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David: Can you spare a moment, dear？ I want you to listen to this letter.
Sally: Go ahead, then.
David: Dear Sir, my wife and I arrived home last night after a holiday arranged by your firm, in
Jersey. We stayed at the hotel described in your brochure as a comfortable, medium-sized hotel, with a magnificent view of the sea, offering courteous, old fashioned service and excellent food, served in a relaxed friendly atmosphere.
Sally: Yes, that's what the brochure said.
David: In fact the hotel is situated at least half a mile from the sea. Our room overlooked a car park...
Sally: Through the gates of which motor vehicles were constantly arriving or departing.
David: Yes, that's good. The food was strictly beef-burgers and chips or fish and chips. Wine was available, but at exorbitant prices, and as for the courteous, old-fashioned service, the majority of the staff were foreign and virtually incapable of speaking or understanding the English language.
Sally: Yes, that's quite true.
David: In addition to this, we were most unhappy with the arrangements for our journey home. We were instructed to catch the 11:00 am ferry...
Sally: Wasn't it 12:00？
David: No, 11:00... but this was apparently delayed and we did not get away till 6 o'clock in the evening. Now that our holiday is over, it seems fairly pointless writing this letter, but I should like you to know that we were most disappointed with the hotel and travel arrangements and shall certainly not be booking any futurc holidays through yours. Yours faithfully, David Smith.
Sally: Yes dear, that' s a very good letter.
What did Mr. Smith decide to do when they returned home？
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When Spanish football club Barcelona paid US $ 35 million for Ronaldinho last summer, they weren't buying a pretty face. "I am______(51)," admits the Brazilian superstar (超级明星). "But everyone has got a different kind of beauty. What I_______(52) have is charm. "
Indeed he has. His buck teeth (龅牙) , flowing hair, big smile, and of course his_______(53) skills are always eye-catching on the pitch. The 23-year-old striker(中锋) scored two goals in a 3-2 win over Deportivo La Coruna on March 1. It was Barcelona's sixth win in a row and, thanks to their Brazilian's 10-goal contribution,_______(54)looked like a poor season could now end a success.
Ronaldinho—full name Ronaldo De Assis Moreira—is one of many South Americans who learned their skills playing in the backstreets before_______(55) them off on the world stage.
Great things were_______(56) when Gremio signed him as a seven-year-old, and he soon became friends with Ronaldo, who was then the other young star of Brazilian football. It was Ronaldo who first called him Ronaldinho, which_______(57) Little Ronaldo.
He first_______(58) for his country in 1999 but it was at the 2002 World Cup where he showed his real worth, scoring an unbelievable free-kick in Brazil's quarter-final victory_______(59) England.
"I have never failed to deliver in big matches," Ronaldinho says. " My game is based on improvisation (即兴表演). Often a forward does not have the time to decide whether to shoot or_______(60). It is instinct that gives out the orders."
While he may not have David Beckham's good looks, Ronaldinho has a_______(61) reputation off the pitch. At former club Paris Saint Germain, which sold him to Barcelona, he broke_______(62) rules by going out and enjoying the city's nightlife.
"Without doubt, Ronaldinho is the most_______(63) player I have ever come across," says former PSG coach Luis Ferdandez. "The main "_______(64)" for any coach is that one player without discipline can hurt the "whole team."
But Ronaldinho doesn't think he has done anything wrong. "I am just a young person who enjoys____(65)," he says.
Is the Tie a Necessity？
Ties, or neckties, have been a symbol of politeness and elegance in Britain for centuries. But the casual Prime Minister Tony Blair has problems with them. Reports suggest that even the civil servants may stop wearing ties. So, are the famously formal British really going to abandon the neckties？
Maybe. Last week, the UK's Cabinet Secretary Andrew Turnbull openly welcomed a tieless era. He hinted that civil servants would soon be free of the costliest 12 inches of fabric that most men ever buy in their lives.
In fact, Blair showed this attitude when he had his first guests to a cocktail party. Many of them were celebrities (知名人士) without ties, which would have been unimaginable even in the recent past.
For some more conservative British, the tie is a must for proper appearance. Earlier, Labor leader Jim Callaghan said he would have died rather than have his children seen in public without a tie. For people like Callaghan, the tie was a sign of being complete, of showing respect. Men were supposed to wear a tie when going to church, to work in the office, to a party—almost every social occasion.
But today, people have begun to accept a casual style. even for formal occasions.
The origin of the tie is tricky. It started as something called simply a "band". The term could mean anything around a man's neck. It appeared in finer ways in the 1630s. Frenchmen showed a love of this particular fashion statement. Their neckwear (颈饰) impressed Charles II, the king of England who was exiled (流放t) to France at that time. When he returned to England in 1660, he brought this new fashion item along with him.
It wasn't, however, until the late 18th century that fancy young men introduced a more colorful, flowing piece of cloth that eventually became known as the tie. Then, clubs military institutions and schools began to use colored and patterned ties to indicate the wearer's membership in the late 19th century. After that, the tie became a necessary item of clothing for British gentlemen.
But now, even gentlemen are getting tired of ties. Anyway, the day feels a bit easier when you wake up without having to decide which tie suits you and your mood.
The tie symbolizes all of the following except______.
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