听名著练听力之简爱篇 01

PART ONE - LIFE AT GATESHEAD
CHAPTER ONE
The Fight

We couldn't go outside at all on that cold, [-----1-----]

afternoon.The rain was pouring down, and the wind was blowing

hard.I didn't care, I was happy to stay indoors¹.Trying to take

long walks in the winter was terrible! It was supposed to be

healthy for our bodies, but I hated coming home in the dark

with my feet and hands as cold as ice. And I was always

unhappy because Bessie, one of the [-----2-----], was always

scolding² me. I had always known³ that I was different from my

cousins, John, Eliza, and Georgiana Reed⁴. They were prettier

and taller than I, and everyone loved them.

These three children were not very nice to other people or to

each other. Usually they spent their time [-----3-----] and

crying with each other. However, today they were with their

mother in the sitting room, sitting quietly and talking in

front of the warm fire. I wanted to join them but Mrs. Reed,

my aunt,said I could not. She was angry with me because Bessie

had told her I was being [-----4-----]
 

Vocabulary Focus⁵

it was suposed to……:应该干……，例如：You were supposed to

arrive warlier(你应该早点来)
troublesome：adj.带来麻烦的，-some为后缀表示引起……的，又如：

fearsome（引起恐慌的），quarrelsome（爱争吵的）。

答案：
1.rainy
2.servants
3.fighting,
4.troublesome

1 indoors   

adv.(在)室内，(在)户内

参考例句：

• Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
• It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷，你们所有人最好都进屋。

2 scolding   

n.责骂，斥责adj.责骂的v.责骂，斥责( scold的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• You should ease up on the child and stop scolding her. 你应该对那个孩子宽松些，不要再骂她了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Don't glare at me like that, you deserved the scolding. 不要那么瞪着我，你本该受到训斥的。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

4 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。

5 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。