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First listen and then answer the question.
听录音,然后回答以下问题。
What does‘No wrong numbers’mean?
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 Pinburst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance the first 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.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
pigeon (1. 4) /'pid{in/n. 鸽子 request (1. 6) /ri'kwest/ n. 要求,请求
message (1. 5) /'mesid{/ n. 信息 spare part (1. 7) /?spe+-'pa:t/ 备件
cover (1. 5) /'k)v+/ v. 越过 service (11. 8-9) /'s{:vis/ n. 业务,服务
distance (1. 5) /'dist+ns/ n.距离
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 from Silbury:介词from作“距……”“离……”讲,常与away连用。如:
It is far (away) from here. 离这里很远。
2 up to now (=up till now), 到现在为止;作时间状语,句子的时态多用现在完成时。
3 a great many, 许多的,其中great表示数量很大;只能同可数名词的复数连用。
参考译文
詹姆斯·斯科特先生在锡尔伯里有一个汽车修理部,现在他刚在平赫斯特买了另一个汽车修理部。平赫斯特离锡尔伯里只有5英里,但詹姆斯·斯科特先生未能为他新的汽车修理部搞到一部电话机,所以他买了12只鸽子。昨天,一只鸽子把第一封信从平赫斯特带到锡尔伯里。这只鸟只用了3分钟就飞完了全程。到目前为止,斯科特先生从一个汽车修理部向另一个发送了大量索取备件的信件和其他紧急函件。就这样,他开始了自己的私人“电话”业务。
Summary writing 摘要写作
Answer these questions in not more than 50 words.
回答下列问题,将答案组成一个段落,不要超过50个单词。
1 Where has Mr. Scott opened his second garage?
2 Where is his first garage?
3 How far away is Silbury?
4 Can Mr. Scott get a telephone for his new garage or not?
5 What has he bought?
6 In how many minutes do they carry messages from one garage to the other?
Key structures 关键句型
What happened? What has happened? 一般过去时与现在完成时
Study these sentences. Pay close attention to the words in italics.
仔细地研究这些例句,特别要注意现在完成时句子中表示时间的状语(用斜体印出)。
What happened? (KS 3) (第3课关键句型)
在第3课的“关键句型”部分,我们讨论了英语中的一般过去时。一般过去时用来表示过去某一特定时间发生的事情或动作,因此,句中常有表示过去某一时刻的短语。请注意以下句子中斜体的表示时间的短语。
I wrote to him last month. 上个月我给他写了信。
I bought this car last year. 去年我买了这辆车。
He came to see me this morning. 今天上午他来看我。
I saw him ten minutes ago. 我10分钟以前见到了他。
What has happened? (KS 4) (第4课关键句型)
在第4课的“关键句型”部分,我们又讨论了现在完成时。现在完成时用来表示发生在过去但对现在仍有影响的一个动作。在现在完成时的句子中常有一些表示时间的词和短语。请注意以下句子中斜体的时间状语。 |