40篇英语短文搞定高考3500个单词（06）

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6. A Brave Maid

勇敢的女仆

A wooden vasefrom the Ming Dynasty at the entrance of the reception hall amazed everyone. The artists designed it in a rarestyle and selectedvaluable jewels to decorate it. People thought highly of its fancy colour of honey and the beautiful paintings on it.

The vase used to belongto a former castle.But when the country was at war,the enemy troops exploded the castle. Debates on how the vase survived went on and on. Inorder to remove people’s doubt, a team of no less than 20 people carried outan informal investigation.The evidences they foundshowed that a maid took thevase apart and asked a sailor to sink it in a localwell. She never gave away the secret even under the cruel trial of the enemies who were in search of treasures.

It is worthgiving this brave maid a fortune inreturn.

接待大厅入口处的明朝木制花瓶 使每个人都惊奇不已。艺术家以一种罕有的风格设计它，并挑选了贵重的珠宝装饰它。人们高度赞赏它那蜂蜜般的奇特颜色，还有上面绘制的绘画。

这个花瓶曾经属于一座从前的城堡，但在战争期间，敌人的军队炸毁了城堡，于是关于这个花瓶是如何幸存下来的争论就一直在持续着。为了解开人们的疑问，一个由不少于20人的调查队开展了一次非正式的调查。他们找到的证据表明，有个女仆 把花瓶拆开，然后让一名水手把它沉到当地的一个水井里。她从来没有泄露这个秘密，即使是在搜寻财宝的敌人残酷的审讯下。

这位女仆真是值得给予一大笔钱作为对她的回报。