初中英语小故事

初中英语小故事

stands there.

“Hello,” she says, “I’m Mrs. “My name is Tom,” he says, Green, I live next door.”

“Come in, please,” says Mrs. White, “Bob and I are so glad to see you. Do you want any help?’

“Yes, I come here to ask for two eggs,” says Mrs. Green, “I want to make a cake.”

“You may have the eggs,” says Mrs. White, “But please sit down. Let’s have coffee and talk a little, OK?”

In the afternoon, someone knocks at the door again. Mrs. White opens it. There stands a boy with a nice smile.

“Mother gives you this cake and these two eggs.”

“Well, thank you, Tom.” Says Mrs. White, “Come in and meet my son, Bob.”

Tom and Bob are

about the same age. Soon they are having the cake and milk.

“Can you stay and

play with me?” asks Bob.

“Yes, I can stay an hour.” Tom says.

初中英语小故事

“Let’s play football, OK?” says Bob, “I have a little dog. It will play with us. ”

Tom doesn’t have a dog. He finds it is fun to play with Bob and the little dog.

“I’m glad you live next door,” says Bob, “Now I have someone to play together.”

“Mother says we will soon be good friends,” Tom answers.

“I’m glad you mother wants two eggs, “says Bob.

初中英语小故事

“She doesn’t really want the There is a big, fat

eggs,” Tom laughs, “She just wants frog living in a small to make friends with your mother!” pond. He knows every

Then Bob laughs, too. “That’s

plant and stone in the

a funny way to make friends,” he says,

“but it’s a nice way.”

funny adj.有趣的 sad adj. 忧愁的

wish v.希望 soon adv.不久

wait v.等 knock v.敲，击

smile n.微笑 fun adj.（口语）有趣的

really adv.真正地

27 The Poor Frog

pond very well, and he

can swim across it

easily. He is the

biggest creature in the pond. The other small creatures always swim behind him. So he thinks he is too great,

and very happy to live

there.

One day, when he is

catching flies for breakfast, a beautiful

dragonfly passes by. “You’re

初中英语小故事

a very fine frog.” she says, “Why don’t you live in a bigger pond? Come to my pond. You’ll find a lot of frogs there. You’ll meet some nice fish, and you’ll see many beautiful flowers. Living in a big pond is wonderful!”

“Now I find living in this small pond is dull,” the frog thinks. So he says to the dragonfly, “OK, I’ll go with you.”

初中英语小故事

But when he begins to live in the plant n.植物

big pond, he finds he doesn’t like strange adj. 陌it at all. It is full of strange plants. The fish don’t like him, and 生的

he is the smallest frog there…He is lonely and unhappy. He sits on a stone and says sadly to himself, “I don’t like living here. I think I’ll go home tomorrow.”

But a hungry heron(鹭) flies down and catches him. The frog becomes the heron’s supper. What a poor frog!

poor adj.可怜的 beautiful adj.美丽的

frog n.青蛙 wonderful adj.奇妙的

pond n.池塘 dull adj.单调的

stone n.石头 lonely adj.孤单的

across prep.穿过 heron n.苍鹭

live v.生活 dragonfly n.蜻蜓

fly n.苍蝇 pass v.经过