05 No Wrong Numbers
名称:05 No Wrong Numbers
内容简介:
新概念英语第二册(英音)
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[00:13.43]What does 'No wrong numbers' mean?
[00:21.17]Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
[00:32.44]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.
[00:47.88]Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.
[00:53.56]The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
[00:58.56]Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
[01:08.71]In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.