Once upon a time there was a miser. He hid his gold under a tree. Every week he used to dig it up. One night a robber stole all the gold. When the miser came again, he found nothing but an empty hole. He was surprised, and then burst into tears.All the neighbors gathered around him. He told them how he used to come and visit his gold.
\"Did you ever take any of it out?\" asked one of them. \"No,\" he said, \"I only came to look at it.\" \"Then come again andlook at the hole,\" said the neighbor, \"it will be the same as looking at the gold.\" 【篇⼆】⼩学⽣阅读的英语故事
The hare and the tortoise
The hare was once boasting of his speed before the other animals. \"I have never been beaten,\" he said, \"when I run atfull speed, no one is faster than me.\"
The tortoise said quietly, \"I will race with you.\" \"That is a good joke,\" said the hare. \"I could dance around you the wholeway.\"
The race started. The hare darted almost out of sight at once. He soon stopped and lay down to have a nap.
The tortoise plodded on and on. When the hare awoke from his nap, he saw the tortoise was near the finish line, and thathe had lost the race.
【篇三】⼩学⽣阅读的英语故事
The young thief and his mother
A young man was caught stealing, and sentenced to death three days later.
He wanted to speak with his mother before theexecution. Of course this was granted.
When his mother came to him, he said, \"I want to tell you something.\" He said something but she could not hear. Hewhispered again, and when she came close to him, she put her ear to his mouth. He nearly bit off her ear. All the bystanderswere horrified.
\"It is to punish her,\" he said. \"When I was young I began stealing little things, and brought them home to mother. \"Insteadof punishing me, she laughed and said, ‘It will not be noticed.‘ It is because of her that I am here today.\"【篇四】⼩学⽣阅读的英语故事
The goose with the golden eggs
One morning a countryman went to his goose‘s nest, and saw a yellow and glittering egg there. He took the egg home. To his delight, he found that it was an egg of pure gold.
Every morning the same thing occurred, and he soon became rich by selling his eggs.
The countryman became more and more greedy. He wanted to get all the gold at once, so he killed the goose, when helooked inside, he found nothing in its body. 【篇五】⼩学⽣阅读的英语故事 Hercules and the waggoner
A waggoner was once driving a heavy load on a very muddy road.
Suddenly the wheels of the wagon sank into the mire, and the horse could not pull them out.
The waggoner threw down his whip. He knelt down and prayed to Hercules. “Hercules, help me,please,“ he said. But Hercules appeared to him, and said, “Man, don’t kneel there. Get up and put your shoulder to the wheel.“
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