听名著练听力之简爱篇 11

（单词翻译）

PART TWO - GOING TO SCHOOL?
CHAPTER TWO
Going to School?

Later, the servants told me that the doctor had spoken to Mrs.

Reed² about me. Mrs. Reed had agreed that I should go away to

school, Mrs. Reed's servant, Mrs. Abbott, said Mrs. Reed would

be happy to send me away. She told me that my father had been

a poor man. He [-----1-----] my uncle's sister, Miss Jane Reed

of Gateshead. She was my mother. The Reed family was so angry

that they never spoke¹ to my mother again. Sadly, only a year

after their wedding, both my parents died of a sickness and

left me alone when I was only a baby.
But many weeks passed and Mrs. Reed did not send me away to

school. One day when she was scolding³ me I asked her a [-----

2-----] question.
"Aunt, what would Uncle Reed say to you if he were alive?" I

asked.
"What did you say to me?" cried Mrs. Reed. Her small, cold

gray eyes were afraid. She stared at me as if I knew something

she did not know.
"My uncle Reed is now in heaven, and he knows everything you

think and do. So do my parents. They know how you are cruel to

me, and how you hate me!"
Mrs. Reed [-----3-----] my face and left me without saying

anything. Bessie scolded⁴ me and said I was the worst child in

the country for saying such things. Truly, with so much hate

in my heart, I did fell terrible.
Christmas came, but I received no gifts or new clothes. Every

evening I watched Eliza and Georgiana putting on their new

dresses and going out to parties.
Sometimes Bessie would visit me in my bedroom. She would bring

me a piece of cake, or tell me a story. When she was kind to

me I thought she was the best person in the world.

Unfortunately she did not always have time for me.

Vocabulary Focus⁵

So do my parents. 我的父母也是。用so引导倒装可以避免重复。例如

：－She is a teacher. －So am I.（－她是个老师。－我也是。）

答案：
1.married
2.brave
3.slapped