伊卡莱姆的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day

练习材料：

L46-3: Do it yourself

Inevitably the repair job was not quite so simple.

The mower firmly refused to mow,

so I decided to dismantle it.

The garden was soon littered with chunks of metal which had once made up a lawn mower.

But I was extremely pleased with myself.

I had traced the cause of the trouble.

One of the links in the chain that drives the wheels had snapped.

After buying a new chain I was faced with the insurmountable task of putting the confusing jigsaw puzzle together again.

I was not surprised to find that machine still refused to work after I had reassembled it,

for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.

I gave up in despair.

The weeks passed and the grass grew.

When my wife nagged me to do something about it,

I told her that either I would have to buy a new mower or let the grass grow.

Needless to say our house is now surrounded by ajungle.

Buried somewhere in deep grass there is a rusting lawn mower which I have promised to repair one day.

应用配置：L0+L4

知识笔记：Inevitably/ɪˈnɛvətəbli    chunks/ʧʌŋks    traced/treɪst    links/lɪŋks    snapped/snæpt    insurmountable/ɪnsərˈmaʊntəbəl    jigsaw/ʤɪg    reassembled/riəˈsɛmbəld    grew/gru    nagged/nægd    jungle/ʤʌŋgəl    Buried/bɛrid

练习感悟：用时47分钟，尽管课文略长，但是读熟悉了几个单词后，语感也来了，顺利完成。这样的感觉希望接下来一直都能持续。