新派英语 第四册 09

[00:00.00]Unit 9               Show Time!
[00:06.59]2.Listen to and read the story.
[00:20.34]The City Mouse and the Country Mouse
[00:25.38]One day the City Mouse came to visit the Country Mouse.
[00:31.72]The Country Mouse slept under a log in a nest of dry grass.
[00:38.56]He ate cereal and a little fruit.
[00:43.13]The City Mouse thought life in the country was very dull.
[00:50.29]He missed the rich food and the exciting life of the city.
[00:56.45]So he invited the Country Mouse to visit him in the city.
[01:01.88]Late that night the mice entered the house of the City Mouse
[01:08.22]through a hole in the wall.
[01:11.75]On the dining room table,they found food left from a big meal.
[01:18.30]The Country Mouse thought the food was delicious!He ate and ate.
[01:25.54]Suddenly a cat jumped onto the table.
[01:30.61]As the mice ran to the hole,the cat almost caught the Country Mouse.
[01:37.45]The frightened Country Mouse decided city life was just too dangerous.
[01:45.12]He went back to the country,where life was dull but safe.
[01:52.14]4.Listen.Circle the answer.
[02:49.20]5.Listen.Read.
[03:03.13]Act 1
[03:08.68]Country Mouse:Please come into my home.
[03:11.92]City Mouse:Is this tiny grass nest really your home?I live in big house.
[03:18.29]Country Mouse:Would you like some cereal and fruit?
[03:22.64]City Mouse:Don't you have any cheese or cake?
[03:26.89]Country Mouse:No,all I have is cereal and fruit.
[03:31.54]City Mouse:That's terrible!Let's go to the city.I can show you my house.
[03:38.27]There are all kinds of foods there.And city life is exciting!
[03:45.22]Country Mouse:Thanks.I'd like to go to the city with you.
[03:49.93]City Mouse:Here's a delicious dinner.The people in my house left it.
[03:56.09]Let's eat.(The mice eat and eat.)
[03:59.15]Country Mouse:This is wonderful!I never had such good food.
[04:04.08]City Mouse:Run!Go to the hole!
[04:09.12]Country Mouse:I'm really scared.Life in the city is awful!
[04:14.38]I'm going home where it's safe.I don't have to worry about any cats there!
[04:20.53]6.Listen to and read an African tale.
[04:36.59]Anansi and Turtle
[04:40.22]One day Turtle stopped to rest at the house of Anansi the Spider.
[04:45.95]Turtle was tired and hungry.
[04:50.09]It was dinner time,but Anansi didn't want to share his food.
[04:55.85]Anansi saw that Turtle had dirty feet,
[05:00.56]so he sent him to the lake to wash before dinner.
[05:05.60]Anansi then ate all the food.
[05:10.25]When Turtle returned,there was no food left for him.
[05:16.19]Turtle was hungry as he left.But he invited Anansi to visit him some day.
[05:23.32]Months later,Anansi came to see Turtle.
[05:29.08]Turtle invited Anansi to dinner.
[05:33.22]He then went to his underwater home to make the meal.
[05:38.87]Anansi put rocks in his coat to make himself heavier.
[05:44.59]He jumped into the water and swam down to Turtle's home.
[05:50.60]Turtle asked Anansi to take off his coat before he ate.
[05:55.64]When Anansi took off the coat,he floated up to the top of the lake.
[06:01.98]Turtle smiled and ate all of the food.
[06:07.20]The Rabbit and the Turtle
[06:13.36]Retold by Robert Newell
[06:17.50]That rabbit! What a character!He was proud of his long ears.
[06:30.85]He was proud of his long feet.
[06:34.70]And he was very proud of how fast he ran.
[06:39.56]"No one can catch me,"Rabbit said."I'm wonderful.Wonderful!"
[06:46.91]"He is terrible,"said Mouse.
[06:51.44]"Awful!"said Spider."But what can we do?""I know what to do,"said Turtle.
[07:01.27]"Would you like to have a race?"Turtle asked Rabbit."Let's race to Big Rock."
[07:11.53]"Do I want to race?With you?"Rabbit laughed.
[07:18.98]"You are a dirty,dull turle.A SLOW turtle."
[07:25.43]Turtle smiled."I can win,"he said.Rabbit stopped laughing.
[07:33.96]"Let's go!"he said.They ran.
[07:39.11]That rabbit was fast.He left Turle behind in no time.
[07:48.43]Then he saw a restaurant."I'm hungry,"he thought.
[07:54.30]"And that turtle is slow.I have time for dinner."
[08:00.24]Rabbit ate a delicious meal of fruit,cheese,and cake.
[08:06.79]Turtle went past the restaurant.He didn't stop.
[08:12.12]But Rabbit caught up with him later and left him behind again.
[08:17.77]Rabbit felt a little tired then.He found a log.
[08:25.30]He decided to crawl in.He slept.Turtle did not stop.He went past the log.
[08:35.34]He was slow,but he ran and he ran.
[08:40.78]Suddenly Rabbit opened his eyes.He jumped up.He ran faster than before.
[08:48.80]But he was too late.That turle was slow.But he did not stop.
[08:56.76]He did not give up.And he won!