For children, English is a relatively strange language. If children are directly allowed to learn English without any prelude(前奏), they will be difficult to understand and have no interest in learning. Books are one of the main ways for children to understand if children can develop a good habit of reading, they can further expand their knowledge. In addition, in the process of reading English stories, children can learn many words and grammar knowledge that are not in textbooks, and their English level can also be improved. Now there are three stories to share with parents, so that children can see whether it is helpful for their English learning.
Long long ago, several people had a jar of wine among them and all of them wanted to drink it by himself, so they set a rule that everyone would draw a snake on the ground and the man who finished first would have the wine. One man finished his snake very soon and he was about to drink the wine when he saw the others were still busy drawing, so he decided to draw the feet to the snake. However, before he could finish the feet, another man finished and grabbed the jar from him, saying, “Who has ever seen a snake with feet? ”The story of “Draw a snake and add feet to it” tells us going too far is as bad as not going far enough.
In the Warring States Period, there was a man in the State of Wei called Geng Lei. One day he said to the king: “I can shoot down birds by simply plucking my bowstring(弓弦). ”When the king expressed doubt, Geng Lei pointed his bow at a wild goose flying in the sky, twanged the bowstring and the goose fell to the ground. Geng Lei said, “This goose been hurt in the past. Hearing the twang of the bowstring it assumed that it was doomed. So it simply gave up trying to live. ”This idiom means that if one has been frightened in the past one’s will may become paralysed(瘫痪的) in a similar situation.
Five dynasties(五代) painting tiger famous through the company since the childhood like painting, especially like painting a tiger, but not having seen the tiger really, always painted sick cats, the tiger, so he decided to enter the mountains, visit the tiger, really experienced untold hardships with the help of Orion’s uncle, finally met the tiger really, through a lot of sketch copy, the painting techniques by leaps and bounds, tiger’s tiger lifelike, a few can be spurious. Since then, and spent most of his time visited many famous mountains and great rivers, see more birds beast, finally become a generation of masters.
【小题1】What is the purpose of this article?| A．Tell three stories. | B．Guide parents to help children learn English. |
| C．Advertise storybooks. | D．Improve children’s English. |
| A．Because of his superb skills. | B．Because he knew that the goose was hurt. |
| C．The goose was specially trained. | D．Because that wild goose has a special breed. |
| A．The three stories are all from ancient Chinese classical fables. |
| B．The author of these three stories is the same person. |
| C．At the end of the three stories, there are some principles of being a man. |
| D．The protagonists(主人公) of these three stories have their own excellence. |
| A．It is wrong to do too much or not enough. |
| B．Don’t waste too much time on meaningless things. |
| C．Practice is the sole criterion for testing truth. |
| D．Only after personal experience can we really understand anything. |
