The Fishing Hook 钓鱼钩
Two brothers, Hoki and Hono, lived in old Japan. Hoki was a good man, but Hono was not a nice man. 'I'm older than you,' Hono said to Hoki. 'And you must always listen to me.'
Hoki and Hono had a small house near the sea. Every day Hono went fishing.'I don't want you to fish with me, Hoki,' said Hono. 'Your ugly face will frighten the fish!'
It was winter, and there was snow on the mountains and in the forest. But every day Hoki went to the forest to get wood. He cleaned the house. Then he made the fire and cooked the fish. Hoki worked very hard.
One night Hoki said, 'Brother, can I go fishing tomorrow?' Can I use your finishing hook?' Hono thought, then he said, 'You must give me ten gold coins.' 'Hono, I only have ten gold coins!' said Hoki. 'But I will give them to you.'
The next day Hoki went to the sea-shore with the finishing hook. He fished for many hours, but he did not catch any fish. Then Hoki saw an enormous fish. The fish bit the finishing hook. Hoki pulled the fishing line, but the line broke and the fish swam away. 'Come back!' shouted Hoki to the fish. 'You've got Hono's fishing hook in your mouth.' But the fish did not come back.
Hoki was upset. He went home without the fishing hook. Hono was very angry.
'Where's my hook?' shouted Hono. 'Leave our home now! You must not come back without the fishing hook!'
Hoki walked away from the house. Hono started to laugh. 'I have many fishing hooks,' Hono thought to himself. 'But I wanted Hoki to go away, and now he will never come back.'
Hoki went back to the sea-short. He sat on a rock above the water. He was very sad. How could he find the fishing hook now? Hoki stoop up and closed his eyes. Then he jumped into the sea.
Hoki sank deeper and deeper into the sea. Then he came to the bottom. Hoki opened his eyes and saw a garden with flowers, trees, rocks and coral. There was a beautiful palace inside the garden. It was made of pink shells. There was a beautiful girl in the middle of the garden. She was sitting on a rock. The girl ran into the palace and spoke to the King of the sea. 'Father, a man is here,' she said. 'He's very handsome!' Then the girl came back to the garden with her father. 'Welcome, young man,' said the King of the sea. 'Come into our palace.'
Hoki was very happy to live under the sea. Every day he walked in the palace garden with the King's daughter, Princess Jade. Hoki fell in love with Princess Jade. Soon they were married.
All the fish in the sea came to their wedding. Hoki and Princess jade were very happy. But one day Hoki remembered the fishing hook. He became very sad. 'Poor Hono needs his hook,' he thought to himself. 'He can't go fishing without it.'
Hoki went to see the King of the sea. He told the King about the fishing hook. 'I'll tell all the fish to come to the palace,' said the King. 'We'll find your fishing hook.' 'Hoki has lost a fishing hook,' the King told the fish. 'Have any of you eaten it?' We want to give it back to Hoki's brother.'
The fish looked at each other. 'I haven't eaten a fishing hook,' they said. But then an old shark spoke. He looked very sick. 'I ate the fishing hook,' said the shark. 'It's here in my mouth. It hurts me very much. Please take it out.' Hoki put his hand into the old shark's mouth. He found the hook and pulled it out. The shark thanked Hoki.
Then Hoki said to Princess jade, 'I must take this hook back to Japan. Then I'll build a palace for you on the land.'
'I'll come to your palace in one year.' said Princess Jade. 'You must build the best palace in the world for my daughter,' said the King. 'You must make the walls with rocks, and the doors with wood. You must make the roof with the feathers of sea birds. And you have to finish the palace in one year'
The King gave Hoki a magic shell. 'One day this shell could help,' he said. 'It can lift up the sea. You can also use it to talk to sea birds.' Then the King told a crocodile to take Hoki to Japen. Hoki rode out of the palace on the crocodile's back.
Hoki rode the crocodile out of the water to the sea-short. Hono was making fishing nets at the edge of the water. He was very surprised and angry to see Hoki!
'Hono, it's me!' Hoki shouted. 'I've found your fishing hook!' But Hono threw a big stone at Hoki. 'Brother, what are you doing?'
'I've come back to give you your fishing book.' said Hoki.
'You've come back to steal my house and my gold!' shouted Hono.
Hono took a dagger out of his pocket and ran towards Hoki. 'I'm going to kill you,' he shouted.
Hoki was very frightened. Then he remembered the magic shell. He took if out of his pocket. 'Magic shell, please lift up the sea,' he said.
'Goodbye, my ugly brother!' Hono shouted, and he pushed the dagger towards Hoki's heart. But an enormous wave came out of the sea, and Hono disappeared under the water.
The wave knocked Hoki over. When Hoki stoop up, the sea was quiet, and Hono was not here. Hoki threw the fishing hook into the sea. He never saw Hono again.
Now Hoki had to build a palace for Princess Jade in one year. 'It must be the best palace in the world,' he thought. But what colour shall I paint it? Shall I have bule walls? Or would Princess Jade rather have a pink palace?' Hoki thought, then he started to build a blue palace. He took rocks from the sea-shore. He got wood from the forest. He build the walls from the rocks. He made the doors from wood. He painted the walls blue. But Hoki worried about the roof. 'Where am I going to fins so many feathers?' he asked himself.
Hoki used the magic shell to tell a sea bird his story. and about the feathers. 'We need our feathers to keep warm,' said the bird, 'but we can give you one feather every day.'
Hoki worked every day and every night building the palace. Every morning the sea-bird gave him more feathers. 'I need three more feathers for the roof,' said Hoki, 'but Princess jade will be there the day after tomorrow.' 'Don't worry,' said the sea-bird. 'I'll put three feathers next to the door of the palace tomorrow.' It was a hot afternoon and Hoki was very tired. 'I'm going to sleep here on the beach,' he told the sea bird.
Hoki was very, very tired. He slept for two days. When Hoki work up, he saw Princess Jade. She was coming out of the sea on a crocodile's back. When Princess Jade saw the roof, she said, 'My palace is not finished! I can't live here forever, but I'll stay until we have a child. Then I must leave you and never come back.'
Princess Jade had a baby son. Then she went back to her father's palace under the sea. Hoki and his son lived on the land in Japan. The boy became a very good fisherman. Every evening Hoki went to the beach. He stood next to the sea and called to his wife. Princess Jade did not answer, but Hoki always remember her!
Go fishing 去钓鱼、 go shopping 购物 固定短语
to fish with me 动词不定式短语做宾补
the sea-shore n.海岸边；沿海地带
swam away. 游走 swam 不及物+副词
without the fishing hook. 没有鱼钩。伴随状语
walked away 走开；离去
thought to himself. 心里想
stoop up 站起来
went back to 回去，返回；追溯到
sank deeper and deeper 沉陷；越沉越深, 比较状语
came to their wedding. 参加婚礼， come to +活动类名词
any of you 你们当中的一个
give it back to Hoki's brother. give sth back to sb. 把什么东西还给某人， 动副词组，代词放中间
crocodile n. 鳄鱼
at the edge of the water. 在水边
knocked Hoki over. 海浪把Hoki打翻了。
what colour shall I paint it? what colour 是 sall的宾补，特殊疑问句
got wood from the forest. 用什么东西作
worried about the roof. 担心屋顶 worry about sth
双宾动词 painted the walls blue.
building the palace. 动名词短语作状语
on a crocodile's back. 方式状语 坐在鳄鱼背上
I'll stay until we have a child. until再肯定句表示否定，否定句表示肯定
Fishing
People go fishing to get food, or because they like it. In Japan about 20 mmillion people like fishing!
People fish in rivers, ponds, lakes and in the sea. Some people catch fish in fishing nets on a boat. There are different kinds of nets, and the boats are different sizes, too. Small boats go nearer the shore. They leave in the morning and come back at night.
Big ships go to the deep sea and sometimes they do not come back for months. In 1986 some fishermen in a boat from Norway caught more than 120 million fish at the same time in one net! China and Japan catch enormous numbers of fish each year.
In 1991 China caught 13.3 million tonnes of fish. A tonne is 1,000 kilograms.
Some people catch fish with a fishing rod. A fishing rod has a line and a hook on the end. Some people put bread or worms on the hook, but some people put a fly on the hook. The fly is made of feathers.
In 1959 a fisherman from Australia caught a great white shark with a fishing rod. The shark weighed 1,208 kilograms and was 5.13 meters long.
Sharks
There are more than 300 different kinds of sharks. They live in the sea all round the world, but most sharks live in warm water, like the sea round China.
Sharks often swim near the surface of the water. You can see their back fin above the water. It looks like a grey triangle. Some sharks eat shellfish. Other sharks eat plankton. Plankton is tiny plants and animals floating in the water. The whale shark eats plankton and it is the largest fish in the world! Some sharks eat fish, and the great white shark eats dolphins and seals, too.
A shark can have 3,000 teeth in its mouth! Some sharks are over 12 metres long, and some are less then a metre long. They are not all dangerous. There are less than 100 shark attacks on people each year. Thousands of sharks are killed for food. People eat sharks meat only in a few countries, like Japan. A lot of people like to eat sharks' fin soup.
Some fishermen cut off the shark's fins, throw the shark in the water, and let the shark die slowly.
Crocodiles
Crocodiles live in hot and wet places. You can find them in Africa, Australia and United States. Most crocodiles are about one metre long, but some are more than six metres long.
Crocodiles lie in the sun for most of the day. At night they would rather be under the water. When crocodiles are in the water, they often float, with their nostrils and eyes above the surface. Crocodiles have strong tails and they use their tails to move in the water.
Young crocodiles eat insects. Adult crocodiles eat fish. They have lots of sharp teeth. Big, old crocodiles can eat larger animals, and some can eat people, too.
There were crocodiles millions of years ago when dinosaurs were living. Now there are fewer crocodiles because hunters kill millions of young crocodiles and sell their skins. Then people make shoes, belts and bags from their skins and sell them to customers for a lot of money, too. many crocodiles are killed. In the future there will be fewer and fewer crocodiles.
back fin 背鳍
kinds of nets 量词 kinds of
shore n. （海、湖或大河的）滨，岸；
enormous numbers of fish 量词 大量的鱼
fishing rod n. （有绕线轮的）钓鱼竿
on the end. 在……的端头
seals 海豹
less than 少于 修饰数词 100
shark attacks 鲨鱼攻击 attacks on sb 攻击某人
for food. 在被动句作 原因状语
for most of the day. 大多数时候
would rather 更愿意+ 动词原形
millions of years ago 数百万年前
belts n. 皮带
Shells
Shells are the homes of small animals called molluscs. The world 'mollusc' means soft, and all molluscs have soft bodies. Molluscs do not have bones. When the mollusc grows, the shel grows, too. Some shells have two parts, and the mollisc can open and close the shell to catch food from the water. A clam has a shell like this. Someone found the largest clam in the world in Japan in 1956. It was 115 centimetres long and weighed 333 kilograms! There are many different kinds of shells. Some shells are very beautiful. Some are one colour. Some havel lines or spots on them. You can find shells in ponds and on the sea-shore all round the world.
molluscs n. 软体动物
clam n. 蛤，蛤蜊
Waves
The water in the sea is moving all the time, but sometimes we do not see the waves. Sometimes they are under the water. A storm with a strong wind can make enormous waves. One wave in the Pacific Ocean was 34 metres high. But the most dangerous waves are called tsunamis. A tsunami can come when there is an earthquake under the sea. The highest tsunamis have been more than 70 metres high. They can cover houses and kill people near the shore.
Pacific Ocean n. 太平洋
tsunamis n. 海啸；
shore n. （海、湖或大河的）滨，岸；沿海国家
Surfing
People have surfed for hundreds of years. Surfing started in some islands in the Pacific Ocean. The waves in these islands in the Pacific Ocean. The waves in these islands were very high. First people lay on top of the waves. Then they made surfboards from wood, and stood on them. The first surfboards were very big. Now surfboards are short and light. They are about two metres long.
The most famous surfer was from Hawaii. He was called Duke Kahanamoku. In 1915 he surfed in Australia. Then other people started surfing in HAWAII Australia, too. Today people surf in many different countries.
Surfers need lots of high waves. Most surfers would rather surf in sunny weather than in cold, rainy weather. Most surfers like to surf in Hawaii, but people surf in cold countries, too. In England it is often cold and wet in the winter, but you can see people surfing on some beaches in December and January. Surfers need wet suits in cold weather. These wet suits are rubber, and they keep you warm and dry under the water.
would rather surf in sunny weather than in cold. 宁愿在晴天冲浪，也不愿在寒冷的天气里冲浪。 would rather.. than ...
wet suits 紧身潜水衣
rubber adj. 橡胶制成的
