学习时，
发现没有掌握
或不熟悉的知识时，
最好的办法便是静下心来重新学一遍
这期，吕成再次朗读了What is in a Name
大家帮忙督促一下
和以前相比，吕成的朗读有没有进步呢？
This story is about a boy who is named Jack Russell. He doesn’t like this name because he thinks it is like a dog’s name. Maybe because his name has become such a joke, he likes learning bizarre names. His parents try to make him proud of this name. But he makes a decision----he would use his middle name, Harry. It’s smooth before he meets Ciara. Ciara says Harry is her dog’s name and walks away.
His name was Jack, Jack Russell. It was not easy going through life with the name of a terrier. A dog, for Pete’s sake! From about second grade on, kids had made fun of his name, some of them making barking sounds when he came into a room. He was actually Jack Russell IV – the fourth firstson of a first son, named for the original Jack Russell, his great grandfather.
Maybe because his name had become such a joke, he paid particular attention to names. He loved learning bizarre names of places - Dead Horse; Monkey’s Eyebrow. There were the breakfast-sounding names - places like TwoEgg, and Oatmeal. Some names seemed to tell stories about the people who’d first settled there - like Last Chance, Boring.
When the kids first started making fun of him, his parents tried toconsole him. His mother recalled going to school with a girl named Candy Cane. As if to invite ridicule, she wore red and white striped clothes. His dad, who hadn’t minded being Jack Russell III, had a different tactic. He tried to make him proud of the name with stories about the original Jack Russell - war hero, inventor.
When he moved up from grade school to junior high, he made a decision.He’d use his middle name, Harry. At first, it went well. Even his old friends took to calling him Harry, and, as far as the kids he’d never met before were concerned, that had always been his name. Even his parentsand sister started calling him Harry, until he met Ciara, the prettiest and smartest girl in sixth grade.
“Hi, I’m Harry,” he said, trying to sound nonchalant. “Wow! That’s mydog’s name!” she said, as she closed her locker door and walked away with her friends.
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