P226 (1)

John is a paper boy. He delivers newspapers to different houses in his street every day. He has about 80 customers. Half of his customers only take the newspapers on Sundays.

John has to get up at 4:30 every morning to deliver his newspapers. It takes longer to deliver the newspapers on Sundays. The Sunday newspapers are twice as heavy as those on weekdays.

John is saving his money to buy a new bicycle. He is also saving money for college. He has already saved 500 dollars.

约翰是一个报童。他每天为在他街道里不同的人家发送报纸。他拥有约80个客户。他的半数客户只需要星期日的报纸。

约翰必须在每天早上4:30起床，发送他的报纸。在星期日花费更长的时间去发送。周日出版的报纸是平日的两倍重量。

约翰积攒着钱去买一辆新自行车。他还为上大学攒钱。他已经存了500美元。 P227 (2)

Billy had a nice shop in the main street of a small town. He sold jewellery, watches, clocks and so on. All went well some years, and then a thief stole a lot of jewellery from his shop twice in one month at night. Three weeks passed, yet the police still didn't catch the thief. So Billy decided to try to do something about it himself. He bought a good camera and fixed it up in his shop and put some cheap jewellery in front of it for the thief, so that it could take a photo of anyone who stole the jewellery.

A few nights later the thief came, but he did not touch any of the cheap jewellery that Billy had put out for him. He took the camera, which was worth 1500 dollars.

比利在一个小城镇的主要街道上拥有一家不错的商店。他卖珠宝首饰，手表，钟表等。几年来，一切进展顺利，然而一个小偷在一个月内两次在夜间从他店里偷走了很多珠宝。三个星期过去了，警察仍没抓住小偷。因此，比利决定自己尝试做些事。他买了一台好的照相机并固定在他的店铺里，再在相机前面摆放一些吸引小偷的便宜珠宝，如此这样可以拍下偷珠宝人的照片。

几天后小偷来了，但他没有触及任何比利为小偷摆放的廉价首饰。他只带走了价值1500美元相机。

P228 (3)

An old woman went shopping last Tuesday. She came to a bank and saw a car near the door. A man got out of it and went into the bank. She looked into the car. The keys were still in the lock.

The old woman took the keys and followed the man into the bank.

In the bank, the man took a gun out of his pocket and said to the clerk, “Give me all the money!” but the old woman didn't see this. She went to the man, put the keys in his hand and said, “Young man, you’re foolish!” never leave your keys in your car. Someone’s going to steal it!”

The man looked at the old woman for a few seconds. Then he looked at the clerk-and then he took his keys, ran out of the bank, got into his car and drove away quickly, without any money.

一位老太太上周二去购物。她路过一家银行，看见银行门口附近一辆轿车。一个男子从这车里出来，到银行去了。老太太打量着轿车。车钥匙仍在锁位上。

老妇人取下钥匙，跟着那男子进入银行。 在银行里，该男子从口袋里掏出一把枪，对着店员说，“把所有的钱给我！“但是老太太没有看到这一幕。她走向那男子，把钥匙放到他手中，并说：“年轻人， 你真粗心大意！永远不要把车钥匙遗忘在车里。别人要偷的！“

该名男子看了看老太太几秒钟，又看了看店员，然后他接过车钥匙，没抢到一点儿钱，从银行里跑出去，窜入车里把车开走了。 P229 (4)

Last weekend we went to the countryside to have a picnic. We made some sandwiches to take with us for lunch. We left quite early and there was not too much traffic at that time. After about two hours we came to a nice place. It was a very hot day and the water was very clear. After a swim we had lunch in the cool shade under the trees. Then we went for a walk.

We saw some beautiful birds and butterflies. After walking for about an hour we returned to our car and began to drive home.

We got home very late and we were tired. But we enjoyed ourselves very much. It was one of our most interesting weekend’s outings.

上周末，我们去农村野餐。我们做了一些三明治当午饭。我们很早就出发，那时路上车辆不多。大约两个小时后，我们来到了一个好地方。那天非常炎热，水非常清澈。游泳过后，我们在凉爽的树荫下午餐。然后我们去散步。

我们看到了一些美丽的鸟和蝴蝶。走了约一个小时后，我们回到汽车里，开始驾车回家。

我们很晚才回到家，而且都很累。但是，我们都玩得很开心。这是我们最有趣的周末出游之一。

P230 (5)

One evening Mr. Black is driving in the country and looking for a small hotel. When he sees an old woman on the side of the road, he stops his car and says to the old woman, “I want to go to the Sun Hotel. Do you know where it is?”

“Yes,” the old woman answers, “I will show you the way.” She gets into Mr. Black’s car, and he drivers about twelve miles. When they come to a small house, the old woman says, “Stop here.” Mr. Black stops and looks at the house. “But this isn’t a hotel,” he says to the old woman. “No,” the old woman answers, “This is my house. And I will show you the way to the hotel. Turn around and go back nine miles. Then you’ll see the hotel.”

一天晚上，布莱克先生正驾着车在城里找寻一个小酒店。当他看到在路边的一位老妇人，他停下车，问询那老妇人，“我想去太阳酒店。你知道在哪儿吗？“ “知道，”老妇人回答：“我来给你带路。“她上了布莱克先生的汽车，他行驶了约十二英里。当他们来到一幢小房子前，老妇人说：“停在这里。“布莱克先生停下车看了看房子。他对老妇人说，“但，这不是酒店啊”。

“是的，”老妇人回答说：“这是我家。我会告诉你去酒店的路。调个头往回开九英里。然后你会看到酒店的。“ P232 (6)

Indians always shake their heads when they talk to others. It does not have the same meaning as our “No”. If someone wants to visit India, he should know this, or it will give him some trouble.

One day, a foreign officer went to India on business. He hired a car and an Indian to driver it. When he told his driver to send him to his office, the driver shook his head at once. The officer repeated his order, and the driver shook his head again. At last, the officer, of course, got angry.

“How dare you refuse my order?” he shouted. “Drive me to my office immediately!”

The driver answered in a very loud voice, too. “Yes, sir.”

But to the officer’s surprise, the driver shook his head at the same time.

The car started, and the foreign officer was now too surprised to say a word. He thought about it for a while and then nodded with a smile, “No means Yes here!”

印度人与人说话时总是摇着头。这里没有我们表示“不”的相同含义。如果有人想去印度，他应该知道这一点，不然就会给他带来一些麻烦。