典范英语8 Scrapman and the incredible flying machine.docVIP

Chapter 1 Scrapman was a ______ man. He lived with Winston who owned a scrap-yard. Scrapman was made out of odds and ends that Winston had saved from old broken machines. His brain was made from a ______ ______ that someone had thrown away because it was always going wrong. Winston was working late. So late,that he was having his supper heated over a gas ring in the shed. Scrapman was opening a tin of ______ beans for him. At least he thought it was a tin of baked beans. ‘Volly od beans,’ said Scrapman. ‘I can’t eat that,’ said Winston, in a tired kind of voice. ‘Can’t you read what it says on the label?’ Scrapman ______ ______ ______. He wasn’t very good at reading. He could read his name and a few really easy words but he couldn’t read what it said on the cat food tin. Scrapcat was watching from under the workbench. He didn’t eat cat food either because he was a mechanical cat and he ______ ______ ______ , not cat food. Scrapman went and sat in the corner. He felt very sad. He wished he could read like Emma. Emma was his special friend. She was teaching him to talk like ______ ______ ______. She had a picture book with wonderful stories in it about robots. These were mechanical men like him but they could do amazing things. They could drive rockets and walk on the moon and save people from fires and floods and ______. Scrapman loved looking at the pictures, but he had to wait until Emma came round to find out what the stories were about. Scrapcat saw that Scrapman was sad, so he went and sat beside him. Winston opened a ______ tin of beans and he put the tin of cat food in looking, Scrapman took it out. He’d bought it ______ ______ ______ ______ Patch. Patch was Emma’s cat. He liked to come and play with Scrapcat while Emma was at school. He’d climb in though the window when Winston and Scrapman were busy. Then he’d show Scrapcat how to do useful cat things,like chasing pieces of ______ and hiding things under the workbench. Now, you may be wondering