名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Save Me, Mummy! 学案-高三英语二轮复习培优.docxVIP

高三英语培优·名著阅读之心灵鸡汤精选 Save Me, Mummy! 班级：____________学号：____________姓名：____________ 心灵鸡汤精选Save Me, Mummy! 话题归类 阅读难度 词数 化解噩梦 四星 1390 【文章梗概】一位母亲在结婚之后做过四次同样的噩梦，时常被吓得惊慌失措，后来噩梦中的小男孩又频繁的出现在母亲的梦境中，时洗荏苒，那位母亲逐渐也成熟了和自己的丈夫-唐拥有了自己的孩子- David，然而老天爷似乎和她开了个玩笑，多年前的那个噩梦在儿子David六岁和爸比出去shopping时实现了，梦现相识，作为一位母亲，她害怕着，于是不顾一切地向儿子冲去，在卡车冲过来撞上的那一刹那，母亲抓住儿子，躲过了这个玩笑，最后母亲终于释然了，化解了这个潘多拉的结局。 I woke up drenched with sweat. It was the fourth time the dream had come to haunt me since I got married, and I couldn’t understand why. It always started the same way, with me stepping out onto the balcony of our duplex to see a little boy waving to me from across the street. He wore a T-shirt with a superhero logo on it and a pair of matching long pants. I waved back, and he said something I couldn’t hear before leaping off the curb to run toward me. As he did, an out-of-control truck barreled down the road in his direction. I tried to scream in warning, but no sound came — only a muffled hiss left my throat as I watched the child fly toward me from the impact. I ran to kneel beside him. As he lay there, he looked at me helplessly and whispered, “Save me, Mummy. Only you can save me.” His eyes closed, and he was gone. My husband, Don, stirred beside me. “Are you okay?” he asked. “You were moaning.” “I had a nightmare,” I whispered. “It seemed so real.” “Do you want to talk about it?” he asked, rolling over to face me. “No, I’ll be fine,” I assured him. “Go back to sleep.” He did, but I remained wide-awake. I waited until his breathing evened, and then slowly crept out of bed and into the kitchen. It was 6:00 a.m., and I had to be up in an hour anyway, so I put on some coffee. As it brewed, I thought about what had awoken me. The first time it happened, I immediately consulted the dream book that I kept on my night table, but it only gave me an ambiguous interpretation of the different images I was able to remember. It made no sense. I was twenty-one, married a year, and we had no children. Nor were we planning