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如果你家的宠物狗突然变成了机器狗,你会有怎样的感受？
One day Andrew and his dog Rocky went for a walk. They walked and walked. After a little while, they walked past a big tree.
Poof! Rocky was a robot dog.
"Woof, woof," barked Rocky the robot dog.
"What is going on?" asked Andrew. "Who turned my dog into a robot dog?"
Andrew looked all around him. He looked up the street. He looked down the street. He looked behind the tree. He looked up into the tree. No one was there. He stopped and stood still.
"Hee, hee, hee," he heard. It came from the tree.
"Woof, woof," barked Rocky the robot dog at the tree.
Andrew looked at the tree. He could not see anything different about this tree. He could not think of what to do.
"Tree, are you a real tree?" asked Andrew. The tree did not say anything.
Rocky the robot dog came over and smelled the tree.
"Woof, woof," he barked at it again.
Andrew was mad. He did not like it that Rocky was a robot dog. Andrew walked over to the tree and tickled it.
"Stop that," said the tree. "Why did you tickle me?"
"I think you turned my dog into a robot dog," said Andrew.
"Maybe I did, and maybe I didn't," said the tree who was holding his branches in front of himself so Andrew could not tickle him again. "It is kind of funny to see a dog become a robot."
Andrew got really mad this time and went up to the tree. He pushed away the tree's branches and tickled him some more.
"Oh, stop, stop," said the tree. "I don't want to be tickled any more."
"I still think you turned Rocky into a robot dog," said Andrew who was about to tickle the tree again.
"Okay, okay," said the tree. "I turned your dog into a robot dog. Just don't tickle me any more."
"Well, I don't think it is funny," said Andrew. "Now turn Rocky the robot dog back into Rocky the real dog."
"Okay," said the tree.
Poof! Rocky was Rocky the real dog again.
"Now don't do that any more," said Andrew. "Someone might get mad and tickle you again. You would not like that."
"Okay, I won't turn dogs into robot dogs any more," said the tree.
Andrew and Rocky walked home. The tree never turned any more dogs into robots, but every now and then, Andrew would see a robot butterfly go flying past his home.
WORD BOX ＞＞
| still | [stɪl] | adj. 不动的,静止的 | tickle | ['tɪkl] | vt. (使)发痒 |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| branch | [brɑːntʃ] | n. 树枝 | every now and then = now and then 有时 | | |
COMPREHENSION CHECK UP ＞＞
Answer the following questions.
1. Who turned Rocky into a robot dog?
The tree.
2. Do you like a real dog or a robot dog? Why or why not?
I like a real dog. Because a real dog can give me true love and companionship, while a robot dog is just a machine without real feelings. (或其他合理答案，如：I like a robot dog. Because it may not get sick and is easy to take care of.)
