Mike is 1 this year. His father drives a car in a factory and he likes to 2. Mike's mother works in a hospital. And they live in a large house 3 a small garden(花园).
It's a Saturday afternoon. Mike is sitting in the room and 4 a newspaper. His little sister Kate comes to him and says, "Brother! Mom wants you 5 her.”
“What does she want me to do?” asks the boy. “ To wash the apples 6 to cut the cakes?”
“Neither(都不是),” answers Kate. “She's watering flowers in the garden. She wants 7 to carry(提) some water for her.”
“Why don't you do that?”
“Mom says I'm too 8.”
“Can't you see I'm busy now?”
“What are you doing here, then?”
“I'm reading a 9. A man from England caught(抓) a very big fish. It's about 1,100 pounds(磅). I can' go to help mom right now. I think the man in the newspaper just 10 our father.”
“Well, let me help you read the newspaper and you go to help Mom,” says Kate.
