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一、词汇运用
分数词和数词特殊用法(作业)
A tobacconist (烟草商) left the snowy streets of Chicago for a holiday in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and wanted to m
1 him there the next day. When he reached his hotel and checked in the room that he booked three days a 2 , he decided to send his wife a quick e-mail. But he forgot to keep her e-mail a 3 in his computer. He looked at the keyboard and made an effort to type it in from m 4 . Unluckily, he missed one l 5 and his e-mail was sent instead to an elderly farmer’s wife. Her h 6 had passed away only the day before. When the sad wife t 7 on the computer to check her e-mail, she took one look at the screen, let out a scream, felt so f 8 and fell to the floor in a dead
faint (不省人事). At the sound, her family rushed into the room i
9 and saw this note on the screen: Dearest wife, I’ve just got checked in. E 10 is prepared for your arrival tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing you down here.
二、阅读理解
At noon the rush hour had passed. There were few guests (顾客) in the snack bar. It was not crowded. When the boss was about to take a break to read a newspaper, in came an old lady and a little
boy.
“How much money is a bowl of beef soup?” the grandma sat down, counted the money in her purse and ordered a bowl of beef soup. The grandma pushed the bowl to the little boy, who
swallowed (吞咽) his saliva (口水), looking at his grandma and
saying, “Grandma, did you really have lunch? ” “Of course. ” His grandma chewed (咀嚼) a piece of radish (萝卜泡菜) slowly. Very
quickly, the little boy ate up the meal.
Seeing this the boss went over to them and said, “Old lady, congratulations, you are lucky to have the free food, for you ar e our
100th guest. ”
Afterwards, over a month or more, one day, the small boy squatted (蹲) across the snack bar, where he seemed to be counting
something, which shocked the boss when he happened to look out office window.
When the