Your Passport, Please

Mr. and Mrs. Cooper arrive at London Airport, at the end of a three-week holiday in Italy. It has been hot there, so Mr. Cooper has taken off the beard that he has always worn. But his passport photograph shows him with his beard.

An officer looks at the photograph for a moment, and says: “Will you excuse me. Please sit down. I won’t keep you long.” With this, he walks away, shows the photograph to a second officer, and says:”I know that face.” The second officer looks at the passport and asks where Mr. Cooper has come from. When he hears that the Coopers have just arrived back from Rome, the second officer’s eyes light up, and he says:”An Englishman with a beard stole a painting in Roma on Friday. And that man looks just the sort of man who…”

Suddenly, it comes to the first officer who Mr. Cooper is. He returns to him, and asks:”Did you teach at Feltham High school?” When Mr. Cooper answer, with some surprise, that he did, the first office smiles, says:” I thought so. I’m Alan Simpson. You taught me French. You haven’t change a bit.”

Vocabulary:

l   at the end of在……的末尾;在...結束時,達到 ...的最大限度

l   take off脫下;移去;起飛;休假

l   beard[eaqg](n.)(下巴上的)鬍鬚,山羊鬍

l   wear(wore-worn-wearing)[rUq](v.) (將鬍鬚,頭髮)留成...的樣子;保持...的樣子

l   I won’t keep you long我不會留你太久

l   light up突然亮了起來

l   steal(stole-stolen-stealing)[kf`p](v.)偷,竊取

l   sort of有幾分,有那麼點兒;到某種程度;有幾分;有點

l   come to(想法)浮現

l    used to 表示過去經常+原形動詞
l    be (get) used to 表示習慣於+名詞或動名詞