21世纪大学实用英语综合教程4第四册reading alond.pdfVIP

Reading Aloud Unit1 She was a small woman, old and wrinkled. When she started washing for us, she was already past seventy. All the old women in out street had bent backs and leaned on sticks when they walked. But this washwoman, small and thin as she was, possessed a strength that came from generations of peasant forebears. Mother would count out to her a bundle of laundry that had accumulated over several weeks. She would then lift the bundle, put it on her narrow shoulders, and carry it the long way home. She would bring the laundry back about two weeks later. My mother had never been so pleased with any washwoman. Yet she charged no more than the others. She was a real fine. Mother always had her money ready, because it was too far for the woman to come a second time. count out 非正逐一数出，大声数; 非正不把…考虑在内 她是个小个子的妇人，上了年纪，满脸皱纹。她开始为我们洗衣服时已年过七旬。我们这条街 上所有的老妇人都是驼着背，拄着拐杖走路的。然而这个洗衣妇，虽然又瘦又小，却具有世代当庄 稼汉的祖辈所传下来的一股力气。母亲会把积了几个星期的一捆要洗的衣服一件一件数着交给她。 随后她便提起那捆衣服，放到自己窄窄的肩头上，扛着它走很长的一段路回家去。 大约两个星期后，她会把洗好的衣服送回来。我母亲从来没有对哪个洗衣妇如此满意过，然而 她要的工钱却不比别的洗衣妇要得多。她真是个千寻难觅的好帮工。母亲总是先把工钱准备好，因 为老妇人住得太远，不能让她再跑一趟。 Unit2 Though he’d portrayed (描述)himself as a fun-loving ,adventurous person online, all that he wanted to do was come home from work and sit in his recliner(躺椅), reading the paper. He rarely wanted to go out and do anything. As I ran up my credit cards on food, restaurants, clothing, fuel and bills, he made it sound as though he was paying for everything. After only nearly three weeks, one night, we had a huge fight, and l began packing my things. Half of me thought that he would --and l wanted him to --stop me. Half of me just wanted all of this to be over. That night as l tried to discuss my leaving with him, he fell asleep in the middle of the conversation, and sealed the fate of our relationship. T