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[00:04.49]3 Problems on holiday
[00:11.15]Hello.How are you?
[00:15.60]Great.I've seen lots of interesting things.
[00:20.64]I'm really enjoying it.
[00:24.08]Yes,it's a nice place,isn't it?
[00:28.24]Yes,lovely.So what are you doing today?
[00:33.38]Oh,I've lost my passport,
[00:38.03]so I need to go to the Embassy1 and see if I can get a temporary one.
[00:42.79]Oh no! Where did you lose it?
[00:46.94]I'm not sure.The last time I remember having it was in the bank the other day.
[00:53.79]Have you been back there to see if anyone's handed it in?
[00:59.06]Yes,I went there yesterday,but they didn't have it.
[01:04.10]How annoying!
[01:07.16]Yes,it's real pain.Anyway,listen,I must go.
[01:13.64]The Embassy opens at ten and I want to get there early.
[01:18.50]Yes,sure.Well,good luck.I hope you sort it all out.
[01:24.56]Yes,thanks.
[01:27.80]7 Key word:sort out
[02:29.76]Yesterday I went to the bank to get some money out of the cashpoint.
[02:39.50]There are two machines next to the bus stop where I catch my bus into town.
[02:46.27]I got to the bank and there were two people waiting at eachmachine,
[02:53.04]so I had to decide which queue2 to join.
[02:58.08]I was worried because I knew the bus could come at any moment,
[03:04.03]so I wanted to join the faster queue.
[03:08.58]I joined one with an old lady and a young man in front of me.
[03:14.85]The young guy finished quickly and we moved forward.
[03:20.41]I started thinking I'd made the right decision.
[03:25.66]The old lady then started looking in her bag for her purse.
[03:31.83]As the queue next to me moved forward,
[03:36.87]I thought abut3 changing,but I couldn't see ab bus coming and anyway,
[03:43.35]just at that moment,a couple arrived and started queuing4 up for the other machine.
[03:49.41]'Never mind,'I thought.
[03:53.77]'I only have to wait for one person and the old lady has found her purse.'
[04:00.43]Unfortunately,though,she had also found several cheques,
[04:07.51]which she wanted to pay into her account5.
[04:11.87]She put her card in and keyed in her PIN number.
[04:18.22]The machine seemed very slow
[04:23.29]and I suddenly noticed a bus at the end of the road.
[04:29.35]The old lady took the envelope and put her cheques in,
[04:34.91]but then she dropped one.
[04:39.17]I picked it up for her and put it in the machine.
[04:44.32]I could see the bus coming to the stop before mine.
[04:50.66]The old lady finally finished!
[04:55.71]'I'm going to make it,'I said to myself.
[05:01.06]I keyed in my number and asked for fifty pounds.
[05:06.52]I waited and a message came up:
[05:11.80]'Sorry.This machine is temporarily unable to dispense6 money.'
[05:18.46]I wanted to scream!The bus was already leaving the stop before mine.
[05:27.31]I looked over at the three people waiting in the other queue
[05:33.27]and asked if I could jump in ahead of them.
[05:37.32]'My bus is coming,'I tried to explain.
[05:43.09]'I need the money to get the bus.'
[05:47.53]They just looked at me as if I was an alien7.
[05:53.31]'No,you'll have to wait like everyone else,'one of them replied.
[06:00.25]I Joined the end of the queue.My bus left without me!
[06:07.41]In this kind of situation,
[06:13.05]there should be a law that makes everyone form just one queue.
[06:18.70]This is what happens in the post office and it works8 well.
[06:23.95]Everyone is treated fairly9.
[06:28.00]Until that law is introduced,though,
[06:32.44]the world will continue to be divided into two groups:
[06:37.69]the people like me,who always choose the wrong queue,
[06:43.57]wait for ages and never get what they want,
[06:48.11]and the people who never have any problems in life.
[06:53.07]They just jump queues,
[06:56.73]because they know someone on the door of a club
[07:01.28]or they have a friend who is standing10 near the front
[07:05.53]or because they're just beautiful and some stupid man lets them push in,
[07:11.91]because he thinks they like him(but they don't).
[07:16.45]Queuing,however,isn't always a problem.
[07:21.42]I met one of my best friends in q queue.
[07:25.99]I was 14 and my favourite band Take That were doing a tour.
[07:33.25]I started queuing for tickets the night before they came on sale.
[07:39.31]There were lots of us there and the girl sitting next to me was called Rachel.
[07:45.66]She was really nice.
[07:49.60]She shared her food and drink with me.
[07:53.86]She saved my place in the queue when I had to go to the toilet
[07:59.50]and she was just good fun.
[08:03.29]We've been friends ever since.
[08:07.94]3 While you listen
[08:19.02]Conversation 1
[08:22.54]Hi,I wonder if you can help me with this.
[08:27.87]What's the problem with it?
[08:31.63]I'm not really sure.It's just not working properly.
[08:35.74]When you press record,the red light doesn't come on and then,
[08:41.90]it works,the film usually comes out looking very strange.
[08:47.83]OK.Let me have a look at it..oh,it's very dirty.
[08:54.80]How long have you had it?
[08:58.65]Quite a while now.Maybe four or five years.
[09:04.10]Right.That's quite a long time.And when was the last time you cleaned it?
[09:11.68]Cleaned it? I didn't know I had to!
[09:16.83]I've never really cleaned it.I don't know how to do it.
[09:22.39]Ah-ha!Well,that could be part of the problem.
[09:26.83]Let's open it all up and give it a good clean,
[09:31.79]and see if that makes any difference.
[09:35.45]OK.Great.Thanks.Can I leave it with you?
[09:41.09]Yes,of course.It should be ready later on today,
[09:46.27]if you want to come back later to collect it.
[09:50.63]Conversation 2
[09:55.80]Hi,thanks for coming.
[09:59.93]That's OK.Where is it?
[10:04.16]Just through here in the kitchen.There you are.
[10:08.81]Right,OK.And what's the problem with it?
[10:14.16]I'm not really sure.
[10:17.64]It's making a funny noise when it goes round
[10:22.50]and I think it's leaking12 somewhere because
[10:26.86]water keeps coming out from underneath13 here.
[10:31.61]I see.And how long've you had it?
[10:36.47]Almost four years now and I've never had any problems with it before.
[10:42.72]No,it's a very good make.
[10:46.27]They don't usually break down.
[10:50.03]Let's start with the noise.
[10:53.58]Do you always check there's no money in your pockets before you put things in?
[10:59.46]Wll...um..I try to,of course,but it's possible I miss some sometimes.
[11:07.12]Well,that could be it,then.
[11:10.96]Sometimes coins get stuck just here and start making a horrible14 noise.
[11:16.60]Let's open this up and have a look,OK?
[11:20.86]And then we'll worry about the leak11.
[11:25.53]Conversation 3
[11:30.49]So what's wrong with it?
[11:34.86]I've no idea!I've tried turing it on and off,
[11:41.02]but nothing happen at all.
[11:44.89]I've tried pressing all these buttons here,
[11:49.75]but that didn't make any difference.
[11:54.00]I've even tried changing the batteries15 in the remote control use with it,
[12:01.76]but that didn't help either.I really don't know what to do.
[12:08.42]How long have you had it?
[12:11.87]Just a couple of days.
[12:15.35]I only bought it last Saturday and the man in the shop
[12:21.12]told me it was the best brand you can buy.
[12:26.08]It makes me really angry.
[12:29.92]OK.OK.Calm down and let's have a look at it.
[12:34.60]It's all connected up OK.
[12:38.26]I know.I checked all that earlier.
[12:43.22]It's very strange.
[12:46.77]Let's start from the beginning with it,then.
[12:51.92]OK.Oh,look-you idiot16!!  What?What have I done?
[13:00.28]You haven't plugged17 it in over here,have you!
[13:04.43]I'm not surprised it hasn't been working!
[13:08.51]Oh no.I'm really sorry.I've completely18 wasted your time,then!
[13:16.06]Oh well,never mind.You live and learn,I suppose.
[13:20.63]Yes,maybe..but it's a really stupid mistake,isn't it?
[13:27.47]You can say that again!

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1 embassy HPWz2     
n.大使馆,大使及其随员
参考例句:
  • Large crowd demonstrated outside the British Embassy.很多群众在英国大使馆外面示威。
  • He's a U.S. diplomat assigned to the embassy in London.他是美国驻伦敦大使馆的一名外交官。
2 queue fS9xL     
n.队列;辫子;长队;vt.梳成辫子;vi. 排队
参考例句:
  • To what window are you standing in a queue?你在排哪个窗口的队?
  • I had to queue for quite a while.我不得不排一会儿队。
3 abut SIZyU     
v.接界,毗邻
参考例句:
  • The two lots are abut together.那两块地毗连着。
  • His lands abut on the motorway.他的土地毗邻高速公路。
4 queuing 6f8dc2b043342485ba00a5ff68bb5226     
n.排队技术
参考例句:
  • Seeing people queuing for food was a novelty. 看到人们排队买食品是件新鲜事。 来自辞典例句
  • A mob of journalists are queuing up at the gate to photograph him. 一群新闻记者在门口排起长队,等着给他拍照。 来自辞典例句
5 account ny6zC     
n.叙述;帐目;帐户
参考例句:
  • She left out an important item in her account.她的账目漏掉了一个重要的项目。
  • He has made several withdrawals from his bank account.他从银行账户上提了几次款。
6 dispense lZgzh     
vt.分配,分发;配(药),发(药);实施
参考例句:
  • Let us dispense the food.咱们来分发这食物。
  • The charity has been given a large sum of money to dispense as it sees fit.这个慈善机构获得一大笔钱,可自行适当分配。
7 alien oKoyY     
n.外星人,外国人;adj.外国的;相异的;异己的;与...格格不入的;与...不同的;不相容的;外来的;adj.(常与to连用)与…相反的;与…不同的
参考例句:
  • Jim is an alien in this film.吉姆在这部电影里是个外星人。
  • Their ideas are alien to our way of thinking.他们的思想和我们的想法不同。
8 works ieuzIh     
n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件
参考例句:
  • We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
9 fairly tlEx6     
adv.公正地,正当地;相当;完全,简直
参考例句:
  • I think I was quite fairly treated by the police.我认为警察对我非常公正。
  • It fairly destroyed the machine.它将那部机器完全毁了。
10 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
11 leak f3qy5     
vi.漏,渗;泄漏;vt.使渗漏,使泄漏;n.漏洞,漏隙;泄漏,漏出
参考例句:
  • There is a leak in the roof.房顶上有个漏洞。
  • There has been a leak of information.走漏了风声。
12 leaking leaking     
n.漏泄,耗散v.漏( leak的现在分词 );渗入,漏出;使泄露
参考例句:
  • The roof was leaking. 屋顶在漏雨。
  • an old house with crumbling plaster and a leaking roof 一所灰泥剥落、屋顶漏水的老房子
13 underneath VKRz2     
adj.在...下面,在...底下;adv.在下面
参考例句:
  • Working underneath the car is always a messy job.在汽车底下工作是件脏活。
  • She wore a coat with a dress underneath.她穿着一件大衣,里面套着一条连衣裙。
14 horrible drazZt     
adj.可怕的,极可憎的,极可厌的
参考例句:
  • This is a horrible monster.这是一个可怕的怪物。
  • That is a horrible accident.那是一次可怕的事故。
15 batteries 2876a3dbad0a29a8197f63137712afe6     
n.电池;(蓄)电池(组)( battery的名词复数 );一系列;排炮;层架式鸡笼
参考例句:
  • to replace the batteries 更换电池
  • He is certain that this TV set will operate on batteries. 他肯定这个电视机可以用电池。 来自《简明英汉词典》
16 idiot FcWze     
n.白痴,傻子,笨蛋
参考例句:
  • Only an idiot would make such a thoughtless remark.只有草包才会说出这样没有头脑的话来。
  • You are behaving like a perfect idiot.你表现得像个十足的白痴。
17 plugged 105e814ea56c024b39a265695a61244d     
adj.塞紧的v.插上插头( plug的过去式和过去分词 );以(塞子)塞住
参考例句:
  • He plugged his razor in to recharge it. 他把剃刀插在插座上,给它充电。
  • The workers plugged the hole in the gas pipe. 工人们堵住了煤气管道上的洞。 来自《简明英汉词典》
18 completely lvmzzZ     
adv.完全地,十分地,全然
参考例句:
  • She never completely gave up hope.她从不完全放弃希望。
  • I feel completely in the dark on this question.这件事使我感到茫然。

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