CHAPTER FIVE
Mr. Brocklehurst's Visit
It was hard to get used to the rules at Lowood, and to the
extremely cold, hard winter. In January, February and March
there was deep snow, but we still had to go outside for one
hour every day. We had no warm boots or gloves, and my hands
and feet hurt badly from the cold. We were growing children,
and needed more food than we got. Sometimes the [-----1-----]
big girls made us little ones give them our teatime bread or
evening biscuit.
One afternoon, when I had been at Lowood for three weeks, a
visitor came to see us. As the man entered the schoolroom all
the teachers and pupils stood up. When I saw the visitor I
felt afraid. It was Mr. Brocklehurst, the man who had talked
to Mrs. Reed and I at Gateshead. I had been afraid he would
come. I remembered that Mrs. Reed had told him I was a
terrible child. He had [-----2-----] her to tell all the
teachers about me. If he spoke to the teachers, they would
think of me as a bad child forever!
At first Mr. Brocklehurst spoke very quietly to Miss Temple. I
could hear him, because I was in the front of the class.
"Miss Temple," he said, "I am told that you gave a lunch of
bread and cheese to the girls recently. Why did you do that?
It is not in the rules!"
"Well, sir," said Miss Temple, "the breakfast was so badly
cooked that the girls couldn't possibly eat it, and they were
hungry."
"Miss Temple, listen to me. You know that these girls must
become strong, patient and [-----3-----]... If they do not
have some little thing, do not give it to them. Tell them to
be brave and suffer, like Christ Himself. Remember what the
Bible says. Man does not live by bread alone, but by the word
of God! When you put bread into these children's mouths, you
feed their bodies but you starve thei souls!"
Vocabulary Focus
growing:成长中的，现在分词作形容词表示进行时态。若已发育成熟，
就应用过去分词grown up
答案：
1.meaner
2.promised
3.unselfish
