【正文】 __, 39。s. Bill works harder than Joe and ______ more flowers and ________, but Joe39。 each year, but Joe _____ every time. Bill Frith39。the parcel. To ____ surprise, the_____ parcel was full of stones and _____!Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的Joe Sanders has the most beautiful ______ in our ____. _____ everybody enters for 39。巴頓斯I have just ______ to a house in Bridge Street. Yesterday a beggar ______at my door. He asked me for a ____and a glass of beer. In ____ for this, the beggar stood ___ his head and sang songs. I gave him a______. He ate the food and _____ the beer. _____ he put a piece of cheese in his _____ and went ______. Later a neighbour _____ me about him. Everybody _____ him. His name is Percy Buttons. He calls____every house in the street ______ a month and always _____for a meal and a glass of ____.Lesson 7 Too late 為時太晚 The plane was late and _______ were waiting at the ______all morning. They were _______ a valuable ____ of diamond from South Africa. A few hours ______, someone had told the police that ______ would try to ____the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting _____ the main building while others were waiting on the _____. Two men took the parcel ____ the plane and carried it ____ the Customs House. While two detectives were keeping _____at the door, two others _________________. 39。s none of your business,”the young man said ____________. “This is a private conversation!”Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch?It was Sunday. I never _____________________ on Sunday. I sometimes ___________________________ until lunchtime.Last Sunday I _______________________________________. I looked out of the window. It was ______________________. “What a day!” I ______________. “It’s raining again.” ____________________, the telephone rang. It was my aunt Lucy. “_______________________________by train,” she said. “I’m ing to see you.” “But I’m having breakfast,” I said.“What are you doing?” she asked. “I’m having breakfast,” I ___________.“Dear me,” she said. “Do you always get up so late? It’s ______________!Lesson 3 Please send me a cardPostcards _________ spoil my holidays. Last summer, I went to ________. I visited museums and _____________ public gardens. A _____________ waiter taught me a few words oft hear a ____________!39。A young man and a young woman were sitting ___________ me. They were talking _____________. I got very angry. I could not hear the ____________. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman angrily. They did not pay any attention. In the end, I could not ___________ it. I turned round _____. 39。The play was very ____________. I did not ___________ it.Lesson 1 A private conversation Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good _________.I can39。 I said angrily.“It39。Then he lent me a book. I read a few lines, but I did not ___________________________. Every day I thought about postcards. My holidays ___________ quickly, but I did not send cards to my friends. On the last day I ___________________________. I got up early and bought ________________________. I spent the ______________ in my room, but I did not write a single card!Lesson 4 An exciting trip 激動人心的旅行 I have just received a letter _____ my brother, Tim. He is in Australia. He has been _____ for six months. Tim is an engineer. He is working for a big ____ and he has already visited a great number of different ______ in Australia. He has _____ bought an Australian car and has ____ to Alice Springs, a small town in the _____ of Australia. He will ____ visit Darwin. From there, he will ____ to Perth. My brother has____been abroad before, ___he is finding this trip ____exciting.Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯號之虞 Mr James Scott has a ______ in Silbury and now he has just bought _____ garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is _____five miles from Silbury, but Mr Scott cannot get a _______for his new garage, so he has ____bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon _______ the first ______ from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird ______ the distance in three_______. Up to _____, Mr Scott has sent a great many ______ for ____ parts and other ______ messages from one garage to the other. ___ this way, he has_____his own private telephone _____.Lesson 6 Percy Buttons 珀西The Nicest Garden __________39。s garden is _____ than Joe39。s garden is more ________. He has made neat_____and has built a ______ bridge over a _____. I like gardens too, but I do not ______ hard work. Every year I _____________ the garden petition too, and I always _____ a little prize for the______garden in the town!Lesson 9 A cold wele 冷遇____ Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the ____day of the year and a large ______ of people had _______ under the Town Hall clock. It would ______ twelve in twenty minutes39。It39。 I looked at my _____. It was true. The big clock _______ to ______ the New Year. At that moment everybody began to ______and sing.Lesson 10 Not for jazz 不適于演奏爵士樂We have an old _______ instrument. It is _____ a clavichord(翼琴). It was made in _________ in 1681. Our clavichord is ______in the livingroom. It has _____ to our family for a _____ time. The __________ was bought by my grandfather many years ago. Recently it was ________ by a visitor. She tried to play _____on it! She _____ the keys too hard and two of the _______ were ______. My father was _______. Now we are not ________ to touch it. It is being ______ by a friend of my father39。2. To my _______, he gave me the money __________. 39。 Harry said, 39。Lesson 12 Goodbye and good luck 再見，一路順風Our ncighbour, Captain Charles Alison, will _____ from Portsmouth tomorrow. We shall _________ him at the harbour early in the morning. He will be in his small ______, is a famous _______ boat. It has sailed _______ the Atlantic many times. Captain Alison will ________at eight o39。 ______. The Greenwood Boys will be staying for five days. During this time, they will give five performances. As ______, the pol