时间:2019-02-07 作者:英语课 分类:趣味英语


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    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 grandfatherB. the grandmotherC. the fatherD. the mother② The grandmother was _______taller than the grandfather.

    A. five feetB. six inchesC. four inchesD. five inches③ "Leafing through" in "leafing through old photographs" means______ .

    A. to turn page by pageB. to put leaves in an albumC. to took forD 2. to take out from④ The child realized________ .

    A. how strange they must have looked togetherB. how wonderful they must have looked togetherC. how shameful 3 they must have looked togetherD. how unusual they must have looked together⑤ From the passage we can see that______ .

    A. the grandmother loved her husband deeplyB. the grandmother regretted 4 to have married 5 her husbandC. the grandfather had been out for at least ten yearsD. 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。”



n.英寸(相当于 2。54 厘米,一英尺有 12 英寸)( inch的名词复数 );少量;[复数]身材;(数量、距离、程度等)少许
  • 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。
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
adj.可耻的,不道德的
  • 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。
adj.后悔的
  • 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》
adj.已婚的;与…结婚的
  • I heard John got married.我听说约翰结婚了。
  • They got married last autumn.他们在去年秋季结婚。
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