亡灵岛(牛津书虫中英文双版本).pdf

简介 一个人有了隐私又不想让别人知道时， 我们就可以说他 “衣橱里有具骷髅”。 大部分人都做过一些不光彩的事，卡罗尔·桑德斯也不例外。她有具“衣橱里的 骷髅”，不管走到哪儿都摆脱不了。这使她越来越沮丧。当然，这件不光彩的事 正在慢慢地毁坏着她的生活。 后来她遇到一位更有隐私的人。 他的隐私需要整个一个岛来遮掩。 也许最有 可能由卡罗尔发现他的隐私。 但是如果她想探明他的隐私， 他会怎么样呢？他会 乐意把他的隐私告诉她吗？或者他会生气， 非常生气吗？这全取决于他藏在锁着 的房间中的那具 “衣橱里的骷髅”究竟是什么——而卡罗尔要打开那扇锁着的门。 本书作者约翰· 埃斯科特是一位经验丰富的作家， 现在英格兰南部的博恩默 思生活和工作。 1 Coming to England My name is Carol Sanders． I live in England now，but when I was younger，I lived in Hong Kong．My father was a businessman there and my mother worked as a secretary ．We lived in Hong Kong for seven years． I was happy at school， with lots of friends ，and we had a good time．I liked pop music—the Rolling Stones，David Bowie and Jake Rosso were my favourites． Jake Rosso was my favourite singer． He died in a car accident the year I left school， but I listened to his pop records all the time．I had hundreds of pictures and photos of him on my bedroom wall． Then one day in winter when I was seventeen ，things began to go wrong for me． My father went to Australia on business ．I loved him very much and didnt like him going away． ‘Come home quickly，’I always said to him． He was in Australia for two weeks．Then， on the day of his journey home， an aeroplane from Sydney crashed into the sea just south of Hong Kong．Everybody on the plane died ． I heard about the plane crash on television．At first ， I did not think about my father ．Then I remembered he was flying back from Sydney on that day． ‘Oh，no ！’I cried． I telephoned the airport but they did not know the names of all the passengers then ． ‘Perhaps my father didnt get that plane，’I thought．‘Oh，please！Please！’ My mother was at work and I called her on the telephone ．She came home quickly and we went to the airport and waited for news ． Later