[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（美音）] [ti:Sticky Fingers] [by:更多学习内容，请到查字典英语网yingyu.chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:10.52]What two interruptions did the writer have? [00:15.83]After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops. [00:23.02]It was still early when I returned home. [00:27.30]The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. [00:34.05]So I decided to make some meat pies. [00:38.34]In a short time I was busy mixing butter [00:41.82]and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. [00:47.98]At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. [00:53.28]Nothing could have been more annoying. [00:56.75]I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. [01:08.01]It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. [01:17.22]What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the doorknobs. [01:27.01]I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead. [01:35.88]This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!