Unit 14  Itineraries

第十四单元  旅行安排

导    读

         本课的两个对话谈论的是旅行安排，这也是本课的交际主题；短文介绍英国人的度假习惯，你会惊讶地得知英国人与其在家里熬过冬天，还不如到西班牙海滨享受阳光更节省开支；什么东西属于谁？人称代词的所有格（也叫物主代词）会为你判断清楚。

译    文

对话一  这是你的日程安排

陈先生正在游览伦敦。他的导游戴安娜正在给他讲有关星期六的观光安排。

    戴安娜：星期六早上9点30我们先出去散步。我们将穿过伦敦的几个大公园。

    陈：我们能参观白金汉宫吗？

    戴安娜：当然，你还可以看到卫兵换岗仪式。

    陈：太棒了！

    戴安娜：下午我们对参观大英博物馆。

    陈：太好了！一定有许多东西值得一看。

对话二  咱们讨论一下我们的安排

      鲁宾逊夫妇刚到北京。人间 来参加一个为时5天的学术会议的。接待员小华正在和他们讨论日程安排。

    鲁宾逊先生：会议以后我们是否有机会看一看北京？

                华：当然有啊。下星期二我们将安排一天的旅游，去十三陵和长城。

    鲁宾逊先生：还有紫禁城吗？

                华：紫禁城安排在星期三我们将带你们游览紫禁城和颐和园。

    鲁宾逊太太：太棒了！但是我们还想游览其它几个城市。

                华：我们已经计划在星期四出游北戴河和唐山。

短文  出国度假

英国人喜欢假期。他们以前通常在英国旅游胜地度暑假，但现在他们更喜欢出国。

学生们有机会以学校或学生团体为单位出国旅游。有时他们作跨越英吉利海峡到法斩一日游。有些人夏天去西班牙游泳或在冬季到意大利滑雪。许多家庭选择露营度假。对于有孩子的家庭来说，这是最便宜也是最便利的度假方式。

    对于英国人来说，无论夏季还冬季，西班牙都是理想的度假国度。许多家庭设法冬季出国度假，因为他们想摆脱糟糕的英国天气。据说，呆在英国付取暖费比去西班牙度假花费还高。

Main points of the text

Dialogue A

1. his schedule for sightseeing 他的观光安排

for是介词，后面要求名词作宾语。

2. There must be a lot to see.

这是there be加情态动词的句子。情态动词后面要用动词原形，故把本来的is（a lot to see 被看成是单数）变成be。

Dialogue B  

1. a 5-day conference一个为期5天的会议

5-day是由数词加名词（单数）构成的复合形容词，再如：

    a 6-month-old baby 一个6个月大的婴儿；a 3-hour journey  一次三小时的旅程

2. discuss their schedule with them 和他们讨论他们的计划安排

do sth. with sb 和某人一起做某事

eg. go to High-tech Fair with my colleagues 和我的同事一起去参观高科技产品交易会

    share a room with 2 other tourists 和另两位游客共住一个房间

3. see something of Beijing在北京参观参观

两种不同的语言不可能一一对应，翻译时要在忠实原意的基础上尽可能求顺畅。所以我们不能把这个词组译成“看看北京的一些东西”，同样，下面的“We’ll show you around the Forbidden City and the Summer Palace.”也不能译成“我们将领你们在被禁止的城市和夏日的宫殿转圈。”

4. It sounds marvelous! 太棒了！

sound是连系动词，“听起来”，翻译的时候为了句子通顺省略了。我们还经常说：

It sounds (like) a good idea. 听起来是个好主意。

“太棒了”除了用marvelous 还可以说：It’s wonderful / great / terrific!

Passage

1. They used to spend their summer holiday at British resorts but nowadays they prefer to go abroad.

他们以前通常在英国旅游胜地度暑假，但现在他们更喜欢出国。

spend花时间；花费; 度过

eg. I advise you to spend half an hour each day exercising. 我劝你每天花半小时锻练身体。

   Will you be spending your holidays abroad this Spring Festival?

   你今年春节准备到国外去度假吗?

2. Students have the opportunity to travel abroad in school or student groups.

学生们有机会以学校或学生团体为单位出国旅游。(时机)

This is a chance for the two of you to get acquainted. (机遇)

这是一次你们两个互相熟悉的机会。

A birthday is no occasion for tears.  生日可不是哭鼻子的时候。(特定的时刻)

student groups学生团体 student union 学生会

3. It is the cheapest and easiest kind of vacation for a family with children.

对于有孩子的家庭来说，这是最便宜也是最便利的度假方式。

the cheapest 和easiest是形容词cheap和easy的最高级形式；比较级是cheaper, easier。注意别按中文的习惯译成 “比较便宜”和“比较容易”，而应译成“更便宜”和“更容易”。

4. It’s said that it costs them more to stay in Britain and pay heating bills than to have a holiday in Spain.

据说，冬天留在英国付取暖费比去西班牙度假花费还高。

据说…是被动语态(be + v.过去分词)，it是形式主语。类似用法还有：

It is reported that… 据报道…；It is decided that… 已决定…；It is believed that… 据信…；   It is supposed that… 据估计…；It is expected that… 据预料…；It must be pointed out that…  必须指出…；It is well known that…  众所周知…

More practice of the text

Fill in the blanks with proper words.

Day by Day Itinerary of Your Tour of Sichuan

(Days One and     1    )

    We leave Beijing and fly     2    to Chengdu, Sichuan’s     3    city for a two-day tour.

    Having booked into the     4    you’ll be taken to     5    Du Fu Cottage. From here we travel to the Wu Hou Temple, where we     6    lunch at     7    the lake and a short rest before traveling     8    another scenic spot. On     9    second day we make an early start for Baoguang Si, which is 18 km north of Chengdu.   10   the way back we stop off at Wenshu Temple. This is the most popular temple in the area and is always full of      11    . From here we     12    to the hotel.

Key:

1 Two    2 to    3 capital    4 hotel    5 the    6 have    

7 by    8 to   9 second    10 On    11 visitors    12 return

Helping you with the exercises

1 Fill in the form according to the dialogues

Key:

2 Give a brief answer to each of the following questions 简答

Key:

1. Buckingham Palace

2. There must be a lot to see there.

3. 5days

4. Something of Beijing

5. Visiting other cities.

6. Three

3 Are the following statements true (T) or false (F) according to the passage?

Key:

1.F       2.T       3.T       4.F          5.F

6.T       7.T       8.F       9.T         10.T

4 Here is a summary of the patterns and expressions for talking about a tour schedule.

Read them and try to remember them by heart.

5 Mei is going to show her visitor around Dalian,so she is telling him the schedule.梅要带领游客在大连观光，现在正为他介绍日程安排。

Key:

1. We'll visit the Coastal Road

2. Then, we'll go to

3. Can we visit.

4. it is worth visiting

5.that's our first stop

6.I'd also like to see.

6 Match the words in Column A with explanations on Column B

Key:

1.b      2.c      3.e       4.d       5.f       6.a

7 Supply words which have similar meanings to the words given.

Key:

1. opportunity --- chance

2. wonderful --- marvelous

3. possibly --- maybe

4. arrange --- plan

5. tour --- trip

8 Put the following sentences into English by using the given words.

Key:

1. School gives us the opportunity to study.

2. We will arrange this meeting

3. They used to go camping

4. Her words sound a little reasonable.

5. This pair of shoes cost Jenny $ 20. / It cost Jenny $20 to buy this pair of shoes.

9 Read the passage carefully and complete the sentences that follow.

请注意各种旅行方式的特点。

Key:

1. convenient and inexpensive but uncomfortable

2. expensive

3. popular

4. free of charge

5. inexpensive, open day and night, and popular

6. rooms for travelers and parking places for their cars

7. inexpensive and popular among young people

Grammar Focus

代词的所有格

Practice your grammar

1 Complete the sentences by adding the correct pronouns. 加上正确的代词。

Key:

her, Hers, his ,his, your, my, mine, yours

如果后面有名词，往往该填形容词性物主代词；如果独自做表语，往往是名词性物主代词

2 Fill in the blanks according to the words in brackets.

Key:

1.your...my      2.His       3.their ...Theirs    4.her ...mine  5.his ...hers

6.my...his…His  7.their...ours  8.yours ...theirs   9.Its      10.Her...his... their

Merry Learning

内容详见多媒体配套光盘。

Listening in and speaking out

1 Conversations

Listen to the conversations and choose the best answers to complete the statements.

1.The class is about ____ minutes now.

a. 40       b. 45       c. 50                 d. 55

2.The last bus came at about ____.

a. 10:30      b. 11:00     c. 11:30      d. 12:00

3.The woman should take the medicine ____ a day.

a. once      b. twice     c. three times   d. four times  

4.The train for Tokyo leaves every ____ minutes.

a. 3         b. 6         c. 7           d. 8

5.The best month in the man’s homeland is ____.

a. May      b. June       c. September   d. October

2 Passage

Listen to the passage and then choose the best answer to complete each sentence.

1.Binhai city is ____.

a. by the sea      b. near a river    c. in the forest     d. at the foot of a mountain

2.Dustmen’s work is ____.

a. easy      b. clean      c. important    d. beautiful

3.The dustmen work ____.

a. always early in the morning.   b. Always late at night

c. When streets are dirty        d. On different shifts

4.The speaker suggests that we should ____.

a. Take turns to clean the city   b. Plant trees

c. Respect dustmen           d. Know how dustmen work

3 Spot Dictation

Listen to the short passage and fill in the blanks with the missing words.

We often regard flowers as the symbol of something, ____ as beauty, love, luck and ____. When we want to show our feelings and good ____, we often turn to flowers for ____. We send flowers on our friends’ or family members’ ____ or marriage. However, we must take ____ care in choosing the right flowers, ____ different flowers have different meanings. For ____, a red rose is the symbol of love, but a yellow rose ____ hopeless love!

4 Picture Identification

Listen to the seven statements and judge whether they are true (T) or false (F) according to the picture.

1.     2.     3.     4.     5.     6.      7.