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M: My homework assignment is too hard.
W: What is it?
M: I’m doing all of the report on the outstanding woman. I choose Stuco Ogata. I have topresent it to the class tomorrow.
W: Do you know the material?
M: I think so.
W: Ok, let’s practice. I ask you some questions.
M: Ok.
W: All right, then. Just why is Stuco Ogata well-known?
M: She worked for the United Nations as a high-ranking official on refugees. She worked on the job for ten years and supervised 2200 people.
W: En… What are the refugees?
M: Well, refuges are people who leave their countries to escape wars or other problems.
W: Is the refuge issue a big problem?
M: Yes, world wide, now there are about 17 million refugees.
W: Wow, last question. Why did you choose Ms. Stuco to fill your report?
M: She is successful, she moved to the United States and received a PHD from UC Brooklyn. As a Korea woman, she also got married and had two lovely children.
二
W: You’re the editor of Public Eye. What kind of topics does your program cover?
M: Well, there are essentially domestic stories. We don’t cover international stories. We don’t cover party politics or economics. We do issues of general social concern to our British audience. They can be anything from the future of the health service to the way the environment is going downhill.
W: How do you choose the topic? Do you choose one because it’s what the public wants to know about or because it’s what you feel the public ought to know about?
M: I think it’s a mixture of both. Sometimes you have a strong feeling that something is important and you want to see it examined and you want to contribute to a public debate. Sometimes people come to you with things they are worried about and they can be quite small things. They can be a story about corruption in local government, something they cannot quite understand, why it doesn’t seem to be working out properly, like they are not having their litter collected properly or the dustbins emptied.
W: How do you know that you’ve got a really successful program? One that isjust right for the time?
M: I think you get a sense about it after working in it in a number of years. You know which stories are going to get the attention. They are going to be published just the point when the public are concerned about that.
三
M: I'm sure you've noticed a lot of things that are different about our school.
W: Oh, Yes, in the United States we don’t have to carry a big schoolbag with us as you do.
M: Why is that?
W: We have a locker of our own which is a small box with a lock. We keep textbooks and our personal things in it. I just bring a day pack to school.
M: A day pack?
W: Yes, it’s a small bag that you carry on your back.
M: What do you carry in it?
W: My notebooks or a few books for homework.
M: That's convenient. Is there anything else you've noticed about our school?
W: Yes, I am surprised that everyone is so silent in class.
M: What do you mean?
W: Well, we usually ask questions about exams, homework or textbooks on the first day of the school year. The teacher likes such questions.
M: So you felt it different.
W: Yes, I expected to see a lot of discussions in class because we learn that way in the United States.
M: I see. That'll be a good topic for our school newspaper for the first month of the term. Nice talking with you. See you around. Bye.
W: Bye.

M: It sells many different kinds of food. For example, it has two hundred and fifty kinds of cheese from all over the world.
W: That’s amazing. And why is the Egyptian Hall so famous?
M: Well, when people see it, they feel they are in another world. It looks like an Egyptian Building from 4,000 years ago.
W: Is it true that Harrods produces its own electricity?
M: Yes, it does. Seventy percent. Enough for a small town.
W: Really? Tell me, how many customers do you have on an average day?
M: About thirty thousand people come on an average day. But during the January sales, the number increases to three hundred thousand customers a day.
W: How much do they spend?
M: Well, on average, the customers spend about 1.5 million pounds a day. During the January sales, the record for one day is nine million pounds.
四
W: You know I've often wondered why people laugh at the picture of a big belly businessman slipping on a banana skin and falling on his bottom. We are to feel sorry for them.
　　M: Actually, Laura, I think we laugh because we are glad it didn't happen to us. But of course there is also a kind of humorous satisfaction in seeing somebody self-important making a fool of themselves.
　　W: Yes, and there are a lot of jokes about people who are too fat or physically handicapped, you know, deaf, or short-sighted things like that. After all, it's not really funny to be like that.
　　M: Oh, I think that's because we're embarrassed. We don't know how to cope with the situation. Perhaps we are even a bit frightened we may get like that, so we laugh.
　　M: What about the custard pie routine?
　　W: What do you mean 'custard pie routine'?
　　M: You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.
　W: That never makes me laugh much, because you can guess what's going to happen. But a lot of people still find it laughable. It must because of the sort of the thing we'd all love to do once in a while and never quiet have the courage to.
　　M: I had an old aunt who used to throw cups of tea at people when she was particularly irritated. She said it relieved her feelings.
　　W: It must have come a bit expensive.
　　M: Not really. She took care never to throw her best china.
五
W: there is an element there about the competitioner, isn’t there? Because British railways are a nationalized industry, there isn’t any one railway system in the country. If you don’t like a particular kind of big beans, you can go on by another; but if you don’t like the particular railway, you can’t go on using another
　 M: some people who write to me say this. They say that if you did not have a monopoly, you would not be able to do the things you do. Well, I don’t think we do anything deliberately to upset our customers, we have particular problems. Since 1946, when the Transport Act came in, we were nationalized.
　W: Do you think that is a good thing? Has it been a good thing for the railways, do you think, to be nationalized?
　　M: Oh, I think so, yes, because in general, mosts of the transports are all around. Let’s face the fact, the car are arrived the cars are here to stay. There is no question about that
　　W:So what’s your saying then? Is it if the railways haven’t been nationalized, they would simply have disappeared?
　　M: Oh, I think they would have. They are disappearing fast in America. The French railways lose 1 billion pounds a year, the German railways, 2 billion a year. But you see those governments are preparing to pour the money into the transport system to keep it going
　　W: So, In a sense, you call between two extremes. On the one hand, they are trying not to lose too much money, and on the other hand, you’ve got to provide the best service.
　　M: Yes, you are right
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