Lesson 48 Did you want to tell me something? 你想对我说什么呢？
First listen and then answer the question.
Why did the writer become very worried?
Dentists always ask questions when it is impossible for you to answer. My dentist had just pulled out one of my teeth and had told me to rest for a while. I tried to say something, but my mouth waw full of cotton wool. He knew I collected match boxes and asked me whether my collection was growing. He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London. In answered to these questions I either nodded or made strange noise. Meanwhile, my tongue was busy searching out the hole where the tooth had been. I suddenly felt very worried, but could not say anythin. When the dentist at last removed the cotton wool from my mouth, I was able to teel him that he had pulled out the wrong tooth.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
pull v.拔 collection n.收藏品，收集品
cotton wool 药棉 nod v.点头
collect v.搜集 meanwhile adv.同时
Notes on the text 课文注释
1 for a while,一会儿，片刻。
2 He then asked me how my brother was and whether I liked my new job in London.接着他问我的兄弟近来如何，问我是否喜欢伦敦的新工作。