听力训练Exercise

1. What can be most enjoyable according to the passage?
2. What is irresistible when in a bookshop?
3. What is the mian attraction of a bookshop?
4. You may even have the shop just to find shelter from a shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon totally unaware of your .
5. There are not many places where it is to do this. You can round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no will come up to you with inevitable greeting, " Can I help you, Sir? " You browsing.
6. You have to be careful not to be by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop for a book on a ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the best-selling novel. This sort of thing can be very .

Words&Phrases
词汇与短语
Words：
ancient 远古的；旧的
appointment 约会；指定
assistant 助手
attraction 有吸引力的事物，吸引力
attractive 吸引人的，有魅力的
best-selling 最畅销的，最红的
book-lover 喜爱读书的人
browse 浏览

engrossed 全神贯注的
inevitable 不可避免的，必然的
irresistible 不可抵抗的，不能压制的
reality 事实，真实
shelter 庇护所，掩蔽处
surroundings 环境
unaware 不知道的，没察觉到的
wander 漫步，徘徊

Phrases:
come out 出来，长出
look as if 看起来好像
dash off 匆忙完成
pick up 拿起，拾起
end up with... 以......告终
run up 迅速积累；向上跑

听力答案参考答案：
1. Time spent in a bookshop.
2. The desire to pick up a book with an attractive cover.
3. The opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life.
4. entered, sudden, become, surroundings.
5. possible,wander, assistant, finished.
6. attracted, looking,latest, dangerous.

听力原文Time Spent in a bookshop

Time spent in a bookshop can be most enjoyable, whether you are a book-lover or merely you are there to buy a book as a present. You may even have entered the shop just to find shelter from a sudden shower. Whatever the reason, you can soon become totally unaware of your surroundings.

　　The desire to pick up a book with an attractive dust jacket is irresistible, although this method of selection ought not to be followed, as you might end up with a rather dull book.

　　You soon become engrossed in some book or other, and usually it is only much later that you realize you have spent far too much time there and must dash off to keep some forgotten appointment --without buying a book, of course.

　　This opportunity to escape the realities of everyday life is, I think , the main attraction of a bookshop. There are not many places where it is possible to do this. You can wander round such places to your heart's content. If it is a good shop, no assistant to you with inevitable greeting, "Can I help you, sir?" You finished browsing.

　　Then, and only then, are his services necessary. Of course you may want to find out where a particular section is, but when he has led you there, the assistant should retire carefully and look as if he is not interested in selling a single book.

　　You have to be careful not to be attracted by the variety of books in a bookshop. It is very easy to enter the shop looking for a book on ancient coins and to come out carrying a copy of the latest best-selling novel. This sort of thing can be very dangerous. Apart from running up a huge account, you can waste great deal of time wandering from section to section.

参考译文
书店里的时光
无论你是一个爱书的人或仅是想买一本书作为礼物，在书店里的时间可能是最令人感到愉快的时光。你甚至可能是因为忽然下起大雨而走进书店寻找避雨之处。不论出于什么原因，你很快就会忘记周围的环境。

挑一本封面吸引人的书，这种欲望是难以抗拒的，但是这种选择方法是不可取的，因为你最终挑选的很有可能是一本枯燥无味的书。

很快你就会全神贯注于阅读某本书，而通常是过了好久才意识到自己已经在书店花费了很多时间，不得不匆忙去赶赴某个已被忘却的约会--当然，没有买书。

我认为，书店最主要的吸引力就是可以提供一个让人逃离日常生活现实的机会，而这样的场所并不多。在这样的场所，你可以随心所欲地逛来逛去。如果是一家好书店，就不会有店员走过来问一些俗套的话：“先生，能为您效劳吗？” 书店里的店员应该待在幕后，直到你浏览完毕后再出来。

到那时候，也只有到那时候，他的服务才是必需的。当然，你可能想知道某一特定的区域在哪儿，但是当他把你领到那儿后，他就应该小心翼翼地离开，并且要看起来似乎对卖出一本书不感什么兴趣。

在书店里，不要被种类繁多的书籍所吸引，你应该格外的小心。很可能你走进书店只是想买一本关于古钱币的书，但离开书店时，手里拿的却是一本最近最畅销的小说。这种情况是很危险的，因为除了结账数额惊人之外，从书店的一个区走到另一个区还花费了你大量的时间。