高中英語北京模塊版第四冊課文第10課

[00:00.00]Literature Spot 4
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[00:-2.00]KINO WAS A POOR PEARL DIVER
[00:-3.00]One day his baby was stung by a scorpion.
[00:-4.00]so he took the baby to the doctor,But Kino didn't have any money.
[00:-5.00]He only had some very poor quality pearls.
[00:-6.00]The doctor didn't want to treat the baby.
[00:-7.00]so the doctor's servant lied to Kino:' The doctor has gone out"
[00:-8.00]That day,Kino went diving for pearls.
[00:-9.00]When he was diving he saw a very large oyster.
[00:10.00]He swam down and down and picked up the oyster.Then he came to the surface.
[00:11.00]He took his knife and opened the shell of the oyster.
[00:12.00]Inside,there was an enormous and beautiful pearl-the greatest pearl in the world!
[00:13.00]Kino and his wife Juana were very happy.
[00:14.00]Now they would have enough money to educate their son
[00:15.00]and maybe buy new clothes and even a rifle.
[00:16.00]The news of the pearl spread through the town very quickly.
[00:17.00]That evening,lots of neighbours came to their house
[00:18.00]and they talked about what Kino and Juana could do with the money.
[00:19.00]The doctor and his servant also came to the house,
[00:20.00]because they had also heard about the pearl.
[00:21.00]The doctor made Kino and Juana afraid about the scorpion sting.
[00:22.00]He gave the baby medicine,which he said would save him.
[00:23.00]The doctor looked around the house,
[00:24.00]because he knew that the pearl would be hidden somewhere there.
[00:25.00]In the middle of the night,
[00:26.00]while Kino and his family were sleeping.Kino suddenly heard a noise.
[00:27.00]Someone was trying to get the pearl!In the darkness.
[00:28.00]Kino jumped up with his knife but someone hit him on the head and ran away.
[00:29.00]The next morning he took the pearl to the pearl dealers in the main square of the town.
[00:30.00]There were many dealers but they all worked for one man
[00:31.00]and they always gave he divers the lowest possible price for their pearls.
[00:32.00]Kino went to different dealers but they all said that the pearl was too big
[00:33.00]and ugly and that it wasn't worth more than,1500 pesos.
[00:34.00]Kino was very angry,He decided to go to the capital city
[00:35.00]because he knew that the pearl was very valuable.
[00:36.00]But that night someone attacked him outside his house.
[00:37.00]Juana said that the pearl was evil and that it was going to destroy them.
[00:38.00]She tried to throw the pearl into the sea.
[00:39.00]but Kino stopped her.
[00:40.00]Soon afterwards,he was attacked in the darkness by a group of men.
[00:41.00]He defended himself with his knife and killed one of the men.
[00:42.00]Kino and Juana knew that they had to get away from the town
[00:43.00]but someone had mede a hole in the bottom of their canoe,
[00:44.00]so they couldn't go by sea.
[00:45.00]When they went back to their house they found it in flames.
[00:46.00]That day,they hid in Kino's brother's house.
[00:47.00]When night came,Juana and Kino started to walk towards the mountains,
[00:48.00]They carried the baby with them.
[00:49.00]Kino was still determined to sell the pearl and kept making plans about the future.
[00:50.00]During the day,they found a place to hide.
[00:51.00]They were resting when they saw that three hunters were following them.
[00:52.00]They hid a nd stayed very quiet until the hunters had gone past.
[00:53.00]Then they ran to the mountains.
[00:54.00]High in the mountains,they found a stream and a waterfall.
[00:55.00]They drank water and then decided to hide in one of the caves under the waterfall.
[00:56.00]That evening,the hunters arrived and camped next to the waterfall.
[00:57.00]Juana had difficutly keeping the baby quiet.
[00:58.00]so Kino decided to go down and try to kill the men.
[00:59.00]He was just about to attack them,when the hunters heard the baby.
[-1:00.00]They thought that it was a coyote.
[-1:-1.00]A man fired his rifle just as Kino attacked.
[-1:-2.00]Kino then took the man's rifle and killed the other men.
[-1:-3.00]But stddenly everything went very quiet and Kino Knew that something was dead!
[-1:-4.00]He had been hit by the first rifle shot.
[-1:-5.00]Kino and Juana walked back to the town carrying the body of their dead baby.
[-1:-6.00]They walked slowly.
[-1:-7.00]The people came out to meet them but Kino and Juana ignored everybody.
[-1:-8.00]They walked towards the sea.Kino tookk out the pearl.
[-1:-9.00]It was grey and ugly,and in the pearl he could see evil faces.
[-1:10.00]He offered the pearl to Juana but she said softly:'No you.'
[-1:11.00]Kino tookk the pearl and threw it into the water.
[-1:12.00]It dropped to the bottom and settled near some plants.
[-1:13.00]A crab climbed over it and it was covered with sand.The pearl had disappeared.