(单词翻译:单击)
The Report
小组报告
Lee sat among the books at the library and thought about his group project.
李坐在图书馆的书堆里，想着他的小组作业。
They had to turn it in soon, but he hadn't even started his part!
他们必须很快交上去，但他的那部分甚至还没有开始!
Jack and Claire were in his group.
杰克和克莱尔在他的小组里。
They had worked hard.
他们很努力地完成了。
They were also very smart, and Lee didn't want them to get a bad grade.
他们也很聪明，李不希望他们得不好的成绩。
Jack did the report.
杰克做了这份报告。
He wrote a lot of very good sentences and described things clearly and carefully.
他写了很多优美的句子，描述的事物清晰而仔细。
Claire drew a nice map of the stars.
克莱尔画了一幅漂亮的星图。
Now, Lee needed to do his part of the project.
现在，李需要做他该做的部分。
"Well,I suppose I need to start my model,"Lee thought.
“好吧，我想我需要开始做我的模型了，”李想。
Making a model of a planet was really hard.
制作一个行星模型是非常困难的。
Lee tried to read several books, but he couldn't understand any of the charts.
李试着读了几本书，但他一个图表也看不懂。
"We're going to fail because of me!" Lee said.
“因为我，我们小组要失败了!”李说。
He put his head down on the table and said,"I wish I could see a planet and an alien, instead of having to read about it!"
他把头埋在桌子上说:“我希望我能看到一个行星和一个外星人，而不是读到它!”
Suddenly, he had a great idea that would help him solve his problem.
突然，他想到了一个可以帮助他解决问题的好主意。
Why not go on the web and look for photographs of the Earth and other planets taken from space.
为什么不上网寻找从太空拍摄的地球和其他行星的照片呢?
They would give him a really good view of the planets they had to talk about in their report.
它们会让他对报告中谈到的行星有一个很好的了解。
Instead of a bad grade, his group would have the best project ever.
他的小组将做出有史以来最好的项目，而不会得一个糟糕的成绩。
The photos of Earth showed lots of clouds, but you could still see the shapes of land and seas on Earth.
地球的照片上有很多云，但你仍然可以看到地球上陆地和海洋的形状。
He also looked at photos of Mars.
他还看了火星的照片。
Lee now had plenty of ideas for making a model of the planet Mars.
李现在有了很多制作火星模型的想法。
All he had to do was to turn his ideas into a model.
他所要做的就是把他的想法变成一个模型。
He used a small ball to help him make the shape he wanted and then painted it to look like the photos of Mars that he had seen.
他用一个小球做出想要的形状，然后把它涂成他所见过的火星照片的样子。
Sometimes seeing is much more helpful than just reading!
有时候，观察比阅读更有用!
