Lesson 5



No wrong numbers



First listen and then answer the question.



What does 'No wrong numbers' mean?



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.



pigeon   [ˈpidʒin]  n. 鸽子


message  [ˈmesidʒ]   n. 信息


cover  [ˈkʌvə]   v. 越过


distance  [ˈdistəns]   n. 距离


request  [riˈkwest]   n. 要求，请求


spare part备件


service  [ˈsə:vis]  n. 业务，服务