第40课（244字 2分钟）

Passage Forty

（K4 level）

1.Edith Cavell was born in a little English village.

2.She was a clever, hard-working girl and did well at school, especially in music and French.

3.After she left school, her first job was to take care of the children of a rich family in Belgium.

4.The language they spoke was French, so she found that her school studies were useful.

5.She could understand them easily, at the same time she taught the children to speak English and play the piano.

6.After hearing that her father was seriously ill, Edith returned home to look after him.

7.She then decided to become a nurse.

8.Afterwards for five years she worked in an English hospital where she proved to be highly professional at her job.

9.A Belgian doctor was so impressed that he invited her to his country to organize a training school for nurses.

10.The First World War broke out in 1914 and Edith Cavell’s school of nursing became a hospital.

11.She stayed there to look after the sick and wounded soldiers .

12.Edith treated them with kindness.

13.Between November 1914 and August 1915 she secretly helped about 200 wounded soldiers and prisoners escape from the Germans.

14.Later the German army found out what Edith had done and they arrested her.

15.Finally, the Germans killed her, but they could not kill her memory.

16.A tall statue has been built in Trafalgar Square, London, in honor of the brave English nurse.

生词表（New Words）

1. born 出生 village 村庄

2. clever 聪明 hard-working 勤奋 school 学校

music 音乐 French 法语

3. job 工作 children 孩子 Belgium 比利时

4. language 语言 studies 学业 useful 有用

5. understand 理解 taught 教 speak 说

piano 钢琴

6. father 父亲 ill 病 look after 照顾

7. decided 决定 nurse 护士

8. hospital 医院 professional 专业

9. doctor 医生 invited 邀请 school 学校

nurses 护士

10. war 战争 broke out 爆发 hospital 医院

11. stayed 留下 soldiers 士兵

12. treated 对待 kindness 善良

13. secretly 秘密 helped 帮助 escape 逃离

14. army 军队 arrested 逮捕

15. killed 杀害 memory 记忆

16. statue 雕像 honor 纪念 brave 英勇

nurse 护士

1. 伊迪丝·卡维尔出生在一个小小的英国村庄。

2. 她是一个聪明又勤奋的女孩，在学校表现很好，尤其是在音乐和法语方面。

3. 离开学校后，她的第一份工作是照顾比利时一个富有家庭的孩子。

4. 他们说的语言是法语，因此她发现自己的学业非常有用。

5. 她能轻松地理解他们，同时教孩子们说英语和弹钢琴。

6. 听说父亲病得很重后，伊迪丝回家照顾他。

7. 随后她决定成为一名护士。

8. 后来她在一家英国医院工作了五年，在工作中展现了高度的专业水平。

9. 一位比利时医生对她印象深刻，邀请她去比利时为护士们建立一个培训学校。

10. 1914年第一次世界大战爆发，伊迪丝·卡维尔的护士学校变成了一家医院。

11. 她留在那里照顾病人和受伤的士兵。

12. 伊迪丝以善良对待他们。

13. 在1914年11月至1915年8月之间，她秘密帮助了大约200名受伤士兵和囚犯逃离德国人。

14. 后来德国军队发现了伊迪丝所做的事，并逮捕了她。

15. 最终，德国人杀害了她，但他们无法抹去她的记忆。

16. 一座高大的雕像已在伦敦的特拉法加广场竖起，以纪念这位英勇的英国护士。