【正文】 her day.你還記得尼娜嗎？她是一名時(shí)裝模特。她的工作讓她走遍世界，而且她經(jīng)常住高級(jí)賓館。尼娜今晚可不覺(jué)得孤單。她們都是老朋友，聊得很開(kāi)心。尼娜在笑，她確實(shí)過(guò)得很愉快。尼娜必須思考她的生活。但她現(xiàn)在過(guò)得很開(kāi)心。Unit 11 We all have our troubles 家家有本難念的經(jīng)JACK: Anna, I want you to call Pierre in 39。 you set it up, please?And can you get me some coffee? ANNA: Yes, sir. Straight ! Again!He was in Paris last week! JANEY: Wasn39。m always here at my was here was here the day before yesterday.ANEY: We39。M sorry for you we all have our troubles in I39。我準(zhǔn)備明天一早去巴黎，想在8點(diǎn)鐘見(jiàn)他。巴黎！又是巴黎！他上周就在巴黎。詹妮：有些人真幸運(yùn)！安娜：我知道。我昨天在這兒，前天也在這兒。但是家家有本難念的經(jīng)。Unit 12: The London bus 倫敦的公共汽車 The new buses in London are just 39。.They aren39。London buses39。London bus39。t very safe — but Londoners like to do their own thing. And the Routemasters were fast in the traffic.Modern buses are safe, but they are slow. Passengers hate the doors. Car drivers hate the buses. The bus drivers have a hard time. The first Routemasters were on our roads in 1954. The last official Routemaster journey was on Route Number 9, on 15th February 2006. That was some years ago.20 Today, Londoners remember the Routemaster39。s name: Douglas Scott.The new buses don39。真正的“倫敦公共汽車”是老式的“馬路大師”。“馬路大師”真的危險(xiǎn)嗎？車的后部是沒(méi)有門的開(kāi)放平臺(tái)，也許這樣并不安全——但倫敦人喜歡做自己的事?，F(xiàn)在的公共汽車是安全，但很慢。第一批“馬路大師”在1954 年上路，而最后一班官方“馬路大師”是在2006年 2月15日，行車路線是9號(hào)線。如今，倫敦人還記得“馬路大師”這個(gè)名字，還記得它的設(shè)計(jì)者的名字：道格拉斯新式公共汽車沒(méi)有名字，我們?cè)趺慈ハ矚g它們呢？Unit 13: The Kalenjin 卡蘭津人Take a look at the records of international running events in the last fifty years. Before 1980, the winners of distance races were usually from 5 North America and Europe. There were some winners from other countries, hut there weren39。s top twenty marathon runners are now Kalenjin. Every year, they win 40 percent of the top honours in all international distance 25 races. And it39。t any distance races for women. These days, there are lots of them. Kalenjin women win all their events as well.來(lái)看看過(guò)去50 年中國(guó)際賽跑比賽的記錄。雖然也有其他國(guó)家的冠軍，但并不很多，冠軍中波有非洲人的名字。現(xiàn)在，跑道上的明星是卡蘭津人。他們是天生的運(yùn)動(dòng)員，腿又細(xì)又長(zhǎng)，心率很慢。目前，世界上頂尖的20名馬拉松選手中有12名是卡 蘭津人。得獎(jiǎng)的不只是男性?？ㄌm津的女性也贏了所有的比賽。m going out, can I get some chocolate?We had some sweets last weekend,but we didn39。t have much chocolate the weekend before last.KAREN: You and your chocolate!OK. But you must share it with everyone else! LUCY: I39。t have any nice boxes at the supermarket. These chocolates are from Marconi39。re really special. ROBERT: But chocolate is chocolate,isn39。This chocolate contains fifty percent cocoa. Marconi39。s chocolate.39。我能買些巧克力嗎？我們上周末吃了糖果，但沒(méi)吃巧克力?？▊悾? 你和你的巧克力！好了。這些巧克力是從馬可尼店里 買的， 非常特別。聽(tīng)著：“此巧克力含有50%的可可粉?！甭段鳎? 呣！這簡(jiǎn)直是巧克力夫堂！口感與眾不同。s deputy had a baby two months Pierre39。s life!JACK: True.JACK: And then there39。t want a threehour lunch, but lunch is a serious business in Paris. DAISY: Yes, it like the French attitude to 39。re nice 39。s a mystery to me!黛西： 歡迎回來(lái)，杰克！旅途愉快嗎？杰克： 還好。馬塞爾的副 手兩個(gè)月前生了個(gè)孩 子。杰克： 她們每次都有9個(gè)月不上班！黛西： 是這樣的，這就是生活！杰克： 對(duì)。我和馬塞爾吃午飯，我并不想吃3個(gè)小時(shí)，但在巴黎，午飯是件嚴(yán)肅的 事。我喜歡法國(guó)人對(duì)食物的態(tài)度，很讓人舒服。他們?nèi)撕芎?，也很有?