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The Weekend-Christmas Chronicles II(C0022)
A:Really,gentlemen,you can’t take me to jail!Don’t you know who I am?Kris Kringle,you know,Papa Noel,Pere Noel,Babbo Natale,sheng dan lao ren!
B:Y eah,Y eah,we’ve heard that one before,haven’t we Joe?
C:Y eah,last week we booked this guy who claimed to be the tooth fairy!Can you believe that?
A:It’s Christmas Eve and I have all these presents to deliver!Where is your Christmas spirit?What will happen when all the children wake up tomorrow and don’t?nd any gifts in their stockings?
B:Sorry buddy,you were parked in a no-parking zone,you were speeding,and you have no ID!
C:Besides that,even if we let you go now,your sleigh has been impounded and those reindeer were taken to the city zoo.
A:What!This is unbelievable!What’s this world coming to?Christmas is ruined!
C:What’s that up ahead?It looks like...elves!!
Elves!!Whoa,they’re shooting candy canes!
Mayday,Mayday,we are under heavy attack!We need backup!
Key Vocabulary
take someone to jail phrase take someone who is ar-
rested to a place where
other criminals are kept
book verb arrest(informal) claim verb say something is true
when some people say it
may not be true
stocking common
noun,sin-
gular large sock;tradition-ally,Christmas gifts are put inside on the Christmas Eve
speed verb drive faster than legal
speed limit impound verb held by the police ruined Adjective damaged or destroyed
reindeer common
noun,non-
variable large deer that lives in the north part of the globe
elf common
noun,sin-
gular small creature(in sto-ries)that have pointed ears and magic powers
candy cane common
noun,plu-
ral a stick-shaped candy with red and white curves on the top
under heavy phrase being attacked or hurt backup common
noun,non-
variable
help Supplementary Vocabulary
charge verb formally accuse some-
one of a crime
pull someone over phrase make a moving car
move to the side of the
road
ambush common
noun,sin-
gular
a sudden attack
stocking stuffer common
noun,sin-
gular
small gifts that are put
in the Christmas stock-
ing
Christmas or-nament common
noun,sin-
gular
decoration that is used
to make the Christmas
tree beautiful