— It's more convenient.

    Many years ago an old couple(夫妇) walked into a small hotel at 1:00 in the morning. "Could you 1 give us a room here? " the husband asked. A2 clerk with a big smile said," All of our rooms are3 But I can't send a nice couple like you4into the rain at 1: 00 in the morning. Would you mind5 in my room? It's comfortable and clean.

    The couple6 at first, but the clerk kept on," Don't7 me.

I'll be fine." So the couple agreed. 8 the old man paid his bill the next morning, he said to the clerk," You should be the manager of the9 hotel in America. Maybe some day I'll10 one for you.

    The clerk smiled. The three of them had a good laugh.

    Two years passed. The clerk got a 11 from the couple. It included a ticket12 New York, asking him to visit them. The old man 13 him in New York, and took him to a great new building.

    "That's the 14 I've just built for you to manage.

    "You 15 be joking."

    "I can assure you I am not."

    The old man was William Waldorf Astor, founder of one of the world's best hotels- Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

    Some people have a very poor sense direction. Unluckily, I am one of them. I (visit) a place many times but I may still get lost there the next time.

    When I was a little girl, I never dared to ask (stranger) the way. And so I used to walk round in circles and hope that by chance I would get to the place I was going to.

    Now, I am longer shy to ask people for directions, but 1 often receive helpless or even wrong information. So I try to avoid (give) people wrong directions. If anyone asks me the way, I will say," Sorry, I am a stranger here.”

    Once on my way work, I was stopped by a man. He asked me could tell him the way to the Friendship Building, I gave him my usual reply. But just as I walked on only a few steps, I found he had asked the way to my office building. However, I had no time to turn back and look for him. I was rushing to meet with someone at my office and I didn't want to keep him (wait).

    When I just got to my office, the secretary (秘书) showed in the man who had asked me for directions. Imagine how embarrassed I was and how (surprise) he was when we saw each other at the first sight!

David: Excuse me, sir. Could you please tell me the to the Space Museum?

Man: Sorry, I'm new here,

David: Thank you all the same.

(Then David asks a woman for help.)

David: Excuse me, could you tell me I can get to the Space Museum?

Woman: Sure. Go this street. When you reach the traffic lights, turn left. At the end of the road, you'll see it.

David: It's very kind of you, By the way, is it from here?

Woman: No, it is very near.

David: Can I take a bus to get there?

Woman: Of course.

David: bus can I take?

Woman: You can take the No.17 bus.

David: Thank you.

Woman: It's my pleasure.