时间:2019-01-06 作者:英语课 分类:英汉幽默故事选读


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  Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches 1 tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inches. As a teen-ager leafing through old photographs with Grandma, I finally realized how unusual they must have looked together .



  "Grandma, " I asked, "how could you have fallen in love with a man five inches shorter than you?"



  She turned to me. "Honey," she said, "we fell in love sitting down, and when I stood up, it was too late."



Notes:



  (1) stately adj.高贵的



  (2) leaf through迅速翻阅;浏览



  (3) teen-ager.十几岁的人



  (4) fall in love with爱上;坠入爱河



Exercises:



根据短文选择正确答案:



  ① The child had never met______ .



  A. the grandfather



  B. the grandmother



  C. the father



  D. the mother



  ② The grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.



  A. five feet



  B. six inches



  C. four inches



  D. five inches



  ③ "Leafing through" in "leafing through old photographs" means______ .



  A. to turn page by page



  B. to put leaves in an album 2



  C. to took for



  D. to take out from



  ④ The child realized________ .



  A. how strange they must have looked together



  B. how wonderful they must have looked together



  C. how shameful 3 they must have looked together



  D. how unusual they must have looked together



  ⑤ From the passage we can see that______ .



  A. the grandmother loved her husband deeply 4



  B. the grandmother regretted 5 to have married 6 her husband



  C. the grandfather had been out for at least ten years



  D. the grandfather had been dead for nearly eight years



42.来龙去脉



  尽管我从未见过我祖父,但我知道他身高五英尺六,而我高贵的祖母身高五英尺十一。十几岁的时候,我和祖母一起一页一页地翻着老照片,我终于认识到他们在一起是多么不同寻常。



  “奶奶,”我问道,“你怎么会爱上一个比你矮五英寸的人呢?”



  她转过脸来看着我。“宝贝,”她说,“我们是坐着相爱的。当我站起来的时候,已经太晚了。”



练习参考答案:



①A②D③A④A⑤A



n.英寸(相当于 2。54 厘米,一英尺有 12 英寸)( inch的名词复数 );少量;[复数]身材;(数量、距离、程度等)少许
  • The water is only a few inches deep. 这水只有几英寸深。
  • 1.14 inches of rain fell last night. 昨晚的降雨量为1.14英寸。
n.集子,粘贴集,影集,邮集,歌曲集
  • The photos belong in an album.这些照片应该放在相册里。
  • Will you look over his album?你要不要去看看他的歌集唱片?
adj.可耻的,不道德的
  • It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己,真不害臊。
  • We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
adv.深刻地,在深处,深沉地
  • I do feel deeply the strength of the collective.我确实深深地感到了集体的力量。
  • We're deeply honoured that you should agree to join us.您能同意加入我们,我们感到很荣幸。
adj.后悔的
  • Pierre told them some things he later regretted telling. 皮埃尔告诉了他们一些事,他后来感到后悔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • They regretted agreeing to the convocation of that meeting. 他们后悔同意召开这个会议。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.已婚的;与…结婚的
  • I heard John got married.我听说约翰结婚了。
  • They got married last autumn.他们在去年秋季结婚。
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