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儿童英语读物 Monkey Trouble Chapter 6 More Monkey Madness

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The instant he entered the room, Blake went running up to the Aldens. “Did you solve the mystery?” he asked, out of breath. “Did you find my missing camera?” Blake’s red hair was sticking up, as if he’d tossed and turned all night. His eyes looked dark, too. It was obvious Blake hadn’t slept well the night before.

“Not yet,” Henry told Blake. “But we’re narrowing down our suspects.”

“Have you interviewed Annika?” Blake asked.

“We’re about to do that now,” Jessie told him.

“Good,” Blake said. “Tell her to give me back my camera.”

“If we find out that she took it, we’ll let you know,” Violet said.

Benny was supposed to interview Annika, but Mr. Newton called him to the front. Mr. Newton was carrying a heavy animal cage. He set it down on the floor at the front of the room.

“I better go,” Benny told Violet. “I didn’t get here in time to help with all the cameras. Mr. Newton’s counting on me to be his assistant zoologist1 again today. And I want to do a good job!”

Benny smiled, then rubbed his tummy. “If I do a good job, I get to go first at tonight’s pizza party. Mr. Newton promised! So can we interview Annika while we walk around the zoo?”

“Of course,” Violet said, and Benny rushed off. Then she turned to Jessie. “I think you can go ahead and cross Griffin off the suspect list. He bought a camera this morning. He’s one of the few I saw buy one.”

“But yesterday, he took a picture of the monkey,” Henry said. “Whose camera was that?”

“He and Matthew were friends again by then,” Violet said. “Now that I think about it, they high-fived each other by the jaguar2 habitat. And that was after Blake announced that his camera was missing. I guess Griffin was back to sharing with his brother.”

“Okay,” Jessie scratched out his name. “What about Nico?”

“He’s still a suspect,” Violet said. “He has a camera, but none of us saw him buy it.”

Henry had an idea. He rushed over to where Mr. Newton was busy getting a little monkey out of the cage. Benny was helping3, holding the end of a red leather leash4.

“Is that Simio?” Henry asked, momentarily distracted from what he meant to ask.

“It sure is!” Mr. Newton said. “Simio might not be a baby monkey, but we can still learn a lot from him.”

“Great!” Henry was excited and turned to go to his sisters. “Oh,” he spun5 back. “I almost forgot. Did you sell Nico a camera today?”

“Yes,” Mr. Newton said as Simio jumped onto his shoulder. “Why?”

“Just checking,” Henry said.

Then Henry went back to his sisters, eager to sit down and learn about the monkey.

“Nico’s in the clear,” he told his sisters. “He bought the camera this morning.”

“Did you ask about Sophie, too?” Jessie asked her brother.

“No,” he said. “I thought we decided6 she wasn’t a suspect anymore.”

“I still wonder . . .” Jessie looked at Sophie’s name in the notebook. She reread the clues that pointed7 to her and checked each one off. “Forget it,” Jessie said at last. “I think she’s innocent. After the monkey show, we’ll talk to Annika. She must have taken the camera. There’s no one else on our list.”

“She had the biggest reason to take it,” Henry said.

Jessie looked over at Annika. She was taking pictures of Mr. Newton and the monkey.

“Hey!” Annika suddenly shouted. “That’s mine.”

Jessie, Henry, and Violet all rushed over to see what happened.

“Give it back!” Annika told Simio.

Simio had reached backward from his perch8 on Mr. Newton’s shoulder. He grabbed the camera right out of Annika’s hands!

She put out her palm. “Not funny,” Annika told the monkey. “Give it back. Now.”

Simio hooted9 at her and held it up too high for her to reach.

Mr. Newton swung the monkey off his shoulder. “Come on, Simio,” he said gently. “That isn’t yours.” He took the camera easily out of Simio’s hands and gave it back to Annika.

At first, Annika looked surprised that is was so easy for Mr. Newton to take the camera back. “Thanks little guy!” Annika said. Then she took another picture of Simio before she went and sat down.

Mr. Newton smiled after her, then cleared his throat. “Students, everyone, please sit down,” he said. “I want to teach you what this terrific little monkey can do.”

He set Simio on the ground in the center of the circle and told Benny to remove the leash.

“Are you sure?” Benny asked, eyes wide. “He could escape again.”

“That’s an interesting thought, Benny,” Mr. Newton said. “But Simio’s only good at picking cage locks. The doors here have a different kind of lock, so I’m not worried about him getting loose. I want to show you the great tricks he knows.”

After Benny took off Simio’s leash, Mr. Newton held up a hoop10 for Simio. The monkey jumped through it and everyone applauded. He gave Simio a jump rope, and the monkey skipped rope a few times. Then, he placed a large ball on the floor in front of Simio. Simio looked at it.

“Toss it to me,” Mr. Newton told him. Simio stared at the ball, and then, instead of tossing it, he leapt over it and ran over to Annika. He snagged the camera right out of her hands. Again.

Then, Simio ran around the room, randomly11 grabbing various items from the students. Before anyone could stop him, the monkey had made a big pile of cameras, jackets, water bottles, and other items in the center of the room. He even took Mr. Newton’s glasses!

Mr. Newton kept calling his name. “Simio. Stop!” But Simio was happily running around, squawking and collecting.

“Add monkeys to the list of animals I don’t like,” Sophie said as Simio quickly hopped12 by. “I’m scared of monkeys now, too. I’m going to have nightmares tonight about a monkey stealing my stuff.”

Mr. Newton grabbed at the little fellow, but Simio was fast. “Benny, I need your help,” he said. “Let’s use your fruit trick again. We have to get him back in the cage.”

“I’ll get my backpack,” Benny said, hurrying to the back of the room.

He reached into his bag, which was once again filled with snacks. “Here!” said Benny as he tossed Henry an orange. Just like he had done the day before, Henry peeled the fruit and offered it to Simio. But the monkey was busy stealing another water bottle.

“It isn’t working,” Henry told Benny.

“Just wait,” Benny said. “If his tummy is anything like mine, he won’t be able to stay away from good food.”

And sure enough, after tossing the container onto his pile of things, Simio came back for a bite of the fruit.

Mr. Newton caught Simio this time while Henry was feeding him the orange.

“You have a smart tummy,” Henry told Benny while Mr. Newton put the little monkey back in the carrying cage.

“Simio is always hungry. Just like me,” Benny said, smiling. He peeled his own orange and bit into a segment.

“Sorry about that,” Mr. Newton told the group. “Capuchin monkeys spend their days searching for food. It could be that he thought he was collecting food.” Mr. Newton shrugged13. “Clearly he isn’t as well-trained as I thought.”

“Maybe he’s just excited by all the kids,” Annika said as she searched the pile for her camera.

The sweatshirts and jackets were easy to identify. The water bottles were in many different colors, so the kids could tell which ones were theirs. Sophie gave Mr. Newton back his glasses. After they had picked up the most obvious things, a pile of cameras remained.

“Luckily we all put our names on the cameras today,” Nico said, grabbing his. “They might have gotten switched otherwise.”

“Uh-oh,” Matthew said as he and Griffin stood over the last two cameras.

“We both only put our last name on our cameras. And we have each taken the same number of pictures. We don’t know whose is whose. What if Matthew wins the photo contest using my pictures?” Griffin picked up the two cameras and stared at them as if he might be able to tell them apart.

“Don’t worry,” Mr. Newton told the twins. “When I develop the film later, we can easily figure out who owns which camera by the pictures. Each of you take one now, and we can sort out the photos tonight.”

The boys liked that plan and each took a camera.

When they had finally sorted out all of the things Simio had stolen, Mr. Newton went to give Benny the tour leader’s flag. “Let’s go see some more baby animals,” Mr. Newton announced.

“You know,” Henry said, “after seeing Simio steal everything in sight, it could mean that—”

“Maybe Simio took Blake’s camera?!” Benny exclaimed.

“That’s exactly what I was thinking,” Henry said, smiling at his brother.


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1 zoologist MfmwY     
n.动物学家
参考例句:
  • Charles darwin was a famous zoologist.查尔斯达尔文是一位著名的动物学家。
  • The zoologist had spent a long time living with monkeys.这位动物学家与猴子一起生活了很长时间。
2 jaguar JaPz8     
n.美洲虎
参考例句:
  • He was green with envy when he saw my new Jaguar car.看见我那辆美洲虎牌新车,他非常妒忌。
  • Should you meet a jaguar in the jungle,just turn slowly,walk away.But slowly,never look back.你在丛林中若碰上美洲虎,就慢慢转身走开,可一定要慢,切莫回头看。
3 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
参考例句:
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
4 leash M9rz1     
n.牵狗的皮带,束缚;v.用皮带系住
参考例句:
  • I reached for the leash,but the dog got in between.我伸手去拿系狗绳,但被狗挡住了路。
  • The dog strains at the leash,eager to be off.狗拼命地扯拉皮带,想挣脱开去。
5 spun kvjwT     
v.纺,杜撰,急转身
参考例句:
  • His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
  • Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。
6 decided lvqzZd     
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
参考例句:
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
7 pointed Il8zB4     
adj.尖的,直截了当的
参考例句:
  • He gave me a very sharp pointed pencil.他给我一支削得非常尖的铅笔。
  • She wished to show Mrs.John Dashwood by this pointed invitation to her brother.她想通过对达茨伍德夫人提出直截了当的邀请向她的哥哥表示出来。
8 perch 5u1yp     
n.栖木,高位,杆;v.栖息,就位,位于
参考例句:
  • The bird took its perch.鸟停歇在栖木上。
  • Little birds perch themselves on the branches.小鸟儿栖歇在树枝上。
9 hooted 8df924a716d9d67e78a021e69df38ba5     
(使)作汽笛声响,作汽车喇叭声( hoot的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • An owl hooted nearby. 一只猫头鹰在附近啼叫。
  • The crowd hooted and jeered at the speaker. 群众向那演讲人发出轻蔑的叫嚣和嘲笑。
10 hoop wcFx9     
n.(篮球)篮圈,篮
参考例句:
  • The child was rolling a hoop.那个孩子在滚铁环。
  • The wooden tub is fitted with the iron hoop.木盆都用铁箍箍紧。
11 randomly cktzBM     
adv.随便地,未加计划地
参考例句:
  • Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内,分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
  • Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句
12 hopped 91b136feb9c3ae690a1c2672986faa1c     
跳上[下]( hop的过去式和过去分词 ); 单足蹦跳; 齐足(或双足)跳行; 摘葎草花
参考例句:
  • He hopped onto a car and wanted to drive to town. 他跳上汽车想开向市区。
  • He hopped into a car and drove to town. 他跳进汽车,向市区开去。
13 shrugged 497904474a48f991a3d1961b0476ebce     
vt.耸肩(shrug的过去式与过去分词形式)
参考例句:
  • Sam shrugged and said nothing. 萨姆耸耸肩膀,什么也没说。
  • She shrugged, feigning nonchalance. 她耸耸肩,装出一副无所谓的样子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
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