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1、Chapter 1Scrapman was a _ man. He lived with Winston who owned a scrap-yard. Scrapman was made out of odds and ends that Winston had saved from old broken machines.His brain was made from a _ _ that someone had thrown away because it was always going wrong.Winston was working late. So late,that he w
2、as having his supper heated over a gas ring in the shed.Scrapman was opening a tin of _ beans for him. At least he thought it was a tin of baked beans.Volly od beans, said Scrapman.I cant eat that, said Winston, in a tired kind of voice. Cant you read what it says on the label?Scrapman _ _ _. He was
3、nt very good at reading. He could read his name and a few really easy words but he couldnt read what it said on the cat food tin.Scrapcat was watching from under the workbench.He didnt eat cat food either because he was a mechanical cat and he _ _ _ , not cat food.Scrapman went and sat in the corner
4、. He felt very sad. He wished he could read like Emma. Emma was his special friend. She was teaching him to talk like _ _ _. She had a picture book with wonderful stories in it about robots. These were mechanical men like him but they could do amazing things.They could drive rockets and walk on the
5、moon and save people from fires and floods and _. Scrapman loved looking at the pictures, but he had to wait until Emma came round to find out what the stories were about.Scrapcat saw that Scrapman was sad, so he went and sat beside him.Winston opened a _ tin of beans and he put the tin of cat food
6、in looking, Scrapman took it out.Hed bought it _ _ _ _ Patch. Patch was Emmas cat. He liked to come and play with Scrapcat while Emma was at school. Hed climb in though the window when Winston and Scrapman were busy.Then hed show Scrapcat how to do useful cat things,like chasing pieces of _ and hidi
7、ng things under the workbench.Now, you may be wondering why Winston and Scrapman were so busy. They were working _ _ _ on Winstons incredible invention.It was a wonderful flying machine that didnt need _ to make it fly. It was worked by pedals like a bicycle. It was almost finished. Just a few more
8、nuts and bolts to fix and it would be ready for a test flight.But where had those last few nuts and bolts gone?Chapter 2At last, the day came for the first test flight. Winston had _ _ _ through the scrap-yard.The runway led out into a field,and _ _ there was another field, so there was plenty of ro
9、om to take off.That morning , Winston took off one of his socks and hung it on a pole to _ _ _ _ .It was an east wind, steady and strong, just right for testing a plane.Emma arrived early with Patch. Shed brought a special picnic and a big bottle of fizzy lemonade to celebrate after the flight. She
10、found Winston and Scrapman busy _ the machine, making some lest-minute checks. Scrapcat was running in and out through his scrapflap giving _ _ _ _ reports on the weather.By ten oclock in the morning, Winston said that everything was ready.It was going to be cold up there in the sky, so he put on a
11、thick jacket with a _ lining over his overalls. And he wore his special boggles to protect his eyes from the wind.Open the doors, he said _ to Scrapman. Stand well back, he said to Emma and Patch.And then, very carefully, Winston and Scrapman pushed the flying machine out into the open.A small crowd
12、 had _ outside. People had heard about the flying machine. They had come to _ _ _ _ of seeing it take off for the first time.Winston held up a hand for silence. Welcome. he said. Then he said something about this being a _ occasion and everyone clapped and some people cheered. One little boy waved t
13、he sock on the pole like a flag.Emma went and held his hand to make him feel better and Scrapcat rubbed himself up against his legs.Winston tested the flaps and jiggled the joystick and looked in his mirrors to check that everything was _ _ . Then he pulled down his goggles and _ _ _ _ . He waved pr
14、oudly to the crowed.Chocks away! he called out, and Emma and Scrapman pulled out the bricks from under the _ .Winston started to pedal. The flying machine began to move forward.He pedalled faster and the machine _ _ _ . Everyone in the crowd held their breath as the flying machine shot down the runw
15、ay. It got faster and faster. Winston was pedalling like mad and going red in the face.By the time they had pedalled the machine back to the scrap-yard the crowd had given up and gone home. Scrapman and Winston pushed it back into the shed.One of the wheels had _ _ . Winston said the machine probably needed a good oiling before it could fly.Winston seemed _ .
