内容简介

英语课外自学文库二辑。
英语教育家S.E.Paces教授特为华语地区学生精心设计，根据风行世界的英语文学名著改写而成基本的词汇、简单的文法、现代的句式。多多利用动画光盘哟！去听地道原声、随字幕跟读、做自测习题。

目录

1 After Twenty Years
2 The Cup of Tea
3 A Terribly Strange Bed
4 The Beautiful White Horse
5 The Garden Party
6 The Moth
7 The Boys
8 Questions and Language Practice

摘要与插图

“How do you do it?” I said.
　　“I have an understanding with a horse.”
　　“What sort of understanding?”
　　“A simple and honest one，” he said.
　　“I wish I had an understanding like that with a horse.”
　　“You‘re still a small boy. When you get to be thirteen， you’II know how to do it.”
　　That afternoon my uncle Khosrove came to our house for coffee and cigarettes. He sat in the parlour， sipping and smoking and thinking of“the old country” which he had left as a young man. Then we had another visitor， a lonely farmer， named John Byro. He wasn‘t an Armenian but he could understand our language and speak it quite well. My mother brought him offee and tobacco. He rolled a cigarette， sipped his coffee and then said， with a heavy sigh， “My white horse was stolen last month and I haven’t been able to find it yet. I can‘t understand it.”
　　This made my uncle Khosrove angry and he roared， “It doesn’t matter. Don‘t bother about it. It’s only a horse that‘s lost. And we， haven’t we lost our homeland? What are you crying over a horse for?”
　　……