【正文】 倫敦中區(qū)的酒吧里。她們都是老朋友，聊得很開心。酒吧開始喧鬧起來(lái)。尼娜在笑，她確實(shí)過得很愉快。為什么不能每天晚上都這樣呢？這是個(gè)有趣的問題！這是個(gè)新想法。尼娜必須思考她的生活。她打算在早上考慮。但她現(xiàn)在過得很開心。明天尼娜要做個(gè)決定——但還是明天再說吧。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。m going to Paris first thing want to meet with him at 8 o39。 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。t he in Washington last week?ANNA: No, he was in Washington the week before last. JANEY: Some people have all the luck!ANNA: Yes, I want to travel,but I39。m always here at my was here was here the day before yesterday.ANEY: We39。re going to be here tomorrow,and the day after tomorrow ...ANNA: And next week, and next month!JACK: Anna, Janey, I39。M sorry for you we all have our troubles in I39。m looking forward to my coffee杰克：安娜，我想讓你給巴黎的皮埃爾打電話。我準(zhǔn)備明天一早去巴黎，想在8點(diǎn)鐘見他。你 能安排一下嗎？還有，你能給我拿些咖啡嗎？安娜：好的，先生，馬上。巴黎！又是巴黎！他上周就在巴黎。詹妮：他上周不是在華盛頓嗎？安娜：不，他上上周在華盛頓。詹妮：有些人真幸運(yùn)！安娜：我知道。我想旅游，可我要一直在這兒，坐在辦公桌前。我昨天在這兒，前天也在這兒。詹妮：我們明天還會(huì)在這兒，后天也在……安娜：還有下周，下個(gè)月！杰克：安娜，詹妮，我真為你們感到難過。但是家家有本難念的經(jīng)。我在等我的咖啡。Unit 12: The London bus 倫敦的公共汽車 The new buses in London are just 39。buses39。.They aren39。t 39。London buses39。. The real 39。London bus39。 was the old Routemaster. This was our favourite 5 bus for fiftyone years. It was a design classic.Were Routemasters really dangerous? The back of the bus was an open platform with no doors. Perhaps this wasn39。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. They remember the designer39。s name: Douglas Scott.The new buses don39。t have a name. How can we love them?倫敦的新公共汽謄只是“公共汽車”而已，它們不是“倫敦公共汽車”。真正的“倫敦公共汽車”是老式的“馬路大師”。51 年來(lái)，它一直是我們最喜歡的公共汽車，是經(jīng)典的設(shè)計(jì)?！榜R路大師”真的危險(xiǎn)嗎？車的后部是沒有門的開放平臺(tái)，也許這樣并不安全——但倫敦人喜歡做自己的事。而且“馬路大師”在車流中行駛很快?，F(xiàn)在的公共汽車是安全，但很慢。乘客不喜歡車門，小汽車司機(jī)仍不喜歡公共汽車，公共汽車司機(jī)們?nèi)兆雍茈y過。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。那已經(jīng)是幾年前的事了。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：道格拉斯斯科特。新式公共汽車沒有名字，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。t very many of them. There were no African names among thewinners then, but 10 things are very different now.Today, the stars of the race track are the Kalenjin. The Kalenjin are an African people from the borders of North West Kenya and Ethiopia. Their 15 homeland is a hot, dry plateau, about 2,500 metres above sea level. These people are natural athletes. They have long,