北师大版初中英语九年级Unit 5 Lesson 14 The Dark Room第一课时练习

was over 30 centimetres (厚).

— ________________. I mean, we're all going to be old one day, too.

Emma: What are you doing, Li Lin?

Li Lin: .

Emma: I have read it before. What do you think of the story?

Li Lin: . Yu Gong found a good way to deal with his problem.

Emma: Really? ? It seems impossible to move a mountain.

Li Lin: But the story is trying to show us that anything is possible if you work hard. Yu Gong kept trying and didn't give up.

Emma: . I think we should try to find other ways to deal with a problem.

Li Lin: But what could Yu Gong do except moving the mountains?

Emma: He could build a road. .

Li Lin: We have different opinions about the story. There are many sides to a story and many ways to understand it.

Emma: Yes, that's fine.

    Once there was a forest where all the animals lived happily together. One day a family went to spend the day in the forest, and the son left his socks there. After the family left, a bear came by，found the socks, and decided to try them on. They fit so well, and he liked them so much that he wouldn't take them off.

    All the animals talked about the bear's new look. Soon, in the forest, there began appearing squirrels(松鼠) in shirts, rabbits in shoes , and even rats(鼠) wearing hats! The forest doctor shook his head, telling animals, “This can't be good. Animals don't need clothes!" But no one listened to him. They said he was just out of fashion.

    However, it wasn't long before the first results of fashion-fever came. Several times the squirrel caught his shirt on trees, stopping him in mid- jump and sending him falling to the ground from a tree. The rat couldn't go into his hole without taking off his hat first. Even the bear, because of his socks, slipped from the river rock and almost killed himself.

    When the animals came to see the doctor, he gave them all the same advice, "Take off those clothes before one day they're going to kill you. ”Those who listened to the doctor's advice stopped having accidents. And the animals realised that they didn't need clothes at all. Starting to wear them had been very dangerous, and they had only done it to make others admire(羡慕) them, and to get attention.

    One day, my friend Judy called and told me that she was going to join an oil painting class on Friday evenings. . I was hesitant(犹豫的) to join her because I had never painted before. But she encouraged me to join the class just for fun. Finally I agreed.

    The first day in the class we met our teacher, Mr Chou, who just came back from France. and told us some knowledge about art history. He said, "I know most of you have no experience in painting, but in fact everyone is an artist and everyone can draw or paint. Don't lose heart! Just do it!"

    . We also painted the most beautiful and the ugliest things in our minds. When I was painting, I forgot everything that I worried about. Sometimes I even forgot the time.

    Mr Chou not only opened the door of art for me but also gave me a way to broaden(拓宽) my life. I started to borrow art books from the library and visit museums in my free time. .

Every painting shows the artist's personality and feelings. .