8-18 Scrapman and the Incredible Flying Machine
Written by Carolyn Bear and illustrated by John Prater
Chapter1
Scrapman was a mechanical man. He lived with Winston who owned a scrap-yard. Scrapman was made out of odds and ends that Winston had saved from old broken machines.
His brain was made from a personal organizers that someone had thrown away going wrong..
物理题 It still went wrong,but now Scrapman went wrong with it.
‘Od ear,’said Scrapman.Winston was working late.So late, that he was having his supper heated over a gas ring in the shed.
Scrapman was opening a tin of baked beans for him. At least he thought it was a tin of bake
d beans.
‘Volly od beans,’said Scrapman.
‘I can’t eat that,’said Winston,in a tired kind of voice.’Can’t you read what it says on the label?’
Scrapman hung his head.He wasn’t very good at reading.He could read his name and a few really easy words but he couldn’t read what it said on the cat food tin.
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Scrapcat was watching from under the workbench.
He didn’t eat cat food either becau he was a mechanical cat and he worked on batteries,not cat food. Scrapman went and sat in the corner.He felt very sad .He wished he could read like Emma.Emma was his special friend.She was teaching him to talk like a human being.She had a picture book with wonderful stories in it about robots.The were mechanical men like him but they could do amazing things.
They could drive rockets and walk on the moon an save people from fires and floods and earthquakes. Scrapman loved looking at the pictures, but he had to wait until Emma came round to find out what the stories were about.
Scrapcat saw that Scrapman was sad,so he went and sat beside him.
Winston opened a proper tin of beans and he put the tin of cat food in looking, Scrapman took it out.
He’d bought it as a treat for Patch. Patch was Emma’s cat.He liked to come and play with Scrapcat while Emma was at school.He’d climb in through the window when Winston and Scrapman were busy.
Then he’d show Scrapcat how to do uful cat things,like chasing pieces of strig and hiding things under the workbench.
Now,you may be wondering why Winston and Scrapman were so busy.They were working round the clock on Winston’s incredible invention.
It was a wonderful flying machine that didn’t need petrol to make it fly.It was almost finished.Just a few more nuts and bots to fix and it would be ready for a test flight.
But where had tho last few nuts and bolts gone?
Chapter2
At last,the day came for the first test flight.Winston had cleared a runway through the scrap-yard.
The runway led out into a field,and beyond that there was another field,so there was plenty of room to take off. 事业单位年报
That morning,Winston took off one of his socks and hung it on a pole to test the wind direction.
凉组词 It was an east wind,steady and strong,just right for testing a plane.
Emma arrived early with Patch.She’d brought a special picnic and a big bottle of fizzy le
monade to celebrate after the flight.She found Winston and Scrapman busy underneath the machine,making some last-minute checks.Scrapcat was running in and out through his scrapflap giving up-to-the-minute reports on the weather.
凉拌皮蛋 By ten o’clock in the morning,Winston said that everything was ready.
It was going to be cold up there in the sky,so he put on a thick jacket with a woolly lining over his overalls.And he wrote his special goggles to protect his eyes from the wind.
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‘Open the doors,’he said proudly to Scrapman.’Stand well back,’he said to Emma and Patch.
茶疗 And then,very carefully,Winston and Scrapman pushed the flying machine out into the open.
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A small crowd had gathered outside.People had heard about the flying machine.They had come to share in the excitement of eing it take off for the first time.
Winston held up a hand for silence.’Welcome,’he said.Then he said something about this being a ‘historic occasion’ and everyone clapped and some people cheered.One little boy waved the sock on the pole like a flag.
Winston climbed up into the flying machine and Scrapman started to climb up behind him.
‘Stop.’said Winston.’You can’t come with me, Scrapman.You’re too big.The machine could never get off the ground with you in it.’’
Winston tested the flaps and jiggled the joystick and looked in his mirrors to check that everything was working properly.Then he pulled down his goggles and turned up his collar.He waved proudly to the crowd.
