Micro the Metal Dog
1 Micro arrives
On Daniel’s birthday, he woke up and found a big box by his bed. It looked like a kennel. ‘A dog!’ cried Daniel. He’d wanted a dog for ages. He leapt out of bed and opened the kennel door. There was Micro. He was shiny and silver, with yellow flashing eyes.
‘That isn’t a real dog,’ said Daniel. ‘I know,’ said Mum. ‘But real dogs aren’t allowed in our flats. Just look what Micro can do.’
Mum turned to Micro. ‘Walk,’ she said. Micro stumped across the carpet on stiff(僵直的，不灵活的), jerky(不平稳的) legs. ‘Bark,’ said Mum. Micro opened his metal mouth. Was he barking? It was hard to tell. It was such a soft little sound. ‘Yip, yip, yip, yip, yip.’
‘Wag your tail,’ said Mum. Micro’s metal tail made a whirring sound as it went one way, then the other. ‘But I wanted a real dog,’ said Daniel. He was deeply disappointed.
‘Micro’s better than a real dog,’ said Mum. ‘He’s not noisy or messy. He always does what he’s told. Go on. Tell him to do something.’
‘Go back in your kennel, Micro,’ said Daniel. Micro turned round and clunked back into his box. ‘What a good dog!’ said Mum to Micro. ‘I think you’re the perfect pet.’
But Daniel didn’t em to think so. He said, ‘Thanks, Mum.’ Then he ripped open(把…撕开) the rest of his prents.
All day and all night, Micro waited. But Daniel played with his other prents. He didn’t take Micro out once. Slowly, inside his dark box, Micro’s eyes lost their brightness.
2 Micro starts thinking
Next morning, as Daniel left for school, Mum called after him, ‘You’re late, Daniel. WALK FAST!’ Alone in his dark box, Micro heard, ‘WALK FAST’. His robot brain started whirring. His little yellow eyes lit up as bright as ever. He came trundling out of his kennel.
He raced along on his stumpy(短粗的，敦实的触觉小体) legs, across the carpet. He went out through the open glass doors and he only stopped when his red no hit the balcony. ‘CLANG!’
Daniel’s mum didn’t e him. She was too busy getting ready for work.
Micro looked down from the venth floor. He could e the park, with green trees and grass. He saw people and furry things with four legs running about.
Suddenly, Micro’s brain started thinking for itlf. ‘Tho are real dogs,’ thought Micro.
绝句这首诗的意思
He saw the real dogs running after sticks and balls. ‘Tho real dogs are playing,’ thought Micro. They weren’t shut up and left alone by their owners in dark boxes.
His bright eyes glowed like fire. His robot brain whirred again. With every thought, it got more and more clever. Now it was making plans. ‘I will go down there,’ decided Micro, ‘and I’ll watch the real dogs. I will learn how to be like them. Then Daniel will play with me.’ But how could he get to the park? He was high up and the park was a long way dow
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3 What real dogs do
Micro went back and hid behind the sofa. Then he saw his chance.
中秋节小报
Daniel’s mum went to work and Micro sneaked out(偷偷地溜出) through the door after her. He saw her press a button in the wall. Then she vanished through some sliding doors. His robot eyes flashed. ‘That is the way down,’ he decided.
He got up(站起来，直立) on his back legs. With his metal no, he presd the same button.
DING! The lift came. Micro walked in. He rode down to the ground floor. The people in the lift with him stared. They looked puzzled, but no one said anything.
天体物理
In the park, Micro peeked out(偷看，窥视篮球裁判规则) from behind a tree. He saw the dog owners shout, ‘Come here!’ The real dogs took no notice. They ran off. He saw the dog owners shout, ‘Be quiet!’ But the real dogs barked even louder: ‘RUFF! RUFF! RUFF!’
The dogs didn’t do what they were told to do. But their owners still emed to love them. They patted their heads and scratched(挠，抓) them behind the ears.
Micro thought, ‘If I do what real dogs do, Daniel might scratch behind my ears.’
在我眼中Micro knew he still had a lot to learn. So he followed a dog called Scruffy.
Scruffy ran into his hou like a mad thing, chasing(追赶) his own tail. Micro stood on his back legs and peeked through an open window. Scruffy chewed the carpet. He drank from the toilet bowl. Then a little girl came in and put her arms round Scruffy’s neck and hugged him.
‘You’re the best dog in the world,’ she said.
‘I want to be the best dog in the world,’ thought Micro, and now he knew how to do it.
今年冬天下雪4 ‘What’s the matter with you?’
Micro went back home. He rode up to the venth floor in the lift. Daniel’s mum came bac
k from work and he sneaked into the flat behind her.
‘Why are you out of your box?’ said Daniel’s mum, surprid. ‘Get back into your kennel.’ But Micro ran the other way. He opened his metal mouth. ‘Ruff! Ruff! Ruff!’ he roared, as he’d heard the real dogs do.
