时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:汪培珽儿童英文分级书单三 An I can read


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010 Last Dream for an Old Oak 1 Tree


Once upon a time, there was a large oak tree in the forest. This oak tree was very old. One day during the hot summer, a mayfly flew by and alighted on a leaf of the oak tree. 


"Mayfly, you must be so sad." "Why?" "You get to live only one day." The oak tree felt sorry for the mayfly. Mayfly asked, "Don't you live for one day?" "No. I live much longer than you do." 


The mayfly nodded and asked, "Really? Then, are you happy now?" "Yes, I am very happy," replied the oak tree.


Then the mayfly smiled and said, "I am very happy, too. Although I get to live only one day, it doesn't matter. You get to live much longer than I do, but we are both happy, aren't we?" The oak tree and the mayfly kept on talking to each other. 


Eventually, the mayfly leaned 2 on the oak tree and fell asleep. "Mayfly!" The oak tree called the mayfly, but the mayfly did not respond 3.


It had died. "Mayfly, have a happy dream." The oak tree blessed the mayfly for the last time. 


Many weeks then passed. Spring, summer and fall went by, and winter came. Finally, the long-awaited day of Christmas came. The oak tree wanted to rest now.


The oak tree had a dream on Christmas day. In it, pretty flowers were abundant 4 and butterflies were flying in a green forest. In this dream, the oak tree met the mayfly. The mayfly said, "Come play here. It is such a happy place." The oak tree was very pleased indeed to see the mayfly. 


While the oak tree was sleeping, its roots were cut. It was time for the oak tree to die. The oak tree went to a happy world, dreaming.




1 oak
n.栎树,橡树,栎木,橡木
  • The chair is of solid oak.这把椅子是纯橡木的。
  • The carpenter will floor this room with oak.木匠将用橡木铺设这个房间的地板。
2 leaned
v.(使)倾斜,屈身( lean的过去式和过去分词 );倚;依赖;使斜靠
  • He leaned forward, his hands clasped tightly together. 他俯身向前,双手十字交错地紧握着。
  • He leaned back, exulting at the success of his plan. 他向后一靠,为自己计划成功而得意扬扬。
3 respond
vi.回答,响应
  • I offered him a drink but he did not respond.我请他喝酒,但他未作回答。
  • I greeted him but he didn't respond.我跟他打招呼,他没答理我。
4 abundant
adj.丰富的,充足的,大量的,多的
  • Shandong province is famous for its abundant agricultural resources.山东省以其丰富的农业资源而闻名遐迩。
  • China is abundant with natural resources.中国自然资源丰富。
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al ula
allotriomorphic
angleton
antenna array factor
apartheidized
articular sclerite
assisted take-off rocket
autolatinas
autoloaded
babbitted
ball diffuser
bediademed
Berlepsch's tinamou
bet one's bottom dollar
Bogoslovskite
Bond and Wang theory
cell attribute
chatou
circuit loading
co-pay
come to someone's ear
concessionaries
contract of marine insurance
Cowan screen
culicoides (culicoides) sumatrae
cuprometry
current information
daylight visibility
demilitarisations
draught indicating system
dromaeosaurine
earun
euxiphydria pseudoruficeps
evozine
fabric-reinforced seal
family Hexanchidae
farandine
fingerbreadth(s)
fixed review cycle
floor covers
forming-tool
fulling
gave the glad hand
gives in to
gravity dumper
hypothesize and test
ICI154129
interex
jading
Keep Britain Tidy
kernel of a morphism
Leptomyxida
light globe
long branch routine
Luanda
manahan
Merlucciinae
mucro sterni
musculus peroneus longus
Myosotis sparsiflora
navigation mesh
needle force
nitrogen 14 beam
observation and recording device
patellar dislocation
paucispiral
penetrant material
people-on-street
perithallia
phosphoenoloxaloacetic acid
placement treatment
plouviez
presbytiss
Project OXYGEN
propheticality
protective import duty
psammosarcoma
pseudolikelihoods
punch function
reorganization
roundnose tool
safety of civil aviation
sandries
Sasanguasaponin
saums
scamming
Septoria dianthi
simple effect
stasis-field
stimulus isolator
subordinate unit
suggestion-box
sweet bells
Taysider
traffic recorder machine
transient condition
travel ring
try engine
under ground economic
variabilis
vegetable wharf