【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 。 he said. He start ed to plain about this wicked wor ld but was int er upted by a knock at the door. A gir l came in and put an envelope on his desk. I t contained amp。5o. 39。I f ound this out side this gent leman39。s room 39。 she said. 39。Wel, 39。 I said t o the m anager , 39。t her e is st il som e honesty in t his wor ld !39。 lesson25 Do t he Engl ish speak Engl ish? 英國(guó)人講的是英語(yǔ)嗎？ I ar r ived in London at last. The r ailway station was big, black and dar k. I did not know t he way to my hotel, so I asked a por ter. I not only spoke English very car efuly, but very clear ly as wel. The por t er , however , could not underst and m e。 I r epeat ed my question sever al t im es and at last he underst od. He answer ed me, but he spoke neit her slowly nor clear ly. 39。I am a for eigner ,39。 I said. Then he spoke slowly, but I could not under stand him . My t eacher never spoke English like t hat! The port er and I looked at each ot her and sm iled. Then he said som et hing and I under stood it . 39。You39。l soon lear n English! 39。 he said. I wonder . I n England, each m an speaks a dif f er ent language. The English underst and each ot her , but I don39。t under stand them ! Do t hey speak English ? lesson26 The best art crit ics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an ar t st udent and I paint a lot of pict ures. Many people pr et end that they under stand m oder n art . They always t el you what a pict ure is 39。about 39。. Of cour se, many pictur es arc not 39。about39。 anything. They are just pr et y pat ter ns. We like t hem in the same way that we like pr ety cur tain mat er ial. I t hink t hat young childr en of ten appr eciat e m oder n pictur es beter t han anyone else. They not ice m ore. My sister is only seven, but she always tels m e whether my pictur es are good or not. She came int o m y r oom yester day. 39。 What are you doing ?39。 she asked. 39。 I 39。m hanging this pict ur e on t he wal, 39。 I answer ed. 39。I t 39。s a new one. Do you like it ?39。 She looked at i cr it icaly for a moment. 39。 It 39。s al r ight, 39。 she said, 39。but isn39。t it upside down ?39。 I looked at i again. She was right ! It was! Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜 Late in t he after noon, the boys put up their t ent in the middle of a field. As soon as this was done, they cooked a meal over an open f ir e. They wer e al hungry and the food sm elt god. Aft er a wonder f ul m eal, they told stor ies and sang songs by t he camp f ir e. But some t im e lat er it began t o r ain. The boys f elt t her e, he wil f ly t o Per th. M y brot her has never been abr oad bef or e, so he is finding this t rip very excit ing. Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無(wú)錯(cuò)號(hào)之虞 Mr Jam es Scot t has a gar age in Silbur y and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst . Pinhur st is only five miles fr om Silbur y, but M r Scot t cannot get a t elephone f or his new gar age, so he has just bought t welve pigeons. Yester day, a pigeon car ried the f ir st message f rom Pinhur st t o Silbur y. The bir d covered t he distance in thr e minut es. Up to now, Mr Scot t has sent a great many r equests for spare par ts and ot her ur gent messages fr om one gar age to t he other. I n this way, he has begun his own privat e t el phone service. Lesson 6 Percy But tons 珀西 巴頓斯 I have just moved t o a house in Br idge St reet . Yest er day a beggar knocked at m y door . He asked me for a m eal and a glass of beer. I n ret urn f or this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs. I gave him a meal. He ate t he food and drank t he beer . Then he put a piece of cheese in his pocket and went away. Later a neighbour told me about him . Everybody knows him . His nam e is Per cy But ons. He cals at every house in the str eet once a month and always asks f or a meal and a glass of beer . Leson 7 Too late 為時(shí)太晚 The plane was lat e and det ect ives wer e wait ing at t he air por t al mor ning. They wer e expecting a valuable parcel of diam ond fr om Sout h Afr ica. A f ew hour s ear lier , someone had told the police that thieves would tr y t o steal the diam onds. When t he plane arrived, some of the det ect ives wer e wait ing inside the m ain building while ot her s wer e wait ing on the air field. Two m en took t he par cel of f the plane and car ied it into the Cust om s House. While t wo detectives were keeping guard at he door , two others opened t he parcel. To t heir surpr ise, the pr ecious par cel was ful of stones and sand! Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sanders has the m ost beaut if ul gar den in our town. Near ly everybody enters for 39。The Nicest Garden Com pet it ion39。 each year, but Joe wins ever y tim e. Bil Fr it h39。s gar den is lar ger than Joe39。s. Bil wor ks har der t han Joe and gr ows m ore f lower s and veget ables, but Joe39。s garden is mor e int eresting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gar dens too, but I do not like har d wor k. Ever y year I ent er f or the gar den pet iton too, and I always win a lit t le pr ize for the wor st gar den in the town! Lesson 9 A cold wele 冷遇 On Wednesday evening, we went o the Town Hal. It was t he last day of t he year and a lar ge cr owd of people had gat hered under the Town Hal clock. I t would str ike twelve in t wenty m inutes39。 tim e. Fif teen minut es passed and t hen, at five to t welve, the clock st opped. The big m inute hand did not m ove. We wait ed and wait ed, but not hing happened. Sudenly som eone shouted, 39。It 39。s two m inutes past twelve! The clock has st oped!39。 I looked at my wat ch. I t was tr ue. The big clock r efused to wele t he New Year . At that moment ever ybody began t o laugh and sing. Lesson 10 Not f or jazz 不適于演奏爵士樂(lè) We have an old musical inst rument . I t is caled a clavichor d(翼琴 ) . It was m ade in G erm any in 1681. O ur clavichor d is kept in the living r oom . I t has belong to our fam ily for a long tim e. The instr ument w