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Section Ⅲ Developing ideas
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Misadventures① in English
Last week,our forum asked if you had any funny or strange stories about using English【1】.We didn’t expect② to get so many posts! Here are some of our favourites③,to remind④ us that some of the English we learn in the classroom is rather different from the English in the outside world!
【1】此处为if引导的宾语从句,if意为“是否”。
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Yancy
People say that the British always play safe⑦ with what they eat.Not true! I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie.One day,a different teacher took our class.He told us that Maggie couldn’t teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat⑧.Poor⑨ Maggie—but why did she try to eat such a big frog?
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Sophie
When I first visited New York,I went to a downtown shopping centre to buy some winter boots⑩.At the information desk at the entrance,I asked a lady where the shoe section⑪ was.She said that it was on the first floor.So I went up to the first floor,but couldn’t find any shoes.I decided to leave.When I was looking for the exit,I saw that shoes were actually⑫ sold downstairs on the ground floor,not the first floor.Why did she give me the wrong information?X-(
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Julien
I’ve got an English penfriend,who I finally got to meet in London this summer.He had told me that his grandfather was “really wicked⑬”.But when I met his grandfather,I liked him a lot.I found it very odd.Why did my friend use a negative⑭ word about such a nice man?
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Zheng Xu
The British must have really high standards⑮.I was part of a student exchange⑯ programme between a university in England and my university in China.I spent days preparing and writing my first English paper⑰【2】.I knew I had done a good job and was looking forward to⑱ getting a positive comment.When I got the paper back,I found my teacher had written the comment “Not bad !” Not bad? But there weren’t any errors in my paper.∶-(
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【2】该句使用了spend...