高三英語課文
Unit 18 Office Equipment
1 . 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。
2 . 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。
3 . 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。
4 . 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。
5 . There are two other points to consider.發傳真要考慮另外兩點。
6 . It is better to ask for help at the beginning rather than to wait until a busy period when everyone is rushed off their feet.最好在開始工作時就請人幫忙，而不是等到大學都忙得不可開交的時候。
7 . He explained that he had tried to fix the air-line to the supply line that ran round the port but could not because the fittings did not match.他解釋說他想供氣管安裝到鋪設在碼頭周圍的供應管上，但因為接頭不相配而接不上。
8 . 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。
9 . Then, instead of having someone answering the phone all day, people can ring up the railway station and listen to a tape recording of the information.然後，人們可以打電話到火車站，從錄音電話中獲取信息，而不要安排一個專人整天接電話。
10 . 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。
11 . 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。
12 . 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。
13 . 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。
14 . 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。
15 . 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。
16 . It did not take the firefighters long to put out the fire, and they at once started to look for causes of the fire.消防隊員沒花多時間就把大火撲滅了，他們馬上開始調查火災發生的原因。
17 . 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。
18 . 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。
19 . Once the oxygen content of the air had risen to 25% it was ready to burn.一旦氧氣在空氣中的含量達到25%，它就要燃燒。
20 . First, remember that a fax can be read by anyone, so be careful what you send!首先，要記住任何人都有機會讀到傳真，因此，對你發送的內容要小心謹慎！
21 . They then knew that they had discovered the cause of the fire.這時調查人員知道他們找到了發生火災的原因了。
22 . One of the first jobs when you start work in an office is to learn how to use every piece of equipment.你在辦公室開始工作的第一件事就是要學會怎樣使用辦公室裡的每樣設備。
23 . 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。
24 . 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。
25 . Second, do not start faxing everything!第二，不要把所有的東西都用來傳真！
26 . 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。
27 . 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。
28 . 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。
29 . 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。
30 . 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。
31 . What Caused The Fire ?是什麼引發了火災？
32 . 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。
33 . 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。
34 . After three hours, the men stopped for a meal break.3小時之後，工人們停下來吃飯。
35 . The question was, which one?問題是，哪一種氣體導致火災呢？
36 . Many offices use answering machines to give information.許多辦公室使用留言機來提供信息。
37 . This is a telephone with a tape recorder.這是一台帶有磁帶錄音機的電話。
38 . 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。
39 . 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。
40 . 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。
41 . 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。
42 . The team started work on a new section inside the ship near the front.工作隊在靠近船頭的船艙裡的一段新區開始工作。
43 . 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。
44 . It must have been a gas that could burn but that would not explode, a gas that did not smell strong, and a gas that did not kill people.它一定是一種能夠燃燒而不能爆炸的氣體，一種味道不很強的而且不使人致死的氣體。
45 . There had been fuel on the ship, but this did not appear to have caused the fire, and little smoke was produced.很顯然，船艙裡已經發生了一場烈火，但是船艙內壁卻完好無損。船上存放著汽油，但火災似乎不是它引起的，因為沒有冒出什麼煙來。
46 . All machines are slightly different, so you need a short lesson when you start work in a new office.所有的機器都稍微有些不同，所以當你新到一個辦公室開始工作時，你需要進行短期培訓。
47 . 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。
48 . 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。
49 . This combines a typewriter keyboard, a printer and a computer.這種機器把打字機鍵盤、打印機和電腦連接起來。
50 . 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。