天方夜谭(1级)（美绘版）(txt+pdf+epub+mobi电子书下载)

作者：（英）鲍勒

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Bill Bowler studied English Literature at Cambridge University and mime in Paris before becoming an English language teacher, trainer, and materials writer. He loves the theatre, opera, ballet, cinema, history, art, storytelling – and travelling. He also enjoys reading books and writing poetry in his free time. Bill lives in Alicante with his wife, Sue Parminter, and their three children. This retelling of the Sheherazade story is based on many different versions of the Thousand and One Nights tale.比尔·鲍勒

比尔·鲍勒曾在剑桥大学学习英国文学，后赴巴黎学习哑剧，而后成为英语教师、培训师和阅读材料作者。他热爱戏剧、歌剧、芭蕾、电影、历史、艺术和讲故事——还有旅游。他业余时间还爱好读书和写诗。比尔和妻子休·帕明特以及三个孩子住在阿利坎特。本书改写自《天方夜谭》的诸多不同版本。ACTIVITIESBEFORE READING

1 This is Sheherazade. What do you know about her? Tick the boxes.

a She's from Egypt.

True □／False □

b She lives in a palace.

True □／False □

c She's got a younger sister.

True □／False □

d Her father is a king.

True □／False □

e She likes listening to stories.

True □／False □

f She likes telling stories.

True □／False □

2 What things do the people in Sheherazade's stories do? Match every person with what they do. Use a dictionary to help you.

a A little beggar

b A doctor

c A poor man from Baghdad

d An old man from India

1 ... kills a king.

2 ... gives a flying black horse to a king.

3 ... eats a fish and nearly dies.

4 ... finds a lot of treasure near his house.CHAPTER 1 Kings and their wives第一章 国王与他们的妻子

One day Shahriyar, King of Indochina, writes to his brother, Shahzaman, King of Samarkand.

Soon after he reads this, Shahzaman is ready to leave. But at the palace door he stops.

'My brother's present! It's in my room!' he cries.

He runs back for it, and finds his wife there, with one of his servants.

'When Shahzaman dies, you can be king,' she says to the young man.

'I'm away for only five minutes and look!' thinks Shahzaman, angrily. 'I can never trust my wife again!'

So he cuts off the man's head and his wife's head with his sword. Then he takes the present, and leaves.

In Indochina, Shahzaman gives the present to his brother without a smile. Shahriyar asks, 'What's the matter?'

'I can't say,' answers Shahzaman. 'But something's badly wrong.'

'Forget it, and come hunting!' says Shahriyar.

'Not today!' says Shahzaman.

So Shahriyar leaves for the hunt and Shahzaman stays in his room. Later, from his window, he sees Shahriyar's wife and twenty of her women by the pool in the garden. With them are twenty-one servants – tall, dark young men with big smiles.

'My brother's wife is many times worse than my wife!' thinks Shahzaman.

That night, when Shahriyar comes home, Shahzaman speaks about his wife and the servant in Samarkand.

'But, brother, why are you telling me this now?' asks Shahriyar.

So Shahzaman tells Shahriyar all about his wife, her women, and the servants by the pool.

'Not my wife, too!' cries Shahriyar. 'It isn't true!'

'Listen, brother,' says Shahzaman. 'Tomorrow your friends can go hunting without you. You can stay with me and see.'

So next morning Shahriyar watches through the window of Shahzaman's room. Soon his wife, her women, and the servants arrive by the pool.

'Massood,' Shahriyar's wife tells the young man by her, 'when Shahriyar is dead, you can be king.'

Shahriyar angrily calls six of his best men to him. 'Kill my wife, her women, and the servants by the pool!' he says. They do it at once.

After Shahzaman goes home, Shahriyar is not happy. He cannot stop loving women, but he cannot trust them. Every afternoon he marries a new young wife, but the next morning he always tells the palace executioner, 'Cut off her head!'

His wives have no time to be bad.

But after some months, Shahriyar's Vizier cannot find any more wives.

'What can I do?' the Vizier cries. 'I don't want the executioner at my door tomorrow.'

When the Vizier arrives home that night, he isn't happy. His two daughters go to him. The older daughter is Sheherazade; her younger sister is Dunyazid.

'What's the matter, Father?' asks Sheherazade, and the Vizier tells her.

'But I can be Shahriyar's new wife!' says Sheherazade. 'God willing I can stay alive, and help the women of our country, too.'

'Sheherazade, no!'

'Father, take me to the King,' says Sheherazade.

In the end, the Vizier says 'Yes'.

Before Sheherazade leaves, she tells Dunyazid, 'Come to me tonight when I call, and ask for a story. God willing, that can help us.'

Then the Vizier takes Sheherazade to the King, and Shahriyar marries her.

That night, in the King's room, Sheherazade says, 'My King, I want to say goodbye to my young sister. Can I call her here?'

'Of course,' says the King.

After they say their goodbyes, Dunyazid smiles, 'Sister, your stories always help the long, dark night hours to go quickly. Can you tell me one last story tonight?'

'Can I, my King?' Sheherazade asks.

'You can,' answers Shahriyar. 'I love a good story.'

So Sheherazade begins:

In Basra a tailor lives with his wife. They're good people. One evening, they meet a little beggar in the street. He's drinking, telling stories and laughing, and the tailor and his wife laugh with him.

'Come home with us for something to eat,' they say.

palace n. a big house where a king lives 宫殿

present n. something that you give to someone 礼物

servant n. a person who works for someone rich 仆人

cut off to take a smaller thing from a bigger thing with a knife 砍掉

sword n. a long sharp knife for fighting 刀；剑

hunt v. & n. to look for and kill animals; when you look for and kill animals 打猎

pool n. water in a garden 水池

marry v. to make someone your wife or husband 娶；嫁

executioner n. this man's work is to kill people 刽子手

vizier n. an important man in an Arab country in the past who helps the king 维齐（旧时阿拉伯王国的大臣）

God willing if the important being who never dies, and who decides what happens in the world, wants it 如蒙天意，如上天许可

tailor n. a man who makes coats, trousers and other things to wear 裁缝ACTIVITIESREADING CHECK

Match the sentence halves.WORD WORK

1 Complete the words from Chapter 1 to match the pictures.

2 Find six more words from Chapter 1 in the sword.

3 Use the words from Activity 2 to complete the sentences.

a Shahzaman cuts off his　　wife　　's head because he is angry with her.

b The __________ is an important man in the palace.

c Shahriyar does not __________ women because of his first wife.

d The __________s do all the work in the palace.

e Shahriyar likes __________ing and killing things.

f Shahzaman gives his brother a__________ from Samarkand.

g Sheherazade wants to __________ Shahriyar and help her father.GUESS WHAT

What happens in Chapter 2? Tick the boxes.

a Sheherazade finishes her story that night.

Yes □／No □

b Sheherazade begins a new story in the early morning.

Yes □／No □

c King Shahriyar finds the story interesting.

Yes □／No □

d The executioner is waiting to kill Sheherazade.

Yes □／No □

e The executioner kills Dunyazid.

Yes □／No □CHAPTER 2 The little beggar第二章 小乞丐

'Interesting!' says King Shahriyar. Dunyazid is interested, too, and Sheherazade goes on with the story:

So the little beggar goes home with the tailor and his wife, and they have bread and fish to eat. Suddenly, when he's eating and laughing at the same time, the little beggar gets a fish bone in his throat. His face goes blue, and he falls from the table. His eyes close.

'Get up, friend,' laughs the tailor. But the little beggar doesn't move. The tailor looks at him carefully.

'Oh, no!' he cries. 'Our little friend's dead! And we're his killers. What can we do?'

'Put him in a blanket!' says his wife.

So they put the little beggar in a blanket, and they take him out into the street.

'Help! Our young child's ill!' cries the tailor's wife. 'Where's the nearest doctor?'

At the doctor's front door, they tell the servant girl, 'Our child needs the doctor.'

The girl goes to find the doctor, and the tailor and his wife stand the little beggar's body at the foot of the stairs. Then they run away back to their house.

The doctor runs down the stairs. In the dark he knocks over the beggar, and the little man falls at his feet. The doctor looks at him carefully.

'Oh, no! This man's dead from the fall, and I'm his killer!' the doctor cries. 'What can I do?'

'Quick!' says his wife. 'Let's move the body to our neighbour's house.'

So they take the body and stand it in the neighbour's kitchen.

Their neighbour is a cook at the palace. Every night he brings home good things to eat from the palace, but the neighbours' dogs and cats always come and eat them.

When the cook comes home that night, he sees the little beggar in his dark kitchen. 'Aha! So the neighbours' cats and dogs aren't eating everything here. A man's doing it – and tonight I've got him!'

So the cook hits the little beggar again and again. The little beggar falls at his feet, and the cook looks at him carefully.

'Help! He's dead, and I'm his killer!' the cook cries. 'I must "lose" the body fast.'

So the cook takes the little beggar's body into the dark street and stands it by a shop.

Not long after that, a rich man goes and stands near the shop. Suddenly he sees the little beggar next to him in the dark street, and he feels afraid.

'Help! Watchman! This man wants to take my money from me!' he cries, and he hits the little beggar again and again. The little beggar falls at his feet.

Suddenly, the watchman arrives. He sees the beggar at the rich man's feet, and he looks at the little man carefully.

'This man's dead, and you're his killer!' the watchman cries. 'Come with me.'

The watchman takes the man to the judge, and all the neighbours come out of their houses and watch.

The judge listens to the rich man and the watchman. He looks at the little beggar's body carefully. Then he says...

Just then, Sheherazade stops speaking.

'What's the matter with you, wife?' asks King Shahriyar.

'Look, my King,' says Sheherazade. She points to the red morning sky through the window. 'A new day is here. I cannot tell you more.'

Dunyazid cries.

Just then, the Vizier – Sheherazade's father – comes into the room.

'King Shahriyar,' he says, 'The executioner's waiting for your wife.'

Sheherazade gets up. 'Then take me to him, Father,' she says. 'I'm ready to die.'

bone n. a hard white thing in an animal's body 骨头

throat n. the inside of your neck 喉咙

fall v. (fell, fallen) & n. to go down suddenly; when you go down suddenly 跌落；摔倒

blanket n. you put this over you when you sleep on a bed 毯子

stairs n. you can go up or down these in a house 楼梯

knock over to hit someone and make them fall 撞倒

neighbour n. a person who lives near you 邻居

kitchen n. the room in a house where people make things to eat 厨房

cook n. a person who makes things for people to eat 厨师

watchman n. a man who finds people that do bad things in the street 巡捕；巡警

judge n. a person who says when something is right or wrong 法官

point v. to show something with your finger 指ACTIVITIESREADING CHECK

Choose the correct words to complete the sentences.

a 'The little beggar is bad / dead!' the tailor and his wife think.

b They leave the beggar in a teacher's / doctor's house.

c 'I'm this man's friend / killer!' the doctor thinks.

d The doctor takes the beggar to a neighbour's garden / kitchen.

e 'This man is eating / drinking things here!' the cook thinks.

f The rich man sees the beggar near his house / a shop.

g 'This rich man is the beggar's / doctor's killer!' the watchman thinks.

h Sheherazade stops telling the story when she sees her father / the morning sky.WORD WORK

1 The words don't match the pictures. Correct them.

2 Use the words in the fish bones to complete the sentences.

a The king has got a lot of money. He's very 　　rich　　.

b 'Look!' she says, and she __________s at some beautiful flowers.

c 'Please __________ with the story. I'm interested,' says Shahriyar.

d 'I'm up in this tree. Please help me if I __________ down.'

e 'That man lives in my street. He's my __________'

f 'Be careful! Don't __________ that open bottle of water.'GUESS WHAT

What do they do in the next chapter? Read and tick.

a

... tells the executioner:

1 □ 'Come back tomorrow morning!'

2 □ 'Kill Sheherazade now!'

3 □ 'Kill the Vizier now!'

b

1 □ ... dies the next morning.

2 □ ... never finishes the Little Beggar story.

3 □ ... begins a new story about a doctor.

c

1 □ ... dies the next morning.

2 □ ... goes and lives at the palace.

3 □ ... sits up and laughs at the judge.Chapter 3 Duban the Doctor第三章　迪邦医生

Sheherazade is leaving the room with her father.

'Stop!' cries King Shahriyar. 'What happens to the rich man? I must know!'

'My King,' says Sheherazade. 'I can finish the story tonight. Do you want to hear it?'

'Yes!' cries Shahriyar, and to the Vizier he says, 'I don't need the executioner now. Call him tomorrow morning at this hour.'

So that night, Dunyazid comes again to the King's room, and Sheherazade goes on with her story:

Then the judge says, 'Call the executioner! This rich man is a killer and he must die.'

Just then, the cook cries, 'Wait! I'm the killer.' And he tells his story about the man in his kitchen.

'So the cook must die,' says the judge.

Suddenly, the doctor cries, 'No! I'm the killer.' And he tells the judge about the man at the foot of his stairs.

'Then the doctor must die,' says the judge.

At that, the tailor and his wife cry, 'Stop! We're the killers.' And they tell their story about the little beggar and the fish bone.

'So the tailor and his wife must die,' says the judge.

Just then, the fish bone falls out of the little beggar's mouth and he sits up, alive and well.

So in the end, nobody dies; and the little beggar goes and lives at the palace, because the King there loves good stories.

'Very good!' laughs King Shahriyar. 'But now you must die, Sheherazade. I'm sorry.'

Dunyazid cries, but Sheherazade isn't afraid. She points to the night sky through the window, and says, 'My King, there are many hours before morning. Would you like to hear a new story?'

'Yes!' says Shahriyar.

So Sheherazade begins:

King Yunan of Persia works every day for the good of his people. When he isn't working, he plays polo. But he isn't happy, because he's badly ill with leprosy. Many doctors give different medicines to him. But nobody can cure him.

Then one day, Duban the Doctor comes from far away and tells the King, 'I can cure you differently from the doctors here.'

'Do that, and you can be rich, and my best friend,' says King Yunan.

So Duban makes some medicine and puts it in a polo stick.

The next morning he tells Yunan, 'Take this stick, and go and play polo. With the stick in your warm hand for many hours, the medicine in it can go through your skin and cure you. After you finish playing, sit in a hot pool, and then go to bed. Do all this, and tomorrow you can get up a well man.'

King Yunan does it all, and the leprosy leaves his body the next day.

Happily, the King gives Duban lots of money, and says, 'From today, my friend, you must always sit by me.'

The next day, the Vizier – a bad man with a black heart – asks the King, 'Do you trust Duban?'

'Of course,' answers Yunan.

'Be careful,' says the Vizier. 'When a man can cure leprosy with medicine in a polo stick, he can easily put poison on something and kill you too.'

'Not good old Duban,' says Yunan.

But day after day, the Vizier says bad things about Duban, and one day...

Just then, Sheherazade's father – the Vizier – arrives.

'King Shahriyar,' he says. 'The executioner's waiting.'

polo n. a game, like football, where people ride horses and hit a ball with a stick 马球

leprosy n. when you have this illness, it can eat away your face and other body parts 麻风病

cure v. & n. to make an ill person better; something that makes someone who is ill better 治愈；药；治疗

stick n. a long, thin piece of wood 木杆

skin n. what is on the outside of a person's body 皮肤

poison n. something that kills people when they eat or drink it 毒药ACTIVITIESREADING CHECK

Correct the mistakes in the sentences.

a First the judge says, 'The poor (rich) man must die.'

b Then the cook cries, 'I'm the judge.'

c After that, the tailor and his wife tell the story of the fish head.

d Then the bone falls out of the little beggar's hand.

e In the end, the little beggar goes and lives with the doctor.

f Sheherazade sees the morning sky through the window.

g Her next story is about the King of Persia. He's very happy.

h One day a judge comes to Yunan's palace from far away.

i Duban's medicine makes the Vizier well again.

j Yunan's cook says bad things about Duban.WORD WORK

1 Find seven more words from Chapter 3 in the word square.

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