外研版（2019）高中英语必修二Unit 5 Period 2 同步练习2

    Charlie is a teacher and his wife, Maria is an artist. The night before last, just before the longest day of the year, Charlie was sitting in a deckchair enjoying the warm summer air when Maria touched his shoulder and he could tell immediately she was a little worried about something. He asked her what the matter was and she replied that there was a strange thing on the jacket that was hanging in the bedroom. They had both lived in the West Indies (西印度群岛) and had seen a lot of strange creatures in their house before. But now they were living in England and so Charlie just laughed and said he would have a look at the "thing".

    He walked to the bedroom. He saw a jacket hanging in the bedroom and went up to it to have a closer look at the "thing". The moment he touched it, the thing sprang into life. Now Charlie experiences fear like the rest of us but when this creature opened its wings, he jumped out of his skin and ran screaming from the room like a small child doing about 100 miles an hour.

    For a moment the next-door neighbours thought that Charlie was murdering his wife because of the noise they could hear. In fact, it was a bat that frightened Charlie.

    Eventually Charlie managed to trap the bat in a box and took it to the garden to let the bat fly. Maria, who had been playing the guitar while Charlie was upstairs, asked Charlie if he had found out what the thing was. "Oh, nothing to worry about", he said casually hoping that the terror could not be seen in his eyes, "it was just a bat."

    Once upon a time, two young men were spending some time in the country. One day, while taking a walk together, they crossed a large field. (sudden) a bull (公牛) appeared and began to chase (追逐) them. They were very (frighten) and began to run, but the bull kept (run) after them. Finally, one of the men climbed up a tree and other one jumped into a hole. Soon, however, the man had jumped into the hole came out again.

    Immediately the bull chased him back into the hole again. This (go) on for five or six times. Finally, the man in the tree came up an idea and shouted to his friend, “Stay in the hole for a while or this bull (keep) us here all day！” he jumped back into the hole again, he said, “It's easy for you to say, there is a bear in this hole.”