第7课 (282字 1分钟)

Passage Seven

（K4 level）

1. Tom had tried many ways to be ill.

2. He didn’t wear a sweater when he should, and two days earlier, he had walked in the rain without his shoes.

3. He remembered that Debbie had once told him about a boy in her class who liked being away from school.

4. According to Debbie, the boy would rub the end of the thermometer until it went up to 39℃ and then put it in his mouth, making his mother think he was really ill.

5. Tom tried doing that that morning, but the thermometer never went above 35℃, even after he rubbed it for ten minutes.

6. He then held the thermometer next to the light on his desk, and it went up to 40℃.

7. He thought he would put it in his mouth and walk downstairs like that.

8. He believed his mother would take it out and be worried when she saw he was rather ill.

9. However, he hadn’t known the thermometer would be so hot.

10. As soon as he put it into his mouth, he burnt his tongue.

11. He spat the thermometer out.

12. It fell on the floor but didn’t break.

13. He decided he would have to think up a better way to get his mother and father back together.

生词表（New Words）

1. tried 尝试过  ways 方法  ill 生病  

2. sweater 毛衣  rain 雨  shoes 鞋  

3. remembered 记得  boy 男孩  school 学校  

4. rub 摩擦  thermometer 温度计end 末端 

went up 升到  ill 生病  

1. morning 早上  never 从未  above 超过 

minutes 分钟  

2. held 放置  light 灯  desk 桌子 

went up 升到  

7. put 放  walk 走  downstairs 下楼  

8. believed 认为  take 拿出  worried 担心 

ill 生病  

9. knew 知道  hot 烫  

10. burnt 烫伤了  tongue 舌头 

11. spat 吐了  thermometer 温度计 

12. fell 掉  floor 地板  broke 摔碎  

13. decided 决定  better 更好的  way 办法 

together 在一起

1. 汤姆试过很多方法让自己生病。

2. 他没有在应该穿毛衣的时候穿毛衣，而且两天前还光着脚在雨中走路。

3. 他记得黛比曾经告诉过他班上有一个男孩，他喜欢不上学。

4. 根据黛比的说法，那个男孩会摩擦温度计的末端，直到温度升到39℃，然后把它放进嘴里，让他的妈妈以为他真的病了。

5. 汤姆那天早上试了这样做，但温度计即使摩擦了十分钟也从未超过35℃。

6. 然后他把温度计放在桌上的灯旁边，温度升到了40℃。

7. 他想把温度计放进嘴里，然后就这样走下楼去。

8. 他认为他的妈妈会把温度计拿出来，并且看到他好像病得很重时会很担心。

9. 然而，他不知道温度计会那么烫。

10. 当他把温度计放进嘴里的时候，他立刻烫伤了舌头。

11. 他把温度计吐了出来。

12. 它掉在地板上，但没有摔碎。

13. 他决定必须想出一个更好的办法让他的爸爸和妈妈重新在一起。