英語幽默小故事 A Talk on the Phone

　　I teach computer courses, and my students often call me at home with Questions. One morning I was on the phone, explaining in computer language the solution to a problem, while a repairman was fixing my refrigerator. After an endless stream of "C colon, back- slash, greater than, cd, backslash, DOS, 0 colon" and so on, I hung up and found the repairman staring at me. "Lady," he asked, are you a spy?"

Notes:

　　(1) computer language 計算機語言

　　(2) refrigerator n. 冰箱

　　(3) backslash n. 回車

　　(4) greater than大於號

　　(5) DOS 計算機語言中的DOS處理

Exercises:

根據短文回答下列問題：

　　① What does the teacher teach?

　　② With what do students call her at home?

　　③ Who was in the teacher's house when she was on the phone?

　　④ Was it a long talk?

　　⑤ Why did the repairman think she was a spy?

93.電話交談

　　我教計算機課程，我的學生經常打電話到我家問我問題。一天早晨，我在電話裏用計算機語言解釋一個問題的答案，當時一個維修工正在給我修電冰箱。經過一連串的“C冒號，回車，大於號，CD，回車，DOS，C冒號”等等，我掛上電話發現那位維修工在盯着我。“女士，”他問，“你是個間諜嗎？”

練習參考答案：

① She teaches computer courses.

　　② Questions.

　　③ A repairman.

　　④ Yes, it was.

　　⑤ Because the repairman didn't understand computer language.