典范英语8 Scrapman and the incredible flying machine

Chapter 1

Scrapman was a ______ man. He lived with Winston who owned a scrap-yard.

Scrapman was made out of odds and ends that Winston had saved from old broken

machines.

His

brain

was

made

from

a

______

______

that

someone

had

thrown

away

because it was always going wrong.

Winston was working late. So late,that he was having his supper heated over a

gas ring in the shed.

Scrapman was opening a tin of ______ beans for him. At least he thought it was

a tin of baked beans.

‘

V

olly od beans,

’

said Scrapman.

‘

I can

’

t eat that,

’

said Winston, in a tired kind of voice.

‘

Can

’

t you read what it

says on the label?

’

Scrapman ______

______

______. He wasn

’

t very good at reading. He could

read his name and a few really easy words but he couldn

’

t read what it said on the cat

food tin.

Scrapcat was watching from under the workbench.

He

didn

’

t

eat

cat

food

either

because

he

was

a

mechanical

cat

and

he

______

______

______ , not cat food.

Scrapman went and sat in the corner. He felt very sad. He wished he could read

like Emma. Emma was his special friend. She was teaching him to talk like ______

______

______. She had a picture book with wonderful

stories in

it about

robots.

These were mechanical men like him but they could do amazing things.

They could drive rockets and walk on the moon and save people from fires and

floods and ______. Scrapman loved looking at the pictures, but he had to wait until

Emma came round to find out what the stories were about.

Scrapcat saw that Scrapman was sad, so he went and sat beside him.

Winston opened a ______

tin of beans and he put the tin of cat food in looking,

Scrapman took it out.

He

’

d

bought

it

______

______

______

______

Patch.

Patch

was

Emma

’

s

cat. He liked to come and play with Scrapcat while Emma was at school. He

’

d climb

in though the window when Winston and Scrapman were busy.

Then

he

’

d

show

Scrapcat

how

to

do

useful

cat

things,like

chasing

pieces

of

______

and hiding things under the workbench.

Now,

you

may

be

wondering

why

Winston

and

Scrapman

were

so

busy.

They

were working ______

______

______ on Winston

’

s incredible invention.

It

was

a

wonderful

flying

machine

that

didn

’

t

need

______

to

make

it

fly.

It

was worked by pedals like a bicycle. It was almost finished. Just a few more nuts and

bolts to fix and it would be ready for a test flight.

But where had those last few nuts and bolts gone?

Chapter 2

At

last,

the

day

came

for

the

first

test

flight.

Winston

had

______

______

______ through the scrap-yard.

The runway led out into a field,and ______

______ there was another field, so

there was plenty of

room to take off.

That

morning

,

Winston

took

off

one

of

his

socks

and

hung

it

on

a

pole

to

______

______

______

______ .

It was an east wind, steady and strong, just right for testing a plane.

Emma arrived early with Patch. She

’

d brought a special picnic and a big bottle of

fizzy lemonade to

celebrate after the flight. She found Winston and Scrapman busy

______ the machine, making some lest- minute checks. Scrapcat was running in and

out through his scrapflap giving ___ ___ ___ __ reports on the weather.

By ten o

’

clock in the morning, Winston said that everything was ready.

It

was

going to

be cold

up there in

the sky, so

he put

on a thick jacket

with

a

______ lining over his overalls. And he wore his special boggles to protect his eyes

from the wind.

‘

Open

the

doors,

’

he

said

______

to

Scrapman.

‘

Stand

well

back,

’

he

said

to

Emma and Patch.

And then, very carefully, Winston and Scrapman pushed the flying machine out

into the open.

A

small crowd had ______ outside. People had heard about the flying machine.

They had come to

______

______

______

______ of seeing it take off for the

first time.

Winston held up a hand for silence.

‘

Welcome .

’

he said. Then he said something

about

this

being

a

‘

______

occasion

’

and

everyone

clapped

and

some

people

cheered. One little boy waved the sock on the pole like a flag.

Emma

went

and

held

his

hand

to

make

him

feel

better

and

Scrapcat

rubbed

himself up against his legs.

Winston

tested

the

flaps

and

jiggled

the

joystick

and

looked

in

his

mirrors

to

check that everything was ______

______ . Then he pulled down his goggles and

______

______

______

______ . He waved proudly to the crowed.

‘

Chocks

away!

’

he

called

out,

and

Emma

and

Scrapman

pulled

out

the

bricks

from under the ______ .

Winston started to pedal. The flying machine began to move forward.

He pedalled faster and the machine ______

______

______ . Everyone in the

crowd held their breath as the flying machine shot down the runway. It got faster and

faster. Winston was pedalling like mad and going red in the face.

By the time they had pedalled the machine back to the scrap-yard the crowd had

given up and gone home. Scrapman and Winston pushed it back into the shed.

One

of

the

wheels

had

______

______ .

Winston

said

the

machine

probably