练习材料:
L46-3: Do it yourself
Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.
The mower firmly refused to mow,
so I decided to dismantle it.
The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower.
But I was extremely pleased with myself.
I had traced the cause of the trouble.
One of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped.
After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsaw puzzle together again.
I was not surprised to find that machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it,
for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.
I gave up in despair.
The weeks passed and the grass grew.
When my wife nagged me to do something about it,
I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow.
Needless to say our house is now surrounded by ajungle.
Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn mower which I have promised to repair one day.
应用配置:L0+L4
知识笔记:Inevitably/ɪˈnɛvətəbli chunks/ʧʌŋks traced/treɪst links/lɪŋks snapped/snæpt insurmountable/ɪnsərˈmaʊntəbəl jigsaw/ʤɪg reassembled/riəˈsɛmbəld grew/gru nagged/nægd jungle/ʤʌŋgəl Buried/bɛrid
练习感悟:用时47分钟,尽管课文略长,但是读熟悉了几个单词后,语感也来了,顺利完成。这样的感觉希望接下来一直都能持续。
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