Yeah, so I think from growing up with dogs, like we always had dogs at home or my granddads house, so we were always playing with dogs, so I’ve never really had a fear of dogs like some people have, and I always considered myself a dog person, you know the way some, well most people consider themselves either a cat person or a dog person so that they either prefer cats or dogs, so I always thought of myself as a dog person, although recently in the last year or two, I’m kind of wondering about that because I’ve met some really nice cats, though before I always thought of cats as being too, too independent really and almost haughty or snobby towards people cause they didn’t really, they don’t really seem to need people or need affection as much as dogs do and that’s a really nice part about dogs I think is that you really feel an attachment to them and they’re so happy when they see you and you can really tell as long as you treat them well obviously that they really love you and they’ll look after you.

我和小狗一起长大，我家里或者是我爷爷家里一直养小狗，我们经常和小狗一起玩耍，所以我认为，我从来没有像一些人那样害怕小狗，我一直认为我自己是一个喜欢狗的人，你知道，大多数人认为他们自己不是喜欢猫的人，就是喜欢狗的人，所以他们不是喜欢猫就是喜欢狗，而我就一直认为我自己是一个喜欢狗的人，尽管过去这一两年，我一直对此感到怀疑，因为我遇到了几只非常棒的猫咪，之前我一直认为猫咪太过于独立，而且在人类面前表现得傲慢又势利，因为它们好像并不需要人类或是不像小狗那样希望得到关爱，而这点正是小狗一个很棒的地方，我想，你一直能感觉到你和小狗有情感联系，它们看见你会非常高兴，你完全可以明白只要你对它们好，它们就一定会喜爱你，而且它们会照顾你。

San Francisco is one of the most well-known cities in America, mainly because the city has great weather, wonderful views, and many famous landmarks. The city is on a peninsula so it is surrounded by water, with the Pacific Ocean on one side and San Francisco Bay on the other.

旧金山是美国最著名的城市之一，旧金山以天气好、景色优美以及著名的地标性建筑而知名。这座城市位于半岛之上，四面环海，一面与太平洋相临，另一面与旧金山海湾相临。

Adrienne: Wow, Mary, that’s a great dining room table. Where did you get it?

埃德里安娜：哇，玛丽，那张餐桌太棒了。你从哪里买的？

Simon: Yeah, I got a job interview coming up and I know they’re gonna ask me about what are your strong points and your weak points. You know.

西蒙：我马上要参加一个工作面试，我知道他们会问我的优点和缺点。

Jose: Ecuador, what do you want to know about my country?

何塞：厄瓜多尔，你想知道我祖国的什么情况？

One of my hobbies is running. I really like running because first of all it’s very cheap. It doesn’t cost you any money. You can do it anywhere, for example, on a city street and it’s a healthy hobby. If you run a lot, maybe three or four times a week, you will definitely stay in shape.

我的爱好是跑步。我真的非常喜欢跑步，因为首先，跑步不费钱，一分钱都不用花。你可以在任何地方跑步，比如在城市街头跑步，这是项健康的爱好。如果你跑步的次数很频繁，可能一周三四次吧，那你一定会保持健康的。

One of my friends told me she read a story in the paper today about a man who died from eating mushrooms, which I thought was quite strange because this old man lived in the mountains I think, or lived in a country area where he would have eaten mushrooms almost every day, I think, or while they were in season at least, so it made me think of when I was younger and I used to go out picking mushrooms with my granddad, so sometimes, around now, around autumn time, when it had been a very, very wet night, maybe especially that would be good for finding mushrooms the next day, so we’d go out maybe, maybe three or four of us, my brother and I, and my granddad, sometimes other members of the family would come to or other children who are around to play, and we go picking mushrooms, but I don’t think I ever, well, I suppose I did pick up mushrooms, but most of them, most of them were the same type so we didn’t have to worry too much about poisonous mushrooms where we were cause I think there mostly they were, they were OK, but my granddad would have told us anyway which ones we could pick and which ones we couldn’t, so it seems strange to me that a man who, who you know would have been really familiar with these mushrooms would actually die from it, but I haven’t read the whole story, so I’m not really sure what happened but my friend seems to think that he ate these mushrooms a lot and then it was just a gradual build up of the poison in his system, which is kind of an awful way to die really, especially when you are, when you live that close to nature and you’re eating all the food that nature offers you, that nature always offered us.

我有个朋友告诉我她今天在报纸上看到了一篇新闻，这则新闻讲的是一个男人因为吃了蘑菇而死亡，我认为这非常奇怪，因为我想这位老人生活在山里，或是生活在乡村地区，他应该每天都会吃蘑菇，至少是在蘑菇应季的时候吃，所以这让我想到了我小时候，我以前会和爷爷去采蘑菇，现在这个时节，大概秋天的时候，夜里非常潮湿，这对第二天发现蘑菇非常有利，所以我们三四个人会一起外出，我哥哥、我和我爷爷，有时还有其他家人或是在周围玩的孩子一起外出去采蘑菇，但是我记得我从来没有……我想，我的确采了蘑菇，但是大部分蘑菇都是同一个种类的，所以我们不必担心会采到毒蘑菇的问题，那里大部分都是同一个种类的蘑菇，所以没什么问题，不过我爷爷会告诉我们哪种蘑菇可以采，哪种蘑菇不能采，所以那则新闻让我觉得很奇怪，因为那个男人应该对这些蘑菇很熟悉，可是他却因为吃了蘑菇而死亡，不过我没有看到完整的新闻，所以我不太确定到底发生了什么，可是我朋友似乎认为他吃了很多蘑菇，然后渐渐地在他的体内形成了毒素，其实这种死法非常糟糕，尤其是因为你生活的地方非常贴近大自然，你吃的所有食物都是大自然供给的，是大自然一直供给我们的食物。

Todd: Hello, what is your name?

托德：你好，你叫什么名字？

Simon: Yeah, hey Todd, I have one complaint. Why can’t I never reach you on the phone?

西蒙：嘿，托德，我要抱怨一下。为什么你的电话总是打不通？

Todd: Simon, when you were younger, did you take vacations with your family?

托德：西蒙，你小的时候和家人一起度过假吗？