听名著练听力之简爱篇 05

PART ONE - LIFE AT GATESHEAD
CHAPTER ONE
The Fight

It hit me and I fell, cutting my head on the door. I was in

great pain, and suddenly for the first time in my life, I was

so angry that forgot my fear of John Reed¹.
"You [-----1-----], cruel boy!" I shouted at him. "Why did you

hit me? I haven't done anything to you. You don't even read

those books, anyway. You are nothing but a stupid pig! You are

as bad as a [-----2-----]!"
"What! What!" he screamed. "How dare² you say these things to

me? Do you hear this, sisters? I'll tell Mamma, but first..."
He ran to attack me, but now he was fighting with an angry

girl. In those moments I really thought he was as bad as a

murderer³. I felt the blood running down my face, and the pain

gave me strength. I [-----3-----] him as hard as I could,

kicking and biting. My strength surprised him, and he shouted

for help. His sisters ran and told their mother. She called

Bessie and Miss Abbott, her maid⁴. They pulled us apart and I

heard them say,"What a wild little animal! She attacked Master

John!"
Mrs. Reed said calmly, "Take her away to the red room and lock

her in there." And so they took me upstairs.

Vocabulary Focus⁵

as……as 和……一样，例如：She is as beautiful as an angel⁶.（

她像天使一样美丽。）

答案：
1.awful
2.murderer
3.fought

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 dare   

n.敢，挑战；aux.敢；vi.敢；vt.敢于，勇于面对

参考例句：

• He didn't dare to look at her in the face.他不敢正眼看她。
• How dare you?Take your hand off me at once.放肆！马上把你的手挪开。

3 murderer   

n.杀人犯，凶手

参考例句：

• 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。

4 maid   

n.少女，未婚女子，女仆

参考例句：

• 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。

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。

6 angel   

n.天使，守护神，可爱的人

参考例句：

• The angel of death's in the house!死神在屋里呢！
• I can say without exaggeration that she is an angel.我可以毫不夸张地说她是个天使。