背诵为王 第 一 册 第 49 课

49 Who’s Clever?

 

　　A university professor¹ made experiments with several kinds of animals. Hehoped to know which animal was the cleverest. He found out it was the monkey.
In one experiment the professor put a monkey in a room with several smallboxes. Some boxes were inside other boxes. One small box had some food insideit. The professor wanted to watch the monkey and find out how long it wouldtake the monkey to find the food.
The professor left the room. He waited a few minutes outside the door. Then hekneeled down and put his eye to the keyhole. What did he see? To his surprisehe found himself looking directly³ into the eyes of the monkey. The monkey wason the other side of the door, looking at the professor through the keyhole.

professor 教授
experiment 实验
kneel² 跪下
keyhole 锁眼
directly 直接地，径直地

谁更聪明？
一位大学教授用好几种动物做实验。他希望知道哪种动物最聪明。他发现最聪明的是猴子。
在一次实验中，教授把一只猴子和几个小盒子放在一个房间里。一些盒子套在另一些盒子里。一个小盒子里有食物。教授想观察猴子，看它需花多长时间才能找到食物。
教授离开房间，在门外等了几分钟，然后跪下来把一只眼睛对准锁眼。他看到了什么？他惊奇地发现，自己正好看到猴子的眼睛。猴子在门的另一面，正从锁眼里看教授呢.

1 professor   

n.教授，公开表示信仰的人

参考例句：

• He is famous as a professor.他作为教授享有盛名。
• I happen to know that professor.我正好认识那位教授。

2 kneel   

vi.跪，跪下，跪着

参考例句：

• At church people kneel when they pray.人们在教堂祈祷时要下跪。
• Then the two fighters kneel and pray to God.然后两个斗士跪下，向上帝祈祷。

3 directly   

adv.直接地，径直地；马上，立即

参考例句：

• I will telephone you directly I hear the news.我一听到消息，马上打电话给你。
• She answered me very directly and openly.她非常坦率地、开门见山地答复了我。