初级1-美女与野兽Chapter 01

                                                    Beauty and the Beast

Chapter One: Beauty’s Family

A rich man lives in a big city near thesea. He has got three daughters and three sons.

One daughter is called 'Beauty' because she is verybeautiful. The othertwo daughters are called Rosalind and Hortensia. They are lazy and unfriendly. They likegoing out and having fun. They both want to find a rich husband. They do not like Beauty because she is beautiful.

Beauty has got long red hair. She is kind and friendly. She likes staying at home andreading books. She also likes playing the piano.

Beauty's father is a merchant. One day he loses all his money because his ship is lost at sea.

'My dear children,' he says sadly, 'Ihaven't got much money. We're poor. We must leavethis big house and go and livein the country.'

'Oh, dear!' say the two sisters. 'We're poor — this is terrible!'

'What bad luck!' say the three brothers.

'We have to work now,' says Beauty's father.

'Work?' say the two sisters. 'No, we don'twant to work! And we don't want to live in the country.' They start to cry.

Beauty is sad but she says, 'Let's not cry!We can work and be happy without money.'

The family goes to the country and lives in a small house.Beauty gets up at four o'clock every morning to clean the house and cook. Thenshe washes thefamily's clothes in the river. The three brothers work in the country.

Rosalind and Hortensia do not work. They donothing all day.They sleep all morning and walk in the woods in the afternoon.

'I'm unhappy,' says Rosalind. 'I don't likethe country because there's nothingto do.'

'We can't go to the theatre and wear nice clothes,' says Hortensia. 'And wehaven't got any friends.'

'Look at Beauty,' says Rosalind angrily 2.'She works and she's happy in this terrible place.'

Beauty's father says, 'Dear Beauty, youwork a lot and you're alwayshappy. You're a wonderfuldaughter.