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词汇提示

1.prehistoric 史前的

2.buzzed 发出嗡嗡声

3.whirred 发出呼呼声

4.spun/spinning 旋转

5.thick 浓密的

6.rustling 发出沙沙声

7.beak 鸟喙

8.ferns 蕨类植物

9.grunted 咕哝着

10.thumps 重击

11.dial 表盘

原文

Pretending

I like to pretend.

I like to make up things that aren't real.

I use my imagination.

I was pretending that I was in a time machine.

I set the date for a prehistoric time.

I turned on the time machine，and it buzzed and whirred and spun madly.

When it stopped spinning，I opened the door and stepped out into a very thick jungle.

I listened careful to the sound of the jungle.

I could hear strange animal noises，and the leaves were rustling.

I wasn't sure that I had gone back in time or had just landed in a jungle somewhere in the twenty first century.

It didn't take me long time to realize that I had indeed gone back in time.

A very strange bird-like creature with a large beak flew overhead.

I had never seen anything like it in my life.

I took a few steps out into the long grass and ferns.

I didn't want to go too far away from my time machine.

I heard a noise over on my right side.

There was a man who looked quite different from me.

He was dressed in an animal skin，and he carried a big stick.

I didn't want him to see me，so I hid behind a tree.

He didn't speak any language that I could understand.

He grunted at someone who must have been in the distance.

Then，I felt the earth shake beneath my feet.

I heard giant thumps on the ground as the floor of the jungle shook.

The man in the animal skin began to run.

I saw why he was running.

A giant dinosaur appeared above the top of the trees.

It was bigger than anything I had ever seen.

My heart began to pound in my chest.

It was coming toward me.

I ran toward my time machine and jumped in.

I set the dial for the twenty-first century.

The machine whirred and buzzed.

My time machine landed in the twenty-first century.

I got away just in time.