听名著练听力之简爱篇 04

PART ONE - LIFE AT GATESHEAD
CHAPTER ONE
The Fight

John did not love his mother or his sisters, and he hated me.

He was always cruel to me. Sometimes he hit me, and sometimes

he just [-----1-----] me. But I was always afraid when he was

near. I did not know how to make him treat me well. The

servants did not want to make him angry, so they did whatever

he wanted. Mrs. Reed¹, his mother, loved him too much and

thought he never did anything wrong.
While I walked over to John I thought about how ugly he was. I

think he knew what I was thinking, because he suddenly hit me

hard on the face.
"That is for your rudeness to Mamma just now," he said,"and

for hiding, and for looking at me like that, you dirty little

rat!" I was too afraid of John to hit him back.
"Now, what were you doing behind that curtain?" he asked.
"I was reading," I answered softly².
"Give me the book." I have it to him.
"You can't touch these books!" he said."You have no money,

because your father gave you nothing when he died. You're

nothing but a poor [-----2-----]. You ought to beg in the

city, not live here with a [-----3-----] family. Anyway, all

these books are mine, and so is the whole house! I'll teach

you not to touch my things again!" Before I could run away, he

lifted the heavy book and threw it hard at me.
 

Vocabulary Focus³

too……to太……以至于不能，例如：I was too happy to say a

word.（我太高兴了，以至于说不出话了）

答案：
1.threatened
2.street rat
3.gentleman's

1 reed   

n.芦苇，芦丛，簧舌，簧片

参考例句：

• 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。

2 softly   

adv.柔和地，静静地，温柔地

参考例句：

• He speaks too softly for her to hear.他讲话声音太轻，她听不见。
• She breathed her advice softly.她低声劝告。

3 focus   

n.焦点，焦距；vi.聚焦，注视；vt.使聚焦，调焦，集中

参考例句：

• She was the focus of everyone's attention.她是大家注意的焦点。
• The noise made it hard for me to focus on work.噪音让我无法集中注意力工作。