Once when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book,called True Stories from Nature, about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. Here is a copy of the drawing.
In the book it said:" Boa constrictors swallow their prey whole, without chewing it. After that they are not able to move, and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion."
I pondered deeply, then, over the adventures of the jungle. And after some work with a colored pencil I succeeded in making my first drowing,My Drawing Number One. It looked like this:
I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and asked them whether the drawing frightened them.
But they answered:"Frighten? Why should any one be frightened by a hat?"
My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. But since the grown-ups were not able to understand it, I made another drawing: I drew the inside of the boa constrictor,so that the grown-ups could see it clearly. They always need to have things explained. My Drawing Number Two looked like this:
The grown-ups response,this time, was to adviseme to lay aside my drawing of boa constrictors,whether from the inside or the outside and devote myself instead to geography, history, arithmetic and grammar. That is why, at the age of six, I gave up what might have been a magnificent career as a painter. I had been disheartened by the failure of my Drawing Number One and my Drawing Number Two. Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it si tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.
So then I chose another profession, and learned to pilot airplanes.
I have flown a little over all parts of the world:and it is ture that geography has been very useful to me. At a glance I can distinguish China from Arizona. If one gets lost in the night,such knowledge is valuable.
1 3年前 回答者： zhuyiminzhuy - Q花六级 以前写过这个论文,要不?邮箱给吧
1 3年前 回答者： lvgyp - Q枝四级 The Little Prince – A Tale of Love and Life
Title: The Little Prince
Author: Antoine de St-Exupery
Main Characters: The little prince, the pilot, the rose, the fox, the snake, etc.

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　　今年暑假我在家读了一本非常值得一看的图书——《小王子》，它是由法国的著名作家圣·埃
克苏佩在1949年时写的。它主要讲述的是一个来自外星球的小男孩访问七个星球的所见所闻。在这七个星球上他认识了不同的形形色色的人，他们分别是：自以
为是的国王、时刻需要人恭维的商人、想把天上所有的星星都当做财富占为己有的自私鬼、整天喝酒无所事事的酒鬼、一天到晚只会说熄灯、点灯的报时人还有足不
出户、整天只在纸上谈兵的地理学家，以及在我们地球上遇到的飞行员和一只可爱善良希望被小王子驯养的小狐狸及一条沙漠里的毒蛇。我映象最深的是小狐狸教会
小王子：看事物不能只看表面，一定要用心去体会。当我读到最后一章，小王子为了照顾他的玫瑰花，不惜牺牲生命，心甘情愿被毒蛇咬死回归自己星球的时候，我
心里非常的感动。每当晚上我看到天上有几颗星星时，总觉得有一颗就是小王子，他在向我微笑。我想，我会永远记住那只小狐狸、那朵娇滴滴的玫瑰花还有可爱的
小王子。