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新概念葵花宝典NO.9 2010/07/27Dictation:Lesson 13 “It’s only me”After her husband had gone to work, Mrs. Richards sent her children to school and went upstairs to her bedroom. She was too excited to do any housework that morning, for in the evening she would be going to a ________________________with her husband. She ________________________a ghost and as she had made her costume the night before, she was impatient to try it on._______________________________________________, it was very effective. After putting it on, Mrs. Richards went downstairs. She wanted to find out whether it would be comfortable to wear.Just as Mrs. Richards was entering the dining-room, _____________________________________________.She knew that it must be the baker. She had told him to ___________________if ever she failed to open the door and to leave the bread on the kitchen table._________________________________, Mrs. Richards quickly hid in the small store-room under the stairs. She heard the front door open and heavy footsteps in the hall. Suddenly the door of the store-room was opened and a man entered. Mrs. Richards realized that it must be the man from the Electricity Board who had come to_______________. She tried to explain the situation, saying Its only me, but it was too late. The man __________________and jumped back several paces. When Mrs. Richards walked towards him, he fled,_______________________________________________.Lesson 15 Fifty pence worth of troubleChildren always__________ small gifts of money. Mum or dad, of course, ___________________________pocket-money, but uncles and aunts are always________________________________________. With some children,_________________________________. If sixpences are not exchanged for sweets, they _______for months inside money-boxes. Only very thrifty children manage to fill up a money-box. For most of them, sixpence is a small price to pay for a satisfying bar of chocolate.My nephew, George, has a money-box but it is always empty.