Over a river there was a very narrow(窄的)bridge. One day, a goat was 1 this bridge. Just at the middle of the bridge, he met another goat. There was no room for them to pass. "Go back," said one goat to the other "There is no room for 2 of us."
"Why should I go back?" said the other goat. "Why 3 you go back?"
"You must go back," said the first goat, "because I am 4 than you." "You are not stronger than me," said the second goat.
"We will see about that," said the first goat, and he put down his horns(羊角)to fight. "Stop!" said the second goat. "If we fight, we shall both 5 into the river and be drowned(淹死). 6 I have plan-I shall lie down, and you may walk over me."
Then the wise goat 7 down on the bridge, and the other goat walked 8 over him. So they passed each other, and went on their ways.
There are many kinds of seabirds. The most ordinary seabird is the seagull. It has a white body. a white head, and yellow beak(喙). There is spot of red at the very end of the beak, underneath. All seagulls have very strong wings so that they can fly far out to the sea. If a gull flies out too far, it will be too tired to fly back to the shore. It does not get frightened, for it can sit and rest upon the waves. A seagull's' wings do not get wet because all its feathers(羽毛)have a kind of oil(油)over them so that when the water gets onto the feathers it just runs off. Gulls can even sleep on the waves.
Sailors(水手)know lot about seagulls and they never kill them. When the gulls fly a long way out to the sea, sailors say that it means fine weather is coming. When the gulls stay near the shore, sailors say that there will be much wind and rain, and perhaps a storm, for the gulls know more about the weather than the sailors do.
The following is a true story. It happened in a small village in Australia, where some dangerous animals live in the forest.
Lisa, 33-year-old mother, went to cook lunch in the kitchen, her 3-year-old son. Barney, playing by himself in the garden.
Suddenly, a loud cry of Barney came into the mother's ears. Lisa rushed into the garden in a hurry and found a big snake entwining(缠绕)the little boy with its terrible body and trying to eat the boy. It was boa(蟒). Lisa was terrified and quite angry. She decided to save her son from the boa's mouth.
It was great mother's love that made Lisa forget what she was facing. She took up hoe(锄)from the ground and beat the boa as hard as she could.
One...two...with the hoe, Lisa beat the boa time and time again, but useless. The little boy's voice and breath were getting weaker and weaker. Lisa's heart was broken and she got nearly mad.
Suddenly Lisa put away the hoe and threw herself to the boa, opened her mouth and bit into the boa's back. The boa was so badly hurt that it let go of Barney and moved into the forest hurriedly. It had never known how a woman had such terrible sharp teeth. Soon the boa was found dead in the forest.
It was great mother's love that saved the little boy.
