42. The Long and Short of It
时间：2019-01-06 作者：英语课 分类：英汉幽默故事选读
Although I had never met him, I knew that my grandfather had been five feet, six inches 1 tall, while my stately grandmother stood five feet, eleven inches. As a teen-ager leafing through old photographs with Grandma, I finally realized how unusual they must have looked together .
"Grandma, " I asked, "how could you have fallen in love with a man five inches shorter than you?"
She turned to me. "Honey," she said, "we fell in love sitting down, and when I stood up, it was too late."
Notes:
(1) stately adj.高贵的
(2) leaf through迅速翻阅；浏览
(3) teen-ager.十几岁的人
(4) fall in love with爱上；坠入爱河
Exercises:
根据短文选择正确答案：
① The child had never met______ .
A. the grandfather
B. the grandmother
C. the father
D. the mother
② The grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.
A. five feet
B. six inches
C. four inches
D. five inches
③ "Leafing through" in "leafing through old photographs" means______ .
A. to turn page by page
B. to put leaves in an album 2
C. to took for
D. to take out from
④ The child realized________ .
A. how strange they must have looked together
B. how wonderful they must have looked together
C. how shameful 3 they must have looked together
D. how unusual they must have looked together
⑤ From the passage we can see that______ .
A. the grandmother loved her husband deeply 4
B. the grandmother regretted 5 to have married 6 her husband
C. the grandfather had been out for at least ten years
D. the grandfather had been dead for nearly eight years
42.来龙去脉
尽管我从未见过我祖父，但我知道他身高五英尺六，而我高贵的祖母身高五英尺十一。十几岁的时候，我和祖母一起一页一页地翻着老照片，我终于认识到他们在一起是多么不同寻常。
“奶奶，”我问道，“你怎么会爱上一个比你矮五英寸的人呢？”
她转过脸来看着我。“宝贝，”她说，“我们是坐着相爱的。当我站起来的时候，已经太晚了。”
练习参考答案：
①A②D③A④A⑤A
- The water is only a few inches deep. 这水只有几英寸深。
- 1.14 inches of rain fell last night. 昨晚的降雨量为1.14英寸。
- The photos belong in an album.这些照片应该放在相册里。
- Will you look over his album?你要不要去看看他的歌集唱片？
- It is very shameful of him to show off.他向人炫耀自己，真不害臊。
- We must expose this shameful activity to the newspapers.我们一定要向报社揭露这一无耻行径。
- I do feel deeply the strength of the collective.我确实深深地感到了集体的力量。
- We're deeply honoured that you should agree to join us.您能同意加入我们，我们感到很荣幸。
- Pierre told them some things he later regretted telling. 皮埃尔告诉了他们一些事，他后来感到后悔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They regretted agreeing to the convocation of that meeting. 他们后悔同意召开这个会议。 来自《简明英汉词典》