时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:4 神秘农场 Mystery Ranch


英语课

It’s the Mystery Man!” shouted Benny, looking out the window the next day. “I hope the guard will let him in.”



It was John Carter 1, the tall young man with the brown hair and brown eyes. He went first to Aunt Jane and thanked her for asking him to come. Then he spoke 2 to all the children as if he were delighted to see them.



“I want to show you something, Carter,” said Mr. Alden. “You children come, too. We’re going to look at the fireplace 3 in the other kitchen.”



“I won’t go,” said Aunt Jane, smiling. “I know all about that chimney 4.”



When they stood before the fireplace, Mr. Alden said, “See that yellow and black in the stone, Carter?”



“Why, this is funny!” Mr. Carter said, “That fireplace is made of uranium ore 5! There is gold and silver in it, too.”



“The gold and silver are not good,” said Mr. Alden. “Of course, we had never heard of uranium when we built the chimney. I think that is the only chimney in the world that is made of uranium ore.”



“Is the chimney the same all the way up?” asked Benny.



Grandfather laughed. “Yes, all the way up. We left it rough 6 outside, and smoothed it inside. My father and mother and I went East, and we had a chimney right here with uranium in it!”



They went back to the living room.



Jessie said, “Aunt Jane, you remember you said there were no mysteries in this house? And in a way, that chimney was a fine mystery.”



“I didn’t know it then,” said her aunt.



“We didn’t know about the fields either,” said Benny, “or who the Mystery Man was. Let’s call this Mystery Ranch 7!”



“That’s a fine name!” said Mr. Carter. “You could paint the name on a sign and hang it over the driveway.”



At six o’clock, the birthday party began. Everyone was excited. Watch barked and barked, and nobody stopped him.



They set the big table with a white linen 8 cloth. They set eight places with Aunt Jane’s best dishes. The birthday cake had seventy tiny candles on it.



When supper was over, Aunt Jane said, “Take the dishes into the kitchen and leave them there. You can wash them later. I want to open my presents!”



The children had made their presents for Aunt Jane with loving hands. They sat, watching the pretty little lady.



Jessie thought, “How very different she is from the little old lady in bed! I’m glad we came here.”



“I love every one of my presents!” cried Aunt Jane.



“Now let me get yours, Grandfather!” cried Henry.



“Very well, my boy,” said Mr. Alden, smiling.



Henry rushed out to the barn 9. Soon he came back with a tiny black and white puppy 10 in his arms. He put it on the floor. It was very soft. Watch stood up quickly and looked at it.



“Come here, Watch,” said Jessie. “Be a good dog.”



“Her name is Lady, Aunt Jane,” said Henry.



“Oh, what a beautiful little dog!” said Aunt Jane. “Is she for me?”



“Yes,” said Mr. Alden. “To take the place of Watch when the children go home.”



Watch wagged 11 his tail a little. He sat down.



“She’s just a baby dog, Watch,” said Jessie. “You be good, now.”



“Do you want to hold the puppy, Aunt Jane?” asked Henry.



He put the little dog in her arms. Watch didn’t like this. He sat and looked at the stranger.



Aunt Jane loved it. Anyone could see that. The puppy loved her, too. It lay down against her arm and shut its eyes.



“Lady is tired,” said Henry. “She goes to sleep whenever she can.”



Aunt Jane sat very still. She held the baby dog quietly. She was very pleased when it went to sleep.



Watch lay down again, beside Jessie, as if to say, “Well, I don’t care. After all, I’m Jessie’s dog.”



Grandfather looked at his family and his friends. He loved every one of his grandchildren 12. He was very happy now that he had a sister again.



Grandfather said to Mr. Carter, “This is a very happy day for me. You can see what fine grandchildren I have.”



“You certainly do, Mr. Alden.”



“Now we will all be happy next year,” he went on. “The children will go back to school. Sam and Annie can move into this house. Maggie can stay happily with Jane. And best of all, I have a sister again.”



But Aunt Jane shook her head and said, with tears in her eyes, “No, James. Best of all, I have a brother.”



The Alden children just looked at one another. They were too happy to say a word.



1 carter
n.运货马车夫,赶大车的人;卡车司机
  • Although fatigue shows readily on Carter, he bounces back quickly. 卡特虽然容易显出疲劳的样子,但他恢复得很快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 fireplace
n.壁炉,炉灶
  • The fireplace smokes badly.这壁炉冒烟太多。
  • I think we should wall up the fireplace.我想应该封住壁炉。
4 chimney
n.烟囱,烟筒;玻璃罩
  • The chimney blew out a cloud of black smoke.烟囱里喷出一团黑烟。
  • His father is a chimney sweeper.他的父亲是一位扫烟囱的工人。
5 ore
n.矿,矿石,矿砂
  • How many tons of ore can this machine crush in an hour?这机器每小时可以破碎多少吨矿石?
  • They refined gold out of the ore.他们从矿石中提炼出黄金。
6 rough
adj.粗糙的;粗略的,大致的;粗野的,粗暴的
  • It's just a very rough translation.这只是一篇非常粗糙的译稿。
  • His reply was a bit rough.他的答复过于粗鲁了一点。
7 ranch
n.大牧场,大农场
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
8 linen
n.亚麻布,亚麻线,亚麻制品;adj.亚麻布制的,亚麻的
  • The worker is starching the linen.这名工人正在给亚麻布上浆。
  • Fine linen and cotton fabrics were known as well as wool.精细的亚麻织品和棉织品像羊毛一样闻名遐迩。
9 barn
n.谷仓,饲料仓,牲口棚
  • That big building is a barn for keeping the grain.那幢大房子是存放粮食的谷仓。
  • The cows were driven into the barn.牛被赶进了牲口棚。
10 puppy
n.小狗,幼犬
  • You must school your puppy to obey you.你要训练你的小狗服从你。
  • Their lively puppy frisks all over the house.他们的小狗在屋里到处欢快地蹦跳。
11 wagged
v.(使)摇动,摇摆( wag的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The dog wagged its tail with pleasure. 那条狗高兴得直摇尾巴。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She wagged her finger with mock severity. 她故作严厉地摆了摆手指。 来自《简明英汉词典》
12 grandchildren
n.孙子;孙(女),外孙(女)( grandchild的名词复数 )
  • He left a bequest to each of his grandchildren. 他给他的孙辈每人留下一笔遗产。
  • His grandchildren afforded him his greatest pleasure in his old age. 他的孙子和孙女们在晚年的时候给了他最大的欢乐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
acclivi-tous
Acer platanoides
additional paragraph in auditor's report
air-brake dynamometer
Ammate
anchorable
Andreyevskiy
apertura
ashtanga
astatic
auriculo-ventricular
bequeathest
bicornuta
biotransfer
Blenheim Orange
calculus of lower urinary tract
callionymus variegatus
charge-sheet
chernyy otrog
collcynth
comma movable
community-gardening
contagious polyarthritis
corocalene
counter clockwise (ccw)
counterefforts
crowflower
de-esterification
deficit covering bonds
desalin(iz)ation
dichlorbenil
ecureuils
entero-chromaffin cell
explosive pressure
financial environment
fluxgate magnetometer
Fogg Art Museum
fulguration current
Gastrocybe lateritia
generator field control
get the memo
gibelike
graphics adapter
grating of gears
gunnery practice
hematopoietic system
high-voltage switch
hylozoism
hypersonic glider
ideal imperfect-crystal
ill-natured
illegal condemnation
intergroup behavior
klier
koe-san (goesan)
komun-som (huk-to )
lathe tool bit
lending agreement
like kings
lindahl taxes
main longitudinal frame
microflake tobacco sbeet
micropegmatitic structure
ministry for industry and trade
minor orders
momchaunce
National city Bank of New York
neutron activity
normalization routine
oceanic affinity
oxyphosphate of copper cement
palm-presser
parameter plane method
pasteurized lactic beverage
peneite
phase diagram of reservoir hydrocarbon
photoactivity detector
playdoh
plug for seal
printergram
refuse incinerator
repairable material
rhizocephalous
rusticalness
science teachers
seeabler
seeing about
ship technology
siccitate
Sisymbrium officinale
snakeskin glaze
spreader-ditcher
stand point
standing-wave method
stroke ... down
stuffing gland
truncheoning
trustor
ursaenate
VREPAIR
wanderstars