新概念英語第二冊
Lesson 5 No wrong numbers
1 . but Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons.但詹姆斯。斯科特先生未能為他新的汽車修理部搞到一部電話機，所以他買了只鴿子。
2 . In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.就這樣，他開始自己的私人「電話」業務。
3 . Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.昨天，一隻鴿子把第一封信從平赫特帶到錫爾伯裡。
4 . The bird covered the distance in three minutes.這隻鳥只用了3分鐘就飛完了全程。
5 . Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.詹姆斯。斯科特先生在錫爾伯裡有一個汽車修理部，現在他剛在平赫斯特買了另一個汽車修理部。
6 . Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.到目前為止，斯科特先生從一個汽車修理部向另一個發送了大量索取備件的信件和其他緊急函件。
7 . Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury,平赫特離錫爾伯裡只有5英里，