Mr Smith works in a factory in the middle of the city. The factory is not far from his home. It is about 800 meters away. So Mr Smith doesn't go to work by bus. He usually goes there by bike, sometimes he walks to work. It takes(花费) him 10 minutes to get there by bike or 20 minutes on foot. He usually leaves home at ten minutes to eight. Today something is wrong with his bike. He wants to walk there. His work starts at half past eight in the morning and finishes at a quarter(一刻钟) to five in the afternoon.

    The Clark family just finished Sunday dinner.

    "What's for dessert（甜点）, Mom? "Johnny asked.

    "How about an apple pie?" Mrs. Clark said.

    "Yummy!" said Johnny's two sisters Amy and Molly.

    "Well, I would like fifteen minutes of pie please." Johnny said with a big grin（露齿而笑）.

    "Fifteen minutes of pie, what does that mean（意思）?" Asked his younger brother Paul.

    "Mr. Dean is teaching us about time in school." Johnny answered. He was in second grade and they were just starting to learn how to tell the time on a clock. " He told us that the clock can be divided（分成）into four fifteen minute sections, like the pieces of a pie. Fifteen times four is sixty and there are sixty minutes in an hour. "

    "Very good son!" Mr. Clark said smiling.

    "So then may I have fifteen minutes of pie please?"

    Johnny asked again when his mother put the dessert on the table.

    Mrs. Clark looked at her son. "How about you have ten minutes of pie and give the rest（剩余）for us!" She answered.

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