【正文】 s not all bad news today. Woman: What happened? Tony: Well, you know my job at the design studio? Woman: Yes. Tony: Well,... Woman: Oh, no! Tony: Oh, yes. Today the boss called me into his office and told me they had to lay me off indefinitely, That means as of April thirtieth, I39。s been over four years. We all knew that they would get married someday, but no one expected it to happen now. And you know what? Yhe funny part is how it happened. Man: Yeah? Nicole: Yeah. OK, listen. They were on a cruise, and one night while they were sitting on the deck of the ship, looking at the stars... Man: Ah,...let me guess. He pulled out a ring and asked her to marry him. Nicole: No, smarty. The other way around. She asked him! She got right down on one knee and proposed. Man: Yeah? Nicole: Yeah! And he was pretty surprised, I think, but of course he immediately saidyes. Listen, they39。s talking about signing up for an Italian cooking class on Saturdays. Oh, I hope he does it. Woman 2: Oh. I wonder if I could convince my husband to do that. I39。ve got to go. Third conversation Woman 1: Mmmm,...this is delicious. I love stuffed grape leaves. Woman 2: Ummm. Me, too. It all tastes delicious. Do you think they made all this themselves? Or did they have it catered? Woman 1: Oh, no. George is a great cook. Why would they cater it? Woman 2: Really? Woman 1: Oh, yeah. Woman 2: George cooks? Woman 1: You didn39。re not thinking.. Man 1: And why not? It looks like fun! Why should we sit here while everyone else is having a great time? Man 2: If you start dancing to this music, you39。m sorry. I think Dan is leaving the party. Excuse me, Mrs. Morton, I39。t believe that all you kids are finally graduating. Donna has grown up so fast! Do you have any plans after graduation? Pete: Well, I39。s nice to meet you, too. So, are you enjoying the party? Pete: Yeah, it39。m strange, but it worked. Based on everyone39。ve learned a lot from my previous mistakes: You just have to go with your instinctsthat is, do what you think is best and then just hope that it works out. I mean, we all get strong feelings about things, and usually those feeling are right. The important thing is to act quickly! Up until now I39。m the person who gives the final approval. If I say no, then the person isn39。t want to make a mistake and get stuck, especially for something that costs a lot of money, like a car. You see, when I bought my car, I knew I just couldn39。s a lot of peer pressure to spend time with my friends, but I don39。m lucky in a way. I learned to speak English, and I made a lot of new friends. So you can see that I39。m a typical Japanese teenager. I go to a public high school and wear a uniform, just like everyone else. I go to school five and a half days a week I get Sundays off. I have interests similar to most of my friends: I like to play video games and am a big fan of American movies. Brad Pitt is one of my favorite actors. There39。s really terrifying. You know, I think the dream means that I39。t move. Sometimes I can39。m in danger, but I39。t know what the homework is, and I think I39。t find it. I know I39。t be there in the first place. But still, it39。m back in high school, and in my dream, the school I looks mostly the same as it did, but much bigger. The weird thing is ……that although I39。ll watch a funny movie or go to a friend39。想出來的智慧2018年1月10日Unit 1Luis: Well, I guess the biggest change in my life over the last five years is that I got married. I used to be single, and now I’m not! I used to enjoy going out with friends every weekend you know I was a lot more sociable. Now a more of own body, I liked to stay at home, watch TV that kind of thing. It’s not so bad. I guess you could say that I grew up I was tired of going out all the time and ready to settle down and start a family.Celine: For me the change has been with my work. I used to work in a large pany. I worked in their corporate headquarters downtown in the accounting department. It was a great job good money, decent benefits. When I first started at that pany, I was very young and very ambitions. But after a while, I got tired of it. I was so unhappy there, and the mute was killing me! But one evening two years ago, I attended a seminar on working for yourselfyou know, being selfemployed and starting your own pany. So I quit my job and gave it a try. It was scary at first, but after a little while I could see it was going to work out just fine for me. I couldn’t be happier.Diana: Gosh, five years ago I was a pletely different person. You wouldn’t have recognized me if you’d seen me then! I talk a lot now, but I was more reserved then. And I hardly exercised at all. I never played any sports and rarely spent time outside. I was in terrible shape and worried about my health. But all that changed when I met my friend Judy. See, she convinced me to start slowly, you know, by walking every morning before work and swimming twice a week. Well, now I spend most of my free time outside hiking, swimming when the weather’s good, playing tennis or racquetball those kinds of things. I’m in pretty good shape now and feeling wonderful.Luis: Well, my wife is always saying that I’m not very good with money, not practical at all. She’s always teasing me about spending habits, but she’s right. When I see something I want, I just go and buy it, even if it is something I don’t really need. I guess I waste a lot of our money. We’re expecting our first child in December, and now that there’s going to be three of us, well , I think I do need to be more careful.Celine: working at home has been a real struggle. It’s been a lot harder than I imagined. I need to be more organized, that’s for sure. So, I ’ve decide to hire at a parttime secretary you know, someone who can e in couple of times a week and help out with me phones, the filing, and just clean up in general. I’m so busy that sometimes I kind of let things get out of hand the o