Mr. Smith taught English at a school .At the beginning of his lesson, he liked to have one of his students give a report on any subject. When it was Jack's turn, he told his audience about his elder brother who was a local worker. But during the report, his eyes were staring at the world map on the wall all the time. Mr. Smith knew that Jack didn't look at the audience because he was nervous. He said to Jack jokingly, "We can see you miss your brother very much. But is he 0. K. now in South America?"

Notes:

(1) subject n.題目

(2) audience n .聽眾

(3) jokingly adv. 開玩笑地

Exercises:

根據(jù)短文填空：

(1) Mr. Smith taught ________ at a school.

(2) He liked to have one of his students give a ______ on any subject.

(3) Jack told his audience about his elder brother who was a _____ worker.

(4) During his report, Jack didn't look at the _______ .

(5) Jack looked at the world map all the time because he was ______ .

地圖的引力

史密斯先生在一所學(xué)校教英語(yǔ)。在每次課的開始，他喜歡叫一個(gè)學(xué)生上講臺(tái)作講演，題材不限。輪到杰克作講演時(shí)，他向聽眾講述了他的哥哥。他的哥哥就在當(dāng)?shù)毓ぷ?。但在講述過(guò)程中，杰克的眼睛一直盯著墻上的世界地圖。史密斯先生知道杰克不敢看聽眾是因?yàn)榫o張。他開玩笑似地對(duì)杰克說(shuō)：“我們能看出你非常想念你的哥哥，他現(xiàn)在在南美還好嗎？”

練習(xí)參考答案

① English ② report ③ local ④ audience ⑤ nervous