儿童英语-Mouse Soup.pdf

MOUSE SOUP BY ARNOLD LOBEL Contents Begin Reading 6 The Stories for the Soup About I Can Read Books Credits Cover Copyright About the Publisher The Stories for the Soup Bees and the Mud 11 Two Large Stones 18 The Crickets 26 The Thorn Bush 35 A mouse sat under a tree. He was reading a book. 6 A weasel jumped out and caught the mouse. The weasel took the mouse home. “Ah!” said the weasel. “I am going to make mouse soup.” 7 “Oh!” said the mouse. “I am going to be mouse soup.” The weasel put the mouse in a cooking pot. 8 “WAIT!” said the mouse. “This soup will not taste good. It has no stories in it. Mouse soup must be mixed with stories to make it taste really good.” “But I have no stories,” said the weasel. “I do,” said the mouse. “I can tell them now.” “All right,” said the weasel. “But hurry. I am very hungry.” “Here are four stories to put in the soup,” said the mouse. 9 10 BEES AND THE MUD A mouse was walking through the woods. A nest of bees fell from a tree. It landed on the top of his head. “Bees,” said the mouse, “you will have to fly away. I do not want a nest of bees sitting on the top of my head.” 11 But the bees said, “We like your ears, we like your nose, we like your whiskers.