时间:2018-11-28 作者:英语课 分类:许国璋英语听力第二册


英语课

  Lesson 6

Words to the text

cloud

impossible

Eliza

John

Georgiana

sitting room

so far

by

fireside

perfectly 1

darling

about

next to

bookcase

seat

window-seat

call

draw

pray

discover

master

armchair

stout 2

business

have no business to

continue

dependent 3

mama

ought to

beg

strike

pain

sharp

waited

cruel

slave-driver

grasp

shoulder

desperate 4

now

Mrs.

lock

upstairs

shame

for shame

servent

turn away

poor house

Words to the dialogue

What's on tonight?

picture

I have no idea.

march

the long march

save

possible

Text

LIFE AT GATESHEAD HALL

It was a cold winter day. The wind had brought dark clouds and heavy rain, so it was impossible to take a walk. Eliza, John and Georgiana were gathered round their mother in the sitting-room 5. She lay on a sofa by the fireside, looking perfectly happy with her darlings about her. But she told me not to come near them because I was not a good child.

I went to a small room next to the drawing-room. Taking a book from a bookcase, I climbed up into the window-seat. Here I sat behind the curtains and started reading. I was quite happy until I heard the voice of John Reed 6.

"Where is she?" He said, calling to his sisters."Eliza! Georgiana! Jane is not here."

I was glad that I had drawn 7 the curtains, and I prayed that I should not be discovered. But Eliza was quicker than John. She said at once, "She is in the window-seat of course."

I came out immediately. "What do you want?" I asked.

"Say 'What do you want, Master Reed'," was his reply. "I want you to come here," he added 8. And he sat down in an armchair.

John Reed was a schoolboy of fourteen: four years older than I, for I was only ten. He was big and stout for his age, with a large face and an unhealthy skin. John had not much love for his mother and sisters, but he really hated me. As I came up to his chair, he spent about three minutes in putting out his tongue at me. Then he hit me suddenly and hard.

"What were you doing behind the curtains?"

"I was reading."

"Show me the book."

I returned to the window and brought the book. "You have no business to read our books," John Reed continued. "You are a dependent, Mama says. Your father left you no money. You ought to beg, and not live with a gentleman's children. Go and stand by the door."

I did so. I turned round and saw that he was going to throw the book at me; I tried to avoid it, but it was too late. I was knocked over and fell against the door, striking 9 my head and cutting it badly. The pain was very sharp.

"Wicked 10, cruel boy!" I said. "You are like a murderer 11 - you are like a slave-driver!"

"What!" he cried. "What did you say to me? Did you hear her, Eliza and Georgiana? I'll tell Mama. But first - "

He ran at me and grasped my hair and my shoulder. But I was desperated now. I don't know what I did with my hands, but I heard him cry for help.

Mrs. Reed came. "Take her away to the red room and lock her in," she said. Four hands then quickly carried me upstairs.

"For shame!" cried the maid 12. "To strike a gentleman, your young master!"

"Master? How is he my master? Am I a servant?"

"You ought to know, Miss," said the nurse, "that you owe 13 much to Mrs. Reed. She keeps you. If she turns you away, you will have to go to the poor-house."

These words were not new to me; so I did not answer.

Dialogue

Going to a film

What's on tonight?

There is a picture at 7:30. It's a color film I hear.

What is its name?

I have no idea. But the film is about the long march.

It must be a wonderful film. Let's go together.

Look, I have got quite a few things to do after supper. Could you go first and get me a seat.

Alright. I will save you a seat. But do come as earlier as possible.



1 perfectly
adv.完美地,无可非议地,彻底地
  • The witnesses were each perfectly certain of what they said.证人们个个对自己所说的话十分肯定。
  • Everything that we're doing is all perfectly above board.我们做的每件事情都是光明正大的。
2 stout
adj.强壮的,粗大的,结实的,勇猛的,矮胖的
  • He cut a stout stick to help him walk.他砍了一根结实的枝条用来拄着走路。
  • The stout old man waddled across the road.那肥胖的老人一跩一跩地穿过马路。
3 dependent
adj.依靠的,依赖的,依赖他人生活者
  • He has a mother completely dependent on him.他有一个完全靠他赡养的母亲。
  • The country is dependent on foreign aid.这个国家靠外援生存。
4 desperate
adj.不顾死活的,危急的,令人绝望的,极渴望的
  • They made a desperate attempt to save the company.他们为挽救公司作孤注一掷的努力。
  • The city is suffering a desperate shortage of water.这个城市严重缺水。
5 sitting-room
n.(BrE)客厅,起居室
  • The sitting-room is clean.起居室很清洁。
  • Each villa has a separate sitting-room.每栋别墅都有一间独立的起居室。
6 reed
n.芦苇,芦丛,簧舌,簧片
  • The river banks were overgrown with reed.河岸长满了芦苇。
  • They inhabit reed huts built on stilts above the water.他们住在建于水中木桩之上的芦苇草屋里。
7 drawn
v.拖,拉,拔出;adj.憔悴的,紧张的
  • All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
  • Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。
8 added
adj.更多的,附加的,额外的
  • They have added a new scene at the beginning.在开头他们又增加了一场戏。
  • The pop music added to our enjoyment of the film.片中的流行音乐使我们对这部电影更加喜爱。
9 striking
adj.显著的,惹人注目的,容貌出众的
  • There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.简和玛丽之间有显著的差异。
  • What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are.最令人注目的是孩子们的机智聪明。
10 wicked
adj.邪恶的,恶劣的,缺德的;淘气的
  • Let everyone know all the wicked things she has done.把她干的坏事给大家抖搂抖搂。
  • The wicked must be wiped out.恶人必须除掉。
11 murderer
n.杀人犯,凶手
  • How long should a murderer be kept in prison?犯了谋杀罪的人应在监狱关多少年?
  • They discovered the murderer to have run away.他们发现凶手已逃之夭夭。
12 maid
n.少女,未婚女子,女仆
  • I have sent my maid away.我已把我的女仆解雇了。
  • A maid in white is walking along the boardwalk.一位白衣少女漫步于海边的木板路上。
13 owe
vt./vi.欠(债等);感激;把……归功于某人
  • We still owe one hundred dollars for the car.为这部车我们还欠着100美元。
  • We owe it to society to make our country a better place.把国家建设得更美好是我们对社会应尽的责任。
学英语单词
additive dimer
adjacent exchange
albrechts
all marine and war risks
Ancona
baseband frequency repeating system
be wed
blue collar
boniver
bram stokers
byrral
call for bids
Cancer borealis
cateniferous
Chromochlorite
coasting barge
Colles' fascia
contact detector
coordinated boiler-turbine control
Cordilleras
Coryphopterus
cutting horizon
dead silent
defective vision
Della Crusca
deoxyguanosine
Desulfosarcina
Digitaria sanguinalis
Dignac
dinarthrum taiwanense
Dong celadon
effective data transfer rate
ethylenediaminetetra
explicative sentence
fir-tree fastening
floating-input measurement
free-markets
freiberger
freilla
gas filled thyraton
Gloydius
handings-over
hieromancy
hyperscaling
hypothecaries
illawarras
International Federation of Land-scape Architects
investible
isthmos
joint hinge
jump-pass
labor unions
Makaira nigricans
mamaloni
manner of articulation
marlands
mature student
minimax principle
monoglyceryl ester
mould duplicator
multiple burst per transponder (mbpt)
nano-cycle
narrow-boat
national standard thread
neckedout
neife
no-charge machine fault time
nro
orthophyric texture
overall position of exchange
parapneumonia
Ponalide
priority rule
puppy-dogs
puzzle one's brain head
quadrate muscle of loins
quizzee
radioimpurity radioactive impurity
removal hearing
republics of mozambique
reversible ring
ripple quantity
Rometty
rotary ink
rubber cap
score break
Scott Air Force Base
service market
slip jaw
spoken up for
squatters
starting salary
supreme law
Teale's ampptation
thereward
topiramate
unconditional surrender
unthreading mode
water mills
wave pressure formula
william randolph hearsts
zymogen