When the Cat’s away the Mice Will Play

　　读故事

　　It was 3:00 a.m, in the kindergarten.The teachers and children were all at home asleep and it was the cat's turn to help the cleaners.The cat did this out of kindness really, because he also preferred to be asleep.However, he had a keen liking for mice, and knew that when the cleaners dusted the keyboard on the piano, mice would run from the piano and frighten everybody.While the cleaners boiled the kettle for their tenth cup of tea, he sleepily looked over his nighttime kingdom and thought how quiet it was without a kid in sight.Then he saw a cleaner kneel down near the piano to undo a knot in her shoelace.The other cleaners tried to kid her that a mouse was about to run up her leg.She then knotted the other shoelace as well, so her shoes wouldn't come off when she chased the cat.

　　记单词

　　keen 1.(on) 热心的，渴望的2.敏锐的，敏捷的3.激烈的，强烈的4.锋利的，刺人的

　　kettle 水壶

　　keyboard 键盘

　　kid 小孩，年轻人v 戏弄，(与…)开玩笑

　　kindergarten 幼儿园

　　kindness 1.亲切，仁慈，好意2.仁慈(或好心)的行为

　　kingdom 1.王国2.领域，界

　　kneel 跪

　　knot 1.(绳等的)结2.(木材上的)节疤3.(航速单位)节vt 把…打成结，把…结牢

　　这里是凌晨3点的幼儿园。老师们和小朋友们都回家睡觉去了，现在轮到猫来帮助清洁工打扫卫生了。猫这么做完全是出于好意，因为他也宁愿去睡觉。可是，他对老鼠有一种强烈的喜爱，也知道当清洁工在钢琴键上擦灰尘的时候，老鼠会从钢琴里跑出来吓唬大家。清洁工们正用水壶煮着他们的第十杯茶，猫带着睡意打量了一下他的黑夜王国，心想没有一个孩子可真安静。然后他看到一个清洁工正跪在钢琴附近解她鞋带上打的一个结。其他清洁工跟她开玩笑说有一只老鼠就要爬到她腿上了，她便把另一只鞋的鞋带也打了结，这样她追猫的时候鞋就不会掉下来了。