莎麗和小魚

Shally and the Little Fish

There was a big river. In the big river there was a big fish. The big fish was very bad. It wanted to eat a boy or a girl every year. So the people（人們）there had to send（送）a boy or a girl to the big fish every year; if（如果）not， the big fish would (will-would)drown（淹死）them ，the people couldn’t do anything about it.

The time came to send Shally to the big fish. Little Shally sat (sit-sat) in a small boat in the middle of the river. She didn’t want to die， and she was sobbing(哭泣). The little fish saw Shally， they were very sorry for the little girl and they wanted to do something to help her， “Don’t sob， Shally， let’s think of an idea.?The little fish found a knife and gave(give-gave) it to Shally. Then， the big fish came to eat Shally. All the little fish nibbled（啃）the big fish， and the big fish was hurt（疼痛）.Shally took out the knife and killed （殺）it. The big fish died. Shally and the other girls and boys there were all saved（得救）。

Exercises:

1 Whaere was the big fish?

2 What did the big fish ask people to do every year?

3 Who would be sent to the big fish this time?

4 Why was Shally sobbing?

5 How was Shally saved?

莎麗和小魚

有一條大河，大河里有一條大魚。這條大魚非常可惡。它每年都要吃掉一個男孩兒或是女孩兒。那兒的人們每年必須給這條魚送一個男孩兒或者女孩兒。

現在該把莎麗送給大魚了。小莎麗坐河中心的小船里。她不想死，她在啜泣。小魚們看見了她，它們非常同情小女孩兒，想幫幫她：“別哭，莎麗，我們來想想辦法。”小魚找到一把刀，把它交給了莎麗。現在，大魚游過來要吃莎麗了。所有的小魚都游了過來一點一點地啃大魚，大魚疼得無法。莎麗抽出刀，殺死了大魚。大魚死了。莎麗和那個地方的女孩兒、男孩兒們都得救了。