有没有关于美国梦的英语故事?我们英语课要讲故事~关于美国梦的

有没有关于美国梦的英语故事?我们英语课要讲故事~关于美国梦的
有没有关于美国梦的英语故事?
我们英语课要讲故事~
关于美国梦的

有没有关于美国梦的英语故事?我们英语课要讲故事~关于美国梦的
One Friday morning,a teacher came up.She started with "This was England's finest hour."
Little Suzy instantly jumped up and said,"Winston Churchill."
"Congratulations!" Said the teacher,"You may go home."
The teacher then said,"Ask not what your country can do for you."
Before she could finish this quote,another young lady belts out,"John F.Kennedy".
"Very good," says the teacher,"you may go."
Irritated that he has missed two golden opportunities,Little Johnny said,"I wish those girls would just shut up."
Upon overhearing this comment,the outraged teacher demanded to know who said it.
Johnny instantly rose to his feet and said,"Bill Clinton.I'll see you Monday."
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Every August.Every August for twelve years.Every August for twelve years we went to the same small town on holiday.Every August for twelve years we went to the same beach.Every August for twelve years my parents rented the same small house in the same small town near the same beach,so every morning of every August for twelve years I woke up and walked down to the same beach and sat under the same umbrella or on the same towel in front of the same sea.
There was a small caf茅 on the beach where we sat every day,and every day Mr.Morelli in the caf茅 said 鈥淕ood morning!鈥 to my parents,and then always patted me on the head like a dog.Every day we walked down to our red and white umbrella,every day my father sat on his deckchair and read the newspaper then went to sleep,every day my mother went for a swim in the sea and then went to sleep.Every lunch time we ate the same cheese sandwiches which my mother made,and then every afternoon we went up to the caf茅 and ate an ice cream while my parents talked to Mr Morelli about the weather.Every summer for twelve years I sat there and read books and sometimes played volleyball with some of the other boys and girls who were there,but I never made any friends.
It was so boring.
Every August for twelve years the same family sat next to us.They were called the Hamiltons.We had a red and white umbrella,they had a green one.Every morning my parents said 鈥淕ood morning!鈥 to Mr and Mrs Hamilton,and Mr and Mrs Hamilton said 鈥淕ood morning!鈥 to my parents.Sometimes they talked about the weather.
Mr and Mrs Hamilton had two sons.Richard was the same age as me,and his brother Philip was two years older than me.Richard and Philip were both taller than me.Richard and Philip were very friendly,and both very handsome.They were much friendlier and more handsome than me.They made friends with everyone,and organised the games of volleyball on the beach or swimming races in the sea with the other children.They always won the games of volleyball and the swimming races.My parents liked Richard and Philip a lot.鈥淲hy can鈥檛 you be more like Richard and Philip?鈥 they said to me.鈥淟ook at them!They make friends with everyone!They are polite,good boys!You just sit here reading books and doing nothing!鈥
I,of course,hated them.
Richard and Philip,Richard and Philip,Richard and Philip 鈥 it was all I ever heard from my parents every August for twelve years.Richard and Philip were perfect.Everything about them was better than anything about me.Even their green beach umbrella was better than our red and white one.
I was sixteen years old the last summer we went there.Perfect Richard and perfect Philip came to the beach one day and said that they were going to have a barbecue at lunch time.They were going to cook for everyone!鈥淔orget your cheese sandwiches鈥?they laughed,鈥淐ome and have some hamburgers or barbecue chicken with us!We鈥檙e going to cook!鈥
My parents,of course,thought this was wonderful.鈥淟ook at how good Richard and Philip are!They鈥檙e going to do a barbecue and they鈥檝e invited everybody!You couldn鈥檛 organise a barbecue!鈥
Every summer for twelve years,on the other side of my family,sat Mrs Moffat.Mrs Moffat was a very large woman who came to the same beach every summer for twelve years on her own.Nobody knew if she had a husband or a family,but my parents said that she was very rich.Mrs Moffat always came to the beach wearing a large hat,a pair of sunglasses and a gold necklace.She always carried a big bag with her.She never went swimming,but sat under her umbrella reading magazines until lunchtime when she went home.
Richard and Philip,of course,also invited Mrs Moffat to their barbecue.
Richard and Philip鈥檚 barbecue was,of course,a great success.About twenty people came and Richard and Philip cooked lots of hamburgers and chicken and made a big salad and brought big pieces of watermelon and everyone laughed and joked and told Mr and Mrs Hamilton how wonderful their sons were.I ate one hamburger and didn鈥檛 talk to anybody.After a while,I left,and made sure that nobody saw me leave.
Mrs Moffat ate three plates of chicken and two hamburgers.After that she said she was very tired and was going to go and have a sleep.She walked over to her umbrella and sat down on her deckchair and went to sleep.When she woke up later,everybody on the beach was surprised to hear her screaming and shouting.
鈥淢y bag!My bag!鈥 she shouted.鈥淚t鈥檚 gone!It鈥檚 GONE!鈥 Everybody on the beach ran over to Mrs Moffat to see what the problem was.鈥淪omeone has taken my bag!鈥 she screamed,鈥淪omeone has stolen my bag!鈥
鈥淚mpossible!鈥 said everybody else.鈥淭his is a very safe,friendly beach!There are no thieves here!鈥 But it was true.Mrs Moffat鈥檚 big bag wasn鈥檛 there anymore.
Nobody had seen any strangers on the beach during the barbecue,so they thought that Mrs Moffat had perhaps taken her bag somewhere and forgotten it.Mr Morelli from the caf茅 organised a search of the beach.Everybody looked everywhere for Mrs Moffat鈥檚 big bag.
Eventually,they found it.My father saw it hidden in the sand under a deckchair.A green deckchair.Richard and Philip鈥檚 deckchair.My father took it and gave it back to Mrs Moffat.Everybody looked at Richard and Philip.Richard and Philip,the golden boys,stood there looking surprised.Of course,they didn鈥檛 know what to say.
Mrs Moffat looked in her bag.She started screaming again.Her purse with her money in it wasn鈥檛 in the big bag.鈥淢y purse!鈥 she shouted,鈥淢y purse has gone!Those boys have stolen it!They organised a barbecue so they could steal my purse!鈥
Everybody tried to explain to Mrs Moffat that this couldn鈥檛 possibly be true,but Mrs Moffat called the police.The police arrived and asked golden Richard and golden Philip lots of questions.Richard and Philip couldn鈥檛 answer the questions.Eventually,they all got into a police car and drove away to the police station.
I sat there,pretending to read my book and trying to hide a big,fat purse under the sand on the beach.
That was the last summer we went to the beach.My parents never talked about Richard and Philip again.
Glossary
barbecue (n):when you cook meat,fish or vegetables outside over a fire,or make a meal in this way and eat outside,often during a party.
deckchair (n):a light,folding chair to use outside,especially on the beach,on a ship or in a park.
handsome (adj):describes a man who is physically attractive in a traditional,masculine way.
hide (v):to put something or someone in a place where they cannot be seen or found,or to put yourself somewhere where you cannot be seen or found.
invite (v):to ask or request someone to go to an event.joke (v):to say funny things.
necklace (n):a piece of jewellery worn around the neck,such as a chain or a string of decorative stones.
pat (v):to touch someone or something gently and usually repeatedly with the hand flat.

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