3分钟英语小故事

要好读的，小学六年级的。

On Mother’s Day last year ,Peter tried to buy a present for his mother. He went into a shop, which had a sign out side. “Second hand clothes, bought and sold. “ He was carrying an old jacket and asked the owner of the shop, “How much will it cost?” The man looked at it and then said, “Three dollars.”
“What? I thought it was 7 dollars!” said Peter.
“No, I won’t pay more than three dollars.” Said the man.
“Well,here is the money.”said Peter, “This jacket is outside your store, which said 7 dollars. But I thought that was too much money, so I wanted to make sure how much it really was?”
Before the surprised owner could think of anything to say. Peter left the store with the jacket happily.

theoldcat anoldwomanhadacat.thecatwasveryold;shecouldnotrunquickly,andshecouldnotbite,becauseshewassoold.onedaytheoldcatsawamouse;shejumpedandcaughtthemouse.butshecouldnotbiteit;sothemousegotoutofhermouthandranaway,becausethecatcouldnotbiteit. thentheoldwomanbecameveryangrybecausethecathadnotkilledthemouse.shebegantohitthecat.thecatsaid,"donothityouroldservant.ihaveworkedforyouformanyyears,andiwouldworkforyoustill,butiamtooold.donotbeunkindtotheold,butrememberwhatgoodworktheolddidwhentheywereyoung." 【译文】 老猫 一位老妇有只猫，这只猫很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了东西，因为它年纪太大了。一天，老猫发现一只老鼠，它跳过去抓这只老鼠，然而，它咬不住这只老鼠。因此，老鼠从它的嘴边溜掉了，因为老猫咬不了它。 于是，老妇很生气，因为老猫没有把老鼠咬死。她开始打这只猫，猫说：“不要打你的老仆人，我已经为你服务了很多年，而且还愿意为你效劳，但是，我实在太老了，对年纪大的不要这么无情，要记住老年人在年青时所做过的有益的事情。”