大学体验英语听说教程 第二册19

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　　Unit 19 What’d you get?
Vocabulary Task
Answers
1. Yum! This chocolate is so sweet and creamy.
2. Nice face. Is that grapefruit too sour? Want some sugar for it?
3. Wow! This octopus¹ isn’t bad – kind of chewy, though.
4. This is ostrich²? It tastes like chicken.
5. You made this salsa? Mmm, spicy³. I like it.
6. Hmm. I think I like the shrimp⁴ better. The squid was kind of bland⁵.
7. I’m thirsty. That popcorn⁶ was really salty.
8. Wait a second! Aren’t you gonna cook that first? You’re not going to eat that raw, are you?
Listening Task
1 First Listening
Answers
1. Gazpacho – cold tomato soup, a little bit sour
2. Split-pea soup – it’s a little salty
3. Pumpkin⁷ soup – it’s a little on the sweet side
4. Jambalaya – it’s very spicy
2 Second Listening
Answers
1. celery
2. tomatoes
3. oats
4. pepper
Script
1. Keith: Hello! My name is Keith and I’ll be your waiter tonight. Are you ready to order?
Customer A: Yes, I’d like the soup and salad special. What’s the soup of the day?
Keith: We have gazpacho soup today.
Customer A: What is gazpacho?
Keith: It’s cold tomato soup with onions, cucumbers and lime juice. It’s a little bit sour.
2. Customer B: I think I’d like to order soup. What is the split pea soup like?
Keith: The split pea soup is made with split peas, onions, celery, carrots and ham. It’s a little salty.
Customer B: In that case I’ll have a Coke with it.
3. Customer C: I’ve never had pumpkin soup before. Is it good?
Keith: Yes. It has pumpkin, of course; cinnamon, nutmeg and brown sugar – and it’s a little on the sweet side.
Customer C: Sounds good. I’ll take a cup of that. On second thought I’ll take a bowl.
4. Customer D: What’s jambaalah – how do you say that?
Keith: Jam – ba – LAY – a. It’s a dish from the American South.
Customer D: Can you tell me what’s in it?
Keith: It’s made with sausage, tomatoes, shrimp and chili⁸ powder and is very spicy.
Real World Listening
1 Predict
Answers
Jim says that octopus is rubbery like an eraser and that raw seafood⁹ is dangerous.
Sandy says ostrich tastes a lot like chicken and that the fries are too salty.
2 Get the main ideas
Answers
Ostrich burger – Jim says it’s good and Sandy says it tastes like chicken
Pizza/octopus – Jim says octopus doesn’t have much taste and is rubbery and Sandy says she got used to it, that it’s good for you
Shrimp – Jim says they are dangerous to eat raw but Sandy likes the salty taste
French fries – Sandy says they are too salty and implies they are dangerous, too (because of the fat content)
Script
Jim: Here, take a bite of this.
Sandy: Mmm…It’s good. What is it?
Jim: It’s an ostrich burger.
Sandy: An ostrich burger! It tastes like a lot like chicken.
Jim: Yeah, kind of strange to be eating ostrich but it’s excellent. What’ve you got?
Sandy: My usual, pizza. Wanna bite?
Jim: With – what is that – octopus and squid? You call that usual? How can you eat that stuff?
Sandy: I guess I got used to it. You should try it – it’s good for you.
Jim: I did have octopus once – it didn’t have that much taste. And it was too rubbery.
Sandy: It’s just really chewy. It doesn’t have that much flavor, really.
Jim: Yeah, chewy! Like an eraser. Oh, no, what’s that?
Sandy: Oh, I got the dancing shrimp on the side.
Jim: But that’s raw! Is it still alive?
Sandy: Yeah. I like the mild salty flavor.
Jim: Aren’t you afraid of getting sick?
Sandy: What do you mean?
Jim: I’ve heard that raw seafood is dangerous.
Sandy: You don’t know what you’re missing. If you tried the dancing shrimp I’m sure you’d change your mind.
Jim: I doubt it. Want some of my fries?
Sandy: Uhh…too salty for me. And you think raw seafood is dangerous!
Real World Speaking
Answers
Sentence
1. Give it to me in a nutshell. (I don’t have much time.)
2. Let’s chew the fat a while.
Meaning
Tell me briefly¹⁰, please
Let’s talk
3. Don’t cry over spilt milk.
4. It was a piece of cake.
5. You’re full of beans tonight!
6. He’s a bad egg.
7. You’d better take what she says with a grain of salt.
8. She’s the apple of his eye.
9. they are the cream of the crop
10. I know you are a big potato
11. You cannot have your cake and eat it.
12. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
13. The joke is on us, a very sour joke indeed!
14. She has a sweet voice and can sing like an angel.
15. I told her the bitter truth.
16. The tax represents a real bite out of our wages
You can’t change the past.
It was very easy.
You’re talking nonsense!
You should avoid him – he’s not a good person.
Don’t believe every – thing she says.
He loves her.
They are the best.
I know you are a very important person.
You can’t have both.
Even if something seems to be good, you can only judge how good it really is when you see how it performs.
It is a very unpleasant joke on us.