读前想一想
1. Do you remember Baby Becky?
2. Do you like to be a baby? Why?
3. Do you want to have a little brother or sister? Why or why not?
Baby Becky
Hello again! My name is Baby Becky. I can talk. I say “waaaaa”.

Today is June the twenty - first. It’s the first day of summer!
I want to go to the beach! I want to play in the sand! I want to swim in the ocean!
My mother says, “Oh, Baby Becky! Do you want to go swimming?” She puts water in the bathtub. She puts toys in the bathtub. Then she puts me in the bathtub. “Look!” she says. “It’s a little swimming pool! Isn’t that fun?”
This isn’t fun! This isn’t a swimming pool! This isn’t the ocean! This is a bathtub. I say, “WAAAAA!”

“Poor Baby Becky! You are too small to swim in a real swimming pool. Next summer, you will be bigger. Next summer, we will go swimming in the ocean.”
I don’t want to swim next summer! I want to swim now!
“Let’s go to the park,” says my mother. “We will look at the flowers. We will look at the leaves on the trees. We will play on the grass.”
We go to the park. I play on the grass. I look at the leaves and flowers. The flowers are red. They look like strawberries. The leaves are green. They look like cabbage. I love strawberries and cabbage! I eat a flower and a leaf.

“Oh, Baby Becky!” says my mother. “Next summer, you will be bigger. Next summer, you will not eat the flowers and leaves!”

I see some children skipping. I will skip, too!
Now I have a skipping rope, but the children stop skipping.

My mother says, “No, no, Baby Becky! You are too small to skip. Next summer, you will be bigger. Next summer, we will skip.”
I like next summer better than this summer.
读后做一做
Tick or cross. 判断对(√)错(×)。
( ) 1. Baby Becky wants to go to the ocean.
( ) 2. Baby Becky likes to swim in the bathtub.
( ) 3. Baby Becky loves to eat flowers and leaves.
( ) 4. Baby Becky can skip well.
( ) 5. Baby Becky likes next summer because she can do many things next summer.

1. Yes, I remember Baby Becky.
2. No, I don't like to be a baby. Because babies need others to take care of them all the time and can't do many things by themselves.
3. Yes, I want to have a little brother or sister. Because I think it will be fun to play with him or her and we can share many things together.
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1. 根据原文“I want to swim in the ocean!”可知Baby Becky想去海洋，故1题√。
2. 原文提到“This isn’t fun! This isn’t a swimming pool! This isn’t the ocean! This is a bathtub.”，说明她不喜欢在浴缸游泳，故2题×。
3. 文中“I love strawberries and cabbage! I eat a flower and a leaf.”表明她吃花叶是因为它们像草莓和卷心菜，并非喜欢吃花叶本身，故3题×。
4. 由“You are too small to skip.”可知她不会跳绳，故4题×。
5. 妈妈说“Next summer, you will be bigger. Next summer, we will go swimming in the ocean.”“Next summer, we will skip.”等，Baby Becky因此喜欢明年夏天，因为能做很多事，故5题√。