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儿童英语读物 迈克的谜案 Mike's Mystery Chapter 2 遇见老朋友

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CHAPTER 2
An Old Friend

The ranch1 belonged to the four Alden children. So, of course, they wanted to see how it had changed since last summer when uranium had been found.

Benny said, “I suppose Grandfather had to get hundreds of miners2 to work in the uranium mine. And the miners have lots of children, and they must have clothes and something to eat, and a school and a church. So that’s how the town grew.”

“Right!” said Henry with a smile. “You have it all worked out.” The four children went out the back door.

“Yes, Watch, you can come,” said Henry to the dog. “Can Lady come too, Aunt Jane?”

“No,” said Aunt Jane. “Lady always stays with me.”

Watch was delighted to go with the four children, so he barked and barked. He ran along barking. On they went, past the hen houses. These were all mended and painted. They went through a field to the street. It was very strange to see a city street in the middle of the old field.

“There’s a five and ten,” said Benny, “and a big super-market! We won’t need to hoe3 any vegetables if we don’t want to.”

“What a beautiful dress shop!” said Jessie. Then she almost bumped4 into a boy about Benny’s age. He was walking with his hands in his pockets and he was whistling5.

When he saw the children he stopped and stared at them. Then he said, “Hi, Ben! Don’t you know me?”

Benny took one look. “Mike! Mike Wood!” he yelled6. “It’s Mike, Henry! Remember he came to the picnic on Surprise Island?”

“Well, I’d never forget that,” said Henry. “It is Mike, sure enough! You came over to our picnic and your dog had a race with Watch.”

“Yep,” said Mike. “That was my dog Spotty. He’s out with my brother Pat7 now. I remember how he beat your dog in the race.”

“Oh, no!” cried Benny. “He never did! Watch was the one that beat Spotty! Don’t you remember?”

“No, I don’t,” said Mike. “I know Spot beat Watch.”

“He didn’t either!” shouted Benny. “Spot was a stranger. He didn’t even know which way to run!”

“Stop, you boys,” cried Henry. “Don’t fight the minute you meet.”

“Well, Mike started it,” shouted Benny.

“I did not! You started it,” shouted Mike.

“Boys!” said Henry. “Stop this minute. Aren’t you friends?”

“We’re friends,” said Benny, “unless Mike tells lies about Watch. Watch won that race and I won’t give in for anybody.”

“Well,” said Mike, “maybe he did. But it wasn’t a fair race, because Spotty didn’t even know the way.”

“O.K.,” said Benny. “That’s all I care. If you say Spotty didn’t beat.”

“Well, maybe he didn’t beat,” said Mike, “but how could he beat when he didn’t know where to run?”

“Well, he couldn’t,” said Benny. “That’s what I said. He couldn’t and he didn’t. I never said it was a fair race.”

“Mike,” said Jessie pleasantly, “how did you happen to come out here? You’re so far from where we saw you last.”

“I know,” said Mike. “But we like it here. My Uncle Bob invited us to live here when my father died. Uncle Bob said he could give Pat a job. Remember Pat? My big brother?”

“Oh, yes,” said Henry. “He was the one who almost got drowned at the picnic.”

“Well, Pat works8 at the mine for my Uncle Bob. Not in the mine, but outside. I do all sorts of work for the mine, too. We all work. Mother washes the miners’ clothes.”

“Where’s your house?” asked Henry.

“Over there,” said Mike, pointing. “That pink one. The houses are all alike9, only different colors. Each house has a yard around it, but the grass is dry and brown. My house has an electric stove and a washing machine. It’s different from our old house back home. Come and see my mother.”

“All right,” said Henry. “We’d like to.”

“Pat isn’t home, but my mother is,” said Mike. “She is making a pie, maybe, and we could have some to eat.”

They reached the door of the pink house. “Ma, look who’s here!” said Mike.

Mrs. Wood was indeed making pies. She was taking the third pie out of the oven10. When she looked up and saw Benny, she laughed out loud.

“Hello, Benny Alden!” she cried.

“You have never seen the rest of us,” said Jessie, laughing. “But you have seen plenty of Benny, when he went to school with Mike back in the East.”

“I’ve heard lots about you,” said Mrs. Wood. “Benny is a great talker. He’s a fine boy. It does Mike good to play with him.”

“It does Ben good to play with me,” said Mike loudly.

“Yes, I think it does,” agreed Henry.

Mike looked up in surprise. He did not know what to say. He thought Henry would not agree with him. “Ma makes pies for the neighbors,” he said.

“And you are surely11 neighbors,” said Mrs. Wood at once. “So take your choice. I have cherry, apple, and blueberry pie. All hot.” She began cutting the three pies. The smell was delicious and the pie crusts12 were brown and flaky.

“I didn’t really have much lunch,” said Benny.

“Pull up your chairs around that table,” said Mrs. Wood. “And Mike, you get a bit of cheese out of the refrigerator.”

“Where’s Pat?” asked Mike, getting the cheese.

“Gone to the bank. It’s pay day. He puts Uncle Bob’s money in the bank every week. You go get him, Mike, and tell him to come home and see the company.”

Mike ran off down the street. Mrs. Wood watched him with a smile.

“He’s not a bad boy, is Mike,” she said. “He’s just a big talker.”

“We know that,” said Jessie, smiling too.

“He’d do anything for his friends,” said his mother. “He helps the men at the mine a lot, even if he fights, too. They joke with him and argue with him, but they like him.”

Henry said, “This is the best apple pie I ever ate.”

“I agree,” said Jessie. “The cherry must be even better than the apple.”

Violet13 laughed softly14. “I was going to say the same thing about this blueberry.”

“I’m glad,” said Mrs. Wood very quietly. “I love to bake pies the best of anything. I wish I had time.”

“Haven’t you time?” asked Jessie, puzzled15.

“No, dear,” said Mrs. Wood. Her voice sounded sad. “I wash all day to earn money to help keep us. I’m lucky to have a washing machine. Here’s Pat now.”

When Pat came in, he said at once, “Hello, Ben! You used to come down to our house and play with Mike.”

“This is Jessie,” said his mother. “This is Violet, and this is Henry.”

“Oh, I know them all,” said Pat. “They saved my life on that picnic.”

“Our cousin Joe did that,” said Henry. “He is a fine swimmer.”

Then Mike said, “When I met Pat, he was just coming out of the bank.”

“It seems too funny to have a bank here,” said Jessie. “This whole place used to be great fields of long grass.”

“We have almost everything,” said Pat. “We have a newspaper every day. The newspaper office is right by the bank.”

“Oh, yes,” cried Benny. “I saw the paper up at Aunt Jane’s. The Daily News. It had a big picture of the uranium mine buildings on the front page.”

“Yes, the mine is almost always on the front page,” said Mike. “Here it is. We saved this one, because Pat is in the picture. See, right there? That’s Pat. Standing16 by the short man. Gosh, that’s funny. I’ve seen that man before some place. He don’t live here.”

“Doesn’t,” said Pat.

“Well, doesn’t, then,” said Mike. “You say Don’t to me often enough.”

“That’s very different, Mike,” said Pat.

“Well, it don’t sound any different to me,” said Mike.

Jessie laughed. “Mike makes me think of Benny, sometimes,” she said. “They both love to argue.”

“I’m not arguing,” said Mike. “I’m thinking. That short man in the picture don’t—doesn’t—live around here. He’s a stranger. But I know I’ve seen him before.”

Pat looked at the picture. “I don’t remember him at all,” he said to his younger brother. “I didn’t even know when they took the picture.”

Mike was very quiet for a while. He kept looking at the picture.

“We must go,” said Jessie. “We want to go into every store on the street and see all the sights.”

“I’ll go with you,” said Mike. “I can show you everything. I’ve been here two months.”

It was true. Mike did know everything. He showed them the door of the super-market which opened all by itself. He showed them a garage where new cars were for sale. Jessie bought five big straw17 hats in one store. The sun was very hot, so they all put on the hats. Everyone in the stores seemed to know who the children were. Aunt Jane had put their pictures in the paper many times since they owned the ranch where uranium had been found.

At last Jessie said, “Come on, let’s go home. Maggie said she had a fine supper.”

“Thank you, Mike, for showing us,” said Violet.

“See you tomorrow, Mike,” said Benny.

“Yep,” said Mike. He went off whistling. He didn’t know then that tomorrow would be so exciting.
 


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1 ranch dAUzk     
n.大牧场,大农场
参考例句:
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
2 miners ab724571593ef029832491cee13a1e44     
矿工( miner的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The coal miners have come out for about two weeks. 煤矿工人已罢工约两周了。
  • The roof of the cave dropped in on the miners, trapping them. 洞穴的顶部坍了下来,砸在矿工身上。
3 hoe XcIxs     
n.锄;v.用锄整(地),用锄除草
参考例句:
  • They hoe the garden to keep down the weeds.他们把花园里的草锄掉,阻止其生长。
  • She bought herself a hoe and a sickle.她给自己买了一把锄头和一把镰刀。
4 bumped 18898e46b2206e762fa80608d68ebdd5     
凸起的,凸状的
参考例句:
  • In the dark I bumped into a chair. 我在黑暗中撞上了一把椅子。
  • I bumped against an old friend in town today. 我今天在城里偶然碰见了一个老朋友。
5 whistling 8398f61f1e724dfacd37b9176d0550b7     
n.吹笛,吹口哨,啸声v.吹口哨( whistle的现在分词 );鸣笛;呼啸着前进;空指望
参考例句:
  • The bomb exploded, sending shrapnel whistling through the trees. 炸弹爆炸了,弹片呼啸着穿过树林。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He came home for dinner whistling cheerfully. 他欢快地吹着口哨回家吃饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
6 yelled aeee2b86b284e7fbd44f45779d6073c1     
v.叫喊,号叫,叫着说( yell的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • He yelled at the other driver. 他冲着另一位司机大叫。
  • The lost man yelled, hoping someone in the woods would hear him. 迷路的人大声喊着,希望林子里的人会听见。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 pat 8vhyZ     
n.轻拍,拍打声;vt.轻拍,拍打;vi.轻跑,轻击;adv.适时,彻底;adj.油腔滑调的,恰好的,合适的
参考例句:
  • Could you hear the pat?你能听到轻轻的拍击声吗?
  • He gave her a reassuring pat on the shoulder. 他轻拍了一下她的肩膀让她放心。
8 works ieuzIh     
n.作品,著作;工厂,活动部件,机件
参考例句:
  • We expect writers to produce more and better works.我们期望作家们写出更多更好的作品。
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
9 alike kLUyz     
adj.同样的,相像的;adv.一样地;同程度地 
参考例句:
  • The twins are so alike that I can't tell which is which.这对双胞胎一模一样,我分辨不出谁是谁。
  • All stories seemed dreadfully alike,no matter who told them.看来,不管谁讲,故事都是千篇一律的。
10 oven iJuxQ     
n.烤炉;烤箱
参考例句:
  • You put food inside an oven to cook it.你把食物放进烤箱里热一下。
  • She baked bread in an oven.她用烤炉烤面包。
11 surely yrRwj     
adv.确实地,无疑地;必定地,一定地
参考例句:
  • It'should surely be possible for them to reach an agreement.想必他们可以达成协议。
  • Surely we'll profit from your work.我们肯定会从你的工作中得到益处。
12 crusts 9a559819080efec9fa93b59a82ba168c     
n.面包皮( crust的名词复数 );糕饼等的酥皮;(泥土、雪等)硬的外层;外皮
参考例句:
  • sandwiches with the crusts cut off 切掉面包皮的三明治
  • They must have appeared first as crusts and clinkers. 它们最初必然象面包的外皮和熔炉里的渣块。 来自辞典例句
13 violet 8h3wm     
adj.紫色的;n.紫罗兰
参考例句:
  • She likes to wear violet dresses.他喜欢穿紫色的衣服。
  • Violet is the color of wisdom,peace and strength.紫色是智慧的,和平的和力量的颜色。
14 softly HiIzR4     
adv.柔和地,静静地,温柔地
参考例句:
  • He speaks too softly for her to hear.他讲话声音太轻,她听不见。
  • She breathed her advice softly.她低声劝告。
15 puzzled 6ktzd5     
adj.迷惑的;困惑的
参考例句:
  • The student was puzzled about what to do next.这个学生对下一步做什么伤透了脑筋。
  • I was somewhat puzzled at his unwillingness to help.他不愿意帮忙让我有点困惑。
16 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续,地位;adj.永久的,不动的,直立的,不流动的
参考例句:
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
17 straw 6t6wm     
n.稻草,麦杆,吸管;adj.用稻草做的,用来作稻草的,麦杆色的,无价值的,象稻草人的,非正式民意测验所发现的
参考例句:
  • The old peasant is twisting pieces of straw into a rope.这位老农民正把稻草搓成绳子。
  • May I have a straw for my drink?给我一根喝饮料的吸管好吗?
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