单词和短语
post office 邮局
Oregon ['ɔrigən] n. 俄勒冈州（美国州名）
mailbox ['meilbɔks] n. 邮筒，信箱
mail carrier 邮递员
zip code 邮递区号；邮政编码
button ['bʌtn] n. 按钮；纽扣
take off ( 飞机) 起飞
答 案
1. D 2. B 3. E 4. C 5. A
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How the Mail is Delivered
信件的流程
Read the paragraphs below to learn how the mail is delivered. The paragraphs are not in the correct order. Read the texts carefully and decide which should be first, second, third, fourth and fifth. Write the order in the boxes below.
读下列段落了解信的流程。下列段落并不是按正确顺序排列的，仔细阅读全文，按1、2、3、4、5的顺序正确排列文章，并把答案写到下面的表格中。
A. Thursday morning the mail carrier for Main Street picked up her pile of letters. She sorted all of them by street address. The people at 1 Main Street got their mail first. Dave lived at 221 Main Street. He got his letter before lunch.
A. 星期四早上，街道信差拿起一撂信件，把它们按街道地址一一分类。住在街道的第一户人家最先收到他们的信。戴夫住在街道221号，那么在中午前就可以收到胡安写给他的信。
B. Juan lives in New York. He wrote a letter to Dave. Dave lives in Oregon. Juan put the letter in the mailbox on Monday night. On Tuesday morning a truck stopped at the mailbox. The mail carrier put the letters into a large bag and took the bag to a post office in New York.
B.胡安住在纽约，他给住在俄勒冈州的的戴夫写了一封信。星期一晚上，胡安把信放进了邮筒。星期二一早，一辆卡车停在邮筒旁。信差把邮筒里的信件放进了一个大袋子里，把它们带回了纽约邮局。
C. By noon the letters were in an airport in Oregon. Mail trucks then took them to post offices. One of these was in Dave's town. Wednesday night people in Dave's town sorted the letters by street name.
C. 当天中午这些信件就抵达了俄勒冈的机场，然后邮政车把它们运往当地邮局，其中一些信就是发往戴夫所在的城市。当天晚上戴夫所在城市的邮局工作人员把这些信件按照街名分类。
D. The post office has plenty of work to do. It handles thousands of letters per day. Let's follow a letter all the way across America.
D. 邮局有大量的工作要做，他们每天都要处理数千封邮件。让我们看看一封信在美国的流程。
E. Tuesday afternoon the letters were sorted. Zip codes were used to sort the mail. A machine picked up a letter and held it. A worker read the Zip code. Then the worker pushed five buttons on another machine. The worker had only one second to do this. After the worker pushed the buttons, the machine put the letter in a box. By Tuesday night the box was on a truck. The truck went to the airport. An airplane took off for Oregon on Wednesday morning. Juan's letter went on the airplane.
E. 星期二下午，工作人员开始给这些信件分类。邮政编码是信件分类的依据。一台机器捡起一封信并握住它。一名工作人员读信上的邮政编码，然后按另一个机器上的五个按钮，这个动作只需一秒钟的时间。按完按钮后，机器把信件放到一个盒子里。星期二晚上，这个盛着信件的盒子就会被放到卡车上，继而卡车载着它前往机场。星期三早上一架飞机起飞前往俄勒冈州，胡安的信件就在这架飞机上。
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