5.琥珀

Lesson Five

Amber

1.This story happened a long time ago, which is tens of thousands of years old.

2.One summer day, the sun was shining warmly, the sea was billowing and roaring far away, and the green leaves were whispering in the trees.

3.A small fly spread its tender green wings and flied happily in the sun.

4.It buzzed across the grass and flew into the woods.

5.There were many tall pine trees growing there.The sun shined brightly, and you can smell the fragrance of turpentine.

6.The little fly stopped on a big pine tree.

7.It extended its legs to brush its wings and wiped its round head with red eyes.

8.It has been flying for a long time, and its body was covered with dust.

9.Suddenly, a spider crawled slowly, trying to treat the fly as a good meal.

10.It carefully paddled its long legs and climbed down the trunk, getting closer and closer to the little fly.

11.The afternoon sun was burning the whole forest.

12.Many old pine trees exuded thick turpentine, which glowed golden in the sunlight.

13.Suddenly, a terrible thing happened when the spider jumped at the fly.

14.A big drop of turpentine dripped from the tree and landed on the trunk, wrapping the fly and spider together.

15.The small fly couldn’t brush its wings, and the spider couldn’t think about its delicious food any more.

16.Both bugs were submerged in the yellow tears of the old pine tree.They struggled back and forth and finally stopped moving.

17.The turpentine continued to drip down, covering the original one, and finally accumulated into a turpentine ball, which wrapped two bugs in it.

18.Decades, hundreds, thousands of years have passed quickly.

19.Thousands of flies with green wings and spiders with eight feet come and go.

20.No one would have thought that a long time ago, two bugs were buried in a turpentine ball and hung on an old pine tree.

21.Later, the land gradually sank, and the sea gradually overflowed and approached the ancient forest.

22.One day, water flooded the forest, and waves washed away the trunk, even uprooting the tree.

23.The tree cut off its vitality and slowly rotted, leaving only the turpentine ball submerged under the sediment.

24.After thousands of years passed, the turpentine ball became fossils.

25.The sea breezed blew violently, and the surging waves rolled the sediment in the sea to the shore.

26.A fisherman walked across the beach with his son.

27.The child was barefoot.He stepped on a hard thing in the sand and dug it out.

28.“Dad, look!”

29.He cried happily, “What’s this?”

30.His father took it and looked at it carefully.

31.“This is an amber, son.”

32.He said happily, “There are two small things in it, a fly and a spider.It’s amazing.”

33.In the transparent amber, two little things are still lying well.

34.We can see every hair on them, and we can imagine how they struggled in the thick turpentine, because there were several black rings around their legs.

35.From that piece of amber, we can guess the details of the story that happened tens of thousands of years ago, and we can know that there were already flies and spiders in the world in ancient times.