1、中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 Lesson 1 A private conversation 私人谈话Last week I went to the theatre. I had a very good _. The play was very _. But I did not _ it. A young man and a young woman were sitting _ me. They were talking _. I got very angry. Because I could not hear the _. I turned _. I looke
2、d at the man and the woman _. They did not pay any _. In the end, I could not _ it. I turned round _. I cant hear a _! I said a_. Its none of your business, the young man said _. This is a _ conversation!.Lesson 2 Breakfast or lunch? 早餐还是午餐？It was Sunday. I _ get up early on _. I sometimes _ in bed
3、_ lunch time.Last Sunday I got up very_. I looked _of the window. It was _ outside. What a day! I _. Its raining again. Just _, the telephone_. It was my aunt Lucy. Ive _arrived by train, she said. Im coming to _you. But Im _ having breakfast, I said.What are you doing ? she asked. Im having breakfa
4、st, I _.Dear me, she said. Do you _ get up so late ? Its _ oclock!Lesson 3 Please send me a card 请给我寄一张明信片 Postcards _ spoil my holidays. Last summer, I went to _. I visited museums and _ in public gardens. A _ waiter taught me a few words of _. Then he _ me a book. I read a few _, but I did not und
5、erstand a word. Every day I thought about _. My holidays _ quickly, but I did not send _ cards to my friends. On the _ day I made a _ decision. I got up _ and bought thirty-seven cards. I spent the _ day in my room, but I did not write a _ card !Lesson 4 An exciting trip 激动人心的旅行I have just received
6、a letter _ my brother, Tim. He is in Australia. He has been _ for six months. Tim is an engineer. He is working for a big _ and he has already visited a great number of different _ in Australia. He has _ bought an Australian car and has _ to Alice Springs, a small town in the _ of Australia. He will
7、 _ visit Darwin. From there, he will _ to Perth. My brother has_been abroad before, _he is finding this trip _exciting.Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 无错号之虞 Mr James Scott has a _ in Silbury and now he has just bought _ garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is _five miles from Silbury, but Mr Scott cannot get a _f
8、or his new garage, so he has _bought twelve pigeons. Yesterday, a pigeon _ the first _ from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird _ the distance in three_. Up to _, Mr Scott has sent a great many _ for _ parts and other _ messages from one garage to the other. _ this way, he has_his own private telephone _.
9、Lesson 6 Percy Buttons 珀西巴顿斯I have just _ to a house in Bridge Street. Yesterday a beggar _at my door. He asked 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 me for a _and a glass of beer. In _ for this, the beggar stood _ his head and sang songs. I gave him a_. He ate the food and _ the beer. _ he put a piece of c
10、heese in his _ and went _. Later a neighbour _ me about him. Everybody _ him. His name is Percy Buttons. He calls_every house in the street _ a month and always _for a meal and a glass of _.Lesson 7 Too late 为时太晚 The plane was late and _ were waiting at the _all morning. They were _ a valuable _ of
11、diamond from South Africa. A few hours _, someone had told the police that _ would try to _the diamonds. When the plane arrived, some of the detectives were waiting _ the main building while others were waiting on the _. Two men took the parcel _ the plane and carried it _ the Customs House. While t
12、wo detectives were keeping _at the door, two others _ the parcel. To _ surprise, the_ parcel was full of stones and _!Lesson 8 The best and the worst 最好的和最差的Joe Sanders has the most beautiful _ in our _. _ everybody enters for The Nicest Garden _ each year, but Joe _ every time. Bill Friths garden i
13、s _ than Joes. Bill works harder than Joe and _ more flowers and _, but Joes garden is more _. He has made neat_and has built a _ bridge over a _. I like gardens too, but I do not _ hard work. Every year I _ the garden competition too, and I always _ a little prize for the_garden in the town!Lesson
14、9 A cold welcome 冷遇_ Wednesday evening, we went to the Town Hall. It was the _day of the year and a large _ of people had _ under the Town Hall clock. It would _ twelve in twenty minutes time. Fifteen minutes _ and then, at five _ twelve, the clock _. The big minute _ did not move. We _ and waited,
15、but nothing _. Suddenly someone _, Its two minutes _ twelve! The clock has stopped! I looked at my _. It was true. The big clock _ to _ the New Year. At that moment everybody began to _and sing.Lesson 10 Not for jazz 不适于演奏爵士乐We have an old _ instrument. It is _ a clavichord(翼琴). It was made in _ in
16、1681. Our clavichord is _in the living-room. It has _ to our family for a _ time. The _ was bought by my grandfather many years ago. Recently it was _ by a visitor. She tried to play _on it! She _ the keys too hard and two of the _ were _. My father was _. Now we are not _ to touch it. It is being _
17、 by a friend of my fathers.Lesson 11 One good turn deserves another 礼尚往来I was _ dinner at a restaurant _ Harry Steele came in. Harry worked in a 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 _office years ago, but he is now _ at a bank. He gets a _ salary, but he always _ money from his friends and never pays it _.
18、 Harry saw me and came and _ at the same table. He has never borrowed money _me. While he was_, I asked him to lend me I _ my question several times and at last he understood. He_ me, but he spoke _ slowly nor _. I am a _, I said. Then he spoke _, but I could not _ him. My teacher never spoke Englis
19、h _ that! The porter and _ looked at each other and _. Then he said _ and I understood it. Youll soon _ English! he said. I _. In England, each man speaks a _ language. The English _ each other, but I dont understand _ ! Do they speak _ ?中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 Lesson26 The best art critics 最佳
20、美术评论家I am an _ student and I paint a lot of _. Many people _ that they understand _ art. They always _ you what a picture is _. Of course, many pictures arc not _ anything. They are just _ patterns. We like them in the _ way that we like pretty _ material. I think that young children _ appreciate mo
21、dern pictures _ than anyone _. They notice _. My sister is only _, but she always tells me _ my pictures are _ or not. She came _ my room yesterday. What are you doing ? she asked. Im _ this picture on the wall, I answered. Its a _ one. Do you like it ? She looked _ it critically for a moment. Its a
22、ll _, she said, but isnt it upside-down ? I looked at it again. She was right! It was!Lesson27 A wet night 雨夜_ in the afternoon, the boys put _ their tent in the middle of a _. As soon as this was _, they _ a meal over an _ fire. They were all _ and the food _ good. After a _ meal, they _ stories an
23、d sang _ by the _ fire. But some time later it _ to rain. The boys felt _ so they _ out the fire and _ into their tent. Their _-bags were warm and _, so they all slept _. In the _ of the night, two boys woke _ and began _. The tent was _ of water! They all _ out of their sleeping-bags and _ _. It wa
24、s raining _ and they _ that a stream had _ in the field. The stream _ its way across the _ and then _ right under their_!Lesson28 No parking 禁止停车Jasper White is one of those _ people who believes _ ancient myths. He has _ bought a new house in the _, but ever _ he moved in, he has had _ with motoris
25、ts. when he returns home at _, he always _ that someone has _ a car outside his _. Because of _, he has not been _ to get his _ car into his garage _ once. Jasper has put _ No Parking _ outside his gate, but _ have not had any _. Now he has put an _ stone _ over the _. It is one of the _ faces I hav
26、e _ seen. I asked him what it was and he told me that it was Medusa, the Gorgon. Jasper _ that she will _ motorists to _. But none of _ has been _ to stone yet!Lesson29 Taxi! 出租汽车！Captain Ben Fawcett has _ an unusual _ and has _ a new service. The taxi is a _ Swiss aeroplane _ a Pilatus Porter. This
27、 _ plane can carry _ passengers. The _ surprising thing about it, however, is that it can _ anywhere: on snow, water, or _ on a _ field. Captain Fawcetts first _ was a doctor who _ from Birmingham to a _ village in the Welsh mountains. Since _, Captain Fawcett has _ passengers to many _ places. Once
28、 he _ on the roof of a _ of flats and on another _, he landed in a 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 _ car park. Captain Fawcett has _ refused a strange _ from a businessman. The man _ to fly to Rockall, a _ island in the Atlantic Ocean, but Captain Fawcett did not _ him because the trip was too _.Lesso
29、n30 Football or polo? 足球还是水球？The Wayle is a small _ that cuts _ the park _ my home. I like sitting by the Wayle on _ afternoons. It was _ last Sunday, so I _ and sat on the river _ as _. Some children were _ games on the bank and there were some people _ on the river. Suddenly, one of the children _
30、 a ball very hard and it went _ a _ boat. Some people on the bank called _ to the man in the boat, but he did not _ them. The ball _ him so _ that he _ fell into the water. I turned _ look at the children, but there werent any in _: they had all run _! The man _ when he realized what _ happened. He
31、_ out to the children and _ the ball _ to the bank. Lesson31 Success story 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 bicyc
32、les 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
33、 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 sons bicycle! Lesson32 Shopping made easy 购物变得很方便People are not so
34、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 w
35、as 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
36、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 !中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 中高考英语专家 江苏福尔教育 lesson33 Out of the darkness 冲出黑暗Nearly a week passed before the girl was able to explain what had happen
37、ed 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. Ear
38、ly 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.Less
39、on34 Quick work 破案“ 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
40、 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, beca
41、use he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Ted was a boy of fifteen !Lesson35 Stop thief! 捉贼！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
42、 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 c
