Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch?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!''
那是個星期天,而在星期天我是從來不早起的,有時我要一直躺到吃午飯的時候.上個星期天,我起得很晚.我望望窗外,外面一片昏暗.“鬼天氣!”我想,“又下雨了.”正在這時,電話鈴響了.是我姑母露西打來的.“我剛下火車,”她說,“我這就來看你.”
“但我還在吃早飯,”我說.
“你在干什么?”她問道.
“我正在吃早飯,”我又說了一遍.
“天啊,”她說,“你總是起得這么晚嗎?現在已經1點鐘了!”
Lesson 3 Please send me a card 請給我寄一張明信片
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!
明信片總攪得我假日不得安寧.去年夏天,我去了意大利.我參觀了博物館,還去了公園.一位好客的服務員教了我?guī)拙湟獯罄Z,之后還借給我一本書.我讀了幾行,但一個字也不懂.我每天都想著明信片的事.假期過得真快,可我還沒有給我的朋友們寄過一張明信片.到了最后一天,我作出了一項重大決定.我早早起了床,買來了37張明信片.我在房間里關了整整一天.然而竟連一張明信片也沒寫成!
Lesson 4 An exciting trip 激動人心的旅行
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.
我剛剛收到弟弟蒂姆的來信,他正在澳大利亞.他在那兒已經住了6個月了.蒂姆是個工程師,正在一家大公司工作,并且已經去過澳大利亞的不少地方了.他剛買了一輛澳大利亞小汽車,現在去了澳大利亞中部的小鎮(zhèn)艾利斯斯普林斯.他不久還將到達達爾文去,從那里,他再飛往珀斯.我弟弟以前從未出過國,因此,他覺得這次旅行非常激動人心.
Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 無錯號之虞
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.
詹姆斯.斯科特先生在錫爾伯里有一個汽車修理部,現在他剛在平赫斯特買了另一個汽車修理部.平赫特離錫爾伯里只有5英里,但詹姆斯.斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車修理部搞到一部電話機,所以他買了只鴿子.昨天,一只鴿子把第一封信從平赫特帶到錫爾伯里.這只鳥只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程.到目前為止,斯科特先生從一個汽車修理部向另一個發(fā)送了大量索取備件的信件和其他緊急函件.就這樣,他開始自己的私人“電話”業(yè)務.