116. A Boy with a Big Head
时间：2019-01-03 作者：英语课 分类：英汉幽默故事选读
A boy cried to his mother, "All the children make fun of me. They say I have a big head."
"Don't listen to them," his mother said 1, "You have a beautiful head. Now stop crying and go to the store 2 to buy twenty pounds 3 of patotoes."
"Where is the shopping bag?"
"I haven't got 4 one-use your hat
Notes:
(1) make fun of取笑；嘲弄
(2) shopping bag购物袋
Exercises:
根据短文判断下列句子正（T）、（F）：
① The boy was 5 complaining 6 to his mother.
② Children made 7 fun of him because he had 8 a beautiful head.
③ The mother was angry when she heard what her son had told her.
④ The mother couldn't find their shopping bag.
⑤ The boy did 9 have a big head .
116.大头娃娃
一个小男孩向他母亲哭诉道：“他们都取笑我，说我脑袋大。” “别听他们的，”他母亲安慰道，“你有一个很漂亮的脑袋。好啦，别哭了，去商店买十斤土豆来。”
“购物袋在哪儿？”
“没购物袋了----就用你的帽子吧。”
练习参考答案：
①T②F③F④T⑤T
- He said to me that he could not come.他对我说他不能来。
- He said to his mother that he would do it by himself.他对他的母亲说他将自己独立做那件事。
- The shoe store is across from the bank.鞋店在银行对面。
- Some food won't store.有些食物不能贮存。
- The paper got clobbered with libel damages of half a million pounds. 这家报纸被罚以五十万英镑的诽谤损害赔偿金。
- He donated thousands of pounds to charity. 他向慈善事业捐款数千英镑。
- I just got some bad news.我刚得到一些坏消息。
- I have got far too much work to do.我要做的事太多了。
- Nothing satisfies him—he's always complaining. 什么都难如他的意—他老在抱怨。
- I can't put up with her another day—she never stops complaining. 她整天抱怨，我一天也不能忍受了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They were not made in china.它们不是中国制造的。
- The monkey made a long arm for the peach.猴子伸臂去摘桃子。
- I just had a good idea!我有个好主意！
- The boy had a small branch of a tree in his hand.这个男孩手上拿一条小树枝。