got up, took a shower, got dressed, and went to school. But when I got there, the school was empty. I was the only one there. After an hour, the other kids showed up, and I realized that my brother had fooled me.
Dave: He had?
Nick: Uh-huh. He had changed the clock to an hour earlier. What about you, Joe? What happened to you on April Fool’s Day?
Joe: Well, my friend called me on March 31st last year and told me we had a math test the next day. By the time I got to math class, I was tired because I had stayed up all night studying. Then I found out that my friend had fooled me. We didn’t have a test at all!
Section B 2b
Read the quickly. Then match each paragaph with the main idea.
April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
One April Fool’s Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets
to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out .
In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said yes, he replied, “ April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
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Section A 1b
听玛丽讲述她的早晨。完成句子。
男孩：嗨，玛丽。你看上去很累。
玛丽：是的。我今天早上过得很糟糕。
男孩：真的吗?发生什么了?
玛丽：首先，我睡过头了。当我起床时，我哥哥已经在洗澡了。
男孩：哦，真糟糕!
玛丽：所以，他洗完澡后，我匆匆洗了个澡，穿好衣服。但是当我走到外面时，公交车已经开走了。
男孩：哦，不!
玛丽：哦，是的!所以我跑步去学校。但是当我到学校时，我发现我把背包落在家里了。
男孩：难怪你看上去很紧张。
Section A 2a
听玛丽继续她的故事。将图片1-4按正确的顺序编号。
男孩：那你后来怎么做的，玛丽?
玛丽：我跑回家拿背包。但是当我回到家时，我发现我把钥匙忘在背包里了。
男孩：你在开玩笑吧!
玛丽：所以我没带钥匙也没带背包就跑回学校。但是当我回到学校时，上课铃已经响了。
男孩：哦，不!
玛丽：当我走进教室时，老师已经开始讲课了。她让我们交作业，但我当然没有。
Section A 2b
用括号中动词的正确形式填空。然后再次听录音并核对你的答案。
(内容同2a部分，不再重复翻译)
Section A 2d
角色扮演对话。
凯文，你今天为什么上课迟到?
我的闹钟没响!我一直睡着，当我醒来时已经是早上8点了!
哦，不!
所以我赶快穿上衣服冲出门去。
你没吃早餐吗?
没有，我甚至没刷牙洗脸。但在我走到公交站之前，公交车已经开走了。
那你是怎么到这里的?
幸运的是，卡尔的爸爸在街上看到我，开车送我来的。
嗯，至少你到学校时只迟到了五分钟。
Section A 3a
阅读文章并回答问题。
生活充满了意外
2001年5月，我在纽约的世贸中心找到了一份工作。2001年9月11日，我大约早上8:30到达我的办公楼。我正要上去时，决定先去买杯咖啡。我去了我最喜欢的咖啡店，尽管它离我的办公室还有两个街区远。
当我和其他上班族一起排队时，我听到了巨大的响声。在我能和其他人一起出去看看到底发生了什么之前，第一架飞机已经撞上了我的办公楼。我们难以置信地盯着燃烧的建筑物上冒出的黑烟。我觉得自己很幸运还活着。
差不多十年后，我在2011年2月21日上午10点醒来，发现我的闹钟根本没响。我从床上跳起来直奔机场。但是当我到达机场时，飞往新西兰的飞机已经起飞了。
“这是我一年来第一次休假，现在我却错过了飞机。真倒霉!”我心想。其他飞机都满了，所以我只能等到第二天。第二天早上，我听说新西兰前一天发生了地震。我的坏运气意外地变成了一件好事。
Section B 1c
戴夫、尼克和乔正在谈论愚人节。听录音，把每个人的名字写在对应图片的下面。
尼克：戴夫，有人在愚人节捉弄过你吗?
戴夫：是的。一个朋友曾经邀请我去参加化妆舞会。当我到那里时，我发现那根本就不是化妆舞会。我是唯一一个穿化妆服的人，我真的很尴尬。你呢，尼克?
尼克：嗯，去年的愚人节，当我的闹钟响起时，我起床、洗澡、穿衣，然后去上学。但是当我到学校时，学校空无一人。我是唯一一个在那里的人。过了一个小时，其他孩子出现了，我才意识到我被我哥哥捉弄了。
戴夫：他这么做了?
尼克：嗯。他把闹钟调快了一个小时。乔，你呢?你愚人节发生了什么?
乔：嗯，去年3月31日，我的朋友打电话告诉我，我们第二天有数学考试。当我到数学课的时候，我已经很累了，因为我整晚都在学习。然后我发现我被朋友捉弄了。我们根本没有考试!
Section B 1d
再听一遍。谁说了下面的每一句话?写D代表戴夫，N代表尼克，J代表乔。
(内容同1c部分，不再重复翻译对话内容)
Section B 2b
快速阅读。然后将每个段落与主要思想相匹配。
愚人节是世界各地不同国家都会庆祝的节日。它发生在每年的4月1日，是许多人互相捉弄和开玩笑的日子。
有一年愚人节，英国的一位记者宣布，因为意大利的意大利面农民停止种植意大利面了，所以以后将不再有意大利面了。许多人跑到当地超市尽可能多地购买意大利面。当人们意识到这是一个骗局时，全国各地的意大利面都已经被抢购一空。
在另一个著名的恶作剧中，英国的一个电视节目报道了特殊水的发现。他们说这种水可以帮助人们减肥，而且一个顾客在仅仅四个月内就已经减掉了很多体重。到一天结束时，超过一万人给电视台打电话询问如何获得这种水。
许多愚人节玩笑最终可能并不那么有趣。一位著名的电视明星曾在愚人节邀请他的女朋友参加他的节目。他向她求婚。这位女士非常高兴，因为她真的很想结婚。然而，当她答应时，他却说：“愚人节快乐!”这个小小的玩笑并没有一个愉快的结局。这位电视明星失去了他的女朋友，他的节目也被取消了。
然而，世界上最著名的恶作剧之一发生在十月，而不是四月。1938年的那个月，演员奥森·威尔斯在他的广播节目中宣布火星人已经登陆地球。他描述了他们的着陆地点，并讲述了他们如何穿越美国。威尔斯的描述如此逼真，以至于数百人相信了这个故事，恐惧迅速蔓延至全国。当警察宣布这个故事是个骗局时，数千人已经离开了他们的家。
