求新概念英语2 课文29.34.37.40.45篇我要课文

求新概念英语2 课文29.34.37.40.45篇我要课文
求新概念英语2 课文29.34.37.40.45篇
我要课文

求新概念英语2 课文29.34.37.40.45篇我要课文
Lesson 29 Taxi!
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought an unusual taxi and has begun a new service.The 'taxi' is a small Swiss aeroplane called a 'Pilatus Porter'.This wonderful plane can carry seven passengers.The most surprising thing about it,however,is that it can land anywhere:on snow,water,or even on a ploughed field.Captain Fawcett's first passenger was a doctor who flew from Birmingham to a lonely village in the Welsh mountains.Since then,Captain Fawcett has flown passengers to many unusual places.Once he landed on the roof of a block of flats and on another occasion,he landed in a deserted car park.Captain Fawcett has just refused a strange request from a businessman.The man wanted to fly to Rockall,a lonely island in the Atlantic Ocean,but Captain Fawcett did not take him because the trip was too dangerous.
Lesson 34 Quick work ,
Dan Robinson has been worried all week.Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police.In the letter he was asked to call at the station.Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police,but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried anymore.At the station,he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found.Five days ago,the policeman told him,the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away.It is now being sent to his home by train.Dan was most surprised when he heard the news.He was amused too,because he never expected the bicycle to be found.It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
Lesson 37 The Olympic Games
The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years' time.As a great many people will be visiting the country,the government will be building new hotels,an immense stadium,and a new Olympic-standard swimming pool.They will also be building new roads and a special railway line.The Games will be held just outside the capital and the whole area will be called 'Olympic City'.Workers will have completed the new roads by the end of this year.By the end of next year,they will have finished work on the new stadium.The fantastic modern buildings have been designed by Kurt Gunter.Everybody will be watching anxiously as the new buildings go up.We are all very excited and are looking forward to the Olympic Games because they have never been held before in this country.
Lesson 40 Food and talk
Last week at a dinner party,the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs.Rumbold.Mrs.Rumbold was a large,unsmiling lady in a tight black dress.She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her.Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time,she was busy eating.I tried to make conversation.
'A new play is coming to "The Globe" soon,' I said.'Will you be seeing it?'
'No,' she answered.
'Will you be spending your holidays abroad this year?' I asked.
'No,' she answered.
'Will you be staying in England?' I asked.
'No,' she answered.
In despair,I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
'Young man,' she answered,'if you ate more and talked less,we would both enjoy our dinner!"
Lesson 45 A clear conscience
The whole village soon learnt that a large sum of money had been lost.Sam Benton,the local butcher,had lost his wallet while taking his savings to the post office.Sam was sure that the wallet must have been found by one of the villagers,but it was not returned to him.Three months passed,and then one morning,Sam found his wallet outside his front door.It had been wrapped up in newspaper and it contained half the money he had lost,together with a note which said:'A thief,yes,but only 50 per cent a thief!' Two months later,some more money was sent to Sam with another note:'Only 25 per cent a thief now!' In time,all Sam's money was paid back in this way.The last note said:'I am 100 per cent honest now!