【正文】 be in the best interest of shareholders. Yet since February first, the value of Microsoft’s offer has fallen to 29 dollars a share because of a drop in its stock. Microsoft thinks it could better pete against Google with Yahoo’s expert knowledge. Microsoft could attempt a hostile takeover. But that is not the way it normally does business, and there is risk of angering Yahoo’s employees. A: This news item is about Microsoft’s plan to purchase Yahoo to pete with Google.B: TFTFTSection Three Oral WorkMan: Are you ready to order?Woman: Er, yes, please. I39。re here? There are the obvious tourist attractions of royal London, the London of pageantry and soldiers in fancy uniforms. There is historical London, with the ancient buildings and magnificent churches. A good introduction to all this can be found in the London Museum in the Barbican. You can spend a lot of money, in shops from aristocratic Knightsbridge to democratic Marks and Spencer, all of them anxious to receive travellers39。 relaxed at work as well as sociallyTime: 10 years agoPart 2 PassageWele to LondonWele to London! You and seven million other tourists will fill Britain39。s ... very relaxed.Interviewer: Oh? In what way? Phyllis: Well, you know. the wave of life, nobody hurries.Interviewer: Uhm. Is that at work as well as socially? Phyllis: That39。s that? Phyllis: Well. for one thing, it39。ve ... they came back to the UK? Phyllis: Yes, they did. They came back with me,Interviewer: Uhm, uhm. Erin, if you had a choice, where do you think you39。ve been back about, erm. ten years now,Interviewer: Uhm, uhm, When you were in Australia, did you think of it as your home? Phyllis: Well, it depends on what, you mean by home. When 1 was... home to me is being near the people you39。t. Phyllis: Oh, what a shame! Interviewer: Where did you live when you were abroad? Phyllis: I lived in Australia. Interviewer: Really? That39。t the reason. I moved because London is so dirty and there39。s very close to the centre, isn39。d?:t?39。s so much stress.或Because it is dirty and stressful.2. Where does he live now?He lives in a village in the country, about 40 miles away from London.3. How did he use to go to work?He used to go to work by bicycle.4. How does he go to work now? (inference, the last sentence)Most likely he goes to work by car now because he said that it takes him less than an hour and a half, door to door, to get to work.doortodoort mention it.go up vs. go down Go up上坡，往北，從小地方往大地方（如城市，尤其是首都）Go down下坡，往南，從大地方往小地方（如農(nóng)村）Go up: 1) go up to a place: go to college, go to the town/capital . He will go up to Cambridge next term. 2) go up to 。s second right and first left. Thank you very much. That39。s Bridge Street. Go along Bridge Street for a few minutes and then take the second no, not the second, the first, that39。s on the corner. Turn right at the cinema and you39。s see now that39。ll e back later.Woman: All right, sir,Man: (6) Shall I pay now or later?Woman: (7) Later39。Unit TwoSection 1 Tactics for ListeningPart 1 PhoneticsExercise: Complete the following short dialogue as you listen to the tape~ Pay specialattention to the weak forms, linkups and contractions.Woman: Good evening.Man: Good evening. Can you ( 1 ) make up this prescription, please?Woman: Certainly. (2) Would you like to wait?Man: How long (3) will it take?Woman: (4)It39。ll be ready in twenty minutes.Man: Oh, (5) I39。ll be all right.Part 2 Listening and Notetaking Exercise A: Listen to the conversation and take notes. Exercise B: Use the information from your notes to mark the places and streets mentioned in the conversation on the sketch map.Man: