第1个回答 2022-06-09
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Jasper White believes in ancient myths.Car owners always park their cars outside his gate,so he has put up “No Parking” signs but they have not paid any attention to them.Now he has put an ugly stone head over his gate.It is the head of Medusa,the Gorgon.He wants her to turn car owners to stone but she has not done so yet.
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Capain Ben Fawcett has bought a small Swiss aeroplane and he uses it as a taxi.It is a "Pilatus Porter".It can not only carry seven passengers but also land anywhere.Captain Fawcett has taken passengers to many strange places in his plane.He refused to fly a businessman to Rockall.Th journey was too dangerous.
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The writer sat by the river last Sunday.Some children were playing games nearby.One of the children kicked a ball hard and it went towards a passing boat.The man in the boat neither saw the ball nor heard people shouting.The ball hit the man and the children ran away.However,the man was not angry and he threw the ball back to the bank.
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Frank Hawkins was telling the writer about his experiences as a young man.Frank used to work in a small shop as a boy.He used to repair bicycles there.He bought his own shop in 1958 and he made spare parts for aeroplanes in his twenties.He employed a lot of people in a few years.His wife came into the room after a while.She wanted him to repair their grandson's bicycle.