江苏省镇江市2014高三英语上学期期末考试试题牛津译林版(5)

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onto him. He tried to smell it, and then caught some on his tongue. It bit like fire, and then disappeared. It was his first snow.

Buck?s first day at Dyea Beach was terrible. Every hour there was some new, frightening surprise. And every minute there was danger, because these dogs and men were not town dogs and men. They knew only the law of club and tooth.

Buck had never seen dogs fight like these dogs; they were like wolves. In a few minutes he learnt this from watching Curly. She tried to make friends with a dog. There was no warning. The dog jumped on Curly, whose face was torn open from eye to mouth. Thirty or forty more dogs ran up and made a circle around the fight, watching silently. Curly tried to attack the dog who had bitten her; he bit her a second time, and jumped away. When she attacked him again, he knocked her backwards, and she fell on the ground. She never stood up again, because this was what the other dogs were waiting for. In a moment she was under a crowd of dogs.

It was all very sudden. Buck saw Spitz run out from the crowd with his tongue out of his mouth, laughing. Then he saw Franois with an ax, and two or three other men with clubs jump in among the dogs. Two minutes later the last of the dogs was chased away. But Curly lay dead in the snow, her body torn almost to pieces. Curly?s death often came back to Buck in his dreams. He understood that once a dog was down on the ground, he was dead. He also remembered Spitz laughing, and from that moment he hated him.

Then Buck had another surprise. Franois put a harness on him. Buck had seen harnesses on horses, and now he was made to work like a horse with Spitz and Dave, who had worked in a harness before, and Buck learnt by watching them. He also learnt to stop and turn when Franois shouted.

“Those three are very good dogs,” Franois told Perrault. “Buck pulls very well, and he?s learning quickly.” Perrault had important letters and official papers to take to Dawson City, so that afternoon he bought two more dogs, two brothers called Billee and Joe. …… 此处隐藏：68字，全部文档内容请下载后查看。喜欢就下载吧 ……