Passage B
Warm-up Activity
1.What is the best time for you to do the shopping in supermarkets?
2.Do you like to buy the goods on sale in supermarkets? And why?
Wal-Mart’s“Black Friday” Promotion
Black Friday, the magic shopping day, is coming.This is a day when people spend a lot of money on all kinds of things with low prices they don’t need.This year, Wal-Mart seems to be offering some pretty tasty goods in the weeks leading up to Black Friday.It starts this weekend with an impressive deal for gamers.
If you go into the store on Saturday,November 7, you’ll be able to pick up the Xbox 360 system for $200, the normal price, but for that day the system will come with a $100 gift card.To truly pile up your entertainment center, use that $100 card to buy a shiny new PlayStation 3.
Wal-Mart / 'wɒI, mɑːt / n.沃尔玛超市
lead up to 是……的先导；导致
*deal / diːI / n.交易
pick up 买，捎带
Xbox / 'eks, bɒks / n.一种视频游戏主机
normal / 'nɔːmI / a.正常的
pile up 堆放，叠放
◆entertainment / ,entə'teɪnmənt / n.娱乐
PlayStation 一种家用游戏机
That’s right, you’ll be able to pick up an Xbox 360, and a 120GB PlayStation 3, for only $400.You could get a Wii and the Xbox 360 for $300.Or you could just buy one or two games for your new 360.
There are other deals to be had, such as a Blue-ray player for $150, or a $300 laptop, standard stuff for this sort of promotion.Advertising these goods before Black Friday should give Wal-Mart a big advantage.And the retailer will have little competition this weekend in terms of product prices.This promotion could even cause long customer queues in some locations.
If you take advantage of this offer, be sure to let us know how it goes.
Wii 一种家用游戏主机
Blue-ray player 蓝光播放器
★laptop / 'Iæptɒp / n.笔记本电脑
★standard / 'stændəd / a.标准的
★retailer / riː'teɪIə(r) / n.零售商
in terms of 在……方面；就……而言
★queue / kjuː / n.队，行列
location / Iəʊ'keɪʃn / n.地方；位置
take advantage of 利用
Check Your Study
Activity 1
Read the passage quickly and f ill in the blanks.
Activity 2
Read the passage carefully and complete the following sentences.
1.Why do people think Black Friday is the magic shopping day?
Because people spend a lot of money on __________ they don’t need.
2.What will Wal-Mart provide for gamers this weekend?
It will provide an __________ for gamers.
3.What is the normal price for the Xbox 360?
________________________________________________________.
4.How much will you pay if you buy a Wii and the Xbox 360?
________________________________________________________.
5.When will the promotion start?
It will start _______________________________________________.
Further Your Skills
Exercise 1
Fill in each blank with the proper form of the word given in brackets.
1.It was probably one of the best business（deal）_________ I ever did.
2.The doctor said the child’s temperature was（normal）_________ because of fever.
3.In（term）__________ of money, he’s quite rich, but not in（term）__________ of happiness.
4.This channel provides audience with family（entertain）_________.
5.Wal-Mart is one of the biggest（retail）_________ in the world.
6.The first chapter of the book describes the events that（lead）_________ up to World War II.
7.It’s hard to find the（locate）_________ of the small village.
8.Work has been（pile）_________ up ever since the first day.
Exercise 2
Complete the sentences by translating the given Chinese into English.
1.______________（在……方面）quality this coat is the best.
2.The event ______________（导致）a quarrel between the brothers.
3.The mother ______________（趁着）the children’s absence to clean their rooms.
4.Work always ______________（积压）at the end of the year.
5.I called my husband to ______________（捎带）some drinks on the way home.
Exercise 3
Let’s sort out the vocabularies in this unit and then build your dictionary.
