Unit 3 Inventors and inventions using language课时作业

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　　Dear Mr Jones，

　　I expect you may be slightly surprised to receive a letter from someone living as near as your next­door neighbor, but I have to raise a subject so that it will be easier for me to discuss in writing.

　　 You may have noticed that I have a __1__of apple trees running alongside the fence that __2__our two gardens. You may also have taken __3__in the frequent sight of your two children __4__on your lawn directly by the fence.And you may also have __5__that my apple trees, so to speak, bend over the fence and seem to __6__your children with interest.

　　It is only natural that your children should sometimes seem to return that __7__ . And it is not only natural, __8__ , I acknowledge, quite legal, for them occasionally to show that interest by__9__all the apples that hang over on __10__side of the fence.

　　But to be plain with you, Mr Jones, I am tired __11__seeing your children, day after day, tear the branches off the side of every one of my apple trees, and leave my trees looking __12__a battle had been fought on one side of them. I am, if anything, even more tired of waking up these fine autumn __13__ , to find even the apples on my side of the fence __14__in number. I know this is the work of your children, since last night I was woken at midnight by the __15__they were making __16__ one of my trees, and (as they may have told you) chased them home.

　　While I am on the subject, I am at least grateful to you for keeping your bonfires on the far side of your garden this year. Last year neither I __17__your children had any apples, because the smoke from your bonfire destroyed all the flowers__18__the apples had time to form. I very much hope that next year-for the first time since I came to this village-I shall have my apples, and your children __19__have theirs and that the sight of the line of apple trees will be __20__pride to us both.

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