Lesson 3
　　Text² A
　　There Is Something Very Nice Inside³ Your Drum⁴ It was⁵ Jimmy's birthday, and he was five years old. He got⁶ quite a lot of nice birthday presents from his family, and one of them was a beautiful big drum.“Who gave⁷ him that thing？” Jimmy's father said⁸ when he saw⁹ it.“His grandfather did¹¹,” answered Jimmy's mother.“Oh,” said his father. Of course¹² , Jimmy liked his drum very much. He made¹³ a terrible¹⁴ noise witb it, but his mother did not mind¹⁵. His father was working during¹⁶ the day, and Jimmy was in bed when he got home in the evening, so he did not hear the noise. But one of the neighbours¹⁷ did not like the noise at all , so one morning a few¹⁸ days later¹⁹, she took²⁰ a sharp²¹ knife and went to Jimmy's house while²² he was hitting his drum. She said to him, “Hullo, Jimmy. Do you know, there's something very nice inside your drum. Here's a knife. Open the drum and let's find it. ”
　　Text B
　　May I See a Hat, please？
　　MR Ross： May I see a hat , please？
　　SALESMAN： What size²³ do you take？
　　MR Ross： I'm sorry. I don't know. SALESMAN： I'll measure²⁴ you. . . You take size 6. What colour hat would²⁵ you like？
　　MR Ross： Brown, please. SALESMAN： Here are some nice brown hats.Try this hat on.It's a very good one. MR ROss： Yes, I like this one.It goes very well with my coat. How much is it？
　　SALESMAN： It's $ 9.95 （ nine dollars and ninety-five cents²⁶ ）。 Do you want me to put it in a box？
　　Questions on Text B 7. Read the following²⁷ passage²⁸ once. Underline²⁹ the key words while reading³⁰ and retell³¹ the story   to your partner³².
　　The police³³ in the big city were looking for a thief³⁴. At last they caught him. But while they were taking photographs³⁵ of him - from the front, from the left, from the right, with a hat, without a hat - he suddenly³⁶ attacked³⁷ the policemen and ran¹⁰ off³⁸. They tried to catch him, but he got away. Then a week later the telephone rang in the police-station, and somebody³⁹ said, “You are looking for Bill⁴⁰ Cross, aren't you？”“Yes. ”“Well, he left here for Waterbridge an hour ago. ”Waterbridge was a small town about 100 miles⁴¹ from the city. The city police at ence sent four different photographs of the thief to the police in Waterbridge. Less¹ than twelve hours later they got a telephone call from the police in Waterbridge. “We have caught the fourth⁴² this evening, we think. ”

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