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Dear Mother and Father, I feel very excited at the thought that in another week I shall be with you again on holiday. I have enjoyed my stay in England very much indeed. Mr. Priestley and my fellow - studentsLucille, Jan, Pedro, Olaf and Hobare all very nice to me, but, as they say in England, Theres no place like home, and I think you feel this above all at Christmas time. I am leaving here early on Thursday, the 23rd, and I shall arrive in Basle on Friday morning, so I shall be home somewhere about lunch - time. Can you meet me at the station, as I shall have a lot of luggage? In some of my earlier letters I have told you all about the other students here; well, I want to ask my Polish friend, Jan, to come and spend Christmas with us. Will that be all right? His father and mother died last year; he can't go home for Christmas, and he has no friends in England except the Priestleys. He is a very nice boy. I know you will all like him, and I feel sure he will enjoy Christmas with us. It is very short notice, but you are always pleased, I know, if we bring our friends home. However, I have not yet invited him, as I thought it was better to ask you first. Please let me know as soon as possible if it will be all right. I saw some big Christmas trees in Covent Garden today. Covent Garden is Londons big wholesale market for fruit, vegetables and flowers. It is wonderful to see it early in the morning when all the buyers are there getting the things for their shops; the trees looked very pretty, but I know that none of them is so beautiful as the one that I shall see when we open the door of our sitting - room on Christmas Eve and see our tree with the candles lighted. When I was a little girl I always thought that that was the most wonderful moment of all the year; and when I see it again this year, I know I shall think the same again.【缺少答案,请补充】
I had had toothache for several days, but just hadn't enough courage to go to the dentist. As a matter of fact I went twice, but just as I got on his doorstep and was going to ring the bell, the toothache seemed to have gone away, so I went home again. But at last I had to go back, and this time I rang the bell and was shown into the waiting - room. There were a number of magazines there, and I had just got into the middle of an exciting story when the girl came in to say Mr. Puller was ready to see me. Ill have to wait for the next toothache to finish that story! Well, I went into the surgery and he told me to sit in a chair that he could move up and down, backwards and forwards, and then he had a look at the inside of my mouth. He put a little mirror on a long handle inside my mouth and poked about for a while, then he looked serious and said, Yes, I'm afraid we can't save that one, it will have to come out. It won't be necessary to give you gas for that, Ill just give you an injection. So he filled a syringe with a liquid. I felt a little prick on the gum and that was all. He did this in two or three places and waited for a minute or so. My mouth felt rather dead, but otherwise it was all right. Then he took an instrument, got hold of my tooth, gave a twist (I could see and hear what he did, but I couldn't feel anything), then a quick pull, and the tooth was out and he was saying, yes, its all over. Spit in there and then wash your mouth out with this. And he handed me a glass. Theres the tooth, a very nasty one. He was just going to throw it away, but I said, May I have that tooth, please? You can certainly have it if you want it, he said. Well, I replied, it has worried me a good deal for the last week, and so now I am going to put it on my dressing - table and watch it ache.【缺少答案,请补充】
I shall never forget as long as I live, the day when I first set foot in London. I had come from a quiet little town in Switzerland and I had never before lived in a big city, so London was a new world to me and I was dying to find out more about it for myself. The general opinion abroad is that London has fog or rain, or both, every day of the year, but on the day that I arrived it was fine and warm, there was a bright sun and a cloudless sky. The next day was just as beautiful; there was a slight wind that gently moved the leaves on the trees, and you could smell the spring in the air. Life is grand, I thought, as I took Anthony, the little boy of the house, for a walk in Kensington Gardens. It was a straight road and I found the way quite easily. When I got my first sight of the gardens the beauty of it all nearly took my breath away. The trees were just bursting into leaf, fresh and green and lovely, and there were beds of spring flowers, red and yellow and blue, in the beautiful, smooth grass under the trees. People in light spring clothes were walking about, and, to my surprise, they walked not only along the paths but also across the grass, and no one said a word to them about it. I had never seen anything like that before. We passed a pool in which ducks were swimming, a childrens playground with crowds of happy children, a figure of Peter Pan in bronze, more water with boats on it, and everywhere peoplepeople whose language I could not understand. Well, it was time for us to go home; but which way was it? We hurriedly turned down one path that I thought would take us backand found ourselves in Hyde Park. My mind was quite confused now and I was rather frightened. I ran to the left and to the right and asked several old ladies for the way to Addison Road, but I found to my horror that I could not understand a single word they said in reply.【缺少答案,请补充】