Lesson 34
Quick work
破案“神速”

【New words and expressions】 生词和短语

★station n. （警察）局
post office
police office
bureau

★most adv. 相当，非常
most前面只有加the的时候表示“最”，其它都表示“非常”

First listen and then answer the question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
How long had the police taken to find his bicycle?

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!

参考译文

丹.鲁宾逊焦虑了整整一个星期。上星期二他收到当地警察局的一封信，要他到警察局去一趟。丹奇怪警察为什么找他，但昨天还是去了，结果他一再担心了。在警察局里，一位面带笑容的警察告诉他，他的自行车找到了。那位警察对他说，那辆自行车是5天前在400英里外的一个小村里发现的，现在正用火车给他运回家来。丹听到这个消息后，惊奇万分，但又感到非常好笑，因为他从未指望那辆自行车还能找到。这是20年前丹还是一个15岁的孩子时被人偷走的！

【课文讲解】

have a quick meal 动作快
fast 速度快 I walk fast
soon 时间快 I will go there soon
quick freeze 速冻
local police：当地警察局
local color：地方色彩
local people：当地人 native
local call：市话
call at（some place）
call on sb.
ask sb. to do sth.

ask/tell/expect/want/allow/request sb.to do sth.
He was ordered to do sth
He was told that...
Someone told him that...
five miles away这一类结构可以直接作定语，放在被修饰词后面
I live in the house five miles away。

【Letter writing】

pics：pictures
secs：seconds

【Key structures】

【Multiple choice questions】

1...d...

8...b...
loacal:当地的；native:自己在这里（祖祖辈辈都在）
topical:热门话题（时间）
neighbourly:邻居的

【Special difficulites】

1...
call on:拜访
call (sb.)up：给某人打电话
一旦一个词可以省略居然意思不该，这个词可能是副词
如果宾语是代词，后面的词组有动词＋副词构成，代词一定会放在中间
call you up/call on you

2......
go to the pictures:去看电影
call off：取消

3...
call out：大声喊

4......
call at+地点：去了某地