Lesson 69
LILY:Hi,LiLei.Sorry I'm late.The traffic was very bad.
LI LEI:That's OK,Lily.Now we need to wait for Jim.
LILY:Yeah.He phoned me yesterday.He said he was coming.
LILEI:Did he know when and where we were meeting?
LILY:Yes.Ten o'clock,here at the Angel Coffee Shop.
LILEI:It's a quarter past ten already.
LILY:Well,I'm sure he'll be here before long.
Let's have a cup of coffee.
(Lily and Li Lei are drinking coffee and talking at a coffee shop)
LI LEI:It's half past ten now!Where's Jim?I'm beginning to get angry wiht him!
LILY:Yes,we can't wait any longer.Let's go without him.
JIM:Hi,Lily!Li Lei!I'm very sorry I'm so late.
LI LEI:What happened?
JIM:Well,first I was so busy reading a novel that I forgot to look at the time.
JIM:Well,first I was so busy reading a novel that I forgot to look at the time.
LILY:That's really bad excuse!
JIM:Yes,I know.But then I took a taxi so that I would get here gaster.
LI LEI:Oh?So why were you still late?
LILY:That's terrible!Are you OK?Was anyone hurt?
JIM:No,no one was badly hurt.
I banged my head,but it's not too painful.
Come on.Let's go to the zoo.
Choose the best words from the box to complete the sentences.
painful quickly ill confident steep
1 This morning,Dad felt so( ill )that he couldn't go to work.
2 My leg was so( painful )that I couldn't move it.
3 The mountain was so( steep )that very few of us reached the top.
4 India's population is growing so( qickly )
that soon it may be larget than China's.