1. Don’t Know Much about Geography

1 Don't Know Much about Geography My name is A.J. and I know what you're thinking. You're thinking about the Great Lakes. What makes the Great Lakes so great? That's what I want to know. If you ask me, lakes shouldn't brag. If they were really great, they wouldn't have to talk about how great they are all the time.

我对地理了解不多我的名字是A.J. 我知道你在想什么 你想的是五大湖。 是什么使五大湖如此伟大？ 这就是我想知道的。 要我说，湖泊不应该自夸。 如果他们真的很棒，他们就不用一直说自己有多棒了。

What about the other lakes? Don't they feel bad because they're not great? Is there a Not-So-Great Lake? Anyway, it was a perfectly normal Monday at Ella Mentry School. In other words, there was nothing normal about it. I hung up my coat in my cubby. That's when my teacher Mr. Cooper came flying into the room. He tripped over somebody's backpack and did a face-plant into the garbage can. "I'm okay!" he said as he took the can off his head. Then we pledged the allegiance and did Word of the Day. "Should we turn to page twenty-three in our math books?" asked Andrea Young, this annoying girl with curly brown hair. "No," said Mr. Cooper. "Are we going to do silent reading?" asked Andrea's crybaby friend, Emily. "No."

其他湖泊呢？ 他们不会因为自己不够优秀而感到难过吗？ 有没有不太伟大的湖？ 不管怎样，这是艾拉门特瑞学校一个非常普通的周一。 换句话说，这一点都不正常。 我把外套挂在小橱里。 就在这时，我的老师库珀先生飞奔进了房间。 他被别人的背包绊倒了，把脸朝垃圾桶里一撞。 “我没事！”他边说边把罐子从头上拿下来。 然后我们宣誓效忠，做每日一词。 “我们应该翻到数学课本的第23页吗？”安德里亚·杨问，她是一个烦人的棕色卷发女孩。 “不，”库珀先生说。“我们要默读吗？”安德里亚爱哭的朋友艾米丽问。 “没有。”

"Science?" asked Ryan, who will eat anything, even stuff that isn't food. "No." "Can we go home?" I asked. I figured it was worth a shot. "No," replied Mr. Cooper. "Today, we're going to do something different." Uh-oh. I didn't like the sound of that. Different is scary. You never know what's gonna happen. Different could be good, or it could be bad. "What are we going to do?" asked Michael, who never ties his shoes. "This morning," said Mr. Cooper, "we're going to see a slideshow." Noooooooooooooooo! Not a slideshow! Anything but a slideshow! Slideshows are super boring. I'd rather jump into a volcano wearing a pink tutu than watch a slideshow. "I'm going to show you pictures of my trip to Spain," said Mr. Cooper.

“科学？”瑞安问，他什么都吃，甚至不是食物的东西。 “没有。”“我们能回家吗？”我问。 我觉得值得一试。 “不，”库珀先生回答。“今天，我们要做一些不同的事情。” 哦。我不喜欢你这么说。 不同是可怕的。你永远不知道会发生什么。 不同可能是好事，也可能是坏事。 “我们该怎么办？”迈克尔问，他从来不系鞋带。 “今天早上，”库珀先生说，“我们要去看一个幻灯片。” Noooooooooooooooo !不是幻灯片！除了幻灯片什么都可以！幻灯片超级无聊。 我宁愿穿着粉色芭蕾短裙跳进火山也不愿看幻灯片。 “我要给你看我去西班牙旅行的照片，”库珀先生说。

Noooooooooooooooo! Mr. Cooper went to Spain to visit his sister. We had a sub for a week while he was gone. He turned on his computer and plugged it into the smartboard. "Oh, you're going to like this," he told

Noooooooooooooooo !库珀先生去西班牙看望他的妹妹。 他不在的时候，我们用了一个星期的代课老师。 他打开电脑，把它插到智能板上。 “哦，你会喜欢这个的，”他说

us. "Spain was amazing. I was like a fish out of water." Huh? What did fish have to do with anything? "Here's me at the Royal Palace in Madrid," Mr. Cooper said when his first slide flashed on the screen. "Ooooh, it's beautiful!" said Andrea, who thinks everything is beautiful. I was already feeling drowsy. I felt my eyelids getting heavy. "Here's my sister at a church in Barcelona," said Mr. Cooper. I was fighting off sleep. "Here's a man playing guitar outside the walled city of Toledo," he continued. Zzzzzzzzz. "Here's my sister at a fruit market."

我们。“西班牙太棒了。我就像一条离开水的鱼。” 嗯?这和鱼有什么关系？ “这是我在马德里的皇宫，”当他的第一张幻灯片在屏幕上闪现时，库珀说。 “哦，太美了！”安德烈说，她觉得一切都很美。 我已经感到昏昏欲睡了。 我感到眼皮沉了下来。 “这是我妹妹在巴塞罗那的一个教堂里，”库珀说。 我在抗拒睡意。“这是一个人在托莱多城墙外弹吉他，”他继续说。 Zzzzzzzzz。“这是我妹妹在水果市场。”