初级口语教程：三个愿望ThreeWishes（2）

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　 Question on Text B 　　Read the following passage once. Underline the key words while reading and retell the story to your partner.
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　　Now I know why birds sit on telephone lines. They listen.
　　 I am either nine or ten years old. At the orphanage they call me Miguel. 　　 When I want to feel improtant, I say, "Call me Don Miguel. " I used to act important all the time because 1 felt I wasn't.
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　　 Back then, no one liked me very much because I didn't like other peo
- e- Y! ^% B, e1 V　　 But last year, I began to learn two important things: I was learning to see, not just look. And I was learning to listen, not just hear.
5 x' @# ^1 {8 V8 p0 P) v! U　　 I used to lie in the dark and make up relatives that I didn't have. My favorite relative was a nice old man who spoke Spanish, like me.
8 ?/ D- z& `+ r3 h  z5 m# h- F　　 One day a man came to see me. He said he was my uncle. "I don't have an uncle," I said.
" S1 n- ]/ R, V) @　　 "Now you do , " he said.
　　 He was an old man who liked children. He had a boy once who went to Korea. His daughter moved to the City. He said the City can be a difficult place in which to live. He taught me how to see and listen. I don't know if he is my uncle or not; neither did he, but he came to see me often. I guess if you act like an uncle all the time, you are one.
6 [4 u& Y- Z& B2 O. p　　 I was not a good student before my uncle came along. He took me walking in the fields. At one point he spread his arms and said. "It is all here. "
& F) }/ J- R9 T: Z4 ~" I0 r　　 "What?" I said. 　　 "Everything you need to know," he replied.

　　 At first it appeared to be nothing more than just a few trees. I thought I was nowhere. Then he had me close n-.y eyes. First I heard the breeze in the grass, then in the trees. I also heard a faraway train and a barking dog. For a while I heard nothing. I was almost scared. He said to listen harder.
3 m) P, i' ^& I/ `2 s- @　　 I heard my heart beat.
4 D; Q' H, I5 {: k　　 beause I used to be so sad, I had almost forgotten that I had a heart.
3 \5 H* ?6 b9 N; v　　 Once I asked him who he was.
　　 "An experiment , " he said.
1 |  X; u; x- n* I/ @　　 "What kind of an experiment?" I said. 　　 He grinned and said, "Nobody knows. Like you, there is no one in the world like me. So who is to say what I will be. "
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　　 One day in the field he showed me the way the breeze made the trees move. The rustling of the leaves made a sound that frightened a nearby bird. It flew away.
　　 We watched the bird drop an acorn. 　　 "The bird , " he said , "cari make a seed move. From that seed the oak can grow fifty feet tall. It will be a friend to those who want one. "

, ^/ R, I8 K( k  D　　 I always knew that trees were there, but I never knew they were real like me.
　　 One Sunday I was angry. When my uncle came , I said : "I don't have anything. I wish I had something. "
& |$ r; t. R' }$ X. O8 S$ y　　 "You have everything worth having," he said. "And I will give you even more. I will give some secrets of the Universe. Do you believe me?" 　　 "Yes," I said, wanting to believe him.