Unit 2
Lesson 25
I arrived at a railway station in London and asked a porter the way to my hotel,but he couldn’t understand me. He understood me at last but I couldn’t understand his answer. My teacher never spoke English like that. The porter said I shall learn English soon.. Each person speaks a different language in England. They understand each other but I don’t understand them.
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Lesson 26
The  writer studies art and paints a lot of pictures. Many people don’t really understand modern art. Paintings don’t always have a meaning. They are something pretty patterns. Young children not only appreciate modern paintings better than others,but noticed more also. The writer’s young sister went into his room yesterday and examined his new picture. He had hung it upside down and she noticed this immediately.
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Lesson 27
The boys put up their tent in the middle of a flied and cooked over an open fire. They told stories and sang songs after their meal but it began to rain so they crept into their tent. The boys woke up in the middle of the night. The tent was full of water so they rushed outside. A stream had formed in the field and flowed right under their tent.
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Lesson 28
Jasper White believes in ancient myths. Car owners always park their cars outside his gate so he has put up ‘No Parking’ signs but they haven’t paid any attention to them. He has put an ugly stone head over the gate. It is Medusa’s head. He wants her to turn cars and their owners to stone but she hasn’t done so yet.
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Lesson 29
Captain Ben Fawcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and uses it as a taxi. It is called a ‘Pilatus Porter’ . It can not only carry seven passengers, but can land anywhere also. Captain Fawcett has taken passengers to many strange places. He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall. The journey was too dangerous.
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Lesson 30
    The writer sat by the river last Sunday. Some children were playing games nearby. One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a passing boat. The man in the boat neither saw the
ball nor heard people shouting. The ball hit the man and the children all ran away. However, the man wasn’t angry and threw the ball back to the bank.
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Lesson 31
Frank Hawkins was telling me about his experiences as a young man. Frank used to work in a small shop as a boy. He used to repair bicycles there. He bought his own shop in 1958 and made spare parts for aeroplanes in his twenties. He employed a lot of people in a few years. His wife came into the room after a while. She wanted him to repair their grandson’s bicycle.
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Lesson 32
A detective watched a well-dressed woman in a large store one Monday. She bought a few small articles and then chose an expensive dress. The assistant wrapped it up for her and the woman took it with her. She didn’t pay for it so the detective arrested her. The shop assistant was her daughter. She gave her mother a free dress once a week.
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Lesson 33
The girl set out from the coast one afternoon and was caught in a storm. Her boat struck a rock so she jumped into the sea. She swam eight miles that night. She reached the shore early next morning. She had seen a light ahead high up on the cliffs and she climbed up. She found herself in hospital a day later.

Lesson 34
Dan Robinson was worried. He had received a letter from the local police. He went to the station yesterday. He isn’t worried anymore. The police had found his bicycle. Dan was not only surprised, but amused as well. His bicycle was stolen twenty years ago. He was a boy of fifteen then.
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Lesson 35
Roy is finding his new job as a bus driver exciting. He saw two thieves in Catford Street recently. They were running out of a shop and Roy drove his bus straight at the thieves, so they dropped the stolen money and got into a car.Roy drove his bus into the back of it. He telephoned the police after this. Both men were arrested later.
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Lesson 36
Debbie Hart is going to swim across the English Channel tomorrow. She is eleven years old and is a strong swimmer. Debbie has been trained by her father. He will follow her in a small boat. Debbie’s mother will be waiting on the English coast. She swam the Channel as a girl.
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Lesson 37
The Olympic Games will be held in our country in four years’ time so the government will be putting up new buildings. Kurt Gunter has designed the buildings and workers will have completed the new stadium by the end of next year. The Games will be held in this country for the first time and we are looking forward to them.
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Lesson 38
The writer’s friend,Harrison, had spent many years in the Mediterranean but he wanted to retire in England so he bought a house. The summer that year was very bad and he complained about the weather. Harrison not only sold the house in the end , but also left the country.
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Lesson 39
Dr.Millington refused to tell his patient ,John Gilbert whether his operation had been successful. The patient telephoned Dr.Millington next day and he inquired about a certain patient,a Mr.John Gilbert.The doctor answered a number of questions about the patients and asked whether the caller was a relative then. The caller then told him who he was.
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Lesson 40
The writer sat next to Mrs. Rumbold at the dinner party. He tried to make conversation but she was busy eating. He talked about the new play at ‘The Globe’and the holidays.She answered his questions briefly. Then he asked if she was enjoying her dinner and she answered,‘If you ate more and talked less,we would both enjoy our dinner.’
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Lesson 41
The wirter’s wife was trying on a hat and he didn’t like it. He sat down and waited for her.Then they began arguing again.He had bought a terrible tie the day before but his wife didn’t like it. He said,‘A man can never have too many ties.’ His wife used exactly the same argument and she bought the hat. It looked like a lighthouse.
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Lesson 42
We watched a snake charmer in a square in Old Delhi. He had a long pipe and two large baskets. He played a tune and the snake in one of the baskets rose to follow the movements of the pipe. Then the snake charmer played modern tunes but the snake continued to dance slowly. It didn’t know the difference between Indian music and jazz.
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Lesson 43
In 1929,the American explorer ,R.E.Byrd became the first man to fly over the South Pole. He took a lot of photographs during the flight but then ran into difficulties. His plane couldn’t get over the mountains so he orded his men to throw out two heavy food sacks. The plane then flew over the mountains and continued without further trouble.
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Lesson 44
Two men tried to steal Mrs.Sterling’s handbag. She was having a picnic at the time. They took the bag after a struggle and ran through the trees. She ran after them and caught up with them. The men had sat down and were going through the contents of the bag. Mrs.Sterling ran straight at them so they dropped the bag and ran away.
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Lesson 45
The local buther,Sam Benton,was taking his savings to the post office but he lost his wallet. Sam not only received half his money three months later,but received a note as well.The note said:‘A thief,yes,but only 50 per cent a thief!’ The thief included a note every time he sent Sam more money. The last note said: ‘I am 100 per cent honest now!’
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Lesson 46
The plane from London arrived at Sydney airport and workers unloaded a number of wooden boxes. They contained clothing. One of the boxes was extremely heavy so a worker opened it. He found a man on top of a pile of woolen goods. The man was arrested. He had travelled in the box from London. He had to pay 3,500 pounds. An ordinary tickets costs 2,000 pounds.
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Lesson 47
Mr. Ian Thompson bought a public house recently but it is haunted,so he is going to sale it. There was a strange noise in the bar one night and the room was in disorder next morning. Mr. Thompson found five empty whisky bottles. He doesn’t believe that some villagers broke into the bar and had a drink. Anybody in the village doesn’t want to the pub.
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Lesson 48
The dentist in the story had pulled out one of the writer’s teeth and had told him to rest for a while. He asked several questions but the writer couldn’t answer them. His mouth was full of cotton wool. He suddenly discovered something wrong but he couldn’t say anything. The dentist eventually removed the cotton wool from his mouth and the writer told him he had pulled out the wrong tooth.
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