练习材料：Lesson 48 49
任务配置：L0
知识笔记：
Lesson48Did you want to tell me something?
Dentists/ˈden.tɪst/always ask questions when it is impossible for you to answer. My dentist had just pulled out one of my teeth and had told me to rest for a while/waɪl/. I tried to say something, but my mouth/maʊθ/was full of cotton/ˈkɒt.ən/-wool/wʊl/. He knew I collected match boxes and asked me whether my collection was growing. He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London. In answer to these questions I either nodded or made strange noises. Meanwhile, my tongue/tʌŋ/was busy searching out the hole/həʊl/where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very worried, but could not say anything. When the dentist at last removed the cotton-wool from my mouth, I was able to tell him that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.
Cotton wool药棉
Collection收藏品，收集品
Lesson49 The end of a dream
Tired of sleeping on the floor, a young man in Teheran saved up for years to buy a real bed. For the first time in his life, he became the proud owner of a bed which had springs and a mattress/ˈmæt.rəs/. Because the weather was very hot, he carried the bed on to the roof of his house. He slept very well for the first two nights, but on the third night, a storm blew up. A gust/ɡʌst/of wind swept the bed off the roof and sent it crashing into the courtyard/ˈkɔːt.jɑːd/below. The young man did not wake up until the bed had struck the ground. Although the bed was smashed to pieces, the man was miraculously/mɪˈræk.jə.ləs.li/unhurt. When he woke up, he was still on the mattress. Glancing at the bits of wood and metal that lay around him, the man sadly picked up the mattress and carried it into his house. After he had put it on the floor, he promptly/ˈprɒmpt.li/went to sleep again.
Teheran德黑兰
Spring弹簧
Spring mattress 弹簧床垫
Gust 一阵风
Miracle奇迹
Miraculously 奇迹般地
Glance 扫视
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