时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:中级类英语听力


英语课

 The house whirled around two or three times and rose slowly through the air. Dorothy felt as if she were going up in a balloon. The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it the exact center of the cyclone 1. In the middle of a cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised it up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather. It was very dark, and the wind howled horribly around her, but Dorothy found she was riding quite easily. After the first few whirls around, and one other time when the house tipped badly, she felt as if she were being rocked gently, like a baby in a cradle. Toto did not like it. He ran about the room, now here, now there, barking loudly; but Dorothy sat quite still on the floor and waited to see what would happen. Once Toto got too near the open trap door, and fell in; and at first the little girl thought she had lost him. But soon she saw one of his ears sticking up through the hole, for the strong pressure of the air was keeping him up so that he could not fall. She crept to the hole, caught Toto by the ear, and dragged him into the room again, afterward 2 closing the trap door so that no more accidents could happen. Hour after hour passed away, and slowly Dorothy got over her fright; but she felt quite lonely, and the wind shrieked 3 so loudly all about her that she nearly became deaf. At first she had wondered if she would be dashed to pieces when the house fell again; but as the hours passed and nothing terrible happened, she stopped worrying and resolved to wait calmly and see what the future would bring. At last she crawled over the swaying floor to her bed, and lay down upon it; and Toto followed and lay down beside her. In spite of the swaying of the house and the wailing 4 of the wind, Dorothy soon closed her eyes and fell fast asleep.


1. Where was the house during their ordeal 5?


 On the ground safe and in tact 6


 Destroyed by a fire


 In the ocean sailing across the sea


 In the air like a balloon


 


2. What was the dog doing?


 Running around and barking


 Sleeping under the bed


 Outside sniffing 7 for food


 Resting with Dorothy's aunt and uncle


 


3. What did Dorothy do after hours passed and nothing was happening?


 Made dinner


 Looked for her aunt and uncle


 Fell asleep on her bed


 Took her dog for a walk


 


 


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1. In the air like a balloon


2. Running around and barking


3. Fell asleep on her bed



1 cyclone
n.旋风,龙卷风
  • An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
  • The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。
2 afterward
adv.后来;以后
  • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
  • Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
3 shrieked
v.尖叫( shriek的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She shrieked in fright. 她吓得尖叫起来。
  • Li Mei-t'ing gave a shout, and Lu Tzu-hsiao shrieked, "Tell what? 李梅亭大声叫,陆子潇尖声叫:“告诉什么? 来自汉英文学 - 围城
4 wailing
v.哭叫,哀号( wail的现在分词 );沱
  • A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
  • The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。
5 ordeal
n.苦难经历,(尤指对品格、耐力的)严峻考验
  • She managed to keep her sanity throughout the ordeal.在那场磨难中她始终保持神志正常。
  • Being lost in the wilderness for a week was an ordeal for me.在荒野里迷路一星期对我来说真是一场磨难。
6 tact
n.机敏,圆滑,得体
  • She showed great tact in dealing with a tricky situation.她处理棘手的局面表现得十分老练。
  • Tact is a valuable commodity.圆滑老练是很有用处的。
7 sniffing
n.探查法v.以鼻吸气,嗅,闻( sniff的现在分词 );抽鼻子(尤指哭泣、患感冒等时出声地用鼻子吸气);抱怨,不以为然地说
  • We all had colds and couldn't stop sniffing and sneezing. 我们都感冒了,一个劲地抽鼻子,打喷嚏。
  • They all had colds and were sniffing and sneezing. 他们都伤风了,呼呼喘气而且打喷嚏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
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8-level vestigial sideband
a brass farthing
ace boon coons
active-centre
additional cannon pinion
Aegean Islands
alae vomeris
Alexander's crown
ampex
Amstelmeer
arats
Auranti cortex siccatus
automatic multi-screwdriver
backtrackings
bipolar front end
birth ratio
browzing
calibration liquid
Calochortus albus
Cau, Song
cdot
claim entitlement
Clarensac
classified as
colometrogram
containment cooling system
contract transportation
convolution operation
cooling method
CPRO
data handling equipment
diarylmaleimide
e in altissimo
energy-sapping
enforcement notice
entropy balance equation
Erb paralysis
exemplary role
fabry perot cavity
ferrimagnetisms
fishery processing ship
foreign capital in flow
furnace foundation
furnculosis
gauze sponge
godelier
grafite
grasps the nettle
hold in pledge
huntington-heberleim sink and float
hydraulic machine
hylion
infusoriform embryo
iodobromite
ketonic ester
logic(al) value
magnetic card filing cabinet
manufacturer's wire
masais
mauremys reevesii
memory time
migratory thrombophlebitis
misstating
nail smith chisel
noise pollution
NOT AND
optical depolarization
order Salientia
p.c.b.s
parabolic flight
permitio
perpendicular electric constant
persuadability
phlegmasia
pstis
pulse attenuator
Red Cross and Red Crescent
rheology of elastomers
saddle-bows
safe handling of cargo
screw driver for cruciate slot
seminists
smooth-surface
space-based observation
spherical iron particle
superfamily sphecoideas
theory of genasthenia
time-to-pulse height converter
to the advantage of
toric smoothing machine
touchinesses
translation tool
tread bracing layer
unryu-gata
vertical velocity gradient
waist packs
waitressed
walt whitmen
wholesomest
work loose
zinc dithiofuroate
Zitazonium