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Unit 2
Warm-up exercise
1.V ery good. Y our application material impressed me. I think you are just the most suitable
candidate for the position.
2.Y our main duty is answer the phone calls and transfer them to the person wanted.
3.I have tried five times already, Sir, but the fax line has been engaged.
4.What a shame for you to cheat on the examination.
5.We are going to allow you 15% discount if your quantity is at least 50 sets.
6.We would like you to give your comment on our specifications from a technical viewpoint
7.Thank you for your interest in our products. May I know the exact quantity of purchase?
8.In fact, we are going to further raise the price next month so as to meet the rising cost of the
raw material.
9.I’m afraid a duck takes quite a while to prepare. I’ll go to the kitchen to see about your order
right away. Would you like a salad while you are waiting?
bor is demanding higher wages and production costs continue to soar.
A
Woman: can you tell me something about yourself, Li Lin?
Man: Well, I left school when I was eighteen. That was in 1988. And then I went to university. I studied Economics.
Woman: And that was in Beijing?
Man: Y es, that’s right. I was at Beijing University for four years. I finished my course in 1922. Woman: And what did do after that?
Man: I got a job in a trading company. I joined the Sales Department as a trainee sales manager. Woman: Did you enjoy it?
Man: Y es, I did.
Woman: How long did you stay there?
Man: For three years. And then I went to England. Y ou see, the company sent me to London. They wanted me to learn English. So I spent two years in England, learning English. I also took a course in German while I was there.
Woman: So you speak German.
Man: Y eah.
Woman: What did you do after that?
Man: I came back to China in June 1997 and I went back to my old department as assistant sales manager. And that’s where I work now.
Woman: Right. Can you tell me something about your present job?
Man: Y es, well, I’m responsible for…
B
Woman: Good morning. Can I help you?
Man: Y es, I’m interested in your range of mountain bikes for children.
Woman: Right. Well, we’ve got a new model here. If you come over here, this way. It’s this one. Man: Could you tell me something about it?
Woman: Well, it’s suitable for children from the age of ten upwards. We have a boy’s model and a girl’s model. The boy’s model’s available in yellow and purple. The girl’s model…that’s this one here…is available in gray and pink. Y ou know, it’s only been in the market for a few months, but
it’s very popular.
Man: Mmm, What does it cost?
Woman: The recommended retail price is $159.
Man: $159 for both models?
Woman: That’s right, yes, for the boy’s and the girl’s model.
Man: Right. What about delivery time?
Woman: We can deliver from stock.
Man: I see. Now, what about discount? Can you give me a good discount on a large order? Woman: Well, it depends on the size of the order. I’ll have to check that. Perhaps you could give me your name and address?
Man: Here’s my card.
Woman: Thank you. Would you like a copy of our brochure in the meantime.
Passages
A
Tom’s job was to examine cars which crossed the frontier to make sure that they were not smuggling anything into the country. Every evening, except at weekends, he would see a factory worker coming up the hill towards the frontier, pushing a bicycle with a big load of old straw on it. When the bicycle reached the frontier, Tom used to stop the man and make him take the straw off and untie it. Then he would examine the straw very carefully to see whether he could find anything, after w hich he would look in all the man’s pockets before he let him tie the straw up again. The man would then put it on his bicycle and go off down the hill with it. Although Tom was always expecting to find gold or jewelry or other valuable things hidden in the straw, he never found anything, even though he examined it very carefully. He was sure that the man was smuggling something, but he was not able to imagine what it could be.
Then one evening , after he had looked through the straw and emptied the factory worker’s pockets as usual, he said to him, “Listen, I know that you are smuggling things across this frontier. Won’t you tell me what it is that you’re bringing into the country so successfully? I’m an old man, and today’s my last day on the job. Tomorrow I’m going to retire. I promise that I shall not tell me what you’ve been smuggling.” The factory worker did not say anything for some time. Then he smiled, turned to Tom and said quietly: “Bicycles.”
B
The manager of an office in New Y ork was a hard-working man who never arrived late and never left early. He was honest, clean, well-dressed, and clever. But one very important quality in man of good position he had never learnt was politeness. He never took the trouble to be polite; he never considered the feeling of his staff. The words“Please” and“Thank you” formed no part of his conversation.
Everyone complained about his impoliteness. Even his chief clerk, Hollis, who had been with him for many years, was getting tired of his rough way of speaking. The secretaries and the typists begged him to tell the manager about it; but he never had the courage to do this until one Friday evening, when he suddenly took his opportunity.
Hollis had worked hard for several nights on some difficult papers that the manager wanted on Friday. It had needed a great effort to get them finished, but Hollis had succeeded. With great satisfaction he brought them into the manager’s office and laid them on his desk, thinking that this time he might receive a word of praise. The manager looked at them and said nothing.
As the chief clerk reached the door on his way out of the office, he turned round and said, “I beg your pardon, sir?”
“I didn’t speak,” said the manager shortly.
“Oh!” said Hollis. “I thought you said ‘thank you’.”
Extension
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