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适合小学生的英文小故事1：Making Peace with Russia

The late Boris Nyof is becoming a nonperson. He was president of Akmenistan, a tiny but oil-rich country near Russia. The new president, Ivan Gurba, has banned all media use of Nyof’s name. Gurba has removed all the photos, posters, and statues of Nyof. In the capital city, Gurba has ordered the destruction of a stainless steel spire honoring Nyof. Gurba shut down the spire's floodlights and mechanisms.

“From the steel, we will build a Museum of Peace,” said Gurba. The 100-foot-tall spire was brilliantly lit every night for the last 10 years. At its top was a likeness of Nyof’s head, 16 feet in diameter. The head made a complete revolution every 59 minutes. Then it paused for one minute, while flames shot out of Nyof’s mouth, accompanied by the roar of a lion.

Every day at noon, “Nyof” gave a three-minute speech talking about what a great president he had been. There was a different speech for each day of the year. Every January 18, for example, Nyof talked about how he had paved all of Akmenistan’s dirt roads—by himself. Every July 3, he described how he had invented the Internet.

As president, Nyof actually had renamed the days of the week after his siblings, and the sun and moon after his parents. He had banned marriage. Instead, couples in love signed one-year “Friendship” contracts, renewable yearly—if both “friends” agreed.

Although citizens thought Nyof was a little weird, they liked him for boldly standing up to occasional threats from Russia. Now that he was gone, Russia seemed more intent on acquiring Akmenistan’s oil—one way or another. Gurba thought that he might help prevent a Russian invasion by removing all traces of Nyof and by building the Museum of Peace.

适合小学生的英文小故事2:Shut Your Mouth

“Shut your mouth,” Ginger said as she looked at Errol. He was looking at a green parrot squawking in a tree.

“I didn’t even say anything,” he objected. She knew that he hadn’t said anything; she meant that his mouth was hanging half open.

“You do that all the time,” she said. “You look silly. Sometimes I look around to see if people are looking at you. They must think that I'm your caregiver.”

He apologized, saying he’d try to keep his mouth closed when he was looking at parrots. “Not just when you’re looking at parrots. Whenever you’re not using your mouth for talking, you should keep your mouth closed. Look at me,” she said. She demonstrated his “open mouth” position while looking at the parrot. “See how dumb I look?” she said.

He laughed. “You look as smart and pretty with your mouth open as you do with your mouth closed,” he said.

Since they’d already been dating for four years, he asked, why hadn’t she said anything before now? She said that she hadn’t wanted to hurt his feelings before. But now that she’d decided that they weren’t going to get married, and maybe they weren’t even going to continue dating, she felt it was okay to be completely honest with him.

He asked her if there were other things she had not told him.

“Your underarms smell,” she said, “even after you take a shower.” He told her that the musky smell was actually attractive to some women. “Well, feel free to share it with them,” she said.

He hoped she wasn’t serious about that, but he decided against asking her.

适合小学生的英文小故事3:The Cyclone in Myanmar

The first report was that hundreds in the delta had died. But by the third day, estimates were that 40,000 people could be dead or missing, and perhaps one million might be left homeless. Bodies were floating in rivers that were mixed with ocean water. There was little fresh water and little food. For unknown reasons, the government was refusing most offers of international aid.

The cyclone had hit the capital of Myanmar with winds of 120 mph. It was as powerful as Hurricane Katrina, which in 2005 destroyed much of New Orleans. Katrina killed 1,800 people and left about 100,000 people homeless.

Meteorologists watched the cyclone closely and warned the Myanmar government about it two days before the cyclone hit the country. But the Myanmar government failed to warn citizens to prepare for the dangerous storm.

“We were in our hotel,” said an American tourist who was visiting the capital with his wife. “We could see the weather changing, but the locals didn’t seem to be worried. When the wind smashed the windows in our hotel room, we started worrying. The wind blew the rain and tree branches and other debris into our room. We went into the bathroom and got into the tub. We didn’t feel safe in the bathroom, but where could we go? The wind howled and things banged around forever. We thought we were going to die for sure. When the storm finally passed, we looked outside. We couldn't believe the destruction. Mostly all we could see was just water.” There was no telling when power would be restored or when roads would be usable. The Myanmar government was doing nothing to help matters. “That’s because they prefer that we all die,” said an angry survivor.