专题09 阅读理解之记叙文10篇（名校最新期末真题）-2022-2023学年八年级英语下学期期末考点大串讲（牛津译林版）

牛津译林版八年级下学期期末复习查缺补漏冲刺满分 (名校最新期末真题) 专题09 阅读理解之记叙文10篇 （2022春·江苏镇江·八年级统考期末）I had an accident with my plane in the Desert of Sahara six years ago. Something was broken in my engine (引擎). The first night, I went to sleep on the sand, a thousand miles from any human living area. Thus you can imagine my amazement, at sunrise, when I was awakened by a strange little voice. It said, “If you please—draw me a sheep!” “What?” “Draw me a sheep!” I stared at him in surprise. I had been trapped in the desert a thousand miles from any living area. And yet my little man seemed neither to be lost among the sands, nor to be hungry or thirsty or full of fear. I said to him, “But—what are you doing here?” And in answer he repeated, very slowly, “If you please—draw me a sheep…” Then I remembered how my studies had been all about history, grammar, geography and so on, and that grown-ups discouraged me in my painter’s career when I was six years old. I never learned to draw anything, except boas (蟒蛇) from the outside and boas from the inside. He answered me, “That doesn’t matter. Draw me a sheep.” But I had never drawn a sheep. So I drew for him one of the two pictures I had drawn so often. It was that of the boa from the outside. “No, no, no! I do not want an elephant inside a boa. A boa is a very dangerous creature, and an elephant is very large and heavy. What I need is a sheep.” So then I made a drawing. He looked at it carefully, then he said, “No. This sheep is already very sickly. Make me another.” So I made another drawing. My friend smiled gently. “You see yourself,” he said, “that this is not a sheep. This is a ram (公羊). It has horns (角).” So then I did my drawing over once more. But it was rejected too, just like the others. “This one is too old. I want a sheep that will live a long time.” By this time my patience was exhausted, because I was in a hurry to start taking my engine apart. I tossed (挥动) off this drawing. “This is only his box. The sheep you asked for is inside.” “