五个名字
Five names in the snow
Name: ________________ Date: ________
晚上七点，外面下着大雪。大家拿着手电，在小区里找豆腐。
赵老师叫：“豆腐！”
阿亮叫：“老板！”
钱阿姨叫：“宝贝！”
阳阳叫：“同事！”
爷爷叫：“警犬！”
一个送外卖的人停下车，看着他们：“你们丢了五只猫？”
大家都不叫了。钱阿姨看看阿亮，阿亮看看阳阳，阳阳看看爷爷。
赵老师慢慢地说：“你们……都喂它了？”
没有人说话。
过了一会儿，赵老师笑了：“所以它才那么胖！”大家也都笑了。
阿亮说：“我还以为，就我一个人喂它。”钱阿姨和阳阳一起说：“我也是！”爷爷看着天上的雪，什么也没说。
就在这时候，风里好像有一个很小很小的声音。“喵……”
大家马上不笑了。可是风一吹，就什么也听不见了。
乐乐站在路灯下，打开本子，一页一页地看。过了很久，她抬起头：“我知道豆腐在哪儿了。”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 外面 | wàimiàn | outside; out |
| 拿 | ná | to take; to hold; to carry |
| 一会儿 | yíhuìr | a moment; a while |
| 笑 | xiào | to laugh; to smile |
| 一起 | yìqǐ | together |
| 站 | zhàn | station; stop |
| 打开 | dǎkāi | to open |
| 本子 | běnzi | book; edition |
| 头 | tóu | head |
| 小区 | xiǎoqū | residential compound; housing estate |
| 阿姨 | āyí | aunt (term of address for a woman of one's mother's generation) |
| 同事 | tóngshì | colleague; coworker |
English (for the teacher)
At seven that evening, heavy snow was falling. Everyone took a torch and searched the compound for Tofu.
Teacher Zhao called, “Tofu!”
A-Liang called, “Boss!”
Auntie Qian called, “Sweetie!”
Yangyang called, “Colleague!”
Grandpa called, “Police Dog!”
A delivery rider stopped and stared at them. “You’ve lost five cats?”
Everyone stopped calling. Auntie Qian looked at A-Liang, A-Liang looked at Yangyang, and Yangyang looked at Grandpa.
Teacher Zhao said slowly, “Have you all… been feeding it?”
Nobody said a word.
After a while, Teacher Zhao laughed. “So that’s why it’s so fat!” Everyone else laughed too.
A-Liang said, “I thought I was the only one feeding it.” Auntie Qian and Yangyang said together, “So did I!” Grandpa looked up at the falling snow and said nothing at all.
Just then, there seemed to be a tiny, tiny sound on the wind. “Meow…”
At once, everyone stopped laughing. But the wind blew, and they couldn’t hear a thing.
Lele stood under a street lamp, opened her notebook and read it page by page. After a long time, she looked up. “I know where Tofu is.”