练习材料：

After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to shops. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying. I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the door-knobs. I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the door-bell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!

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任务配置：L0+L4

笔记：

1.知识点

（1）sticky 粘的，粘性的

（2）pastry 面糊

（3）dismay  n.沮丧，惊慌；v.使沮丧，使惊慌

（4）doorknob 门把手

（5）at exactly that moment, 恰恰在此时。

exactly用于加强语气，表示“正”、“恰恰”

（6）Nothing could have been more annoying.没有什么能比这更烦人了。

　　用这个句型可以表达许多感情，换一下最后的形容词即可：

Nothing could have been more exciting/ interesting/ embarrassing.没有什么能比这更激动人心/有趣/令人尴尬的了。

    （7）What a mess! 真是糟糕透了!

　　在口语中，a mess可以用来指“困境”、“窘境”、“一团糟”等含义：

I made a

mess of my exam.我考试考得一团糟。

（8）I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough

to wake the dead.我刚回到厨房，门铃又响了起来，响声足以把死人唤醒。

连词no

sooner…than…(刚……就……)用于过去完成时。(第38课语法)

（9）a registered letter 挂号信

练习感悟：

    nosooner…than…(刚……就……)之前已经学习过，这次只残留了部分印象，难以想起具体用法。有点点丧气。