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               excellent animation studio. It produced great films   Text 8(107 词)无法收养小猫

               like Spirited Away and Ponyo.   Its films often focus   W: What a poor kitty! Where did you find it?
               on the lives of youth, especially school children.  M: I saw it on my way home. I want to take care of it,
               Finally, Aardman Animations  from  Britain.        but my daughter is allergic to cats. What’s more,
                  The company name is taken from one of its       I have some goldfish. I’m afraid it will eat them

               early characters, a superhero created for Vision On  someday. That’s why I brought it to you. Do you
               in 1972. It made many well-received films like     want this cat?
               Chicken Run and Flushed Away.                   W: Well,   I have five cats in my house. I can’t really

            Text 3(28 词)看望叔叔                                      spare more time for this one.  But one of my
            W: How nice to see you again! Where have you been?    friends often visits me to see my cats. She has two
               Busy working? Or on vacation?                      dogs. Maybe she can keep it.
            M: Actually,   I went to Stirling to see an uncle of   M: That’s great. Please tell her about this poor little thing.

               mine.                                           Text 9(175 词)采访自行车店主
                                                               W:   Good morning, and welcome to today’s Business
            Text 4(42 词)争吵不休
            M: Hi, Mandy. Are you all right?                      TV. Today we have Mr. John Smith, who has just

            W: I’m a bit upset. I just came out of a meeting and it   established a bicycle shop. Tell us, Mr. Smith, what
                                                                  made you want to run your own store?
               didn’t go very well. No one would listen to any of
                                                               M: Well, I always loved racing bikes and fixing them.
               my suggestions.   Instead they just kept arguing
                                                                    When I was working full-time as a salesman for a
               with each other.
                                                                  big company, I seldom had time to enjoy my hobby.
            Text 5(44 词)谈论书籍
                                                                  I knew then that as soon as I had enough money to
            W: This is a great book! Johnny will love it.
                                                                  get my own business going, I’d do it. Now my time
            M:    It is quite interesting, but I think it is too hard for
                                                                  is my own. I open the store when I want and leave
               him to read.
                                                                  when I want.
            W: No, it isn’t. He is in the seventh grade now. Some of
                                                               W: You mean you don’t keep regular hours?
               his other books are harder.
                                                               M: Well, the sign on my store says the hours are ten to
            Text 6(45 词)修车费用高                                     six, but if business is slower than usual, I can just
            M: What was the problem?                              lock up and take off early.
            W: The guy in the shop said I have an oil leak. It will   W:   Have you hired any employees to work with you
               take him a while to repair it.   It’s going to cost   yet?

               me a fortune.                                   M: Yeah, some of my friends who love biking as much
            M: You’re just lucky it stopped working close to a    as I do. They help me out a few days a week.
               service station.                                Text 10(198 词)游泳比赛

            Text 7(36 词)无谓的担心                                  W:   I woke up this morning feeling a little worried. I
            W: When was the last time that you heard a child use the   was going to take part in the 200-meter race in our
               words ma’am and sir? Honestly, I think civility is   school. Was I ready? Was I prepared?
               fading from society.                                 First, the headmaster gave a speech at a quarter

            M: Come on!   Isn’t there anything more important to   past eight. He encouraged us all to do well.   At 8:50,
               worry about?                                       the 100-meter freestyle began. Unfortunately, one of


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