Lesson Five No Wrong Numbers
1. 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. be … from … 从 … 多远
how far … 多远
a. ---How far is your home (from here)? ---My home is ten miles away from here.
b. The bank is about five minutes’ walk away. 到银行大约是走五分钟的路程。
---孟凡真，你家离这里多远？___________________________________________________________________ ---我家离这里大约走…分钟。_________________________________________________________________
2. Yesterday a pigeon carried his first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.
① carry 带着，携带（强调所携带的东西不会着地）
a. I took my sister to the cinema. 我带我妹妹去看电影。
b. I carried my sister on my shoulder/on my back/in my arms to the cinema. 我扛着/背着/抱着我的妹妹去看电影。 ② from … to … 表示从一个地方到另一个地方
a. He flew from Beijing to Moscow. 他从北京坐飞机去莫斯科。
b. He looked at the girl from head to foot. 他把这姑娘从头到脚打量了一下。 这个男人从头到脚把李姝璇打量了一下：“你家里这里多远？”他问道。
______________________________________________________________________________________ c. Can you carry the package to the post office for me please? ③ message 在这里的意思是“信息”、“信”
a. Here is a message for you from your mother.这是你妈妈给你留的便条。
王烁，这是杨潇留给你的便条。_____________________________________________________________ b. John has gone to his office. Would you like to leave him a message? 约翰去办公室了。你愿意给他留个口信吗？
3. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. cover vt. 盖，覆盖；行过（一段距离）；n. 覆盖物，盖子，罩子
a. They have covered 60 miles since yesterday morning. 从今天早晨开始，王梁舟的爸爸已经走了五十公里。
__________________________________________________________________________ b. You can cover the distance to the museum in ten minutes. 你十分钟就可以走到博物馆。 c. Snow covered the whole village. 大雪覆盖了整个村子。 d. Put a cover on the box. 给这个盒子加个罩。
4. Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
① sent 在句中有两个宾语，一个是requests, 另一个是message. From one garage to the other 是整个句子的状语。
② up to now 相当于until/till now, 意思是迄今、到目前为止，一般与现在完成时连用： a. Up to now, he has not been very hard-working. 到目前为止，他一直不是很用功。
b. Up to now, he has collected a good number of stamps. 到目前为止，他已经收集了许多有票。
到目前为止，宋翔宇已经学了五篇课文。___________________________________________________________ ③ request作名词“要求”、“请求”讲时，往往需要补充说明其内容，如课文中requests for spare parts (索取备件的信件)。
其常用短语如下： make a request for sth. request (sb.) to do sth. at one’s request
a. She made a request for help. 她请求帮助。
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b. I request you to consider my suggestion. 我请求你考虑我的建议。 c. He gave a speech at our request. 应我们的请求他发表了演说。 应刘畅的请求，她爸爸背着他去看了电影。那晚上他们走了三十公里。
_______________________________________________________________________________________ d. You are requested not to smoke in the restaurant. e. I requested him to come before ten. 我要求他十点以前来。
④ spare vt. 抽出（时间等），让给；饶恕 a. 多余的，空闲的，备用的
a. Have you got five minutes to spare? 你能抽出五分钟时间吗？ 邱鑫，让我们谈一谈好吗，你能抽出十分钟的时间吗？
__________________________________________________________________ b. You can sleep in the spare bedroom. 你可以睡在那间空着的卧室里。 c. I have no spare time now. 我现在没有空闲时间。
spare parts备用部件 spare tire备用轮胎 spare key备用钥匙 spare money余款 spare time业余时间
d. He spared the slave’s life. 他饶了那个奴隶的命。
⑤ one…, and the other… (限定了两个) One…, another…, and the other …（限定了三个） a. One is watering the flowers, and the other is reading. b. I don’t like this one. Can you show me another? c. I have two friends. One is short, and the other is tall.
My short friend is fat, bald and ugly, but his girlfriend is beautiful. My tall friend is handsome, intelligent and
strong, but his girl-friend is ugly.
Oh, one more thing: my short friend is rich, but my tall friend is poor. 试着把上面这段文章复述出来，这可真是个不小的挑战！
d. He has two computers. One is a desktop, and the other is a laptop. 他有两台电脑。一台台式，一台手提。 e. The CD player has three sound effects. One is pop, another is jazz and the other is rock. 这台CD机有三种音响效果。一种是流行，另外一种是爵士，还有一种是摇滚。
5. In this way, he has begun his own private ‘telephone’ service.
① in this way 这样的话 in the/one’s way 妨碍某人
in the way 按照，以…方式 on the/one’s way to 在去…的途中 by the way 顺便提一下 in a way 从某种意义上来说 a. Get out, you’re in my way! 滚开，你挡着我的路了！
Get out of my way, buddy! 让开,老兄!
b. Dan must take a day off tomorrow. He has to take care of his sick mother. He ought to talk to his boss, but
he's afraid. His boss might get angry with him. What should Dan do? He can take the work home. This way, he can kill two birds with one stone.
想会说英语必须先听别人说英语。仿照英语文章改写是一个事半功倍的好办法，当年我就是这样一路走来，老外都夸我的英
语地道, 真令我自豪不已！试着翻译：
明天程祥不得不请一天假。她必须照顾他生病的母亲。她应该…
____________________________________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________________________________ c. I met Mary on my way to school. 我在去学校的路上遇到了玛丽。
怎么样，编写小故事过瘾吧？你能用正确的英语来大段大段地描述，这本身就是一个极大的进步！我们有理由为自己鼓
掌喝彩！下面再来让李姝璇恼羞成怒一次：
我在去电影院的路上遇到了李姝璇。在电影院里她坐在我的前面。她带着一顶大帽子。“不好意思，”我说，“我看不到电影了；请你把帽子摘掉好吗？”她…
_______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ d. By the way, have you met Bill before? 顺便问一下，你以前见过比尔吗？ e. I fly the kite in the way you showed me.
② 本文中service 的意思是“业务”、 “公用事业”等。这类用法举例：
the mail service（邮政业务）；the passenger service (客运业务); the pick-up and delivery service (上门取送业
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务); the telephone service(电话业务)；a news service(通讯社)。可见，service既可以指公用事业的业务，也可以指办这些业务的机构。课文中的“‘telephone’service”实际上是个大词，有一种幽默感。
Grammar in use
一般过去时与现在完成时
在表示过去某个特定时间发生地事情或动作时，要用一般过去时：
Yesterday a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhursst to Silbury.
在表示刚刚或者已经完成一个动作并且对现在有影响时，则要用现在完成时，时间状语可以是不特指的now, just, 或者是for引导的一段时间，或者不加任何时间状语。 a. He has written a book. 他写了一本书。
b. The noise has just stopped. 那声音刚停。（现在没有了）
The noise stopped a minute ago. 那声音是一分钟以前停的。（停的具体时间） c. ---Have you ever read a Russian novel? 你读过俄国小说吗？ ---Yes, I read one two years ago. 我两年前读过。
在一段文章中可以同时出现一般现在时、一般过去时和现在完成时。因此，要根据具体情况灵活运用这些时态，体会它们之间的区别：
I have a brother, Tom. He is an engineer. He has been abroad for three years now. Several days ago, I received a letter from him.
我有一个弟弟，名叫汤姆。 他是位工程师。他出国已经三年了。几天前我收到了一封他的来信。
我有两个朋友，一个是女孩，名叫孟凡真。 她是位…。她出国已经…年了。几天前我收到了一封她的电子信件。另一个是个男孩，名叫杨潇。他… （发挥你的想象力编吧）
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I. The single past or the present perfect?
There is something wrong with these sentences. The tenses underlined are wrong. Rewrite them correctly. 1. He has gone to Silbury yesterday. He went to Silbury yesterday.
2. She was abroad since last January. ___________________________________________________ 3. They have bought a new car last week. _________________________________________________ 4. I didn’t see their car yet. __________________________________________________ 5. I’ve received this letter last month. _____________________________________________________ 6. They were never to China before. _____________________________________________________ 7. She has telephoned me ten minutes ago. _______________________________________________ 8. Did you go to the garage lately? __________________________________________________
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