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。