选修六MODULE 2课文背诵课程（外研版）(2)

110. light-headedness 头晕目眩

111. dream v. 做梦 的

105. definitely ['definitli] 112. awake adj. 醒着的，清醒

113. look around for 四处寻

106. bend v. 弯腰，屈身 找 107. turn away 避开；解雇；114. guide [ga?d]n. 指南；向走开；转过脸 发抖；战栗；

109. dawn [d??n] n. 黎

导；入门书 所有

108. shudder ['??d?] n. 115. all rights reserved 版权

第一轮二遍：语境记忆单词、短语、句式，逐句理解全文

The Cat That Vanished消失的猫（阅读1）

Will was stupefied with exhaustion, and he might garden hedge, and patted the air have gone on to the north, or he might have laid once more.

his head on the grass under one of those trees 威尔累得脑子都木了，他本可以继续向北and slept; but as he stood trying to clear his head, 走，也有可能在某棵树下头枕草地昏昏睡

去；但是，正当他站在那儿，试图让头脑清he saw a cat.

She was a tabby, like Moxie. She padded out 醒些的时候，他看见一只猫。

of a garden on the Oxford side of the road, where 那是一只母斑猫，就像威尔家的莫克西一

她轻轻地走出靠着牛津一侧街道上的一Will was standing. Will put down his shopping bag 样。

威尔正站在街边。威尔放下购物袋，and held out his hand, and the cat came up to 个花园，

rub her head against his knuckles, just as Moxie 伸出手，那只猫便跑到他身边，在他的手指就像莫克西常常做的那did. Of course, every cat behaved like that, but all 间来回蹭起了脑袋，

the same Will felt such a longing to turn for 样。当然，所有的猫都是那样（表现）的。

尽管如此，威尔还是渴望回家，以至于热泪home that tears scalded his eyes.

（scald vt. 烫伤；烫洗） Eventually this cat turned away. This was 充满了他的双眼。

night, and there was a territory to patrol, there 终于，那只猫转身跑开了。正值夜晚，她还were mice to hunt. She padded across the road 要巡视自己的领地，捕捉老鼠。她轻轻地穿and towards the bushes just beyond the 过马路，朝着角树林另一边的灌木丛走去，hornbeam trees, and there she stopped. Will, still 然后在那儿停了下来。

watching, saw the cat behave curiously. She 威尔继续盯着它，这时，他发现猫的举动变她伸出爪子去拍打它面前空气reached out a paw to pat something in the air in 得非常奇怪。

front of her, something quite invisible to Will. Then 中的某种东西，某种威尔看不见的东西。然she leapt backwards, back arched and fur on 后它向后一跃，脊背拱起，毛发竖立，尾巴end, tail held out stiffly. Will knew cat-behaviour. 僵直地伸着。威尔了解猫的习性。他更加警只见那只猫再次靠近那个地方—He watched more alertly as the cat approached 觉地看着，

the spot again, just an empty patch of grass —角树与花园树篱的灌木丛之间的一块空between the hornbeams and the bushes of a 草地，又拍打了一下那里的空气。

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Again she leapt back, but less far and with less alarm this time. After another few seconds of sniffing, touching, whisker-twitching, curiosity overcame wariness.

The cat stepped forward, and vanished.

Will blinked. Then he stood still, close to the trunk of the nearest tree, as a truck came round the circle and swept its lights over him. When it had gone past he crossed the road, keeping his eyes on the spot where the cat had been investigating. It wasn’t easy, because there was nothing to fix on, but when he came to the place and cast about to look closely, he saw it.

At least, he saw it from some angles. It looked as if someone had cut a patch out of the air, about two metres from the edge of the road, a patch roughly square in shape and less than a metre across. If you were level with the patch so that it was edge-on, it was nearly invisible, and it was completely invisible from behind. You could only see it from the side nearest the road, and you couldn’t see it easily even from there, because all you could see through it was exactly the same kind of thing that lay in front of it on this side: a patch of grass lit by a street light. But Will knew without the slightest doubt that that patch of grass on the other side was in a different world. He couldn’t possibly have said why. He knew it at once, as strongly as he knew that fire burned and kindness was good. He was looking at something profoundly alien.

And for that reason alone, it enticed him to stoop and look further. What he saw made his head swim and his heart thump harder, but he didn’t hesitate: he pushed his shopping bag through, and then scrambled through himself, through the hole in the fabric of this world and into another.

He found himself standing under a row of trees. But not hornbeam trees: these were tall palms, and they were growing, like the trees in Oxford, in a line along the grass.

她再次向后一跃，但这次跳得没有

那么远，也没有那么害怕了。又是几秒钟的嗅来嗅去、爪子触碰、胡须抽动，终于好奇心占胜了警惕性。 那只猫向前一迈，然后就消失了。 威尔眨了眨眼睛。然后他静静地站着，紧靠离他最近的一棵树干，这时一辆卡车转弯驶过来，车灯照到他的身上。卡

车开过去后，他穿过马路，眼睛盯着那只猫一直在打量的地方。这并不容易，因为他无法把目光集中在某件东西上。但是当他靠近那个地方，设法仔细观察时，他看出了端倪。

至少，他从某些角度看到了。那儿看上去就像有人在距离路边大约两米的地

方将空间切开了一块，它大体呈方形，

不到一米宽。如果你与那块空间处在同等高度，从侧面看你几乎看不到它，从

后面则完全看不见它。只有从最靠近马路的一个边才能看到它，但也很难看清

楚，因为透过它，你所看到的一切与这一边的完全相同：被一盏街灯照亮的一片草地。

但是威尔深信不疑，另一边的那块草地在一个不同的世界里。

他不可能说得出所以然来。他只是马上就知道了，就如同他知道火会燃烧、善良是美好的一样。他所注视着的是某种

极为陌生的东西。

仅仅是这一个理由，就足以吸引着他俯下身子向更深入望去。他看到的一切使

他头晕目眩，心跳加速，但是他却丝毫没有迟疑：他把购物袋塞了过去，继而自己也钻了过去——穿过现实世界框架上的这个洞，进入了另一个世界。

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