汤姆.索亚历险记(纯英文)/床头灯英语.3000词读物

　　《床头灯英语·3000词读物（纯英文）：汤姆·索亚历险记》：　　"Yes."　　"I'll buy it from you."　　"How much will you pay?"　　Billy accepted Tom's offer and gave him the ticket. And for the next ten minutes Tom bought more and more tickets， some blue， some red， from other boys he met at the door. Children were given tickets for learning Bible sentences. Blue meant that two sentences had been learned， red meant twenty， and yellow meant two hundred. If a student had ten yellow tickets， he would win a Bible. It was a great honor to win this. Although Tom didn't really care about having a new Bible， he loved the idea of being the only student to get it.　　At the beginning of class the teacher told the children to be good， sit up straight， and listen carefully. Tom noticed three men and a woman enter the classroom while the teacher was talking. The woman had a child with her. It was the new girl whom he had seen the other day. He wanted her to see him， so he started to hit and play with his friends sitting near him.　　The teacher asked the five new people to come to the front of the class and then introduced them to the students. Everyone knew the first man， Mr. Thatcher， because he was from the same village， but the other gentleman was his brother， Judge Thatcher. He had just moved to this village with his family and he was a very interesting man who had traveled to many different parts of the world.　　That day， in order to impress Judge Thatcher， the teacher hoped a student would come to class with ten yellow tickets. But， of course， this was not something that happened often. He didn't really expect this to happen； he just hoped he might be lucky. Looking around the room， he saw that none of the students had enough tickets. He became disappointed. But then Tom Sawyer approached him holding nine yellow tickets， nine red tickets， and ten blue tickets. The teacher's dream had come true And it was even more surprising that it was Tom Sawyer who had them.　　……