环球自然日(2022年度)故事播讲赛英文组素材库3.Jellyfish Restaurant
Mr.Crab opened a restaurant. It specialties are cold jellyfish, jellyfish braised with soy sauce, fried jellyfish... Therefore, Mr.Crab named his restaurant "Jellyfish Restaurant".
Mr. Turtle is the most loyal customer, he comes to the restaurant almost every day. One of his favorite dishes is "Jellyfish Family Portrait" which cook different kinds of jellyfish together. It looks like a hodgepodge. Mr. Turtle eats it with relish every time, and highly praised: "This one is crunchy, that one is soft, what a taste!"
However, one day, Mr. Turtle did not come to the Jellyfish Restaurant which never happened before, he was taken to the Coral Reef City Hospital by an ambulance. In the emergency room, Mr. Turtle was stomachache and he sweated a lot. X-ray photographs showed that there was a large group of unknown objects in Mr. Turtle’s intestines, which caused severe intestinal obstruction and required urgent surgery. Doctor Lobster made a decisive decision and pushed Mr. Turtle into the operating room. Fortunately, the operation was successful, and Mr. Turtle was finally out of danger.
What is it that caused Mr. Turtle to get a serious illness? Doctor Lobster carefully examined the thing which were taken out of Mr. Turtle's belly with his big claws. Suddenly, he rolled his eyes and took a closer look: it turned out to be a large group of white plastic bags!
Mr. Turtle was very confused: How can he eat plastic bags? He immediately called his old friend the inspector Octopus to help. "You should know that I never eat indiscriminately. I either have a seaweed sandwich at home or have a meal in the Jellyfish Restaurant. How come I have plastic bags in my stomach? Is it possible that I sleepwalked at night and eat the plastic bags?" Mr. Turtle knocked his head and said.
The inspector Octopus was not in a hurry to draw the conclusion. He comforted Mr. Turtle. Hanging up the phone, he went straight to the Jellyfish Restaurant. When he got there, he ordered one "Jellyfish family portraits." When the dishes were served, the inspector Octopus took out the magnifying glass and examined the large plate of jellyfish hodgepodge carefully.
He was surprised to find that many "jellyfish" in the dish were not jellyfish at all, they are plastic bags! These transparent plastic bags are smooth and tough, surprisingly similar to jellyfish. Mr. Turtle never chewed slowly when eating, he always swallowed it , no wonder he was completely unaware of it!
Soon, the Jellyfish Restaurant was closed. After investigation, it turned out that in order to save costs, Mr. Crab used plastic bags to pretend to be jellyfish and mixed them into the dishes.
"That’s too horrible! How can he do this? It almost killed me!" Mr. Turtle trembled with anger.
"Don’t worry, my old friend, Mr. Crab has been imprisoned." The inspector Octopus patted Mr. Turtle. "Just be sure that next time, when you eat something, look first!"
