时间:2019-01-03 作者:英语课 分类:英汉幽默故事选读


英语课


  A woman answered her front door and found two boys holding a list. "Lady," one of them explained, "we are on a treasure hunt, and we need three grains of wheat, a pork-chop bone and a piece of used carbon 1 paper to earn a dollar. "



  "Wow," the woman replied, "who sent you on such a challenging 2 hunt?" "Our baby-sitter's boyfriend. "



Notes:



  (1) pork-chop 猪肉排



  (2) carbon paper复写纸



Exercises:



根据短文回答问题:



  ①The list the two boys were holding must have been about _____.



  A. the name of the baby-sitter's boyfriend



  B. where the two boys should go



  C. the lady's address



  D. the things that the two boys should hunt



  ② Where did the two boys meet the woman?



  A. on the-street



  B. on the road



  C. in the backyard 3



  D. at her front door



  ③ Why were the boys on the hunt?



  A. Because their parents told them to do so,



  B. Because their baby-sitter was not home.



  C. Because their baby-sitter's boyfriend wanted to stay with her alone.



  D. Because it had bee their usual game.



  ④ The woman's attitude towards the boys' act was that_____ .



  A. she was very happy



  B. she was very angry



  C. she was a bit disappointed 4



  D. she was a bit surprised



  ⑤ From the passage, we may conclude 5 that______ .



  A. it would take the boys a long time to gather all the required things



  B. the woman would give all the required things to the boys



  C. the boys were cheated by the baby-sitter's game



  D. the baby-sitter ran away with her boyfriend



11.富有挑战性的搜寻



  一个妇人打开前门,看到两个男孩手里拿着一张字条。“夫人,”其中一个解释道,“我们在寻宝。我们需要三颗麦粒、一块猪排骨、一张用过的复写纸来挣一美元。”



  “哦,”那位妇女回答道:“谁让你们作这样富有挑战性的搜寻的?”



  “是我们保姆的男朋友。”



练习参考答案:



①D②D③C④D⑤A



n.碳元素
  • Diamonds are pure carbon.钻石是纯净的碳。
  • Carbon is an element,while carbon dioxide is a compound.碳是一种(化学)元素,而二氧化碳则是一种化合物。
adj.大胆的(复杂的,有前途的,挑战的);n.复杂(有前途,大胆,挑战)
  • She performed the most challenging task without a mistake.她毫无差错地完成了这一最富有挑战性的任务。
  • We have changed the course to make it more challenging.我们改了课程以使其更具挑战性。
n.后院,后庭
  • I parked the car in the backyard.我把汽车停在后院。
  • The residents didn't want a new factory in their backyard.居民不希望在他们住地附近建新工厂。
adj.失望的,不满意的,不如意的
  • He seemed disappointed when the man refused his request.当那个人拒绝了他的要求时他看起来很失望。
  • He was disappointed so often that he became hopeless.他屡次失望,以致变为了绝望。
vt.结束时说;(经推理)相信;达成;vi.结束,终结
  • From the evidence I must conclude that you are wrong.从证据看,我敢断定你错了。
  • I would like to conclude with a few points.我想用几点来做个结论。
学英语单词
acrylic anhydride
actual selling price
ad verbum
airglows
Almvik
angel's share
antecedent
antirehabilitation
astragalus (or ankle bone)
Aylmer, L.
Bohemian school
bombing system
bromsalizol
charged tRNA
cinder bogie
closed vapour cycle
compensatory emphysema
Cooperative Fuel Research engine
cripplings
dark tone
diabeticdermopathy
dictyostelium giganteum
diformyldapsone
driving steam turbine
duopolies
EODU
equivalent design of laminate
esterifications
forest fire science
free-tailed bat
gatelegged
h.bell
henbits
HSP
hydraulo-pneumatical
Ilex salicina
installed cost of project
interrupting capacity rating
IPC
Izmail
kobaltsulfuret (jaipurite)
kokum butter
labour expenditure
lost his tongue
MCP (main circulation pump)
messageer
minirecorder
mop and mow
morphodynamically
multi model miller
Myleran
nervi palatinus posterior
non-aggression principle
non-relative pathogen
noneclipsed
nonshearing
Novyy Nekouz
odontocete
oil cooler shutter
oily solution
outsettlement
pararipples
parole board
peloer
pelvi-
phyllosticta alcides sacc.
poodlefaker
pregant
prestressed
Primitive security
probiotic microflora
quite a man
recovery period
retinenes
roy-zellner test
San Giuliano Milanese
say turkey
self-filling windscreen washer
simon
single-site network
soft commission
solidatively
spraygun
straining
streptophytes
subcontractable
submarine fault scarp
suited-booted
survival condition
tortys
touladi
treatment in the balance sheet
two way infinite tape
uptream reach end
useful cross section
vesicas
weaver aisle
wiley-vch
WPBP
xylite
Zaburun'ye
zivia