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Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 无错号之虞 Page 1 of 8 Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 无错无错号号之虞之虞 无无错错号号之虞之虞 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 生词生词和短和短语 语 生生词词和短和短语语 pigeon (1. 4) /pid{in/n. 鸽 request (1. 6) /rikwest/ n. 要 子 求，请求 message (1. 5) /mesid{/ spare part (1. 7) /?spe+-pa:t/ n. 信息 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 课文注课文注释 释 课课文注文注释释 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。 参考参考译译文文 参参考考译译文文 ebook:2\nce02s05.htm 2013-1-11 Lesson 5 No wrong numbers 无错号之虞 Page 2 of 8 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