2016届高考英语高分冲刺特训听力素材1（word版）32_高考复习指南

2016届高考英语高分冲刺特训听力素材1（word版）32

　　Mrs. Woodside: Well, since those ... surely you must know about it?

　　Mrs. Long: No, I don’t know. What are you talking about?

　　Mrs. Woodside: Those terrible murders that happened here more than twenty years ago?

　　Mrs. Long: Murders? What murders?

　　Mrs. Woodside: But I thought you knew! This house once belonged to a ... I really thought you knew ... to a man who’s supposed to have murdered three or four women! Right here! In this house! Afterwards, he’s supposed to have cut up their bodies ... right here ... in the kitchen.

　　Mrs. Long: What? Are you serious?

　　Mrs. Woodside: Oh, dear. I hope I haven’t said anything to ... well, to upset you.

　　Mrs. Long: I can’t believe it.

　　Mrs. Woodside: Neither could I. Not at first, at least. He seemed such a nice man.

　　Mrs. Long: Who?

　　Mrs. Woodside: Taplow. Gordon Taplow. He didn't seem like the kind of man who could do such things, at all.

　　Mrs. Long: You mean you knew him?

　　Mrs. Woodside: Yes, of course I did. Not very well, but I used to see him in the street occasionally ... We said hello to each other. He was a very quiet man. You wouldn’t have thought he could have hurt a mouse. Once, I remember, he invited me in for a cup of tea.

　　Mrs. Long: And what happened?

　　Mrs. Woodside: Nothing. I ... I never got round to it ... to coming in for a cup of tea. I was always too busy. I suppose it was a good thing, wasn’t it?