-
What animal has a head like a cat, eyes
like a cat, a tail like a cat, but isn't a cat?
A
kitten.(
小猫
)
What
surprising
things
happen
every
24
hours?
Day
breaks,
but
doesn't
fall;
night
falls,
but
doesn't break.
What can hear you without
ears and can answer you without a mouth?
An
echo.(
回声
)
What do you know about the kings of
France?
They are all dead.
What question can you never answer
'yes
Are you asleep?
Why do some old people never use
glasses?
They must prefer
bottles to glasses.
You play with this
——
(ball)
You eat with this
——
(spoon)
You drink with this
——
(straw)
You talk with this
——
(mouth)
You look with his
——
(glasses)
what man cannot live in a house?
什么人不能住在房子里
?
Key
：
snowman
（雪人）
What never asks questions
but gets a lot of answers?
什么东西永远不问问题但是却能得到
很多答案
?
Key
：
dictionary
（字典）
A mouse has a large
pocket
．
What is
it?
一种鼠有一个大袋子，它是什么
?
Key
：
a
kangaroo
（袋鼠）
You have it
．
You
read it
．
There're some
pictures in it?
你拥有它，你可以阅读它，它有些
图
片在里面，它是什么
?
Key
：
book
（书）
One story about
Jack
，
an
Irishman
，
who was not allowed
into Heaven because he was stingy with
his money.
关于万圣节有这样一个故事。
是说有一个叫杰克的爱尔兰人，
因为他对钱特别的吝啬，
就不
允许他进入天堂，而被打入地狱。
So he was sent to hell. But down there
he played tricks on the Devil
（
< br>Satan
）
，
so he was kicked
out of Hell
and made to walk the earth forever carrying a
lantern.
但是在那里他老是捉弄魔鬼撒旦，所以被踢出地狱，罚他提着灯笼永
远在人世里行走。
Well
，
Irish
children made Jack's lanterns on October 31st from
a large potato or turnip
，
hollowed
out with the sides
having holes and lit by little candles inside.
在十月三十一日爱尔兰的孩子们用土豆和萝卜制作
“
< br>杰克的灯笼
”
，
他们把中间挖掉
、
表面上
打洞并在里边点上蜡烛。
And Irish children would carry them as
they went from house to house begging for food for
the
village Halloween festival that
honored the Druid god Muck Olla.
]
为村里庆祝督伊德神的万圣节，孩子们提着这种灯笼挨家挨户乞讨食物。
The Irish name for these lanterns was
，
as
Jack-o'-lantern
and
now
spelled
traditional
Halloween
you
can
read
about in most books was
just children's fun night.
这种灯笼的爱尔兰名字是<
/p>
“
拿灯笼的杰克
”
或者
“
杰克的灯笼
”
，缩写为
Jack-o'-lantern
。现在<
/p>
你在大多数书里读到的万圣节只是孩子们开心的夜晚。
Halloween celebrations would start in
October in every elementary school.
在小学校里，万圣节是每年十月份开始庆祝的。
An ox and a dog
serve for the same farmer.
一头牛和一只狗同时为一个农夫工作。
One day the dog
arroga
ntly says: “How grand I am! In
the daytime, I watch out for the cattle in
the meadows; at night, I guard the
house. But you…”
一天
,
狗骄傲地说着；
?
我是多么重要啊！
白天我在牧场看护家群，
晚上我看家。
而你呢
…..?”
“Me? How about me?”
the ox says
“
我？我怎
么啦？
“
牛反问。
“You can only plough or
draw a cart,” the dog slightly says.
“
你只会犁地或是拉车。
”
狗轻微地说。
“Yes.
It?s true,” the ox says. “But if I don?t plough,
what do you guard?”
“
是的。你说得没有错，
”
牛回答道。
< br>“
但是如果没有我犁地，你看护什么呢？
”
Adding Eyes to a
Dragon
画龙点睛
Mr. Li is a good painter. One day he
draws a beautiful dragon without eyes.
李先生是位很好的画家。一天画了一条栩栩如生的龙，但是这只龙没有眼睛。
Mr. Zhou looks at the
picture and says, “The dragon has no eyes. It
isn?t a good picture.”
周先生见了
说：
“
这条龙没有眼睛。这不算一张好画。
”
But Mr. Li
smiles and says, “If I add eyes to the dragon, it
will fly away.”
可是李先生笑着说：
“
如果我给它加上眼睛，它就会飞走了。
”<
/p>
Mr. Zhou shakes
head and says, “You are boasting. I don?t believe
you.”
周先生摇头说：
“
你吹牛。我不相信。
”
Mr. Li isn?t angry. He
holds the paintbrush and adds eyes to the dragon.
Wow! The dragon really
flies.
李先生也不生气，只是拿起笔给龙点上眼睛。哇！龙真的飞走了。
Three Foxes
三只狐狸
Once there were three foxes, they
worked together. They lived a happy life.
从前有三只狐狸，他们愉快地工作和居住在一起。
Little by little, the
youngest fox became lazy, and often quarreled with
the other foxes. The eldest
had to
leave, and the second fox was driven off, too.
渐渐地，最小的狐狸变得又懒又坏，经常同其他的两只狐狸争吵，气走了它的大哥和二哥。
Looking at the
warm house with a lot of good food in it, the
youngest fox smiled.
最小的狐狸得意地住在温暖的房子里享受着丰富的食品。
The eldest fox opened a new
hill again. The second eldest fox dug a pool. Two
of them because
rich soon. The youngest
fox ate up the food left by the other two foxes.
In the end
，
it
felt so cold
and hungry that it could
not stand up.
老大重新开了一块小山坡种地。
老二挖了池塘，
不久他们过上了富裕的生活。
最小的狐狸吃
完了那些狐狸留下的所有食物，最后又冷又饿连站也站不起来。
The King and His Stories
国王和他的故事
Once there was a king. He likes to
write stories, but his stories were not good. As
people were
afraid of him, they all
said his stories were good.
从前有一个国王，他喜欢
写故事，但是他写的故事很不好。人们怕他，都说他的故事好。
One day the king showed his
stories to a famous writer. He waited the writer
to praise these stories.
But the writer
said his stories were so bad that he should throw
them into fire. The king got very
angry
with him and sent him to prison.
有一天国王把
他的故事给一名作家看，
他想要作家赞扬他的这些故事，
而作家
说他的故事是
如此的差以至于该扔进火里。国王很生气，把他送到监狱。
After some time, the
king set him free. Again he showed him some of his
new stories and asked
what he thought
of them.
过了些日子，
国王给了作家自由。
国王重新将自己的一些新故事给作家看并问他感觉怎么样。
After reading them, the
writer at once turned to the soldiers and said:
“Take me back to prison,