【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 said. He was smiling now. He went to where his hat and coat were. He put on his hat. He put on his coat. Then very quickly, he took from the rack one of the many wet umbrellas, and left. Did you see that! my mother shouted. Sssh! I whispered. He39。s ing out. He didn39。t see us. He opened his new umbrella and went down the road. We followed him back to the main street where we met him first, and we watched as he exchanged his new umbrella for another pound. This time it was with a tall, thin man who didn39。t even have a hat or a coat. When it was over he went off again, this time in the opposite direction. He never goes into the same pub twice, my mother said. I expect he39。s always hoping for a rainy day. Questions: 1. Why was the mother so unpleasant to the old man at first? 2. What made the narrator and her mother believe that the old man was not telling the truth? 3. What can be concluded about the silk umbrella that the old man sold? 4. What can be inferred about the old gentleman? You39。ve Got Mail Woman: ... Last night I went to meet you and you weren39。t there. I wish I knew why. I felt so foolish. And as I waited, someone else showed up, a man who39。s made my professional life in misery. And an amazing thing happened. I, I was able, for the first time in my life to say the exact thing I wanted to say at the exact moment I wanted to say it. And of course, afterwards, I felt terrible. Just as you said I would. I was cruel, and I39。m never cruel. And even though I can hardly believe what I said mattered to this man, to him I was just a bug to be crushed. But what if it did? No matter what he39。s done to me, there39。s no excuse for my behavior. Anyway, I so wanted to talk to you. I hope you have a good reason, have a good reason for not being there last night. You don39。t seem like the kind of person that would do something like that. The odd thing about this form of munication is that you39。re more likely to talk about nothing than something, but I just want to say that all this nothing has meant more to me than so many somethings. So, thanks. Computer: Goodbye! Man: Dear friend. I cannot tell you what happened last night. But I beg you, from the bottom of my heart, to five me for not being there, for what happened. I feel terrible that you found yourself in a situation that caused you additional pain. But I39。m absolutely sure that whatever you said last night was provoked, even deserved. And everyone says things they regret when they39。re worried or stressed. You39。re expecting to see someone you trusted, and then the enemy, instead. The fault is mine. Someday I39。ll explain everything. Meanwhile, I39。m still here. Talk to you. Questions: 1. What is the possible relationship between the man and the woman? 2. What did the woman do last night? 3. What did the woman most likely say last night? 4. What did the woman think of munication through the Inter? 5. What do you think of the man39。s attitude? UNIT 3 Did We Land on the Moon? Last week my phone rang. It was my mother and she was very upset. Tony! she exclaimed, I just came from the coffee shop and there39。s a guy down there who says NASA never landed on the Moon. Everyone was talking about it ... I ... I just didn39。t know what to say! That last bit was hard to swallow, I thought. Mom39。s never at a loss for words. But even more incredible was the controversy that swirled through the small town and places like it across the country. After a long absence, the Moon Hoax was back. All the debates about the Moon landing began on Thursday, February 15, 2020 when the Fox Television work aired a program called Conspiracy Theory: Did We Land on the Moon? It was reaired on March 19. The program was hosted by XFiles actor Mitch Pileggi. The program was an hour long, and featured interviews with a series of people who believe that NASA faked the Apollo Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s. The biggest voice in this is Bill Kaysing, who claims to have all sorts of hoax evidence, including pictures taken by the astronauts, engineering details, discussions of physics and even some testimony by astronauts themselves. The program39。s conclusion was that the whole thing was faked in the Nevada desert. According to them, NASA technology in the 1960s did not have the technical capability of going to the Moon. Instead, anxious to win the Space Race any way it could, NASA acted out the Apollo program in movie studios. Neil Armstrong39。s historic first steps on another world, the Moon vehicle and the American flag it was all a fake! Fortunately the Soviets didn39。t think it was a hoax. Otherwise, they could have filmed their own fake Moon landings and really embarrassed the free world. According to the show, NASA was a blundering movie producer thirty years ago. The hoax believers pointed out a lot of discrepancies in Apollo imagery. For example, pictures of astronauts transmitted from the Moon don39。t include stars in the dark lunar sky an obvious production error! What happened? Did NASA filmmakers fet to turn on the constellations? Here39。s another one. Pictures of Apollo astronauts erecting a US flag on the Moon show the flag bending and waving. How can that be? After all, there39。s no breeze on the Moon ... One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. These immortal words were spoken when American astronaut Neil Armstrong first set foot on the Moon in 1969. Or did he? Questions: 1. Why was the speaker39。s mother at a loss for words at the beginning? 2. When did the Fox TV work air the program for the second time? 3. What was the theme of the program that the Fox TV work aired in 2020? 4. Why did NASA fake the Moon landings in the 1960s and 1970s according to the passage?