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初到美国
Nancy
was new to America. She came to America speaking only her native
language. She brought her 8-year-old son with her. He was all she had in
the world.
They found an apartment in Arcadia. They were there for only two months when a neighbor’s dog jumped over the fence. The dog ran toward Nancy’s son. Nancy put her body in between the dog and her son. The dog stopped when it saw Nancy screaming at it. She was going to punch it in the nose. The dog turned around.
Shaking, Nancy took her son upstairs. They stayed in the apartment all weekend. Then Nancy found another apartment, close to the school that her son was going to attend.
She and her son walked everywhere. One day her son started coughing badly. He had an asthma attack. All the walking was making his asthma worse.
Nancy
knew that she had to buy a car. So she called up the Hondadealer. She
talked to a salesman who spoke her language. She told him that she
wanted to buy a new car if he could come over to pick her up. The
salesman said he would be right over.
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南希刚来美国。她来美国时只说她的母语。她带着8岁的儿子。他是她所有的一切。
他们在阿卡迪亚找到一套公寓。他们在那儿只呆了两个月，邻居的狗就跳过了篱笆。狗朝南希的儿子跑去。南希把她的身体夹在狗和儿子之间。狗看到南希朝它尖叫时停了下来。她要打它的鼻子。狗转过身来。
南希浑身发抖，带着儿子上楼。他们整个周末都呆在公寓里。然后南希找到了另一间公寓，离她儿子要去的学校很近。
她和儿子到处走。一天，她的儿子开始严重咳嗽。他哮喘发作了。所有的散步都使他的哮喘加重了。
南希知道她得买辆车。所以她打电话给本田经销商。她和一个说她语言的推销员交谈。她告诉他，如果他能来接她，她想买一辆新车。推销员说他马上过来。
重点单词
spoke [spəuk] v. 说，说话，演说
dealer ['di:lə] n. 商人，经销商，发牌者，毒品贩子
asthma ['æsmə] n. 哮喘
fence [fens] n. 栅栏，围墙，击剑术
punch [pʌntʃ] n. 打洞器，钻孔机，殴打
理发
It
was time for a haircut. Lenny didn’t even have to look in the mirror.
Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair
every two weeks.
He
had a 'tongue' of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at
the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was
what they call 'salt and pepper,' a mixture of gray hair and dark brown
hair. It was only a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper
became just salt.
He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the worse it looked, he thought.
He
spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the
drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He
started at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the
top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with
an old tooth brush.
Finished,
he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head.
Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen
and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.
Then he took a shower.
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重点单词
雅德曼
The
yardman comes every two weeks. He drives a gray pickup truck. The truck
is a Ford. It is about 15 years old, but it runs well. It doesn’t burn
oil, and it gets decent gas mile age. The yardman’s name is Byron.
In
the back of his truck are a lawn mower, a leaf blower, a rake, and a
shovel. Byron uses the leaf blower to blow leaves and dirt from the back
of the building out to the front of the building. Then he rakes up the
leaves into a bag. He blows the dirt out into the street. He cuts the
lawn with his lawn mower. He trims the hedge. He uses the leaf blower to
blow the dirt off each Welcome mat that lies in front of each apartment
door.
Then
he puts all the leaves, the grass trimmings, and the hedge clippings
into a wheelbarrow. He pushes the wheelbarrow to the back of the
building, where he uses his big shovel to empty the wheelbarrow contents
into the big dumpster. It takes Byron about two hours to do this work.
When he is done, he goes half a block up the street to the house on the corner. There he does the same work again.
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重点单词
拿起你的雨伞
It looked like rain. The sky was gray. It was almost noon, but the sun was hidden by a gray blanket. It was cool. There were no birds flying anywhere. A couple of birds sat on the telephone wire. Bob was standing outside talking to Bill. They both had their hands in their pockets. They knew that it was probably going to rain shortly. A sudden breeze blew some leaves off a tree onto the sidewalk.
A young woman wearing a dark blue coat and jeans walked by. She was walking a small dog. It was pure white, and pretty. It sniffed at a tree trunk. The woman waited patiently. Finally, the dog lifted its leg.
Bob said that he liked the rain. It was a nice change from the usual hot Los Angeles weather. And the plants could always use the extra water. Bill said the only thing he didn’t like about rain was that all the motoroil on the streets would get washed into the ocean, and so would all the trash.
'But that never stops the surfers,' Bob said. 'They don’t seem to care what’s in the water, as long as there are waves to surf on.'
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购物讨价还价
Jim
went to the thrift shop. He wasn’t looking for anything in particular.
He liked to go there just to browse. A big sign on the front door said
OPEN. The shop was closed on Sunday and Monday. The rest of the week, it
opened at 10 a.m. and closed at 2 p.m.
Two
women worked inside. They rang up sales and put the items into plastic
bags for the customers to carry out. At the back of the shop was a big
room where another lady worked. She sorted the new donations and put
price tags on them. At the end of each day, she would bring the new
donations out to the main part of the shop.
Everyone
who worked at the thrift shop was a volunteer. The only 'payment' they
received was that they had the opportunity to see, and buy, any items in
the shop before the customers did.
When
Jim entered, the lady at the register told him hello. He smiled and
said hello. She knew Jim because he was a regular customer.
Jim said, 'What’s new?'
She laughed and said that nothing was ever new at a thrift shop. 'It’s always old and it’s always used,' she smiled.
Jim looked at the watches in the glass case. He saw one that he liked.
'Could I lookat that one?' he asked.
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骑马
Laura
went to the stable. Four horses stood there. She put a saddle on Star.
He was seven years old, big and dark brown. Her sister came out to the
stable. They were both going to exercise the horses. It was a warm,
sunny day. Janice saddled up Moonbeam, a white mare. They got on the
horses and started walking them.
A
few minutes later, Laura was telling Janice about the new doctor in her
hospital. She raised her hand for a second to make a point. Just then,
Star bucked. Laura went flying into the air. She landed on her head and
shoulder on the grass.
'Oh, my gosh!'Jan cried. 'Laura, are you all right?'
Laura moaned. Jan gently rolled her over. She didn’t see any blood. That’s good, she thought.
'Can you move? You’re not paralyzed anywhere, are you?'
Jan
pulled Laura up into a sitting position. Laura slightly moved her legs
and arms. She wasn’t paralyzed. When she moved her right hand to touch
her head, she groaned.
'What’s the matter?'
'That hurt. When I moved my arm, it hurt.'
They still didn’t see any blood. Jan unbuttoned the top buttons on Laura’s blouse and looked at Laura’s right collarbone.
'Oh, no,' she said.
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大蒜就是大蒜吗？
Mike looked at the label on the big plastic container. It said Garlic Powder. There was a U with a circle around it after the word Powder. What does this U mean, Mike wondered. Under the word Powder was another word, Seasoning. Under that word was a drawing of a garlic bulb.
Mike
knew that food labels can be tricky. Powder is powder, but Seasoning
could mean salt. He looked all around the plastic container for an
ingredients label. There wasn’t one. In small print under the drawing of
the garlic bulb was a phone number: 1-800-632-6900. Call that number if
you have comments or questions, the label said.
Mike
called the number. A woman answered. He asked her what the U inside a
circle meant. She said it meant kosher. Kosher food is food that is
prepared according to Jewish law.
Mike asked where the ingredients label was. She said if there is only one ingredient, there is no ingredients label.
'So, there is no salt in this product?' Mike asked.
'No, sir,' she said. “It’s 100 percent garlic powder.'
'Why does it say, Product of USA and China?'
She said that sometimes they get the garlic from China, sometimes they get it from the US.
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淋浴时受伤
Ben
leaned over the edge of the tub. He turned on the hot and cold water
faucets. The water came out of the spout near the top of the tub. He
pushed down on the lever beneath the spout so that the water would
drain. He was going to take a shower, not a bath.
He
tested the temperature. It wasn’t hot enough. He adjusted the hot water
faucet. There was another handle between the hot and cold faucets. This
one controlled whether water came out of the spout or out of the shower
head. Ben turned it all the way to the right. Now hot water was coming
out of the shower head. The temperature was just right.
Ben
took off his robe and stepped over the top of the tub. He pulled the
shower door closed. He grabbed the bar of soap out of the soap dish and
started scrubbing his face.
While
his eyes were closed to keep out the soap, he put the soap back into
the dish. Then he reached for the big plastic container of shampoo on
his window ledge. The bottle slipped out of his hands and landed on his
left foot.
'Shoot!' Ben said angrily. That hurt.
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皮特的尖刀
Pete was in his kitchen. He was about to slice three green apples. He liked to eat fresh apples with cinnamon sprinkled on them. He opened the blinds so that he could get more sunlight into the kitchen. Now he could see what he was doing.
He grabbed a knife out of a drawer. It said 'Surgical Stainless USA' on the side of the blade. The blade was very thin and light. It had teeth, like a saw. The handle was a brown piece of cheap hollow plastic.
He had bought this knife about 20 years ago at a county fair. It was one of those knives that were advertised on TV. It could cut through a tomato can, and then cut easily and cleanly through a fresh tomato.
'You never need to sharpen it. The sharp edge is guaranteed for life.' That’s how they advertised it. And Pete, for once, couldn’t argue that the advertisers lied. This was a great knife.
But it was also a dangerous knife. A couple of years ago, Pete was careless. He was rapidly slicing a potato and the blade got his finger. The doctor put three stitches in Pete’s finger.
'Next time, be more careful,' the doctor said.
No kidding, Pete thought. He was so careful that he didn’t use the knife for almost a year.
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提供商向客户多收费用
Simon got a monthly bill that he didn’t like. His Internet service provider, Wink, automatically withdrew $15 from his checking account each month. This was called direct payment. It made things simpler for him because it meant one less check to write each month.
In fact, Simon had direct payments with his gas company, his phone company, and his electric company. So that was four fewer checks that he had to write each month.
This month, instead of $15, Wink had withdrawn $75. Simon went online and looked at his account. Part of the increase was because he had switched from a slow dial-up connection to a fast DSL connection. Wink charged him $45 just to make that switch.
Simon thought that this charge in itself was ridiculous. It probably took them about five seconds to make the switch. But anytime a corporation can gouge you, they will.
In addition to the $45, Wink had charged him $15 for his dial-up account, but had also charged him $15 for his DSL account. This was a double-charge, since a computer uses dial-up or DSL, but not both.
We’ll see about this, Simon thought, as he searched for Wink’s 800 number.