Plugging One's Ears While Stealing a Bell

Once a thief found the bell on his neighbor’s door so beautiful that hewanted to steal it. And淤as soon as he touched the bell， it made a very loudnoise.

Then he said to himself， “I must do something about noise于.”He thoughthard and at last he had an idea. “Ah， I’ll put some cotton in my ears. Then thenoise can’t be heard any more.”Then he did so and pulled the bell hard. Thebell rang loudly but the thief did not hear something盂. With another hard pull hegot the bell off. Just then the neighbors came out and caught him.

The thief thought as long as he himself couldn’t hear the noise， neithercould others. What榆foolish the thief was！

河北省阜城县第四中学 季慧波

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张超 男，河北省衡水市阜城县第四中学高级英语教师、县骨干教师、市优秀英语教师，从事英语教育教学工作30 多年；多年来，在省级以上报刊发表文章数百篇，并有多篇文章获奖；曾参与多本教辅资料的编写工作；曾荣获“中央教育科学研究所全国基础教育科研先进个人”荣誉称号；曾多次辅导多名学生在市、省和国家级英语竞赛中获奖。（剩余286字）