【正文】 . She tr ied to play jaz on it! She str uck t he keys too har d and two of the st rings wer e br oken. My f ather was shocked. Now we ar e not al lowed t o touch it . I t is being r epai red by a f ri end of my f at her39。I t39。s gar den is more i nt er esting. He has made neat pat hs and has buil t a wooden bridge over a pool . I li ke gardens too, but I do not like har d wor k. Ever y year I ent er f or the gar den pet it ion too, and I always win a l it le pri ze f or the worst garden i n the town! Lesson 9 A cold wele 冷遇 On Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hal . I t was the last day of the year and a large cr owd of peopl e had gat hered under t he Town Hal l clock. It woul d st rike twelve in t wenty mi nutes39。s garden i s larger than Joe39。The Nicest Gar den Competi tion39。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 working f or a big fi rm and he has al ready visi ted a gr eat number of di ferent places in Australi a. He has just bought an Austr al ian 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 Darwi n. From t here, he wil l fly t o Pert h. My brother has never been abr oad bef or e, so he i s finding this tr ip ver y excit 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 hi s way, he has begun his own pr ivat e t el ephone ser vi 6 Percy Butons 珀西clock! 39。Do you always get up so l at e ? I t39。me, 39。 she said. 39。s one o39。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 Italy. I vi sit ed museums and sat in publ ic gar dens. A fr iendl y wai ter t aught me a few words of It al ian. 39。巴頓斯 I have just moved t o a house in Br idge Str eet. Yest er day a beggar knocked at my door. He asked me f or a meal and a glas of beer. In r etur n for t his, the beggar stood on his 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. His name is Percy But t ons. He cal s at every house in the st reet once a mont h and al ways asks for a meal and a glass of beer. Lesson 7 Too l at e 為時太晚 The plane was l at e and det ecti ves wer e wai ting at he air port al mor ning. They were expecti ng a valuable par cel of diamond f rom Sout h Afri ca. A few hour s earl ier, someone had told t he poli ce that hi eves would t ry to steal the diamonds. When t he plane ar rived, some of the detect ives were wait ing inside the main bui lding whi le other s wer e wai ting on the ai rfi el d. Two men took t he par cel of f the pl ane and car ri ed i t i nt o the Customs House. While t wo detect ives were keeping guard at he door , t wo ot her s opened t he par cel. To their surpr ise, the pr ecious parcel was f ull of stones and sand! Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的 Joe Sanders has t he most beautif ul garden i n our town. Near ly everybody ent er s f or 39。 each year, but Joe wins every t ime. Bi l Fr it h39。s. Bil works harder than Joe and gr ows more f lower s and veget ables, but Joe39。 ti me. Fif teen mi nutes pased and then, at f ive t o twelve, the clock stopped. The bi g minut e hand di d not move. We wait ed and wait ed, but not hi ng happened. Suddenly someone shouted, 39。s t wo minut es past twelve! The clock has st opped!39。s. Lesson 11 One good t urn deserves anot her 禮尚往來 I was havi ng dinner at a r estaur ant when Hary St ele came i n. Har ry worked in a lawyer 39。2. To my surpri se, he gave me the money immediately. 39。 Har ry sai d, 39。 Leson 12 Goodbye and good l uck 再見，一路順風(fēng) Our ncighbour , Captain Char les Al ison, wil sai l f rom Portsmout h tomor row. We shal met hi m at he harbour earl y in the morning. He wi l l be in his smal l boat , Topsail. Tapsail is a f amous l it tle boat . I t has ailed acr oss the At lant ic many t imes. Capt ain Al ison wi l set out at eight o39。 Club. The Gr enwood Boys wil l be stayi ng f or f ive days. Dur ing this ti me, they wil give five per formances. As usual , t he police wil l have a dif ficult time. They wil be tr yi ng t o keep or der. It i s always t he same on these occasi ons. Lesson 14 Do you speak Engli sh? 你會講英語嗎？ I had an amusi ng experi ence last year. Af ter I had left a smal vi l age in t he south of Fr ance, I dr ove on to the next town. On the way, ayoung man waved to me. I stopped and he asked me for ali ft. As soon as he had got into t he car, I said good morning to him in French and he replied in t he same l anguage. Apart f rom a few words, I do not know any Fr ench at al l. Nei ther of us spoke duri ng t he j ourney. I had nearl y reached the town, when the young man suddenly sai d, ver y slowly, 39。 As I soon l earnt, he was Engl ish hi mself ! Lesson 15 Good news 佳音 The secretary told me t hat Mr. Harmswor th woul d see me. I felt ver y nervous when. I went i nto his of fi ce. He did not look up fr om hi s desk when I