Chapter 1

Chapter ONE It was almost home time on Monday afternoon and Miss Cherry had an announcement. 'Tomorrow, we are going to start a project on space!' she said. 'We are going to learn all about the night sky.' 'Ooh!' said the class and I saw my friend Bruno punch the air. He loves

第一章星期一下午快到回家的时间了，切里小姐要宣布一件事。 “明天，我们将开始一个太空项目！”她说。 “我们将学习所有关于夜空的知识。“噢!同学们说，我看到我的朋友布鲁诺在空中挥拳。 他喜欢

anything to do with space. Even his lunchbox has pictures of aliens on it.

任何与太空有关的东西。 就连他的午餐盒上都有外星人的照片。

'Most excitingly,' Miss Cherry continued, 'we are going to have a visit from the famous astronomer, Astrid Luna. She is going to come and talk to us all about the stars and planets!' 'Oh, wow!' yelled Bruno, jumping up from his chair. 'Sit down please Bruno,' said Miss Cherry. 'To go alongside our project,' she continued, 'I am going to set you some homework which you can start thinking about tonight. I want each one of you to make something to do with space. It can be anything you like. Be creative! You can have the rest of the week to work on it.'

“最令人兴奋的是，”切里小姐接着说，“我们将迎来著名天文学家阿斯特丽德·卢娜的来访。 她要来给我们大家讲星星和行星！“哦，哇！”布鲁诺喊道，从椅子上跳了起来。 “请坐，布鲁诺，”切里小姐说。 “为了配合我们的项目，”她接着说，“我要给你们布置一些作业，你们今晚就可以开始思考了。 我希望你们每个人都能对空间有所贡献。 可以是你喜欢的任何东西。 有创意!你可以在这周剩下的时间里做这件事。”

'Oh, yay!' said my best friend Zoe who was sitting next to me. I know what I'm going to do already. I'm going to paint a huge starry picture of the Milky Way with lots of glitter on it! What are you going to do Isadora?' 'I'm not sure,' I said as I packed up my pencil case. 'I'm going to think about it tonight. We don't have to start it yet. 'I'm going to start mine tonight,' said Bruno. 'It's going to take me ages. I want to make a whole solar system from papier mâché with aliens and everything!' 'I'm going to start mine tonight too,' said Sashi. 'I want to make a rocket out of cardboard and silver foil!'

‘哦,耶!坐在我旁边的我最好的朋友佐伊说。 我已经知道我要做什么了。 我要画一幅巨大的银河星图，上面有很多闪闪发光的东西！伊莎多拉，你打算怎么办？“我不确定，”我一边收拾铅笔盒一边说。 “我今晚要考虑一下。 我们还没必要开始。 “今晚我要开始我的了，”布鲁诺说。 “这要花我很长时间。 我想用纸做一个完整的太阳系，上面有外星人和其他东西！“我今晚也要开始我的，”沙西说。 “我想用硬纸板和银箔做个火箭！”

I stared round at my friends as we all packed up our bags to go home and felt just the tiniest bit panicked. I didn't have any idea of what to make for the special project and now I couldn't make a cardboard rocket or a papier mâché solar system or paint a starry picture because it would look like I was copying my friends. I needed to think of something else.

当我们都收拾好行李准备回家时，我盯着周围的朋友们，感到有那么一点点惊慌。 我不知道为这个特别的项目做什么，现在我不能做一个纸板火箭或纸<s:1> ch<s:1>太阳系或画一幅星星的画，因为它看起来就像我在模仿我的朋友。 我得想想别的办法。