西南财经大学课程表-指导青年教师计划
Task 1
A
young
man
went
into
a
car
showroom.
He
was
wearing
rubber
boots
and
a
dirty
jacket.
He
needed a haircut badly and
was unshaven. The young man examined an expensive
car carefully
and then turned to speak
to the salesman.
have
sixteen
of
them,
the
young
man
said.
The
salesman
smiled.
He
found
it
hard
to
be
polite.
The salesman showed
his customer the door and the young man left the
shop without a word.
He went to a
showroom on the other side of the street and asked
for sixteen cars.
The second salesman was polite and
helpful. The young man took a bundle of notes out
of his
pocket and paid for the cars in
cash. He explained that the cars were for himself
and his fifteen
colleagues. He said
that he and his colleagues worked on a Norwegian
fishing-boat.
earned a lot of money
this season,
Naturally, the second salesman was
delighted.
Task 2
Lucy: Excuse me.
Stallholder: Yes, Miss?
Lucy:
How
much
do
you
want
for
this
plate?
Let
me
see.
Oh,
yes...
that's
a
lovely
example
of
Victorian
brass.
Stallholder:
It's worth twenty quid.
Lucy: Twenty pounds! Oh, that's too
much for me. It's a pity. It's really nice.
Stallholder: Ah, I said
it's worth twenty quid. I'm only asking fifteen
for it.
Lucy: Fifteen
pounds?
Stallholder:
Yes. It's a real bargain.
Lucy: Oh, I'm sure it is, but I can't
afford that!
Stallholder: Well, look... just for
you, I'll make it fourteen quid. I can't go any
lower than that.
Lucy:
I'll give you ten.
Stallholder: Ten! Come on, love. You
must be joking! I paid more than that for it
myself. Fourteen.
It's worth every
penny.
Lucy: Well,
perhaps I could give you eleven.
Stallholder: Thirteen. That's my final
offer.
Lucy: Twelve.
Stallholder: Twelve
fifty.
Lucy: All right,
twelve fifty.
Stallholder: There you are, love.
You've got a real bargain there.
Lucy: Yes, thank you very much.
Task 3
Alex: Good morning.
Cashier: Good morning.
Alex: I would... I would like to know
how to make out this check.
Cashier: Right. Erm... do you want to
draw out some money?
Alex: Yes,
￡
20.
Cashier:
￡
20 okay. [Yes.] Well, the first thing you need to do is to write today's date in the top
right-hand corner where you see the
line, [Yes.] at the top you write just today's
date [Yes.] and
the year. You must put
the year in. And if you want to draw out money
after it says pay... can you
see over
on the left-hand side?
Alex: The first... er... line?
Cashier: That's it. On the
first line it says PAY and you write
Alex: In letters?
Cashier: Yes. C-A-S-H [Yes.]
you write cash. Okay. Then underneath that, right
underneath, you
have to write the
amount of money you want. So just 20 pounds and
then you write ONLY at the
end in
words. Then at the end of that line where you can
see the box, see over on the right-hand
side, you have to write the amount you
want in numbers [In numbers?]. Mmmm. [Yes.] And
then
underneath that box, the last
thing you have to do in the bottom right-hand
corner is just write
your signature.
Alex: Thank you very
much.
Cashier: Okay.
Bye-bye then.
Alex:
Bye.
Task 4
Cashier: Next?
Li: I'm next.
Cashier: Let's see now. You have one
family-size tube of tooth paste: $$1.09. Three bars
of soap:
$$.85. A tube of shampoo:
$$1.39. A bottle of aspirin: $$.79. One box of
Kleenex: $$.99. A comb: $$.29.
One
stick
of
deodorant:
$$.98.
A
tube
of
shaving
cream:
$$.89.
A
package
of
razor
blades:
$$.69.
That's
$$7.56, and 8 percent sales tax. Total: $$8.16.
Li: Here's a 10-dollar
bill.
Cashier: Got
16
￠
, Mister?
Li: Just a minute. I'll look. Yes. Here
you are, 16
￠
.
Cashier: Thanks. Here's your change.
Next, please. Please step up.
Li: Excuse me, Miss. You gave me $$1 in
change. My bill was $$8.16 and I gave you a
10-dollar bill.
Cashier: Oh, yeah. Sorry, Mister.
Here's your buck. Next, please.
Task 5
The US
government prints paper money in the following
denominations: $$10,000; $$5,000; $$1,000;
$$500; $$100; $$50; $$20; $$10; $$5 and $$1.
You, and almost
everybody else, will never see some of these
bills; twenties, tens, fives and ones
are
the
most
commonly
used.
You
will
find
a
picture
of
George
Washington
on
the
$$1
bill,
Abraham
Lincoln
on
the
$$5,
Alexander
Hamilton
on
the
$$10
and
Andrew
Jackson
on
the
$$20.
There are also
pictures on the back: the White House on the $$20,
the Treasury Building on the
$$10,
the
Lincoln
Memorial
on
the
$$5
and
a
big
and
the
American
insignia
on
the
$$1.
However, all
paper bills are the same size and the same green
color, so you have to look carefully
before
handing
someone
money
and
when
receiving
change.
Your
best
bet
is
to
forget
the
pictures and
concentrate on the large numbers in all four
corners of the front and back.
Money in general is referred to as:
etc. A one-dollar bill is most often
called
is
bill might be
There are, of
course, 100 cents in a dollar. Coins come in the
following denominations: $$.01 or
1
￠
; $$.05 or 5
￠
; $$.10 or 10
￠
; $$.25 or 25
￠
; and $$.50 or 50
￠
. They are referred respectively to
a penny, a cent, or one cent; a
nickel or five cents; a dime or ten cents; a
quarter, two bits or
twenty-five cents;
and a fifty-cent piece.
Coins are called
Coins
are
generally
recognized
by
their
size,
but
somebody
on
the
dime,
which
is
smaller than either a nickel or a
penny. All the others are in size order.
Task 6
We have a rule of thumb:
This means we don't carry most of our
weekly or monthly wage around in our pockets, and
we
don't leave it at home where it
might easily be stolen.
Furthermore, we have to pay certain
bills every month. We don't want to travel around
the city
with hundreds of dollars in
cash to pay these bills, nor do we want to waste
the time and carfare.
So we need bank
accounts. And so do you.
The kinds of savings and checking
accounts available in the US are numerous and
complex, but as
you will have only a
small amount of money to deal with each month,
your choices are limited.
Let
us
recommend
to
you
an
account
that
is
both
a
savings
and
a
checking
account
in
one.
Though
they
are
called
by
a
wide
variety
of
names
—
each
bank
gives
its
account
a
different
name
—
they all follow essentially the same pattern. We think that savings banks generally give
slightly
better deals to people like you with little money,
but you should ask people in your area
what's the best, cheapest and most
convenient. Often commercial banks have many, many
more
offices in a city or town, and
that makes banking easier for you.
How
does
all
this
work?
You
receive
your
monthly
money
from
the
Chinese
government,
probably in the form
of a check, a piece of paper with your name on it
and the amount you are
entitled to, say
$$420. You sign your name on the back of the check,
mark it
deposit the money in your
account. Then you withdraw, say, $$50 to pay for
groceries, carfare and
other daily
expenses,