大学英语听力四答案Lesson-8-listening.ppt

Lesson 8
1. I’ve no idea where John lives.
2. I haven’t bought my course books yet and neither has Peter.
3. My appetite for sandwiches has disappeared.
4. There’s never a parking problem in the city.
5. I won’t miss the Golden Gate Bridge before I leave San Francisco.
6. My pen is out of ink.
7. Jane won’t pass chemistry unless she works hard.
8. Yesterday’s lectures weren’t at all boring.
9. Under no circumstances should we disrupt the concert tomorrow.
10. There is no one who doesn’t know how to solve this problem.
Boxing Day
In the English-speaking world, the day after Christmas Day has a special name. We call it Boxing Day.
This makes it sound like a day on which everyone has a fight, but the name has nothing to do with the sport of boxing. It derives from the custom in former times of presenting servants and tradesmen with a Christmas box or gift. Here in Britain we still talk about giving the milkman or newspaper-delivery boy a Christmas box, when we mean a sum of money or present. The expression dates from the time when the money would have been put into an actual box.
Boxing Day in modern times is a quiet day. Most people are recovering from the large meals they ate the day before. The children have new toys to keep them happy, and the adults are content to watch them play.
Perhaps it would be a good idea if Boxing Day actually was made to honor that sport. Then