新课标英语阅读 23：女孩的鸭子在哪里?
Once there was a little girl. 从前有一个小女孩。
She spent the summer on her grandparents' farm.她花了整个夏天都在她的祖父母的农场。
That year she was three. She knew some yellow ducks with orange feet. 那一年她是三岁。她知道一些黄色与橙色的鸭子的脚。
They lived in a little wooden house near the road. 他们住在一个小木屋在公路附近。
The little girl liked these ducks very much.这个小女孩非常喜欢这些鸭子。
Every day the ducks walked down the road to the pool.每一天,鸭子走在路上到池中。
They went into the water. The little girl sat on the bank 他们进了水。小女孩坐在银行
and watched them swimming in the pool. 看着他们在池塘里游泳。
The Iittle girl talked to the ducks. They quacked (嘎嘎) back.小女孩跟鸭子。他们quacked(嘎嘎)回来。
Then one day the ducks were gone. 然后有一天,鸭子都不见了。
No one would say anything about them. 没有人会说些什么。
The IittIe girl was afraid to ask where they had gone. 这个小女孩不敢问他们去那儿。
One night everyone sat down for dinner. 一天晚上每个人都坐下来吃饭。
The food looked like a little duck. 食物看起来像个小鸭子。
The girl didn't want to eat. Can you guess why?这个女孩不想吃。你能猜出为什么?
WORD BANK
wooden/'wudn/adj.木制的
bank n.堤，岸
quack v.(指鸭)
呷呷地叫
be afraid of害怕
