Lesson 1
Last week I _____ to the theatre. I had a very good _____. The play was very interesting. I did not _____ it. A young man and a young woman _____如何包粽子 sitting behind me. They were talking ______. I ____ very angry. I could not hear the actors. I turned round. I looked at the man and the woman ______. They did not pay ____新合作 attention. ___ 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 _______ conversation!'.
Lesson 2
It was Sunday. I never get up early on Sundays. I sometimes stay ___bed until lunch time.
Last Sunday I got up very ____. I looked out of the window. It was dark ______
'What a day!' I thought. 'It's raining again.' Just then, the telephone _____. ____ was my aunt Lucy.' I've just arrived __ train,' she said. 'I'm coming to e you.' 'But I'm still ____ breakfast,' I said.
'What are you doing?' she asked. ‘I’m having breakfast,' I repeated.
雪团'Dear me,' she said. 'Do you always get up so late? It's one o'clock!''
Lesson 3
Postcards always spoil my holidays. Last summer, I _____工作方面 to Italy. I ______ muums and sat in public gardens. A friendly waiter taught me a ____ words of Italian. 'Then he lent me a book. I ____ a few lines, but I did not understand a word. Every day I thought ______ postcards. My holidays pasd quickly, but I did not nd _____ cards to my friends. ____ the last day I _____ a big decision. I got up early and bought thirty-ven cards. I spent the whole day in my room, but I did not write a single card!
Lesson 4
I ____just _______ a letter ______ my brother, Tim. He is in Australia. He has_____ there ____ six months. Tim is an engineer. He is ______ for a big firm and he has already _____ a great number of different places in Australia. He has just bought an Australian ca
r and has gone to Alice Springs, a small town ___ the centre of Australia. He _____ soon visit Darwin. From there, he will fly ___ Perth. My brother has never been abroad before, ___ he is finding this trip very exciting.
Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 无错号之虞
Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought _______ garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst ___ only five miles _____ Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot _____ 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 _______鱼籽图片 the distance ___ three minutes. Up to ____, Mr. Scott has nt a great ____ requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to _______. 祷___ this way, he has begun his own private telephone rvice.
Lesson 6 Percy Buttons 珀西·巴顿斯
I have just_____ to a hou in Bridge Street. Yesterday a beggar knocked ___ my door.
He asked me ____ a meal and a glass of beer. ____ return for this, the beggar stood on his head and ______ songs. I gave him a meal. He ate the food and _____ the beer. Then he put a piece of chee in his pocket and went ______. Later a neighbor told me _____ him. Everybody knows him. His name is Percy Buttons. He calls ___ every hou in the street _____ a month and always asks for a meal and a glass of beer.
Lesson 7 Too late 为时太晚
The plane was late and detectives were waiting___ the airport all morning. They were expecting a valuable parcel of diamond _____ South Africa. A 思政第一课____ hours earlier, someone ______(tell) the police that thieves ______(will) try to steal the diamonds. When the plane _______, some of the detectives ________(wait) inside the main building while others were waiting on the airfield. Two men took the parcel ____ the plane and carried it into the Customs Hou. While two detectives________(keep) guard at the door, two others opened the parcel. ____ their surpri, the precious parcel was full of stones and sand!
Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的
Joe Sanders has _________ beautiful garden in our town. Nearly everybody enters for 'The Nicest Garden Competition' each year, but Joe ____ every time. Bill Frith's garden is larger ____ Joe's. Bill works _____(hard) than Joe and grows more flowers and vegetables, ____ Joe's garden is more interesting. He has made neat paths and has built a wooden bridge _____ a pool. I like gardens _____, but I _____ like hard work. Every year I enter ____嵊泗列岛 the garden competition too, and I always win a little prize ____ the worst garden in the town!
Lesson 9 A cold welcome 冷遇
___ Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. ____ was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had _______(gather) under the Town Hall clock. It _____(will) strike twelve in twenty _______(minute) time. Fifteen minutes ______ and then, ___ five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, ___ nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, 'It's two minutes past tw
elve! The clock has stopped!' I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refud __________(welcome) the New Year. At _____ moment everybody began to laugh and sing.
Lesson 10 Not for jazz 不适于演奏爵士乐
We have an old musical instrument. It is called a clavichord(翼琴). It __________ (make) in Germany in 1681. Our clavichord is kept in the living-room. It has ___________ (belong) our family for a long time. The instrument was bought by my grandfather many years ago. Recently it was damaged ______ 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.
