高中英语牛津版高三上学期04

[-1:-9.00]which now has over 100 shops throughout the world.
[-1:10.00]Roland welcome to the programme.
[-1:11.00]B:Thank you,Lucy.
[-1:12.00]A:So,going right back to the beginning.
[-1:13.00]How did it all start for you.I believe your father had a chemist shop,too.
[-1:14.00]B:Yes,that's right.My parents came to Manchester in 1960 when I was ten.
[-1:15.00]At first,they worked in a fast food trade
[-1:16.00]but later,my father started a traditional Chinese medicine Shop.
[-1:17.00]There're a lot of Chinese people in Manchester,so he was quite successful.
[-1:18.00]A:Did your parents want you to join them in that business?
[-1:19.00]B:No.They wanted me to go to university I studied biochemistry.
[-1:20.00]And then after that I got a job in America as a research scientist,
[-1:21.00]working for a big drug's company,
[-1:22.00]But I find that some of my work involved testing medicines on animals
[-1:23.00]and I didn't like that because I'm very fond of animals.
[-1:24.00]After a couple of years,I couldn't stand it any more,and so I left.
[-1:25.00]A:And was that when you decided to open your first shop?
[-1:26.00]B:Oh,no.I just drifted around for several years.
[-1:27.00]I had lots of strange jobs.
[-1:28.00]I worked for a while as a laboratory assistant in a university
[-1:29.00]and I did some teaching.
[-1:30.00]I worked in a supermarket and even as a taxi driver,and then I got married.
[-1:31.00]A:What did your parents think of all these,Roland?
[-1:32.00]B:Well,they were rather disappointed.
[-1:33.00]They wanted me to be a big success but I was just going around in circles.
[-1:34.00]And they weren't very pleased when I married Jane.
[-1:35.00]Anyway,it was Jane who had the first idea for the Friendly Chemist really.
[-1:36.00]One day we were talking about my time in America,
[-1:37.00]and I was telling her about when I had to do those experiments on animals.
[-1:38.00]We realized that when you go into a chemists to buy some medicine,
[-1:39.00]you don't know whether or not it has been tested on animals you just don't know.
[-1:40.00]So then Jane suggested it will be a good idea if there was a chemist's shop
[-1:41.00]where you could go in and you could be sure
[-1:42.00]that none of the medicines had been tested on animals.
[-1:43.00]A:So that was the start of it?
[-1:44.00]B:Yes,we decided to start such a business ourselves
[-1:45.00]I had to do a lot of research about the different medicines.
[-1:46.00]But after a few months we had enough products to start the shop,
[-1:47.00]some were western medicines,
[-1:48.00]but we also included some traditional Chinese medicines
[-1:49.00]but we had two main principles for every product nothing was tested on animals,
[-1:50.00]and nothing was made from animal products
[-1:51.00]And a few years later,we added a third principle
[-1:52.00]None of our products could come from rare or endangered plants.
[-1:53.00]A:So,when and where did you actually open your first shop?
[-1:54.00]B:On...that was back in 1980,Lucy,in Manchester.
[-1:55.00]A:And was it successful immediately?
[-1:56.00]B:Yes,it was.We were very surprised in fact,
[-1:57.00]but it seems that lots of people care about the animals
[-1:58.00]and they were pleased to choose a medicine from our shop,
[-1:59.00]so we were quite busy form the first week.
[-2:00.00]One year later,we opened our second shop in London,and it just grew from there.
[-2:-1.00]Speaking pages 74 and 75
[-2:-2.00]A Saying numbers and dates
[-2:-3.00]Long numbers
[-2:-4.00]In long numbers,put and between the hundreds and tens.
[-2:-5.00]3,458 three thousand,four hundred and fifty-eight
[-2:-6.00]In reading a long number,the usual intonation pattern
[-2:-7.00]is that your voice goes up before the commas,and down at the end.
[-2:-8.00]3,550,640:three million,five hundred and fifty thousand,six hundred and forty
[-2:-9.00]Decimals We say point and then each number separately.
[-2:10.00]6.725 six point seven two five
[-2:11.00]22.22 twenty-two point two two
[-2:12.00]10.005 ten point zero zero five
[-2:13.00]Percentages
[-2:14.00]We read percentages as per cent.