❶ 小學英語五年級適合閱讀的故事有哪些
小學英語五年級適合閱讀的故事有哪些?我們在課堂上學習過很多的故事，在書上看過很多的故事，但都是中文版的，我們很少會接觸英文版的故事。那麼小學英語五年級適合閱讀的故事有哪些?下面一起詳細看看吧。
1、A Good Boy
Little Robert asked his mother for two cents. “What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?”
"I gave it to a poor old woman，” he answered.
"You're a good boy，” said the mother proudly. “Here are two cents more. But why are you so interested in the old woman?”
"She is the one who sells the candy.”
2、The Hippo and I
A hippo lives in the zoo. I like him very much. I often go to see him. He often thinks of me， too. Today is Sunday. It is fine today. I go to see him again. After I leave the zoo， he follows me to my house. I give him lettuce， cabbages， bananas， apples and other food. He eats them up. When I sing songs， he stays in the pool. He is as quiet as a rabbit.
In the evening， he jumps onto my bed with me. My mum tells him to go home. He has to pack his bag and go back to the zoo. My mum lets me see him every week.
3、Look for a Friend
Sam is a little fish. He lives in the sea. He is very lonely. He wants to have a friend. The friend looks like him. Sam sees an ink fish. The ink fish has eight legs. He doesn't look like Sam. So Sam goes away. Sam meets a shark. He wants to say hello to the shark. The shark opens his big mouth. Sam runs away quickly. Sam is tired and hungry. He wants to have a rest. Then he sees a round fish. She says to him. “Hello! Would you like to be my friend?” Sam answers： “Of course! But you are round. I am flat.” The round fish says： “But we are both fishes.
Sam thinks and says， ”You are right. Let's be friends.“ They become good friends.
❷ 英語閱讀小故事(小學四年級)
To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he
went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots
break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought
they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants.
"How could the plants grow faster?" He tossed in bed ring the night and
could not sleep. Suddenly he hit upon an idea. He had an idea not wait
for daybreak. He jumped out of the bed and dashed to the field. By the
moonlight, he began working on the rice seedlings. One by one, he pulled
up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was
already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himself, "What a
wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown one night!"
With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told his son what he had
done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had risen.
The young man was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants
dying.
People now use " Ba Miao Zhu Zhang" to describe the behavior of those
who are too eager to get something done only to make it worse. The idiom
is a bit like the English proverb "Haste makes waste" ------to spoil
things by excessive enthusiasm.
撥苗助長
從前，有個農夫，種了稻苗後，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田時，發覺那些稻
苗長得非常慢。
他等得不耐煩，心想：「怎麼樣才能使稻苗長得高，長很快呢?
想了又想，他終了想到一個「最佳方法」，就是將稻苗撥高幾分。
經過一番辛勞後，他滿意地扛鋤頭回家休息。心想：明天稻苗長得一定更高了。
隔天早晨．一早起身，他迫不及待地起去稻田看他的「成果」。
哪知，他跑到稻田時，卻看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。
❸ 適合小學生閱讀的英語故事有哪些
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❹ 英語故事
AND THE EVENING
by Michael McNeilley
Realizing he was almost running Jovah slowed to a walk, then stopped and looked out over the sea. There was nowhere to run. Ahead of him stretched an endless nowhere. And home was a long warp away.
Sunlight gleamed off the silver of his special-issue exploration suit. Across the sea the sun was setting in a blaze of red and orange over puffy white clouds in a light azure sky, darkening into deep blue above. The landscape would have been beautiful, but he could barely stand to look at it.
Another one just like all the others. Still many light-years distant, he had told his co-pilot, "If this isn't one, then damn it there isn't one... anywhere." You shouldn't speak your fears aloud, he thought. Even a child knows that. It makes it so much easier for them to come true. For some reason he thought of his mother, her belief in him. 20 years....
They had tested exhaustively, then run each test again. In disgust he cranked off his helmet, disengaged the air connections from his suit, pulled the helmet off and threw it onto the sand. The helmet rolled to a stop against a rock. He shook out his blonde hair, months past his last haircut. He'd be getting a haircut soon enough.
"You shouldn't have taken that off," his helmet spoke to him from its spot in the sand, in the voice of Gaia, from the ship.
"What difference does it make." Jovah answered. "I'm not going to catch any diseases now, am I." He could hear her sigh in the speaker, then click off without comment.
Despite standing orders to the contrary, taking off the helmet made no difference, and there lay the problem. The atmosphere was full of oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen. There was enough methane and ammonia to stink the place up a bit but breathing was not difficult.
He didn't mean to be rude to Gaia, but she knew him well enough to know that. These months working together had not been bad ones, except for the one obvious problem, a problem Gaia had accepted more readily than Jovah. Gaia was an engineer, and engineering remained a challenge she could lose herself in... that she could look forward to, as far into the future as she cared to imagine. For Jovah, the situation was different.
The sea of this medium-young planet was full of perfectly good water, not too salty yet but that was as it should be at this stage of planetary development. The rocks on the shoreline retained some of the jagged shapes that would not be found on an ocean beach in a mature planet of this size. But one could find plenty of rounded and worn rocks as well, for unfortunately for Jovah and his theories this planet was not all that young.
Based on the fossil record of the world back home, at this stage in the planet's life there should be a profusion of mature plant growth here in the equatorial regions. The seas should be teeming with life, the skies filled with... flying somethings... anything. But there was nothing, not even the smallest, most primitive life forms. Not anything. As far as could be determined... as always... there never would be. Nothing.
20 years of ecation, for what. Jovah's specialty was interstellar space travel and exploration, but without a return on their investment the politicians would not continue to fund much of an interstellar space program. After all, there were planets suitable for colonization within a few light years of home. That there was nothing organic to discover on any of them made no difference to politicians.
Exobiology and Exobotany: Jovah's major fields of study. A lot of good those would do him on a job application. There was no way around the truth; his specialties didn't exist. His highest-level scientific graate work had been in... fantasy. The thought was worse than appalling. After months of attempting to get used to it, he still could not hold the thought in his head. Exobiology and Exobotany, theories without application. Crackpot, quack science. No, he couldn't think of it.
He wished he could remove the suit as well but it took two to manage it reasonably. Squatting, trying not to think, he used the suit toilet functions... pushed the button and listened to the sound of the flush mechanism voiding into the waste packet, the hum of the ultrasonic cleaner tidying up. Everything so neat and tidy... so civilized. So useless. You could take a shit in space and not even have to wipe. Suit functions could weld or cut most metals, burn wood if there were any wood, provide protection and defense from nonexistent aliens, protect the wearer from disease... but there was no disease. I'll probably never wear this suit again, he thought. The thought made him feel faint and he wiped his brow with his hand, then stood again.
He looked at the helmet, silver against the golden sand. Of course a secondary purpose of the helmet was to protect its wearer from contamination, but there was no contamination... not the slightest chance of contamination. On this planet, as on more than fifty others they'd walked upon, throughout all but endless exploration by their team and countless others the thing for which they had searched was again missing. Again.
"No damned life. Impossible, but no life. Never any life." He sank to his knees, ripping at his suit, pulling his hair. "No damned, damned life."
He pulled the waste packet off its mounting and flung it into the sea. He ripped at the cables and valves of the air system, pulled off his sampling kit, threw it down then jumped up and stomped on it, kicking collection vessels in every direction.
The anger wore off eventually, but he left the sampling kit where it fell. No one would be coming along to discover it, and with this the last stop he wouldn't be needing it again.
Everything was perfectly in place. A more ideal planetary candidate for life could not be imagined. Carbon-based organic chemicals galore. Long string molecules, aliphatic acids, urea, amino acids, the base structures found in nucleic acids and proteins. All the building blocks of life in the sea.
Everything had been in place, as best they could determine, for many millions of years, perhaps a billion years. But no life. Never, never any life. No greenery on the hills, in the valleys. Nothing again like all the other planets, like every other time, not a microbe, not a virus, just nothing.
"Jovah," Gaia spoke again into the communicator. "Jovah. Come on. Let's leave. There's nothing more to do here. We're past schele already."
Nothing more to do. As if that weren't the problem. Everything was here. Everything was here and nothing was here, and that was the problem, the usual problem... the insoluble endgame problem. Now nothing more to do here... nothing more to do... anywhere. Too choked up to speak, he clicked the communicator lever twice with his thumb, the signal for "affirmative," with nothing but negative feelings in his heart. Hat in hand he trudged back down the beach the way he had come.
Retracing his steps to the ship Jovah looked up as he neared the vehicle, surprised to see how small it appeared against the rocky cliffs above the sands. For all its technology the ship's rounded exterior looked much older than the angular cliffs that rose to one side.
His tour was all but over. He would not be going out again... chances were no one would go out again. Back home the pressures for government funding were not lessening. Money for chasing off across the cosmos after something that had been all but proven nonexistent would not remain in the budget for long. He thought of the conditions back home... of the pollution and crowding and corruption... of his disappointments with his own kind... of the type of welcome awaiting this final failure, and the memory made him want to turn and walk back down the beach, just walk on.
But to what, he thought and to where, and he entered the ship helmet in hand, never to meet that alien being he'd dreamed of since his childhood; never to shake that strange and wonderful hand. He laughed at himself, within, then out loud. He could help found a colony... there would still be challenges. But not the discoveries... his dreams had been a mirage. Acceptance began to set within him, darkening graally like the sunset on this unnamed sea.
It was only a few minutes before the contrail blazed its final message across the sky, a thin and searing yellow line that left a spreading white trail behind as the ship blasted away toward the end of its voyage, certain never to return.
As the sun moved below the horizon a last gleam died on the beach, reflected from the lid of a specimen container. Nearby, solid in the heavy motion of the waves the still-sharp rocks of the young planet battered against a small plastic pouch. The pouch remained hermetic for a time, the lid tightly threaded, the connections self-sealing but tiny cracks began to form in the hard plastic material of the cap. It was not long before the cap cracked apart, and at the apogee of a particularly peristaltic wave shattered, and the packet emptied into the sea.
As the solid waste sank slowly, tiny intestinal bacteria swam off into the primordial soup. Amid a floating yellow stain, viral nucleoprotein chains, endospores and protozoans floated free.
Miniscule organisms washed upon the rocks, lodging in tiny crevices where the sea waves pouring over them would bring the protein chains and chemicals they could break down for their food. Nitrogen-fixing bacteria poured out of the packet and gathered in shallow tidal pools with E. coli and fungi. Conjugation and recombination began among some, with the exchange of genes; transction exchanged chromosomal material among others. All around cell division spread the news of new arrivals.
Bacteria was everywhere... chemosynthetic bacteria began to break down chemicals into bite-sized morsels... photosynthetic bacteria awaited the dawn of light. With a whip of their flagella diminutive organisms washed out to sea.
Microbial cells followed their metabolic pathways, spinning and turning in the ocean currents on a voyage of their own: past now through tomorrow and into forever. By morning, as the first rays of sun warmed them, already there were more.
They would evolve first in greens and browns, then cross the spectrum in sudden rainbows. Fill the planet, the seas, the heavens. They would name the rocks, the peaks, the rivers, the winds... this very sea. Fight wars, make peace, teach one another, create technology. Engage in interstellar exploration, exobiology and exobotany. Learn patience, diligence and frustration.
But for now they would be fruitful. They would multiply.
And the evening and the morning were the first day.
❺ 求五個英語小故事，簡單的，小學生讀的。
The Old Cat
An old woman had a cat. The cat was very old; she could not run quickly, and she could not bite, because she was so old. One day the old cat saw a mouse; she jumped and caught the mouse. But she could not bite it; so the mouse got out of her mouth and ran away, because the cat could not bite it.
Then the old woman became very angry because the cat had not killed the mouse. She began to hit the cat. The cat said, "Do not hit your old servant. I have worked for you for many years, and I would work for you still, but I am too old. Do not be unkind to the old, but remember what good work the old did when they were young."
【譯文】
老貓
一位老婦有隻貓，這只貓很老，它跑不快了，也咬不了東西，因為它年紀太大了。一天，老貓發現一隻老鼠，它跳過去抓這只老鼠，然而，它咬不住這只老鼠。因此，老鼠從它的嘴邊溜掉了，因為老貓咬不了它。
於是，老婦很生氣，因為老貓沒有把老鼠咬死。她開始打這只貓，貓說：「不要The
❻ 適合小學四年級學生閱讀的英語故事
1. A man goes to church and starts talking to God. He says: "God, what is a million dollars to you?" and God says: "A penny", then the man says: "God, what is a million years to you?" and God says: "a second", then the man says: "God, can I have a penny?" and God says "In a second" 一男子進入教堂和上帝對話.他問:"主啊, 一百萬美元對你意味著多少?"上帝回答:"一便士."男子又問:"那一百萬年呢?"上帝說:"一秒鍾."最後男子請求道:"上帝,我能得到一便士嗎?"上帝回答:"過一秒鍾."
2.Mother sent Tommy to the store across the street to buy a good box of matches.When Tommy came back,mother asked him,」Did you buy a good box of matches?」 「Yes,Mum.」Tommy replied,」I have tried them all.」 媽媽讓湯米去馬路對面的商店裡買一盒好用的火柴。湯米回來後，媽媽問他，「你買的是好用的火柴嗎？」 「是的，媽媽。」湯米回答，「我把它們都試過了。」——《 一盒小火柴》
3.Little Robert asked his mother for tow cents.」What did you do with the money I gave you yesterday?」 「I gave it to a poor old woman,」he answered. 「You』er a good boy,」said the mother proudly.」Here are tow cents more.But why are you so interested in the old woman?」 「She is the one who sells the candy.」 小羅伯特向媽媽要兩分錢。 「昨天給你的錢干什麼了？」 「我給了一個可憐的老太婆。」他回答說。「你真是一個好孩子，」媽媽驕傲地說. 「再給你兩分錢。可你為什麼對那位老太太那麼感興趣呢？」 「她是個賣糖果的。」——《好孩子》
4.Teacher: Here are two birds, one is a swallow, the other is sparrow. Now who can tell us which is which? Student: I cannot point out but I know the answer. Teacher: Please tell us. Student: The swallow is beside the sparrow and the sparrow is beside the swallow. 老師： 這兒有兩只鳥，一隻是麻雀。誰能指出哪只是燕子，哪只是麻雀嗎？ 學生：我指不出，但我知道答案。 老師：請說說看。 學生：燕子旁邊的就是麻雀，麻雀旁邊的就是燕子。——《 兩只鳥 》
5.
A young mother believed that it was very wrong to waste any food when there were so many hungry people in the world. One evening, she was giving her small daughterher tea before putting her to bed. First she gave her a slice of fresh brown bread and butter, but the child said that she did not want it like that. She asked for some jam on her bread as well.Her mother looked at her for a few seconds and then said, When I was a small girl like you, Lucy, I was always given either bread and butter, or bread and jam, but never bread with butter and jam.Lucy looked at her mother for a few moments with pity in her eyes and then said to her kindly, Aren't you pleased that you've come to live with us now?
一位年輕的母親認為，世界上還有許多受飢餓的人，浪費食物真不應該。有天晚上，在安排幼小的女兒睡覺之前，她給女兒喂夜宵。她先給她一片新鮮的黑麵包和黃油，但孩子說她不喜歡這樣吃。她還要一些果醬塗在麵包上。母親看了女兒幾秒鍾，隨即說道，露茜，當我象你一樣小的時候，總是吃麵包加黃油，或者麵包加果醬，從來沒有麵包既加黃油又加果醬。露茜看了母親一會兒，眼中露出憐憫的神情，然後她柔聲說：您現在能跟我們生活在一起難道不感到高興嗎？——《 幸運的母親 》Lucky Mother
6.Two Pieces of Cake
Tom: Mom, can I have two pieces of cake, please?
Mom: Certainly -- take this piece and cut it two!
兩塊蛋糕
湯姆：媽媽，我可以吃兩塊蛋糕嗎？
媽媽：當然可以----拿這塊蛋糕把它切成兩塊吧！——《 兩塊蛋糕》Two Pieces of Cake
7.
A professor was giving a big test one day to his students. He handed out all of the tests and went back to his desk to wait.
Once the test was over the students all handed the tests back in. The professor noticed that one of the students had attached a $100 bill to his test with a note saying "A dollar per point."
The next class the professor handed the tests back out. This student got back his test and $64 change.
一天，教授正在給學生們監考。他發下試卷，然後回到講台前等待。
考試結束了，學生們紛紛交回試卷。教授發現一張試卷上別著一張百元鈔票，還有一張紙條寫著：「一分一塊錢。」
第二堂課，教授把試卷都發回學生們手中。其中一個學生不但得到了試卷還得到64塊錢的找零。
——《一分一塊錢 》A dollar per point
拔苗助長Help the Young Shoots Grow
Long, long ago, a farmer thought the shoots in his fields were not growing fast enough. He wanted to help them. So he pulled every shoot up, then went home, feeling very tired but very satisfied. "Look, how great I an! I can think out such a good idea. From now on, my shoots will grow faster and faster," he thought. "I an very tired today," he said to his family, "I've been helping the young shoots to grow." When his son heard this, he ran out to the fields to have a look. To his surprise, he found all the shoots weredead. 很久很久以前，一個農夫感覺他田裡的幼苗長得不是很快，他想幫助它們。於是他就向上拔它們，然後回了家，雖然感覺很累但是卻很滿意。他默默地想：「瞧我多麼的偉大，我能想出如此好的辦法。從現在起，我的幼苗將會生長得越來越快。」於是他對家人說：「我今天累壞了，我在幫助幼苗生長。」當他的兒子聽到這話，便匆忙跑到地里去看。讓他吃驚的是，他發現所有的幼苗都死了。
龜兔賽跑
The Rabbit And The Turtle
One day the Hare laughed at the short feet and slow speed of the Tortoise. The Tortoise replied:
"You may be as fast as the wind, but I will beat you in a race!"
The Hare thought this idea was impossible and he agreed to the proposal. It was agreed that the Fox should choose the course and decide the end.
The day for the race came, and the Tortoise and Hare started together.
The Tortoise never stopped for a moment, walking slowly but steadily, right to the end of the course. The Hare ran fast and stopped to lie down for a rest. But he fell fast asleep. Eventually, he woke up and ran as fast as he could. But when he reached the end, he saw the Tortoise there already, sleeping comfortably after her effort.一天，兔子嘲笑烏龜爬得慢，烏龜說：「即使你跑得像風一樣快，我也要和你比一場賽跑！」兔子心裡想，烏龜是不可能跑贏它的。於是兔子同意了這場彷彿看到比賽結果的比賽。當比賽開始時，烏龜和兔子同時起跑。在這段賽道上烏龜一直不停歇地向前爬，雖然爬得很慢，但是步子卻很堅定地邁向終點。兔子跑得很快，它中途還躺下來睡了一覺。當兔子睡醒時，它用最快的速度跑向終點。但是當它接近終點時，它卻看到烏龜已經在終點處沉沉的睡著了。
守株待兔
In the Spring and Autumn Period, a farmer in the State of Song was one day working in the fields when he saw a rabbit bump into a tree stump(樹樁) accidentally and break its neck. The farmer took the rabbit home, and cooked himself a delicious meal. That night he thought, 'I needn't work so hard. All I have to do is wait for a rabbit each day by the stump.' So from then on he gave up farming, and simply sat by the stump waiting for rabbits to come and run into it.
This idiom satirizes(諷刺，挖苦) those who just wait for a stroke of luck, rather than making efforts to obtain what they need.
宋國有個農夫正在田裡翻土。突然，他看見有一隻野兔從旁邊的草叢里慌慌張張地竄出來，一頭撞在田邊的樹墩子上，便倒在那兒一動也不動了。農民走過去一看：兔子死了。因為它奔跑的速度太快，把脖子都撞折(shé)了。農民高興極了，他一點力氣沒花，就白撿了一隻又肥又大的野兔。他心想;要是天天都能撿到野兔，日子就好過了。從此，他再也不肯出力氣種地了。每天，他把鋤頭放在身邊，就躺在樹墩子跟前，等待著第二隻、第三隻野兔自己撞到這樹墩子上來。世上哪有那麼多便宜事啊。農民當然沒有再撿到撞死的野兔，而他的田地卻荒蕪了。
猴子撈月
One day,a little monkey is playing by the well.He looks in the well and shouts :「Oh!My god!The moon has fallen into the well!」An older monkeys runs over, takes a look,and says,「Goodness me!The moon is really in the water!」And olderly monkey comes over.He is very surprised as well and cries out:「The moon is in the well.」A group of monkeys run over to the well .They look at the moon in the well and shout:「The moon did fall into the well!Come on!Let』get it out!」Then,the oldest monkey hangs on the tree up side down ,with his feet on the branch .And he pulls the next monkey』s feet with his hands.All the other monkeys follow his suit,And they join each other one by one down to the moon in the well.Just before they reach the moon,the oldest monkey raises his head and happens to see the moon in the sky,He yells excitedly 「Don』t be so foolish!The moon is still in the sky!」一天，有隻小猴子在井邊玩兒。它往井裡一瞧，高喊道：「噢！我的天！月亮掉到井裡頭啦！」一隻大猴子跑來一看，說，「糟啦！月亮掉在井裡頭啦！」老猴子也跑過來。他也非常驚奇，喊道：「月亮掉在井裡頭了！」一群猴子跑到井邊來，他們看到井裡的月亮，喊道：「月亮掉在井裡頭啦！快來！讓我們把它撈起來！」然後，老猴子倒掛在大樹上，拉住大猴子的腳，其他的猴子一個個跟著，它們一隻連著一隻直到井裡。正好他們摸到月亮的時候，老猴子抬頭發現月亮掛在天上呢!它興奮地大叫：「別傻了！月亮還好好地掛在天上呢！」
最後一篇沒看過~補個狐假虎威
The Tiger and The Fox(狐假虎威)
One day, the tiger and the fox are talking. The fox says, 『Do you believe that all the animals in the forest are scared of me not you?』 The tiger doesn』t believe and follows the fox to the forest. All the animals are very frightened when they see the tiger and ran away. The tiger is shocked and thinks that the animals are scared of the fox. The fox is very complacent because in fact it depends on the terror of the tiger to frighten the animals.
一天，老虎和狐狸在說話。狐狸說：「你信不信森林裡的動物們是比起怕你更怕我？」老虎不信，於是跟著狐狸在森林裡轉。所有的動物看到老虎都驚恐地跑開。老虎很受打擊，認為是動物們在害怕狐狸。狐狸非常的得意，而事實上老虎看到的這個現象卻是由於動物們對老虎的恐懼！
❼ 小學生英語故事
There are four seasons in a year.Which is my favourite one?Of course winter!Why?Let me tell you.
Winter is the season of festivals.The New Year's Day,Christmas Day and the most important festival in a year for Chinese:Spring Festival is also in winter!All the family members are back home this time.So I like it!
And sometimes will snow, I like playing after a snow!And the world turn white,I can make snowmen with my friends ,that's wonderful!
That's why I like winter best,how about you?
❽ 小學四年級課外寓言英語小故事閱讀
To Pull up the Seedlings to Help Them Grow
Once upon a time, an old farmer planted a plot of rice. Everyday he
went to the field to watch the seedlings grow. He saw the young shoots
break through the soil and grow taller each day. But still, he thought
they were growing too slowly. He got impatient with the young plants.
"How could the plants grow faster?" He tossed in bed ring the night and
could not sleep. Suddenly he hit upon an idea. He had an idea not wait
for daybreak. He jumped out of the bed and dashed to the field. By the
moonlight, he began working on the rice seedlings. One by one, he pulled
up the young plants by half an inch. When he finished pulling, it was
already morning. Straightening his back, he said to himself, "What a
wonderful idea! Look, how much taller the plants have grown one night!"
With great satisfaction, he went back home. He told his son what he had
done in a triumphant tone. His son was shocked. Now the sun had risen.
The young man was heart-broken to see all the pulled-up young plants
dying.
People now use " Ba Miao Zhu Zhang" to describe the behavior of those
who are too eager to get something done only to make it worse. The idiom
is a bit like the English proverb "Haste makes waste" ------to spoil
things by excessive enthusiasm.
撥苗助長
從前，有個農夫，種了稻苗後，便希望能早早收成。每天他到稻田時，發覺那些稻
苗長得非常慢。
他等得不耐煩，心想：「怎麼樣才能使稻苗長得高，長很快呢?
想了又想，他終了想到一個「最佳方法」，就是將稻苗撥高幾分。
經過一番辛勞後，他滿意地扛鋤頭回家休息。心想：明天稻苗長得一定更高了。
隔天早晨．一早起身，他迫不及待地起去稻田看他的「成果」。
哪知，他跑到稻田時，卻看到所有的稻苗都枯萎了。