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用美國小孩的方法學英語最有效：信件的流程

來源：育路教育網發布時間：2011-08-17

    How the Mail is Delivered

    Read the paragraphs below to learn how the mail is delivered. The paragraphs are not in the correct order. Read the texts carefully and decide which should be first， second， third， fourth and fifth. Write the order in the boxes below.

    A. Thursday morning the mail carrier for Main Street picked up her pile of letters. She sorted all of them by street address. The people at 1 Main Street got their mail first. Dave lived at 221 Main Street. He got his letter before lunch.

    B. Juan lives in New York. He wrote a letter to Dave. Dave lives in Oregon. Juan put the letter in the mailbox on Monday night. On Tuesday morning a truck stopped at the mailbox. The mail carrier put the letters into a large bag and took the bag to a post office in New York.

    C. By noon the letters were in an airport in Oregon. Mail trucks then took them to post offices. One of these was in Dave's town. Wednesday night people in Dave's town sorted the letters by street name.

    D. The post office has plenty of work to do. It handles thousands of letters per day. Let's follow a letter all the way across America.

    E. Tuesday afternoon the letters were sorted. Zip codes were used to sort the mail. A machine picked up a letter and held it. A worker read the Zip code. Then the worker pushed five buttons on another machine. The worker had only one second to do this. After the worker pushed the buttons， the machine put the letter in a box. By Tuesday night the box was on a truck. The truck went to the airport. An airplane took off for Oregon on Wednesday morning. Juan's letter went on the airplane.

    Words and Phrases 單詞和短語

    post office 郵局

    Oregon ['？rig？n] n. 俄勒岡州（美國州名）

    mailbox ['meilb？ks] n. 郵筒，信箱

    mail carrier 郵遞員

    zip code 郵遞區號；郵政編碼

    button ['b？tn] n. 按鈕；紐扣

    take off （ 飛機 ） 起飛

    譯 文

    信 件 的 流 程

    讀下列段落了解信的流程。下列段落并不是按正確順序排列的，仔細閱讀全文，按1、2、3、4、5的順序正確排列文章，并把答案寫到下面的表格中。

    A. 星期四早上，街道信差拿起一撂信件，把它們按街道地址一一分類。住在街道的第一戶人家最先收到他們的信。戴夫住在街道221號，那么在中午前就可以收到胡安寫給他的信。

    B.胡安住在紐約，他給住在俄勒岡州的的戴夫寫了一封信。星期一晚上，胡安把信放進了郵筒。星期二一早，一輛卡車停在郵筒旁。信差把郵筒里的信件放進了一個大袋子里，把它們帶回了紐約郵局。

    C. 當天中午這些信件就抵達了俄勒岡的機場，然后郵政車把它們運往當地郵局，其中一些信就是發往戴夫所在的城市。當天晚上戴夫所在城市的郵局工作人員把這些信件按照街名分類。

    D. 郵局有大量的工作要做，他們每天都

    要處理數千封郵件。讓我們看看一封信在美國的流程。

    E. 星期二下午，工作人員開始給這些信件

    分類。郵政編碼是信件分類的依據。一臺機器撿起一封信并握住它。一名工作人員讀信上的郵政編碼，然后按另一個機器上的五個按鈕，這個動作只需一秒鐘的時間。

    按完按鈕后，機器把信件放到一個盒子里。星期二晚上，這個盛著信件的盒子就會被放到卡車上，繼而卡車載著它前往機場。星期三早上一架飛機起飛前往俄勒岡州，胡安的信件就在這架飛機上。

    答 案

    1 D

    2 B

    3 E

    4 C

    5 A

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