【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 , 39。but t hey ar e f or next Wednesday39。s per for mance. 39。I m ight as wel l have t hem ,39。 I said sadly. Leson20 One m an in a boat 獨坐孤舟 Fishing i s my f avour it e spor t. I oft en fi sh for hours wi thout cat chi ng anyt hing. But t his does not wor ry me. Som e fi sherm en ar e unlucky. I nst ead of catching f ish, they catch old boot s and r ubbi sh. I am even l ess l ucky. I never cat ch anyt hi ngnot even old boot s. Af ter having spent whole mornings on t he ri ver , I al ways go home wi th an empt y bag. 39。You must gi ve up fi shi ng! 39。 my f ri ends say. 39。 It 39。s a waste of t ime.39。 But they don39。t r eali ze one impor tant thing. I39。m not real y i nt erested i n fi shi ng. I am onl y int erest ed in si t ing i n a boat and doing not hi ng at al l ! Lesson21 Mad or not? 是不是瘋了？ Aeroplanes ar e slowl y dri ving me mad. I l ive near an ai rport and pasing pl anes can be hear d night and day. The Lesson 1 A privat e conversat ion 私人談話 Last week I went to t he theat r e. I had a very good seat . The pl ay was ver y i nt eresting. I did not enjoy i t. A young man and a young woman wer e si t ing behind m e. They were talki ng loudly. I got very angr y. I could not hear t he act or s . I t urned r ound. I looked at he man and the wom an angr il y. They did not pay any at ent ion. In t he end, I coul d not bear it . I turned r ound again. 39。I can39。t hear a wor d!39。 I sai d angr il y. 39。 I t39。s none of your busines, 39。 t he young m an said rudely. 39。This i s a pri vate conver sat ion!39。. Leson 2 Breakfast or lunch? 早餐還是午餐？ It was Sunday. I never get up ear ly on Sundays. I som et im es stay i n bed unti l unch tim Sunday I got up very late. I looked out of t he window. It was dark out si de. 39。What a day! 39。 I t hought. 39。I t 39。s r ai ning agai n.39。 Just then, the tel ephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. 39。 I39。ve j ust a r ived by t rai n, 39。 she said. 39。I 39。m i ng to see you.39。 39。But I 39。m st il l having br eakf ast , 39。 I said.39。What ar e you doing ?39。 she asked. 39。 I39。m having br eakfast, 39。 I r epeated.39。Dear m e, 39。 she said. 39。Do you al ways get up so lat e ? It 39。s one o39。clock!39。Lesson 3 Please send me a card 請給我寄一張明信片 Post car ds al ways spoil m y hol idays. Last summ er , I went t o I taly. I visit ed museums and sat in publi c gardens. A fr iendly wai ter taught m e a f ew wor ds of I tali an. 39。Then he l ent me a book. I read a f ew l ines, but I did not under st and a word. Every day I t hought about post car ds. My hol idays passed qui ckl y, but I did not send any cards t o my fr iends. On t he last day I made a bi g deci sion. I got up earl y and bought thir t y seven cards. I spent t he whole day i n my r oom, but I di d not wr i te a singl e car d ! Lesson 4 An excit ing trip 激動人心的旅行 I have just recei ved a let ter fr om my brot her , Tim. He is i n Aust ral ia. He has been t her e f or six months. Ti m is an engineer . He i s worki ng for a big fi rm and he has al ready visit ed a great number of dif ferent places in Austr ali a. He has j ust bought an Austr al ian car and has gone to Al i ce Spr ings, a sm al l town i n t he centr e of Austr al ia. He wi l soon visit Darwi n. From there, he wi l f ly t o Pert h. My brot her has never been abr oad bef or e, so he i s fi nding t hi s tr ip ver y exci ti ng. Leson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯號之虞 Mr James Scott has a gar age in Si lbury and now he has j ust bought another gar age i n Pi nhur st . Pi nhur st is only f ive m il es f r om Si lbury, but Mr Scot t cannot get a t el ephone f or hi s new garage, so he has just bought twel ve pi geons. Yest er day, a pi geon car ied t he fi rst mesage fr om Pi nhur st o Si lbury. The bir d cover ed the dist ance i n thr e minutes. Up t o now, Mr Scot t has sent a great many requests f or spar e par ts and other urgent mesages f r om one gar age to t he other. I n thi s way, he has begun hi s own pr ivate t el ephone ser 6 Percy But tons 珀西巴頓斯 I have just moved t o a house in Br idge St reet. Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door . He asked me f or a meal and a gl as of beer . I n r et ur n f or this, the beggar stood on hi s head and sang songs. I gave him a meal. He ate the f ood and dr ank the beer . Then he put a pi ece of cheese in hi s pocket and went away. Lat er a nei ghbour tol d me about hi m. Ever ybody knows hi m. His name is Percy But tons. He cal ls at ever y house i n the str eet once a mont h and al ways asks for a m eal and a glass of beer. Lesson 7 Too lat e 為時太晚 The pl ane was l ate and detect ives wer e wait ing at the air port al mor ning. They wer e expecti ng a valuable parcel of di amond fr om South Afr ica. A f ew hours earl ier , someone had told the poli ce that thieves would t ry to steal the diamonds. When the pl ane ar ri ved, som e of the detecti ves wer e wait ing i nsi de the mai n bui ldi ng whil e others wer e wait ing on the air fi eld. Two men t ook the parcel off t he pl ane and car ied i t int o the Customs House. Whil e two detect ives wer e keeping guard at t he door , two ot her s opened the par cel . To their surpr ise, t he pr ecious par cel was f ull of st ones and sand! Leson 8 The best and t he worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sander s has the most beauti ful garden in our t own. Near ly everybody ent ers f or 39。The Ni cest Garden Competi ti on39。 each year, but Joe wi ns ever y ti me. Bil l Fri th39。s garden i s lar ger t han Joe39。s. Bi l wor ks har der t han Joe and gr ows more fl ower s and vegetables, but Joe39。s gar den is m or e i nt eresting. He has made neat paths and has bui lt a wooden bri dge over a pool. I li ke gar dens t oo, but I do not l ike hard work. Every year I ent er f or the garden peti tion too, and I always wi n a l it tl e pri ze for the wor st gar den i n t he town! Leson 9 A cold wel e 冷遇 On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hal l. I t was t he last day of t he year and a