3. Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!

3 Mrs. Roopy Is Loopy!

鲁比太太是环形的！

I didn't think much about the Presidents' Day Challenge until dismissal at three o'clock. The gang and me were about to head home when we saw Andrea and Emily sitting on the front steps of the school. I figured they like school so much, they didn't want to go home. "What are you doing here?" asked Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "Emily and I are going to the media center after school today," Andrea said. "That's right," said Emily, who always agrees with everything Andrea says. The media center? Ugh. That's a horrible place that used to be called the library, but they changed the name because kids don't want to go to the library. You want to know why? Because it has lots of books in it! Books are boring.*

直到下午三点下课，我才想起总统日挑战。 我们正要回家时，看到安德里亚和艾米丽正坐在学校门前的台阶上。 我以为他们很喜欢学校，不想回家。 “你在这里做什么？”瑞恩问，他什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 “艾米丽和我今天放学后要去媒体中心，”安德里亚说。 “没错，”艾米丽说，她总是同意安德里亚说的每句话。 媒体中心？啊。那是一个可怕的地方，以前被称为图书馆，但他们改名了，因为孩子们不想去图书馆。 你想知道为什么吗？因为里面有很多书！书很无聊

"Why are you going to the media center?" asked Alexia, who rides a skateboard all the time. "Mrs. Roopy said she'd help us learn about the presidents," Andrea told us. "The kids who know the most will get to be in the Presidents' Day Challenge." "So we can win the trip to DizzyLand!" added Emily. Wait. Only a few kids get to go to DizzyLand? I thought all of us would get to go. It wasn't fair! Well, I wasn't going to let Andrea win the trip to DizzyLand. When she got up to go to the media center, so did I. And so did Ryan, Neil, Michael, and Alexia. It's not like we had anything better to do after school anyway. When we got to the media center, our media specialist, Mrs. Roopy, was waiting

“你为什么要去媒体中心？”经常玩滑板的亚历克西娅问道。 “鲁比太太说她会帮助我们了解总统，”安德里亚告诉我们。 “知道得最多的孩子将有机会参加总统日挑战。” “这样我们就能赢得去眩晕乐园的旅行了！”艾米丽补充道。 等待。只有几个孩子能去眩晕乐园？ 我以为我们都能去呢。 这不公平！我不会让安德里亚赢得去眩晕乐园的机会。 当她起身去媒体中心时，我也起身去了。 Ryan, Neil， Michael和Alexia也是如此。 反正放学后我们也没别的事可做。 当我们到达媒体中心时，我们的媒体专家鲁比夫人已经等在那里了

for us. But she didn't look like Mrs. Roopy.She's always dressing up like other people. One time she was Little Bo Peep. That was weird. Mrs. Roopy is loopy. This time, she was dressed up like some old guy, with dark hair and a dark suit and tie. "Who are you today, Mrs. Roopy?" asked Andrea. "Roopy?" said Mrs. Roopy in a low voice. "Never heard of her. My name is Ronald Reagan. I was the fortieth president. Before I was the president, I was a movie star. In one movie, my costar was a chimpanzee. The movie was called Bedtime for Bonzo." "So if they ask us which president acted in a movie with a chimp, we'll remember Ronald Reagan," said Andrea.

对我们来说。但她看起来不像鲁比太太。她总是打扮得和别人一样。 有一次她是小牧羊女。 这很奇怪。鲁比太太是疯了。 这一次，她打扮得像个老家伙，深色头发，深色西装，打着领带。 “你今天是谁，鲁比太太？”安德烈问。 “鲁皮？”鲁皮太太低声说。 “从来没听说过她。我叫罗纳德·里根。 我是第四十任总统。 在我当总统之前，我是个电影明星。 在一部电影里，我的搭档是一只黑猩猩。 这部电影叫《Bonzo的就寝时间》。” 安德里亚说：“所以如果他们问我们哪位总统和黑猩猩一起演过电影，我们会记得罗纳德·里根。”

"See?" said Mrs. Roopy. "You learned something about a president already." Ronald Roopy Reagan showed us a bunch of books about the presidents. Then he said we could use the computers to look up more stuff. Andrea and Emily rushed to the computer stations. "I love looking things up online," said Andrea. "Me too!" said Emily. "Ooooooh, did you know that four of our presidents were born in February?" asked Andrea. "Washington, Lincoln, Reagan, and William Henry Harrison." Andrea thinks she is so smart because she's a member of P.A.C. That stands for the Principal Advisory Committee—a group of nerds who get to boss around the principal. Looking up stuff about the presidents was boring. I decided to make an airplane

“看到了吗？”鲁比太太说。“你已经对总统有所了解了。” 罗纳德·鲁比·里根给我们看了一堆关于总统的书。 然后他说我们可以用电脑查更多的东西。 安德里亚和艾米丽冲向电脑工作站。 “我喜欢在网上查东西，”安德里亚说。 “我也是！”爱米丽说。“哦哦，你知道我们有四位总统都出生在二月吗？”安德里亚问道。 “华盛顿，林肯，里根，和威廉·亨利·哈里森” 安德里亚觉得自己很聪明，因为她是政治行动委员会的成员 这代表校长咨询委员会——一群对校长发号施令的书呆子。 查找关于总统的资料很无聊。 我决定制造一架飞机