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吉林大学远程教育学院

    >>>>   Unit One
    >>>>   Unit Two
    >>>>   Unit Three
    >>>>   Unit Four
    >>>>   Unit Five
    >>>>   Unit Six
    >>>>   Unit Seven
    >>>>   Unit Eight
    >>>>   Unit Nine
    >>>>   Unit Ten
    >>>>   Unit Eleven
    >>>>   Unit Twelve
    >>>>   Unit Thirteen
    >>>>   Unit Fourteen
    >>>>   Unit Fifteen
    >>>>   Unit Sixteen
    >>>>   Unit Seventeen
    >>>>   Unit Eighteen
    >>>>   Unit Nineteen
    >>>>   Unit Twenty
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-one
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-two
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-three
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-four
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-five
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-six
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-seven
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-eight
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-nine
    >>>>   Unit Thirty

Questions After Reading

1. What is Probability ?

2. How do the laws of probability work in the story?

3. As we know, this is a love story. What do you think are other elements which contribute to the happy ending?

Multiple-choice Questions

1. Sidney was at the Air and Space Museum to _______.

A) look at the exhibits there
B) meet his girlfriend
C) look for a job
D) see Maryanne

2. Sidney and Kate were unable to keep in touch with each other because ______ .

A) neither of them had an address in Washington, D.C.
B) Sidney hadn’t received any letter from Kate
C) Kate hadn’t come to Washington, D.C. to meet Sidney
D) Sidney didn’t get to the place where they were supposed to meet

3. The D.C. police reasoned that since Kate didn’t show up she __________.

A) might have been caught in a traffic jam
B) might have forgotten where to find Sidney
C) might have lost her way in the city
D) might have decided not to marry Sidney

4. The narrator suggested to Sidney that he __________ .

A) go back to Nebraska to look for Kate
B) go to Florida as he had originally planned to do
C) forget about Kate and find himself another girlfriend
D) stay in the same building until he saw Kate coming through the door

5. Which of the following is not one of the reasons why Sidney worked in the museum?

A) Sidney wanted to earn enough money to get married.
B) Sidney believed in the narrator’s theory of probability.
C) Sidney needed a job to keep himself alive in the city.
D) Sidney could find no better way of looking for Kate than this.

6. Sidney and Kate didn’t meet as initially planned because ______ .

A) Sidney went to the wrong place
B) Kate went to a different museum
C) the museum was too crowded
D) they went to the museum at different times

7. For the past three years, Kate had been ______ .

A) looking for Sidney all over the city
B) staying in Nebraska waiting for Sidney to come to her
C) working as a gardener on the grounds around the museum
D) working as a clerk near the museum

8. Sidney saw Kate for the first time in three years when ________.

A) Kate came through the museum entrance
B) he went out to the museum garden to have a rest
C) he ran into her in a nearby mall
D) Kate came to the souvenirs stand

Put the Following into English

1. 颐和园是北京参观人数最多的公园。(the most visited)

2. 在那里工作了一周之后他得出了如下结论：老板对员工很刻薄。(come to the conclusion that…)

3. 他只不过是个十五岁的孩子而已，但却已经得到了这家公司的会计工作。(no more than)

4. 他们谁再也没有提起过那女孩，也不谈婚姻的事了。(speak of; drop the subject of)

5. 这学期结束之后我应该能抽时间读这本小说。(get around to)

6. 展现在我眼前的是一个多么美妙的戏剧性情景啊！(drama; unfold)