听名著练听力之简爱篇 19

PART TWO - THE SCHOOLGIRL
CHAPTER FIVE
Mr. Brocklehurst's Visit

It was hard to get used to the rules at Lowood, and to the

extremely¹ cold, hard winter. In January, February and March

there was deep snow, but we still had to go outside for one

hour every day. We had no warm boots or gloves, and my hands

and feet hurt badly from the cold. We were growing children,

and needed more food than we got. Sometimes the [-----1-----]

big girls made us little ones give them our teatime bread or

evening biscuit.
One afternoon, when I had been at Lowood for three weeks, a

visitor came to see us. As the man entered the schoolroom all

the teachers and pupils stood up. When I saw the visitor I

felt afraid. It was Mr. Brocklehurst, the man who had talked

to Mrs. Reed² and I at Gateshead. I had been afraid he would

come. I remembered that Mrs. Reed had told him I was a

terrible child. He had [-----2-----] her to tell all the

teachers about me. If he spoke³ to the teachers, they would

think of me as a bad child forever!
At first Mr. Brocklehurst spoke very quietly to Miss Temple. I

could hear him, because I was in the front of the class.
"Miss Temple," he said, "I am told that you gave a lunch of

bread and cheese to the girls recently. Why did you do that?

It is not in the rules!"
"Well, sir," said Miss Temple, "the breakfast was so badly

cooked that the girls couldn't possibly eat it, and they were

hungry."
"Miss Temple, listen to me. You know that these girls must

become strong, patient and [-----3-----]... If they do not

have some little thing, do not give it to them. Tell them to

be brave and suffer, like Christ⁴ Himself. Remember what the

Bible⁵ says. Man does not live by bread alone, but by the word

of God! When you put bread into these children's mouths, you

feed their bodies but you starve thei souls!"

Vocabulary Focus⁶

growing:成长中的，现在分词作形容词表示进行时态。若已发育成熟，

就应用过去分词grown up

答案：
1.meaner
2.promised
3.unselfish

1 extremely   

adv.极其，非常，极度

参考例句：

• The film is extremely good,I just cannot miss it.这部电影太精彩了，我非看不可。
• The old man was extremely difficult to get along with.这个老人极难相与。

2 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。

3 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

4 Christ   

n.基督，救世主，耶稣

参考例句：

• I regarded him as the Christ.我把他当作救世主。
• Christ preached that we should love each other.基督在布道中说人们应该互爱。

5 bible   

n.《圣经》；得到权威支持的典籍

参考例句：

• According to the Bible we are all the seed of Adam.根据《圣经》所说的，我们都是亚当的后裔。
• This dictionary should be your Bible when studying English.学习英语时，这本字典应是你的主要参考书。

6 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。