简单慢速英语阅读:Rain and Hail

Dark clouds were in the sky. The sun went down. The weather got cold. The wind started to blow. Leaves blew off the trees. Paper flew through the air. People buttoned their jackets. The rain started to fall. At first it was quiet. Then it got louder. It was a storm. The rain was very loud. The man couldn’t hear his TV. He turned up the volume¹. Now he could hear his TV. He looked outside his door. He looked at the rain. It was pouring² off his roof³. It was a flood. Then he saw lightning⁴. Then he heard thunder⁵. It was a very cold night. The rain changed to hail⁶. The hail was very noisy. He turned up the TV volume again. Now he could hear his TV again. He watched TV for a while. Then he looked outside again. All the cars were white. The street was white. The ground was white. The hail covered everything. The hail looked just like snow. He wanted to make a big snowman. But you can’t make a snowman out of hail. You can only make a snowman out of snow.

 

1 volume   

n.卷，册，体积，量，大量，音量

参考例句：

• This volume records the history of the country's revolution.这卷书记载了这个国家的革命历史。
• The volume of this container is 1000 cubic metres.这个集装箱的容量是1000立方米。

2 pouring   

传布

参考例句：

• There was no end to the letters pouring into the post office. 有大量的信投进了邮局。
• All her feelings of resentment just came pouring out. 她一股脑儿倾吐出所有的怨恨。

3 roof   

n.屋顶；v.给...覆以屋顶，覆盖

参考例句：

• A cat is on the roof.一只小猫在屋顶上。
• Move back! The roof is falling!往后退，屋顶要塌了！

4 lightning   

n.闪电&adj.闪电般的，快速的

参考例句：

• His eyes glared like lightning.他的目光犹如一道闪电。
• Lightning flashed during the storm.暴风雨中闪电大作。

5 thunder   

n.雷电，雷声；v.打雷，大声喊出

参考例句：

• Did you hear the thunder in the night?你晚上听见打雷了吗？
• The thunder scared the children.雷声吓着了孩子。

6 hail   

n.雹，一阵；vi.下雹；vt.高呼，为...喝彩

参考例句：

• Hail fell with such violence that it broke windows.冰雹猛落，把玻璃窗也砸破了。
• The people lined the streets to hail the returning heroes.人们夹道欢迎凯旋的英雄们。