【正文】 39。Can I return these t wo 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 sai d. 39。 Lesson19 Sold out 票已售完 39。 he said 39。 The inn keeper smi led and immediately went out . I n a few minutes he retur ned wit h my bag and gave it back to me. 39。t pay the bil . I haven39。 I answered, 39。 he asked. 39。t there ! As I was looking f or it , t he i nkeeper came in. 39。My dear , it must be ter rible t o be grown up! 39。 Si r, we wele you to our cit y. This is a No Parking ar ea. You wil l enjoy your stay her e if you pay at enti on t o our st reet signs. This note is onl y a reminder .39。 he Said. Then he smil ed and told me I would r eceive an ext ra amp。Don39。Mr . Harmswor th,39。Do you speak English?39。cl ock so we shal have plent y of ti me. We shal se his boat and then we shal l say goodbye to him. He wil be away for two months. We are ver y pr oud of hi m. He wil l take par t i n an i mpor tant race across t he Atl anti c. Lesson 13 The Grenwood Boys 綠林少年 The Greenwood Boys are a group of popular singer s. At pr esent, t hey ar e vi si ting al part s of the country. They wil l be ar ri vi ng her e t om or r ow. They wil l be i ng by tr ai n and most of t he young people in t he t own wi l be meet ing them at t he station. Tomorrow evening they wil be si nging at t he Wor kers39。so now you can pay for my di nner! 39。I have never bor rowed any money from you,39。s of fice years ago, but he i s now working at a bank. He gets a good salary, but he always bor r ows money fr om hi s f ri ends and never pays it back. Har y saw me and came and sat at the same tabl e. He has never borr owed money fr om me. Whil e he was eating, I asked hi m to l end me amp。 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 old musical inst rument . I t i s cal ed a clavi chord(翼琴 ). It was made in Germany i n 1681. Our clavichord i s kept i n the livingr oom. It has bel ong to our f amily f or a long ti me. The i nstr ument was bought by my gr andf at her many years ago. Recent ly it was damaged by a vis it or . She tri ed t o pl ay j azz on it! She str uck the keys too hard and two of the str ings were broken. My father was shocked. Now we ar e not al lowed to t ouch it . I t i s being repai red by a f riend of my f at her39。I t39。s garden i s mor e interest ing. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden br idge over a pool. I li ke gar dens too, but I do not l ike har d wor k. Every year I enter for the garden pet it on t oo, and I al ways win a li t le prize for the wor st gar den in t he t own! Leson 9 A col d wel e 冷遇 On Wednesday eveni ng, we went t o the Town Hal . I t was the last day of the year and a l ar ge crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hal clock. It would str ike twelve in twenty minutes39。s gar den is larger t han Joe39。The Ni cest Garden Compet it on39。ade a big decision. I got up earl y and bought thir tyseven cards. I spent t he whol e day in my r oom, but I di d not wri te a si ngle car d !Leson 4 An excit ng t ri p 激動(dòng)人心的旅行 I have just received a leter fr om my br ot her , Tim. He is i n Austr ali a. He has been there for si x months. Ti m is an engineer. He is working for a bi g fi rm and he has alr eady vi sit ed a great number of dif ferent places in Aust ralia. He has just bought an Austr al ian car and has gone to Al ice Spri ngs, a smal l t own i n the cent re of Austr al ia. He wil l soon visit Darwin. Fr om there, he wil l f ly to Pert h. My br other has never been abr oad bef ore, so he i s finding this tr ip ver y excit ng. Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯(cuò)號(hào)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 equest s for spar e part s and other urgent messages f rom one garage t o the ot her. In t hi s way, he has begun hi s own pri vate t el ephone 6 Percy But tons 珀西巴頓斯 I have just moved t o a house in Br idge Str et. Yest er day a beggar knocked at my door. He asked me f or a meal and a glas of beer . In retur n for t hi s, the beggar st ood on hi s head and sang songs. I gave him a meal . He ate t he f ood and drank the beer . Then he put a piece of cheese in his pocket and went away. Later a neighbour t ol d me about him. Everybody knows hi m. Hi s name is Per cy Butt ons. He cal ls at ever y house in t he str et once a month and always asks for a meal and a glas of beer . Leson 7 Too late 為時(shí)太晚 The plane was late and detect ives were wait ng at the ai rpor t al l morning. They wer e xpecting a val uabl e parcel of di amond fr om South Af rica. A few hours ear li er , someone had told the pol ice that thieves woul d try t o st eal the di amonds. When the plane ar ived, some of t he det ecti ves wer e wai ting inside the mai n buil di ng whil e ot hers were wait ng on t he air field. Two men t ook t he parcel off t he plane and car ied it into the Cust oms House. Whil e two det ecti ves wer e keepi ng guar d at the door, two others opened the parcel. To t heir sur prise, the preci ous par cel was full of stones and sand! Leson 8 The best and t he worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sander s has the mos t beaut iful garden in our t own. Nearly ever ybody enters for 39。 each year , but Joe wins ever y ti me. Bil Fri th39。s. Bi l wor ks harder than Joe and grows mor e flowers and vegetabl es, but Joe39。 time. Fi ft en minutes pased and then, at fi ve t o twelve, the cl ock stopped. The big m inut e hand did not move. We wait ed and wait ed, but nothing happened. Suddenly som eone