The first night, then, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any place where humans live. Therefore you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by a strange little voice. It said, “If you please—draw me a sheep!” “What!” “Draw me a sheep!”
I jumped to my feet, really surprised. I looked carefully all around me. And I saw a most special small person, who stood there examining me with great seriousness. Remember, I had the accident in the desert a thousand miles from any place where humans live. And yet my little man seemed neither to be lost in the sands, nor to be fainting (晕倒) from tiredness or hunger or thirst or fear. When at last I was able to speak, I said to him, “But—what are you doing here?”
And in answer he repeated, very slowly, as if he were speaking of a matter of great result, “If you please—draw me a sheep…”
When a mystery is too overpowering, one dare not disobey (不服从). I took out of my pocket a piece of paper and my pen. But then I remembered how I had only studied geography, history, math, and grammar, and I told the little person that I did not know how to draw. He answered me, “That doesn’t matter. Draw me a sheep…”
But I had never drawn a sheep. So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often. It was that of the snake from the outside. And I was surprised to hear the little boy greet it with, “No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a snake. A snake is a very dangerous animal, and an elephant is very heavy and big. It will take up too much place. Where I live, everything is very small. What I need is a sheep. Draw me a sheep.” So then I made another drawing. He looked at it carefully, then he said, “No. This sheep is already very sickly. Make me another.” So I had to draw again.
1. How did the writer feel when he was awakened at sunrise?2. Where did the writer have the accident?
3. What animals did the writer draw in the first picture?
4. What is the small person’s planet like?
5. Why did the small person ask the writer to draw another sheep?
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You don’t know me unless you read a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Huck’s my name, Huckleberry Finn. That book ends like this: my best friend, Tom Sawyer, and I found $ 12,000 in gold in a cave (洞穴). We became rich. We got $ 6, 000 each. My mother died long ago and then my dad, Pap, disappeared. He was always drunk (醉的) and he often beat me. Then a kind old lady called Widow Douglas took me into her home to live. She gave me a bed to sleep in and bought new clothes for me. She read stories to me and taught me how to eat at a table. She sent me to school every day. … The months passed and winter came. The weather got cold. One morning I woke up and there was snow on the ground. On my way to school I saw some footprints outside the widow’s house. My heart jumped. Pap! “He’s heard about my money,” I thought. “And he wants it!” When I lit my candle and went up to my room that night, there sat Pap — his own self! I expected to be scared of him now, but I wasn’t. I stood looking at him; he sat there — looking at me. Pap was nearly fifty years old. His black hair was long and uncombed and dirty. He had allowed hair to grow on his face, which was ghostly (幽灵般的) white. Just looking at the ugly white skin made me feel sick. His clothes? — dirty and torn. His feet showed through large holes in his shoes. His hat was on the floor— an old black hat with a large hole in it. — Taken from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
1. Who is telling the story?
2. How did Tom and Huck become rich?
They
3. Why did Widow Douglas take Huck in to live with her?
Because his mother died and his father
4. What is Huck’s father like in your eyes?
I think he is
5. In which book can you read the story?
I can read the story in the book
【推荐2】Let’s go back in time to Baskerville Hall. When I see the portrait (肖像) of Hugo Baskerville in the dining room I know that Stapleton is a Baskerville, too. Indeed Stapleton is a son of Rodger Baskerville, the younger brother of Sir Charles. Rodger runs away and disappears. No one knows that he marries and has a child. The child is Stapleton and his real name is Rodger Baskerville, like his father.
There Stapleton discovers that only two people—Sir Charles and Sir Henry, separate him from the Baskerville fortune. Soon he gets close to Sir Charles Baskerville. Old Sir Charles tells Stapleton about the legend of the hound (猎犬 ) and prepares the way for his own death. Stapleton knows that the old man’s heart is weak. And he also knows that Sir Charles believes the legend of the hound. And so he gets the idea to frighten Sir Charles to death with a hound.
Stapleton buys the huge dog in London and takes it to Devon by train. He walks across the moor with it to make sure no one sees him with the dog. He finds a hiding place for the animal in the old tin mine (锡矿). And he keeps his hound there while he is waiting for his chance.
He paints the dog with phosphorus (磷), and gets it to jump over the small gate and run after Sir Charles. The huge black creature is a dreadful sight. Sir Charles runs away screaming and falls dead on the path from shock (震惊). Then Stapleton takes the hound back to its hiding place, so Sir Charles’s death is a mystery to all.
—Taken from The Hound of the Baskervilles
1. When does Holmes know Stapleton is a Baskerville?2. Who separates Stapleton from the Baskerville fortune?
3. Where does Stapleton buy his huge dog?
4. Why is Sir Charles’s death a mystery to all?
5. How do you like Stapleton?
Some days
I didn’t find it interesting,Listening,
I didn’t find it interesting,
Talking,
So I left the house—I went miles and miles.
And I didn’t find it interesting,
Walking,
I didn’t find it interesting,
Reading,
I didn’t find it interesting,
Writing,
So I left the house—I went miles and miles.
And I didn’t find it interesting,
Travelling,
I didn’t find it interesting,
Television,
There wasn’t much on.
That night,
So I sat in a chair and I went to sleep,
A dull (沉闷的) old day.
All right.
Kit Wright
1. Who wrote the poem?2. How far did the writer walk?
3. When did the writer sit in a chair?
4. What did the writer think of the day?
5. Why did the writer do so many different things?
The boy in the Striped Pyjamas (《穿条纹睡衣的男孩》) is a novel by Irish author John Boyne. This book describes World War II from a child’s eyes. A nine-year-old German boy, Bruno, grows up in Berlin. He loves his peaceful life, with his parents, sister and three best friends.
But after a visit from Adlof Hitler, Bruno’s father, Ralf, becomes the head of the death camp Auschwits. Bruno and his family have to move there. He sees the wire fence (电线围栏) around the death camp, and the prisoners’ (犯人) uniforms — “striped pyjamas”. In the camp, he meets a Jewish boy from Poland named Shmuel. The two become good friends.
It turns out that they share the same age and birthday. If you look deeper, the boys actually mirror each other. They are both naïve (单纯的) children, unware of (未察觉) the bad times they live in.
At the end of the book Bruno dresses in “striped pyjama” and sneaks into the camp to help Shmuel find his missing father.
After searching for a while and not finding anything, Bruno gets ready to sneak back home when the soldiers start gathering Jews for a “march”. They all enter a gas chamber (毒气室) and are never heard from again.
This story tells us that people aren’t born bad or evil, and we are all more alike than different. Bruno and Shmuel wanted nothing more than a friendship, but because of the horrible world they were in, even that was just a dream.
1. What is the book The boy in the Striped Pyjamas about?2. Who is the writer of the book The boy in the Striped Pyjamas?
3. What do the two boys have in common? (请列出至少三点)
4. What happened to the two boys in the end?
5. What can we learn from the story?
The days pass. Dorothy works very hard in the kitchen. She remembers Uncle Henry and Aunt Em in Kansas. She remembers her friends the Scarecrow and the Tin Woodman. She’s very sad and she often cries. At night she goes to see the Lion. The Witch doesn’t give him anything to eat or drink so Dorothy takes him food and water from the kitchen. Then she lies down next to him, puts her head on his warm body and sleeps until the morning.
The Witch watches Dorothy all the time. She’s waiting for the right moment to take the silver shoes. Dorothy wears them all the time. She loves them. The only time she takes them off is when she has a bath. The Witch doesn’t like water so she’s afraid to go near the girl when she’s in the bath.
One day Dorothy is cleaning the kitchen and she slips on the wet floor. She falls over and one of the silver shoes comes off. The Witch is watching. She picks it up quickly and puts it on.
“Give me back my shoe!” Dorothy says.
“No! It’s my shoe now,” the Witch replies.
“You’re a wicked woman!” Dorothy shouts. “I want my shoe!”
There’s a bucket of water near the door. The girl picks it up and throws the water over the Witch.
“Aarrgh!” the Witch cries. “Water is the end of me!” And she starts to disappear in front of Dorothy’s eyes.
“I’m going,” she says. “Going, going, going.”
—Taken from the Wonderful Wizard of OZ
1. Where does Dorothy work?2. Why does Dorothy take food and drinks to the Lion at night?
3. When does Dorothy take the silver shoes off?
4. What does the Witch do after one of Dorothy’s silver shoes comes off?
5. What do you think of Dorothy?
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It was December and the snow was falling quietly outside. The four March sisters were sitting around the fire in the parlor (客厅).
“Christmas isn’t Christmas without any presents,” Jo said sadly.
“I hate being poor!” Meg said, looking at her old dress.
“Some girls have lots of nice things, and other girls have nothing at all,” said Amy.
“I don’t think it’s fair.”
“But we’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” said Beth. The four sisters looked happy for a moment when they remembered this.
Then Jo said, “But we haven’t got Father.” Their smiles suddenly disappeared. Mr. March was far away with the soldiers.
“Mother says the men are suffering (受苦) and we mustn’t spend money for pleasure,” Meg said, “That’s why we can’t have presents this year.”
“Well, each of us has a dollar to spend,” said Jo, “What can the army do with four dollars? Nothing! I don’t expect anything from Mother but I’d like to buy a book for myself.” Jo loved reading and she had a passion for books.
“I want to spend mine on some new music,” said Beth. She played the piano and she loved singing.
“I’m going to buy a box of drawing pencils. I really need them” said Amy. She wanted to be an artist. “Mother didn’t say anything about spending our own money,” cried Jo, “We work hard for it, so let’s buy what we want and have a little fun.”
It was true. The two older sisters had jobs. Meg worked as a teacher for the King family and Jo looked after Aunt, March, their father’s rich, bad-tempered old aunt. Beth and Amy helped with the housework.
Just then the clock struck six. Beth got up and put her mother’s slippers near the fire to warm.
“Those slippers are very old,” said Jo, “Mother needs some new ones.”
“I can buy a pair for her with my dollar,” said Beth.
“No, I’m the oldest,” Meg said, “I want to buy the slippers for her.”
“No, it’s my job,” said Jo. “Father told me to take care of Mother while he was away.”
“I have an idea,” said Beth. “Let’s not spend our money on ourselves. Let’s get some presents for Mother.”
Her sisters thought that it was a very good idea.
—Adapted from Little Women
1. Where were the four March sisters sitting?
