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1. The City Mouse and the Country MouseOnce there were two mice. They were good friends. One lived in the country, and the other lived in the city.One day, the country mouse invited the city mouse to his home in the country. The city mouse went. But he said, “I don’t like your house. It’s very small and dirty. I don’t like your food too. It’s terrible. You must come to my home in the city. It’s much better than yours.”So the country mouse went. He saw the city mouse’s house was very nice. When they were eating the delicious food, the city mouse shouted suddenly, “Hurry up. The cat is coming. Run! Run!The country mouse was hardly caught by the cat. He said to the city mouse, “Your home is very nice but not safe, so I don’t like it. I still like living in the country.”1. 城里老鼠和乡下老鼠从前有两只老鼠,是好朋友。一只在乡下住,另一只则住在城里。一天,乡下老鼠请城里老鼠去乡下的他家,城里老鼠去了。但是他说:“我不喜欢你的家。它既小又脏。我也不喜欢你的食物,太难吃了。你一定要来我城里的家,比你的好多了。所以乡下老鼠去了。他看见城里老鼠的房子非常好。当它们吃美味东西时,城里老鼠突然叫了起来:“快跑!猫来了!快跑!快跑!”乡下老鼠差点被猫抓住。它对城里老鼠说:“你的家非常好但不安全,所以我不喜欢它。我还是喜欢住在乡下。”2、 The Monkey and the PeachesOne day, a monkey was looking for food. He came to a fence. There were a lot of big peaches inside the fence. The monkey tried to get into. But he failed. At last, he found a hole in the fence. But the hole was too small for him to go through.“What should I do?” the monkey thought. He wandered around the fence. Day after day, the monkey became thinner and thinner. At last, he could get through the fence.He ate a lot of peaches. So became fatter and fatter.He wanted to go outside, but the hole was too small for him. He couldn’t eat any more! He waited and waited. Eventually, he became thin enough to go out.2、猴子和桃子一天,一只猴子正在观察食物。他来到一个篱笆前。有很多大桃子在篱笆里。猴子试着进去,但是他太胖了。最后,他发现有一个洞在篱笆上。但是洞太小,无法进入。“我该怎么做?”猴子想。他在篱笆外绕来绕去。日复一日,猴子越来越瘦。最后,他能通过篱笆了。他吃了一堆桃子,所以他变得越来越胖。他想出去,但洞口对于他来说太小了。他不能吃任何东西了!他等啊等,最终,他变得非常瘦,出去了。3天气预报 后带中文 Weather Predict A film crew was on location deep in the desert. One day an old Indian went up to the director and said, "Tomorrow rain." The next day it rained. A week later, the Indian went up to the director and said, "Tomorrow storm." The next day there was a hailstorm. "This Indian is incredible," said the director. He told his secretary to hire the Indian to predict the weather. However, after several successful predictions, the old Indian didn't show up for two weeks. Finally the director sent for him. "I have to shoot a big scene tomorrow," said the director, "and I'm depending on you. What will the weather be like?" The Indian shrugged his shoulders. "Don't know," he said. "Radio is broken." 天气预报 一个电影摄制组在沙漠深处工作.一天,一个印度老人到导演跟前告诉导演说"明天下雨."第二天果然下雨了. 一周后,印度人又来告诉导演说,"明天有风暴."果然,第二天下了雹暴. "印度人真神,"导演说.他告诉秘书雇佣该印度人来预报天气. 几次预报都很成功.然后,接下来的两周,印度人不见了. 最后,导演派人去把他叫来了."我明天必须拍一个很大的场景,"导演说,"这得靠你了.明天天气如何啊?" 印度人耸了耸肩."我不知道,"印度人说,"收音机坏了." A lady went to a hat shop to buy a hat. As she was very fussy, it took her a long time to pick on one. Already at the end of his patience the salesman was afraid that she might change her mind again so he tried to flatter her: "An excellent choice, madam. You look at least ten years younger with this hat on!" To his dismay, the lady took off her hat at once and said: "I don't want a hat that makes me look ten years older as soon as I take it off. Show me some more hats!" 买帽子 一位妇女到一家帽子店买帽子。她很挑剔,用了很长时间才选好了一顶。已经忍耐到极限的售货员害怕她再改变主意,便恭维她:"你做了极好的选择,夫人。你戴上这顶帽子看上去起码年轻十岁!"但令他沮丧的是,这位女士马上摘下了她的帽子说:"我不想要一顶摘下来便使我立刻显得老十岁的帽子。多拿一些帽子给我看看! 5 But the teacher cried The six-year-old John was terribly spoiled . His father knew it, but his grandma doted on him. He hardly left her side. And when he wanted anything, he either cried or threw a temper tantrum. Then came his first day of school, his first day away from his grandmother's loving arms. When he came home from school his grandma met him at the door. "Was school all right?" she asked, "Did you get along all right? did you cry?" "Cry?" John asked. "No, I didn't cry, but the teacher did!" 可是老师哭了 六岁的约翰娇生惯养。他的父亲知道这一点,可他的祖父母仍然宠着他。这孩子几乎寸步不离他的祖母。他想要什么不是哭,就是闹。他第一天上学才离开祖母的怀抱。 约翰放学了,他奶奶在门口接他并问道:“学校怎么样?你过的好吗?哭了没有?” “哭?”约翰问,“不,我没哭,可老师哭了。” 6 )A Bet Two pals are sitting in a pub watching the eleven-'clock news.A reporter comes on about a man threatening to jump from the 20th floor of a downtown building.One friend turns to the other and says,'I'll bet you ten bucks the guy doesn't jump.' 'It's a bet,' agrees his buddy. A few minutes later, the man on the ledge jumps,so the loser hands his pal a $10 bill.'I can't take your money,'his friend admits.'I saw him jump earlier on the six-o'clock news.' 'Me,too,'says the other buddy.'But I didn't think he'd do it again. 打赌 两个好朋友正坐在一家小酒馆内观看十一点的电视新闻。一则新闻报道说,有个男人威胁要从商业区一座大楼的二十层跳下去。一位朋友转身对另一位说道:“我敢赌十块钱,那家伙不会往下跳。” “赌就赌,”他的朋友欣然同意。 几分钟后,站在墙檐上的男人跳了下去,因而赌输的那位交给他的朋友一张十元的钞票。“我不能拿你的钱,”他的朋友承认道,“早在六点的新闻里,我就已见他跳下去了。” “我也是,”另一位说,“可我想他不会再跳了!” 4

英语6级小短文

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听力是人们在日常生活中使用最为频繁的语言技能,也是外语学习中最为重要的习得内容之一。下面是我精心收集的六级英语听力小短文原文,希望大家喜欢!

In early 1994, when MarkAndreessen was just 23 years old, he arrived in Silicon Valley with anideathat would change the world. As a student at the University of Illinois, he andhis friends haddeveloped a program called Mosaic, which allowed people toshare information on the worldwideweb. Before Mosaic, the web had been usedmainly by scientists and other technical people,who were happy just to sendand receive text. But with Mosaic, Andreessen and his friends haddeveloped aprogram, which could send images over the web as well. Mosaic was anovernightsuccess.

It was put on the university's network at the beginning of 1993. Andby theend of the year, it had over a million users. Soon after, Andreessenwent to seek his fortune inSilicon Valley. Once he got there, he started tohave meetings with a man called Jim Clark, whowas one of the Valley's mostfamous entrepreneurs. In 1994, nobody was making any realmoney from theInternet, which was still very slow and hard to use. But Andreessen had seenan opportunity thatwould make him and Clark rich within two years. He suggested they shouldcreatea new computer program that would do the same job as Mosaic but would be mucheasierto use. Clark listened carefully to Andreessen, whose ideas andenthusiasm impressed himgreatly. Eventually, Clark agreed to invest threemillion dollars of his own money in the project,and to raise an extra fifteenmillion from venture capitalists, who were always keen to listen toClark's newideas.

Advertising informs consumers about the existence and benefits ofproducts and services andattempts to persuade them to buy them. The best formof advertising is probably word ofmouth advertising which occurs when peopletell their friends about the benefits of products orservices that they havepurchased. Yet virtually no providers of goods or services relay on thisalone,which using paid advertising instead. Indeed many organizations also use institutionalorprestige advertising which is designed to build up their reputation ratherthan to sellparticular products.

Although large companies could easily set up theirown advertisingdepartments, write their own advertisements and by media space themselves.They tend to usethe services of large advertising agencies. These are likelyto have more resources and moreknowledge about all aspects of advertising andadvertising media than single company. It is alsoeasier for a dissatisfycompany to give its account to another agency. And it would be to firetheirown advertising staff. The company generally give the advertising agency andagreedbudget. A statement of the objective of the advertising campaign know asbrief and overalladvertising strategy concerning the message to becommunicated to the target customers. Theagency creates advertisements anddevelops a media prime, specifying which media will be usedand in which proportions.Agencies often produce alternative ads or commercials thatpretested innewspapers, television stations etc. in different parts of the country. Beforea finalchoices was made

Extinction is a difficult concept to grasp. It is aneternal concept. It is not at all like the killing ofindividual life forms that can be renewedthrough normal processes of reproduction. Nor issimply diminishing numbers.Nor is it damage that can somehow be remedied or for whichsome substitute canbe found. Nor is it something that only affects our own generation. Nor isit somethingthat could be remedied by some supernatural power. It is, rather, an absoluteandfinal act which there is no remedy on earth or in heaven. A species onceextinct, it's goneforever. However many generations succeed us in comingcenturies, none of them will ever seethis species that we extinguish.

Not onlyus we bring about extinction of life on a vast scale.We are also making theland and the air and sea so toxic that the very conditions of life arebeing destroyed.As regard natural resources ,not only are the none renewable resourcesbeingused up in a of frenzy of processing, consuming and disposing but we are alsoruiningmuch of our renewable resources. Such as the very solid self on which terrestriallife depends.The change that is taking place on the earth and in our minds isone of the greatest changesever to take place in human affairs. Perhaps thegreatest, since we are talking about is notsimply another historical change orcultural modification. But it change the geological andbiological as well as psychologicalorder of magnitude.

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六年级英语阅读短文(精选16篇)

有没有哪些英语短文适合小学六年级的学生阅读的呢?大家不妨来看一下我整理的六年级的英语阅读短文,希望大家喜欢!

山洞里的小男孩

1. Hi! My name is Harry. I live with my family in this cave. I like to make new things.

大家好,我叫Harry。我们一家住在这个洞穴里。我喜欢发明新东西。

2. This is Chief Grump. He is always mad about something. Tomorrow is his birthday. Maybe my present can make him happy. Wow! I have never seen anything like it!

这是Chief Grump。他经常发火。明天是他的生日。大概我的礼物会让他开心吧。哇!我从没见过像它这么棒的礼物。

3. It's time for Chief Grump's party. He gets lots of presents. A rock, some wood, a fish and a bone. Chief Grump says, "I do not want these!" He throws them down the hill.

是Chief Grump生日宴会的时间了。他说,“我不想要什么生日宴!”他把所有的东西扔下了山。

4. Now Chief Grump opens my present. "What does it do?" Everyone looks at my new thing. But no one can guess what it does. Not even me.

然后Chief Grump打开了我的礼物。“这是用来干嘛的?”所有人都看着我的新发明。但是没人能猜出这是个什么东西。就连我自己也不知道。

5. Chief Grump says, "It does not do anything!" He kicks it down the hill. Hey! Now I know what this new thing does. It rolls!

Chief Grump说,“它什么用处也没有!”他把它踢下了山。嗨!我终于知道了这个新发明的用处了。它可以滚!

6. I take it back. I put something here. I add something there. Maybe Chief Grump will like it now. I tell him, "Sit here. Put your feet there." I give him a push.

我把它拿回来。我在上面放了些东西。又添置了些东西。可能Chief Grump现在就会喜欢它了。我告诉他说,“请坐。把您的'脚放在上面。”我推了他一下。

7. Look! I make something really new. And I make Chief Grump smile!

瞧!我真的发明了新玩意。我让Chief Grump笑了。

逃家小兔

1. "Clifford, I have to go out now. Will you help me take care of Wally?" says Emily. Clifford wags his tail.

“Cliffod,我现在得出去了。你愿意帮我照看一下Wally吗?”Emily说。Cliford摇摇尾巴。

2. Cleo and T-bone come to visit. "Wally is so lovely. Can we take him out and play with him?" says Cleo. "OK!" says Clifford.

Cleo和T-bone来拜访。“Wally好可爱。我们能带他出去和他一起玩吗?”Cleo说。“好啊!”Clifford说

3. Clifford opens the cage, and Wally runs away. Clifford and his friends run after him. T-Bone is stuck in a log.

Clifford打开笼子,Wally跑了出来。Clifford和他的朋友在后面追它。T-bone被木头困住了。

4. Where is Wally? The three dogs run here and there, but still can't find Wally. "There he is!" says Clifford. "Gosh, he's fast!" says Cleo.

Wally在哪?这三只狗到处跑,但还是找不到Wally。“他在那!”Clifford说。“天啊,它跑得真快。”Cleo说。

5. "Where is he going?" asks T-Bone. "I don't know. But I know where I would go if I were a rabbit." says Clifford. They run to the vegetable farm. And there is Wally!

“Wally跑哪去了?”T-bone问。“我不知道啊。不过要是我是只兔子,我就知道我该去哪了。”Clifford说。他们跑到了菜园。Wally真的在那里。

6. "He'll never want to go home. And I'm too tired to catch him," says Cleo.

“他绝对不想回家。我也很累追不上他。”Cleo说。

7. "We can't catch Wally. But we can catch a carrot." says Clifford.

“我们抓不到Wally,但我们能抓住一个胡萝卜。”Clifford说。

8. Wally runs after Clifford all the way home. Wally wants to eat the carrot, so he goes back to his cage.

Wally一路跟在Clifford后面跑回了家。Wally为了吃到胡萝卜,只好回到笼子里。

我的小主人

1.I'm a little black puppy. I live in a pet shop. Soon I will have a kid of my own.

我是一只小黑狗。我住在一间宠物店里。很快,我将有一个属于自己的小主人。

2. This is a boy for me. He says hello. He pats my head. Woof! Woof! He takes me home.

这个男孩是我的(主人)。他会说你好,他会轻拍的我头。汪~汪~他会带我回家。

3. I start taking care of my boy right away. I keep him clean.

我马上开始照顾小男孩。我让他保持干净。

4. I teach him about tug-of-war .

我教他拔河。

5. My boy is not good at everything. He can not dig very fast.

小男孩并不擅长所有事情。他挖(洞)并不快。

6. He can not hide under the bed.

他不能躲在床下。

7. He can not run as fast as I can.

他不能像我一样跑得快。

8. I run and run. Oh, no! I do not see my boy. Is he lost? I look everywhere, but I can't find him.

我跑呀跑。不!我看不到小男孩了。他迷路了吗?我找遍了所有地方,但是,我找不到他。

9. Now I see my boy. He sees me too. Woof! Woof! I tell my boy he must not get lost again.

现在,我看到了小男孩。他也看到了我。汪!汪!我告诉小男孩:你不要再迷路了。

House chores are boring routine stuff that everybody hates.However,doing laundry is different.My laundry career began when my wife started assigning me little duties in the name of gender equality.In no time,I've become an expert in laundering.

With these new washing machines,turning stinking clothes back smelling good takes almost no work at all.Unlike other tasks that put me baking in the sun,sweating,burning,and getting myself all oily,washing clothes gives me the comfort of the laundry room and involves only pushing buttons.I take credits for 2 hours even though I only spend 15 minutes on my part.

Actually,doing laundry is not as simple as I thought.After I started reading the labels on those shirts.I found that some like to be washed cold while others like it warm.Dark clors don't mix well,expecially in hot water.Not everything should be dried in the dryer,and women's clothes tend to be less durable.Luckily,I was put off duty from ironing since I made a hole through my suit the other day.

But after doing if for so long,laundry is now a no-brainer for me.But it doesn't get boring.When I handwash my wife's more delicate underwear with some imagination,it gets pretty interesting.

The Wilsons arrived (到达) at Spring Town at four o’clock. They looked for Spring Street, because their friends, the Johnsons, lived at No. 25 Spring Street. They found Spring Street soon. The Johnsons” house was near the post office. Mr Wilson parked (停车) his car in front of the house. Mr and Mrs Johnson came out of the house and welcomed their visitors. They were very happy. Mr Johnson asked Jean and Jerry,” Did you enjoy your trip (旅行)?” Jean said, “ yes, we enjoyed it very much. The town (镇) is beautiful.” Mrs Johnson said, “ Put your things down and we’re going to show you around our new house.”

I am Wang Lin, I am twelve years old. My pen pal Tom is form the United States. He is the same age as I. He is a middle school student in Beijing. There are three people in his family. His father is a teacher, he teaches English in a high school in Beijing. His mother is an English teacher, too. But they work in different schools. Tom goes to school in his mother’s car every day. They all like Chinese food. Tom’s father likes Guangdong food, he thinks it is delicious. Tom’s mother’s favorite food is Sichuan food. But Tom doesn’t like Sichuan food, he thinks it is too hot. So they often eat out on weekends.

Poor Man!

Look at this man. What is he doing? He’scarrying a very big box. The box is full of(充满) big apples. He wants toput it on the back of his bike and take it home. Can he do that? No, I don’tthink so. Why not? Because(因为) thebox is too full(满) and too heavy(重). Look! What’s wrong? Hedrops the box. Poor man!

John is six years old. He can read and write well. But he can`t tell the time. His mother, Mrs Brown teaches him many times, but he still can`t tell. He would say “brerakfast time”, “lunchtime” and “teatime” instead of (代替) saying eight o`clock, twelve o`clock and four o`clock in the afternoon. His mother doesn`t know how to help him.

One day John`s aunt, Mary comes to see his mother. His mother tell her about that. His aunt says. “Let me help you. I think I can help him.”

When John comes home after school, Mary begins (开始) to teach him..

“Can you count,John ?” she asks him.

“Yes. One ,two three,four …”John says.

“That`s fine. Now I put the long hand (钟表的长指针) on twelve and the short hand on one -that is one o`clock. If I put the short hand on two, what is the time?’’

“Two o`clock.”

“Good. And on three?”

“Three o`clock.”

Then it is four o`clock in the afternoon, and John`s aunt asks him, “What time is it now ,John?”

“Teatime, Aunt, and I am very hungry (饥饿).” John looks at the clock and answers.

My name is Mike. Let me tell you about my neighbour, Jack. He is 25 years old. I call him Uncle Jack. He is tall. He has brown hair and blue eyes. He likes playing football and fishing. I often play football with him in the park at weekends. Yesterday was Sunday. My father and I went fishing with Uncle Jack in the afternoon. We caught some fish and we brought them home. Then Uncle Jack stayed for dinner with us. He cooked the fish. We all liked the fish. It was delicious. My father said to him. “ you’re a good cook, Jack!” After dinner, Uncle Jack told us some interesting stories about fishing and football. We had a great time.

麦当劳植树日

Today was Macdonalds’ Tree Planting Day. I went to the park with my parents. At about ten o’clock the manager of Macdonalds’ made a speech. Then we started to plant trees. We needn’t to dig holes because the people in the park dug them before. We just put the young trees into the holes. My father filled the holes with me. My mother carried water for the young trees. We were so tired when we finished the work. All of us hope the trees will grow well. I hope I can plant trees next year.

A train stops at a station(车站). A young man wants to come out, but it is raining. A boy is standing under a big umbrella. The young man says to the boy. "Can you go and get us two hambugers, one for you and one for me? Here are two dollars." "Great!" say the boy and he goes to buy hamburgers. After some time, the boy is back. He is eating a hamburger. "Where is my hamburger?" asks the young man. "Oh, there is only one hamburger left. So I'm eating mine. Here is your dollar. "

This is my friend, Jim. He is an English boy. He is twelve. He is in Class Three, Grade One. He is Number Two in Row Five. My name is Dong Cheng. I am a Chinese boy. I am twelve, too. I am in Class One. I am Number One in Row One.

There are forty-two students in our class. There are also two American boys. They are Jack and Mike. They are our good friends. They like watching TV, but they don't like playing basket-ball .They often go to school by bike. And I often go to school on foot. There is one English girl in our class. Her name is Lucy. She likes playing basketball and she also likes swimming. She usually does her homework in the evening. She often watches TV on Saturday afternoons. She is my good friend. All of the Chinese students are Yong Pioneer.

Bill is an English boy . he is twelve . He lives (住) with his family in China . There are four people in his family . they're his father Jack Clinton , his mother Catherine and his little sister Abby . He has a yellow dog . It's name is Barbi , His father is mending his bike . What is Bill doing ? Ah , he is doing Chinese homework . He can't speak Chinese very well , but he loves Chinese very much . Bill's father works in middle school . He's an English teacher . His mother is in a TV factory(工厂) . Bill and his sister go to the same school .

Mrs. Jones is an American doctor. She is now in China. She works in a children's hospital in Shanghai. She likes the children and she likes to work for children. She works hard in the day time and learns Chinese in the evening school. She also learns Chinese from the Chinese doctors and her Chinese friends. Now she can speak some Chinese. She can read and write some Chinese, too. She says it's not easy to learn Chinese well. Mr. Jones, her husband is a teacher . He teaches English in the No.5 Middle School. He works from Monday to Friday. He teaches 3 classes every day.

My Father’s Old Coat

Teacher: Children, name the material we often use to make things, please.

Student: Glass, gold, metal ,paper, plastic, silver, wood and wool.

Teacher: Very good, sit down, please. And what do we get from sheep?

Student: Wool.

Teacher: You’re quite right. Tom what do we make from wool?

Tom: I’m sorry. I don’t know.

Teacher: Well, what is your coat made of?

Tom: My coat is made of my father’s old coat.

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爱吃烤鸭的小猫

英语教学一直是教育教学工作中的重点内容。小学英语作为学生的英语学习基础,必须受到英语教师的重视。本文是六年级英语小短文,希望对大家有帮助!

“Why were you so rude to your brother?” Gladys asked. “He drove all the way over here to deliver that package to you. But you didn’t invite him inside your apartment. You didn’t offer him anything to drink or eat. Then, when he was talking to me, you kept telling him to speak faster. He was speaking slowly because he knows my English isn’t that good—he was just being polite. Finally, when he and I sat down in the living room, you just went to your computer and started typing away.”

William tried to explain to Gladys that what she saw between him and his brother was their normal interaction. Roland was simply delivering a package; there was nothing for the two of them to chat about. Further, Roland felt that William's apartment had an odor; he usually didn’t even come inside the apartment when he visited. In addition, Roland was very picky about what he drank and ate—he wasn’t interested in eating William’s “junk food.”

Finally, William argued, he had told Roland many times not to “talk down” to Gladys. “He talks to you like you’re a two-year-old,” William said.

She said she didn’t mind; Roland was just trying to communicate. She just wished that William would be more polite to him. “When my sister visits me,” she said, “I hug her, I invite her inside, we eat and drink and talk, and we just have a good time with each other.”

Well, William told her, he and his brother were different. “No,” she corrected him, “maybe you and I are different.”

The California state assembly recently approved the so-called Paris Hilton bill, which bars dogs from occupying the driver’s seat in a moving vehicle. The bill passed because Democrats wanted to make an example of Miss Hilton. They think she is a “little rich girl” who always gets her way; plus, her daddy is a big contributor to the Republican party. “The judge should have put her in jail for four months,” said one Democrat when Paris got only a four-day jail sentence for driving while intoxicated.

Driving around town with her little dog Lovey hanging out the driver’s window, Paris is a familiar sight throughout Los Angeles. Pictures of her and Lovey are common in newspapers and magazines.

“That dog is a deadly menace to everyone on the streets and the sidewalks,” said assembly leader Fabian Nunez. “We wrote this bill to protect the public. There's no telling when the dog might cause her to drive into a crowd of pedestrians. If Paris wants to be with her dog, let her chauffeur do the driving. The state assembly is responsible for protecting people, and we take that responsibility seriously.”

The assembly bill passed by a vote of 44 to 11. The state senate is expected to approve the bill, and Governor Schwarzenegger has promised to sign it. “I love dogs,” he said, “but when it comes to protecting the people of California, dogs will have to take a back seat.”

The eleven assembly members who objected to the bill were all Republicans. “While Californians,” said Republican Tom Ridge, “are being attacked daily by murderers, rapists, and muggers, who do the Democrats protect citizens from—a spoiled little girl and her dog!”

The late Boris Nyof is becoming a nonperson. He was president of Akmenistan, a tiny but oil-rich country near Russia. The new president, Ivan Gurba, has banned all media use of Nyof’s name. Gurba has removed all the photos, posters, and statues of Nyof. In the capital city, Gurba has ordered the destruction of a stainless steel spire honoring Nyof. Gurba shut down the spire's floodlights and mechanisms.

“From the steel, we will build a Museum of Peace,” said Gurba. The 100-foot-tall spire was brilliantly lit every night for the last 10 years. At its top was a likeness of Nyof’s head, 16 feet in diameter. The head made a complete revolution every 59 minutes. Then it paused for one minute, while flames shot out of Nyof’s mouth, accompanied by the roar of a lion.

Every day at noon, “Nyof” gave a three-minute speech talking about what a great president he had been. There was a different speech for each day of the year. Every January 18, for example, Nyof talked about how he had paved all of Akmenistan’s dirt roads—by himself. Every July 3, he described how he had invented the Internet.

As president, Nyof actually had renamed the days of the week after his siblings, and the sun and moon after his parents. He had banned marriage. Instead, couples in love signed one-year “Friendship” contracts, renewable yearly—if both “friends” agreed.

Although citizens thought Nyof was a little weird, they liked him for boldly standing up to occasional threats from Russia. Now that he was gone, Russia seemed more intent on acquiring Akmenistan’s oil—one way or another. Gurba thought that he might help prevent a Russian invasion by removing all traces of Nyof and by building the Museum of Peace.

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