There is a man who keeps three monkeys in his house. The monkeys are very1and they can do many things. The man loves his2. And he thinks they can try something new, so he begins to3them to dance. The monkeys don't like dancing at first, but the man is4them. These monkeys have to5hard every day. Soon they can dance very well. The man is very happy about that.
One day, he6the monkeys up in special clothes and masks, and takes them to a party. He wants people to7his smart friends.
The dancing monkeys are8at the party. Nobody knows that they are monkeys, and people are9to them. The monkeys are very happy to have lots of10food there.
Suddenly (突然地) , a child puts some bananas in front of the dancing monkeys. The monkeys11everything then.12of them run to the bananas and begin to eat.
Now all the people at the party laugh. "They aren't dancers at all", cries one man. "They are13monkeys!"
"And, "14another man. "What we see isn't always15".
Dear Jane,
Today is the Dragon Boat Festival in China. Do you know this important Chinese festival? It's a festival to remember a great Chinese poet named Qu Yuan.
Now it's 8:30 am, and I am in a big —park —with my Chinese friend Fei Fei. There are many interesting things happening (发生) in the park. I can see many boats on the lake of the park. On every boat, there are some men wearing the same clothes. They are having the boat races. The boats are running very fast and around the lake many people are cheering for them. How exciting!
However, not all the people in the park are watching the boat races. A young father is taking a photo of his beautiful daughter. A young woman is taking a walk with her mother. Under a big tree, some girls are playing games. All of them are having fun. What am I doing now? Can you guess (猜)? While I am writing this e—mail to you, I'm eating zongzi with Feifei. What's zongzi? It's a kind of traditional Chinese food for the Dragon Boat Festival. It's really delicious!
What are you doing now, Jane? Please e—mail and tell me.
A young man went to the boss (老板) of logging crew (伐木队) and asked for a job.
"Let me see you fell this tree first." said the boss. The young man took his axe and fell a big tree in a short time. The boss was happy and said, "You can start the job on Monday."
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday went by, and Thursday afternoon the boss went to the young man and said, "You can get the pay (报酬) today. "The young man was very surprised. He answered, "I thought you would pay on Friday" "Usually we," the boss said." But I'll let you go today because you've fallen behind (落后). You have dropped (降) from the first place on Monday to the last place today. "
"But I'm quite hard—working. "the young man said, "I am the first to arrive, and the last to leave, and even work during my coffee time!" The boss thought for a minute and asked, "Have you sharpened your axe (磨斧子)? "The young man answered, "No, sir, I work too hard to take time for that!"
Our lives are like this. We sometimes get so busy that we don't take time to sharpen the axe". There's nothing wrong with working hard. But we all need time to relax, to think, to learn and to grow. If we don't spend time relaxing, we will feel bored and fall behind.
Hi, boys and girls. Welcome to our museum (博物馆) . It's f. It doesn't take you any money (钱) . There are a lot of ithings here. You can l a lot and you must have a good time today. But we also have some(4)rfor you. Please remember these rules and fthem.
First, don't make our museum d. Don't eat food or have any drinks here, e. Second, you can take p, but don't touch the things here. Third, keep qin the museum. Don't talk loudly. F, don't run in the hall. Fifth, the museum is not open (开放) after five o'clock in the afternoon.
Have a good time here! Thank you!