【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 day. However, there are also criticisms of beauty contests. Although some contests are not based purely on physical appearance, unattractive contestants are unlikely to win, no matter how talented, intelligent, kindhearted and educated they are. In addition, since beauty in these pageants is usually represented by unusually thin women, some people question this concept of beauty. Worse still, if a pageant violates the religious or cultural practices of a country, it may cause protests and demonstrations. Page 24 —— Task 3 ABACDVI. Task1. A friendly stylist.Stylist: Morning, sir. This chair, please. What can I do for you? Nick: A simple haircut—short on the back and sides. Stylist: Very good. I can, of course, do something more fashionable for only $60. Nick: Sixty dollars! That39。s highway robbery—twice what I ordinarily pay. Stylist: Perhaps, sir. But your haircuts haven39。t been in harmony with your character. Your hair is at war with your soul. Nick: I39。ve never heard of such a thing. Stylist: I39。m an expert at matching hairstyles to personalities, if I may say. Believe me, you39。re suffering a disjunction. Nick: A disjunction? What the devil is a disjunction? Stylist: Your hair does not match you. Nick: This is utter nonsense. However, I39。d like to hear how you39。d solve this socalled problem. Stylist: Your character is artistic, imaginative. But your hair is dull. I can correct that imbalance in seconds. Nick: OK, let me see what you can do about the... uh... disjunction, as you call it. Stylist: We39。re going to use scissors to create peaks, which we39。ll keep in place with a liberal helping of gel... This tuft in the back we39。ll braid into a pigtail. Now, it39。s the new you! Nick: I love it. It39。s just like me: imaginative and artistic. Now what are you doing? What39。s wrong? Stylist: Something39。s preventing your hairstyle from being a true fashion statement. Nick: For heaven39。s sake, tell me what39。s missing. Stylist: Streaks. By putting in a few yellow streaks in your hair, it will bee a work of art. Streaking will cost you more, but... Nick: Do it. Forget the cost. But, by the way, what is the total getting to be? How much am I paying to avoid the disjunction? Stylist: That39。s... $135. Sir? Sir, are you all right? Oh, he fainted. Page 34 —— Task 1 CAABAUnit3. Watch out when nature strikes back.II Basic Listening Practice1.W: Did you read the paper today? There was an earthquake in Brazil. M: Yes, but it only measured on the Richter scale. I don39。t think there would be any casualties. Q: What is the man39。s opinion of the result of the earthquake? 2. W: I’d a bit worried about Suzie traveling to southern India. It’s the rainy season there, and there may be landsides.M: Suzie can take care of herself。 she won’t go anywhere too risky. Besides, you can always her if it makes you feel better.Q: What is Suzie doing?3. M: Hi, I thought you were on holiday in Asia! Back already?W: we never got there! Our travel agent cancelled our arrangements because the whole region is flooded. We were so disappointed。 we won’t get another chance to go this year.Q: What is the woman doing?: Our flight to Tokyo was delayed by twelve hours. Can you believe it? A typhoon hit the east coast and it was chaos.W: I saw it on the news. The flooding and damage were terrible. I don’t think anyone was hurt though. Q: What is the consequence of the typhoon?5. W: Did you see the program last night about volcanoes? It was fascinating!M: Yes, the weird thing is the molten lava looks so beautiful, yet it’s so destructive. And I couldn’t believe how far the ash can travel. I’m glad we don’t have any volcanoes here!Q: What does the man think the volcano is?Page 39 —— Task 1 DACBC. Is tsunami delicious?Son: Hi, mom, what are we having for dinner tonight? Mother: I haven39。t started yet. Why, have you any requests? Son: How about tsunami for a change—I don39。t know what it is, but I heard some Japanese people using the word on the bus the other day. Sounds like a food. Maybe it39。s similar to sushi. Mother: Nonsense. Tsunami es from Japanese words meaning harbor and wave. If we had a tsunami, it would be the other way around, young man. Son: Why? What is it? Mother: I mean it could swallow you up. A tsunami is an enormous series of very powerful waves. Son: Could we surf on them? That would be cool! Mother: They39。re not cool. They are very destructive. When they pound the shores of populated areas, they cause tremendous damage. They destroy everything in their path. Son: What causes them? Mother: I think they are caused by some sort of shock, like an earthquake, volcano, or landslide, that starts a chain reaction in the ocean. Son: Do the waves get so big that they crush buildings? Mother: Easily. They can be dozens of meters high. They toss cars and houses around as though they were children39。s toys. Son: Can you see them ing? Mother: You can see them at quite a distance. But there39。s not much you can do. In the open ocean they move at up to 800 kilometers per hour, but when it reaches the shore, the system slows down and the waves get bigger. Son: How big? Mother: They can reach 30 meters, big enough to finish you off in one gulp. Page 40 —— Task 1 BCADCVI. Task1. Typhoon hits Guangdong Province.A typhoon lashed southern China on Thursday with strong winds and heavy rain, killing two people. The typhoon hit the coastal areas of Guangdong Province at 1:45 . on Thursday, with wind speeds up to 126 kilometers per hour. It came as the nation was still fighting its worst flooding in 10 years, which is expected to continue as the typhoon season gains pace. The Guangdong provincial floodcontrol headquarters said the typhoon had caused economic losses of more than two billion yuan in the province, damaging more than 2,