时间:2018-12-01 作者:英语课 分类:自考英语综合一下册 课文+单词


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  [00:00.00]TEXT  he Letter"A"(I)

[00:05.49]I was born in the Rotunda 1 Hospital,on June 5th,1932.

[00:11.76]Mine was a difficult birth,I am told.Both mother and son almost died.

[00:18.31]A whole army of relations queued up outside the hospital until

[00:23.56]until the small hours of the morning,

[00:27.82]waiting for news and praying anxiously that it would be good.

[00:32.89]It was Mother who first saw that there was something wrong with me.

[00:38.03]I was about four months old at the time.

[00:42.00]She noticed that my head fell backwards 2 whenever she tried to feed me.

[00:47.05]She attempted to correct this by placing her hand on the back of my neck to keep it steady

[00:53.21]But when she took it away,back it would drop again.

[00:57.89]That was the first warning sign.

[01:01.34]Then she became aware of other defects as I got older.

[01:06.17]She saw that my hands were clenched 3 nearly all of the time;

[01:11.21]my jaws 4 would either lock together tightly,

[01:15.36]or they would suddenly become limp and fall loose.

[01:19.91]At six months I could not sit up without having a mountain of pillows around me

[01:26.39]At twelve months it was the same.

[01:30.33]Very worried by this,Mother told my father her fears,

[01:35.79]and they decided 5 to seek medical advice without any further delay.

[01:41.67]I was a little over a year old when they began to take me to hospitals and clinics

[01:48.04]convinced that there was something definitely wrong with me.

[01:53.08]Almost every doctor who saw and examined me

[01:57.84]said that I was a very interesting but also a hopeless case.

[02:03.19]Many told Mother very gently

[02:07.84]that I was mentally defective 6 and would remain so.

[02:12.81]That was a hard blow to a young mother

[02:16.86]who had already reared five healthy children.

[02:21.43]The doctors were sure of themselves

[02:25.08]and assured her that nothing could be done for me.

[02:29.63]She refused to accept this truth,

[02:33.60]the inevitable 7 truth as it then seemed that I was beyond cure,

[02:40.05]beyond saving,even beyond hope.

[02:44.41]She had nothing in the world to go by,

[02:48.54]not a scrap 8 of evidence to support her conviction that,

[02:53.71]though my body was crippled,my mind was not.

[02:58.26]Finding that the doctors could not help in any way

[03:03.12]besides telling her to foget I was a human creature

[03:08.11]and to regard me as just something to be fed

[03:12.65]and washed and then put away again,

[03:17.33]Mother decided there and then to take matters into her own hands.

[03:23.99]I was her child,and therefore part of the family.

[03:28.95]No matter how dull and incapable 9 I might grow up to be,

[03:34.41]she was determined 10 to treat me the same as the others.

[03:39.38]That was a big decision as far as my future life was concerned.

[03:44.73]But it wasn't easy for

[03:48.08]her because now the relatives and friends told her that I should be taken kindly 11

[03:54.71]sympathetically,but not seriously.

[03:59.26]"For your own sake,"they told her,"

[04:03.02]don't look to this boy as you would to the others;

[04:07.46]it would only break your heart in the end."

[04:11.59]Luckily for me,Mother and Father held out against the lot of them.

[04:17.65]But Mother wasn't content just to say that I was not an idiot

[04:23.81]she set out to prove it,not because of any rigid 12 sense of duty,but out of love

[04:31.54]That is why she was so successful.

[04:35.51]Four years rolled by and I was now five,

[04:39.95]and still as helpless as a newly born baby.

[04:44.53]While my father was out at bricklaying,

[04:48.37]earning the bread and butter for us,Mother was slowly,

[04:53.93]patiently pulling down the wall,

[04:57.90]brick by brick,that seemed to stand between me and the other children,

[05:03.86]slowly,patiently penetrating 13 beyond the thick curtain that hung over my mind

[05:10.80]separating it from theirs.

[05:14.17]It was hard,heartbreaking work,

[05:18.22]for often all she got from me in return was a vaguc smile

[05:23.79]and perhaps a faint gurgle.

[05:27.55]I could not speak or even mumble 14,


  [05:31.49]nor could I sit up on my own without support,let alone walk.

[05:37.27]But I wasn't inert 15 or motionless.

[05:41.11]I seemed to be all movement,wild,stiff,

[05:46.15]snakelike movement that never left me,except in sleep.

[05:51.82]My fingers twisted and twitched 16 continually,

[05:56.26]my arms moved backwards and would often shoot out suddenly this way and that

[06:02.14]and my head fell sideways.

[06:05.48]I was a queer crooked 17 little fellow.

[06:09.24]Mother tells me how one day she had been sitting with me for hours,

[06:14.60]showing me pictures and telling me the names of

[06:19.35]the different animals and flowers that were in them,

[06:23.92]trying without success to get me to repeat them.

[06:28.57]This had gone on for hours while she talked and laughed with me.

[06:33.85]Then at the end of it she leaned over me and said gently into my ear:

[06:40.69]"Did you like it,Chris?

[06:43.64]Did you like the bears and the monkeys and all the lovely flowers?

[06:49.60]Nod your head for yes,like a good boy."

[06:53.68]But I could make no sign that I had understood her.

[06:58.12]Her face was bent 18 over mine hopefully.

[07:02.06]Suddenly,my queer hand

[07:06.00]reached up and grasped one of the dark curls that fell about her neck.

[07:11.46]Gently she loosened the clenched fingers,

[07:15.54]though some dark hairs were still clutched between them.

[07:20.08]Then she turned away from my curious stare and left the room,crying.

[07:25.26]The door closed behind her.

[07:28.50]It all seemed hopeless.

[07:31.55]It looked as though my relatives were right that I was an idiot and beyond help

[07:37.30]They now spoke 19 of putting me in a home for idiots.

[07:41.66]"Never!"said my mother almost fiercely,when this was suggested to her.

[07:47.23]"I know my boy isnot an idiot;it is his body that is crippled,not his mind.

[07:53.78]I'm sure of that."



1 rotunda
n.圆形建筑物;圆厅
  • The Capitol at Washington has a large rotunda.华盛顿的国会大厦有一圆形大厅。
  • The rotunda was almost deserted today,dotted with just a few tourists.圆形大厅今天几乎没有多少人,只零星散布着几个游客。
2 backwards
adv.往回地,向原处,倒,相反,前后倒置地
  • He turned on the light and began to pace backwards and forwards.他打开电灯并开始走来走去。
  • All the girls fell over backwards to get the party ready.姑娘们迫不及待地为聚会做准备。
3 clenched
v.紧握,抓紧,咬紧( clench的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He clenched his fists in anger. 他愤怒地攥紧了拳头。
  • She clenched her hands in her lap to hide their trembling. 她攥紧双手放在腿上,以掩饰其颤抖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 jaws
n.口部;嘴
  • The antelope could not escape the crocodile's gaping jaws. 那只羚羊无法从鱷鱼张开的大口中逃脱。
  • The scored jaws of a vise help it bite the work. 台钳上有刻痕的虎钳牙帮助它紧咬住工件。
5 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
6 defective
adj.有毛病的,有问题的,有瑕疵的
  • The firm had received bad publicity over a defective product. 该公司因为一件次品而受到媒体攻击。
  • If the goods prove defective, the customer has the right to compensation. 如果货品证明有缺陷, 顾客有权索赔。
7 inevitable
adj.不可避免的,必然发生的
  • Mary was wearing her inevitable large hat.玛丽戴着她总是戴的那顶大帽子。
  • The defeat had inevitable consequences for British policy.战败对英国政策不可避免地产生了影响。
8 scrap
n.碎片;废料;v.废弃,报废
  • A man comes round regularly collecting scrap.有个男人定时来收废品。
  • Sell that car for scrap.把那辆汽车当残品卖了吧。
9 incapable
adj.无能力的,不能做某事的
  • He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
  • Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。
10 determined
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
11 kindly
adj.和蔼的,温和的,爽快的;adv.温和地,亲切地
  • Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
  • A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。
12 rigid
adj.严格的,死板的;刚硬的,僵硬的
  • She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
  • The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严,几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。
13 penetrating
adj.(声音)响亮的,尖锐的adj.(气味)刺激的adj.(思想)敏锐的,有洞察力的
  • He had an extraordinarily penetrating gaze. 他的目光有股异乎寻常的洞察力。
  • He examined the man with a penetrating gaze. 他以锐利的目光仔细观察了那个人。
14 mumble
n./v.喃喃而语,咕哝
  • Her grandmother mumbled in her sleep.她祖母含混不清地说着梦话。
  • He could hear the low mumble of Navarro's voice.他能听到纳瓦罗在小声咕哝。
15 inert
adj.无活动能力的,惰性的;迟钝的
  • Inert gas studies are providing valuable information about other planets,too.对惰性气体的研究,也提供了有关其它行星的有价值的资料。
  • Elemental nitrogen is a very unreactive and inert material.元素氮是一个十分不活跃的惰性物质。
16 twitched
vt.& vi.(使)抽动,(使)颤动(twitch的过去式与过去分词形式)
  • Her lips twitched with amusement. 她忍俊不禁地颤动着嘴唇。
  • The child's mouth twitched as if she were about to cry. 这小孩的嘴抽动着,像是要哭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
17 crooked
adj.弯曲的;不诚实的,狡猾的,不正当的
  • He crooked a finger to tell us to go over to him.他弯了弯手指,示意我们到他那儿去。
  • You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.在这些弯弯曲曲的乡间小路上你得慢慢开车。
18 bent
n.爱好,癖好;adj.弯的;决心的,一心的
  • He was fully bent upon the project.他一心扑在这项计划上。
  • We bent over backward to help them.我们尽了最大努力帮助他们。
19 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
  • 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。
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