Save the Goldfish
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Streamline Graded Readers
Level 4
Save The Goldfish
Carol Christian
Series Editors:
Bernard Hartley and Peter Viney
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
1988
Oxford University Press
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ISBN 019 4219143
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Mrs Parker was the boss. Pictures of houses filled the window.
Joe sat in front of the office computer most of the time. On computeth informatiohkept aboun alt thhousel thas t
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Mrs Parker's secretary, Linda, thought he was wasting his time'What'. wrons typewriter?witgha sh' use
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Joe just smiled when Linda said this. 'You don't understand computers,' he told her. 'They're wonderful when you know them.'
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quiet, shy, young man. He had always worked in the same office and lived in the same small flat in the poor part of the
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'You should be more ambitious, Joe,' Linda used to say.
'You'll never become an estate agent if you sit in front of that computer all the time.'
It was true. Joe was not very ambitious. Sometimes he took customers out to look at houses, but he rarely sold one. When the customers said, This house is too large' or 'The traffic is
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information about them on the computer.
Joe couldn't understand why so many people wanted to chang theihousesranyway, 'Wh. don'y the jusy stawhery
they are?' he wondered. He couldn't understand why his wife, Isabel, wanted a house. The flat he and Isabel lived in was
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One morning Joe said to Linda, 'Shall I show you my new computer game? We can play it during our lunch hour. It's
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But she agreed to play the game with him in their lunch hour. When Mrs Parker returned to the office after lunch, Joe and
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and again, but she couldn't do it.
'That's enough,' she said. 'What a terrible game! Let's not
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glad that she was going. Mrs Parker had gone out with a customer and was not coming back. Joe wanted to be alone. He really wanted to play the goldfish game again. He was not
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sitting with his head in his hands when Linda got back from lunch.
'Are you still playing that silly game?' she asked. 'You must be crazy, Joe! You're just wasting your time, you know. You'll never win!'
At four o'clock Mrs Parker sent him out. She wanted some information about a house that was for sale. When he got back to work, it was a quarter past five and the office was empty.
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goldfish once, twice, ten times, thirty times, fifty times ...
Then, suddenly, he caught the goldfish in the net, lifted it out of the pond and dropped it into the goldfish bowl.
The goldfish swam round and round the goldfish bowl, safe at last. Then it swam towards Joe. It grew larger and larger on
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looking at him. It was still opening and shutting its mouth. When he looked back at the screen, there was another message:
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The goldfish was still opening and shutting its mouth. Now hewordst onthscreesaidn :
Joe breathed deeply. Then he typed in the message, 'I WANT A PAIR OF SIZE 10 SHOES'. He whispered to himself, 'If you ask a crazy question, you'll get a crazy answer. Nobody has
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'Oh, really, Joe! I've never heard anything so silly in my life! You're crazy! If you spend your time in the office like that, I'm
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Joe waited for a moment before he answered. 'It said, 'YOU
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'It didn't, did it? Did the goldfish really speak to you?' Isabel
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Isabel looked at him carefully. 'I don't know. If you ask, you'll find out.'
Joe didn't answer. He thought he had found out already. He looked down at his shoes. They were the same comfortable old
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working at the computer when Mrs Parker went out, too. When she had gone, he took out the computer game. He felt
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He could not believe his eyes when the goldfish swam straigh int tho net Th. blue fishe thgree, fisn
fish with white spots did not get near it. The cat and the bird were left at the side of the pond.
He lifted the goldfish out of the pond and dropped it into the goldfish bowl. The goldfish swam round and round the bowl.
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Then it swam towards Joe. It was opening and shutting its mouth. The message on the screen said:
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'I WANT A NICE LITTLE HOUSE.' To himself he added,
'I hope the neighbours will be friendly.' It was all so strange. Hhae makdto jokea eomomenitfA. late hr sae thaw hit s
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When Joe reached home that evening, there were a lot of boxes and bags in the hall of the flat. Isabel was in the bedroom, but she rushed out when she heard him.
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'That's great!' said Joe.
'You thought you could fool me, didn't you? That story about a goldfish! A computer game! You knew all the time
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