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  • "Zoog, hurry!"

  • yelled Zoog's dad.

  • "Your grandmother is sick.

  • She has a fever and purple spots.

  • Take your pogo stick and fetch Doctor P721."

  • The obedient Zoog bounced off to the doctor's house as fast as his pogo stick would carry

  • him.

  • The doctor and his four assistants came and carried Zoog's fragile grandmother away on

  • a special bed to make her better.

  • Fortunately, people always got better on planet Sin Rota, where illness rarely lasted more

  • than 15 hours.

  • Zoog was tired.

  • Earlier, he'd taken his pogo stick and hopped to school and back, a distance of 5.36 kilometers

  • each way.

  • He went up to his bedroom and looked through the brand-new telescope he'd received for

  • his birthday the previous week.

  • Zoog's life was tedious.

  • His planet had no books, no clocks, no computers, and no TV.

  • Far away in another settlement, Zoog had cousins, but there was no mail, so he couldn't communicate

  • with them.

  • Although he longed for a more exciting life, he felt fortunate that

  • he had good friends and no serious problems.

  • It was dark 17.7 hours a day on SinRota.

  • Zoog searched the night sky.

  • He was determined to find the magical planet he'd seen many nights in a row.

  • Suddenly, there it was!

  • The blue planet!

  • Zoog gazed at it.

  • The picture was blurry, but he could se areas of water, distant mountains, and patches of

  • bright light.

  • "Who lives there," " he wondered, "and what do they do?"

  • If he looked hard at one spot for a long time, he occasionally glimpsed small figures with

  • strange, circular objects propelling them along.

  • Not only did Zoog have to go to school on a pogo stick, but it was also his job to do

  • the shopping for his parents every evening.

  • This meant dragging a heavy sled behind him to and from the store.

  • At the store, he stacked up delicious orange munchballs and green yumsters

  • on the sled and pulled it home before darkness fell.

  • Everything he bought was grown in his settlement because it was too risky to bring food from

  • other parts of Planet SinRota.

  • Nobody could drag sleds further than a few kilometers, and the food would be spoiled

  • long before it could reach another settlement.

  • Even the animoogs couldn't drag sleds very far, so it was foolish to attempt long journeys.

  • Zoog had never left the area he lived in: 5.36 kilometers was his limit, but he was

  • courageous, and dreamed of exploring further.

  • Zoog looked through his telescope again.

  • He adjusted it slightly, and he was fascinated to see activity on the blue planet.

  • The blurry figures he'd seen before suddenly came into sharp focus!

  • There were figures driving around in vehicles of all shapes, sizes, and colors.

  • There were figures riding bicycles.

  • There were huge airplanes zooming fast up runways and flying into the air.

  • It was thrilling!

  • He also saw figures sitting on buses and trains, moving fast from one city to another.

  • In a park, he could see small figures, children, playing on skateboards and in-line skates.

  • They were leaping through the air.

  • It looked incredibly daring.

  • It was then that he had his big idea.

  • "I know what I'm going to do!" said Zoog.

  • He began to draw pictures of everything he could see, these wonderful machines with circles

  • that made them move!

  • Trains, planes, bicycles, skateboards, cars, buses, wheelchairs, ambulances, taxis, carts,

  • wheelbarrows, motorcycles, trucks, roller coasters, Ferris wheels, helicopters, strollers,

  • windmills ... Zoog drew all night long.

  • In the morning, Zoog ran downstairs and showed his parents the pictures.

  • And in just a few short days, the history of SinRota changed completely and forever.

  • Thanks to Zoog and his telescope, planet SinRota now has wheels!

  • Things will never be the same again.

"Zoog, hurry!"

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Planet SinRota(Oxford Discover 5 Unit 6)

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    Ben 發佈於 2023 年 11 月 05 日
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