Lesson 32 Only A Cork 第32课 一块软木 Corks are so cheap and so common, that every child who reads this Lesson can get a cork to handle and to look at. Let us try with a pen-holder to keep a cork down at the bottom of a glass of water. It is ve...
Snakes do not chew their food. They swallow their prey whole; and then they go into their holes and sleep fordays, or even weeks. 蛇吃东西不会嚼, 而是整个儿把猎物吞下去的。吞下去之后就回到洞里, 一睡就睡上几天, 甚至...
Lesson 31 The Gliding Snake 第31课 游来游去的蛇 Snakes belong to the class of animals which is known as reptiles. Very few snakes are found in our country. InIreland there are none at all; and in England and Scotland there are only two kinds...
Below the ground the stem is swelling out into little beads that will grow into new potatoes for us. The earthmust be piled up round the stems, so as to cover the potatoes and keep them from the light. 地下的茎会长出小珠子一样的东西, 小...
Lesson 30 The Potato 第30课 马铃薯 Next to bread, there is perhaps nothing which is so much used for food in our country as the potato. Yet the potato was not known in Great Britain until about three hundred years ago, when it was brought from A...
The fly has two thin clear wings, one on each side. It has also six legs. Its wings and its legs are all joined to its chest. 苍蝇有两只透明的薄翅膀, 一边一只。苍蝇还有六条腿, 翅膀和腿都是从胸部长出来的。 The foot...
Lesson 29 The Fly 第29课 苍蝇 The common fly which you so often see on the window-panes is called the house-fly. The large flies which are so fond of meat are called blow-flies. 小朋友, 你在窗玻璃上经常看见的普通苍蝇, 叫家蝇,...
Sea-water is salty, and people who live near the sea can get salt by filling shallow ponds with sea-water in summer, when the sun is strong. 海水里面是有盐的。夏天日照很强烈的时候, 住在海边的人, 只要把浅浅的池子灌满海...
Lesson 28 A Block Of Salt 第28课 一块盐 Every day we eat some of the white powder which we call salt. Salt does our bodies good, and keeps them healthy. We eat it at dinner along with our meat. We eat it, too, with eggs, and watercress, and with...
Underneath the body there are five pairs of limbsone pair joined to each ring of the bodyand these areits legs or walking limbs. 虾的身体下面还有5对足, 每个体节上长着一对；这些足就相当于虾的腿, 也叫步足。 It is very...
