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Lesson 1 A private conversation 私人談話私人談話 Last week I went to the theatre I had a very good seat The play was very interesting I did not enjoy it A young man and a young woman were sitting behind me They were talking loudly I got very angry I could not hear the actors I turned round I looked at the man and the woman angrily They did not pay any attention In the end I could not bear it I turned round again I can t hear a word I said angrily It s none of your business the young man said rudely This is a private conversation Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch 早餐還是午餐 早餐還是午餐 It was Sunday I never get up early on Sundays I sometimes stay in bed until lunch time Last Sunday I got up very late I looked out of the window It was dark outside What a day I thought It s raining again Just then the telephone rang It was my aunt Lucy I ve just arrived by train she said I m coming to see you But I m still having breakfast I said What are you doing she asked I m having breakfast I repeated Dear me she said Do you always get up so late It s one o clock Lesson 3 Please send me a card 請(qǐng)給我寄一張明信片請(qǐng)給我寄一張明信片 Postcards always spoil my holidays Last summer I went to Italy I visited museums and sat in public gardens A friendly waiter taught me a few words of Italian Then he lent me a book I read a few lines but I did not understand a word Every day I thought about postcards My holidays passed quickly but I did not send any cards to my friends On the last day I made a big decision I got up early and bought thirty seven cards I spent the whole day in my room but I did not write a single card Lesson 4 An exciting trip 激動(dòng)人心的旅行激動(dòng)人心的旅行 I have just received a letter from my brother Tim He is in Australia He has been there for six months Tim is an engineer He is working for a big firm and he has already visited a great number of different places in Australia He has just bought an Australian car and has gone to Alice Springs a small town in the centre of Australia He will soon visit Darwin From there he will fly to Perth My brother has never been abroad before so he is finding this trip very exciting Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯(cuò)號(hào)之虞無錯(cuò)號(hào)之虞 Mr James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury but Mr Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage so he has just bought twelve pigeons Yesterday a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury The bird covered the distance in three minutes Up to now Mr Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other In this way he has begun his own private telephone service Lesson 6 Percy Buttons 珀西珀西 巴頓斯巴頓斯 I have just moved to a house in Bridge Street Yesterday a beggar knocked at my door He asked me for a meal and a glass of beer In return for this the beggar stood on his head and sang songs I gave him a meal He ate the food and drank the beer Then he put a piece of cheese in his pocket and went away Later a neighbour told me about him Everybody knows him His name is Percy Buttons He calls at every house in the street once a month and always asks for a meal and a glass of beer Lesson 7 Too late 為時(shí)太晚為時(shí)太晚 The plane was late and detectives were waiting at the airport all morning They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamond from South Africa A few hours earlier someone had told the police that thieves would try to steal the diamonds When the plane arrived some of the detectives were waiting inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield Two men took the parcel off the plane and carried it into the Customs House While two detectives were keeping guard at the door two others opened the parcel To their surprise the precious parcel was full of stones and sand Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的最好的和最差的 Joe Sanders has the most beautiful garden in our town Nearly everybody enters for The Nicest Garden Competition each year but Joe wins every time Bill Frith s garden is larger than Joe s Bill works harder than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables but Joe s garden is more interesting He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge over a pool I like gardens too but I do not like hard work Every year I enter for the garden competition too and I always win a little prize for the worst garden in the town Lesson 9 A cold welcome 冷遇冷遇 On Wednesday evening we went to the Town Hall It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock It would strike twelve in twenty minutes time Fifteen minutes passed and then at five to twelve the clock stopped The big minute hand did not move We waited and waited but nothing happened Suddenly someone shouted It s two minutes past twelve The clock has stopped I looked at my watch It was true The big clock refused to welcome the New Year At that moment everybody began to laugh and sing Lesson 10 Not for jazz 不適于演奏爵士樂不適于演奏爵士樂 We have an old musical instrument It is called a clavichord 翼琴 It was made in Germany in 1681 Our clavichord is kept in the living room It has belong to our family for a long time The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years ago Recently it was damaged by a visitor She tried to play jazz on it She struck the keys too hard and two of the strings were broken My father was shocked Now we are not allowed to touch it It is being repaired by a friend of my father s Lesson 11 One good turn deserves another 禮尚往來禮尚往來 I was having dinner at a restaurant when Harry Steele came in Harry worked in a lawyer s office years ago but he is now working at a bank He gets a good salary but he always borrows money from his friends and never pays it back Harry saw me and came and sat at the same table He has never borrowed money from me While he was eating I asked him to lend me I repeated my question several times and at last he understood He answered me but he spoke neither slowly nor clearly I am a foreigner I said Then he spoke slowly but I could not understand him My teacher never spoke English like that The porter and I looked at each other and smiled Then he said something and I understood it You ll soon learn English he said I wonder In England each man speaks a different language The English understand each other but I don t understand them Do they speak English lesson26 The best art critics 最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家最佳美術(shù)評(píng)論家 I am an art student and I paint a lot of pictures Many people pretend that they understand modern art They always tell you what a picture is about Of course many pictures arc not about anything They are just pretty patterns We like them in the same way that we like pretty curtain material I think that young children often appreciate modern pictures better than anyone else They notice more My sister is only seven but she always tells me whether my pictures are good or not She came into my room yesterday What are you doing she asked I m hanging this picture on the wall I answered It s a new one Do you like it She looked at it critically for a moment It s all right she said but isn t it upside down I looked at it again She was right It was Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜雨夜 Late in the afternoon the boys put up their tent in the middle of a field As soon as this was done they cooked a meal over an open fire They were all hungry and the food smelt good After a wonderful meal they told stories and sang songs by the camp fire But some time later it began to rain The boys felt tired so they pet out the fire and crept into their tent Their sleeping bags were warm and comfortable so they all slept soundly In the middle of the night two boys woke up and began shouting The tent was full of water They all leapt out of their sleeping bags and hurried outside It was raining heavily and they found that a stream had formed in the field The stream wound its way across the field and then flowed right under their tent Lesson28 No parking 禁止停車禁止停車 Jasper White is one of those rare people who believes in ancient myths He has just bought a new house in the city but ever since he moved in he has had trouble with motorists when he returns home at night he always finds that someone has parked a car outside his gate Because of this he has not been able to get his own car into his garage even once Jasper has put up No Parking signs outside his gate but these have not had any effect Now he has put an ugly stone head over the gate It is one of the ugliest faces I have ever seen I asked him what it was and he told me that it was Medusa the Gorgon Jasper hopes that she will turn motorists to stone But none of them has been turned to stone yet Lesson29 Taxi 出租汽車 出租汽車 Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service The taxi is a small Swiss aeroplane called a Pilatus Porter This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers The most surprising thing about it however is that it can land anywhere on snow water or even on a ploughed field Captain Fawcett s first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains Since then Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion he landed in a deserted car park Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman The man wanted to fly to Rockall a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous Lesson30 Football or polo 足球還是水球 足球還是水球 The Wayle is a small river that cuts across the park near my home I like sitting by the Wayle on fine afternoons It was warm last Sunday so I went and sat on the river bank as usual Some children were playing games on the bank and there were some people rowing on the river Suddenly one of the children kicked a ball very hard and it went towards a passing boat Some people on the bank called out to the man in the boat but he did not hear them The ball struck him so hard that he nearly fell into the water I turned to look at the children but there weren t any in sight they had all run away The man laughed when he realized what had happened He called out to the children and threw the ball back to the bank Lesson31 Success story 成功者的故事成功者的故事 Yesterday afternoon Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man Frank is now the head of a very large business company but as a boy he used to work in a small shop It was his job to repair bicycles and at that time he used to work fourteen hours a day He saved money for years and in 1938 he bought a small work shop of his own During the war Frank used to make spare parts for aeroplanes At that time he had two helpers By the end of the war the small work shop had become a large factory which employed seven hundred and twenty eight people Frank smiled when he remembered his hard early years and the long road to success He was still smiling when the door opened and his wife came in She wanted him to repair their son s bicycle Lesson32 Shopping made easy 購物變得很方便購物變得很方便 People are not so honest as they once were The temptation to steal is greater than ever before especially in large shops A detective recently watched a well dressed woman who always went into a large store on Monday mornings One Monday there were fewer people in the shop than usual when the woman came in so it was easier for the detective to watch her The woman first bought a few small articles After a little time she chose one of the most expensive dresses in the shop and handed it to an assistant who wrapped it up for her as quickly as possible Then the woman simply took the parcel and walked out of the shop without paying When she was arrested the detective found out that the shop assistant was her daughter The girl gave her mother a free dress once a week lesson33 Out of the darkness 沖出黑暗沖出黑暗 Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happened to her One afternoon she set out from the coast in a small boat and was caught in a storm Towards evening the boat struck a rock and the girl jumped into the sea Then she swam to the shore after spending the whole night in the water During that time she covered a distance of eight miles Early next morning she saw a light ahead She knew she was near the shore because the light was high up on the cliffs On arriving at the shore the girl struggled up the cliff towards the light she had seen That was all she remembered When she woke up a day later she found herself in hospital Lesson34 Quick work 破案破案 神速神速 Ted Robinson has been worried all the week Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police In the letter he was asked to call at the station Ted wondered why he was wanted by the police but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more At the station he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found Five days ago the policeman told him the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away It is now being sent to his home by train Ted was most surprised when he heard the news He was amused too because he never expected the bicycle to be found It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen Lesson35 Stop thief 捉賊 捉賊 Rov Trenton used to drive a taxi A short while ago however he became a bus driver and he was not regretted it He is finding his new work far more exciting When he was driving along Catford Street recently he saw two thieves rush out of a shop and run towards a waiting car One of them was carrying a bag full of money Roy acted quickly and drove the bus straight at the thieves The one with the money got such a fright that he dropped the bag As the thieves were trying to get away in their car Roy drove his bus into the back of it While the battered car was moving away Roy stopped his bus and telephoned the police The thieves car was badly damaged and easy to recognize Shortly afterwards the police stopped the car and both men were arrested Lesson36 Across the Channel 橫渡海峽橫渡海峽 Erna Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow She is going to set out from the French coast at five o clock in the morning Erna is only fourteen years old and she hopes lo set up a new world record She is a strong swimmer and many people feel that she is sure to succeed Erna s father will set out with her in a small boat Mr Hart has trained his daughter for years Tomorrow he will be watching her anxiously as she swims the long distance to England Erna intends to take short rests every two hours She will have something to drink but she will not eat any solid food Most of Erna s school friends will be waiting for her on the English coast Among them will be Erna s mother who swam the Channel herself when she was a girl Lesson37 The Olympic Games 奧林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì)奧林匹克運(yùn)動(dòng)會(huì) The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years time As a great many people will be visiting the country the government will be building new hotels an immense stadium and a fine new swimming pool They will also be building new roads and a special railway line The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be called Olympic City Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year By the end of next year they will have finished work on the new stadium The fine modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country Lesson38 Everything except the weather 惟獨(dú)沒有考慮到天氣惟獨(dú)沒有考慮到天氣 My old friend Harrison had lived in the Mediterranean for many years before he returned to England He had often dreamed of retiring in England and had planned to settle down in the country He had no sooner returned than he bought a fine house and went to live there Almost immediately he began to complain about the weather for even though it was still summer it rained continually and it was often bitterly cold After so many years of sunshine Harrison got a shock He acted as if he had never lived in England before In the end it was more than he could bear He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house and left the country The dream he had had for so many years ended there Harrison had thought of everything except the weather Lesson39 Am I all right 我是否痊愈 我是否痊愈 While John Gilbert was in hospital he asked his doctor to tell him whether his operation had been successful but the doctor refused to do so The following day the patient asked for a bedside telephone When he was alone he telephoned the hospital exchange and asked for Doctor Millington When the doctor answered the phone Mr Gilbert said he was inquiring about a certain patient a Mr John Gilbert He asked if Mr Gilbert s operation had been successful and the doctor told him that it had been He then asked when Mr Gilbert would be allowed to go home and the doctor told him that he would have to stay in hospital for another two weeks Then Dr Millington asked the caller if he was a relative of the patient No the patient answered I am Mr John Gilbert Lesson40 Food and talk 進(jìn)餐與交談進(jìn)餐與交談 Last week at a dinner party the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs Rumbold Mrs Rumbold was a large unsmiling lady in a tight black dress She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time she was busy eating I tried to make conversation A new play is coming to The Globe soon I said Will you be seeing it No she answered Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year I asked No she answered Will you be staying in England I asked No she answered In despair I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner Young man she answered if you ate more and talked less we would both enjoy our dinner lesson41 Do you call that a hat 你把那個(gè)叫帽子嗎 你把那個(gè)叫帽子嗎 Do you call that a hat I said to my wife You needn t be so rude about it my wife answered as she looked at herself in the mir