粤湛江二中08-09届高二下学期3月月考(英语听力整理)普通班.docVIP

广东省湛江二中08-09学年高二下学期3月月考（英语听力整理）普通班 1-3 Ｗ: Mr. Brown, how much did it cost you to build the duck farm? M: Nearly 220,000 dollars. I borrowed some money from the bank. W: How much ducks do you farm here? M: There are about 10,000 this year, and next year the number will rise to 12,000. W: Then it takes a lot of time to take care of them, right? M: Certainly, and that’s why my wife has also come to help me. She used to work in a shoe factory, and she did fairly well there. And next year, we will still have to hire a worker. W: What is the hardest job to do here? M: Well, feeding the ducks is the hardest job. Every day they’ll need one and a half to two tons of food, we have to carry the food from the store to the feeding place, and try to finish the work within 30 minutes. W: Can you tell how much money you earn every year? M: From next year, we’ll probably get about 60,000-80,000 dollars a year. So we will take about 3-4 years to cover the cost. W: Now, Mr. Brown, we all know it’s the largest duck farm in this area, and we hope you’ll manage very well. M: Thank you. 4-6 M: Miss Green, can you tell us how many copies of The Mysterious Lake have been sold all over the world? W: Well, by the end of last month, we had sold more than 30,000,000 copies, including those sold in Britain, about 4,000,000. M: But I hear it was not so popular at first and you only sold 500,000 copies in the first year. How did it become so successful finally? W: Well, the book The Mysterious Lake was intended for children only. So we sold it only in children bookstores. And that’s why we sold so few at first. Later a customer told us that many adults also liked to read it and advised us to put it in all bookstores. To our joy, many more copies were sold in a short time. M: And then it became so popular that almost everyone in Britain was talking about it. W: Yes. Soon publishers from China, Russia and many other countries telephoned to ask permission to have it translated in