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一、INTRODUCTION选文简介: Catching Monkeys(抓猴)一节选自美国作家威尔逊·罗尔斯(Wilson Rawls)的小说《猴子的夏天》(Summer of the Monkeys)。故事发生在19世纪末美国俄克拉荷马的一块新开垦的处女地上。小说的主人公——杰伊·贝里(Jay Berry)和他的父母、妹妹就生活在这片山清水秀的恬静之中。一天,杰伊带着他那忠实的朋友——大狗Rawdy去河谷找牛,突然发现一棵大树上坐满了猴子,而这一地区从来没发现过猴子。原来,这群猴子是从一个马戏团跑出来的,如果谁抓住它们,就会得到一大笔钱。杰伊非常想买一匹马和一支手枪,他决心抓住这些猴子。但对14岁的杰伊来说,想抓住那些经过千百次训练的猴子谈何容易。那无数次使杰伊大伤脑筋、哭
I. Introduction to INTRODUCTION: The Catching Monkeys section was selected from the novel by the American writer Wilson Rawls (Summer of the Monkeys). The story took place on a newly opened virgin land in Oklahoma City in the late 19th century. The hero of the novel, Jay Berry, and his parents and younger sister live in this quiet and beautiful landscape. One day, Jay took his faithful friend, Big Dog Rawdy, to go to the river to find a cow. Suddenly he found a big tree full of monkeys, and the area had never seen a monkey. It turned out that the monkeys ran from a circus and if they caught them, they would get a lot of money. Jay was eager to buy a horse and a pistol. He was determined to seize the monkeys. But for 14-year-old Jay, it’s easy to grasp the monkeys who have trained hundreds of times. Numerous times, Jay was so bitter and cried