初中生必读的趣味英语故事

　　1.Belling the Cat（把鈴掛在貓身上）

初中生必读的趣味英语故事

　　Once some mice were living in a farmhouse.They all met together and talked about the cat in the farmhouse.“We can not stay here long with that cat near us.She has eaten many of us.How can we keep her from killing us?”said one old mouse.One proud young mouse said,“I have a good idea.We never hear her when she comes.What do you say to hang a bell around her neck?Then we can hear her when she is coming.”“That is a splendid idea.Let us tie a bell around her neck.Now we can run away before she catches us,”said another.Just then the old mouse stood up and said,“Your plan is very fine,but who can hang a bell around the cat’s neck?”All the young mice were silent,and only looked at one another.

　　2.The Bear and the Two Travelers（熊和兩個旅客）

　　Two men were traveling together through the wood.Then a dig bear suddenly appeared before them.One of them climbed up quickly into a tree and hid himself in the branches.The other wanted to climb up another tree,but there was no time to do so.The bear was just near him.So he fell flat on the ground and pretended that he was dead,for he knew that a bear will not touch a dead body.The big bear came up to him,and smelled him all over.He lay as still as he could,held his breath and pretended to be dead.The bear examined him closely and walked slowly away.When the bear had gone,the traveler in the tree came down,and said,“The bear looked as if he were talking to you.What did he whisper in your ears?He replied,"He gave me this advice:Never trust a friend who deserts you in time of need!"

　　3.The Stag at the Lake（在湖邊的雄鹿）

　　One hot day a stag came to a lake to drink,and saw his own shadow in the water."How beautiful my antlers are!But I'm very sorry my legs are very thin and ugly,"said he to himself.Just then he saw a lion coming toward him.He ran away as fast as fast as he could,and the lion could not catch him."Oh,how thankful I am for my good,long legs!These legs have saved my life,"he said.But when he came to a thick wood,his antlers caught in the branches of a tree.He tried to free himself from the branches,but he could not.At last the lion found the stag and caught him,and killed him.

　　4.The Father and His Sons（父親和他的兒子們）

　　A father had three sons,but the brothers were always quarreling.Their father tried to make them good fiends,and called all his sons to him.He showed them three sticks and said,“I want to talk to you.Take these sticks and tie them together.Then try to break the bundle of sticks.”The oldest son tried with all his strength but he could not break it.Then the other two did the same,but neither of them could break it.“Now,”said the father,“untie the bundle and each of you take one stick and try to break it.”Either of them could break the stick easily.Then the father said,“My sons,when the sticks are bound together,it is very strong,and you cannot break it.But when they are united,you can break each stick easily.When you work together and help one another,you can become as strong as the bundle.But if you only quarrel and do not stand together,you will be broken as easily as these sticks.”

　　5.The Farmer and the Snake（農夫和蛇）

　　One cold day in winter a farmer was working in his fields.Then he found a snake.It was stiff and nearly dead with cold.He said,“oh,poor thing!I'll take it home.”At once he laid it near the fire,and got it warm.But as it grew warm and felt pleasant,it raised its head,sprang at the farmer and tried to bite the kind man.“You ungrateful creature!”said the farmer.“I can't keep you alive.”So saying,he killed the snake with a stick.

　　6.The Ass in the Lion's Skin（披著獅皮的.驢）

　　Once an ass found a lion's skin on the road.He was very glad to get the skin.At once he put it on.He said to himself,“now can go anywhere in the forest.I am the king of beasts.Well,I will frighten the timid animals.”He was very proud of the skin,and went into the forest.Soon he met hares.When they saw his face,they were all frightened and ran away.Then he met a goat.She was frightened,too,and went away.At last he met a fox.He tried to frighten the fox and cried out in a loud voice.But the wise fox said to him,“oh,you are not a real lion.You are an ass.You are braying,and not roaring.If you keep silent,you will frighten me.But I know you by your voice.”Soon after that the owner of the skin caught the ass,and killed him.

　　7.The Birds,the Beasts and the Bat（鳥、野獸和蝙蝠）

　　There was once a great battle between the birds and the beasts.The beasts won the battle.On their way home,one of the beasts met a bat.“oh,you are a bird.I'll eat you“up,”said the beast.“no,no,”said the bat.“I am not a bird.I am a mouse.Look at the fur all over my body,and at my mouth with its sharp teeth,”and the bat safely ran away.A few days later there was a second battle.This time the birds won.When one of the birds found the bat,he said,“you are a mouse.I must kill you.”“no,no,”said the bat.“I am not a mouse.I am a bird.Look at my wings.After several battles between the birds and the beasts,they were friends again.But they could not trust the bat.And the bat had to hide in dark places in the daytime.This is why a bat flies about only at night.

　　8.The North Wind and the Sun（北風和太陽）

　　One day in winter,the cold north wind was blowing hard.Then the sun began to shine from among the clouds.The north wind said to the sun,“I am very strong.I am stronger than you.I am the strongest in the world.”The sun said,“No,no.You are not so strong as I.”“Well,I’ll show you how strong I am,”said the north wind.Just then a traveler came along.He had a thick cloak on.“I can make that man take off his cloak,”said the north wind.And he blew and blew.But the traveler held his cloak closely about him.Then the sun said,“Now I’ll try.”The sun began to shine upon him.It became warmer and warmer.The traveler said,“How warm it is!”and took off his cloak.“Now you see I am stronger than you,Mr.North Wind,”said the sun.

　　9.The Fox and the Crane（狐狸和鶴）

　　One day a fox met a crane in the plain.The fox said to the crane,“Hello,dear Crane!Will you come to dine with me?”And the crane said,“Oh,thank you,I will.”The crane went to his house.When the crane sat at table,she found only a very shallow dish before her.There was some soup in the dish.The fox began to eat the soup easily.The crane tried to eat it,but she could only wet the tip of her long bill,and she had to leave most of it.Then the fox said to the crane,“I'm very sorry.You don't like soup,do you?”But the crane said to the fox,“Thank you for your nice soup,”and went home.A few days later the crane invited the fox to dinner.When they sat at table,two long-necked jars were put before them.In the jars was some meat.The crane enjoyed the meat,but the fox could not reach it,for the mouth of the jar was very narrow.The fox could only lick the mouth of the jar.The fox was much ashamed of his own folly,and hurried back to his house.

　　10.A Clever Dog（一隻聰明的狗）

　　Mrs.Hellen had a very clever dog named Black.He often helped her by going to buy bread.One morning she gave him a basket with twenty cents in it and told him to go to the bakery and get two loaves of bread.He took the basket in his mouth and trotted down the street to the bakery.The baker wanted to tease Black.So he took the money and put it into the drawer,but he did not give him any bread.Black put down the basket and began to bark.The baker laughed and patted him on the dead.He said,“You're a good dog.”He took two loaves of bread and put them into the basket.Black wagged his tail,picked up his basket and started for home.He walked proudly down the street.He carried the basket in his mouth.Everybody looked at him and smiled.

　　11.Piccola（畢可拉）

　　Once there lived in France a little girl.Her name was Piccola.Her father was dead and her mother was very,very poor.On Christmas eve Piccola said to her mother,“will Santa Claus come to our house tonight?”her mother looked very sad and shook her head.At bedtime Piccola pulled off her little wooden shoes and put them on the floor near the chimney she said to her mother,“perhaps Santa Claus will come.”In the night a little bird with a broken wing fell down the chimney and hopped into one of the shoes.Very early in the morning Piccola woke up.She jumped out of bed and ran to look into her shoes.There she saw the little bird in one of her shoes.She picked u the shoe and ran to show her Christmas present to her mother,and,“Santa Claus did not forget me.”

　　12.Grace Darling（葛瑞絲?達玲）

　　One September morning there was a storm at sea and a ship was driven on a rock.It was broken in two by the waves and half of it was washed away.Some of the sailors clung to the other half.There was a lighthouse.On an island not far away grace darling and her father lived in the lighthouse.They saw the poor sailors clinging to the wreck.Grace said to her father,“we must try to save those men.”“it is on use,”said her father.“We cannot reach them.”Grace was not willing to give up.So she and her father started in a heavy rowboat.Grace pulled one oar and her father pulled the other,it was hard to row against the big waves.At last they reached the wreck and took the poor sailors into their boat.They rowed back to the lighthouse with them and gave them warm food and dry clothes.In a few days the storm was over and the sailors want to their homes.They felt very grateful to Grace Darling and her father.

　　13.Pandora（潘多娜）

　　Long,long ago the people lied very happily in the beautiful world,and nobody was ever sick.At that time there was a beautiful little girl named Pandora.One day a fairy gave her a wonderful box.It was tied with a golden cord and the fairy made her promise not to open it.Pandora and her little friend,Epimetheus,often looked at the box and wondered what was in it.For a long time Pandora kept her promise to the fairy,but at last she wanted to peep into the box.She untied the cord and lifted the lid a very little.Then hundreds of bad little fairies came out.They stung Pandora and she fell screaming on the floor.They stung Epimetheus,too.Then they flew out of the door and stung all the children in the world.By and by Pandora heard a little voice.It said,“let me out and I will help you.”She opened the box and out flew a beautiful little fairy.She told Pandora that her name was hope.She kissed her and Epimetheus and made them well.Then she flew away to help the other children.To this day,when people are sick and unhappy,the good little fairy,hope,comes to comfort them.

　　14.An Ill-Natured Neighbor（一個壞心腸的鄰居）

　　An ill-natured,jealous peasant saw his neighbor's getting a very good harvest.As he was unable to be glad of his neighbor's blessing from God,he devised the way how to destroy his neighbor's happiness.To attain his purpose he caught a fox,tied a lighted torch to its tail and drove it in the direction of his neighbor’s fields.Seeing the fox reached the field,it changed its direction,and began,to hiss amazement,plunging into his own fields where the grains had almost been ripe.A few minutes had passed before all his fields were enveloped in volumes of flames.He sorrowed,lamented,rushing about in his neighborhood,and devised to lay the blame at his neighbor's door.But as his neighbor had been believed to be very honest since ages ago,and,on the contrary,he had been reputed as an ill-natured man,none could place any confidence in his words.A misdeed only leads one to a snare set for others.

　　15.A Miser Man（一個守財奴）

　　A very stingy man who had no pleasure but that of making money sold his all,namely,his place and fields,and forged all the money he received into a mass of gold,and buried it in the ground.Every day he visited the spot,which was one of his daily greatest pleasures.Then a man who occasionally came to the neighborhood saw this miser digging up the earth with joy.When this neighbor went there and dug the earth,he found a buried treasure,to his great astonishment.He resolved to run off with it outright.When the miser came to the spot the following day,he found his treasure missing,to his great amazement.It furious agony and desperation,he cursed God and man tearing his hair like a mad man.When a pedestrian asked his of his bitter sorrow,the miser told his story in great detail,but the passenger comforted and consoled him,saying,“You need not cry over your loss of treasure.I think your loss is not so great as you think.Bury in that place a stone of the same size in place of your mass of gold,and regard it as your lost one.You will hardly tell the difference the two,because,as far as you are concerned,gold is all one with a stone in point of utility.”Happiness does not consist in owning money,but in reasonable using of it.

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