【中级英语听力】15
时间：2019-01-23 作者：英语课 分类：中级类英语听力
英语课
When Edward Temple was about eight or nine years old he was afflicted 1 with a disorder 2 of the eyes. It was so severe, and his sight was naturally so delicate, that the surgeon felt some apprehensions 3 lest the boy should become totally blind. He therefore gave strict directions to keep him in a darkened chamber 4, with a bandage over his eyes. Not a ray of the blessed light of heaven could be suffered to visit the poor lad. This was a sad thing for Edward. It was just the same as if there were to be no more sunshine, nor moonlight, nor glow of the cheerful fire, nor light of lamps. A night had begun which was to continue perhaps for months, - a longer and drearier 5 night than that which voyagers are compelled to endure when their ship is icebound, throughout the winter, in the Arctic Ocean. His dear father and mother, his brother George, and the sweet face of little Emily Robinson must all vanish and leave him in utter darkness and solitude 6. Their voices and footsteps, it is true, would be heard around him; he would feel his mother's embrace and the kind pressure of all their hands; but still it would seem as if they were a thousand miles away.
1. What was Edward Temple's surgeon worried about?
That he may need glasses
That he may go blind
That he may become color-blind
That he may never be able to read books
2. What was not allowed in Edward's darkened chamber?
Light
People
Sound
Cold air
3. What could be heard and felt around him?
Voices
Footsteps
His mother's embrace
All of the above
1. That he may go blind
2. Light
3. All of the above
1. What was Edward Temple's surgeon worried about?
That he may need glasses
That he may go blind
That he may become color-blind
That he may never be able to read books
2. What was not allowed in Edward's darkened chamber?
Light
People
Sound
Cold air
3. What could be heard and felt around him?
Voices
Footsteps
His mother's embrace
All of the above
1. That he may go blind
2. Light
3. All of the above
使受痛苦，折磨( afflict的过去式和过去分词 )
- About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
- A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。
n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调
- When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
- It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
疑惧
- He stood in a mixture of desire and apprehensions. 他怀着渴望和恐惧交加的心情伫立着。
- But subsequent cases have removed many of these apprehensions. 然而，随后的案例又消除了许多类似的忧虑。
n.房间，寝室；会议厅；议院；会所
- For many,the dentist's surgery remains a torture chamber.对许多人来说，牙医的治疗室一直是间受刑室。
- The chamber was ablaze with light.会议厅里灯火辉煌。