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Lesson 5 No wrong numbers - 英语听力

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[00:00.760]--- Lesson 5 No wrong numbers [00:06.60...
[00:00.760]--- Lesson 5 No wrong numbers
[00:06.600]--- First listen and then answer the question.
[00:12.720]--- What does 'No wrong numbers' mean?
[00:20.520]Mr.James Scott has a garage in Silbury and now he has just bought another garage in Pinhurst.
[00:32.120]Pinhurst is only five miles from Silbury,
[00:36.840]but Mr.Scott cannot get a telephone for his new garage,
[00:42.480]so he has just bought twelve pigeons.
[00:47.120]Yesterday, a pigeon carried the first message from Pinhurst to Silbury.
[00:53.720]The bird covered the distance in three minutes.
[00:58.080]Up to now, Mr.Scott has sent a great many requests for spare parts and other urgent messages from one garage to the other.
[01:08.600]In this way, he has begun his own private 'telephone' service.
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