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1.The author dialed a wrong number one day.

2.The old man's voice was so strange that the author dialed the number again tofind out who he really was.

3.The author showed great concern to the old man because he looked very much like his father.

4.They were good friends, but they had no chance to meet each other. 5.The author felt it a pity to have lost such a good friend.

Exercise 4

Retell the story in your own words with the help of the questions

1.What happened one day when the author made a telephone call? Did he stop dialing when he found the number was wrong? Why?

2. What was the response from the old man, Mr Adolf Meth? What kind of person was he like?

3.Why did the old man call the author almost every day?

4.Did the author just want to show his kindness to the lonely old man? Did the author also need

help and care from the old man? Why?

5.Did they have a chance to meet each other? What happen in the end?

Vocabulary and Structure

Exercise 5

Find in the passage the words which match the definitions 1.the state of being warm _____________________

2.the duty of a person in a particular activity or area of life _____________________ 3.pause before taking an action or making a decision _____________________ 4.of or like a father _____________________ 5.of men _____________________ 6.not tight _____________________ 7.a person who delivers letters _____________________ 8.a person who operates a machine _____________________

9.a lift _____________________ 10.an empty space between two objects _____________________

Exercise 6

Translate fhe expressions intoChinese orEnglish 1.a radio operator _________________________________

____________________________ µç»°½ÓÏßÔ± ____________________________ ¼ÆËã»ú²Ù×÷Ô± a griding machine operator _________________________________ 2.a gap in the fence _________________________________

____________________________ ËûÃÇ˼ÏëÖ®¼äµÄ²î¾à bridge the cultural gaps of East and West _________________________________ narrow the generation gap _________________________________ 3. hesitate about a matter _________________________________ hesitate at nothing _________________________________ hesitate to tell the truth _________________________________

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Exercise 7

Fill in the blanks with the given worlds. Change the form where necessary. gap loose warmth hesitate disaster role pound curious operator disagreement