典范英语8-9资料

9The Luckless Monster1 MonstersDo you think you know all about monsters?Youve probably heard of the deadly dragon. It was famous for fighting knights.Im sure youve heard of the Loch Ness Monster. Shes famous for.being spotted.The Loch Ness Monster is so famous shes even got her own nickname. They call her Nessie, the Loch Ness Monster.She calls me Luckless because I never seem to have any luck at all, but Luckless isnt my real name.My real name is Flossie.This is where we live.Its a bit wild.a bit windy.a bit wet, but its home to us. I love it here.But it can be lonely.I belong to the same family as Nessie. I live in the same loch as Nessie. I live in the same water. I hunt for the same fish. But wed have our differences.For instance, the Loch Ness Monster is huge and scary.But Im a bit on the small side. Sometimes Nessie calls me Scaredy Cat.The Loch Ness Monster swims swift and sure.But Im not all that keen on water.I dont like the cold and wet. I dont like the high waves. I dont like the deep pools and I HATE the whirlpool.This is the whirlpool.It goes round and round, and whatever is in the whirlpool goes round and round with it.Nessie LOVES it. Wheee! she yells.Yeeeeeeeeh! she yells, and, Come and have a go if you think youre brave enough!I had a go once. I HATED it. The water went up my nose, I couldnt see anything and I felt dizzy and sick.Youre scared! Nessie teased. Youre frightened!But I wasnt frightened.I was TSRRIFIED!Nessie called me a landlubber, a chicken.Nessie calls me lots of names: Titch! Scaredy cat! Cry baby!To tell you the truth, Nessie is a bit of a bully. But nothing Nessie can do would make get back in that whirlpool again.Never!2 No one cares about YOU!You probably know that the Loch Ness Monster (or Nessie for short) is good at hiding. We monsters have learned the art of camouflage. This means we can hide by changing our colour or making ourselves look like other things.If someone spots Nessie, she changes. People who make films, and people who write for newspapers and magazines, are always trying to stop Nessie. They want to take her photo. They want to make a film about her. They want her to be in their newspapers or magazines. Shes famous. Shes a celebrity. Everyone tries to spot Nessie.But nobody has ever tried to spot me.I WANT to be made a fuss of. But no matter what I do, nobody notices me at all.Thats why Nessie calls me the Luckless Monster. No one knows you exist. No one cares if you exist! she says.Na na na na na,Nessie sings.No one tries to take photos of you!No one talks about you.No one cares about YOU at all.Its true. I dont have any real friends.Theres Nessie of course -but she only talks to me when she feels like it. She only plays with me when she feels like playing. So Im lonely, and thats why I think Nessie is right when she calls me the Luckless Monster. 3 How do you find a friend?One day, I woke up and I said to myself, Enough is enough. Today is the day I will find a real friend, a good friend. Nessie doesnt care if she has a friend, but I do.I want someone who cares for me. I want someone who can see the real me. But how do you find a friend? What exactly is a friend? I thought about this for a long, long time. I even asked Nessie. What exactly is a friend? I asked. A friend is someone who is like you, just like you, she said. But none is like us, so we CANT have friends. Better just to settle for scaring people.Then she gave a roar that sent me skittering away.It works for me. She grinned. I love scaring people!But I didnt give up. I was determined to find a friend.I asked all the animals I met, Please be my friend.This is what they said: They thought I was too big, too wet, too scary looking and too fishy smelling.Then I asked some children and this is what they said:The grown ups said, Dont be silly. There are no such things as monsters. Thats just a shadow. Come along, now. Hurry up.People were either scared of me -or they didnt believe in me.It was hopeless. So I sulked. Im very good at sulking. I can do it for ages.I stayed perfectly still, crossed my arms, drooped my bottom lip and got ready for a HUGE sulk. I was just getting into it, when I heard a noise.A group of children were going up to a little girl. They were saying things that sounded very familiar to me.The girl was crying and she was wearing glasses-but not for long.The other children took her glasses and started to pass them to each other.Each time she tired to grab them back they threw them to someone else. They were throwing faster and faster and harder and harder until-SPLASH! The gasses landed in the water.They were light and plastic landed in the water.They were light and plastic. So they bobbed about on the surface. Then they drifted in little circles.The girl cri