Boy asks town to lift snowball fight ban 9歲男孩推翻“禁雪令”

周艷霞

雪花常常能勾起許多人未泯的童心，好像只有玩了雪才像是完整地過了冬天，但是在美國的一個小鎮(zhèn)上，打雪仗竟然是違法行為。鎮(zhèn)上有位小男孩不樂意了，用行動推翻了“禁雪令”。

[聽力掃障]

1.go sledding ?滑雪橇;玩雪橇

2.missile n. 導(dǎo)彈;發(fā)射物;投擲物

3.mission n. 使命;天職

4.overturn v. 傾覆;推翻

5.outdated adj. 過時的

6.define v. 界定;明確

[掃碼聽測]

Ⅰ.聽力理解

1.How much snowfall does the town Severance get a year？

A.About 100 centimeters.

B.About 200 centimeters.

C.About 300 centimeters.

2. Who is Kyle Rietkerk？

A.Danes mother.

B.A worker in Severance.

C.One of Danes classmates.

3.What does Dane Best think about the law

against snowball fights？

A.Unbearable.

B.Reasonable.

C.Outdated.

4.Who did Dane Best turn to for help to overturn the ban？

A.His parents.

B.A newspaper.

C.His classmates.

5.Which is the result of Danes efforts to overturn the ban？

A.Creative.

B.Successful.

C.Ineffective.

Ⅱ.聽寫練習(xí)

The town of Severance has considered snowball fights to be 1. for about 100 years. It deprives children of fun. Dane Best was a boy at the age of 2. . Thinking that the law was out of date， the boy wrote letters with his 3. ?in support of overturning the ban. He also made a speech about the issue at a Severance town 4. . Luckily，he persuaded the leaders of the town and the ban was 5. .

[文本解說]

對孩子們而言，玩雪是冬天的最大樂趣。有雪卻不能玩是不是令人匪夷所思呢？但美國的Severance小鎮(zhèn)卻禁止人們打雪仗長達100年。為此，9歲的小男孩 Dane聯(lián)合了自己的同學(xué)，一起推翻了這一禁令，從而重獲了玩雪的樂趣。

Cold， snowy weather has arrived in many places. That means young people are enjoying building snowmen， going sledding and having snowball fights. But in one small American city， snowball fights are illegal.

Welcome to Severance， Colorado. The town， north of Denver， gets about 100 centimeters of snowfall a year. For almost 100 years， city rules have said it is illegal to throw or shoot stones or missiles at people， animals， buildings， trees， property or vehicles. Snowballs were considered to be part of the towns definition of “missiles”.

Kyle Rietkerk works for the town of Severance. He said children cannot believe that it is illegal to have snowball fights in their hometown. He said town leaders have for years told the children“You have the power， you can change the law.” But no one had tried—until now.

Nine?year?old Dane Best lives in Severance with his parents and little brother. He has made it his mission to get the snowball?fight ban overturned. Dane says he believes the law is “outdated”.

“I want to be able to throw a snowball without getting in trouble，” he said.

Danes mother， Brooke Best， told the Greeley Tribune newspaper that her son found out it was illegal to throw snowballs within town limits about a month and a half ago. Since then， he has been talking about how to change that. Dane wrote letters with his classmates in support of overturning the ban. And on Monday， he spoke about the issue at a Severance town meeting. Leaders listened as Dane presented his arguments. Then， they all voted to lift the ban. Dane says the first person he hopes to hit with a snowball is his four?year?old brother.

Dane and his family have researched other Severance rules， including one that defines pets only as cats and dogs. Dane has a guinea pig， which appears to be illegal in Severance， too.

[Language][Study]

寫作推薦

“make it + n. + to do...”使……成為……

He has made it his mission to get the snowball?fight ban overturned.他把推翻打雪仗的禁令當(dāng)作了他的使命。

句中的it為形式賓語，實際賓語為名詞后的動詞不定式。

【仿寫】他把幫助別人當(dāng)作自己的義務(wù)。