2023新教材高考英语二轮专题复习读后续写话题练四趣事篇

读后续写话题练(四)　趣事篇

[2022·河北省张家口市第一次模拟]

“Be sure to hang the decorations high，” said Polly, my stepmom. “Jake might mistake the colorful glass balls for his toys and try to bite them，” Jake was new to our family that Christmas. He was a beautiful brown­and­white dog. And, of course, he was loaded with the curiosity that made everything a toy.

Two weeks before Christmas, we brought out the boxes of decorations, many of which had been in Polly's family for ages. Among them was a special box that held an entire gingerbread family (姜饼人). They were real cookies, hung with red ribbons (丝带) and made many years earlier.

Every now and then, I or one of my little sisters—Ruth and Sue—would pretend we were going to eat one, knowing that Polly would say, “You'll break a tooth! They're so old that they're rock­hard.” We didn't really want to eat them, but we enjoyed making fun of Polly.

Since we didn't know how Jake would react to the decorations or the Christmas tree, we were careful to put the decorations up high. Jake sniffed (嗅) the tree a lot. Those first couple of days, Polly caught him starting to lift a leg on the tree twice. But he learned quickly and settled for sniffing from a distance.

The weekend before Christmas, Dad and Polly took us to watch the new holiday movie. Excited, we jumped into the car with bags of home­made popcorn, and off we went for a great evening.

A few hours later, we returned home, only to find...a terrible mess. It wasn't the Christmas tree. In fact, we weren't sure what it was. We stood just inside the door staring at the mess. As it turned out, it was Jake's bed, which he'd destroyed. Left alone for the first time, he must have gotten bored, attacked it and left it for dead. We didn't know that the bed was not the only victim.

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The next morning, we girls were playing in the living room when Ruth let out a sudden cry.

“It wasn't me，” I said, in case anybody thought I'd had a midnight snack of rock­hard decorations.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

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Thenextmorning, wegirlswereplayinginthelivingroomwhenRuthletoutasuddencry. “Hey, who broke Gingerbread Baby？” Ruth asked. That brought Polly to the living room fast. “Where? Show me！” Ruth pointed at the former baby cookie, which was now just a head, still tied to the tree by its red ribbon. “Here's another broken one，” said Sue. “It's Gingerbread Grandpa. Or it was. Now it's just his head and hat.” That caused some inspection, and soon it was clear that all the gingerbread men were now just gingerbread heads.

“Itwasn'tme，”Isaid, incaseanybodythoughtI'dhadamidnightsnackofrock­harddecorations. Quickly, my sisters made denials of their own. Then we girls and Polly all looked at Jake. Until that moment, Jake had been sitting by Dad, looking happy as ever. Suddenly, his posture changed. Guilt spread over his face. With his head bowed a little, he tried not to meet Polly's eyes, but it was clear what had happened. It was as if he were wearing a sign that said, “I killed an entire gingerbread family.”