| 19A | 20C | 21B | 22D | 23A | 24C | 25B |
| 26A | 27B | 28C | 29D | 30C |
Mom: The store on Second Road is selling old furniture this weekend. We need a chair for your desk.
Wei: How much is it? I saved two thousand dollars from my summer job.
Mom: Look at this paper.
| SECOND ROAD FURNITURE |
|---|
| Item: Wooden Chair |
| Old price: 1,200 |
| This weekend: 800 |
| Free if you buy a desk |
Wei: We already have a desk, so I will just take the chair.
Mom: Then bring your wallet. The store closes at six, and it is on the way back from the temple.
媽媽：二路上那家店這週末在賣二手家具。你的書桌需要一張椅子。
偉：多少錢？我打工存了兩千元。
媽媽：看看這張紙。
| 二路家具行 |
|---|
| 品項：木椅 |
| 原價：1,200 |
| 本週末：800 |
| 買書桌即免費 |
偉：我們已經有書桌了，所以我就只買椅子。
媽媽：那就帶著你的皮夾。店六點關門，而且就在從寺廟回來的路上。
Welcome to the Reading Room. Walk up to the second floor and turn left.
Students may move a chair, but the couch and the long desk must stay where they are. If you need a quiet position, the seats near the window are best.
Please do not leave anything, not even a pencil case, on the carpet. Anything left after six will be put in the cabinet near the toilet, and you will have to wait until Monday to get it back.
歡迎來到閱覽室。請走上二樓後左轉。
學生可以移動椅子，但沙發和長桌必須留在原位。如果你需要安靜的位子，靠窗的座位最好。
請不要把任何東西留在地毯上，連鉛筆盒也不行。六點後留下的物品會被放進廁所旁的櫥櫃，你必須等到星期一才能取回。
Dear Aunt Mary,
Thank you for the box you sent from Canada. The spoons arrived without a single mark on them, and Mother has already put them in the kitchen cabinet. She says they are too nice to use every day.
I have one question. Inside the box there was a small round thing with numbers on it, like a dial. Nobody here knows what it is for. Could you tell me how to use it? I have a photo, but I do not want to send a big photo if your line is slow.
We are all well. Father hurt his neck last month, but he can walk again now. Please come and stay with us when you visit Taiwan.
Sincerely, Amy
親愛的瑪麗阿姨：
謝謝您從加拿大寄來的箱子。那些湯匙送達時一點刮痕都沒有，媽媽已經把它們放進廚房的櫥櫃了。她說那些太好看了，不適合每天使用。
我有一個問題。箱子裡有一個小小圓圓、上面有數字的東西，看起來像個轉盤。這裡沒有人知道它的用途。您能告訴我怎麼使用嗎？我有照片，但如果您的網路很慢，我不想寄太大的照片。
我們都很好。爸爸上個月弄傷了脖子，但現在已經可以走路了。您來台灣時請來我們家住。
敬上，艾咪
Look around your living room. The chair you sit on may have started as a tree in Australia, and the carpet under your feet may have come from a small town far away.
A hundred years ago, most families in Taiwan used furniture made in their own village. A bed or a bookcase was built by a person whose name everyone knew, and it was made to last for three or four families.
Today a chair costs less, but it often lasts only a few years. Some people now buy old furniture and fix it. They say that an old desk with a mark on it holds something a new one cannot: the story of the people who used it before.
看看你的客廳。你坐的椅子可能一開始是澳洲的一棵樹，腳下的地毯可能來自遙遠的小鎮。
一百年前，台灣大多數家庭使用的是自己村裡做的家具。一張床或一個書櫃是由大家都認識的人打造的，而且做得能用上三、四代。
今天椅子便宜多了，卻常常只能用幾年。現在有些人改買二手家具來修。他們說，一張有刮痕的舊書桌擁有新家具沒有的東西：那就是曾經使用它的人的故事。