F: You bet.

27. What do the man’s live?
28. What is typical of the American campus system?
29. Why did the women choose to rent a house at the city center?
30. What does the man promise to do for the woman?

Listening and Translation

Sentence Translation

1.Please hold my telephone calls and just take a message. I can call back later. I must have a little peace and quiet to concentrate on these figures.
請別掛斷我的電話，先留個言，我一會兒會再打來的。現在我必須靜靜地先集中精力看一下這些數字。

2.This company has a registered capital of 15 million US dollars and specializes in importing and exporting and a great variety of digital products.
這家公司有1500萬美元的注冊資金，主營各類數碼產品的進出口。

3.Share prices on the London market have fallen sharply today. Following sharp losses are on Wall Street. Shares of living financial banks have been the worst hit.
隨著今天倫敦市場的股價暴跌，華爾街也遭受了巨大損失，現存的金融銀行的股價跌得最為厲害。

4.Good health is usually associated with exercise. But that is not the whole picture. In order to keep fit, you have to eat well, sleep well and generally feel good about yourself.
健康的身體往往會讓人聯想到鍛煉，但鍛煉并非全部，保持身體健康還需要吃好、睡好和對自我感覺良好。

5.Many young people dream of becoming top models. To become slim is what they usually desire. Therefore in order to keep their weight down, they simply avoid food.
很多年輕人夢想著成為名模，她們通常渴望變得苗條。因此，為了減肥，她們就干脆不吃東西。

Passage Translation

American Businessmen frequently use social situations to make business deals. One of the best examples of this practice is the business lunch. It is used to win clients, to make influential contacts, to discuss and settle internal disagreements, and even to interview potential employees. Some companies always conduct job interviews over lunch. A business lunch usually lasts from one to two hours and it often takes place at a restaurant with a pleasant, quiet atmosphere conducive to private discussions.

美國商人經常利用社交場合來做生意，最好的例子就是商務午餐，可以用來爭取客戶，擴大影響，討論并解決內部分歧，甚至面試未來的員工。很多工作面試都是在商務午餐中完成的。商務午餐通常持續1-2.5小時，在餐廳舉行，那里安靜宜人，適合進行私人對話。

As the world population becomes denser, we will feel greater pressure from the expanding number of people. Some experts argue that we are approaching the limit of the number of people the earth can support adequately and they feel we shall turn to compulsory birth control. Other authorities feel that if birth control is imposed on the population, the future of mankind will be seriously endangered. They think intelligent people will be more likely to have fewer children, which will bring about a lowering of the level of intelligence.

世界人口密度不斷加大，越來越多的人口帶來的壓力也隨之增加。專家認為，我們正在接近地球所能承受的人口極限，因此應該進行人口生育控制，也有人認為如果這樣會危及到人類的未來。因為通常高智商人群生育的孩子較少，所以有人擔心這會導致人類整體智力水平的下降。

From:教育人生網