1、高考英语作文必背模板短篇小说读后续写一“My aunt will come down very soon, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very calm young lady of fifteen years of age; “meanwhile you must try to bear my company.” Framton Nuttel tried to say something which would please the niece now present, without annoying the aunt that was about to come. He wa
2、s supposed to be going through a cure for his nerves; but he doubted whether these polite visits to a number of total strangers would help much. “Do you know many of the people round here?” asked the niece, when she thought that they had sat long enough in silence. “Hardly one,” said Framton. “My si
3、ster was staying here, you know, about four years ago, and she gave me letters of introduction to some of the people here.” “Then you know almost nothing about my aunt?” continued the calm young lady. “Only her name and address;” Framton admitted. He was wondering whether Mrs. Sappleton was married;
4、 perhaps she had been married and her husband was dead. But there was something of a man in the room. “Her great sorrow came just three years ago,” said the child. “That would be after your sisters time.” “Her sorrow?” asked Framton. “You may wonder why we keep that window wide open on an October af
5、ternoon,” said the niece, pointing to a long window that opened like a door on to the grass outside. “It is quite warm for the time of the year,” said Framton; “but has that window got anything to do with your aunts sorrow?”“Out through that window, exactly three years ago, her husband and her two y
6、oung brothers went off for their days shooting. They never came back. In crossing the country to the shooting-ground, they were all three swallowed in a bog. Their bodies were never found.” Here the childs voice lost its calm sound and became almost human. “Poor aunt always thinks that they will com
7、e back someday, they and the little brown dog that was lost with them, and walk in at that window just as they used to do. That is why the window is kept open every evening till it is quite dark. Do you know, sometimes on quiet evenings like this, I almost get a strange feeling that they will all wa
8、lk in through the window?”It was a relief to Framton when the aunt bustled into the room with a whirl of apologies for being late in making her appearance. “I hope Vera has been amusing you?” she said. “She has been very interesting,” said Framton.“I hope you dont mind the open window,” said Mrs. Sa
9、ppleton briskly; “My husband and brothers will be home directly from shooting, and they always come in this way.” She rattled on cheerfully about the shooting and the scarcity of birds, and the prospects for duck in the winter. To Framton it was all purely horrible. He made a desperate but only part
10、ially successful effort to change the topic; he was conscious that his hostess was giving him only a part of her attention and her eyes were constantly straying past him to the open window and the lawn beyond.Paragraph 1:Then suddenly Mrs. Sappleton brightened into alert attention. Paragraph 2:Framt
11、on wildly grabbed his hat and stick; he ran out through the front door and through the gate. 二Once upon a sunny morning a man who sat in a breakfast nook looked up from his scrambled eggs to see a white unicorn with a golden horn quietly cropping the roses in the garden. The man went up to the bedro
12、om where his wife was still asleep and woke her. Theres a unicorn in the garden, he said. Eating roses. She opened one unfriendly eye and looked at him.The unicorn is a mythical beast, she said, and turned her back on him. The man walked slowly downstairs and out into the garden. The unicorn was sti
13、ll there; now he was browsing among the tulips. Here, unicorn, said the man, and he pulled up a lily and gave it to him. The unicorn ate it gravely. With a high heart, because there was a unicorn in his garden, the man went upstairs and roused his wife again. The unicorn, he said, ate a lily. His wi
14、fe sat up in bed and looked at him coldly. You are a booby, she said, and I am going to have you put in the booby-hatch.The man, who had never liked the words booby and booby-hatch, and who liked them even less on a shining morning when there was a unicorn in the garden, thought for a moment. Well s
15、ee about that, he said. He walked over to the door. He has a golden horn in the middle of his forehead, he told her. Then he went back to the garden to watch the unicorn; but the unicorn had gone away. The man sat down among the roses and went to sleep.As soon as the husband had gone out of the hous
16、e, the wife got up and dressed as fast as she could. She was very excited and there was a gloat in her eye.Paragraph 1:She telephoned the police and a psychiatrist; she told them to hurry to her house and bring a strait-jacket. Paragraph 2:Just as the police got her into the strait-jacket, the husba
17、nd came back into the house. Reference:booby-hatch：精神病院strait-jacket: 用来束缚精神病患者的约束衣三I first heard this tale in India, where is told as if true - though any naturalist would know it couldnt be. Later someone told me that the story appeared in a magazine shortly before the First World War. That magazi
18、ne story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down.The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests - officers and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist - in their spacious dining room, which
19、has a bare marble floor, open rafters and wide glass doors opening onto a veranda.A spirited discussion springs up between a young girl who says that women have outgrown the jumping-on-a-chair-at-the-sight-of-a-mouse era and a major who says that they havent.A womans reaction in any crisis, the majo
20、r says, is to scream. And while a man may feel like it, he has that ounce more of self-control than a woman has. And that last ounce is what really counts.The American does not join in the argument but watches the other guests. As he looks, he sees a strange expression come over the face of the host
21、ess. She is staring straight ahead, her muscles contracting slightly. She motions to the native boy standing behind her chair and whispers something to him. The boys eyes widen: he quickly leaves the room. Of the guests, none except the American notices this or sees the boy place a bowl of milk on t
22、he veranda just outside the open doors.The American comes to with a start. In India, milk in a bowl means only one thing - bait for a snake. He realizes there must be a cobra in the room. He looks up at the rafters - the likeliest place - but they are bare. Three corners of the room are empty, and i
23、n the fourth the servants are waiting to serve the next course. There is only one place left - under the table.His first impulse is to jump back and warn the others, but he knows the commotion would frighten the cobra into striking. Paragraph 1:He speaks quickly, the tone of his voice so commanding
24、that it silences everyone. Paragraph 2:Screams ring out as he jumps to slam the veranda doors safely shut. 四Once upon a time there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness, Sadness, Knowledge, and all the others, including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the i
25、sland was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean. So all the feelings prepared their boats to leave.Love was the only one that stayed. She wanted to preserve the island paradise until the last possible moment. When the island was almost totally under, love decided it was time to leave. She began l
26、ooking for someone to ask for help.Just then Richness was passing by in a grand boat. Love asked, Richness, can I come with you on your boat? Richness answered, Im sorry, but there is a lot of silver and gold on my boat and there would be no room for you anywhere.Then Love decided to ask Vanity for
27、help who was passing by in a beautiful vessel. Love cried out, Vanity, help me please! I cant help you, Vanity said, You are all wet and will damage my beautiful boat.Next, Love saw Sadness passing by. Love said, Sadness, please let me go with you. Sadness answered, Love, Im sorry, but, I just need
28、to be alone now.Then, Love saw Happiness. Love cried out, Happiness, please take me with you. But Happiness was so overjoyed that he didnt hear Love calling to him.Paragraph 1:Love began to cry. Paragraph 2:Love then found Knowledge and asked, Who was it that helped me? 五The young people were going
29、to Floridathree boys and three girlsand when they boarded the bus, they were carrying sandwiches and wine in paper bags, dreaming of golden beaches and sea tides as the gray cold of New York vanished behind them.As the bus rumbled south, they began to notice Vingo. He sat in front of them, dressed i
30、n a plain, ill-fitting suit, never moving, his dusty face masking his age. He chewed the inside of his lip a lot, frozen into some personal cocoon of silence.Deep into the night, outside Washington, the bus pulled into a roadside restaurant, and everybody got off except Vingo. He sat rooted in his s
31、eat, and the young people began to wonder about him, trying to imagine his life: perhaps he was a sea captain, a runaway from his wife, an old soldier going home. When they went back to the bus, one of the girls sat beside him and introduced herself.“Were going to Florida,” she said brightly. “I hea
32、r its beautiful.”“It is,” he said quietly, as if remembering something he had tried to forget.“Want some wine?” she said. He smiled and took a swig. He thanked her and retreated again into his silence. After a while, she went back to the others, and Vingo nodded in sleep.In the morning, they awoke outside another restaurant, and this time Vingo went in. The girl insi
