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人人说英语中级篇 Unit 10: services


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Unit 10 services

At a restaurant E

A:Do you wish to order now ,sir?

B:Yes ,please ,I'd like the sea food salad to stoke with,and beef to follow, and a bowl of rice.

A:Thank you ,sir!and would you care for anything to drink?

B:Yes ,I'd like a bottle of red wine ,please.

A:Would you like some dessert ,too?we have delicious cakes.

B:Not today,thanks!

A:Sea food salad ,beef ,a bowl of rice,and a bottle of red wine ,is that all?

B:Yes ,it is .

Staying at a hotel E

A:You are staying at the lake side hotel ,aren't you?

B:That's right,

A:Is that a good place to stay?

B:Yeah,I'm very pleased with it .

A:The service is exellent and the restaurant is nice.

B:Really ,and what's your room like?

A:It's small,but very clean,and it's nice and quiet.

B:That's nice,where is it located,by the way?

A:It's not really a very good location,it's too far from the town.So I have to take a taxi whenever I go to town to do some shopping.but apart from that ,everythig is fine.

At the Post office E

A:I'd like to mail this parcel to Kunming ,please?

B:Do you want to send it by Air mail or by Service mail?

A:How long does it take if I send it by Service mail?

B:It usually takes about a week.

A:Oh,it won't get there for the Spring Festival this mail.

A:How long does it take if I send it by Air mail?

B:It'll get there tomorrow.

A:Then I will send this by Air mail ,please.

B:Just a minute ,I'll weigh it ,that'll be 25yuan.

A:Thank you!

Taking a taxi M

A:Why did the passenger tact the taxi driver on the shoulder?

B:He wanted to ask him something.

A:What did the driver do before he lost the control of the car?

B:He screamed.

A:Where did the car stop?

B:It stopped centimetres.

A:What did the driver say after he said "Look,don't ever do that again"?

B:He said :"You scared the daylights out of me."

A:What did the passenger say he didn't realise?

B:He said he didn't realise that a little tap could scare the driver so much.

A:What had the taxi driver been driving for the past twenty-five years?

B:A hells.

The missing money M

A:Did Alame forget she had spent money on something else?

B:No

A:Had a thief stolen her money while Alame was shopping?

B:No

A:Had the shop assistant shortly changed her?

B:No

A:Has she lost it on the way home?

B:No

A:Has she lent it to anyone?

B:No

A:Had anyone robbed her ?

B:No

A:Has she changed her trousers?

B:Yeah

A:Did she put on a different pair of trousers?

B:Yes

A:She happend to have left 50yuan in her back pocket of her trouser.

B:Yes.

Arrving at the same time M

Possibilities

A:Sam drives a sight-seeing train in the National park,which takes tourists on the Slic road from one in of the path to another.He isn't driving at a normal speed ,actually, he is driving very slowly,so Sam and David arrived at the next Slic spot at the same time.

B:Sam is driving the train,and David takes a taxi to catch up with Sam.

A:David arrives in the railway station just in time to catch the train.Although it has just started a movie,so he becomes a passenger on the train,then both Sam and David arrive at the next station at the same time.