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经过认真、慎重乃至郑重地考虑过后，我们决定，要搞一个大事情！ 那就是——每周一、三、五三天推送英文阅读文章，让大家开口读英语。 英语该怎么读？英语要大声读！再没有什么比有感情的朗读更让人对英语深刻理解的了。如果有，肯定是再读一遍。 所以，想要说流利的英语，就大声读出来吧。 在开始阅读本篇文章之前，请铭记这样一句话。 “没有读不懂的文章，如果一遍不行，就多读几遍。” 当然，不会的单词还要翻字典的。 本周第一篇阅读文章，我们精选了牛津书中第1级的Love or Money（爱情与金钱）的部分章节。 在阅读之前，建议同学们抽出一张白纸，先简单地将故事里的人物关系图画出来，例如这样： 这样有助于你了解整个故事脉络。 在读文章之前，请先思考如下问题： Question ：Who killed her mother and why? Everyone came into the sitting room and sat down． Inspector Walsh stood in front of the windows and looked at them, one by one. “ I want to talk to you someone killed Molly Clarkson. Someone put sleeping tablets in her hot milk and killed her. Nobody wanted to tell me the true story, but now I know the true story and I'm going to tell you．“ The Inspector looked at Albert. “ Mr King, your wife is very ill and need a nurse. You have told me this. You don't tell me about your house. You're selling your house next month because you need the money. “ Albert was angry. “Last year I asked Molly's husband for some money, and he said yes. But then he died in an accident. “ “ Accident！'Diane cried. “ That was no accident. Mother killed Daddy because she wanted his money！ “ Let's talk about you now, Diane, “said Inspector Walsh. You visited your mother every month and you took money from her. Last month she gave you money for your television. This month she gave you money for your telephone. Every month you told your mother：“It was no accident;you killed Daddy. I'm going to tell the police. ”Your mother was afraid of the police and so she gave you the money. But in the end she wanted to stop you. She told Dr. Pratt. No more money, she told Dr. Pratt on Thursday; and on Saturday she died. You took the hot milk to your mother－what did she tell you？“ Diane began to cry. “ I loved Daddy！He always gave money to me; he loved me. It was Mother－she didn't love Daddy and she didn't love me. Diane stopped. 'It's true, I took a lot of money from Mother. On Saturday she told me—no more money. I wanted to kill her, but I didn't. “ Inspector Walsh looked at Roger. “ Mr Clarkson also needed money. “ Roger's face went red. “Don't tell them！Please！“ “Mr Clarkson lost his job last month. He has no money. But he has an expensive house and an expensive car. He likes expensive things.“ His sisters looked at him, but Roger put his hand over his eyes. “Don't talk to me！“ “ It doesn't matter now！“ Diane said. “Mother is dead and we have a lot of money. You don't need a job. “ Roger's face went red again．'Be quiet, Diane！' 'Now, Inspector Walsh began again. 'Peter Hobbs is a very angry young man. Mrs Clarkson was not very nice to him. He got the sleeping tablets from the shop. But did he put the tablets in the hot milk？I think not. Tom Briggs wanted half the garden for his farm. He was in the kitchen that night. “ Suddenly it began to rain. For a minute everyone watched it through the window. Jackie took a cigarette from her bag and began to smoke. 'But someone wanted Peter Hobbs to come into the kitchen that night. She wanted everyone to see him, and listen to him, 'Inspector Walsh said. “She…？I don't understand, “Roger began, and stopped． Inspector walsh moved away from the window and sat down. 'I'm going to tell you the true story now. Miss Clarkson, you wanted Peter Hobbs to come to the house that night. He was very angry with your mother because of that letter. He said：“I want to kill her. ”And you wanted everyone to hear that. Why？“ Jackie's face went white. “It's not true！What about Diane？You found the empty bottle in her bag！“ Diane stood up. “ In my bag？Jackie！What are you talking about？“ “Be quiet, please, and sit down, “Inspector Walsh said. He looked at Jackie. “It's true：we found the bottle in Diane's bag. But how do you know that？We didn't tell you. “ “You did…before…you told me before！“ “No. We found the empty bottle in Diane's room. We told you that. You talked about Diane's bag；we didn't tell you. Sergeant foster wrote it all down. “Inspector Walsh looked carefully at Jackie. “A long time ago, you knew Tom Briggs. He was the gardener here and you loved him. But your mother didn't like him. “ Jackie put her hands to her head．“No！No！“ “We found your picture-an old one-in Mr Briggs'house. You were younger then, and your hair was long. Last year Tom Briggs came back, and you wanted him. He loved you, too, but he had no money. He wanted the garden for his farm, he wanted money, he wanted you. But your mother said no. In the end, you wanted to kill your mother…and you did kill her. Your mother went downstairs to see the dogs and you put the sleeping tablets in her hot milk. Later, you put the empty bottle in Diane's bag. Jackie stood up. Her eyes were dark and afraid. “ You don't understand！she cried. 'Mother gave me nothing…all those years. I wanted to be happy…to be with Tom. That's all. I love Tom, and he loves me. But Mother said no. Always no. “Then she began to cry. Nobody looked at her. Jackie left the house in a police car. Inspector Walsh watched and then walked slowly to his car. He felt tired and hungry. He stopped and looked back at the house. “Well, “he said to Sergeant Foster, “in the end, they go the money：Albert, Roger, Diane. They're all rich now. But are they going to be happy？“ 今天的阅读到此结束，周三我们继续新的文章。 看完之后，大家是不是意犹未尽呢，回台回复关键词 '爱情与金钱' ，即可可以获得《爱情与金钱》中英文PDF读本和《爱情与金钱》纯英文PDF读本呦~  广告时间今年寒假，做你想做的事情！ 因为——这个期末，学而思网校和你一起抢分！ 原价180，福利价40元，现在报名更有好礼赠~ |
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