—Yes, I ______ them three days ago.
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How have you been to the Bund?
Gary was a policeman. He liked boiled eggs. He often had one for breakfast. One morning in December, he was on duty on the road in his car. At ten o'clock, he went into a small café by the roadside for breakfast. He asked for a boiled egg, a drink and a sandwich. When the waiter brought them to him, he found that the egg was not cooked enough. He decided to cook his egg a little longer. He put the egg inside the microwave oven (微波炉) and turned on the switch (开关). He cooked the egg for one minute. Then he took it out and went back to his table. He picked up his spoon and was ready to eat the egg.
Suddenly there was a loud explosion (爆炸声) and all the other people rushed to hide under the tables because they thought someone had thrown a bomb (炸弹) into the building. But when they saw Gary's face, they all laughed because he had egg all over it. Gary had made a big mistake: Eggs must never be cooked in a microwave oven.
An old friend from France was coming to stay with me for a week. He telephoned from the airport to tell me that he had arrived. I was still at the office at that time, but I had got everything ready for him. I told him where my new flat was and that I had left the key under the doormat (擦鞋垫). Because I came home rather late, I told him where I had put the food and drink, and I told him to help himself to them.
Two hours later my friend telephoned me from my flat. He said he was listening to some of my records. He also told me that he had had a good meal and he hoped I would join him soon. When I asked him whether he had got my flat without difficulty, he answered that he had not been able to find the key under the doormat, but luckily the window of the sitting room by the apple tree had been open, so he had climbed in. Oh, dear! There was no apple tree in front of my sitting room, but there was one in front of my neighbour's.
More and more Japanese teenagers read novels on mobile phones, n on the paper.
The phone novels are usually written by young writers. Several novels have been turned into real books. Love Sky, a story a a boy with cancer, has sold more than 1.3 million books and has been made into a f.
Many of the phone novels are influenced (受影响的) by comic books b comic books are very popular in Japan. A mobile phone novel website, Maho i-Land, which started several years ago, now has six million members and a million novels on the site.
However, some traditional writers are angry about phone novels. They complain that phone novels are short of scene (缺少情景) and character development.
Koichiro Tomioka, a professor at Kanto Gakuin University, said it was a new w for writers to become known.
He said, "It's interesting. The problem is: Can this new type of writer keep on writing books as a professional writer?"
