【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 ings on the ri ver, I al ways go home wit h an empt y bag. 39。You must give up fishing! 39。 my f ri ends say.39。 It 39。s awaste of time.39。 But t hey don39。t real ize one important t hi ng. I39。m not realy i nt er ested in f ishi ng. I am only interested in si t ing in a boat and doing not hi ng at al l ! Lesson21 Mad or not? 是不是瘋了？ Aer oplanes are slowly driving me mad. I li ve near an air por t and pasing planes can be hear d ni ght and day. The Lesson 1 A private conversati on 私人談話 Last week I went to t he t heatre. I had a very good seat. The play was ver y interest ing. I did not enj oy i t. A young man and a young woman were sit ing behind me. They were talking loudl y. I got ver y angry. I could not hear the act or s. I turned r ound. I looked at he man and the woman angr ily. They did not pay any at enti on. In t he end, I coul d not bear it. I turned r ound again. 39。I can39。t hear awor d!39。 I sai d angri ly. 39。 It39。s none of your busi ness,39。 the young man sai d rudely. 39。This is a private conver sation!39。. Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch? 早餐還是午餐？ It was Sunday. I never get up earl y on Sundays. I somet imes tay in bed unti l unch Sunday I got up very l at e. I looked out of t he wi ndow. I t was dark outside. 39。What a day! 39。 I thought. 39。It 39。s raining again.39。 Just hen, t he t el ephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy.39。 I39。ve just ar ived by tr ai n, 39。 she said. 39。I 39。m ing to se you. 39。 But I39。m st il having breakfast,39。 I said.39。What ar e you doi ng ?39。 she asked. 39。 I39。m having br eakfast ,39。 I r epeat ed.39。Dear me,39。 she said. 39。Do you always get up so l at e ? I t39。s one o39。clock! 39。39。Leson 3 Pl ease send me a card 請給我寄一張明信片 Post cards al ways spoil my hol idays. Last summer, I went t o It aly. I vi si ted m useums and sat in publ ic gar dens. A f riendl y wai ter t aught me a few words of It al ian. 39。Then he lent me a book. I r ead a few li nes, but I did not understand a word. Every day I t hought about postcar ds. My hol idays pased quickly, but I did not send any car ds t o my fr iends. On the last day I made a big deci si on. I got up ear ly and bought t hi rt y seven car ds. I spent t he whole day i n my room, but I did not wri te a singl e card ! Lesson 4 An excit ing trip 激動人心的旅行 I have just r ecei ved a let er fr om my brother , Ti m. He i s i n Austr al ia. He has been t here f or six mont hs. Ti m i s an engineer . He i s worki ng f or a big fi rm and he has al ready visi ted a gr eat number of di fer ent pl aces i n Australi a. He has just bought an Austr alian car and has gone to Al ice Spr ings, a smal town in the centr e of Austr alia. He wi l soon vi si t Dar wi n. Fr om there, he wil l f ly to Pert h. My br other has never been abr oad bef ore, s o he i s finding this tr ip ver y excit ng. Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯號之虞 Mr James Scot t has a garage i n Si lbury and now he has just bought another gar age in Pi nhurst. Pi nhurst i s only f ive miles fr om Silbury, but Mr Scot t cannot get a t el ephone for hi s new gar age, so he has just bought twelve pi geons. Yesterday, a pi geon car ied the fir st mesage fr om Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in thr e minutes. Up to now, Mr Scot t has ent agr eat many r equests for spar e par ts and other urgent messages f rom one garage t o the ot her. In t his way, he has begun his own pr ivat e tel ephone ser vi 6 Percy But ons 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 my door. He asked me f or a meal and a glas of beer. In r et ur n for this, the beggar stood on his head and sang songs. I gave him a meal. He ate t he f ood and dr ank the beer. Then he put a piece of cheese in his pocket and went away. Later a neighbour t old me about him. Everybody knows him. His name is Percy But tons. He cals at ever y house i n the str et once a m onth and always asks f or a meal and a glas of beer . Leson 7 Too late 為時太晚 The pl ane was l ate and detect ives were wait ing at the ai rport al l mor ni ng. They wer e expecting a val uable par cel of diamond from South Af ri ca. A few hours ear li er , someone had told the pol ice that thieves woul d tr y to st eal the di amonds. When the plane ar ived, some of t he detecti ves wer e wai ti ng i nside the mai n buil di ng whil e ot hers were wait ing on t he air field. Two men t ook the par cel of f t he plane and car ied it into t he Cust oms House. Whi le two detecti ves wer e keepi ng guar d at the door, t wo ot hers opened the par cel. To thei r surpri se, t he precious par cel was f ul l of st ones and sand! Lesson 8 The best and t he worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sanders has the most beaut if ul gar den in our t own. Nearl y everybody enters f or 39。The Nicest Garden Competi ion39。 each year, but Joe wins every t i m e. Bil l Fr ith39。s gar den is l ar ger than Joe39。s. Bi l wor ks harder t han Joe and grows mor e fl owers and vegetables, but Joe39。s garden is more interest ing. He has made neat pat hs and has buil t a wooden br idge over a pool . I li ke gardens too, but I do not like har d wor k. Ever y year I ent er for the gar den pet it ion too, and I always win a l it le pri ze f or the worst gar den i n the town! Lesson 9 A col d wel e 冷遇 On Wednesday eveni ng, we went to the Town Hal . I t was the last day of the year and a large cr owd of peopl e had gathered under t he Town Hal clock. It woul d str ike twelve in t wenty mi nutes39。 ti me. Fift en minutes pased and then, at fi ve t o twelve, the clock stopped. The big mi nut e hand did not move. We wait ed and wait ed, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, 39。I t39。s t wo minut es past twelve! The clock has st opped!39。 I looked at my watch. It was t rue. The bi g cl ock refused to wele the New Year. At hat moment ever ybody began to l augh and si ng. Leson 10 Not for jazz 不適于演奏爵士樂 We have an ol d musical instrument . I t is cal ed a clavichord(翼琴 ). I t wa