典范英语7

2021年2月10日发(作者：gnp)

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第一篇

Walrus Joins In

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What will Walrus do?

Everyone at the North Pole was very excited. There was going to be a show and ANYONE

could be in it.

‘I will do skating,’ said Arctic Fox. ‘I’m good at that!’

‘I’ll do tumbling,’ said Polar Bear. ‘No one tumbles quite like me!’

‘I’ll do singing,’ said Seal. ‘Everyone says I have a very fine voice!’

‘Then I’ll do diving,’ said Whale. ‘I won a prize for diving at school, you know!’

They all looked at Walrus. ‘What will YOU do?’ they asked.

But Walrus was not good at anything.

He wasn’t good at skating, and he wasn’t good at tumbling.

He was terrible at singing, and when he tried to dive, he always got water up his nose.

He sat and chewed his whiskers sadly.

‘Never mind,’ said Arctic Fox. ‘You can watch us.’

Arctic Fox and Polar Bear and Seal and Whale practised hard for the big show.

Walrus hid behind a snowdrift and watched, and chewed his whiskers.

He wished he was good at something.

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The big night

At last, the big night arrived. Everyone sat down and waited for the show to begin. Walrus

sat in the front row. He was very excited.

Fox came onto the ice and bowed. Everyone cheered.

Then Fox began to skate. Fox skated forwards and backwards and sideways. She skated in

perfect circles and figures of eight. She was elegant and amazing!

Walrus watched and he loved what he saw. Fox made it all look so easy.

Walrus was sure that if he really tried he could skate just like Fox.

He

couldn’t

stop

himself.

He

just

had

to

leap

onto

the

ice

and

join

in

with

Fox.

“I

can

skate,” he cried. “Look at me!”

But Walrus couldn’t skate at all. He could only trip up and fall over.

He bumped into Fox, and Fox went flat on her face. FLOMP!

Fox was very upset. “Walrus has RUINED my act,” she wailed.

Next,

it

was

Polar

Bear’s

turn.

He

rolled

out

across

the

ice

like

a

big,

white

snowball.

Everyone clapped wildly.

Then Polar Bear began to tumble. He did jumps and spins and somersaults, and stood on

his head.

Walrus watched and he loved what he saw. Polar Bear made it all look such fun. Walrus

was sure that this time, if he really tried, he could tumble just like Polar Bear.

All of a sudden, Walrus just couldn’t stop himself

, and he leaped onto the ice.

“I can tumble too,” he cried. “Look at me!”

But Walrus couldn’t tumble at all. He could only trip up and fall over. He tripped up Polar

Bear, who came down with a WALLOP!

Of course, Polar Bear was pretty angry. “Walrus has RUINED my act,” he wailed.

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From bad to worse

It was Seal’s turn next. She gave Walrus a don’t

-you- dare stare, and then she started to

sing:

“O, how many heart rejoices when I see the Northern Lights.

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My ear is filled with voices sweetly singing

in the night!”

Walrus

listened.

What

a

beautiful

song!

Surely

if

he

really

tried,

he

could

sing

as

beautifully as Seal? Oh, dear. Walrus just couldn’t stop himself again.

“I know that song,” he cried. “I can sing it too!”

He leaped up and started singing along with Seal.

But Walrus couldn’t sing! He sounded terrible. In fact, he sounded like a rusty old bucket.

Seal stopped singing and burst into floods of tears.

“Walrus has RUINED my song,” she wailed.

Wale was last. He was pretty certain that Walrus could not ruin his act.

Whale leaped high out of the water. Then he fell back with an enormous splash!

Walrus watched. He wished that he could dive like that. His flippers began to twitch, and

his whiskers bristled with excitement. He tried and tried his very best not to join in.

But then he had a brilliant idea.

“I’ll hold my nose when I dive,” he thought. “Then the water won’t go up it!”

Walrus just couldn’t stop himself. He had to join in.

“Everybody, look at me!” he cried, as he leaped into the water. “I can dive too!”

But just at that moment, Whale was getting ready to spout a big jet of water.

WHOOSH!

Whale spouted Walrus high into the air!

Everyone was watching Walrus now. They clapped and cheered as Walrus landed back in

the sea with a SPLOSH!

Whale was furious. “You are a meddling, incompetent BUFFOON!” he roared. “You have

RUINED my act. Now GET OUT OF MY SIGHT!”

Whale was pretty scary when he was angry. Walrus turned tail and fled. He hid behind a

snowdrift, feeling sad and very sorry.

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The show will go on!

The show was over. Fox and Polar Bear and Seal and Whale stood in a line, blushing and

wishing that Walrus had not ruined everything.

But everyone was cheering like mad.

“Well done, Polar Bear, well done, Seal! Well done, Fox and Whale!” they shouted. “But

where’s the clown? Why isn’t he here? Where’s Walrus?”

Behind is snowdrift, Walrus heard the cheers. Were they really cheering for him, too?

Yes! They were!

He shuffled up to Fox and Polar Bear and Seal And Whale.

“I’m very sorry,” he said.

“So you should be,” said Fox.

“At least everyone thought you were part of the show,” said Polar Bear.

“I

suppose,”

said

Seal,

“if

Walrus

was

really

part

of

our

next

show,

it

couldn’t

be

any

worse.”

Wa

lrus was overjoyed. “Me?” he cried.

“Truly? Can I be part of the show? Can I

join in

next time?”

“Yes,” said Whale. “It will be

a lot safer that way. You can be the clown. As long as you do it properly.”

Walrus practiced hard and became a very good clown indeed. Now he is so good that Fox,

Polar Bear, Seal and Whale are glad he is taking part.

Sometimes, when Walrus is clowning around, they really just can’t stop themselves. They

have to join in too!

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第二篇

Noisy Neighbours

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Mr Flinch

In a grim, grey house in a grim, grey town lived an unhappy man.

It

was

not

his

grey

house

that

made

Mr

Flinch

unhappy.

It

was

not

that

he

was

poor,

because he was not. Mr Flinch was a miser. He never gave away a penny. ( He never gave away

a smile either. ) He was a mean and miserable man.

Mr Flinch was miserable because of his neighbours.

On

one

side

of

Mr

Flinch’s

grim,

grey

house

stood

a

jolly

red

one.

It

belonged

to

Carl

Clutch who mended cars.

Carl loved cars

–

and motorbikes and vans and lorries. Every morning, Mr Flinch woke up

to hear hammers banging, spanners clanging and engines revving. The whole street shook with

the noise.

On the other side, in a bright blue house, lived a music teacher called Poppy Plink. Each

morning,

Poppy

sat

down

and

played

grand

tunes

on

her

grand

piano.

After

breakfast,

her

students started to arrive.

Violins screeched, drums thundered and bassoons bellowed. Mr Flinch shut his window,

but the noise still came through the wall. Brum

–

brum, tootle

–

toot, bang! His whole house

shook and shivered.

He put his fingers in his ears.

He rapped on the wall … but his neighbours did not hear.

They were far too happy. They were mending cars and making music, and they loved their

work.

Brum

–

brum, tootle

–

toot, bang!

Mr Flinch rap rapped until he made holes in his wallpaper. It did no good.

Mr Flinch locked himself in a cupboard. He wound old towels round his head.

He wrote angry letters, but tore them all up. ‘ Stamps cost far too much money!’ he said.

Even in bed, he wore a hat to keep out the noise.

But the cars still revved and the music still jangled.

Mr Flinch was the grey filling in a noise sandwich.

‘This can’t go on,’ Flinch thought to himself. He even shouted it out loud:

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Nasty Tricks

Mr Flinch we

nt next door to Carl’s house. Carl was mending cars. It was easy to sneak into

his kitchen and put a dead rat in the fridge.

‘That will get rid of him!’ said Flinch, and smiled a nasty smile. ‘Nobody wants to live in a

house with rats!’

At midnight, Mr Flinch climbed on to his roof and

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carefully, carefully

–

crawled across

the tiles. He put his head down Poppy’s chimney and gave a long, loud, ‘Hooowooowoooo!’

‘That will get ride of her,’ he said with a grim grin. ‘Nobody wants to live in a house wit

h

ghosts!’

Then he climbed back into bed.

Next morning, Mr Flinch woke to a HUGE noise. Cars and lorries were stopping outside.

He looked out of his window.

Carl was sitting outside in the rood, with a table, a kettle, a loaf of bread and a bottle of

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tomato sauce.

Carl called to Mr Flinch, ‘Can’t use my kitchen today! Rays, urgh! My mum is cleaning up.

She told me to eat my breakfast outside. That’s how I got this great idea! Take –

away breakfast!

Drivers can stop here and buy breakfast.’

Just

then, Poppy Plink came running out of her blue front door. ‘Oh, Mr Flinch! Oh, Carl!

Guess what happened last night!’

‘I give up,’ said Mr Flinch, with a sumg smirk. ‘Do tell.’

Poppy beamed with joy. ‘Last night, angles sang down my chimney! They did, I promise!’

She frowned. ‘But the music wasn’t very good! I think they want some new songs to sing! I’m

sure they want me to write them, and I shall! Oh I shall!’

She did.

Poppy still had to teach music all day.

But at night she wrote angle music. She made it nice and loud, with lots of cymbals and

trumpets.

It was all too much for Mr Flinch.

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Mr Flinch has a Plan

Mr Flinch went next door to Carl’s house.

He showed Carl a fistful of money. ‘The day you move house, all this is yours!’ he said.

‘Anything you say, chief,’ said Carl, wiping his dirty hands on a rag.

‘As long as I can mend cars, I’ll be happy anywhere.’ Carl went on, ‘I’ll move out as soon as

I can sell the house!’

Next, Mr Flinch went to Poppy’s house and offered her a hatful

of money. ‘The day you

move house, all this is yours!’ he said.

‘Of course! If that is what you want, dear heart! Cried Poppy.

She had never seen so much money in her life. ‘As long as I have my music, I can be happy

anywhere! I will move out just as

soon as I can sell my little house!’

Mr Flinch went home a happy man

–

well, as happy as a man like Mr Flinch can ever be.

He felt in his empty pockets and gulped. ‘All that money gone! Ah, but soon those noisy

neighbours will be gone, too!’

In a few

days, Mr Flinch’s neighbours had sold up their houses.

Now, at last, he would have peace and quiet

–

nothing but the noise of mice scratching in

the empty cellar.

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Moving Day

Mr Flinch watched as Poppy Plink moved out. Bo-jangle went the piano as she pushed and

bumped it down the steps.

‘Going already are you, you pest?’ he mutted. ‘I pity the person who has to live next door to

you!’

Seeing him, Poppy waved up at the window.

‘Such luck, Mr Flinch!’ she called. ‘Fancy! A few days ago, I met so

meone who wants to

move house too! We agreed to swap houses!’

Just then, Carl came out of his front door carrying two heavy tool boxes. He saw Poppy

struggling with a harp and went to help her. ‘All set, Poppy? he said.

‘All set, Carl! Isn’t this fun!’

She replied.

Then Carl moved into Poppy’s bright house and Poppy moved into Carl’s jolly red one.

They helped each other to carry the big things, like tables and sofas.

Then Carl had a house- warming party. He and Poppy sang, because they were so happy:

‘There’s no place like home!’

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Mr Flinch heard it right through the wall of his house … even inside his cupboard, even

with a towel round his head.

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第三篇

Princess Pip’s Holiday

1 Ready to go

Everyone

in

Princess

Pip’s

castle

was

very

busy.

The

King

was

polishing

his

money,

the

Queen was choosing sun hats, and the maids were running around with piles of vests.

“ Can I take Dobbin on holiday?”asked Princess Pip.

“I’m afraid there won’t be room for a pony on the coach ,”said the Queen.

“Oh, ”said the Princess Pip. “Can Amanda and Bert come,then?”

“There ‘s no room for snakes,”said the King, “not even pet ones.”

Princess Pip scowled . “This holiday is going to be BORING,” she said.

They went on holiday in their best gold coach.

“Wave to

all the people, dear,” said the Queen.

Princess Pip folded her arms . “ I ‘m on holiday,” she said. “Are we nearly there yet?”

“We won’t be there for a long time,” said the Queen firmly .

It

did

take

a

long

time

to

get

to

the

seaside .

The

coach

got

very

hot,

and

Princess

Pip

didn’t feel very well.

“Here we are,at last!” said the King happily.

“But it’s a castle!” said Princess Pip. “Just like ’s BORING.”

2 Just like home

There was a girl waiting by the castle door.

“This is Daisy,”said the Queen. “She is going to look after you,Pip.”

Daisy showed Princess Pip her room.

“I don’t want a four

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poster bed!” said Princess Pip. “That’s just like home.”

“You can sleep on my straw mattress , then,” said Daisy. “ I’ll have the bed.”

“Oh, all right.”said Princess Pip.

That evening there was a banquet and it went on for hours.

“More sprouts?”asked the King happily.

This is BORING,”said the Princess Pip.

“Nonsense(

胡说

),dear,”said the Queen. “It can’t be boring. We’re on holiday!”

“ I WANT TO GO HOME!” said Princess Pip, the next day. She had been walking round

the castle walls all morning and she hadn’t found anything to do.

“But we’re having a wonderful time,” said the Queen,from her sun chair.

“Just look at the way my money shines in the sun,” said the King. “Wonderful!”

“ But it’s BORING!” said Princess Pip.

“Why don’t you go and talk to Daisy?” suggested the Queen.

Princess Pip stomped off.

“That does it,” she said to Daisy. “I WANT TO GO HOME!”

3 The road home

“If you stayed here a bit longer,you might start liking the seaside,” said Daisy.

But Princess Pip wasn’t listening. She was putting all her important things in her suitcase.

“I think we’ll have to take some things out,”said Daisy.

Daisy found them both backpacks, and they set out for home.

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Princess Pip and Daisy went across the drawbridge and along the road.

It was very hot.

“Let’s have a nice,cool snack,”said Daisy.

So they got some fish sticks from a stall.

“These aren’t bad,” admitted Pri

ncess Pip.

“They taste best by the seaside,” said Daisy. “ I’ll show you where the fish come from, if

you like.”

They

went

down

some

stone

steps

to

a

place

where

the

sea

swished

backwards

and

forwards and the ground looked as if it was made of gold.

“Look in these pools,” said Daisy.

The fish were hard to catch.

”You could take your stockings off,” said Daisy, “and use them for nets.”

It was nice without shoes and stockings on. It was even nicer once Princess Pip had taken

off her coat and crown.

The fish looked very cross at being caught

，

so Princess Pip let them go.

“It’s not too bad here,” said Princess Pip,at last. “ I want to stay here all the time.”

“Let’s build a sandcastle, then,” said Daisy.

“A sand HOUSE,” said Princess Pip.

It was hard work, but they built a huge house, with a moat all around.

Soon the sea came in and filled the moat.

“That’s just right.”said Princess Pip. “Make it stop coming in now,Daisy.”

But the sea kept on coming in......

...... and soon it had washed their house FLAT.

“ We built our house too close to the sea,”said Daisy, sadly.

“STUPID SEA!”shouted Princess Pip. “STUPID SEASIDE! I WANT TO GO HOME!”

4 Riding the dragon

Princess Pip and Daisy put on their shoes and picked up

their backpacks.

“I’m tired,”said Princess Pip, very soon. “ I want to ride Dobbin. Are we nearly home, yet?”

“Why don’t you ride one of the horses on that merry

-go-

round?” suggested Daisy.

“Oh, no,”said Princess Pip. “ I’m going to ride that dragon.”

The dragon went very fast, and there was lots of exciting music--but then it all stopped.

Everyone got off.

“But....we’re still here!” said Princess Pip, crossly, as she got off ,too.

“At least it wasn’t boring,” said Daisy.

“I WANT TO GO HOME!” shouted Princ

ess Pip.

“At least it was fun,” said Daisy. “Everything is fun here because it’s a FUN

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fair.”

Princess Pip sniffed. “ What’s fun about it?” she asked.

“I’ll show you,” said Daisy.

They went down the roller coaster.

Then they went UP and UP and ....DOWN again.

“AARRRRGH!” yelled Princess Pip and Daisy.

“Let’s go on it again,” said Princess Pip.

“ Tomorrow, perhaps,” said Daisy, who had gone very pale.

“BUT I WANT...” began Princess Pip.

“Hello!” said a voice.

It was the King. The Queen was with him.

“Where’s Princess Pip?” the King asked Daisy.

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“Here !” said Princess Pip.

The King and the Queen stared at her.

“You can’t be Pip!” the Queen gasped. “You’re all dirty,and you have no stockings!”

“But I am!” said Princess Pip, and put on her crown to prove it. “Look! It’s me, and I’ve

found a place where the ground is made of gold!Come and see.”

Daisy and Princess Pip showed them the beach.

“ Good heavens!”said the King. “How wonderful! It’s just the color of money.”

“What a perfect place for my sun chair,”said the Queen.

The beach was a perfect place for picnics and games, and races, too. Everyone loved it.

Then one day the King said: “ What a pity we have to go home tomorrow.”

Princess Pip scowled, and she said...

“I don’t want to go home!!!”

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第四篇

Oh, otto!

Something important

The children in Class Four were busy working

Then their teacher, Miss Underwood, said: ‘I have something very important to tell you.’

She smiled and said: ‘A new boy is coming to our class. His n

ame is Otto and he comes from far,

far away. In fact, he comes from outer space…’

( this is Otto’s first day at earth school. Here he is…)

The

door

opened

and

a

boy

came

in.

he

looked

just

like

the

other

children-but

he

was

a

different colour. he was green.

Miss

Underwood

told

Otto

to

sit

with

Jo

and

Charlie

and

Josh.

Then

she

looked

at

Jo

and

added, ‘I want you to take care of our new boy and give him a hand if he needs it.’

‘please, Miss,’ said Otto. ‘I’m not NEW. I’m seven and a half. And I don’t already. Look!’

‘Oh, Otto!’ Miss Underwood smiled. ‘just sit down and be a dear.’

Otto sat down.

Then he said, ‘I don’t think I can be a deer…but I can quack like a duck.’

He flapped his arms, like wings, and went: ‘Quack! Quack! Quack!’

Charlie joined in: ‘Quack! QUACK! QUACK!’

Miss Underwood smiled at Otto. ‘No quacking n class!’ she said.

Then she frowned at Charlie. ‘Charlie!’ she said. ‘you know better than that! Get on with your

work.’

‘It’s not fair!’ Charlie grumbled. ‘I get into trouble and that new boy doesn’t!’

That’s when Charlie decided he didn’t like Otto. He didn’t like him one bit.

Charlie is cross

Otto made a lot of mistakes.

Charlie leaned back on his chair. Otto tried to do the same thing. But he fell down…

…and so did all the paints.

Now Charlie was green too-

and he wasn’t happy about it.

Charlie got crosser and crosser and crosser.

At playtime, when Otto was in the playground, Charlie decided to scare him.

‘If you stand there, you’ll get eaten by a bear,’ said Charlie.

‘A bear! Where?’ Otto sc

reamed.

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Charlie goggled. ‘we keep the bear in the head’s office. All Earth schools have a bear,’ he went

on. ‘sometimes the bear gets out…and sometimes it’s hungry!’

Otto looked very scared.

Treasure Hunt

That afternoon the class was having a Treasure Hunt. All the children were looking forward to

it.

Miss Underwood gave each pair of children the same clue.

‘I want you to work in a pair with Otto,’ she said to Jo.

‘Work in a pear?’ said Otto ‘How? It will have to be a big pear. Not too juicy. We could all

get

sticky.’

Jo laughed. ‘Oh, Otto! You don’t understand anything! ’

The Treasure Hunt began.

Charlie worked with Josh. Jo worked with Otto.

This was the clue that they had to follow:

( start at the classroom door.

Then walk along.

Don’t go right.

Then you

won’t go wrong.)

‘What does that mean?’ said Charlie.

‘I don’t know,’ said Josh. ‘But when Miss Underwood hid the treasure last time, it was in the

playground.’

‘Let’s go there!’ Charlie said to Josh. ‘Quick! We’ll be first.’

Otto jumped up to follow them-but Charlie had a plan. He stuck out his foot and tripped Otto

up.

‘Enjoy your trip!’ Charlie laughed, and ran off with Josh.

Jo helped Otto up.

All

the

other

children

ran

out

of

the

classroom

and

followed

Charlie

and

Josh.

They

turned

right, towards the playground.

Jo sighed. ‘Now we’re going to be last.’

‘We won’t be last,’ said Otto, ‘because they’re all going the wrong way. Look at the clue.’

(Start at the classroom door.

Then walk along.

Don’t go right.

Then you won’t go wrong.

Otto

pointed

at

the

clue.

‘it

means

we

start

here

-

at

the

classroom

door

and

we

don’t

turn

RIGHT-

because that would be wrong. We have to turn LEFT.’

They set off in the other direction to the rest of the children.

Charlie and Josh were looking for treasure in the playground and they were getting fed up.

‘there’s nothing here,’ said Charlie. ‘Let’s look inside the school.’

They went back into the school hall, past the head’s office and that’s when they saw it…

‘there IS a bear!’ Charlie said. ‘there really is!’

They ran screaming back to their classroom.

‘Help! Help! We’ve seen a bear.’

Oh, Otto

Jo and Otto had turned left and walked along the corridor.

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.

‘Look!’ said Otto.

There was an arrow and it was pointing to a plant pot.

Jo picked up the pot and found a map.

There was another clue on the map.

(clue number2

Follow this map if you want to do well.

Just look in the place where you find a spell.)

Jo and Otto followed the map to the school library.

Jo read out the clue again:

Follow this map if you want to do well.

Just look in the place where you find a spell.

‘I understand!’ said Otto. ‘look

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there’s a pile of spelling books. That’s where we’ll find a “spell!”’

‘You’ve got it, Otto!’ said Jo.

Behind the pile of spelling books, there was a box of golden coins. ‘Yum!’ said Jo. ‘It’s chocolate

money!’

Back in the classroom, Jo and Otto shared out the treasure chocolate.

‘But what’s the matter with Josh and Charlie?’ asked Otto.

Some of the other children laughed.

‘Charlie and Josh thought they saw a bear!’

‘A bear!’ said Otto. ‘Jo told me you were making up that story to scare me.’

Charlie

looked

ashamed.

‘It

wasn’t

really

a

bear,’

he

said.

‘It

was

the

head’s

big

new

coat

hanging on the door…’

‘But it LOOKED like a bear,’ said Josh.

Charlie and Josh went bright red.

‘Don’t worry,’ said Otto. ‘Everyone makes mistakes. Have a chocolate.’

‘I’m sorry I made fun of you,’ said Charlie.

Charlie looked so sad that Miss Underwood felt sorry for him.

‘We’ll forgive you, Charlie,’ she said. ‘we all have bad days.’

She smiled. ‘You and Josh seem to have lost your heads, today!’

‘Oh!’ said Otto. ‘Shall I look for their heads, Miss? I’m good at finding things!’

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第五篇

Captain Comet AND THE Purple Planet

1 Spanner is bored

It

was

a

quiet

morning

at

Stardust

Space

n

Stella

was

checking

the

space

shuttle.

Captain Comet was watering the plants and Spanner the robot was bored.

‘Can I sit at the control desk?’he asked.

‘All right,’said Captain Comet,‘But don’t touch anything and don’t press that red button.’

Spanner sat down at the desk and looked at all the buttons.

There were buttons to open all the space station doors and buttons to turn on all the lights.

There was even a button to flush all the toilets!

There was also a big red button,labelled‘Gravity’.

Spanner was not

sure what ‘Gravity’was.

‘I’ll press it very quickly,’said Spanner,‘to see what it does.’

He pressed the red button.

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Captain Comet was watering the plants when he had a strange feeling.

He was floating above the floor!The plant pots were all floating,too.

He guessed what had happened.

‘Spanner!he shouted ,‘I told you not to touch that red button!’

Spanner saw that gravity was what made things stay on the floor.

There was no gravity in space,so the space station made its own..

Spanner pressed the red button to make the gravity come back on again-and all the pot

plants fell to the floor.

Comet fell to the floor beside them.

‘SPANNER!’Comet groaned.

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It must be a plant

Spanner was cleaning up the mess for the rest of the morning.

When

he

turned

the

cleaner

off,everyone

heard

a

beeping

noise

was

coming

from the space scanner.

Everyone stopped what they were doing and came to look.

‘The scanner has found something,’said Comet.

He pointed to a flashing dot that was moving across the scanner screen.

‘I wonder what it is ?’said Captain Stella.

‘Is it an asteroid?’asked Spanner.‘An asteroid is a lump of rock that floats in space.’

‘I know that!’said Captain Comet.‘Anyway ,it’s too big to be an asteroid,’

‘Then it must be a planet,’Spanner said.

‘Where has it come from?’asked Comet,’And why is it moving so fast?’

‘You’d better go and have a look,’said Captain Stella.

Comet

and

Spanner

set

off

in

the

space

shuttle

to

look

for

the

new

r

was

very excited.

‘I’ve never found a new planet before,’he said .‘What shall we call it ?’

‘Let’s find it first ,’said Comet.

But Spanner wasn’t listening.‘I’m going to call it Planet Spanner,’he said.

Spanner made a humming noise and a flag came out of a slot in his chest.

‘What are you doing?’asked Comet.

‘I’ve made a flag to put on Planet everyone will know that we were the first

to find it,’Spanner explained.

He showed Comet the was bright red with two spanners on it.

Comet had to s

mile.‘Very nice,’he said.

3

On the Purple Planet

The planet looked very was purple and covered in huge spikes.

Comet landed the shuttle carefully on the planet.

Then he got out to have a look around.

Spanner stayed in the shuttle,making a flagpole for his flag.

Spanner found a metal rod.

He fastened the flag to one end of the rod and put the other end into a hole in his chest.

There was a noise like an electric pencil he took the rod out again,it had a

nice sharp point.

Comet was looking at one of the giant purple felt soft and warm.

‘That’s very odd,’thought Comet.‘This spike feels like it’s alive.’

Just

then

Spanner

arrived

with

his

new

flagpole.‘I

name

this

planet

-

Planet

Spanner!’he

said proudly.

.

.

‘NO!STOP!’Comet yelled.

But before Comet could stop him,Spanner hammered the sharp flagpole into the ground.

There was a huge roar.

‘What was that?’asked Spanner.

‘Quick,back to the shuttle!’shouted Comet,as the ground began to shake.

They strapped themselves into their seats and Comet blasted off.

Spanner looked at the planet’s surface was spinning around.

Then the opening of a big,dark cave came into view.

Around the outside of the opening were large,jagged rocks.

‘Look!’said Spanner.‘They’re like giant teeth!’

Comet stared at the screen.

‘That’s because they ARE giant teeth!’he said ,as two huge,angry eyes came into view.

‘It’s not a planet…’said Comet,’…It’s a SPACE MONSTER!’gasped Spanner.

4

Space Chase

‘Why is it so angry with us ?’cried Spanner.

‘You’ve just hammered a big sharp flagpole into its backside,’explained Captain Comet.

The huge teeth snapped shut behind them.‘It wants to eat us!’wailed Spanner.’We’ve got to

get away!’

‘That’s what I’m trying to do

!’said Comet.’But it’s too fast!’

Comet fired the shuttle’s he tried to make a sharp turn,as the monster zoomed

towards them..

‘What are we going to do ?’cried Spanner.

Just then,Captain Stella’s face appeared on the had been wa

tching them on the

space scanner.

Captain Comet tried to make another sharp space monster was getting closer and

closer.

‘Are you all right?’Captain Stella asked.’What’s going on?’

‘WE’RE

GOING

TO

BE

EATEN!’wailed

Spanner,’BY

A

PRICKLY

PURPL

E

SPACE

MONSTER THE SIZE OF A PLANET!’

‘Apart from that,everything ‘s fine,’said Comet,making the shuttle dive to dodge the giant

teeth.

‘Can I help ?’asked Captain Stella.

‘No,’said Comet,‘You’re too far away. Is there anyone closer?’

Stella looked at the space map and shook her head.

‘No,there are no space stations or planets

-

only asteroids,’she said.

‘Asteroids!’Comet said.‘Tell me where they are .I’ve got an idea!’

5

Into the Asteroids

The space shuttle zoomed towards the asteroids.

Spanner and Comet had never been so close to the asteroids before.

Some of the asteroids were as big as office blocks.

‘What

are

you

doing?’cried

Spanner,

as

Comet

flew

through

a

narrow

gap

between

two

giant asteroids,‘If you hit one of them at this speed, we’ll be smashed to bits!’

‘It’s the only way to get away from the monster,’explained Comet.‘The gaps are so narrow,

it can’t follow us .’

Comet

was

space

monster

stopped

chasing

them.

Then

it

flew

up

to

an

asteroid-and took a big bite out of it .

Comet

and

Spanner

watched

as

the

monster

chomped

its

way

happily

through

two

or

.

.

three asteroids.

‘It eats asteroids!’ Spanner said.

‘I’m glad it didn’t eat US!’Comet smiled.

‘We

didn’t

find

a

new

planet

after

all,’grumbled

Spanner,on

the

way

back

to

the

space

station.

‘No,’said Comet.’But we did find a new kind of space monster.’

‘That’s true,’said Spanner.’But how will anyone know that we were the first to find it ?’

Captain Comet took one last look at the purple monster ane smiled.

‘Oh,they’ll know. After all , it does have YOUR FLAG sticking out of its bottom!’he said.

6

第六篇

JUNGLE SHORTS

1

It

was

Friday

3

had

put

on

their

coats

and

were

waiting

in

a

line

to

go

was at the back because the zip on his anorak(

防水衣

)had stuck(

卡住

).He was so

busy with the zip that he nearly missed what Mr Cox the teacher said.

‘Here

is

a letter for you all.’said Mr Cox.‘Don’t lose it and don’t forget to give it to your

is good news inside.’

Lenny wanted to know what the good news rushed across the playground to meet

his mum.

‘Quick!Open this letter,’he said. ‘Mr Cox says there is good news inside’

‘Say

hello

to

me

first!’laughed

his

mum,but

she

opened

the

read

it

and

told

him.‘Class 3 is going to have football school will lend you some boots’

‘Wow!’shouted Lenny.‘Real football! I bet I score fifteen goals!’

His mum pet the letter in her bag.

‘What about a stripy(

带条纹的

) shirt and socks? Can I have a real football s

trip?’begged(

央

求

) Lenny.

‘Wait and see.’said mum.

At home Lenny couldn’t get out of his anorak and his mum had to help him.

‘I’m glad you didin’t break the zip. I can’t get you another coat until next month.’she said.

‘I don’t want a new coat,’said Lenny,‘but can I have a real football strip?Please?’

‘Ask me after tea,’said his mum.

They had pancakes for tea with jam and es were Lenny’s today

he ate as fast as he could.

He put down his knife and fork with a clatter.(

当啷

)

‘You promised(

许诺

) to talk about football things after tea.’he said.

Mum took Mr Cox’s letter from her bag.

‘Each child will need an old T

-

shirt and some socks,’she read.

‘No real football things?’ asked Lenny.

‘I’m sorry, for

Cox wants

you all to have new ’ll go to the market tommorrow to look for some.’

Lenny

was

not

happy

buthe

knew

his

had

made

up

her

mind

and

that

was

looked great.

‘I bet they always had a proper(

像样的

) football strip,’he thought.‘I bet they didn’t have to

wear an old T-

shirt.’

That

night

he

lay

awake

was

going

to

make

sure

his

mum

bought

football

.

.

shorts. He wanted proper white football he knew he could score lots of goals.

2

After breakfast the next day they set out to buy the new market was two streets

away from where Lenny the way they saw Ted and Shane from Class and Shane

lived near were kicking a ball about beside the road

Shane slammed the ball over to him and Lenny kicked it back.

‘Want to play?’called Ted.

‘I can’t,not now.I’m off with my mum to buy new football shorts.’

‘We’ve got ours already,’Ted shouted back.

The market was very ne was looking at the fruit and vegetables piled high

on the were shoes and clothes for sale under stripy canvas(

帆布

) roofs(

屋顶

).One

man was selling shorts

‘Get your jungle shorts!’he shouted.

He was wearing a wide straw hat (

宽檐草帽

)and an enormous(

巨大的

)pair of jungle shorts

over his had big green trees on with monkeys smiling at the top .

‘Big or small,they don’t cost much,’said the man.

‘No thanks’ said Lenny. ‘I m going to strart football lessons next weak.I need real football

shorts.’

He pulled at his mum’s strug

gled through the crowds trying to find real football

shorts. They found lots of shorts that were too big and

a little white pair that was too

small

When they did find a pair tin Lenny’s size they cost far too much money.

‘We’ll just have to get the junngle shorts,’said Mum.‘The colours are lovely. I’m sure you’ll

like them better than white ones.’

Lenny pulled a face ‘Oh mum’he said ‘But——

‘No buts’ said his mum.

They went sloowly back to the man selling jungle shorts .The pile(

堆

) on his stall had gone

down a lot.

‘I knew you’d come back. I put aside a pair just for you’said the man.

He held a pair of junngle shorts against(

比较

) Lenny’s tuousers.

‘A perfect fit!’he said with a smile.

Lenny’s mum opened her purse and paid for the sharts. The ma

n put them in a bag and

handed it over.

‘There you are,son .Have fun wearing them!’

Lenny did not smile .‘I wish they were real football shorts.’ he said.

‘Junngle shorts are the next best thing.’ said his mum.

On the way home they saw Tessa and Pam from Class 3 kicking a ball against a fence(

围墙

).

They lived at the top of Lenny’s street.

‘We can’t wait till Monday for football said the girls. We’ve got new shorts!’

‘So have I’ said Lenny. But he didn't open his bag to show them.

3

On

Monday

ofternoon

Class

3

were

waiting

for

their

first

football

lesson.

Everbody

was

noisy and excited ,swinging(

摇摆

) their bags of football things .Lenny was at the back with the

jungle shorts in his bag. He didn't want to put them on.

Mr Cox carried a big box of boots into the changing room. They spent a long time finding

boots to fit everyone.

‘Now put on your football things and be quick about it,’ he said.

Lenny got changed in a corner behind the door.

.

.

When they wer all ready Mr Cox shouted, ‘get in line, everyone!’

Lenny made sure he was at the back again. He didn't want anybody to see his jungle shorts

and he hid behind Ted. He looked down to see what Ted was wearing and got a surprise.

Ted was wearing

jungle shorts as well!

Lenny nudged(

用肘碰

) him in the back and

said

‘Your shorts are the same as mine!’

‘Yes,’ said ted ‘and the same as pam’s and tessa’s and shane’s!’

It

was

true.

All

the

friends

from

Lenny’s

street

were

wearing

junngle

shorts.

Mr

Cox

smiled.

‘Five childred in the same shorts. it muse be a record!’ he said.

‘And we all live in lyon street’ said Lenny.

‘In

that

case(

既然这样

)

you

must

all

play

for

the

same

team

you

can

be

the

Lyon

Street

Lions.’

When Mr Cox had sorted out(

挑选

)three more teams they went out to the playing field.

They played five-a-side football until home time. The lions team beat all the others and Mr

Cox said they were the scored five goals.

In the changing room the children untied(

解开

) their muddy(

沾满泥水

) boots and put on

their clothes.

‘All k

it(

球服

) must be washed and boots clean for next Monday.’ said Mr Cox ‘Don't leave

it for your mum. Do it as soon as you get home and then you won’t forget.

Lenny was the first to be ready and he ran to meet his mum at the gate. He told her about

his five goals and the Lyon Street Lions

‘We’d

better

go

home

quickly

now

said

Lenny.

‘

I

have

to

clean

my

boots

and

wash

my

shorts!’

And

when

Mr

Cox

drove

home

for

his

tea

later

on(

晚些时候

)

he

smiled

to

himself.

On

Lyon Street there were five pairs of jungle shorts blowing on the washing lines.

7

第七篇

The Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om

There was a problem at the castle. “I give up,” said Mrs Binns, The royal cleaner, “there’s too

much work here for one person.” Mrs Binns gave Queen Norah the keys to the castle and

left.

Queen Norah told the rest of the royal family. “what are we going to do?” asked the Princess

Jane. “For a start ,you cannot have your friends round here any more . ’ said

Queen

North.

“why not?” asked Princess Jane. “Because they make too much mess.” “perhaps we can all try

to keep the castle tidy,” said King Harry. “I’m sure that Captain Jones and Captain Smith will

help. I can even do a bit of washing myself.”

“what!” shouted Queen Norah. “people will say that King Harry does his own cleaning! Never!”

“we can put up an advert for a cleaner,” said Princess Jane. “Good idea,” said Queen Norah.

“Write an advert at once.” Princess Jane wrote a notice. She pinned it to the castle door.

The days went by and nobody came to ask about the cleaning job. The castle became dirtier

and dirtier. There were no more clean clothes and no more clean plates.

One

morning

Queen

Norah

heard

singing

coming

from

the

kitchen.

She

popped

her

head

round the door. She saw a shocking sight.

King Harry was at the sink doing the dishes. Captain Smith was mopping the floor. Captain

Jones was washing the royal shirts.

“stop this at once, ” cried Queen Norah. “these are not jobs for a king and his captains. You

should be out fighting dragons. ”

.

.

“we’ve never seen any dragons,

dear,” said the King. “you have never even looked for them,”

said Queen Norah.

Queen Norah was so upset that she made up her mind to go on a royal tour that minute. ‘and

you three: don’t even think about doing the cleaning,’ she added, ‘you will go on a

quest while

I’m away.’

‘a quest?’ said King Harry, he went pale, ‘ a quest for dragons?’

‘you can look for them, too.’ Said Queen Norah. ‘but the main job is to find a new cleaner.’

‘ what about me?’ asked Princess Jane.

You can stay at home and don’t

let any burglars in or your friends.’

Queen Norah sent for her royal cases and bags and began her royal tour.

King Harry, Captain Jones and Captain Smith set off on their quest for a cleaner. They looked

very unhappy.

Princess Jane waved them goodbye.

‘

it’s not fair.’ Sniffed Princess Jane. ‘everyone’s off on quests and tours, and I am stuck on my

own in this smelly old castle.’

Princess Jane stuck out her lip and had a good suck.

She had just finished her suck when there was a knock on the castle door.

Princess

Jane

opened

the

door.

There

stood

three

figures

in

masks.

‘we

are

the

Masked

Cleaning Ladies of Om’ said one.

‘we were sent by your father, King Harry,’ said another.

‘that was quick.’ Said Princess Jane, ‘where is my father?’

‘chasing dragons.’ Said the third masked figure.

‘why are you masked ?’ asked Princess Jane

‘we have to protect ourselves from the dust.’ Said one, ‘can we start?’

All day the Masked Cleaning Ladies scrubbed, dusted, washed and polished. By evening, the

castle sparkled.

‘now that the castle is clean you can take off your masks.’ Said Princess Jane.

‘oh, no’ said one, ‘we can’t do that.’

‘why not?’ demanded Princess Jane

‘er,er,’ said another, ‘if we take off our masks we won’t be the Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om.’

Princess Jane began to think very hard. Burglars often wore masks. Queen Norah had told her

not to let burglars into the castle.

The next day, Princess Jane set out to find out who the Masked Cleaning Ladies really were.

The

first

Masked

Cleaning

Lady

was

in

the

kitchen,

stuffing

a

pile

of

dirty

shirts

into

the

washing machine.

‘Hm,’ she said, ‘shall I wash this tablecloth on ‘hot’or ‘very hot’ ?

Princess Jane came up behind her. She grabbed the tablecloth and pulled. It over the cleaning

Lady’s head.

‘help!’ mumbled the cleaning lady, ‘where am i?’

The second Masked Cleaning Lady was scrubbing the dungeon floors.

‘Excuse me,’ said Princess Jane, standing outside one of the cells. ‘but, it’s very dirty in here.’

‘I

swept

it

only

five

minutes

ago.’

Said

the

second

cleaning

lady.

‘let

me

have

a

look.’

She

walked into the cell.

Princess Jane closed the door and turned the key.

The third cleaning lady was making a terrific noise with the vacuum cleaner. She did not see

Princess

Jane

creeping

up

behind

her.

Princess

Jane

grabbed

the

vacuum.

She

pointed

the

nozzle at the cleaning lady.

.

.

‘one false move.’ Shouted Princess Jane, ‘ and I’ll suck you into the vacuum, now, take off your

mask.’

Slowly the cleaning lady took off her mask.

‘Father!’ cried Princess Jane.

The other two cleaning ladies turned out to be Captain Smith and Captain Jones.

‘I think that you had better explain.’ Said Princess Jane.

‘well,’ said king Harry, we set off on our quest. When we reached the woods, we saw a dragon.’

‘We think we saw a dragon,’ said Captain Jones.

‘at least, we heard sth moving in the woods and it sounded like a dragon.’ Said Captain Smith.

‘so we thought we had better come home.’ Said Captain Jones.

‘we dressed up as cleaners.’ Said Captain Smith.

‘we rather like doing housework,’ said King Harry, ‘we like the smell of polish.’

‘we like the hum of the vacuum cleaner.’ Said Captain Jones.

‘we like the feel of soap flakes.’ Said Captain Smith.

‘and it’s much less dangerous than fighting dragons.’ Added King Harry.

‘dragons are very rare.’ Said Captain Jones. ‘it’s not fair to hunt them.’

‘Hm,’ said Princess Jane. ‘ it seems to me that you three have been telling lies, Father, you have

always told me to tell the truth.’ ‘I’m very sorry,’ said King Harry.

‘what

will

the

Queen

say?

She’ll

find

out

that

you

haven’t

found

any

cleaners

or

fought

any

dragons.’ Said Princess Jane ‘ she will send you on a year’s dragon quest.’

King Harry, Captain Smith and Captain Jones went pale.

‘ please don’t tell,’ they begged, ‘I won’t tell if …’ said Princess Jane

‘if what?’ ‘ if my friends can come round to play.’ ‘agreed.’ Said King Harry.

The next day, Queen Norah came back from her royal tour. She was very pleased to find the

castle neat and tidy. ‘so’ she said, ‘the quest was a success, who did you find?’

‘we found three cleaners.’ Said King Harry. ‘they wear masks’ said Captain Jones.

‘and they can only come on Mondays’ said Captain Smith. ‘why’s that?’ asked Queen Norah.

‘now that we have proper cleaners.’ Said King Harry. ‘don’t you think that Jane’s friends can

come here again?’

Queen Norah was so pleased to be in a nice clean castle that she agreed at once.

Every Monday Queen Norah waves goodbye to king Harry and his two captains as they set off

to fight dragons. Princess Jane’s frie

nds come to play. Later, the masked cleaning ladies of om

arrive to clean the castle. So everybody is happy.

8

第八篇

The Masked Cleaning Ladies Save the Day

1

‘let’s try the song once more, your Majesty,’ said Billy the Butler.

‘Right,’ said Queen Norah. She sang, ‘We’re going to win the cup. We’re going to win the cup.

Ooh ah the addio, we’re going to win the cup.

How was that?’

‘Much better, your Majesty,’ sighed Billy. ‘But do try to…’

‘Try to what?’ snapped Queen Norah.

‘Well,’ said Billy. ‘It would help if you sounded a little happier.’

‘It’s this song,’ said Queen Norah. ‘It’s got such silly words. But our football team is in the cup

.

.

final and I really must learn it.’

King Harry walked in.

‘Do you think we will win, dear?’

‘Of course we will,’ said Queen Norah.

‘Yes dear,’ said King Harry. ‘But the Carrot Castle team are such cheats, especially king Charles,

the manager.’

At

that

moment,

Captain

Jones

marched

in.

‘I’ve

just

had

a

message

from

King

Charl

es

at

Carrot Castle. He is very keen to know what colour shirts our team will be wearing.’

‘Green, I think,’ said King Harry. ‘And his lot can play in red. Has anyone seen Princess Jane? I

am going to run a training session for her after breakfast.’

Captain Jones giggled.

‘And what’s so funny?’ asked the King. ‘In my younger days I was know

n as the Wizard of the

Dribble.’

‘That,’ said Queen Norah, ‘was because you couldn’t eat rice pudding without putting most of it

down you shirt.’

There was a crash of broken glass from the hall.

‘Sorry,’ called Princess Jane. She came in carrying a football. ?I missed my kick.’

‘Ah, Jane,’ said Queen Norah. ‘I was watching you in training yesterday. You didn’t play well at

all. Don’t forget you are the team captain. So I have told one of the best trainers in the country

to give you some h

elp.’

King Harry bluseded. ‘I’m not quite that good.’

‘Not you, you twit,’ said Queen Norah. ‘Mr Goal.’

‘Missed a goal?’ said King Harry. ‘Don’t you mean “scored a goal”?’

‘what are you talking about?’ cried Queen Norah. ‘That’s his name. Mr Jason Goal. He’s coming

here this morning. I must dash. I have to try on my new football fan

?

s outfit.’

The Queen rushed off.

2

The dining room fell silent.

‘What’s the matter, dear?’ said King Harry.

Princess Jane let out a great long sigh.

‘Mum’s

right.

I’m

not playing very well.

I’m

supposed to score goals. At the moment I

couldn’t

s

core against a

mouse.’

’On

you head,

Jane,’

called King Harry and he threw the ball at the Princess. She jumped at th

e ball. The ball bounced off her shoulder into the marmalade.

‘See

what I

mean?’

she said sadly.

‘Never

mind,’

said King Harry.

‘By

the time

you’ve

put your kit on, Mr Goal will be here.

You’ll

soon be scoring dozens of goals. But now

it’s

time for us to get to

work.’

King Harry, Captain Smith and Captain Jones loved doing housework. Queen Norah thought t

hat housework was a job for cleaners, not captains and kings. So once a week the three men dis

guised themselves as the Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om.

King Harry and his two captains raced out of the dining room. Minutes later, dusters in hands,

.

.

and dressed as the famous cleaning ladies, they were at work tidying the castle.

King Harry and Captain Jones were polishing the cannons when they saw a man walking tow

ards the castle.

‘That

must be Mr

Goal,’

said Captain Jones.

Just as Mr Goal reached the drawbridge another man jumped out of the bushes. He began talki

ng with Mr Goal.

‘Wait a minute,’ said King Harry. ‘It’s King Charles of Carrot Castle.’

King Charles spoke to Mr Goal and then walked away.

‘What did he want?’ asked Captain Jones.

‘There’s something funny going on. We’d better keep an eye on him,’ said King Harry.

King Harry and the two captains cleaned around the castle for the rest of the morning. But they

made sure that one of them was always watching Princess Jane Mr Goal.

The three cleaners stopped for a cup of tea in the kitchen.

‘Well,’ said King Harry. ‘There doesn’t seem to be anything funny going on.’

‘I saw

the Princess put the ball in the net dozens of times,’ said Captain Jones.

‘She was heading the ball perfectly when I went by,’ said Captain Smith.

‘There’s nothing to worry about,’ said King Harry. ‘Now perhaps we can tackle the grime round

the

cooker.’

Princess Jane stuck her head round the door.

‘How are things going, dear?’ asked King Harry.

‘Brilliantly,’ said Princess Jane. ‘I’ve never played better. I’ve just poppede in to say that we’re

having one last training session. We will be in the library. Mr Goal says that he does not want

anyone to come in.’

She was gone in a flash.

‘That sounds a bit odd to me,’ said Captain Jones.

‘Very odd,’ agreed Captain Smith.

‘I think that it’s time to polish the brass,’ s

aid King Harry.

‘The brass next to the library?’ said Captains Smith and Jones.

‘Of course,’ said King Harry.

‘Well,’ whispered King Harry, ‘what can you see?’

Captain Jones was peering through the keyhole.

‘They are sitting facing each other,’ he said.

‘Yes. Yes,’ said King Harry.

‘Now Mr Goal is swinging a watch on a chain, backwards and forwards,’ said Captain Jones.

‘He’s telling the Princess about last

-

minute goals,’ said Captain Smith.

‘No he’s not,’ gasped Captain Jones. ‘He is hypnotizing Princess Jane.’

‘I wonder why?’ said King Harry.

‘To help her remember tactics,’ said Captain Smith.

‘I still don’t like it,’ said King Harry.

.

.

3

Princess Jane danced into the kitchen.

‘He’s gone.’

‘How do you feel?’ asked King Harry.

‘Brilliant,’ said Princess Jane. ‘I feel ready to score loads of goals.’

‘Jolly good,’ said Captain Smith.

‘I must go and work on my penalty kicks,’ said Princess Jane . ‘By the way

, Captain Smith, I

love you new overall.’

‘Thank you, Princess.’

‘Green really suits you,’ laughed the princess as she ran off to the garden.

The three cleaners looked at each other.

‘Green!’ they said together.

‘But my overall’s red,’ said Captain Smith.

‘It’s that Mr. Goal,’ roared Captain Janes. ‘He’s hypnotized her to think that red is green.’

‘Why does he want her to think that?’ asked King Harry.

‘Because,’ gasped Captain Janes,’Carrot Castle are playing in red. If th

e Princess thinks that red

is green she will pass to the Carrot Castle team instead of ours.’

‘So that’s why King Charles was talking to Mr. Goal,’ said King Harry.

‘Can’t we snap her out of it?’ asked Captain Smith. ‘Can’t we throw a bucket of water

over her?’

‘No,’

said

King

Harry.

?That

could

be

dangerous.

I

have

a

better

idea.

Follow

me

to

Carrot

Castle.’

The Masked Cleaning Ladies stopped outside the kitchen of Carrot Castle. Mrs. Jumpkins was

pegging out the carrot Castle red football shirts. The cleaning ladies got off their horses. They

pretended to look at the shirts.

‘Oh dear,’ said King Harry.

‘Oh dear, oh dear,’ added Captain Jones and Captain Smith.

‘What’s the matter?’ asked Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘When are you going to wash these shirts?’ asked Captain Smith.

‘What do you mean?’ snapped Mrs. Jumpkins. ‘I’m just putting them out to dry.’

‘You call this clean?’ said Captain Jones.

‘Yes I do,’ said Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘It’s the dungeon for you then,’ said King Harry.

‘Dungeon?’ said Mrs. Jumpkins.’What’s the dungeon got to do with me?’

‘That’s where the last washerwoman ended up,’ said Captain Smith. ‘And she handed in shirts

cleaner than this.’

‘Oh my,’ moaned Mrs. Jumpkins. ?I haven’t go the time to do them again. The team are playing

in the cup final this afternoon.’

‘Leave it to us,’ said King Harry. ‘We can wash, dry and iron these shirts in half an hour.’

Half an hour later the King handed a parcel to Mrs. Jumpkins.

‘There you are. All done. Now whatever you do, don’t take the kit out of the bag until the team

are ready to play. Then the shirts will look perfect.’

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.

The two royal families took their places side by side in royal box. Queen Norah looked amazing

in her

new football fan’s outfit. She even had a hat in the shape of a football pitch.

The crowd cheered as the two teams ran out onto the pitch.

Princess Jane’s team was in red and Carrot Castle was in green.

‘Wait a minute,’ gasped King Charles. ‘The

teams have got the wrong shirts. Carrot Castle are

supposed to be in red.’

‘Surely,’ said King Harry, ‘it doesn’t matter what colours they play in? They must be different

colours, that’s all.

?

King Charles put his head in his hands and groaned.

‘Six nil. Six nil. Six nil,’ chanted Queen Norah. ?Oh well done!’

‘We are so proud of you, Jane,’ laughed King Harry. ‘Scoring all six goals.’

‘It’s all thanks to Mr. Goal, my trainer,’ said Jane. ‘I must show him the cup.’

‘Not toddy,’ said Queen Norah. ‘It is far too dirty. Nobody can see the cup until those cleaning

ladies have given it a proper polish.’

‘Yes dear,’ said King Harry. ‘I’ll

-I mean-

they’ll see to it next time they come.’

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第九篇

The masked cleaning ladies meet the pirates

Queen Norah was showing Princess Jane the Royal Treasures.

‘Jane’ snapped Queen Norah. ‘You aren’t listening!’

‘I’m’ yawned Princess Jane.

‘Then,’ said Queen Norah, ‘what is this?’

She pointed at a model of a horse.

‘It’s er…’ began the Princess.

‘You’re as bad

as King Harry. He doesn’t care about the Royal Treasures either.

This is the Golden Horse of Tong.

It belonged to your Great, Great, Great Grandfather. H…’

King Harry came in.

‘The postman’s just been,’ he said. ‘This is for you.’

Queen Norah opened the letter.

‘Bad news,’ sighed Queen Norah.

‘My sister’s crown is missing.’

‘Stolen?’ asked King Harry.

‘I expect she’s just it down somewhere. You know what she’s like. I shall have to go and help

her find it.’

‘What day is it?’ said Queen Norah.

‘Monday?’ s

aid King Harry.

‘Correct. The cleaning ladies will be coming. The front of the castle needs a jolly good scrub, I

want you to stay here and make sure those cleaners do a good job.’

‘Yes, dear,’ said King Harry.

‘I shall lock up the Royal Treasures. I don’t

want our Royal Treasures being lost or stolen.’

King harry waved goodbye to Queen Norah.

‘Now,’ said King Harry to Captain Smith and Captain Jones.

‘It's time for up to change into the Masked Cleaning Ladies of Om.’

The King and his two captains took over the housework when the last cleaner left. They kept it

.

.

a secret from Queen Norah by dressing up as cleaning ladies and wearing masks.

The Queen would have been furious if she ever found out.

A few moments later the three men came back, dressed as cleaning ladies.

‘The Queen won’t be back for ages,’ said Princess Jane.

‘You don’t need to wear the masks today.’

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‘Ahoy there!’ came a cry from outside the castle.

‘We are a gang of very dangerous pirates, hiding behind a rock..’

Princess Jane peeped over the castle wall.

‘Where’s your ship?’ she asked.

‘We’re saving up for one. Now give us your treasure.’

‘No!’ shouted King Harry.

‘Then we will make you walk the plank,’ yelled the voice.

‘Have you got a plank?’ called the King .

‘No. We’ll throw you to the sharks, then,’ shouted the voice.

‘There aren’t any sharks round here,’ called Princess Jane.

‘Look,’ shouted the voice.

‘Just hand over your treasure.’

‘We can’t give them the Royal Treasure,’ said King Harry.

‘Because the Queen has locked the room and she has the key.’

‘We will have to fight them,’ said Princess Jane.

‘Fight?’ said King Harry.

‘You mean us?’ gasped Captain Smith and Captain Jones.

Princess Jane took out her telescope and looked at the rock.

‘I can only see three pirates. They don’t look fierce, but they are dirty.’

‘Dirty! Said King Harry.

‘The

Masked

Cleaning

Ladies

know

about

dirt.

We

shall

need

hot

water,

soap,

polish

and

duster.s’

‘You can’t start cleaning now,’ said Princess Jane.

‘Ah,’

said the King. ‘This is a very special

cleaning

job.

Captain Smith, go

and

polish the big

shield in the main hall. Captain Jones, you must the floor. I shall run a nice, hot, soapy bath.’

‘What shall I do? Asked Princess Jane.

‘You keep them talking,’ said the King.

A bit later King Harry yelled, ‘OK, you dirty pirates, came and get us!’

The three pirates rushed out from behind the rock.

They ran across the drawbridge. The doors opened.

The pirates stopped. There in front of them was a cleaning lady. She was armed only with a

duster.

‘This is going to be easy,’ said the first pirate.

The pirates raced forward. The cleaning lady was really Captain Smith and he pulled his duster

to one side.

Beneath it was the royal shield.

It was so shiny that the pirates were dazzled. They hid their eyes.

They did not see the floor that Captain Jones had polished.

‘Help!’ yelled the pirates as they skidded on the slippery floor.

They slid down the hall, straight into the bathroom.

The three pirates landed in a lovely hot, soapy bath.

.

.

Before they had time to say, ‘Ahoy there,’

they were being scrubbed and soaped.

‘OW!’

‘Hold still!’

The pirates wiped the soap out of their eyes. They saw King Harry, Captain Smith and Captain

Jones dressed as cleaning ladies and holding up mirrors.

‘Oh no,’ said the first pirate.

‘We’re clean.’

King Harry was holding a camera.

‘Please don’t take our picture,’ said the pirates.

‘It’s would be terrible if other pirates found out. Please we’d do anything.’

‘You have wasted a lot of our time,’ said King Harry.

‘Now, put these aprons on. You can help with the cleaning.’

‘Cleaning?’ said the pirates.

‘Yes,’ said King Harry, ‘Or I’ll take your picture.’

Soon, the King and his captains and the three pirates were all scrubbing away at the castle wall.

3

A trumpet sounded.

‘Oh no,’ said King Harry. ‘That means that Queen Norah is back.’

‘She’ll find out that we are the cleaning ladies,’ said Captain Smith.

‘She’ll be furious.’ said Captain Jones.

‘What shall we do?’ wailed Captain Smith.

‘There’s only one thing we can do,’ said King Harry.

‘The three pirates must pretend to be the cleaners.’

‘Good idea,’ said Princess Jane.

‘You go and get changed and I’ll watch the pirates.’

The drawbridge was lowered. King Harry ran to meet Queen Norah.

‘Did you find your sister’s crown?’ he asked.

‘It was under the sofa,’ said the Queen. She looked up and saw three pirates scrubbing at the

front wall of the castle.

‘Those cleaners haven’t got their masks on.’

‘Er, uh, er,’ gasped King Harry.

‘I am glad. They have such honest faces, said the Queen,

‘Come down at once, your

cleaners.’

The three pirates stood before the Queen.

‘What day is it?’ said the Queen.

‘Monday? Said the pirates.

‘Pay day,’ laughed the Queen,

‘Oh dear,’ said King Harry.

‘Oh yes,’ said the pirates.

The Queen opened her purse. The pirates held out their hands.

‘But

-

’ began Captain Jones.

‘Your majesty…’ said Captain Smith.

‘What a fess,’ said Queen Norah.

‘Anyone

would

think

that

you

had

done

the

cleaning.

Now

cleaners,

come

with

me.

I

was

showing Jane the Royal Treasures this morning. They need a good po

lish.’

Queen Norah walked off with the three pirates.

King Harry whispered to the two captains, ‘I don’t trust those pirates. Follow me.’

.

.

Queen Norah unlocked the door.

‘This is the room where we keep all the Royal Treasures,’ she said proudly.

‘Are they worth a lot of money? ‘ asked the first pirate.

‘This is the Golden House of Tong. It is worth thousands,’ she said.

‘Thousands, eh?’ said the second pirate. ‘When I come back,’ said Queen Norah, ‘I want to see

those treasures shining.’

‘Right lads,’ said

the first pirate.

‘Let’s grab the stuff.’

The pirates stuffed the treasures into their aprons. They ran towards the main door.

King Harry, Princess Jane and the two captains came out from behind the curtain.

‘Not so fast!’ said King Harry.

The pirates stood still.

‘Give those Royal Treasures back at once!’

Sadly, the pirates took the treasures out of their aprons.

‘Now,’ said King Harry to Jane.

‘Take those treasures back before the Queen finds out that they are missing,’

‘I will,’ said Jane. She dashed of

f carrying the treasures.

‘Let's face it,’ said King Harry. ‘You are no good as pirates.’

One of the pirates began to sniff.

‘Why don’t you do something honest?’ said Captain Smith.

‘You made a very good job of cleaning the castle,’ said King Harry.

‘You should become cleaners.’

‘That reminds me,’ said Captain Jones.’

You still have the cleaning money. Hand it over.’

The first pirate gave him back the money.

‘The pirates can have half,’ said King Harry, ‘because they did half the work.’

‘Thanks very much,’

said the first pirate.

‘Cor,’ said the second pirate. ‘This is like doing a real job.’

‘I was going to keep this,’ said the third pirate.

‘But you’ve been so kind.’

He handed King Harry the Golden Horse of Tong.

The pirates left.

‘Help! We’ve been robbed!’

yelled Queen Norah. ‘It’s those cleaning ladies. They have stolen

the Golden Horse of Tong!’

‘Do you mean this?’ said King Harry, holding out the Golden Horse.

‘Oh, thank goodness,’

She gasped ‘What are you doing with it?’

‘Er

-

um,’ said King Harry. Then h

e had an idea.

‘Oh,

yes.

I

remember.

I

was

going

to

tell

Jane

all

about

it.

It

was

given

to

King

Sam

by

the

people of Tong.’

‘Oh, Harry,’ smiled Queen Norah, ‘so you and Jane do care about the Royal Treasures.’

‘Of course we do,’ said King Harry.

‘We’d be heartbroken if they were ever lost.’

‘Or stolen,’ said Jane.

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第十篇

Jellyfish Shoes

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1

Laura had some new jelly shoes.

She was really proud of them. They were pink and see-through like raspberry jelly.

She ran down to the beach in them. Wherever she walked, they left little tracks in the sand.

Like this:

'Look, Scott,' Laura called to her brother. 'My new jelly shoes are leaving stars in the sand.'

Squidge. Laura trod in something slippery. She lifted up her shoe.

'Ughhh!' she said.' What's that mess?'

'It's only a jellyfish,' said Scott.' The sea washes them up on the beach.'

'Well, I don't like it,' said Laura. 'It looks like a jelly cow-pat.'

Slosh. The sea washed up some

more jellyfish. Pink ones this time. They

spread out in pink

puddles on the sand.

'Watch out,' said Scott.' Jellyfish can give you a nasty sting.'

'Yuk! ' cried Laura. 'There are loads of them! And, phew, what a pong! I hate them. They'll spoil

my new jelly shoes!'

Scott looked at the jellyfish on the sand. He looked at Laura's new shoes. An idea popped into

his head.

'I don't know why you hate jellyfish,' said Scott. 'What do you think your new shoes are made

of?'

Laura looked down at her shoes. They were see-through and pink. The jellyfish on the beach

were see-through and pink too.

'Don't be silly,' she told Scott. But her voice was shaky.

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'I

thought

you

knew,'

said

Scott.

'Don't

you

know

what

happens

to

all

these

washed-up

jellyfish?'

Laura shook her head.

'I'll tell you what happens,' said Scott, who was good at stories. 'The jelly workers come round.

They come round at night with bin bags. And they shovel all the jellyfish into the bags. And

they take them away to the Jelly Shoe Factory.'

He

went

on,

'And

they

make

them

into

shoes.

Just

like

the

ones

you've

got

on.

I

thought

everyone knew that!'

Laura looked down at her new shoes.

'I don't think I like my new shoes any more,' she said.

Then she tore them off.

'Yuk!' she said.

'I don't want pongy jellyfish shoes that sting me!'

She threw them into the sea.

They didn't sink. Jellyfish shoes don't sink. They just bobbed about on the waves. And washed

further and further away from the shore.

'Good riddance!' shouted Laura, waving them goodbye.

Then she tiptoed back to the house in her bare feet.

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That night Laura dreamed about the jellyfish workers. She dreamed they crept along the beach

with bin bags in their hands. They bent down and shoveled up jellyfish. Soon they had whole

shivering sackfuls of them. Flies were buzzing all around them.

'Oh no!' cried Laura, waking up. 'The jelly workers are coming!'

But it was all right. She was safe in her own bed. 'It was just a bad dream,' she told herself.

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