参考词汇:丑小鸭ugly duckling 天鹅swan
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A cactus (仙人掌) stood all alone in the desert, wondering why it was stuck in the middle of the desert. “I do nothing but stand here all day,” it sighed. “What use do I have? I am the ugliest plant in the desert. My spines (刺) are thick, my leaves are tough, and my skin is uneven. I can’t offer shade or juice to the passing travellers. I don’t see that I am of any use at all.” All it did was stand in the sun day after day, growing taller and fatter. Its spines grew longer and its leaves grew tougher. It truly was strange-looking.
“I wish I could do something useful,” it signed. By day, hawks (鹰) circled high overhead, and the cactus called, “What can I do with my life?” Whether they heard or not, the hawks flew away. At night the moon floated into the sky and cast its pale light on the desert floor. “What can I do with my life?” the cactus called. The moon only stared coldly as it continued its course.
A lizard (蜥蜴) passed by, leaving a little trail in the sand with its tail. “What worthy deed can I do?” the cactus called. “You?” the lizard smiled, pausing a moment. “You can do something. Just wait for the right moment. The hawks circle their ways overhead, making beautiful patterns for us all to admire. The moon hangs high like a lantern at night, so we can see our ways home to our loved ones. Even I, the lowly lizard, have something to do. I decorate the sands with these beautiful trails as I pull my tail along. And you, you will show us your beauty some day.”
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It went on year after year, and the cactus grew old.
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The desert hadn’t known such a flower of it.
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Whose gold coins?
In a village, a wise man often thought, “Nothing can come to a village whose people only complain and expect others to solve their problems.” One day, he bad an idea to teach people a lesson.
The wise man dressed up and went to the main road of the village. He placed a large stone in the middle of the street and hid gold coins under the tone. Then he hid behind a huge tree and watched.
The first person who came along the street was a milkman with his ear. He crashed into the stone, spilling (酒出) the milk everywhere. “What fool put this stone here?” he shouted. He picked himself up and angrily went away.
A moment later, a group of women down the street, each balanced a pot of water on her head. One woman tripped (绊倒) over the stone and her water pot went crashing to the ground. She picked herself up and walked away in tears. Neither she nor her friends thought about moving the stone out of the road.
The wise man kept watching all day as many people complained about the stone, but he found nobody making an attempt to move it. The wise man was deeply disappointed. “What a shame! Is there no one in this village who feels it very important to keep their neighbors from harm?”
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Just then, a young girl was coming along.
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The wise man stepped out from behind the tree.
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The fairest woman in the world was Helen.
So matters stood when Paris gave the golden apple to Aphrodite. The Goddess of Love and Beauty knew very well where the most beautiful woman on earth was
Menelaus returned to find Helen gone, and he called upon all of Greece to help recover her. The chieftains responded
Army had arrived, the King was plowing a field and sowing it with salt
Achilles was kept back by his mother. She sent him to the court of Lycomedes and made him wear women’s clothing, hiding him among the maidens. Odysseus was dispatched by the chieftains to bring him out. Disguised as a peddler he went to the court
So the great fleet made ready.
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The Animal School Adapted from a work by George H. Reavis Once upon a time, the animals decided to organize a school. They adopted a curriculum consisting of running, climbing, swimming and flying. To make it easier to administer(管理), all the animals took all the subjects. The duck was excellent in swimming, but he made only passing grades in flying and was very poor in running. So, he had to stay after school and also drop swimming in order to practice running. This was kept up until his webbed feet were badly hurt and he was only average in swimming. The squirrel was excellent in climbing until he developed disappointment in the flying class where his teacher made him start from the ground up instead of from the treetop down. He also got a D in running. The eagle was a problem child. In the climbing class he beat all the others to the top of the tree, but insisted on using his own way to get there… |
Aladdin and his mother lived a poor life in Arabia. One day, he got an old lamp under a tree. WHOOSH! When he rubbed it, noise, fire and red smoke came from the lamp, and out of the smoke came a very big jinnee（神仙）. “ I’ am slave of the lamp. What is your wish,master?” Cried the jinnee.
With this magic lamp, Aladdin and his mother became rich and he even married the princess. He owned all the happiness. Meanwhile, he was respected by people around for his kindness to the poor. However, he was envied by Abanazar a magician from Morocco who wanted Aladdin’s magic lamp very much but he didn’t know where the lamp was hidden. So he got out his seven black stones which were magic too, and put them in water. Then he was informed that the lamp was in a palace in Arabia.
Abanazar flew to the palace and plotted his dirty plans. For the next week Abanazar watched Aladdin’s palace until Aladdin and his friends left the palace to go hunting in the hills one day.
Abanazar passed off himself as an old man, selling lamps in the street. “But not for money.” a slave-girl reported to the princess, “the old man said, ‘New lamps for old. Give me an old lamp and you can have a new one’. So every body’s getting a new lamp.”
“Yes, my husband’s old lamp! Go and give it to the old man”, the princess knew nothing about the lamp and its magic, “ Aladdin will be happy to have a nice new lamp!”
The old man(it was Abanazar ,of course) fled into the hills with the magic lamp in such a hurry that his magic stones were left on the floor in front of the palace.
Para 1. Abanazar just couldn’t wait to rub the lamp.
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