his company, his boss has given him two promotions. So, he is very happy with this company
Section Four Supplementary Exercise Part 1 Listening Comprehension Passage 1 Bargains or Fixed Price Shopping Transcript
Once I have settled in my new job and new place I started looking for good places to shop around. In my home country, there was lot of bargaining in almost every store. However, I heard that in the US bargaining is not allowed in large stores. Therefore, I started to explore different stores to compare prices. I spoke to some American colleagues and neighbours about the different shopping avenues. From whatever information I collected I could find out that some of the best buys could be made at the bargain or discount stores. That was the first time I came to know about the bargain shopping in the US.
From what I have learnt, your could make use of the following techniques for bargain shopping Watch for sales. This is when items are offered at a discounted price. The sale might be a set a percentage discount. Sales are generally advertised. Be sure to always check the local paper issued on Sunday; usually all the sales for the week will be announced. Many stores will also have clearance sales. Items on clearance generally will
not be reordered, so he store needs to make room for new goods. Often these sales are unadvertised. Great bargains can be found at clearance sales!
Look for and use coupons. These can be found in the Sunday paper, in magazines, sometimes in the telephone book. A coupon is a little slip of paper allowing you to get a small discount when you buy the specific item described. The coupon will say “Save 40 cents on any Pledge”, for example. That means that if you present the coupon at the time of purchase, and if you bought the correct brand and size, and if the expiration date has not passed, you will pay 40 cents less for that can of Pledge furniture polish. If the store is having a “double coupon day”, the coupon is worth twice as much (you would pay 80 cents less for a can of Pledge).
Purchases can be made very inexpensively at garage sales and second-hand stores. Used items in good condition often can be found for a low price. Also, check newspapers and local bulletin boards for listings of used goods for sale.
Exercise: Listen to the passage and choose the best answer to each of the following questions.
1~5: B, A, A, D, C6~8: B, B, D Passage 2 American Cosmonaut
Dennis Tito paid the Russian government $20, 000, 000 for the chance to travel in a Soyez space craft to the new International Space Station. His space flight will be launched on April 30th.
Mr Tito says he has been interested in space travel since he was seventeen years old. That was when the former Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik. This interest led him to become a rocket scientist. He worked for the United States Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. He left that job after a few years to start an investment business.
Today, Ennis Tito’s company is among the nation’s largest investment businesses. Reports say he is worth about 200, 000, 000 dollars. So he can easily pay 20, 000, 000dollars for a trip into space.
This is not the first time the Russian space programme has earned needed money by selling seats on its spacecraft. A Japanese television reporter flew on Mir for a price of 12, 000, 000 dollars. And the American space agency NASA paid 400, 000, 000 dollars to send several American astronauts to Mir.
Mr Tito is now living and working at Russia’s Star City training area to prepare for his ten-day trip. Why does he want to go into space? Mr Tito says he has been on Earth for sixty years and the now wants to take a look at the planet form space.
Exercise:
Name Age Former profession Present profession Amount of money paid for the travel Time of departure Length of the trip Destination of the trip Reason to go into the space Part 2 Oral Work Dennis Tito sixty Rocket scientist business $20, 000, 000 April 30th Ten days the new International Space Station to take a look at the planet from space Mark was a little too early. He stood in the road by the entrance to the school and wondered what to do while he waited. Perhaps after all he should have come with Nancy’s two sons as their mother had suggested. But they were so much older that he, besides, they never talked to him. He was convinced they looked down on him.
He walked slowly into the school. There were already abut a hundred children there, most of them moving confidently around in groups, obvi
ously glad to see each other again after the holidays. Mark envied them they made him feel lonely.
It was easy to pick out the newcomers. In the bustle and noise, they stood out as if they had been soaked with water. Mark went to one of the buildings. He opened the door and walked in.