Nadim and Anneena got a magic key one day. And the magic key would bring them and their friends into some amazing adventures.
On a hot summer day, Nadim and Anneena came to play at Biff and Tim’s house. Nadim had a model book—a book which has lots of shapes and you press out the shapes, the fold and glue them to make a model.
They read about the great country Egypt and decided to make a model of it. Tim found some glue. Then Nadim pressed out the shape and the others began to fold them. First they made the pyramids. Anneena had a difficult shape to fold. “This is a sphinx.” She said. They pressed out some tiny trees and people. Biff glued them all on a piece of paper. It made the scene of Ancient Egypt. At last, the model was finished. The children were pleased with it and laughed happily. Their happy laughter brought their dog, Sam, in. He stepped in the model with his big paws. He knocked over a tree and crushed the sphinx. “Oh, Sam.” everyone yelled.
Sam looked unhappy because he knew he made the children upset. Suddenly, the magic key began to glow. The key took them back to Ancient Egypt. They were standing by a pyramid, the pyramid was still being built. Far off they could see two more pyramids. “That’s amazing!” said Nadim. “I didn’t think the pyramids were so big and they were made with such big blocks of stone.”
“Look over there!” gasped Anneena. She pointed to a huge stone sphinx. “Let’s go and look at the sphinx.” She said. They all began to run towards it. But Sam didn’t, he had seen a cat. He chased it. It jumped up to some blocks of stone. Sam jumped up, too. But the cat ran too fast for him to follow and that made Sam rather disappointed. Then he had another problem. He couldn’t get down. So he baked and baked. All the Egyptian slave workers saw them. They talked in a strange language, Nadim and his friends were frightened. They didn’t know what to do. But to their great surprise, all the people there put their hands together and raised them in the air. Then they sank down on their knees. They bowed to Sam. Just as the Egyptians were catching them, the magic key glowed again and brought them back home. What an exciting adventure!
【小题1】Did Nadim and Anneena get a magic book one day?【小题2】Where did children glue the tiny trees and people?
【小题3】How did the ancient Egyptians make the pyramids?
【小题4】Why couldn’t Sam catch the cat?
【小题5】What do you think of the story? Please give a proper title to the passage. (In less than eight words)
