大学英语 第三版 泛读 第1册 Unit 1.pdf

Unit One 1. My Uncle Theo Text Two candidates were each asked to give a public lecture so that the committee could decide which one to take. To the great surprise of the audience, the poor performer won the post. What, you may be wondering, made the committee arrive at such a decision? Read the story to very end and you will find out. My uncle Theo is a man with real brains. (He has the ability to think clearly and learn quickly.) He is my oldest uncle, a tall, thin, grey-haired man whose thoughts always on learning and nothing else. He is quiet, gentle and absent-minded and with about as much sense as a child where money is concerned. (He, like a child, does not know the value of money.) Well, he applied (1. / әplaɪ/ vi. 申 请) for a post in Camford University. It was a very good post and there were hundreds of candidates (2. /kændɪdeɪt/ 美音/kændɪdәt/ n.候选人) who applied for it, and about fifteen, including Theo, were asked to go to be interviewed. (3. /ɪntәvjuː/ 美音/ɪntɚvju/ vt. n.面试) Camford is a very small town; there is only one hotel in it, and this was so full that they had to put many of candidates two in a room. Theo was one of these, and the man who shared the room with him was a self-confident fellow called Adams, about twenty years younger than Theo, with a loud voice, and a laugh that you could hear all over the hotel. But he was a clever fellow all the same and had a good post in Iscariot College, Narkover. Well, the Dean, that’s the head of the department of the University, and the committee (4. /k әmɪtɪ/ n.委 员会) interviewed all the candidates; and, as a result of this interview, the number was reduced to two, (Finally there were only two candidates left.) Uncle Theo and Adams. The committee couldn’t decide which of the two to take, so they decide to make their final choice after each candidate had gi