食物是給好衣服的

　　Mr Smith goes to a dinner party. He is wearing old clothes. He comes into the room, but people in the room don’t look at him. They don’t ask him to sit at the table.

　　史密斯先生參加一個(gè)晚宴。他穿著舊衣服進(jìn)入了宴會廳。但是屋里的人們都不看他，也不請他坐在桌子旁。

　　Mr Smith goes home and puts on his good clothes. He goes back to the party. Everyone in the room stands up and smiles at him. They give him very good food to eat.

　　史密斯先生回到家穿上了他漂亮的衣服，他返回宴會。屋里面的每個(gè)人都站起來向他微笑。他們給他非常好的食物享用。

　　Mr Smith takes off his coat, and puts it among the food and says, “Eat, coat!”

　　史密斯先生脫下他的衣服，把它放在食物中說道：“吃吧，衣服!”

　　The other people asked: “What are you doing?”

　　其他人問道：“你在做什么?”

　　He answers: “I’m asking my coat to eat food. When I am wearing my old clothes, you don’t look at me. You don’t ask me to sit down. Now I’m in these clothes, and you give me very good food. Now I see, you give the food for my clothes not for me.”

　　他回答說：“我在請我的衣服吃東西。當(dāng)我穿舊衣服時(shí)，你們都不看我，也沒有請我坐下�，F(xiàn)在我穿上了這些衣服，你們就給了我精美的食物。我明白了，你們是把食物給我的衣服吃而不是我�！�

　　單詞小覽

　　dinner part 晚宴

　　put on 穿上

　　take off 脫下

　　根據(jù)短文回答下面的問題。

　　1. At first, why people in the room don’t ask Mr Smith to sit down?

　　2. What does Mr Smith do when he gets good food?

　　3. Why does Mr Smith give food to his clothes?

　　4. What does the story tell us?

　　參考答案：

　　1. Because he is wearing old clothes.

　　2. He takes off his coat and gives the food to it.

　　3. Because he thinks that they only give food to his good clothes.

　　4. It tells us not to look at a man by his clothes.