Every morning a rich man found a poor man sitting on a bench (长凳) in a park. The poor man always sat there, looking at a big hotel. The rich man owned (拥有) the hotel. One day the rich man went out of his car and said to the poor man, "Excuse me, but I just want to know why you sit here and look at my hotel every morning." "Sir," said the poor man, "I have no money, no family and no home. I sleep on this bench, and every night I dream that one day I'll sleep in that hotel." The rich man said, "Tonight your dream will come true. You can live in the hotel for free."
A few days later, the rich man went to see the poor man. To his surprise, he found that the poor man had moved out of the hotel, back to his bench. The poor man said, "You see, when I was down here sleeping on my bench, I dreamt I was up there, in that big hotel. But when I was up there, I dreamt that I was back to this cold bench. It was a terrible (可怕的) dream, and I couldn't fall asleep at all."
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We call the Chinese New Year the Spring Festival. There is a name for each Chinese year. We may call it the year of the sheep, the year of the monkey or the year of the dog. And this year is the year of the tiger.
Before New Year's Day, people are busy shopping and cleaning their houses. On New Year's Eve, there is a big family dinner. After dinner, all the families stay up late to welcome the New Year. On the first day of the New Year, people put on their new clothes and go to visit their friends. They say "Happy New Year" and some other greetings to each other. People usually have a good time during the festival.
the weather is getting!
One fine Sunday afternoon we went for a walk along the river bank. Several families were having picnics in the shade of the trees. George looked at them with great interest. "What a good idea!" he said, "I wish we had brought some food with us. I'm hungry!"
After we had been walking for nearly an hour, George saw a man fishing. "I wonder if he's caught something," George said. "He might be willing to sell us some nice fresh fish."
"Let's ask him," I suggested.
We greeted the man and asked him if he had caught some fish. The man looked up at us and smiled. "It's been a very bad day," the man said. "The fish have eaten nearly all my bait (鱼饵). I don't like feeding fish."
"Did you catch anything" George asked eagerly (急切地). "I caught six fish some time ago," The man answered. "May I see them" George asked. "I threw them back into the river," the man said. "They were too small. I want to catch a really big one!"
—Yes, I am.
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