2024届湖南师大附中高三月考七英语读后续写——Snowflake Bentley 讲义

阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写二段，使之构成一篇完成的短文。 Snowflake Bentley   In the  days when Vermont farmers worked the land and spent time with livestock,there lived  a boy Willie  Bentley who  loved  snow  more than  anything in the world.Vermont is no stranger to snow and Bentley's happiest days were snowstorm days. He watched snowflakes(雪花)on his glove, on the vast farm  fields, and on the dark metal handle of the barn(谷仓) door. He said snow was the blessings of Nature. However, he could not share snowflakes because he could not save them.  Later, when his mother gave him an old microscope,he  mainly used it to look at snow. While kids of his neighbors chased hens and had snowball fights, Willie was catching snowflakes. Day after stormy day he studied the icy crystals(冰晶).  Their delicate patterns were even more beautiful than he had imagined.Willie decided he must find a way to save snowflakes so others could  see  their  wonderful  designs.For  three winters he tried  drawing snow crystals.They always melted in the black tray(托盘) that he used to catch them before he could finish the drawings.  When he was sixteen, Willie read of a camera with its own microscope. "If I had that camera I could  photograph  snowflakes,” he told his mother. Willie's mother knew that he would not be happy until he could share what he had seen.  “Spending time on snow is just foolishness,” his mother said. Still, she loved his son. When Willie was seventeen his parents spent their savings and bought the camera.It cost as much as ten cows.Willie was sure it was the best of all cameras.  Even so,his first pictures were failures—no better than shadows.Yet he would not quit. Mistake by mistake, snowflake by snowflake, Willie worked through every storm. Winter ended, the snow melted, and he had no good pictures.He waited for another season of snow. One day, in the second winter,he tried a new experiment. And it worked! Willie had figured out how to photograph snowflakes! "Now everyone can see the