PROGRAMME 33

第一部分对话：在旅行社

Norm和Doris来到一家旅行社。他们看了一份到中国去旅行的路线简介，接着就和旅行社的工作人员(travel agent)谈了起来。

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英语情景对话1

NORM: This one looks good.
TRAVEL AGENT: Yes. If you fly to Hong Kong between June and August, you get a 20% discount.
DORIS: 20%. Mm.That's not bad.
NORM: Right. It's worth considering.
TRAVEL AGENT: This one gives you a lot of time for sightseeing.
NORM:（提到另外一条旅行路线）What about this one? You go to more places...
Guangzhou... Beijing... Xi'an... Shanghai... Guilin.
TRAVEL AGENT: Yes, but you spend more time travelling... about 50% of your time on the go．
DORIS: It might be too tiring for us.
TRAVEL AGENT: I think it might（笑）Of course, you can always do a bicycle tour of China!
DORIS:（笑）Oh,I don't think we're fit enough for that!

第二部分：英语词汇表达

fit 健康
tiring 使人感到疲劳
Hong Kong 香港
Kowloon 九龙
sightseeing 游览，观光
pay 付款(过去式和过去分词：paid)
spend 花费（钱、时间）（过去式和过去分词：spent）
by the end of the month 到月底
How long does it take from Hong Kong to Guangzhou? 从香港到广州需要多少时间？
It takes…hours 需要……个小时
I'm not 100 per cent sure 我不是百分之百她有把握
It's worth considering 值得考虑，可以考虑
60 percent of his time's spent sleeping 他把百分之六十的时间花在睡觉上了
This one looks good 这一个看来不错
You can always do a bicycle tour of China 你总是可以骑自行车在中国旅行的
You get a 20 percent discount 可以给你打八折
You spend about 50 per cent of your time on the go 大约百分之五十的时间花在路上

第三部分：课程

1．PERCENTAGES百分数

谈到百分数，英语说：percent主要用于以下两种结构：
a)x per cent of (something).
Eighty per cent of Australia's population lives on the coast.
(诚比较：Four-fifths of Australia's population lives on the coast.)
Twenty per cent of my time is spent travelling.
b)A x%discount/profit/loss
You can get n 20% discount on this air fare.
（这批货物／这张机票可以给你打八折。）
The company made a lot 10% profit/loss last year.
（这家公司去年有百分之十的利润／亏损。）
有些习语里也用百分数。例如：
I don't feel l00%.
I'm not l00% sure.
在广播里，你可以听到另外一些日常会话里使用百分数的例子，并且练习拿分数与百分数进行换算。例如：
Three quarters is 75% (seventy-five percent).
A third is 33 1/3%(thirty-three and a third percent).
2．OTHER EXPRESSIONS OF QUANTITY其他表示数量的词语
There'sa lot oftime for sight-seeing.
There'slots oftime for sight-seeing.
There'splenty oftime for sight-seeing.
I ate too much chicken．
You ate too many peanuts.
以上斜体字都是常用的数量词语，按所表示的数量多少依次排列。
注意：
Too much后面跟不可数名词。例如：
There's TOO MUCH sugar in the milk.
Too many后面跟可数名词。例如：
There were TOO MANY people at the party.
有一个谚语是这样说的：
Too many cooks spod the broth.
字面上的意思是：厨师太多，好汤也要做坏。
实际上的意思是：人多手杂，反而坏事。
Enough若与名词连用，放在名词前面；着与形容词或副词连用，则放在后面。例如：
They've got ENOUGH money to buy a car.
She's old ENOUGH to go to school.
If we walk quickly ENOUGH we can catch the bus.
在广播里还有下面两个例子：
I don't think we're fit enough to do a bicycle tour.
Is he clever enough to pass his exams?
3. SOME USES OF THE-ING FORM OF THE VERB动词- ING形式的某些用法
a)许多动词如果后面还接动词，后面这个动词就要用-ING形式。我们已经碰到过一些例子。如：
Would you mind tumING the music down?
左这一讲里，你还会听到在spend time后面用动词的．ing形式：
On this tour you spend more time travetIING than on most tours.
Twenty per cent of my time is spent traveIIING.
b)介词后面的动词要用-ING形式。我们已经碰到的例子有：
How about comING to dinner?
I was thinking of havING an outside reception．
Thanks for inoitING us．
你在广播里还可以听到：
This tour gives you a lot of time for sightseeING.
c)请注意这个新的用法：
WORTH+ VERB+-ING．等等
广播里有这样一个例子：
This tour has a 20% discount. It's worth considerING.