Kuang Heng was born in a poor family. He liked reading books very much. He needed to work at daytime, so he had to read books during night. But he was too poor to buy a candle.
One day, he found his neighbour had candles, but the light couldn’t go through his room. So he dug a small hole on the wall so that he could use the light to read books. From that day, he read books every night until the light went out.
However, he finished reading all his books and there were no books for him to read. Then he went to a rich man’s house and worked for him without payment. The rich man asked: “ Why don’t you want the money?” Kuang Heng said: “ Because I only want to borrow your books.” The rich man agreed. Kuang Heng read the books one by one.
Finally, he became a great scholar.
故事梗概
匡衡勤奮好學 ，但家中沒有蠟燭 。鄰家有蠟燭 ，但光亮照不到他家 ，匡衡就在牆壁上鑿瞭(le)洞引來鄰家的光亮 ，讓光亮照在書上讀(dú)書。
縣裏有個(gè)大戶人家不怎麽識字 ，但家中富有，有很多書。匡衡就到他家去做雇工，但不要報(bào)酬。
主人感到很奇怪，問他爲什麽這樣 ，他說：“我希望讀遍主人家的書。”主人聽瞭(le)，深爲感歎，就借給匡衡書。於(yú)是匡衡成瞭(le)一位偉大的學者。
重難點詞彙及短語：
candle：蠟燭
go through：穿過(guò)
dug：dig的過(guò)去式，挖，鑿(záo)
so that：以便
go out：熄滅
payment：報酬
scholar：學者
