文档介绍：Part One: line 1-12
Margie kept her diary almost every day. One day she wrote, “17 May, 2155” and then this sentence: “Today Tommy found a real book.”
It was a very old book. Its pages were yellow. Margie suddenly remembered that her grandfather once said that centuries ago all stories were printed on paper. This must be a book of that time.
Tommy and Margie were anxious to read the book. They turned the pages. It was very funny. The words stood still, and didn’t move as they did on a TV. And then, when they turned back, the same words were there!
“Oh,” said Tommy, “What a waste! When you finish reading the book, you just throw it away. You can have a million books on our television, and even more. There is nothing to throw away.”
Part One: line 1-12
1. Margie kept her diary almost every day.
keep one’s diary: write one’s diary
. Nowadays, not many people can keep their diaries every day.
To improve your written English, you’d better keep a diary in English.
2. “17 May, 2155”(See the textbook, no. 1, on page 37.)or: May 17, 2155
Read: the seventeenth of May, twenty-one fifty-five
. 1 October, 1949 / October 1, 1949
Read: the first of October, een forty-nine / October the first, een forty-nine.
Part One: line 1-12
3. Margie suddenly remembered that her grandfather once said that centuries ago all stories were printed on paper. (See the textbook, no. 2, on page 37.)
once:
a. at some indefinite time in the past
. I once lived in Xin Jiang.
This song was once very popular, but now only a few people know it.
b. for one time, on one occasion, only
. We have English class once a week.
I’ve been to London once.
c. even for one time
. Once you e interested in learning English, you will find it not so difficult as you expected before.
Once he is determined to do something, he’ll try his best to do it well.
Part One: line 1-12
4. This must be a book of that time. (See the textbook, no. 3, on page 37.)
must be
.
Look, the little boy sitting over