黑布林英语阅读初二年级《杰克的威士本游园会》阅读
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篇1
Jack's Wisborough Green Fair
It was the first nice Saturday of spring, and I was super pumped to go to the Wisborough Green Fair with my best mate Jack. The fair is an annual tradition in our little village, celebrating the arrival of warmer weather and longer days. Even though I've been going every year since I was a little kid, I always get dead excited for all the fun activities, games, food, and just the whole atmosphere of it.sort of club
Jack and I met up at 10 am, as soon as the fair opened its gates. The village green was already teeming with people setting up stalls and rides. The unmistakable scent of hot dogs, toffee apples, and funnel cakes wafted through the air, making my mouth water. We grabbed a couple of bacon butties from one of the food trucks to start our day.
"So what d'you want to do first?" Jack asked, bits of bread crumb stuck to the corners of his mouth.
I thought for a moment, surveying all the choices. "How about the Tilt-a-Whirl? I want to get a good spin in before my stomach gets too full."
The Tilt-a-Whirl is this classic fairground ride that whips you around at crazy speeds while spinning you every which way. Just describing it makes me feel a bit queasy, but in the best possible way. We queued up and I enjoyed watching the previous riders' faces get whipped into a frenzy of delirious joy and terror.
When it was our turn, Jack and I hopped into one of the free carriage pods. The ride operator pulled down the safety bar across our laps and shouted, "Hold on tight, lads! It's about to get wild!"
Those words were the only warning we got before the ride kicked into high gear. My head whipped back as we started spinning at an increasingly manic pace. Every few secon
ds, the whole platform would tilt, adding a sickening lateral lurch to the dizzying revolutions. I couldn't help but laugh like a loon, even as I felt my insides doing somersaults. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see Jack's Yorkshire pudding face turning a slight shade of green.
After what felt like an eternity of delightful torture, the ride began to slow to a stop. Jack and I stumbled off, our legs reminding us how to walk in a straight line. Jack put a hand over his mouth, looking rather ill.
"You alright, mate?" I laughed, giving him a friendly punch on the arm.
He swallowed hard. " Just need a mo'."
Once Jack recovered his land legs, we wandered around the fairgrounds, taking in all the sights and sounds. We watched a bloke示onchenCorvette smash an old caravan to bits with a sledgehammer. Some other chaps were seeing who could hang on longest to the body of a wildly spinning metal cyclone. I opted to sit that one out after my Tilt-a-Whirl experience.
A gang of my mates from school were all hovering around the game stalls, no doubt frittering away all their quid trying to win cheap stuffed animals for their girlfriends. I caught sight of my friend Sean walking away from the basketball hoop game, arm around his girl Lucy, carrying a massive stuffed unicorn nearly as big as she was. Talk about whipped!
"Hey Sean! You finally growing a pair there, mate?" I hollered, causing Lucy to turn beet red.
Sean just grinned and gave me a two-finger salute. Typical.
Around midday, Jack and I started getting peckish again. We scored a couple of Yorkshire pudding wraps from the food area - mine was filled with roast beef, mash, and gravy while Jack went for the veggie option with mushy peas and mint sauce. We sat on one of the picnic tables, shoveling the hot, doughy parcels into our mouths and watching the scene unfold around us.
After refueling, we decided to hit up some of the carnival games. Jack was a crack shot
with the BB guns and won himself a foot-tall teddy bear after popping every single balloon. I was less successful at the high striker, failing to ring the bell at the top despite putting my entire skinny weight into each swing of the mallet.
As the afternoon rolled on, we wandered through the craft tents, browsing the local wares for sale. Jack's mum is really into knitting and crochet, so he picked up a hand-crafted set of coasters for her. I grabbed a jar of homemade lemon curd for my nan - she loves that sort of thing.
Eventually, our feet were sore and our bellies full, so we grabbed a spot on the village green to rest up and watch the evening entertainment get started. Local bands played folk tunes and Brit-pop covers while kids ran around tussling with glowsticks and noisemakers.
As the sun began to sink below the tree line, I felt a slight chill in
篇2
Jack's Wimbledon Adventure
Wow, what a crazy experience I just had! You'll never believe where I ended up last weekend. It all started when my parents surprised me with tickets to the Wimbledon tennis championships. I was over the moon excited since Wimbledon is one of the biggest and most prestigious tennis tournaments in the world.
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