高中英语人教版必修第三册19

[00:06.48]READING

[00:07.26]A SACRIFICE FOR LOVE (1)

[00:08.86]One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

[00:11.86]That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.

[00:14.81]Pennies saved one or two at a time by bargaining at the grocery,

[00:18.29]at the bakery and the butcher’s until one’s cheeks burnt.

[00:20.85]Three times Della counted it.

[00:22.80]One dollar and eighty-seven cents.

[00:24.76]And the next day would be Christmas. Della wept.

[00:27.27]They lived in a furnished flat at $8 per week.

[00:30.01]The place was shabby.

[00:31.32]In the hall below was a mailbox into which to letter would go.

[00:34.64]There was an electric bell that did not word,

[00:36.99]with a card next to it bearing 1 the name “Mr James Dillingham Young”.

[00:40.23]Della finished crying and attended to her cheek with the powder rag.

[00:40.66]She stood by the window and looked out at a grey cat walking along a grey fence in grey backyard.

[00:45.36]Tomorrow would be Chirstmas Day ,

[00:47.32]and she had only ＄1.87 with which to buy Jim a present .

[00:50.74]She had been saving 2 every penny she could for months, with his result.

[00:54.19]Twenty dollars a week does not go far.

[00:54.19]Expenses had been greater that she had calculated 3.

[00:56.88]They always are. Only ＄1.87 to buy a present for Jim.

[01:00.70]Her Jim. Many happy hours had she spent, planning for something nice for him.

[01:04.61]Something fine and rare-something worthy 4 of the honor 5 of being owned by Jim.

[01:05.80]There were tow 6 possessions of the James Dillingham Youngs in which they both took great pride.

[01:10.06]One was Jim’s gold watch that had been his father’s and his grandfather’s.

[01:13.61]The other was Della’s hair.

[01:15.02]Suddenly Della walked to the mirror.

[01:16.88]Her eyes were shining, but her face had lost its color within twenty seconds.

[01:20.30]She pulled down her hair and let it fall to its full length.

[01:23.10]So now Della’s long, beautiful hair fell about her shoulders like a cascade 7 of brown waters.

[01:27.28]It reached below her knee and made itself almost a garment for her.

[01:27.85]And then she quickly did it up again.

[01:29.55]She hesitated for a minute and stood still while a tear or two fell on the worn red carpet.

[01:33.60]She put on her old brown jacket and her old brown hat,

[01:36.24]and ran out of the door and down the stairs to the street.

[01:38.93]She looked at several barbershops, and finally stopped at a sign that read: “Madame Sofronie.

[01:43.03]Hair Goods of All Kinds.”

[01:44.78]Della ran up on flight of stairs.

[01:46.58]“Will you buy my hair?” asked Della.

[01:48.62]“I buy hair,” said Madame.

[01:50.24]“Take off your hat and let’s have a look at it.”

[01:52.41]Down flowed the brown cascade.

[01:54.21]“Twenty dollars,” said Madame, lifting the mass with a practised hand.

[01:57.58]“Give it to me quick,” said Della.

[01:59.51]The next two hours she was searching the stores for Jim’s present.

[02:02.18]She found it at last. It was really something that had been made for Jim and no one else.

[02:06.62]There was no other like it in any of the stores,

[02:08.97]and she had turned all of them inside out.

[02:10.72]It was a gold watch chain.

[02:12.52]It was worthy of the Watch.

[02:14.40]As soon as she saw it, she knew that it must be Jim’s.

[02:17.25]It was just right for him.

[02:18.66]Twenty-one dollars they took from her for it, and she hurried home with the 87 cents.

[02:22.92]With that chain on his watch Jim might be properly anxious about the time in any company.

[02:27.07]When Della reached home she quickly sat down to do her hair.

[02:30.02]Within forty minutes her head was covered with tiny curls 9 that made her look like a little schoolgirl

[02:34.25]She looked at herself in the mirror for a ling time.

[02:36.27]“It Jim doesn’t kill me,” she said to herself,

[02:38.57]“before he takes a second look at me, he’ll say I look like a Coney Island choir 10 girl.

[02:42.14]But what could I do-Oh! What could I do with a dollar and eighty-seven cents?”

[02:46.25]INTEGRATING SKILLS

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[02:47.24]A SACRIFICE FOR LOVE (2)

[02:49.56]At seven o’clock the coffee was made and the pan 8 was on the back of the stove,

[02:53.04]hot and ready to cook dinner.

[02:54.50]Jim was never late.

[02:55.88]Della doubled the watch chain in her hand and sat on the corner of the table near the door.

[02:59.59]When she heard his steps on the stairs away down on the first flight,

[03:02.62]she turned pale for just a moment.

[03:04.17]She had a habit for saying little silent prayers about the simplest everyday thins,

[03:07.80]and now she whispered: “Please God,make him think I am still pretty.”

[03:11.35]The door opened. Jim stepped in and closed it.

[03:14.35]He looked thin and very serious.

[03:15.82]Poor fellow, he was only twenty-two-and to be burdened with a family!

[03:19.39]He needed a new overcoat and he was without gloves.

[03:21.82]Jim stopped inside the door.

[03:23.42]His eyes were fixed 11 upon Della,

[03:25.04]and there was an expression in them that she could not read.

[03:27.31]It terrified her.

[03:28.25]It was not anger, nor surprise, nor a look showing that he did not approve,

[03:32.04]nor horror 12, nor any of the feelings that she had been prepared for.

[03:35.33]He simply stared at her with that strange expression on his face.

[03:38.41]Della got up and walked towards him.

[03:40.06]“Jim honey,” She cried, “don’t look at me that way.

[03:42.54]I had my hair cut off and sold it because I couldn’t have lived through Christmas without giving you a present.

[03:46.90]It’ll grow again-you won’t mind, will you?

[03:49.20]I just had to do it.

[03:50.40]MY hair grows very fast.

[03:49.40]Say “Merry Christmas!”

[03:50.55]Jim and let’s be happy.

[03:51.73]You don’t know what a nice-what a beautiful, nice gift I’ve got for you.”

[03:54.89]“You’ve cut off your hair?”asked Jim.

[03:57.81]“Cut it off and sold it”, said Della.

[03:59.56]Don’t you like me just as well, anyhow?

[04:01.31]I’m me without my hair, aren’t I?” Jim looked about the room.

[04:04.42]“You say your hair is gone?” he asked.

[04:07.77]“You needn’t look for it,” said Della. “It sold, I tell you-sold and gone.

[04:11.32]It’s Christmas Eve, boy. Be good to, for you.

[04:14.85]Shall I put dinner on, Jim?”

[04:16.02]Jim seemed to awake.

[04:17.51]He hugged his Della.

[04:18.66]He drew a small package from him overcoat pocket and threw it upon the table.

[04:22.16]“Don’t make any mistake about me, Della,” he said.

[04:24.77]“I don’t think there’s anything in the way of a haircut or a shampoo that make me love my girl any less.

[04:29.29]Would you stop loving me if I’d had a shave?

[04:31.51]No. But if you open that package, you may see why I was upset at first.”

[04:35.38]Della tore at the string and paper.

[04:37.44]She gave a scream of joy, and then broke out in tears and cries.

[04:40.81]For there lay the combs-the set of combs that Della had been looking at so many times in a Broadway window.

[04:45.80]Beautiful combs, pure tortoiseshell,

[04:47.92]with jewels on the edges-just the right shade to wear in her beautiful hair.

[04:51.26]They were expensive combs, she knew, and she had dreamed that she could have them.

[04:54.89]And now, they were hers, but her hair had gone.

[04:57.19]However, she hugged them to her breast,

[04:59.04]and at length she was able to look up smile and say: “My hair grows so fast, Jim!”

[05:03.01]Just then Della jumped up and cried, “Oh, oh!” Jim had not yet seen his beautiful present.

[05:08.55]She held it out to him upon her open palm.

[05:10.62]The dull precious metal seemed to flash, as if reflecting her bright spirit.

[05:14.06]“Isn’t it grand, Jim?

[05:15.32]I hunted all over town to find it.

[05:17.20]Give me your watch. I want to see how it looks on it”.

[05:19.71]Instead of obeying, Jim threw himself down on the couch 13 and put his hands under the back of his head and smiled.

[05:24.64]“Della,” said he, “Let put our Christmas presents away and keep’em a while.

[05:28.25]They’re too nice to use just at present

[05:30.26]I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs.

[05:32.30]So let’s forget about it now and have our dinner, shall we?