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College English (Listening and Speaking) Ⅲ Unit 1 Reservations Ⅰ. New Words and Expressions 1. double room 双人间 single room 单人间 2. be full up: to be completely full. eg: The bus is full up. be booked up eg: The hotel is booked up. 3. guesthouse: a private house where visitors may stay and have meals for pay.小旅馆 4. reserve: prearrange/book to keep something( hotel room, etc.) for a customer. reservation: Have you made the flight reservations yet? 5. inn: a small, usually an old hotel which also serves food and drink.小旅馆客栈 6. bad language: words generally considered impolite and rude.污言秽语 7. operator n.接线员 总机 reception desk接待处 information desk 总台 服务台 8. turn down: refuse 拒绝 I applied for the job but they turned me down. 9. deceive: v. cheat 欺骗 Ⅱ. Language and Culture Notes 1. Long-haired rock musicians Professional musicians who play rock music and who wear long hair. “Rock music” is a style of music which dominated popular music in the West in the mid 1950s. It started from about 1955 in the United States and evolvable from a broad field of cultures and musical traditions, including gospel music, the blues, country bad Western music and popular music of Asia, Africa and Latin America during the mid and late 1960s. A major rock music style is “rock and roll” which originated in the United States in the 1950s, and came largely from music of the American South. 2. The band used bad language… The band members used words generally considered impolite and rude, which offended other guests staying in the hotel. That’s one of the reasons why the hotel manager refuses to accept the band’s reservation. 3. …it’s short notice for me, too. News of the important meeting was given to the woman just a short time ago, which made it impossible for her to make an appointment with Marcel well in advance. It’s rather urgent that she have her hair done properly for the meeting. Here, the expression “short notice” refers to “information that something will soon happen.” W