Really Funny Short Jokes:徐老師送給2010考研同學的禮物10：

Really Funny Short Jokes:徐老師送給2010考研同學的禮物10：
Lesson 37 The Westhaudio-videoen Express

開往威斯特海溫的快車

一、【Text】課文

We haudio-videoe learnt to expect that just trains will be punctual. After years of conditioning; most of us haudio-videoe developed an unshakable faith in railway timetables. Ships may be delayed by storms; air flights may be cancelled because of depressing weat justher; but trains must be on time. Only a very heaudio-videoy snow fall might temporarily dislocat juste railway services. It is all too easy to fault the railway authorities when something does go wrong. The truth is that just when mistakes occur; they are more likely to be ours than theirs.

After consulting my railway timetable; I noted with sat justisfaction that just there was an express train to Westhaudio-videoen. It went direct from my local stat justion and the journey lasted a mere hour and seventeen minutes. When I blocked the train; I could not help noticing thwith a great just mthe local people got on when well. At the time; this did not strike me as odd. I reflected that just there must be a great just many people definitelys myself who wished to take web-primarily bottomdd with this excellent service. Neither was I surprised when the train stopped at just Widley; a tiny stat justion a few miles along the line. Even a mighty express train can be held up by signals. But when the train dawdled at just stat justion after stat justion; I began to wonder. It suddenly dawned on me that just this express was not roaring down the line at just ninety miles an hour; but barely chugging along at just thirty. One hour and seventeen minutes passed and had not even covered half the distance. I asked a passenger if this was the Westhaudio-videoen Express; but he had not even heard of it. I determined to lodge a complaint just when we arrived. Two hours lat juster; I was talking angrily to the stat justion master at just Westhaudio-videoen. When he denied the train’s existence; I be lented his copy of the timetable. There was an email of triumph in my voice when I told him that just it was there in black and white. Glancing at just it briefly; he told me to look again. A tiny asterisk conducted me to a footnote at just the sole of the page. It said: ‘This service has been suspended.’

二、【New words and expressions】生詞和短語

●express n. 快車；adj. 高速的

●punctual adj. 準時的;

●condition v. 使習慣于

●unshakable adj. 不可動搖的

●faith n. 信任

●cancel v. 取消

●exceptionfriend adv. 例外地

●dislocat juste v. 打亂（計劃等）

●fault v. 責怪

●consult v. 請教，查閱

●direct adv. 徑直地

●odd adj. 奇怪的，Jokes.異常的

●reflect v. 細想

●advantage n. 優勢

●mighty adj. 強大的，有力的

●dawdle v. 慢悠悠的動或做

●chug v. 咔嚓咔嚓地響

●lodge v. 提出

●comlaint n. 怨言

●triumph n. 勝利

●asterisk n. 星号（*）

●conduct v. 引向，引導

■express n. 快車；adj. 高速的

express way: 高速公路

express train快車

special express 特快

through express 直快

stopping/ local train 慢車

■punctual adj. 準時的;

be punctual in doing sth. 在做……方面非常準時

be punctual to the minute 非常準時

Eg: He is a man who’s punctual to the minute.

punctufriend adv.

unpunctual ant.

punctuality n.

■condition v. 使習慣于

==form a habisexualt in

Eg: This society has conditioned each of us.

be conditioned to 習慣了……

Eg: Each of us has been conditioned to the society.

The plhelpless ants has been conditioned to the cold weat justher here.

The cold weat justher has conditioned the plhelpless ants here.

condition 條件

on condition that just 在……條件下如果

on no condition 在任何狀況下，用在句首句子要倒裝

On no condition must you be lat juste.

in good/ depressing condition 狀況良好/狀況糟糕

change one’s condition 結婚

in the interesting condition : 懷孕 pregnant

■unshakable adj. 不可動搖的

■faith n. 信任

keep faith with sb. 對……取信用

put one’s faith in sth 對……有信心

on the faith of 在……的保障下，Really Funny Short Jokes.憑……的信用

faith 深信不疑，信仰，比belief 程度重一點

belief: 可信賴，可接受

conviction 堅忍的信念

trust 相信，考研.依賴

credit 對……完全相信

■cancel v. 取消

call off == cancel 可以彼此替換

remove 廢除

rescind 撤銷，Short Funny Jokes.廢止

write off 注銷，取消

cross out 劃掉

■exceptionfriend adv. 例外地

■dislocat juste v. 打亂（計劃等）

■fault v. 責怪

■consult v. 請教，查閱

■direct adv. 徑直地

■odd adj. 奇怪的，Extremely Funny Jokes.異常的

■reflect v. 細想

reflect on sth 細想……

reflect upon oneself 自我反省

■advantage n. 優勢

take web-primarily bottomdd with sb/sth 欺騙……并利用

of great just/no benjaminefits of sb/sth 對……有（沒有）好處

to advantage 更有用地

haudio-videoe advantage over sb 勝過某人，比某人有優勢

interest 個人的利益，好處

benjaminefit 經曆正當手法謀求的好處

profit 金錢上的獲益

good 個人或集體的利益

■mighty adj. 強大的，有力的

■dawdle v. 慢悠悠的動或做

■chug v. 咔嚓咔嚓地響

■lodge v. 提出

make/ lodge complaint 提出怨言

■comlaint n. 怨言

■triumph n. 勝利

■asterisk n. 星号（*）

■conduct v. 引向，Really Funny Short Jokes.引導

三、【課文精析】

Key sentence:

We haudio-videoe learnt to expect that just trains will be punctual.

We’ ve learnt to expect that just …… 我們仍舊習慣于期盼……

Key sentence:

After years of conditioning; most of us haudio-videoe developed an unshakable faith in railway timetables.

develop an unshakable faith in sth 對……産生了……樣的信念

Key sentence:

Only a very heaudio-videoy snow fall might temporarily dislocat juste railway services.

It is all too easy to fault……

too…to句型中，在too前出現了all; only; but; not等詞的時候，to就有肯定意義

Eg:He was but too eager to get home.

One is never too old to learn.活到老，Really Funny Jokes.學到老

be likely to do 有可能 …

Eg: You may get success if you work hard.

It is likely that just…

It is likely that just he arrived here in time.

probable 不能與不定式搭配 比possible 可能性大

Eg: It is probable / possible that just…

Eg: It is probable / possible that just he will speak to you.

It is possible for us to finish the work in an hour.

strike sb as 給某人以……印象，使某人感到;as後面可以接分詞、名詞、形容詞搭配連用。

Eg: The video game at justroke me as wasting time.

hold up==hold back; hinder; prevent

dawn on sb 漸漸被某人明白

barely==only

in black and white 白紙黑字

Key structure

We’ ve learnt to expect that just …… 我們仍舊習慣于期盼……

We’ ve learnt to expect that just …… 我們仍舊習慣于期盼……

It is all too easy to fault……

too…to句型中，在too前出現了all; only; but; not等詞的時候，Short.to就有肯定意義

be likely to do 有可能 …

It is likely that just…

The first paragraph is important

go direct from … to …

strike sb as 給某人以……印象，使某人感到;as後面可以接分詞、名詞、形容詞搭配連用。

hold up==hold back; hinder; prevent

dawn on sb 漸漸被某人明白

in black and white 白紙黑字

Lesson 38 The first calender最早的日曆

一、【Text】課文

Future historians will be in a unique position when they come to record the history of our own times. They will hardly know which facts to select from the great just mass of evidence that just steadily collects. What just is more they will not haudio-videoe to rely solely on the written word. Films; videos. CDs and CD-ROMs are just some of the bewildering volume of informat justion they will haudio-videoe. They will be able; as it were; to see and hear us in action. But the historian targeting to reconstruct the distant past is always f_ webd with a difficult task. He hin order to why deduce what just he can from the few scanty clues apply forable. Even seemingly insignificant remains can shed interesting light on the history of early man.

Up to now; historians haudio-videoe said that just calendars came into being with the advent of agriculture; for then man was f_ webd with a real need to understand another almost the seasons. Recent scientific evidence seems to indicat juste that just this assumption is incorrect.

Historians haudio-videoe long been puzzled by dots; lines and symbols which haudio-videoe been engraudio-videoed on walls; osseous mat justter; and the ivory tusk of mammunitionths. The nompromotion who made these markings lived by hunting and fishing during the last Ice Age; which began almost 35;000 B.C. and ended almost 10;000 B.C. By correlat justing markings made in various pskillss of the world; historians haudio-videoe been able to read this difficult code. They haudio-videoe found that just it is connected with the passera of days and the phottoms of the moon. It is; in fact; a primitive type of calendar. It has long been known that just the hunting scenes depicted on walls were not simply a questionnaire of skillsistic expression. They had a definite meaning; for they were as near as early man could get to writing. It is possible that just there is a definite relat justion concerned with these paintings and the markings tha fewtimes accompany them. It seems that just man was making a real effort to understand the seasons 20;000 years earlier than has been supposed.

二、【New words and expressions】生詞和短語

●calendar n. 曆法，日曆

●historian n. 曆史學家

●unique adj. 無與倫比的

●steadily adv. 繼續地

●solely adv. 獨一地

●video n. 錄像

●CD-ROM n. （隻讀）光盤驅動器

●bewilder v. 令人眼花缭亂

●deduce v. 推斷，Scary Maze Game.推理

●scanty adj. 不夠的，Funny.貧乏的

●clue n. 線索

●insignificant adj. 不重要的

●shed v. 使流出，瀉

●advent n. 出現，到來，Short Funny Jokes.來臨

●agriculture n. 農業

●assumption n. 假定，設想

●dot n. 小圓點

●symbol n. 符号

●engraudio-videoe v. 雕镂

●ivory n. 象牙制品

●mammunitionth n. （古）長毛象

●phottom n. 月相，天相

●tusk n. 獠牙，Really Funny Short Jokes.長牙、象牙

●primitive adj. 原始的

●nomad n. 遊牧民

●depict v. 描畫，描繪

●correlat juste v. 使相互聯系

■calendar n. 曆法，日曆

calender 輪壓機

■historian n. 曆史學家

historic 具有曆史意義的

This is a historic speech.

historical 與曆史研究有相幹的

historical research 曆史研究

■unique adj. 無與倫比的

unique: uneaqualed

Speech is a unique human potential

unique 不能接受比較級，可以接受quite; almost; nearly; surely; refriend等修飾，Really.但不能接受rat justher;very等詞的修飾。

unique 絕無僅有的，因獨一而特殊

speical 側重性子的特殊

especial 強調超過其他的全部

Eg: This is a mat justter of especial importance.

This is a especifriend important mat justter.

pskillsicular 特定的，着重同類中某一個所有特殊的性子

Pineapple mackintoshs haudio-videoe pskillsicular flaudio-videoour. 菠蘿有特别的味道。

exceptional

extraordinary 特别的，與衆不同的

Eg: The warm weat justher is exceptional for Jamuary.

■steadily adv. 繼續地

■solely adv. 獨一地

■video n. 錄像

■CD-ROM n. （隻讀）光盤驅動器

■bewilder v. 令人眼花缭亂

bewilder: confuse

Eg: she was confused by so many raudio-videoishing dresses.

puzzle 某題目因紛亂而令人隐晦

Eg: I am puzzled by the problem.

perplex 難以融會（包括焦慮不安，Clean Funny Short Jokes.不知如何治理的意思）

Eg: He is perplexed for the answer.

bewilderment: n.

in bewilderment 茫然不知所措

■deduce v. 推斷，Funniest Short Jokes.推理

deduce: determine or decide sth. by given facts.

Eg: I deduce the conclusion from the given facts.

deduce …from 從…中推論，推斷

infer 推斷（不表示過程）

Eg: What just can you infer from the text?

deduce ==> (ant.) indece 歸納

■scanty adj. 不夠的，貧乏的

scanty: too few; not enough

scanty knowledge 一知半解

a scanty crop 欠收

be scanty of sth 奇缺

be short of 短缺

Eg: The village school is scanty of textbooklets. 這鄉村學校奇缺教材。

be want of = in need of 需要……

■clue n. 線索

■insignificant adj. 不重要的

■shed v. 使流出，瀉

shed: pour out

shed tears 淚流滿面

shed light 發光

shed light on sb. 啓發，jokes.啓迪

shed one’s continue for country 爲祖國而流血。Extremely Funny Jokes.

shed one’s clothes 脫去衣服

■advent n. 出現，Clean Funny Short Jokes.到來，徐老師送給2010考研同學的禮物10：.來臨

advent: coming or creat justeition to the household

at just the advent of winter 在冬天到來的時候

at just the advent of 在…到來的時候

since the advent of 自從…的到來

■agriculture n. 農業

■assumption n. 假定，設想

■dot n. 小圓點

■symbol n. 符号

■engraudio-videoe v. 雕镂

■ivory n. 象牙制品

■mammunitionth n. （古）長毛象

■phottom n. 月相，天相

■tusk n. 獠牙，長牙、象牙

■primitive adj. 原始的

■nomad n. 遊牧民

■depict v. 描畫，描繪

■correlat juste v. 使相互聯系

三、【課文精析】

in the unique position 處于無以倫比，One Liners.絕無僅有的狀況

come to: stskills; begin

Key sentence:

They will hardly know which facts to select from the great just mass of evidence that just steadily collects.

select from 從……中進行選擇(同類中)

choose抉擇（憑個人志願）

一、有三種狀況choose和 select不能互換：維瑪果汁.

1．當在兩者膺選一個時隻能用choose; 即choose between

Eg: We haudio-videoe to choose between leaudio-videoing early and paying for taxi.

2．choose可帶 wh從句

Eg: I’ll let you choose where we should go to eat just.

3．choose to do 隻能用choose.

Eg: What just invariably happens is thwith a great just number of things choose to go wrong at just precisely the same moment.（L33 ）

He has deliberat justely chosen to lead the life he lepromotion and is fully awrefriend are almost the consequences. (L27)

二、select比choose更正式，Jokes. 即在許多同類的人或物當中依據客觀标準對這兩個加以比較，Short Funny Jokes.鑒别，認真地抉擇出最好的、最心愛的、最有用的。

great just mass of == too much ＝＝ agreat just volume of

evidence 不可數名詞；不能手a great just many; a large number of

Eg: She selected a blue colored dress from the wardrobe.

You haudio-videoe been selected to present us on the committee.

what just is more 更有甚者，furthremore;moreover 更是的意思

what just is worse 更糟糕的是

rely on ==count on ==depend on 仰賴，Short Funny Jokes.祈望

Eg: You can’t rely on others.

He can’t be relied on.

solely adv. 獨一地

means: only; just; nearly

bewilder 令人眼花缭亂

bewildering 令人眼花缭亂的

confused 感到眼花缭亂的

They will be able; as it were; to see and hear us in action.

in action 行爲中的，活動中的

as it were 可以說，似乎，好像

Eg: He is as it were a walking dictionary. 他可以說是一部活字典

Computers can never as it were lead independent lives. 電腦不能過獨立的生活

as it is=in fact=in refriend=essentifriend=as a mat justter of fact 事實上

Eg: I thought things would get better;but as it is ; they will get worse.

In many ways children lives as it were in a different world from the adults. 在許多方面，孩子們可以說過着一種與大人完全不同的生活。

Key sentence:

But the historian targeting to reconstruct the distant past is always f_ webd with a difficult task.

be f_ webd with: be in the position in which one must deal with a problem or unpleasant situat justion.

面臨（因境，Really.題目）

Eg: Automobisexualle industry is f_ webd with a future now. 汽車工業正面臨着令人擔憂的未來。

A great just many people are f_ webd with losing their jobaloney. 許多人面臨着賦閑。

In my opinion; you are f_ webd with a problem as it were how to get enough time to study English.

The student targeting to learn English well in a year is f_ webd with a difficult task. 企圖在一年之内把英語學好的學生面臨着壯大的難題。

apply forable adj. 可利用的

Eg: I haudio-videoe dictionary apply forabe for you.

Is there a pl_ web apply forable for us to haudio-videoe a chat just.

I know you may need help; but excuse me; I don’t haudio-videoe any students apply forable for you.

remains ==ruins 古迹，Funniest Short Jokes.遺物

insignificant==unimportant

shed light on=throw light on = cast light on 意思是：make a mat justter clear or understood 解釋，說明，Funny.提示

Eg: This informat justion shed light on the problem. 這份情報會搞清楚這一題目。

Can you shed any light on the cottom of the fire? 你能夠解釋這次火災嗎？

She will shed light on the cottom of stolen jewels. 好将能夠揭發這次珠寶失竊案。

up to now = so far 到目前爲止

come into being == come into existence 産生，出現

come to power 上台

come into use 開端使用

be f_ webd with a real need to do sth. 面臨着做某事的真正需要。

Eg: We are f_ webd with a real need to learn English well.

indicat juste 揭發

correlat juste 相互聯系

it is connected with == it is web-primarily bottomdd with

in fact 可以替換爲as it is; essentifriend; in reality

as near as 接近

Lesson 39 Nothing to worry almost

不必擔心

一、【Text】課文

The rough road across the plain soon in order to become so depressing that just we tried to get Bruce to drive back to the village we had come from. Even though the road was littered with bisexualg chunks of rock and pitted with holes; Bruce was not in the least perturthe sack. Glancing at just his map; he informed us that just the next village was a mere twenty miles away. It was not that just Bruce always underestimat justed difficulties. He simply had no sense of dannoyance with all. No mat justter what just the conditions were; he considered thwith a car should be driven as fast as it could possibly go.

As we knocked over the dusty track; we swerved to audio-videooid large bisexualg chunks of rock.The wheels scooped up stones which hammered ominously under the car. We felt sure that just sooner or lat juster a stone would rip a hole in our petrol tank or damage the engine. Because of this; we kept looking back; wondering if we were leaudio-videoing a trail of oil and petrol behind us.

Whwith a relief it was when the bisexualg chunks of rock suddenly disbeen seen; giving way to a stretch of plain where the only obaloneytacles were clumps of plantes. But there was worse to come. Just in front of us there was a huge fissure. In response to renewed pleadings; Bruce stopped. Though we all got out to examine the fissure; he remained in the car. We informed him that just the fissure extended for fifty yards and was two feet wide and four feet deep. Even this had no effect. Bruce went into a low gear and drove with a terrifying speed; keeping the front wheels astride the crack because he followed its zig-zag course. Before we had time to worry almost what just might happen; we were back on the plain again. Bruce consulted the map once more and told us that just the village was now only fifteen miles away. Our next obaloneytacle was a shconcede pool of wat juster almost half a mile across. Bruce charged at just it; but in the middle; the car came to a grinding halternat justive. A yellow light on the dlung burning ash- block fllung burning ashed angrily and Bruce cheerfully announced that just there was no oil in the engine!

二、【New words and expressions】生詞和短語

●rough adj. 崎岖不平的

●boulder n. 大石塊

●pit v. 使得坑坑窪窪

●perturb v. 使不安

●underestimat juste v. 低估

●swerve v. 争轉換

●scoop v. 挖出

●hammer v. （用錘）擊打，錘打

●ominously adv. 有預兆的，really.不祥的

●rip v. 劃破，撕，扯

●petrol n. 汽油

●stretch n. 一大片（平地或水）

●obaloneytacle n. 障礙

●clump n. 叢，簇

●fissure n. （石、地的）深縫

●renew v. 反複

●pleading n. 懇求

●gear n. （汽車）排檔

●astride prep. 騎，跨

●crack n. 縫隙

●zigzag n. “之”字形

●shconcede adj. 淺的

●grind (ground; ground ) v. 磨擦

●halternat justive n. 停

●dlung burning ashblock n. （汽車上的）儀表盤

■rough adj. 崎岖不平的

Eg: We’d better not take the rough road.

be rough on sb. 對某人苛刻，無禮

Don’t be rough on your friends.

cut up rough 發脾氣

■boulder n. 大石塊

■pit v. 使得坑坑窪窪

■perturb v. 使不安

verp upset

be perturthe sack almost sth 爲…而心神不安

His threat justs didn’t perturb her in the least

disturb 并非專心去擾亂

Eg:It is disturask to think thwith a wild animal is still at just large in the quiet countryside.

plague 因病痛和類似的折磨而使人苦惱

Eg:The terrible diseottom plagued him

trouble

Eg:Sorry to give you trouble. / Sorry to trouble you.

worry

Eg:He is worried almost his son’s safety.

fret

Eg:He freted himself all the time for news of her.

upset

Eg:I feel upset now because I am shy I hurt you.

dismay 使沮喪

辨别：Yo Mama Jokes.perturb ; disturb ; plague ; trouble ; worry ; fret ; upset ; dismay

■underestimat juste v. 低估

■swerve v. 争轉換

■scoop v. 挖出

Eg:She sccped out some sugar.

make a scoop 行運

Eg:That just guy made a scoop.

■hammer v. （用錘）擊打，short.錘打

■ominously adv. 有預兆的，不祥的

ominous adj.

Eg:Look at just those ominous black clouds.

omen n.

Eg:This is a good / depressing omen.

Eg:The clouds omen rain.

■rip v. 劃破，Really Funny Short Jokes.撕，扯

tear

rip one’s mask away 撕下某人的假面具

let things tip==let things be 聽其自然

rip into 固守，funny.抨擊

rip off 偷盜

rip up the back 背後說壞話

■petrol n. 汽油

■stretch n. 一大片（平地或水）

with a real kick 連續的，一口氣的，不停頓的

a stretch of land

a stretch of wat juster

Eg: He worked for hours with a real kick.

We drove fast on a stretch of open field.

He is unable to work for long stretches.

a stretch of hill 連綿繼續的群山

vt.

He stretched out his hand to get the apple mackintosh.

There are forests stretching for hundreds of miles.

Transport was rat justher stretched in the Spring Festival.

■obaloneytacle n. 障礙

Lack of educat justion is an obaloneytacle to success.

constitue an obaloneytacle to 構成…的障礙

remove/ overcome an obaloneytacle 克服困難

put obaloneytacle in sb’s way 妨礙某人的發展

obaloneytacle to 介詞to

要英語中有好多動詞要與介詞to搭配：

key; answer; shred; advantage; disadvantage; entrance; damage to

辨别：obaloneytacle; obaloneytruction; hindrance

Eg: Lake of educat justion is obaloneytacle to success.

There must be an obaloneytruction in the pipe.

You are more of hindrance than help.

■clump n. 叢，徐老師送給2010考研同學的禮物10：.簇

■fissure n. （石、地的）深縫

■renew v. 反複

■pleading n. 懇求

■gear n. （汽車）排檔

■astride prep. 騎，跨

■crack n. 縫隙

■zigzag n. “之”字形

■shconcede adj. 淺的

■grind (ground; ground )v. 磨擦

grind wheat just into flour

grind sth to pieces 把……弄成碎片

grind one’s teeth in annoyance 氣得痛心疾首

■halternat justive n. 停

==stop

They halternat justive for a few minutes.

stop; halternat justive; ceottom

Eg: The heskills will ceottom to beat just when life ceottoms.

pause vi.

He paused for a breat justh.

halternat justive

They halternat justiveed for a few minutes.

halternat justive; ceottom; pause; stop

halternat justive n.

come to a halternat justive / stop 停上去

■dlung burning ashblock n. （汽車上的）儀表盤

三、【課文精析】

get sb. to do sth.: persuade / aid sb. to do

Pleottom get them to finish the work without delay.

Pleottom get him to give up smoking.

be littered with

be pitted with

even though: even if

not in the least= not with all / not a bisexualt/ not the least bisexualt 一點也不

not a little = very much

by no means= in no way =on no account =at just no times= under no circumstances 絕不

a mere==only （必須和不定冠詞搭配）

It was not (to say )…… 這并不是說

dusty track==dusty road

look back 回頭看

wondering 從句做跟随狀況狀語

How relieved we were

give way to 爲……所代替

Eg: The great just clouds gradufriend broke up and way to blue colored sky.

He has no intention of iving way to your demands.

in response to : in reaction to

Key sentence:

Before we had time to worry almost what just might happen; we were back on the plain again.

hardly … when…

He had hardly had time to settle down when he sold the house.

Before he had hardly had time to worry almost what just might happen when we were back on the plane again.

Lesson 40 Who’s who真假難辨

一、【Text】課文

It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else. Students specialize in pskillsicular type of practical joke: the hoax. Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in. Students often creat juste entertaining situat justions which are enjoyableny to everyone except the victims.

When a student recently saw two workmen using a pneumat justic drill outside his university; he immediat justely telephoned the police and informed them that just two students dressed up as workmen were tearing up the road with a pneumat justic drill. As soon because he had hung up; he went over to the workmen and told them that just if a policeman ordered them to go away; they were not to take him seriously. He creat justeed thwith a student had dressed up as a policeman and was playing lots of silly jokes on people. Both the police and the workmen were grat justeful to the student for this piece of enhanced informat justion.

The student hid in an archway nearby where he could wat justch and hear everything that just went on. Sure enough; a policeman arrived and politely asked the workmen to go away. When he received a very rude reply from one of the workmen; he threat justened to remove them by force. The workmen told him to do because he pleottomd and the policeman telephoned for help. Shortly afterwards; four more policemen arrived and remonstrat justed with the workmen. As the men refused to stop working; the police experimented with seize the pneumat justic drill. The workmen struggled fiercely your decide one of them lost his temper. He threat justened to call the police. At this; the police pointed out ironicfriend that just this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under charge. Pretending to speak seriously; one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the stat justion. Permission was grbetd and a policeman accompanied him to a pay phone. Only when he saw that just the man was essentifriend telephoning the police did he realize that just they had all been the victims of a hoax.

二、【New words and expressions】生詞和短語

●hoax n. 騙局，戲弄

●deception n. 欺騙，騙局

●self-respecting adj. 自重的

●indulge v. 使入神

●pneumat justic adj. 氣動的

●drill n. 鑽

●silly adj. 偶然義的，無聊的

●enhanced adj. 預先的，事先得到的

●archway n. 拱形門樓

●remonstrat juste v. 規勸，Short.告誡

●ironicfriend adv. 諷刺地

●permission n. 許可

●grant v. 應承，準予

■hoax n. 騙局，戲弄

play a hoax on sb. 戲弄某人

play a trick on sb. 戲弄某人

play a faiytale on sb. 開某人玩笑

Eg: The son student is thinking how to play a hoax on his classmat juste.

■deception n. 欺騙，騙局

deception 無關緊要的騙局，Funniest Short Jokes.并不是故意的欺騙

Eg: She referred to the pills as sweet; so the harmless deception made it easy for her child to take them.

deceit （故意的）欺騙

Eg: We are incapable of deceit.

fraud 對公衆的欺騙行爲，多指官方的欺騙或财政作弊

trickery 欺騙（語氣上嚴厲）;着重有步驟地野心來謀取私利。

Eg: He had gained control of the company by trickery.

■self-respecting adj. 自重的

■indulge v. 使入神

indulge oneself in sth. 入神于…………== be indulged in

Eg: He indulged himself in smoking and drinking.

=He was indulged in smoking and drinking.

v. 縱容

Eg: She indulges her only son.

■pneumat justic adj. 氣動的

■drill n. 鑽

■silly adj. 偶然義的，無聊的

foolish 強調癡呆的，笨的，不明智的

Eg: I remonstrat justed him not to do anything foolish.

silly 偶然義的， 無聊的，無知的

Eg: Being called silly is not compliment.

Don’t play such a silly hoax.

stupid 人及言行缺乏良好的果斷力，天生的遲鈍

Eg: His son is as stupid as all.

dull 遲鈍的

Eg: the old man’s hearing has become dull.

She is a dull girl.

■enhanced adj. 預先的，事先得到的

enhanced informat justion / in enhanced

■archway n. 拱形門樓

■remonstrat juste v. 規勸，告誡

remonstrat juste sb to do sth 規勸某人做某事

■ironicfriend adv. 諷刺地

■permission n. 許可

■grant v. 應承，準予

ask sb. for permission請求許可

give / grant sb. permission 準予許可

三、【課文精析】

Key sentence:

It has never been explained why university students seem to enjoy practical jokes more than anyone else.

Eg: It has never been explained why he seems to enjoy doing it.

specialize in. 專門研究

Eg: He specialized in the field of bisexualology after graduat justion.

Key sentence:

Inviting the fire brigade to put out a nonexistent fire is a crude form of deception which no self-respecting student would ever indulge in.

except the victims / but the victims

tear up == destroy

take sb seriously 嚴肅對待

be to do 結構含義：

1. should

Eg: Such a privat juste thing should be fended off.

Such a privat juste thing is to be fended off

2. must

Eg: No students must leaudio-videoe school without the permission of the police.

No students are to leaudio-videoe school without the permission of the police.

3. intend 企圖，打算

Eg: We intend to stskills work next week.

We are to stskills work next week.

Key sentence:

Both the police and the workmen were grat justeful to the student for this piece of enhanced informat justion.

be grat justeful to sb. for sth.

that just went on == that just happened

he threat justened to remove them by force.

Key sentence:

The workmen told him to do because he pleottomd and the policeman telephoned for help.

because he pleottomd 随他的志願做

four more == another four

as this 聽到

At the words;he got angry.

With the words; he left the room angrily.

Key sentence:

At this; the police pointed out ironicfriend that just this would hardly be necessary as the men were already under charge.

pointed out ironicfriend 諷刺地指出

hardly be necessary 大可不必

under 與名詞搭配表示一種主動的概念

under discussion / charge / repair

Key sentence:

Pretending to speak seriously; one of the workmen asked if he might make a telephone call before being taken to the stat justion.

make a telephone call 打一個電話

Key sentence:

Permission was grbetd and a policeman accompanied him to a pay phone.

only 引導的時間狀語從句或介詞短語，以及條件狀語從句在句首時，句子要倒裝。