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 Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in 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 生词和短语
pigeon n. 鸽子
message n. 信息
cover v. 越过
distance n. 距离
request n. 要求，请求
spare part 备件
service n. 业务，服务
Notes on the text 课文注释
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。
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发表于 2022-2-9 21:51:29
