典范英语816电子版很丧的句子
8-16. Doohickey and the robot
Chapter one
Doohickey had just moved to a new town when he spotted a notice. It was stuck outside a big hou at the end of his street.鄚州大庙
“That’s the job for me”,said Doohickey. “I need some more pocket-money."He pushed the doorbell. Then he jumped.
Weeeeyow-weeeeyow-weeeeyow! Kaaabooooom!A loud alarm sounded inside the hou, followed by a terrific explosion.Awindow flew open at the top of the hou.A cloud of thick smoke billowed out.
“What do you want?"coughed a voice from inside the cloud.“Can’t you e that I’m busy?"The smoke cleared. The professor’土壤里有什么s face peered down at Doohickey.
“Excu me,"said Doohickey.“My name’s Doohickey.I’ve come about the job."“What job?"snapped the professor.“As assistant,"said Doohickey. “The notice says you need one." "Oh, absolutely!"said the professor, beginning to grin.
The notice had been up for over a year, but Doohickey was the first person to ask about it.“Come on up!"said the professor. His head disappeared.A moment laterthe front door sprang half-open.
Doohickey peered inside.A huge mountain of post had stopped the door from opening properly. But there was no one there.Doohickey felt sure that the door had opened for him, so he squeczed through into the hallway.
Abuzzer sounded in Doohickey’s ear. He was surprid to e a little air-ship bobbing in the hallway beside him.
Tiny propellers spun the ship around. Doohickey saw thewords,, FOLLOW ME’written in big red letters on its side.
读书的力量
Chapter two
He followed the ship up a tall, winding stairca. He pasd room after room stuffed full of strange-looking machines.arachnid
“Were they the professor"s inventions?”
Doohickey knew that he was suppod to go straight up thestairs, but he couldn’t help himlf. He popped into one of the rooms to take a clor look.The first thing Doohickey came acrass was a computer screen fixed to a huge metal cage. The cage emed to be stuffed full of straw.
Doohickey pushed his hand into it.
“Ouch!"he squealed, pulling it out again.A tiny needle was sticking out of his thumb.There was a label fixed to the computerscreen.“寥寥几笔Well, it didn’t find this one,"said Doohickey crossly, as he stuck the needle back into the straw.
什么辉煌
The next machine had lots of electric fans fixed beneath a large metal funnel. There was sand all over the floor. The label said:学画中国画“This looks like fun,"thought Doohickey. He switched it on.
Sand began trickling out of the funnel and the fans started spinning.Then the strangest thing happened.The sand didn’t fall on to the floor. It hung in the air. And slowly, it shaped itlf into a floating castle.
Doohickey walked slowly around the machine. He couldn’t believe what he was eing.Then all of a sudden, he bumped into someone el. When he saw who it was, he nearly jumped out of his skin. The other person was him! It was like looking in a mirror, except that there was no glass.
Doohickey reached out his hand and the other Doohickey did the same. Their fingers met in mid-air and he felt the warmth of his own hand pressing back. It was too creepy.
“Ughhh!"shivered Doohickey. He stepped backwards straig ht into the floating sand-castle.
The castle exploded and Doohickey found himlf in the middle of a sandstorm. Sand blew everywhere, into his eyes and up his no.Coughing and sneezing, he groped his way back to the switch and turned it off.
The sandstorm disappeared. And so had the other Doohickey!Then Doohickey noticed a large metal plate on the floor.There was another la bel on it.
“Of cour!"sighed Doohickey.
The metal plate was another of the professor’s inventions.It had made the other Doohickey appear when he had stepped on to it.I won't try that again, he thought. It's a bit too spooky.
A buzzer sounded. Doohickey saw the air-ship bobbing up and down in the doorway. It had come back to find him.
“I got lost,"said Doohickey. He couldn’t think of a better excu, The ship buzzed again crossly and glided back towards the stairs.
“Coming,"said Doohickey.
Chapter Three
They reached the top of the hou.
The ai-ship led Doohickey into a smoky attic. It was stuffed full of books, test tubes and lumps of tangled wiring.
A small shaggy dog peered out at him from beneath a workbench.A cat lay sunning itlf on the window sill.
“What kept you?"asked the professor. He was hunched over a heap of metal in one corner.“I was admiring some of your inventions,"said Doohickey. “Oh, tho old things,"said the professor. This’s he said, “painting to the twisted heap of metal is my latest and greatest invention."
