TRAVEL AND HOTELS.
| I want a room with a bath. [ba:T] | . |
| Single or double? ['siNgl] ['dAbl] | ? |
| I want a double room on the first floor. [flO:] | . |
| How long do you expect [iks'pekt] to stay? [stei] | ? |
| Will this room do? | ? |
| How much does it cost a day? | ? |
| How much is it a day? | |
| May I have the key, please? [ki:] | ? |
| Where is the restaurant, please? ['restrON] | ? |
| It's on the ground floor. ['flO:] | . |
| Where is the ladie's room? ['leidiz 'rum] | ? |
| I want to reseve a room. [ri'zq:v] | . |
| I want to have my suit pressed. [sju:t] [prest] | . |
| I want my blouse cleaned, [blauz] | . |
| Two tickets for Glasgow ['tikits] ['gla:sgou], please, first class. | , , . |
| When does the train leave? [trein] [li:v] | ? |
| When does the train arrive there? ['qraiv] | ? |
| Where can I get a time-table? ['taimteibl] | ? |
| Porter, take my luggage, please. ['lAgiG] | , , , . |
| Which us your carriage? | ? |
| Carriage six, seats seven and eight. [si:ts] | 6, 7 8. |
READING
SCIENCE
Time to Pick Tomatoes
A pair of researchers have put radioactivity to work (1) in their study of tomatoes.
Two American scientists recently conducted tests to determine the ideal time to pick (, ) tomatoes.
A tomato is ripe, plant sugar has stopped moving into the fruit. The experiments could determine though their tests just when this movement stopped. The men coated leaves of the plants with a substance made of sugar and radioactive carbon (). The radioactivity of the carbon made it possible for the researchers to trace () sugar movement though the leaf, into the plant and into the fruit.
They discovered that a tomato is at its peak of ripeness and makes the best eating (2) "about six days after the first appearance of color". Tomatoes must be picked then, the men said.
STORY
Darwin and His Young Friends
Two English boys, friends of Darwin, thought one day that they would play a joke on the great naturalist. They caught a butterfly (), a grasshopper (), a beetle () and a centipede () and out of these four insects they made a new bug (). They took the centipede's body, the butterfly's wings, the grasshoppers' legs and the beetle's head, and glued () them all together. Then with their new insect in a box they came to Darwin's door.
"We caught this bug in a field", they said, opening the box they had brought. "Can you tell us what it is. Sir?"
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Darwin looked at the bug and then at the boys. He smiled a little and asked, "Did it hum () when you caught it?"
"Yes", they answered, nudging one another. (3)
"Well then", said Darwin "it is a humbug". (4)
POEM
A Centipede was happy quite
Until a Frog () in fun (5)
Said, "Please, which leg comes after which?"
This raised her mind to such a pitch (6)
She lay distressed in a ditch ()
Considering how to run.
PROVERBS
A friend in need is a friend indeed.
Two heads are better than one.
Two eyes see more than one.
A little more than enough breaks the house's back.
If the blind leads the blind both shall fall into the ditch.
QUOTATIONS
He that (, ) travels far knows much.
John Clarke (England - USA, 1609-1676)
Travelling is one way of lengthening life.
Benjamin Franklin (USA, 1706-1790)
If an ass goes travelling, he will not come home a horse.
Thomas Fuller (England, 1608-1661)
JOKES
Wife, at dinner table, to angry husband: "Monday you liked beans, Tuesday you liked beans, Wednesday you liked beans. Now all of a sudden ( ) on Thursday you don't like beans!"
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A lady car-driver came down the wrong side of a narrow street and ran into () her neighbor's new car. The lady said grudgingly ():
"I'm afraid this was my fault".
"Nonsense ()", said the gentleman with a bow (). "I am sure that the fault is mine. I saw you fully three blocks away (7) and had enough ti-me to turn into a side street".
(1) put to work - (" ")
(2) makes the best eating -
(3) nudging one another -
(4) humbug - , . humbug hum + bug.
(5) in fun -
(6) raised her mind to such pitch - ,
(7) fully three blocks away -
