課文原文:
Last week at a dinner party, the hostess asked me to sit next to Mrs. Rumbold. Mrs. Rumbold was a large,unsmiling lady in a tight black dress. She did not even look up when I took my seat beside her. Her eyes were fixed on her plate and in a short time, she was busy eating. I tried to make conversation.
‘A new play is coming to“The Globe”soon,' I said.‘Will you be seeing it?’
‘No,’she answered.
‘Will you be spending your holidays abroad this pyear?’I asked.
‘NO,’she answered.
‘Will you be staying in England?’I asked.
‘No,’she answered.
In despair, I asked her whether she was enjoying her dinner.
‘Young man,’she answered,‘if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!’
注:本課屬于對話型課文,故其思維導圖較為复雜。