Notes:
(1) computer language 计算机语言
(2) refrigerator n. 冰箱
(3) backslash n. 回车
(4) greater than 大于号
(5) DOS 计算机语言中的DOS 处理
Exercises:
根据短文回答下列问题：
① What does the teacher teach?
② With what do students call her at home?
③ Who was in the teacher's house when she was on the phone?
④ Was it a long talk?
⑤ Why did the repairman think she was a spy?
93.电话交谈
我教计算机课程，我的学生经常打电话到我家问我问题。一天早晨，
我在电话里用计算机语言解释一个问题的答案，当时一个维修工正在给
我修电冰箱。经过一连串的“C 冒号，回车，大于号，CD，回车，DOS，C
冒号”等等，我挂上电话发现那位维修工在盯着我。“女士，”他问，
“你是个间谍吗？”
94.A Bad Impression
My husband and I are both writers. During dinner conversations,
we often tell our children about our working days. It wasn't clear
how much they absorbed until one day I overheard my seven-year
old, Lucy, cry out in frustration at her five-year-old sister,
Charlotte, "You, you... you editor!"
Notes:
(1) impression n.印象
(2) absorb v.吸收（知识等）
(3) overhear v.偶然听到
(4) frustration n.挫折
Exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（T）、（F）：
① The woman and her husband are both journalists.
② The parents try to educate their children during dinner.
③ Lucy is the youngest of the children.
④ Lucy had a quarrel with Charlotte.
⑤ To Lucy, "editor" means a bad person
94.坏印象
我丈夫和我都是作家。晚夕谈话中，我们经常给孩子们谈到我们的
工作。没人清楚他们听懂了多少。直到有一天，我偶然听到七岁的女儿
卢希烦恼地向她五岁的妹妹喊道：“你，你——你这个编辑！”.
95.Lose One Pound
I complimented one of my co-workers on having lost ten pounds.
However, I couldn't resist bragging that when I was 17, 1 weighed
225 pounds and today I tip the scales at 224. 1 added, "That's not
bad for a man my age."
Overhearing this, a woman remarked, "You mean to say it took
you all this time to lose one pound?"
Notes:
(1) compliment (sb. on sth. ) v.恭维；称赞
(2) brag v.自夸；夸耀
(3) tip the scale at 称量
Exercises:
根据短文选择正确答案：
① How much had the man's co-worker lost in weight?
A. one pound
B. ten pounds
C. seventeen pounds
D. eleven pounds
② What was the man's attitude towards his cc,-worker having
lost in his weight?
A. jealous
B. unconcerned
C. admiring
D. worried
③ How much did the man weigh when he was 17?
A. 224 pounds
B. 225 pounds
C. 223 pounds
D. 222 pounds
④ "Tip the scales at" in paragraph one possibly means_____ .
A. weigh
B. make a tip for scales
C. weigh more than
D. weigh less than
⑤ How did the man feel on his losing one pound?
A. disappointed
B. pround
C. ashamed
D. puzzled
95.减掉一磅
我称赞我的一个同事减肥10 磅。可是，我禁不住夸耀说我17 岁时，
体重225 磅，而目前体重是224 磅。我还说：“这对我这样年龄的男子
来说，是不错的。”
一个女子听到了这些话，她说道：“你是说你花了这么长时间才减
了1 磅？”
96.Older Goats in America
A group of Americans were traveling by tour bus through Holland.
As they stopped at a cheese farm, a young guide led them through
the process of cheese making, explaining that goats' milk was used.
She showed the group a lovely hillside where many goats were
grazing. These, she explained, were the older goats put out to
pasture when they no longer produced. She then asked, "What do you
do with your older goats in America?"
A spry old genleman answered, "They send us on bus tours!"
Notes:
(1) hillside n. 山坡
(2) graze v.（指牛羊等）吃青草
(3) put out 把.送到外面去
(4) pasture n.牧场
(5) spry adj.活泼的
Exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（T）、（F）：
① The group of Americans were travelling by train.
② They visited a cheese farm.
③ The young guide told them that cattle milk was used to make
cheese.
④ Older goats were put out to pasture when they no longer
produced milk.
⑤ The old gentleman was making a joke.
96.美国老羊
一群美国人乘长途汽车在荷兰旅游。