新概念英语第三册课文填空训练15-Lesson15 Fifty pence worth of trouble

新概念英语第三册Lesson15 Fifty pence worth of trouble Did George get anything for his fifty pence? What?  ________ always appreciate=_________ small gifts of money. Mum or dad, of course, _______ a regular supply of pocket money, ___uncles and ants are always a _______ of extra income. With some children, small sums go a _______ way. If fifty pence pieces are not _________(exchange) for sweets, they rattle for months ______money boxes. Only very thrifty children _______ to fill up a money box. For ______ ___ them, fifty pence is a small price to ______ ___ a nice big bar of chocolate. My nephew, George, has a money box but it is always ________. Very few of the fifty pence pieces and pound coins I have ______ him have found their way there. I ______him fifty pence yesterday and advised him to _____ it. Instead he _______(buy) ___________(he) fifty pence worth of trouble. On his way to the sweet shop, he ________(drop) his fifty pence and it bounced along the pavement and then _______(disappear) down a drain. George_____ ___ his jacket, rolled up his sleeves and pushed his right arm ________ the drain cover. He could not ______ his fifty pence piece anywhere, and what is more, he could not get his arm ____. A crowd of people _________(gather) round him and a lady rubbed his arm ______soap and butter, ___George was ________(firm) stuck. The fire brigade _____ ____(call) and two fire fighter freed George _______(use) a special type of grease. George was not too ______ by his experience because the lady_____ owns the sweet shop heard about his troubles and ________(reward) him with large box of chocolates. The British decimal fifty pence (50p) coin – often informally pronounced fifty pee – is a unit of currency equalling one half of a pound sterling. It is a seven-sided coin formed as an equilateral-curve heptagon, or Reuleaux polygon, a curve of constant width, meaning t