高三英語課文
Unit 18 Office Equipment
1 . 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。
2 . What Caused The Fire ?是什麼引發了火災？
3 . 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。
4 . If it is a long report, it is easy to make changes to the text.即使是一篇很長的報告，也很容易將原文改動。
5 . 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。
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 . Their burnt bodies were found later.後來只找到他們被燒焦的屍體。
8 . 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。
9 . After three hours, the men stopped for a meal break.3小時之後，工人們停下來吃飯。
10 . 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。
11 . 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。
12 . Many offices use answering machines to give information.許多辦公室使用留言機來提供信息。
13 . 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。
14 . 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。
15 . Second, do not start faxing everything!第二，不要把所有的東西都用來傳真！
16 . 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。
17 . 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！
18 . 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。
19 . 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。
20 . 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。
21 . 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。
22 . 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。
23 . 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。
24 . 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。
25 . The man who had fixed up the air-line was also questioned.安裝供氣管的那位工人也被提問。
26 . 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。
27 . 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。
28 . 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。
29 . 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。
30 . 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。
31 . The question was, which one?問題是，哪一種氣體導致火災呢？
32 . 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。
33 . 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。
34 . 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。
35 . 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。
36 . 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。
37 . They were puzzled by several things.有幾件事情使他們感到迷惑不解。
38 . 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。
39 . 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。
40 . This is a telephone with a tape recorder.這是一台帶有磁帶錄音機的電話。
41 . 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。
42 . 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。
43 . 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。
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 . 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。
46 . 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！
47 . 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。
48 . 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。
49 . 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。
50 . Most of them were able to climb out in time. However four men were not quick enough to escape the flames.大部分工人能夠及時逃生。可是有4個工人來不及逃離火場。