人教版四年级英语阅读文章


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    人教版四年级英语阅读1
    In a country home, a mother hen and her cute chicks were living happily. A little girl came to visit the country home, but was very bored. One night, the girl went into the chicken house. As soon as she went in, there was disorder. Here and there cries of the chickens could be heard. The father, who was inside, woke up.
    “What‘s going on? Why are you bothering the chickens?” “Because I’m bored.” “You have to sleep now, go inside.”
    The girl went into the chicken house, again, the next day. There was a racket again, as the chickens were frightened. The moon in the night sky was worried. This time, the little girl‘s father will not be forgiving.
    Finally, the sleeping father woke up. “Why are the chickens crying? By chance” The father was angry and came out to the yard. “What’s wrong with you? Is it okay to bother animals that can‘t talk? You need to be punished.” When the little girl saw her father’s angry face, she began to cry.
    “It is true that I bothered the chickens, but I was bored yesterday. But today I went in to apologize to the chickens. I was going to hug the chickens.”
    When the father heard what his daughter said, a smile quickly appeared on his face. “You are truly my daughter.” The father praised his daughter. He was proud of his daughter that knew how to apologize. The moon in the sky gave a big laugh, too.
    人教版四年级英语阅读2
    In the deep, sea palace, there lived a mermaid princess. Whenever she sang a song with her beautiful voice, everyone envied her. However, the mermaid princess wanted to go to the outside world.
    “I would like to hear the beautiful sound of birds. “The king promised her. “When you turn 15 years old, you can go and see the life above the sea.” “Oh, I can‘t wait!
    Finally, it was the mermaid princess’ 15th birthday. She went up to the sea. The princess saw a great ship. And she saw a handsome prince standing on the ship. The princess fell in love with him at first sight.
    However, as thunder and lightning struck, the ship sank on its side. The prince lost his consciousness and fell deep into the sea. “Oh, no! The prince fell into the water. Let me hurry and save him.”
    The princess saved the prince and laid him on the sand. The princess took care of him all night. When the prince opened his eyes, the mermaid princess hid from him. She thought he might get scared by her tail. Just then, a princess from a neighbor land came out to see the sea and she saw the prince.
    The princess watched from a far the prince who always came out to the sea at night. The princess was very sad. She wanted to become a human so that she could be with the prince.
    She asked the witch. “Okay, I will make you into a human, but you must give me your beautiful voice. If the prince marries someone else, you will become a water bubble. You must marry the prince.”
    On the sand, she drank the medicine that the witch had given her. With the big sudden pain, she turned into a human. Just then, the prince who came out to the sea saw the princess.
    The prince took the princess who could not speak, to his palace. Although she could not speak, she was happy to be living near the prince. The prince was going to be married to a princess from a neighbor land.
    “I will be marrying the princess that saved my life.” ‘I am the one that saved your life.’ But, her voice could not be heard.
    At night, the mermaid princess‘ older sisters came up to the sea. They gave the mermaid princess a knife and said, “If you stab the prince with this knife, you can be a mermaid again. If you don’t, you will become a water bubble.”
    On the night of the wedding, the mermaid princess was going to stab the sleeping prince with the knife. But, she could not kill the loving prince. “It‘s best that I just turn into a water bubble. “When morning came, the mermaid turned into a water bubble and went up to heaven.
    人教版四年级英语阅读3
    Long, long time ago, there lived a very fancy king. The king changed his clothes 12 times a day. He really liked to show off to his subjects. “My clothes are the best in the world.”
    One day, two tailors planned a trick. “Why don‘t we teach that stupid and extravagant king a lesson. He doesn’t even worry about his starving people.” “That‘s right! He thinks he’s the best.”
    The two men went to see the king. “Oh, the world‘s most marvelous king! We have brought the most beautiful cloth in the whole world.” “However, not everyone is able to see the cloth. Those that tell lies and have bad hearts are not able to see this fine cloth.”
    After the king heard those words, he became very interested. “Could there really be such a cloth? If I can make clothes out of those cloths, my clothes will be the best in the whole world. Hurry and show me the cloth.” The king began to get more and more greedy.
    The tailors pretended that the cloth was real, as they showed it to the king. The king and the fine-spoken subjects could not see anything before them. But, none of them could show that they could not see it.
    The king and his fine-spoken subjects just looked at each other. Then, the tailor quickly spoke in a arrogant manner. “Well, is there no honest man here? How can you look at this beautiful cloth and not praise it.”
    Among the subjects, one of them made a flattering comment out loud. “Wow! This is the first time that I have seen such a wonderful cloth.” All the subjects tried to be the first to praise the cloth. Then, the king was amazed with the beauty of the cloth, too.
    The king gave the money and ordered them to make his clothes. For several days, the tailors pretended to be making the clothes. The king became worried and told one of his subjects to go and see how the clothes was coming along.
    The subject could not say how much the clothes had been completed. As hard as he looked, he could not see it. But, he could not say that he was unable to see it. Instead, he pretended to be amazed at how beautiful it was coming along.
    A few days later, the tailors came back with the King’s clothes. “Here you are, try on this clothes.” The king was not able to honestly say that he could not see the clothes. He, too, pretended to look over it.
    One man said, “Your majesty, lets go and show off this finest clothes in the world.” The subjects all agreed at the same time. “Yes, that is a good idea.”
    The king walked out to the street very proudly and walked with pride. All the people in the land came out to see the king‘s new clothes. They were all surprised, though.
    Just then, a little girl shouted out, “Our king is naked!” Then everyone said,“He’s naked, he‘s naked!”
    The king now realized the truth. However, with only his undergarments on, he still walked in a dignified manner. Even though he was embarrassed, he could not stop walking. Why not? Because he was the king.
    人教版四年级英语阅读4
    A mother duck was brooding on her eggs near the margin of a pond. A flock of lovely baby ducks was soon born, making sweet peeping sounds when the eggs were broken. But one egg remained unbroken. “It is strange. Why has this egg not broken?”
    The mother duck continued her brooding. At last, the egg was broken and a baby duck was born. However that baby duck was very ugly compared to the other baby ducks.
    The mother duck was worried, but still she took the baby ducks near the water and taught them how to swim. The ugly duckling also swam with his brothers and sisters, moving his legs eagerly. “It is lucky though. That baby swims well.” Still his brothers pecked at the ugly duckling with their bills.
    “How hideous this baby duck is. We don‘t want to see you. Go to a cat.” His brothers gave a very hard time to the poor duckling. “Stop it, don’t do that!” The mother duck sighed and said, “Ah! I wish that this baby could live happily at another place.”
    The baby duck heard what his mother said and dropped tears of sorrow saying, “Mom, I will leave. Good-bye.” The ugly duckling left his nest beyond the pond.
    When he entered the forest, other birds were frightened by the baby duck and ran away. “Why do they run away? Is it because I am so awful?” The baby duck became sadder and plodded along the field.
    Near the water beside the field, two wild ducks were playing around. “Yah, what is that ugly duck? Let‘s make fun of him.” The two wild ducks flew up in the air and threw stones at the baby duck.
    人教版四年级英语阅读5
    Once upon a time in a kingdom far away, there were eleven Princes and a single Princess, by the name of Elisa. One day, their mother died of a disease.
    Eventually the King married again. The new Queen hated the twelve children.
    She said craftily, “Elisa is weak, and it would be good for her to go to the country for recuperation.” The King was grateful to the Queen, as she seemed to care for the health of his daughter. Therefore, the Princess was sent off to the remotest corner of the country.
    The Queen then changed the eleven Princes into swans through her magic power, and sent them away from the royal palace. The Princes flew away crying sadly. “Oh! I feel good. It is my world now.”
    After some time, the King missed Princess Elisa and sent for her. The Queen had Princess Elisa wear a dirty and worn-out dress. The King was very surprised to see the dirty Princess Elisa. “Elisa, how do you dress yourself?” Then the Queen said quickly,
    “Dear Lord, it seems that Princess Elisa has gone mad.” The King was furious and sent the Princess away from him.
    “Ah! Where are my brothers?” The Princess asked a man passing by, “Have you ever seen eleven Princes?” The man said, “I have not seen eleven Princes but I have seen eleven swans. Strangely the swans wore golden crowns. You may find them near the river.”
    Princess Elisa waited for her brothers near the river hoping to find them. At night, eleven swans swooped down to the ground and were turned into the form of Princes. “My brothers!” “Elisa!” They cried and embraced each other.
    The brothers were trapped under the spell of the wicked Queen, and were forced to become swans and fly around to look for something to eat during the day. Elisa prayed earnestly, “Dear God, please release the magic curse from my brothers.” In her dreams that night, a fairy appeared and said, “Make mantles for your brothers with hemp and have them wear the mantles. However, you should not speak at all until those mantles are made completely.”
    The Princes thought that Elisa, who did not speak and merely kept knitting, had become strange. One day, a Prince from a neighboring kingdom saw the knitting Princess when he was out hunting. The Prince took Elisa to his palace saying to himself, “She is a really beautiful lady. I am going to make her happy.”
    But Elisa did not say anything, and only kept knitting eagerly. At nightfall of the next day, the hemp was all used up. Elisa picked some more hemp near a grave but was caught by the Prince. The Prince said, “You dared to go to a grave at night? You must be a witch. Take this witch and burn her at the stake!”
    Princess Elisa was unable to say anything and was imprisoned. Princess Elisa continued knitting without taking rest even in the prison. Princess Elisa was finally knitting the eleventh mantle, while being carried on a cart going to the burning place. The villagers threw stones at her while shouting, “That witch is still knitting. Burn her at the stake!”
    At that precise moment, the eleven swans flew in. Princess Elisa threw the finished mantles to the swans. Only then, Princess Elisa opened her mouth. “I now can speak. I am not a witch.”
    They donned the knitted hoods they were turned back into Princes. The Princess told the Prince what had happened up to that time. Thereafter, the Prince and Princess Elisa lived happily together in their kingdom.
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