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有個叫Karin的小販經常走村串戶賣帽子，一個夏天的中午，他走累了，在一棵大樹下面打起盹來。等他醒來，發現帽子全部不翼而飛，他一抬頭，發現一群猴子正戴著他的帽子，一個個調皮地看著他。他氣極了，對著猴子大叫，猴子也對著他怪叫；他朝猴子做鬼臉，猴子也對著他做鬼臉；他往樹上扔石頭，猴子則用樹上的芒果扔他。突然他計上心來，把自己頭上的帽子脫下來往地上一甩，猴子們也跟著做了。于是Karin趕忙拾起他的帽子，得意地走了。

這個小故事相信大家都耳熟能詳，可是50年后，Karin的孫子Abdul又遭遇了同樣的尷尬，Abdul和小猴之間的PK，誰會勝出呢？

50 years later， young Abdul， grandson of famous Karin who was also working hard at making money and doing his family business， was going through the same jungle.

After a long walk， he was very tired and found a nice mango tree with lots of branches and cool shade. Abdul decided to rest a while and very soon was fast asleep. A few hours later， when Abdul woke up， he realized that all the caps from his bag were gone! Abdul started searching for the caps and to his surprise found some monkeys sitting on mango tree wearing his caps.

Abdul was frustrated and didn’t know what to do. And then he remembered the story his grandfather proudly used to tell him.

“Yes! I can fool these monkeys!”said Abdul.“I’ll make them imitate me， and very soon I’ll get all my caps back!”

Abdul waved at the monkeys-the monkeys waved at Abdul

Abdul started dancing-the monkeys were also dancing

Abdul pulled his ears-the monkeys pulled their ears

Abdul raised his hands-the monkeys raised their hands

Abdul threw his cap on the ground...

Just then， one of the monkeys jumped down from the tree， grabbed the cap Abdul threw on the ground， walked up to Abdul， and said，“Do you think ONLY YOU HAD A GRANDFATHER?”

都說不聽老人言，吃虧在眼前，可憐的Abdul聽了老人言還是吃虧不小，下面我們來看看這篇小文章中的大秘密：

1. was fast asleep這用法對嗎？fast不是“快的”嗎？而且是個形容詞。錯了！fast可以作副詞，而且它修飾asleep是表示熟睡。記住下次想說“熟睡”的時候別說deeply asleep哦。

asleep 是形容詞，注意與動詞sleep區別開來。

我們再看看fast/ soon/ quickly這三個表示“快的”的副詞有什么區別：

fast 強調“速度”，例：A car runs faster than a bus.

soon強調“時間”，表示動作完成所花的時間短。

例：I will see you soon.（強調我會在短時間內再見你）

quickly強調“動作”，表示完成某事的動作之快。

例：The cat climbed up the tree quickly.（強調貓爬樹動作敏捷）

2. gone 是“不見了，消失了”的意思。它跟missing/ lost之間的關系總是不明不白，讓人頭疼。

gone 含義最廣，包括“(東西)沒了;(時間)過去了;(人)死了”等，而且語氣肯定，常作表語。

missing強調某物或某人暫時找不著了(含最終可能找到之意)。

lost是廣義的“丟失”，包含可找回和不能找回的意思，可作定語。

我們試著做下題：

在下面空格處從missing / lost / gone中選擇適當的詞填入：

（1）_______ time will never be found again.

（2）Someone reported to the police that a child was _______ .

（3）The old times are _______ forever.

答案：（1）Lost（2）missing/ lost（3）gone

3. used to 后面跟動詞原形，意思是“過去常?！薄?/p>

例：I used to work in a factory. 我以前在一家工廠上班。

be used to 后面如果跟動詞?鄄ing形式，意思是“習慣于”。

例：I hope you will soon get used to living in the new environment. 我希望你能盡快適應新環境。

后面如果跟動詞原形，則表示“被用來做……”

例：The wood is used to make chairs. 這木材是用來做椅子的。

4. 大家肯定都知道April Fool，在這個短語中fool 是個名詞，但是很明顯，fool在文中是個動詞，是“愚弄”的意思。像這樣名詞作動詞用的詞還有很多，大家平常應該注意積累，比如，water， weed作動詞分別是“澆水”和“除草”的意思。

5. make them imitate大家都知道這是make sb. do 的結構。我們把這類詞在這總結一下：

使役動詞：make，have，let，etc.

感官動詞：see，notice，look at，watch，observe; listen to，hear; feel，etc.

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