NCE-III 第2课 -请大家指正

Lesson 2: Thirteen equals one

Listen to the tape then answer the question below.

Was the vicar pleased that the clock was striking? Why?

Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.

One night, however, our vicar woke up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o'clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.

'Whatever are you doing up here Bill?' asked the vicar in surprise.

'I'm trying to repair the bell,' answered Bill. 'I've been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.'

'You certainly did give me a surprise!' said the vicar. 'You've probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I'm glad the bell is working again.'

That's the trouble, vicar,' answered Bill. 'It's working all right, but I'm afraid that at one o'clock it will strike thirteen times and there's nothing I can do about it."

We'll get used to that, Bill,' said the vicar. "Thirteen is not as good as one, but it's better than nothing. Now let's go downstairs and have a cup of tea.'

非常欢迎大家给我提意见，自己不满意，可不知道问题存在在哪里？ 现在对小千姐姐佩服的是五体投地，现在才明白，二姐，BILLNET说的精读意味着什么。

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• Nice job! -念亲- ♀ (121 bytes) () 12/06/2009 postreply 23:25:15

• 谢谢！山东人对不知道年龄的女性叫姐，是尊称，有点落伍的说。 -blueswan- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 20:49:50

• 天鹅姐,不落伍,俺不是山东人但是也这么叫滴.:) -振一- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 22:07:13

• Stunned with your improvement in reading -billnet- ♂ (46 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 04:50:30

• 回复：Stunned with your improvement in reading -billnet- ♂ (22 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 04:52:26

• 千姐水平的一半就满足了。欢迎提意见！ -blueswan- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 20:51:57

• 嘎嘎~这白捡的便宜我可得占~~ -小千...千与千寻- ♀ (13 bytes) () 12/08/2009 postreply 04:45:25

• 谢谢鼓励。二姐是学对了，但自己的水平还差远了。 -blueswan- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 20:50:57

• 天鹅姐进步不小啊 -振一- ♂ (343 bytes) () 12/07/2009 postreply 22:02:58

• 振老弟，我在第三课里给你写了。谢谢，谢谢！ -blueswan- ♀ (92 bytes) () 12/09/2009 postreply 22:50:41

• 惭愧~惭愧~~才点击进来看...才知道大家前几天在这儿说什么呢 -小千...千与千寻- ♀ (257 bytes) () 12/09/2009 postreply 18:26:15

• 妹妹太谦虚了，你的英语称为大姐大是没有问题的：） -blueswan- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/09/2009 postreply 22:52:17