编者按：在日常的英语学习生活中，相信大家都会看过很多的英语故事。今天小编分享了一篇关于99美分商店英语小故事，来看看不到1美元能买到什么东西吧!
逛超市，可能是孩子们最期待的家庭活动之一。Neil也去逛超市了，看看他有什么收获呢?
99 Cents Store
( 99美分商店)
Once a week, Neil went grocery shopping.
每周，尼尔都会去杂货店买一次东西。
He always made a list, but he always forgot to put one or more items on the list.
他总会列个清单，但他总是忘了在清单上记上一个或是更多的东西。
This used to anger him, but now he just accepted it.
他常常因此生气，但现在他接受了。
You're not as sharp as you used to be, he told himself.
你不像以前那么敏锐了，他告诉自己。
It was Friday-shopping day.
星期五，是购物日。
He went to the 99￠ store.
他走到99￠店。
Sometimes they had a lot of fresh produce, sometimes they didn't.
他们有时有很多新鲜的农产品，有时没有
He got lucky.
他很幸运。
There were fresh, packaged broccoli, celery, eggplant, and squash.
店里有新鲜的，包装好了的西兰花，芹菜，茄子，南瓜。
Also, packages of peaches, plums, and apples.
还有包装好了的桃子、李子和苹果。
He easily had enough produce to last all week, if it didn't rot first.
他很轻松的买够了可以维持一周的食物，当然，是在食材没有腐烂的情况下。
The produce alone filled up four plastic bags.
仅农产品就装满了四个塑料袋。
Four other bags contained other items that were on Neil's list.
其他四个袋子装满了尼尔清单上其他的东西。
He drove to Albertson's, which sold milk by the gallon and at cheaper prices than the 99￠ store.
他开车到艾伯森买牛奶，他家的牛奶论加仑来卖，每加仑价格比99￠店便宜。
Interestingly, the price of milk had soared in the last month.
有趣的是，上个月牛奶的价格猛涨。
He used to buy 2 gallons of nonfat milk for $3.59.
过去，他用3.59美元就能买到2加仑脱脂牛奶 。
Now he was paying $4.69.
现在他付了4.69美元。
Yet, the news media was silent-the same news media that reports a 2-cent increase in gasoline prices or even a 1-cent decrease.
然而，新闻媒体没有一点消息--同样是新闻媒体却会对汽油价格上涨两美分甚至下降1 美分进行报道。
That's all over the news.
这就是新闻的全部。
Milk, he thought, just isn't sexy enough.
这就是新闻的全部。他想只是因为牛奶不够性感而已。(牛奶不够引人注目)
He parked his car in the carport and opened the trunk.
他把车停在车位上，然后打开了后备箱。
Somehow he managed, as usual, to put all 10 plastic bags into his hands and lug them upstairs.
像往常一样计划着，把所有的10个塑料袋放在他的手中，提上楼。
What a drag shopping is, he thought.
他想，购物真是一个拖累。
And then he mentally slapped himself: if you think it's a drag now, wait till you can't drive.
然后他由心地打了自己一巴掌：如果你现在就认为这是一个拖累了，等到你不能开车，
Wait till you can't even walk up the stairs unless you use a cane.
等到你必须用拐杖才能上楼的时候，
How are you going to get your groceries then?
那个时候你怎么去买你需要的东西呢?
The older you get, he told himself, the more you'd better appreciate the fact that you can still do all these boring chores and errands.
他告诉自己，当你越来越老的时候，你更应该多多的感激现在，你仍然可以做这些无聊的家务杂事。
重点知识讲解
【原句】
There were fresh, packaged broccoli, celery, eggplant, and squash.
店里有新鲜的，包装好了的西兰花，芹菜，茄子，南瓜。
【解析】
今天给大家讲一个英语小常识，当我们列举很多事物举例子的时候每个名词之间用逗号隔开并且最后一个词前要加 "and",读的时候也要注意除了最后一个词要降调前面列举的每一个词都要用升调。
大家试着读一下以下几个句子：
There is a book, a pen, a ruler and a pencil on the desk.
You,she and I are good friends.
Many many years ago, in the State of Song, there was a city gate. Outside the gate was a moat with fishes that lived a quiet and happy life there.
One day the tower above the city gate caught fire and the people of the city were alarmed. Even the fishes in the moat could hear the gone.
"What's the noise about?" the fishes wondered. "I must go and find out," said one curious black carp. When he saw the tower on fire, he hurried back to tell his mates1. "Swim all you could! Swim all you could! Swim for life!" He cried to his fellow-fishes. "The city gate is burning!"
So all the fishes except the carps started to swim away. One arrogant2 carp even laughed at the other fishes. "Don't laugh," said the kind black carp. "You really ought to swim away, too, in good time."
"Why should I?" asked the arrogant carp. "It's only their city gate on fire, what's it got to do with me in the water?" The fire spread very fast and the firemen had used up all the water in the city. But it was still burning. So they fetched waster from the moat.
At long last, the fire was put out, but the moat had also gone dry, leaving a few sorry carps in their dying3 struggle. This tale likens the city gate fire to disasters that do not seem to concern us but that can spread and involve even the innocent4.
很久很久以前，宋国有一座城池。城外有一条河，河中的鱼群生活的十分安定愉快。
有一天，城楼失火了，火警的钟声穿到了水中。
“为什么这么吵闹呢？”一条鱼问道，“我们得去看看！”好奇的青鱼已经先游去去查看了，当它看到城楼失火时，他急忙回来告诉他的同伴，“着火了，城楼失火了，快点叫他们逃命吧！”
所有的鱼都逃命去了，只有一条鲤鱼在嘲笑他们。青鱼对他说：“还不快逃命，还在这里笑什么？”
“我为什么要逃，城楼失火了又不会蔓延到水中，我为什么要走呢？”鲤鱼回答。城中的水很快就用完了，火还没有扑灭，于是，人们都来护城河中取水救火。
火终于扑灭了，可是河也干涸了，只余下几条可怜的鲤鱼在河床上作垂死的挣扎。城门失火比喻因牵连而受祸害或损失。
垃圾食品，对于小编来说还真是一个巨大的诱惑。虽然我们都知道使用垃圾食品会毁坏我们的健康，但我们还是钟爱它们。这是为什么呢？小牛英语在以下的英语阅读文章中找到了答案。
Many people love their ice cream, pizza, french fries, candy despite knowing that these are unhealthy. What is it about those foods that give them such mass appeal?
From an evolutionary perspective, it feels reasonable to be confused about why humans have strong desires for as unhealthy of a behavior as eating high-calorie and sugar-heavy foods. They’re bad for hearts, bad for pancreases, bad for physiques. But they taste so good.
One answer is found in a careful examination of our evolutionary history. It’s true that an unhealthy behavior will in general may get weeded out across time, because the members of a species drawn to that behavior will not live as long and reproduce as much as the healthier ones.
But at one point, a high calorie meal was crucial for human success. Early in human history, human beings had to fight for food, kill animals with rudimentary tools, give birth without anesthetic to maintain the population, and be under several high-stress situations.
Some scientists think that eating meat (and thus taking in the high amount of calories) helped humans have the extra energy to support their large brains and its functions.
While there are many different ideas about why people still crave these foods, one theory is that it’s an evolutionary inheritance of those days.
High-calorie eating feels good to us, even though for the mass of people it’s no longer necessary, and in fact, dangerous.
尽管很多人都知道像冰激凌、披萨、炸薯条、糖果等食品不健康，但是人们还是喜欢吃。为什么这类食品会有如此之大的吸引力呢？
从进化角度来讲，关于为啥人类对高热量高糖食物有着强烈的渴望人们表示很困惑，但似乎又情有可原。高糖高热量食物对心脏、胰腺、体型来说都不好，但它们味道好。
在仔细检查我们的进化史后，答案找到了。的确，随着时间的流逝，不健康的行为一般都会被淘汰，因为喜欢这种行为的物种成员与喜欢健康行为的物种相比，他们不是活不久就是繁殖的太少。
但有一点，高热量食物对人类的成功至关重要。在人类历史早期，人类必须为食物而战，比如使用最基本的工具狩猎，在没有麻醉剂的情况下生育来繁衍后代，以及处于高压力环境中等等。
一些科学家认为吃肉（由此可摄入大量热量）能为人类提供源源不断的能量，由此来支撑当时人类较大的大脑及其运作。
关于为什么现在人类对于这些食物仍有较高的热情，很多人仍持有不同的观点，其中一个就是从历史进化遗传而来。
尽管对于多数人来说高热量食物不再是必需品，实际上也是危险品，但对于它的美味我们依旧还是不能罢休。
Jane Goodall is a famous scientist. For more than 40 years, Goodall lived mostly in Tanzania in East Africa, studying chimpanzees.
As a young child, Jane Goodall was interested in animals. She grew up in the English countryside and was always climbing trees or riding horses.
When Jane was 23, she got a chance to go to Africa. Even though she had never been to college, she got a job with a famous scientist named Louis Leakey.
One day Louis Leakey said he needed a volunteer. He needed someone to go to a lake in Tanzania to study a kind of chimpanzees. Jane was excited.
On July 16, 1960, she began her exploration (探索). At first, the chimpanzees ran away from Jane. But with time passing, they got used to her being around.
Every day, Jane would follow the chimpanzees, taking notes on their behavior. She learned many new things about chimpanzees. She watched how a chimpanzee made a tool. She learned how some chimpanzees became good leaders. She watched how mother chimpanzees raised their children. She watched animals get angry and get upset. She wrote everything down so others would understand animals as she did. She learned that if you pay really close attention to animals, you will understand what they are "saying".
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