墙上的照片
The photo on the wall
Name: ________________ Date: ________
一个星期以后，有一天晚上饭馆里人很少。小李吃完面，没有马上走。他看见墙上有一张照片。
照片上是一个年轻人，坐在饭馆门口，手里拿着一碗面，笑得很开心。
“这是谁？”小李问。
“我孙子。”刘奶奶走过来，坐在他对面，“他在外国读书，三年没回来了。”
她看着照片说：“他小时候最爱吃鸡蛋。每次吃面，都先把鸡蛋吃了，再慢慢吃面。”
小李看看自己的碗。碗里的面还有一半，鸡蛋已经没有了。
“你第一天来，我就看见了。”刘奶奶笑了，“你吃面跟他一样。”
小李不知道说什么好。过了一会儿，他问：“奶奶，您常给他打电话吗？”
“打。他忙，我也忙，一次说两句就完了。”
那天晚上，小李回到房间，给自己的妈妈打了一个电话。他们说了很长时间，从工作说到天气，从天气说到家里的小狗。
最后，妈妈问：“你天天吃得好不好？”
小李说：“很好。楼下有个奶奶，天天都给我多放一个鸡蛋。”
Key words
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 饭馆 | fànguǎn | restaurant; eatery |
| 面 | miàn | noodles; flour |
| 走 | zǒu | to go; to leave |
| 门口 | ménkǒu | doorway; entrance; gate |
| 拿 | ná | to take; to hold; to carry |
| 笑 | xiào | to laugh; to smile |
| 外国 | wàiguó | foreign country; foreign |
| 回来 | huílái | to come back; to return |
| 小时候 | xiǎoshíhou | in one's childhood; when one was little |
| 一会儿 | yíhuìr | a moment; a while |
| 奶奶 | nǎinai | grandmother (father's mother); grandma |
| 长 | cháng | long; length |
English (for the teacher)
A week later, there were very few people in the restaurant one evening. Xiao Li finished his noodles but didn’t leave straight away. He saw a photo on the wall.
In the photo was a young man sitting in the restaurant doorway with a bowl of noodles in his hands, smiling happily.
“Who’s this?” Xiao Li asked.
“My grandson.” Grandma Liu came over and sat down across from him. “He’s studying abroad; he hasn’t been back for three years.”
Looking at the photo, she said: “When he was little, he loved eggs most of all. Every time he had noodles, he’d eat the egg first, then take his time with the noodles.”
Xiao Li looked at his own bowl. Half the noodles were still there, but the egg was already gone.
“I saw it the first day you came in.” Grandma Liu laughed. “You eat noodles just like him.”
Xiao Li didn’t know what to say. After a while, he asked: “Grandma, do you call him often?”
“I do. He’s busy, I’m busy; we say a couple of things and that’s it.”
That evening, Xiao Li went back to his room and called his own mum. They talked for a long time, from work to the weather, and from the weather to the little dog at home.
At the end, his mum asked: “Are you eating well every day?”
Xiao Li said: “Very well. There’s a grandma downstairs who gives me an extra egg every day.”