[al:新概念英语（二）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:Sticky Fingers] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:13.38]What two interruptions did the writer have? [00:20.21]After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to the shops. [00:27.38]It was still early when I returned home. [00:31.66]The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. [00:38.24]So I decided to make some meat pies. [00:42.88]In a short time I was busy mixing butter [00:46.38]and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. [00:52.80]At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. [00:57.32]Nothing could have been more annoying. [01:00.87]I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when [01:07.25]I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. [01:11.24]It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. [01:19.02]What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, [01:24.37]on the telephone, and on the doorknobs. [01:28.10]I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the doorbell rang loud enough to wake the dead. [01:35.71]This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!