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Lesson 5 No wrong numbers How do you send messages to others？ write to her/him B.call her/him C.E-mail her/him D.chat with her/him by surfing the internet E.put a piece of paper with your name and address into a bottle, and then throw it into the sea F.Buy some pigeons and use them to send letters 在古代，飞鸽传书，和鸿雁传书、青鸟传书一样，是古人之间联系的一种方法。信鸽在长途飞行中不会迷路，源于它所特有的一种功能，即可以通过感受磁力与纬度来辨别方向。 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. 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,他开始自己的私人“电话” 业务. 【New words and expressions】生词和短语 ★pigeon[p?d??n] n.鸽子 dove of peace 和平鸽 Its not my pigeon.＝None of my business.不关我的事。 ★message[mes?d?] n. （口头或书面的）信息 Here is a message for you from your sister. leave sb. a message 给……留便条 Ill leave you a message. take a message for sb. 替某人捎口信 Can you take a message for me? take a message to sb. 给某人口信 I’ll take a message to you. ★cover[k?v?] v. 越过；覆盖 ① vt. 盖，覆盖 Snow covered the whole village. ② vt.行过（一段距离），走过（通常不用被动语态） cover+距离：越过 You can cover the distance to the museum in ten minutes. ③ n. 覆盖物，盖子，罩子，套子 Put a cover on the box! ★distance[d?st(?)ns] n. 距离 keep distance 保持距离 distant adj.远距离的 importance n. 重要 important adj. 重要的 difference n. 不同 different adj. 不同的 ★request n. 要求, 请求 ① n. 要求, 请求 request for 对……有请求, 有需求 I have a request for the cake. He granted my r