1 HolidaysA：Good morning, B.B：Morning, A. Have you got a train ticket?A：Yes. I will go home on January 2. How about you?B：Oh, four days earlier than you. I can’t wait to go home. Do you like the Spring Festival?A：of course, I like it very much. It’s a precious time for all family members to get together. And my mother will prepare so many delicious food for the new year's eve. Besides，the fireworks on this night are really wonderful. Are there any traditions in your hometown?B：Yes. According to the tradition, we will play new year visits to out eldership and eat different kinds of dumplings at different time.A：Really? Different kinds of dumplings?B：Yeah. During supper time, we eat meat dumplings, while at 0:00, we eat dumplings without meat. I don’t know why.A：Sounds interesting. The Valentine’s Day is just two weeks after the Spring Festival this year, will you celebrate it?B：Maybe not. Though the Western Holidays are becoming more and more popular in China. What’s your opinion?A：To be frank, I prefer Chinese traditional holidays. I love the beautiful legends behind them. As for the western holidays, I think that the commercial benefits are the greatest motivation.B：I agree with you. Businessmen are trying their best to make a fortune from those Western Holidays. But some western holidays are really meaningful, such as Thanks giving day, giving us an opportunity to express our gratitude to the person who have helped us.A: yes, you are right. As we all know, Every coin has two sides2 TravelA：Good morning, B.B：Morning, A. Have you got a train ticket?A:yeah, I will go home on January 24. How about you?B: four days earlier than you. I can’t wait to go home!A:What’s your plan of this vacation?B:Yeah, As I like travel, I will go to YunnanA: wow, that’s wonderful! I have heard that there are many amazing sceneries you can never find in other places, it’s beauty is out of words. But it is really far away from your home, How will you go there?B:by train. It will be safe and cheaper.A:I agree with you. To by air is faster, but too more expensive. Who will you go with?B: I`ll go with my sister. We have been longing for this travel for a long time.A: sounds great! I wish I could have a chance to go to yunnan too.B: I also hope to travel with you, next time, let`s go together. I`ll send you postcard! A: Thank you very much! By the way, I have received your postcard from mountain huang, it’s beautiful!B: yeah! If you go there by yourself, you’ll find it more beautiful than the scenery in the postcard.A: I believe it must be. Now I think I should find a part time job to save money for my next relaxing holiday. Maybe I’ll go to mountain huang.B: Oh, great! If you really go there, I can give you some useful tips.A: that’s great! I’ll contact you later. Thanks a lot!B: that’s all right! Keep in touch!A: Sure! Have a good time in Yunnan!3 EducationA: Hi, nice to see you here! How are you?B: I’m fine. And you?A: Just as usual! What are you engaged in recently?B: you know my cousin will take the national college entrance examination this year, I need to help him looking for some materials about college education. He also has the opportunity to go to college abroad. But our whole family don’t know anything about colleges abroad. Do you have any idea?A:Yeah, As I know, choosing colleges in the United States is quite different from that in China .First, he need to decide whether he would choose a public college or a private one.B: Is there any difference?A: yes,of course there is. Private colleges usually have good conditions in every aspect, but the tuition is very high. So many students would apply for a public one which offered scholarship.B: Oh, it’s very interesting. Besides, I think that some Chinese colleges are excellent too.A:I agree with you, especially the 985-colleges, they have excellent atmosphere of study and varieties of teaching facilities.B:you are right. I’ll tell my brother and let him make a choice.A:hope the information will help you. And wish him good luck.B: of course it will be. Thanks a lot.A: that’s all right.4 BankRobin: Hey, Lisa, look. I got a credit card, it is very convenient to buy things.You should have one yourself.Lisa: Oh, no. I had credit cards. In views of many people, they like credit cards beacause they can “buy now, pay later”. It seems that they don’t need pay any money to get the things they want. So do you.Robin: Er, it seems that I spend more money on shopping than before with a credit card. But what finally happened with your credit cards? Your tone sounds not good.Lisa: Yes, it is. I spent too much and couldn’t make even the minimum payment. So I got another credit card to pay the bill on the first one, and then another one after that. Time after time, I was in majoy credit card debt.Robin: Oh my god. I never thought this phenomenon seriously. But the bank staff told me this credit card can get the reward points. The points can be redeemed for a free flight. I was attracted by this.Lisa: free flight is wonderful, But you should not forget that the benefit comes from a price one has paid. You must cost a lot of money so that you can get the enough points.Robin: Don't worry. If my mother or father want to buy something, I’ll borrow my credit card to them. They’ll give the money back to me and at the same time, I get the points.Lisa: But I really doubt that whether you can earn the enough points to redeem the flight ticket in such a limited time. It’s less than one month before the winter vacation now.Robin: It’OK. My family will make a big pay for the spring festival.Lisa: Really? Then wish you good luck.5EnvironmentA: Hi, Dennis. How are you?B: Fine, thanks .What about you？A: I'm fine too. But, the air quality these days is so bad. It almost drives me crazy.B: Yes, these years, the air pollution is very serious, but all of these are from our problem- industrial overdevelopment.A: As we all know, Human beings have both the abilities of create and destroy the word.B: Except this, the environment has been damaged by global warming, the damaged ozone and all the different kinds of pollution.A: So, recently, environment issues have been part of global issues. Do we have any ways to solve these problems?B: We can only hope that all of the countries in the world get together and agree on a plan for action, but I doubt it’ll happen before it’s too late.A: Yes, that’s really a problem. Actually, there have been lots of new technologies on environment protection. But the application of these technologies has a high cost, so popularizing them has many resistances from countries, corporations and individuals.B: Most of us look at the issue in the short term. It’s just like the destruction of the rainforests. People just want the wood. They don’t think about the long-term damage to the forests.A: En, fortunately, more and more people have realized all these problems and have taken measures to improve the earth's environment.B: But in our country, it is not enough.A: Agree with you. It seems that we still have a long way to go.6Phone callA：Good morning, B.B：Morning, A. Have you got a train ticket?A：Yes. I will go home on January 24. How about you?B: four days earlier than you..Oh, your cellphone looks very beautiful. Can I have a look? A:Sure.it's the Sanxing Galaxy Note 2.B: Er, I like its screen. It's a lot easier to read messages than mine.A:Yes, and what attracts me most is its powerful functions, such as 3G, a 3.2 megapixel camera, video recording, music player, FM radio with RDS and so on.B:Oh my god! It seems that there’s nothing impossible with the little mobile phone.A:Yeah, can’t agree more,You never know what is waiting for you.It’s the magic of science and technology.B: Oh,the handwriting recognition is fantastic! That's really useful for me, because I type very slow.A:Your cellphone is a little beat up. Y ou know, you may have one of it.B:It must be very expensive,how much is it?A:Now it may be 3000 yuan.B: Oh,ok,Where did you buy it?A: I don't know. My uncle gave it to me as my birthday present.B: Oh, I want to buy a cellphone, but I don't know where to buy.A: Why not go to Suning or Gomme?B: The cellephones there are too expensive. I want to buy a cheaperbut good one.A: I heard that there are many wonderful cellphones on jingdong. Maybe you can buy one online.B: Sounds good! Thank you.A: You are welcome.7JobA: Hello Dennis! How are you?B: fine, thanks, and you?A: I’m fine, too. I have a question. what kind of job do you want after graduation, the one well-paid or the one you love?B: I hope I can find a well-paid job which also attracts me.A: Who not? But maybe it just happens in your dreams.B: So it is. Well, frankly speaking, I think a well-paid job will be my first choice. I need enough money to do the things I like.A: As for me, salary would not be the priority. I’d rather choose a job I enjoy doing.B: I think I’ll stick my choice. In fact, most people don’t take job for fun. Work is nothing but means to survive.A: I can’t agree with you. I consider work as an important part of our life. So I think it’s advisable to take a job you like, which makes you full of motivation to do it well.B: For me, high salary is just the b est motivation to do my job efficiently. “Work hard and play hard” is my motto.A：But for me, I think it’s a waste of precious lifetime if a person takes a job he doesn’t like, and there’s less possibility to get a career success.B: To me, as long as the job offers me a high salary I will foster my interest in it and I will do my best to make the job success.A: I got it. You mean that we must consider about our life cost first, and second our interest. That’s the reality everyone faces.B: Yeah. So, although the chance of finding a job that both pays well and attracts us is slight, let’s believe in miracles and have a try.A: Wish you a good luck.B: Thank you, the same to you.8CultureA: Good morning!B: Good morning!A: I saw you were just reading China daily. Is there anything interesting?B: Yes, maybe the news that China set up its first Laozi research institute will arouse your interestA: Oh, yes, I heard about it too. It shows that we begin to pay attention to the Chinese traditional culture.B: Traditional culture is our precious heritage, it is what we should be proud of, but nowadays more and more people become unfamiliar with it.A: That’s because lately years, our country focus on the economic construction and overemphasize the importance of science and technology. Youth admire the modern western civilization, and ignore our own culture. I really think we should add the traditional culture courses in our education system.B: Well, that is really a problem worth discussing. Do you know that there is a modern sishu in Suzhou and in it teachers wear a long traditional Chinese robe, and the students have to bow to an image of Confucius hanging on the wall.A: That sounds interesting. But, is it just a teaching form or something? What the children learn there and does this method work?B: Oh，it is not just a form. In the modern sishu students will read a lot of morality stories and ancient poetry, it will help them to learn the essence of our ancient culture which makes a person to be polite, upright and so on.A: Great! That is just what most of us can’t learn in the school teaching nowadays.B:Yes, everyone must understand which kind of culture should be inherit, and which not. That’s really not an easy work.A:I agree with you, it’s a long way to go for us.9HealthA: Good morning, Dennis.B: Good morning, Nero.A: You look not very good today, what happened?B: Oh, thanks to the severe weather and endless work, I catch a cold.A: Poor people, you should have taken good care of yourself. You know, body is the base of fighting.B: I know, so I decide give myself several days off to relax.A: Good decision.work will never finish, so you needn’t to worry much about it. What’s more, you can’t have a high efficiency when you catch a cold.B: I agree with you, I’ll tell to the boss about it and ask a sick leave.A: Anyway, do you have any medicine? You look really bad.B: Medicine? That is not my first choice. I haven’t took medicine for five years.A: Five years? Is it true? Is this your first time to be sick in the past five years? B: Of cause not, you must be kidding.A: Sick-medicine, is it an unwritten rule?B: But there is also an old saying that medicine is also a poison.A: But it’s very dangerous if you don’t take medicine when get sick, even be life-threatening.B: Oh, you are too serious, it just a cold and I don’t have a fever. I know my situation. A: But you must do something, or it will become worse.B: When I have a little sick, I will take more rest, drink more water and eat some delicious fruits and vegetable.A: Sounds reasonable. But what if it doesn’t work, what will you do?B: I will go to see the doctor. But it always works for such little illness.。