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新概念英语第三册Lesson24 A skeleton in the cupboard
Who was Sebastian?
We often read in novels how a seemingly
(respect)person or family has
some
secret
has been concealed=
from
(strange)
for years.
The English language possesses a vivid saying to
this sort of
The terrible secret is
(call'a skeleton in the cupboard
At some dramatic
in the story,the terrible secret becomes
(know)
and areputationis ruined.
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the
pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old
lady
had always been so
to everybody,had,in her
_poisoned every one of her five
husbands.
It is all very well for such things to.
in fiction.
☆
To varying degrees,we all have secrets
we do not want even our
friends to learn,but of
us have skeletons in the cupboard.
The only person I know
has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton,and he is very
of
☆
the fact.George
medicine in his youth
becoming a doctor,
he becamea
(success)writer of detective stories.
☆
I once
an uncomfortable weekend
I shall never forget at his house.
George
me to the guestroom which,he said,was
(rare used.
He told me
(unpack my things and then come down to dinner.
After I had stacked my shirts and underclothes in two
drawers,I decided to one of the two
suits I had
(bring)with me in the cupboard.
I opened the cupboard door and then
(stand)in front ofit petrified.
A skeleton was dangling
my eyes.
The sudden
(move)of the door made it sway
(slight)and it gave me the
_(impress)that
it was about toleap out at me.
(drop)my suit,Idashed downstairs to tell George.
女
This was
(bad)than "a terrible
this was a
skeleton!
George was usympathetic.
'Oh,that,'he said with a smile
he were talking about an old friend.'That's Sebastian.
You
that I was a medical
once upon a time.'
Reading Skills:
Read,Stop.
Think!
Read.Stop.Think!-A Strategy for Active Reading
Cause and Effect因果关系
Main Idea主旨大意
Details细节锁定
Context Clues语境线索
Infer推理判断
Fact&Opinion事实与观点
Core Reading&Writing Strategies
·Pronouns(P)代词
·Repetition(with exac