典范英语6第13本原文

《典范英语》(Good English),是英国牛津大学出版社出版的一套家喻户晓的英语教材,闻名英国,享誉世界。英国有80%的学校用它教学生学习母语,全球有133个国家用它作为外语学习教材。(6-9)在此基础上,又从《牛津阅读树》中精选出64部适合我国中学生使用的作品,由权威英语教育专家精心编辑而成。

The Ghost Ship

1 --- The ghost ship

One day Ernie was late for school. He ran up School Hill and slipped through the hole in the fence. He hoped the Head wouldn’t see him.

‘Wow!’ Ernie gasped. There was a ghost ship floating about in the playground. It was much like an ordinary ship, but white and see-through. He knew that it couldn’t be real.

The ghost ship was tied to one of the netball posts（柱子）. A strange glow came from it, and it rocked（摇晃） up and down as if it was riding invisible（看不见的） waves. A ghost seagull flew around it. ‘Ahoy there, ghost ship!’ Ernie cried bravely.

A ghost’s head popped out（从窗边探出头来） from a window. ‘Who said that?’ the ghost asked. ‘I did!’ said Ernie. ‘But you’re not supposed to be able to see me!’ the ghost gasped. Then the ghost thought again. ‘Are you sure you can see me?’ the ghost asked. ‘Quite sure,’ Ernie said.

The window slammed（哐的一声） shut. ‘I spoke to a ghost!’ Ernie shouted. Mrs Wiggins, the caretaker, heard Ernie shout. She came running out to the playground. ‘I sp-sp-spoke to a ghost!’ Ernie stuttered. ‘Shhh! Don’t tell anyone,’ said Mrs Wiggins. ‘Why not?’ Ernie asked.

‘I don’t want you upsetting the small ones in Class One!’ Mrs Wiggins said.

‘But the ghost ship’s parked（停车） in the playground,’ Ernie said. ‘They’ll see it when they come out at break.’ ‘Not everyone can see it,’ said Mrs Wiggins.

‘Well, I can,’ Ernie told her. ‘Then that makes two of us,’ sighed Mrs Wiggins.

Mrs Wiggins marched up to the ghost ship. ‘Ship ahoy!’ called Mrs Wiggins.

The window popped open, and out looked the same ghost as before.

‘Ahoy, there, Mrs Wiggins,’ the ghost said, politely.

‘Captain Pegleg!’ Mrs Wiggins scolded. ‘You promised that no one else but me could see you. But one of the children from Class Four just has! Haven’t you, Ernie?’

‘Yes,’ Ernie said, ‘I just have.’

‘Well, it can happen, you know,’ the Captain said, sounding upset. ‘Not often, but sometimes it happens.’

‘You can’t keep sailing in here if people can see you!’ Mrs Wiggins said, firmly.

‘I can’t help sailing in here,’ the Captain told her. ‘Why not?’ Ernie asked.

‘There’s just me on board!’ said the Captain. ‘I can’t sail her alone, so I have to go where she blows. I just wish she’d blow in here more often. Then I could hunt for my treasure.’ The Captain went on, ‘I’m doomed to sail the seas forever until I find my lost treasure. I know it’s here because that’s what it says on my map.’

‘You’d better find it this time, or else!’ warned Mrs Wiggins. The window snapped shut. ‘Ghost treasure!’ said Ernie. ‘Wait till I tell this to Class Four!’

2 --- ‘We can’t see it!’

Everyone had to wait until break time to see the ghost ship. They rushed out of class and into the playground. ‘There it is!’ Ernie shouted, pointing at the ghost ship. Everyone took a good look. They saw the bins and the fence, but they couldn’t see any ship. ‘We can’t see it,’ said Louie. ‘But there IS a ghost ship!’ Ernie said, looking at it, and through it, both at the same time. The ghost ship was see-through and fuzzy.

‘There’s no ghost ship here!’ said Louie. The ghost seagull flew down and landed on

《典范英语》(Good English),是英国牛津大学出版社出版的一套家喻户晓的英语教材,闻名英国,享誉世界。英国有80%的学校用它教学生学习母语,全球有133个国家用它作为外语学习教材。(6-9)在此基础上,又从《牛津阅读树》中精选出64部适合我国中学生使用的作品,由权威英语教育专家精心编辑而成。

Louie’s head. ‘A ghost seagull just landed on your head!’ Ernie told Louie.

‘Oh no it didn’t!’ said Louie, who couldn’t see it, or feel it.

‘OH YES IT DID!’ Ernie shouted. ‘OH NO IT DIDN’T!’ roared everyone else.

They laughed at Ernie for making up stories about ghost seagulls and ships. Then they ran off to play.

Along came Jade, the smallest and cleverest girl in Class Four. ‘What’s that ghost ship doing here?’ she asked Ernie. ‘You can se it too!’ Ernie gasped. ‘Of course I can,’ said Jade.

‘No one else can, but me and Mrs Wiggins,’ Ernie said. ‘It’s Captain Pegleg’s ship and he’s doomed to sail the sea forever, until he finds his lost treasure. He thinks he left it around here.’ ‘We could help him to find it,’ said little Jade. ‘How?’ Ernie asked.

‘My dad has books about treasure hunting,’ said Jade. ‘We’ll look in his books and find out what to do.’ ‘Ghost treasure hunt starts right now!’ shouted Ernie.

‘Ghost treasure hunt starts when we’ve looked at Dad’s books!’ said Jade.

The bell went for the start of lessons. ‘After school!’ Jade told him. ‘After school, and no mucking about!’

3 --- The treasure hunt

After school, they went to Jade’s house and got out her dad’s books about treasure hunting. ‘That’s how we’ll do it!’ said Jade, showing Ernie a page in one of the books.

‘But we haven’t got one of those,’ Ernie said, pointing at the metal detector.

‘My dad has,’ Jade said. ‘He uses it when he hunts for old coins and things on the beach. That’s why he …… 此处隐藏：5491字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……