【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 a pr ivate conversation! 39。. Lesson 2 Breakf ast or lunch? 早餐還是午餐？ It was Sunday. I never get up ear ly on Sundays. I sometim es st ay in bed until lunch tim Sunday I got up ver y lat e. I looked out of the window. I t was dark outside. 39。What a day!39。 I thought . 39。I t 39。s r aining again. 39。 Just then, the t el phone r ang. I t was my aunt Lucy. 39。 I 39。ve just ar rived by tr ain,39。 she said. 39。I 39。m ing to see you.39。 39。But I39。m stil having br eakfast, 39。 I said. 39。What ar e you doing ?39。 she asked. 39。 I 39。m having breakfast, 39。 I repeated.39。Dear m e,39。 she said. 39。Do you always get up so late ? It 39。s one o39。clo ck! 39。Lesson 3 Please send me a card 請(qǐng)給我寄一張明信片 Postcar ds always spoil my holidays. Last sum mer , I went to Italy. I visit ed m useums and sat in public gar dens. A f riendly wait er taught m e a f ew wor ds of It alian. 39。Then he lent me a book. I r ead a f ew lines, but I di not under st and a wor d. Ever y day I thought about postcards. My holidays passed quickly, but I di not send any cards to my fr iends. On t he last day I made a big decision. I got up ear ly and bought hir ty seven cards. I spent the whole day in my r oom, but I did not wr it e a single car d ! Leson 4 An exci ti ng t ri p 激動(dòng)人心的旅行 I have just r eceived a let ter f rom my br other , Tim . He is in Austr alia. He has been t her e f or six mont hs. Tim is an engineer. He is wor king f or a big f ir m and he has alr eady visit ed a gr eat number of dif ferent places in Aust ralia. He has just bought an Austr alian car and has gone to Alice Spr ings, a smal t own in the centr e of Aust ralia. He wil soon visit Dar win. Fr om there, he wil f ly t o Pert h. My br other has never been abroad befor e, so he is f inding t his t rip very excit 5 No w rong numbers 無(wú)錯(cuò)號(hào)之虞 Mr James Scot t has a gar age in Silbur y and now he has just bought another gar age in Pinhur st. Pinhur st is only f ive m iles fr om Silbur y, but Mr Scot cannot get a telephone f or his new gar age, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. Yester day, a pigeon car ried the f ir st m essage f rom Pinhur st t o Silbur y. The bir d cover ed the dist ance in t hree m inutes. Up t o now, Mr Scot has sent a great many r equests f or spar e part s and other urgent messages f r om one garage t o the ot her . In this way, he has begun his own pr ivat e telephone service. Lesson 6 Percy But t ons 珀西 巴頓斯 I have just moved to a house in Br idge St reet. Yester day a begar knocked at my dor . He asked me f or a meal and a glass of beer . In retur n f or t his, the beggar st ood on his head and sang songs. I gave him a meal. He at e the 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 name is Per cy But ons. He cals at ever y house in the str eet once a month and always asks for a meal and a glass of beer . Lesson 7 Too l at e 為時(shí)太晚 The plane was lat e and detectives were wait ing at the air port al m orning. They wer e expect ing a valuable par cel of diam ond f r om South Afr ica. A few hour s ear lier , som eone had told t he police that hieves would t r y to st eal t he diamonds. When the plane arrived, som e of the detectives were wait ing inside t he main building while others were wait ing on t he air field. Two men t ook the par cel of t he plane and car r ied it int o t he Customs House. While two det ect ives wer e keeping guar d at the door , t wo ot her s opened the par cel. To their sur prise, t he pr ecious parcel was f ul of st ones and sand! Lesson 8 The best and t he worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sander s has the m ost beautif ul gar den in our t own. Near ly ever ybody enter s for 39。The Nicest Gar den Com peti ion39。 each year , bu t Joe wins ever y t ime. Bil Fr it h39。s gar den is lar ger t han Joe39。s. Bil wor ks har der than Joe and grows mor e flower s and vegetables, but Joe39。s gar den is m or e int erest ing. He has made neat pat hs and has built a wooden bridge over a pool. I like gardens t o, but I do not like hard wor k. Every year I ent er for the gar den peti ion t oo, and I always win a lit tle prize for t he worst garden in the t own! Lesson 9 A col d wel e 冷遇 On Wednesday eveni g, we went to t he Town Hal. It was the last day of the year and a lar ge crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hal clock. It would st rike twelve in twenty minut es39。 tim e. Fif teen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minut e hand di not move. We wait ed and wait ed, but not hing hapened. Suddenly someone shout ed, 39。I t 39。s t wo m inutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!39。 I looked at m y wat ch. I t was tr ue. The big clock r ef used to wel e t he New Year . At hat m oment ever ybody began to laugh and sing. Lesson 10 Not for j azz 不適于演奏爵士樂(lè) We have an old musical instr ument. I t is caled a clavichord( 翼琴 ) . It was m ade in Ger many in 1681. Our clavichor d is kept in the living r oom. I t has belong t o our family f or a long t im e. The inst r um ent was bought by my gr andf ather many years ago. Recent ly it was damaged by a visit or . She tr ied t o play jazz on it! She st ruck t he keys t oo hard and t wo of the st rings were br oken. M y fat her was shocked. Now we ar e not alowed to t ouch it . I t is being r epair ed by a fr iend of my father 39。s. Lesson 11 One good turn deserves anot her 禮尚往來(lái) I was having dinner at a r est aur ant when Har y St ele came in. Har r y wor ked in a lawyer39。s of ice years ago, but he is now wor king at a bank. He gets a god salar y, but he always bor r ows money f rom his f riends and never pays it back. Har ry saw me and cam e and sat at the sam e table. He has never bor owed money f rom me. While he was eating, I asked him to lend me amp。2. To m y surpr ise, he gave m e t he money im mediat ely. 39。I have never bor owed any money fr om you, 39。 Har y said, 39。s