Xiao Wang went to the office to bring an umbrella for the manager. However, the manager was not in the office — he had just gone downstairs. The secretary asked Xiao Wang to wait in the office for the manager to come back upstairs.
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场景对话二 · Dialogue 2
大明和小花爬山时，为什么腿和脚疼？他们后来在哪里休息？
Why did Daming and Xiaohua's legs and feet hurt during the hike? Where did they rest afterwards?
Because they had been walking for an hour, and the path down the mountain was very difficult to walk. Xiaohua said going up was easy but coming down was hard — their legs and feet were bound to hurt walking down. They eventually sat down under a large tree to rest, waiting until their feet stopped hurting before continuing.
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场景对话三 · Dialogue 3
太太为什么打电话给丈夫？丈夫说什么时候下楼去？他叫太太带什么下来？
Why did the wife call her husband? When did the husband say he would go downstairs? What did he ask the wife to bring down?
The wife called because she had bought a new car and already driven it back downstairs, asking her husband to come down and see it. The husband said he would go downstairs after talking to the secretary, and would be there in five minutes. He also asked his wife to bring an umbrella down because it was still raining outside.
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白话短文 · Narrative Essay
短文中的"我"今天做了哪些事情？请按时间顺序说出至少三件。
What did the narrator do today? Please describe at least three things in chronological order.
① 上午，"我"到办公室，秘书告诉他经理已经下楼去开会了；② "我"拿了一把伞下楼去找经理，下了楼就看见他了；③ 下午，太太打电话说买了一辆新车，开回楼下来了；④ 下班以后，他们一起去爬山，上山容易下山难，腿和脚都疼；⑤ 在树下休息，太太说用反问语气感叹爬山的快乐。
① In the morning, the narrator arrived at the office and was told by the secretary that the manager had gone downstairs for a meeting; ② He took an umbrella and went downstairs to find the manager — and saw him the moment he came down; ③ In the afternoon, his wife called to say she had bought a new car and driven it back downstairs; ④ After work, they went hiking together — going up was easy but coming down was hard, and both legs and feet hurt; ⑤ They rested under a tree, with the wife using a rhetorical question to express the joy of the climb.