朗文3L看听学英语第四册 Lesson 15

　　15 Gretel writes a letter home
Dear Mummy and Daddy,
I'm sending you the photos you asked for. First you'll find a photo of the house I'm staying at. It's a very typical English house. You don't see many blocks of flats in England. The English prefer houses to flats. Sometimes you see rows and rows of houses and they're all exactly the same!
I enclose¹ some pictures of the family I'm staying with. You can see Sandy and Sue² (the children I told you about in my last letter) and Mr and Mrs Clark. They have all become very good friends of mine.
There are som pictures of the garden too. Every English house has a small garden. The English people work very hard in their gardens. Mr Clark has a lovely lawn³ and lots of rose-bushes and he grows all his own vegetables. Everytheing is so green in England. Mr Clark rarely⁴ has to water the garden because it rains so often here! When it rains my English friends say,"Nice weather for the ducks!"
I'll write to you again soon.
Love,
Gretel

1 enclose   

vt.围住，包住；把…装入信封，附入

参考例句：

• I'll enclose his letter with mine.我将他的信装入我的信中寄出。
• I enclose two tickets along with this letter.我随信附上两张票。

2 sue   

vt.控告，起诉；vi.请求，追求，起诉

参考例句：

• If you don't pay me the money,I'll sue you.如果你不付给我钱，我就告你。
• The war criminals sue for peace.战犯求和。

3 lawn   

n.草地，草坪，上等细麻布

参考例句：

• The lawn was crawling with ants.草坪上爬满了蚂蚁。
• They are lying on a grassy lawn.他们躺在绿草如茵的草坪上。

4 rarely   

adv.很少，难得；非常地，非凡地

参考例句：

• Such fish is rarely met with in the north country.这种鱼在北方难得看到。
• He rarely comes here anymore.现在他难得来这儿了。