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The Adventures of Kathleen the Great and Mark the Meek 英勇凱薩琳與害羞馬克歷險記

Meet Kathleen the mouse and Mark the elephant. Kathleen is very brave and likes adventure, but Mark is very shy and scared of many things. But friends stay together, so Mark follows Kathleen wherever she goes. Sometimes they get into some very sticky situations.

見見老鼠凱薩琳和大象馬克。凱薩琳非常勇敢又喜歡冒險，但馬克的個性十分害羞，對許多事情都感到害怕。不過，朋友都喜歡黏在一塊兒，所以凱薩琳走到哪兒，馬克就會跟到哪兒。有時候，他們也會碰上非常棘手的情況...

Catching a flight 趕飛機

Kathleen sat up suddenly in bed. “Oh no!” she yelled when she looked at the clock. Instead of telling the time, the numbers on the face of the clock were blinking eights.

She reached over to the nightstand and grabbed her watch. When she read the time she screamed even louder. By this time, Mark was standing in the doorway scratching his head.

“What's the matter?” he asked sleepily.

“We overslept!” she said. “You're going to miss your flight.”

Slowly, Mark's sleepy eyes opened wider and Kathleen could tell that now he understood. She pushed him into the bathroom where he brushed his teeth. He grabbed his suitcase and ran for the door.

“Wait!” Kathleen said.

“What?” Mark asked, turning around.

“You're still in your pajamas,” Kathleen said, laughing loudly.

Mark changed hurriedly and they were headed for the door when Kathleen stopped one more time.

“What is it now?” Mark asked as Kathleen ran back into Mark's room.

“You almost forgot your ticket!” she said, waving it in the air as they both ran out the door.

When they got to the airport and ran up to the check-in counter, they were both out of breath.

“How long until my flight leaves?” Mark asked.

“Thirty-five minutes,” answered the woman behind the counter who was looking at his ticket.(Kayleen Hartman, staff writer).

凱薩琳突然從床上坐起來。「喔不！」她看著時鐘大叫。時鐘沒有報時，面板上的數字卻一直閃著「８」。

她伸手去床頭櫃拿她的手錶，看到時間後，她尖叫得更大聲。此時馬克站在門口搔著頭。

「怎麼了？」他睡眼惺忪地問。

「我們睡過頭了！」她說︰「你會錯過你的飛機。」

慢慢地，馬克睡意濃厚的眼睛張開了，凱薩琳知道他現在明白了。她把他推進浴室刷牙，他抓了小行李箱就往門衝。

「等一等！」凱薩琳說。

「怎樣？」馬克轉過身來問。

「你身上還穿著睡衣，」凱薩琳說完就放聲大笑。馬克匆忙地更衣，然後與凱薩琳走向門。此時凱薩琳又停了一下。

「現在又怎麼了？」馬克問，凱薩琳跑回馬克的房間。

「你差點忘了你的機票！」她說著，手中揮著機票，跟馬克一起衝向大門。

他們到了機場，衝向登機報到櫃台，兩個人都上氣不接下氣。

「我的飛機還有多久會起飛？」馬克問。

「三十五分鐘。」櫃檯後的女士看著他的機票回答。（翻譯：鄭湘儀）

Today's Words 今天單字 1. blink v.i./v.t. 眨眼睛(zha2 yan3 jing1) 例:Sometimes my brother and I have a contest to see who can go the longest without blinking. (有時我弟跟我會比賽看誰能最久不眨眼。) 2. oversleep v.i. 睡過頭 (shui4 guo4 tou2) 例:One morning, my whole family overslept and I was late for school. (有一天早上，我們全家睡過頭，而我上學遲到。) 3. hurriedly adv. 匆忙地 (cong1 mang2 di5) 例:When the teacher told us to finish our tests, I hurriedly wrote the last few answers. (當老師叫我們結束作答，我匆忙寫下最後幾個答案。) 4. head v.i. 出發 (chu1 fa1) 例:Last time I saw Jack he was headed for the library. (上回我看到傑克時，他正前往圖書館。)

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