【正文】 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 ai r por t was built dur ing the war , but for some reason i t coul d not be used t hen. Last year, however, it came i nt o use. Over a hundred peopl e must have been dri ven away f rom their homes by t he noise. I am one of t he f ew people l ef t. Someti mes I think this house wil be knocked down by a pasing pl ane. I have been of fered a large sum of money to go away, but I am det er mined t o st ay here. Ever ybody says I must be mad and t hey are probably ri ght. Lesson22 A gl ass envel ope 玻璃信封 My daughter, Jane, never dreamed of r eceiving a leter fr om a gi rl of her own age in Holl and. Last year, we wer e tr avel ling a cr oss the Channel and Jane put a pi ece of paper wi th her name and addres on it into a bot tle. She thr ew t he bottl e into t he sea. She never t hought of it again, but ten months later, she recei ved a let er fr om a gi rl in Holl and. Both gir ls wri te to ea ch other r egularly now. However, they have deci ded to use t he post offi ce. Let er s wil cost a lit t1e mor e, but they wil cer tainly tr avel f aster. Leson23 A new house 新居 I had a l et ter f rom my sister yest er day. She l ives i n Niger ia. I n her let er , she sai d that she would e t o England next year. If she es, she wi l get a surpri se. We ar e now li vi ng in a beaut if ul new house in t he countr y. Work on it had begun bef or e my si st er left . The house was pleted f ive mont hs ago. In my l et ter, I t ol d her that she coul d stay wit h us. The house has many large rooms and ther e is a lovel y garden. It is a ver y modern house, so it looks st range t o some peopl e. It must be the only moder n house in t he distr ict. Leson24 It coul d be worse 不幸中之萬幸 I entered th。 But t hey don39。 It 39。You must give up fishing! 39。I might as wel have them,39。but they are f or next Wednesday39。Cert ai nl y, 39。Could I have those two t ickets please ?39。Cert ai nl y, 39。Can I r et ur n these two t ickets?39。What a pi ty!39。ve sol d out, 39。I 39。May I have two ti ckets pl ease ?39。 Susan answered. 39。 I said. 39。 Leson19 Sol d out 票已售完 39。 he said 39。I 39。t got my bag.39。but I can39。Yes, thank you, 39。Did you have a good meal ?39。 leson18 He of ten does this! 他經(jīng)常干這種事！ Aft er I had had l unch at a vil age inn, I looked for my bag. I had left it on a chai r besi de the door and now it wasn39。 If you r ecei ve a r equest l ike this, you cannot fail to obey it ! Leson 17 Always young 青年常駐 My aunt Jennif er is an actr ess. She must be at l east thir tyf ive years old. I n spit e of this, she of ten appears on the st age as a young girl . Jennif er wil l have t o take part in a new pl ay soon. This ti me, she wi l be a gir l of seventeen. In the play, she must appear in a br i ght r ed dr ess and long bl ack st ockings. Last year in another play, she had to wear short socks and a br ight , orange colour ed dr ess. If anyone ever asked her how old she is, she al ways answer s, 39。100 a year ! Leson 16 A poli te request 彬彬有禮的要求 If you park your car in the wrong pl ace, a t rafi c poli ceman wil soon fi nd i t. You wi l be very l ucky i f he l et s you go wi thout a ticket . However, this does not always happen. Tr af fi c poli ce are someti mes ver y pol ite. Dur ing a holi day in Sweden, I found t hi s note on my car :39。t inter upt, 39。 I said i n a weak voice. 39。s bicycl e! Leson32 Shoppi ng m ade easy 購物變得很方便 People are not so honest as they once were. The t emptati on t o steal i s gr eater than ever bef or eespecial y in l ar ge shops. A det ecti ve r ecent ly watched a wel ldr essed woman who al ways went into a large st ore on Monday morni ngs. One Monday, ther e wer e fewer people in t he shop than usual when the woman cam e i n, s o it was easier for t he detect ive to watch her. The woman fir st bought a few smal l ar ticles. Aft er a li t le ti me, she chose one of the 1 浙江省科技成果轉化基金項目 可行性研究報告 項目名稱： 食用花卉的規(guī)模種植與加工利用 申請單位： 溫州市農(nóng)業(yè)科學研究院 推薦單位： 溫州市科技局 編寫時間： 20xx 年 4 月 25 日 浙江省科學技術廳 浙江省財政廳 二○○四年 Twent y people had al ready left . I knew t hat my turn had e. 39。s fi rst pasenger was a doctor who flew f rom Bir mingham t o a lonely vil lage i n the Wel sh mount ai ns. Si nce then, Captain Fawcet has fl own passengers to many unusual places. Once he landed on the roof of a block of f lats and on another occa sion, he landed in a deserted car par k. Captain Fawcet has just r ef used a str ange request fr om abusinessman. The man wanted to fl y to Rockal l, alonely i sl and in t he At lant ic Ocean, but Capt ai n Fawcet did not t ake hi m because the tri p was t oo danger ous. Leson30 Footbal l or pol o? 足球還是水球？ The Wayl e is a smal r iver that cuts across t he park near my home. I l ike sit ti ng by the Wayl e on f ine af ternoons. It was war m last Sunday, so I went and sat on the ri ver bank as usual . Some chil dr en wer e playing games on t he bank and t here were some people r owi ng on the ri ver . Suddenl y, one of the chil dr en kicked a bal l very har d and it we nt towards a pasing boat. Some people on the bank cal ed out t o the man i n the boat, but he did not hear them. The bal st ruck hi m so hard t hat he nearl y fel into t he water. I turned t o look at the chil dr en, but ther e wer en39。Pi latus Port er 39。taxi39。 No Par king39。t it upsidedown ?39。 she said, 39。 I t39。s a new one. Do you li ke i t ?39。 I answered. 39。 I 39。 What ar e you doing ?39。about39。about39。 he said. I wonder. I n Engl and, each man speaks a dif ferent l anguage. The Engl ish under stand each ot her, but I don39。You39。I am a foreigner ,39。 le