练习材料：
After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to shops. It was still early when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying. I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the door-knobs. I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the door-bell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter.
任务配置：L0+L4
知识笔记：
pastry 面糊
meat pie 肉馅饼
dismay 失望 disappointed
no sooner …than 一/刚…就 过去完成时+过去时
a registered letter 挂号信
练习感悟：
在读英语的过程中，要注意英语的语调，尤其是要注意意群。英语的意群对应调群，也就是说，意群应当连在一起读，并且意群里面不应有停顿。再加上英语朗读的节奏，是有重音的节奏。所以在读一段话的时候，应当有适当的停顿，有连读，有弱读，也有强调。这些变化一定要足够的明显，让人能听出来。因为中国人说英语的一个问题就是没有语调。这点要注意。
