适合初中生晨读的英语美文:Grab Your Umbrellas

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  编者按:英语学习越来越受到人们的普遍重视。在英语学习中,阅读是很重要的一项。以下是一篇关于雨伞的英语阅读材料,跟着小编一起来学习一下吧!

  Grab Your Umbrellas

  (拿好雨伞)

  It looked like rain.

  天看起来好像要下雨了。

  The sky was gray.

  天灰蒙蒙的。

  It was almost noon, but the sun was hidden by a gray blanket.

  快要中午了,但是太阳被一条灰色的毯子遮住了。

  It was cool.

  气温有些低。

  There were no birds flying anywhere.

  没有鸟儿在飞翔。

  A couple of birds sat on the telephone wire.

  有三两只小鸟坐在电话线上。

  Bob was standing outside talking to Bill.

  鲍勃站在外面和比尔说话。

  They both had their hands in their pockets.

  他们的手都插在口袋里。

  They knew that it was probably going to rain shortly.

  他们知道很快就要下雨了。

  A sudden breeze blew some leaves off a tree onto the sidewalk.

  一阵微风吹走了一棵树上的叶子,落在了人行道上。

  A young woman wearing a dark blue coat and jeans walked by.

  一个穿着深蓝色外套和牛仔裤的年轻女子走过。

  She was walking a small dog.

  她正在遛狗。

  It was pure white, and pretty.

  狗是纯白色的,很漂亮。

  It sniffed at a tree trunk.

  它在树干上嗅了嗅。

  The woman waited patiently.

  女子耐心地等待着。

  Finally, the dog lifted its leg.

  最后,狗抬起了它的腿(走了)。

  Bob said that he liked the rain.

  鲍勃说他喜欢雨。

  It was a nice change from the usual hot Los Angeles weather.

  洛杉矶的天气有了一个好的变化,不像平常的那么热了。

  And the plants could always use the extra water.

  而且植物总是可以使用额外的水分。

  Bill said the only thing he didn’t like about rain was that all the motor oil on the streets would get washed into the ocean, and so would all the trash.

  比尔说,他唯一不喜欢下雨的原因是,街上所有的机油和垃圾都会被冲到海里。

  "But that never stops the surfers," Bob said. "They don’t seem to care what’s in the water, as long as there are waves to surf on."

  “但这永远不会阻挡冲浪者,”鲍勃说,“他们似乎不在乎水里有什么,只要有海浪就可以冲浪。”

  重点知识讲解

  本则故事出现了如looked, was, were, sat , had, waited等动词的过去形式,简称动词的过去式。动词的过去式变化规律如下:

  1. 一般在动词后加-ed。如:play-played

  2. 在以字母e结尾的动词后,只加-d。如:like-liked

  3. 在以“辅音字母+y”结尾的动词后,则改y为i,再加-ed。如: study- studied.

  4. 在以单短元音的重读闭音节结尾且,末尾只有一个辅音字母的动词后,双写最后一个辅音字母,再加-ed。如:plan-planned。

  5. 不规则变化,如is/am-was, are-were, take-took等。

  知识讲解老师:Linda

  公众号:小橙少儿英语

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