英语故事三篇--比赛适用

English Stories
(1)The Hare and the Tortoise
A HARE one day ridiculed the short feet and slow pace of the Tortoise, who replied, laughing: "Though you be swift as the wind, I will beat you in a race." The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.
On the day appointed for the race the two started together. The Tortoise never for a moment stopped, but went on with a slow but steady pace straight to the end of the course. The Hare, lying down by the wayside, fell fast asleep.
At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue. Slow but steady wins the race.
(2)The lion and the fox
The lion once said that he was sick on his death bed. So he asked all the animals to come and listen to his last wishes. The goat came to the lion's cave. He stood there and listened for a long time.
Then a sheep went in. Before she came out, a rabbit entered to hear the last wishes of the king of beasts. But soon the lion seemed to recover, and went to the mouth of his cave. He saw a fox waiting outside.
"Why don't you come in?" asked the lion to the fox. "I beg Your Majesty's pardon," said the fox, "I have seen many animals enter your cave, but none of them come out. Till they come out again, I prefer to wait outside."
(3)The Rabbit and the Fox
Once there was a naughty rabbit. He likes to play tricks, and it made other animals angry. But it was very different to catch him.
One day, a wolf said to a fox, “I have an idea to catch the rabbit. You go back home and get into bed. I’ll go to the rabbit and tell him that you are dead. If he comes to see you, you’ll jump up and catch him.”
“Good idea,”said the fox, “I’ll do that.”Then fox ran home and got into bed. The wolf went to the rabbit’s house and said, “Mr. Rabbit, have you heard Mr. Fox is dead?”The wolf stood at the door, and then he went away.
“Really? I haven’t heard anything about it.”The rabbit said to himself, so he decided to go and see if it was true. He went to the fox’s house and looked in through the window. He saw the fox lying in bed. He opened the door and went in. he looked at th e fox and said, “Mr. Wolf says Mr. Fox is dead, but he doesn’t look like a dead fox. A dead fox always open his mouth.”
When the fox heard this, he thought, “I’ll show him that I am
dead.”So he opened his mouth.
The rabbit saw the fox open his mouth, and he knew the fox was not dead. He ran out of the house as fast as he could.。