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claiming to be a bank representative. She said my wouldn’t get tired of the work.

credit card had been used in another country and W: What do you love most about this job then?
demanded personal information from me. M: In a person’s life, you may have only one chance
W: That sounds like a typical cheat. A bank would never to meet someone. So, I always enjoy spending time

ask for any personal data or passwords over the with our travelers.
phone or by email. W: Sounds great.
M: That’s what I suspected. I’m glad I was cautious M: Yeah, but there’s also the difficult part. Summer
and didn’t give it to her. Thanks for your assistance. is the main tourist season here. So, we need to make

Text 8（179 词）习语分享 enough money for the whole year during tourist
W: Hello class. Our group will share some idioms season. Making ends meet can be hard sometimes!
used in parties today as the holiday is coming. W: I see. And your place offers guided tours for

M: Yes. The first one is “Let One’s Hair Down”. It guests, right? Can you introduce some to me? I’m
dates back to the 1600s. Upper-class women would interested in food and history.
only “let their hair down” in the privacy of their M: Of course …
homes. Nowadays, this idiom means being relaxed
【点拨】 第 15 题为细节理解题。根据男士说的
on social occasions like parties.
“At my job, I had little control over my work. So, I
W: Interesting, right? Now let’s move on to “Be a
decided to start my own business.”可知他觉得以前
Party Pooper”. It actually comes from a term used
工作时自己无法决定自己的工作内容，所以开始
by sailors. Saying they were pooped meant that
自己创业，即男士想要对自己的工作有控制权，
they were overwhelmed. It later meant exhausted.
故选B。
However, the term “party pooper” now refers to
someone refusing to participate in a celebration. Text 10（176 词）28 年读完一本书

M: So don’t be a party pooper, everybody. Okay, next M: A California-based book club has recently finished
one — “A Whale of a Time”. In the early 19th its first reading of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, a
century, people used “whaler” to describe something difficult book that it started reading 28 years ago.
enormous or extreme. By the late 1800s, “whaler” Gerry Fialka, an experimental filmmaker from

had changed to “whale on”, which conveyed California, has hosted a book club to read Finnegans
enthusiasm. This shifted into “a whale of ”, with Wake since 1995. Between 10 and 30 people would
“whale” indicating something very large or someone show up to monthly meetings in a library to read
remarkable. Today, having a whale of a time means two pages of the book. Eventually, they slowed the

having an enjoyable experience … pace down to just one page per meeting, to give
Text 9（163 词）和旅店老板闲谈 themselves more debating time, so they spent the

W: Sir, your place is very great. next 28 years going through the book just one time.
M: I’m glad you like living here. Many travelers from Interestingly, Fialka’s book group spent 11 years
all around the world choose to live here every year. longer finishing Finnegans Wake than James Joyce
W: What made you first start the business? spent writing the thing.

M: At my job, I had little control over my work. The reading group read the last page of the book in
So, I decided to start my own business. I thought I October, but that only marked the end of their

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