高三英語課文
Unit 18 Office Equipment
1 . This is a telephone with a tape recorder.這是一台帶有磁帶錄音機的電話。
2 . While the men had been working inside the ship, the air-line had been giving off oxygen.當工人們的在船艙裡幹活時，供氣管一直在排放氧氣。
3 . When you have finished the letter, you make any changes you wish, check it and print it.當你打完信件，你可以隨意修改、檢查，然後打印。
4 . There are two other points to consider.發傳真要考慮另外兩點。
5 . The fax has greatly changed office work, especially in China.特別是在中國，傳真機大大地改變了辦公室的工作。
6 . It was important to carry out the work quickly, so an extra team of men were asked to work on the repairs one evening.因為盡快投入修理工作顯得十分重要，於是一天晚上加派了一支工作隊來參加維修工作。
7 . When there is no one in the office, you can leave the answering machine on so that people who call you up can leave a message.當無人在辦公室時，你可以打開留言機，這樣打電話給你的人就可以留言了。
8 . Sending a fax is more expensive than posting a letter, but much quicker.發傳真比寄信要貴些，但是要快得多。
9 . Once he had done this, he had been able to turn on the supply.一旦他接上了接頭，他就能夠打開供氣閥。
10 . When you type a letter, the writing appears on a screen in front of you and is recorded onto a computer disk.當你打一封信時，字跡出現在你前面的屏幕上並顧在電腦的磁盤裡。
11 . It is much cheaper to post or email a long report than to fax it.郵寄或電子郵遞一封長篇報告比傳真要便宜得多。
12 . Second, do not start faxing everything!第二，不要把所有的東西都用來傳真！
13 . You can print the telephone number of your information service in the newspaper.你可以把你的問訊服務的電話號碼登在報紙上。
14 . This makes copies, using a mirror, a roller and special black powder.傳真機使用一面鏡子，一個滾筒和持制的黑色粉未製作複製品。
15 . When you return to the office the following morning or after the holiday, you can listen to the messages and take any necessary action.當你第二天早晨或體假後回到辦公室，你可以聽那些留言，然後採取必要的行動。
16 . Offices cannot work properly without certain important pieces of equipment.如果辦公室沒有配備一些重要的設備，人們就不能很好地工作。
17 . What Caused The Fire ?是什麼引發了火災？
18 . It can copy a long report and sort the copies and pin them together.現它可以複印長篇的報告，把複印件分類，並裝訂起來。
19 . They had to work inside the ship, cutting away old metal, fixing new metal plates, drilling holes, laying electrical and phone wires and fixing new pipes for water and steam.他們要在船艙裡工作，切掉舊的金屬，焊接新的金屬板，鑽孔，埋電線和電話線以及安裝新的水管和蒸汽管。
20 . The third person who lit a match started the fire.第三個工人擦亮一根火柴就引發了火災。
21 . The man who had been working on the repairs mentioned the curious way their cigarettes burned and tasted.一直在干修理工作的人提起了他們的香煙點燃時奇怪的樣子以及怪怪的味道。
22 . It took him some time to connect the long rubber pipe to the air supply pipe that ran round the port, but at last it was done and as a result work was able to progress much faster.他花了不少時間把長長的橡膠管接到鋪設在碼頭周圍的空氣供應管上，最後他終於把它們連接起來，工作因而進展得更快。
23 . What is more, this information line operates 24 hours a day.而且，這種"問訊線路每天工作24小時。
24 . It is also useful for sending pictures, designs, maps and so on.傳真機也可以用來發送圖片、地圖等。
25 . They were puzzled by several things.有幾件事情使他們感到迷惑不解。
26 . Their burnt bodies were found later.後來只找到他們被燒焦的屍體。
27 . Imagine a railway station, a bus company or a cinema, which many people need to ring to find out the times of trains, buses or films.想一想，有許多人需要打電話到火車站、汽車公司或電影院，以便弄清火車、汽車的起始時間或電影放映的時間吧。
28 . There is a new type of machine which can produce colour copies.有一種新型的機器能夠製作出彩色複印件。
29 . A navy ship was in a port in Scotland for repairs.一艘軍艦停靠在蘇格蘭的一個碼頭等待維修。
30 . Then, instead of spending maybe five hours typing the report again, you can print the new copy in one minute!然後，你可以把新的文本在一分鐘之內打印出來，而不是花5個小時重新把報告打一遍。
31 . You can imagine how useful this is, particularly in countries like China and Japan, which use written characters not letters.你可以想像得到，特別是在中國和日本這些使用文字而不是字母的國家，這是多麼有用處！
32 . Oxygen is widely used in ship repairs for cutting and joining metal plates or pipes.在船舶修理過程中，常常使用氧氣切割和焊接金屬板或金屬管。
33 . It was noticed that there were no signs or warnings on the supply lines that ran round the port.人們這才注意到，鋪設在碼頭周圍的供應管道上沒有貼標籤或告示。
34 . It then sends these signals down an ordinary telephone line to another fax machine, which changes the signals back into the shapes of letters.然後把這些符號通過一條普通的電話線送到另一台傳真機上，傳真機又把符號變為字母形狀。
35 . Modern machines can make the copy bigger or smaller, lighter or darker and copy onto both sides of the paper.代機器可以放大、縮小、製作較亮的或較暗的複印件，也可以在紙的兩面複印。
36 . The question was, which one?問題是，哪一種氣體導致火災呢？
37 . For example, you can send information abroad immediately, but mailing a letter might take a week or so.例如，你能夠馬上發送信息到國外，但寄一封信可能要大約一周的時間。
38 . After the accident, all the lines and taps were clearly marked and new people joining the workforce were given a talk on safety before they started work.火災過後，所有的管道和龍頭都被標得一清二楚，而且加入勞動隊伍的新工人在開始工作之前要接受有關的安全教育。
39 . As quickly as they could, the men ran to th steps and up into the open, many of them with their clothes on fire.工人們盡快朝樓梯跑去，爬上樓梯跑出艙外，其中好多人衣服已經著火了。
40 . The fire service began to wonder whether a gas might have caused the fire.消防部門開始懷疑有一種氣體可能會導致火災。
41 . The man had connected the air-line to a supply line of oxygen, not compressed air.這個工人把供氣管接到了氧氣供應管上，而不是接到壓縮空氣管上。
42 . Once you have done this, you will quickly become a useful member of the teazm.一旦你這樣做了，你很快就會成為工作班子裡有用的員。
43 . After three hours, the men stopped for a meal break.3小時之後，工人們停下來吃飯。
44 . When you place a sheet of paper in a fax machine, the machine reads the writing on the page and changes the shapes of letters into electronic signals.當你把一張紙放進傳真機裡，機器就會"讀"紙上的字跡，把字的形狀變為電子符號。
45 . Another man lit a cigarette but it burnt strangely and so he too put it out.另一個工人點燃一支煙，但煙燃得怪怪的，於是他也把煙滅了。
46 . If you want to send a letter to an office abroad that is in a different time zone, you can send a fax, and it will be received even though the office is not open.如果你要寄信到不同時區的國外辦公室，你可以發個傳真，即使辦公室不開門，信也會被收到。
47 . So he had gone to the stores and had obtained a fixture that fitted both the tap on the supply line and the end of the air-line.所以他就到倉庫找到一個既適合供應管也適合供氣管的接頭。
48 . One man was told to fix up an air-line to provide compressed air for the machines they were using.有個工人被派去安裝"供氣管"，給他們正在使用的機器提供壓縮空氣。
49 . Many offices use answering machines to give information.許多辦公室使用留言機來提供信息。
50 . Half an hour later, another man struck a match for a cigarette and this time the whole of the inside of the ship caught fire.半小時後，又一個工人擦亮火柴想點支香煙，這下整個船艙都起了火。