S2 - Lesson 5 - No wrong numbers

Words

 pigeon

dove

 

message 

urgent messages

short messages

 

distance

n.     adj.

distance, distant

difference, different

importance, important

confidence, confident

convenience, convenient.

 

request

send request.

 refuse request

 

spare part

spare time

a spare room

I cannot spare the time. [节省]

He spared the slave's live. [饶恕]

 

 

 

 

 

Content

 No wrong numbers

Mr. James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst. Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury, but Mr. Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage, so he has just bought twelve pigeons. 
Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury. The bird covered the distance in three minutes. 

Up to now, Mr. Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other. In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.

 

 

 

  

I love you.

Always have, always will.

= I always have loved you, and I always will love you.

= Forever

 

Snow covered the ground

We covered five miles on foot yesterday.

The bird covered five miles in three minutes.

The book covered 10 chapters.

I laughed to cover my nervousness.

Cover me! I'm going in.