学进去

Mary is a little girl. She is only four. She is not at school. She doesn’t know how to read or write. But her sister Joan is a schoolgirl. She is ten years old. She knows how to read and write.

One day, Joan sees her little sister in the room. She is at the table. There is a pencil in her hand. She is writing. “What are you writing, Mary?” She asks. “I’m writing a letter to my friend Rose.”

“But how can you? You don’t know how to write,” says her sister.

“Well,” says Mary, “it doesn’t matter. Rose doesn’t know how to read.”