第一篇：Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies（范文模版）

Lesson 7 Mutilated ladies

Children often have far more sense than their elders.This simple truth was demonstrated rather dramatically during a civil defence exercise in a small town in Canada.Most of the inhabitants were asked to take part in the exercise during which they had to pretend that their city had been bombed.Air-raid warnings were sounded and thousands of people went into special air-raid shelters.Doctors and nurses remained above ground while Police patrolled the streets in case anyone tried to leave the shelters too soon.The police did not have much to do because the citizens took the exercise seriously.They stayed underground for twenty minutes and waited for the siren to sound again.On leaving the air-raid shelters, they saw that doctors and nurses were busy.A great many people had volunteered to act as casualties.Theatrical make-up and artificial blood had been used to make the injuries look realistic.A lot of People were lying 'dead' in the streets.The living helped to carry the dead and wounded to special stations.A Child of six was brought in by two adults.The child was supposed to be dead.With theatrical make-up on his face, he looked as if he had died of shock.Some people were so moved by the sight that they began to cry.However, the child suddenly sat up and a doctor asked him to comment on his death.The child looked around for a moment and said, 'I think they're all crazy!'

這種事情在你身上出現(xiàn)過(guò)嗎？你有沒(méi)有把褲子塞洗衣機(jī)，然后又想在褲子的后兜有一張大面值的紙幣？當(dāng)你把褲子搶救出來(lái)時(shí)，你有沒(méi)有發(fā)現(xiàn)那張紙幣已經(jīng)變得比白紙還白？當(dāng)英國(guó)人犯這種錯(cuò)誤時(shí)，他們不必感到絕望（而許多國(guó)家的人都有這種絕望的感覺(jué)）。對(duì)英國(guó)人來(lái)說(shuō)，值得慶幸的是英國(guó)銀行有一個(gè)殘鈔鑒別組，負(fù)責(zé)理那些把錢塞進(jìn)機(jī)器或塞給狗的人提出的索賠要求。看起來(lái)，狗很喜歡咀嚼錢幣。

最近的一個(gè)案例與簡(jiǎn).巴特林有關(guān)，她的未婚夫約翰擁有一家生意興隆家具店。有一天約翰的生意很好，他把一只裝有3,000 英鎊的錢包放進(jìn)微波爐內(nèi)保存。然后，他和簡(jiǎn)一起去騎馬。回家后，簡(jiǎn)用微波爐煮了晚飯，無(wú)意中之中把她未婚夫的錢包也一起煮了。可以想像他們發(fā)現(xiàn)一只煮得很好看的錢包，鈔票已化成灰時(shí)的沮喪心情。約翰去找銀行經(jīng)理，經(jīng)理把約翰的錢包和紙幣的殘留物送到英國(guó)銀行在紐卡斯?fàn)柕囊粋€(gè)專門部門——?dú)堚n鑒別組。他們鑒定了這些殘留物。約翰拿回了他損失的全部數(shù)額。“只要有東西可供識(shí)別，我們會(huì)把錢還給人家的，”銀行的一位女發(fā)言人說(shuō)。“去年，我們對(duì)21，000 起索賠要求支付了150萬(wàn)英鎊?！?/p>