Exercises-A

　　匹配練習。請從a-h的回答中找出1-8問題的得體應答。

　　1. How 's business?

　　2. How do you like it here?

　　3. How was the conference?

　　4. What did you think of the meeting?

　　5. What was the hotel like?

　　6. How are the job interviews going?

　　7. How did the exam go ?

　　8. How's the stock check getting on?

　　a. Not bad. It was quite comfortable.

　　b. Terrible! I could answer only one question.

　　c. So so. Our sales are down this year.

　　d. Not very useful-a lot of talk, but no decisions.

　　e. OK. We have only two more candidates to deal with.

　　f. Quite good. There were some interesting speakers there.

　　g. It's great! I'll be sorry to go back.

　　h. Very well. We hope to finish Warehouse B this afternoon.

　　Exercises-B

　　用括號中的詞或短語翻譯下列句子。

　　1. 兩個陌生人在盡量尋找雙方都感興趣的話題。(try to, of common interest)

　　2. 你覺得倫敦怎么樣?(find)

　　3. 你住在哪家旅館?(stay)

　　4. 你有時間游覽紐約嗎?(find time)

　　5. 很遺憾，我只能在中國呆兩周(unfortunately, a couple of)

　　6. 我們將在東京設辦事處。(set up an office)

　　7. 你們公司的總部在哪兒?(based)

　　8. 太巧了!我也是設計師。(coincidence)

　　Exercises-C

　　在會議室晨，你與一位美國客戶鄰座。休息的時候你想和她交談，但你們并不認識，該用哪句開場呢?

　　1. Hello. Where are you from?

　　2. Hello. Where are you going?

　　3. Hot weather, isn't it?

　　Exercises-D

　　在飛往紐約的飛機上，A、B兩人嘗試著開始交談。請問，為什么他們的談話進行不下去了?如果你是B，你將怎么樣推動談話?

　　A：Are you going to New York too?

　　B：Yes.

　　A;For pleasure?

　　B：No. For business.

　　A：Is it your first to America?

　　B：Yes.

　　A：Have you been to many other places in the world?

　　B：Not many.

　　( silence )

　　Translation

　　在商品交易會的休息室里，兩個素不相識的人交談起來。

　　甲：這是你第一次參加這個交易會嗎?

　　乙：對，希望不是最后一次。

　　甲：有時間看所有的展品嗎?

　　乙：嗯，只看了中國產的絲綢。

　　甲：有興趣嗎?

　　乙：有。實際上，我是絲綢進口商。

　　甲：真的嗎?太巧了，我的廠子生產高質量的絲綢。

　　乙：太好了，我們定個時間看一下樣品吧。你們工廠在哪兒?

　　甲：在蘇州。我可以帶你參觀一下。

　　Key to Exercises-A

　　1-c 2-g 3-f 4-d 5-a 6-e 7-b 8-h

　　Key to Exercises-B

　　1. Two strangers are trying to find topics of common interest.

　　2. How do you find London?

　　3. Which hotel are you staying in?

　　4. Have you found time to see much in New York?

　　5. Unfortunately, I can only stay a couple of weeks in China.

　　6. Our company is setting up an office in Tokyo.

　　7. Where is your company based?

　　8. That is a coincidence! I'm also a designer.

　　Key to Exercises-C

　　3比較合適。

　　分析：1和2擔的總是都有些唐突，特別是2顯得不太禮貌，對方心里也許會說"it's none of your business."[不關你的事]3是從談論天氣開場，這在許多場合都是可以用的。

　　Key to Exercises-D

　　答案：B 沒有為推動談話做積極的努力，只是被動地回答問題。A在盡力找話題以避免沉默，但B的配合很不夠。一問一答的對話是很難進行下去的，除非是在面試或審訊。

　　請參考改進過的對話：

　　A：Are you going to New York too?

　　B：Yes. I'm going there on business. What about you?

　　A：Me too. Our Company is setting up an office in New York?

　　B：I see. So you must have been to New York several times.

　　A：yes. Is it your first trip to America?

　　B：Right. I'd like some advice from you.

　　A：Well……

　　這樣一來談話就可以進行下去了。當然你可以構思別的談話內容。

　　Key to Translation

　　In the lounge of a trade fair, two strangers start talking.

　　A：Is this your first visit to the trade fair?

　　B：Yes, hopefully not my last.

　　A：Have you find time to see all the exhibits?

　　B：Well, I've just seen Chinese silk.

　　A：Are you interested in it?

　　B：Yes. Actually I'm a silk importer.

　　A：Really? That's a coincidence. My factory produces high quality silk.

　　B：Good. Let's fix a time to see the samples. Where is your factory based?

　　A：In Suzhou. I can show you around.