And with that, Emma and her seeing-eye dog, Missy, led her troop of hungry ducks to the cafeteria.
1966年，冬天以迅猛之势袭击了我们位于纽约北部的大学，这是几十年来从未见过的。接连三天，暴风雪盘旋翻腾，将整个校园困在大雪之中，阻断了与外界的联系。校园里，到处是迷了路的学生，他们排成一队与恶劣的天气抗争着，就像躲在妈妈身后的小鸭子横过马路一样。与全校师生一样，B寝室的女生们也遇到了同样的问题。
一个女生问道：“我们怎样才能到自助食堂去呢？”
另一个女生答道：“我们不要去了，外面白茫茫的一片，什么也看不见。”
第三个女生的眼睛一亮，“嘘”了一声，室内的抱怨声便停止了。然后，她兴奋地说道：“埃玛能够看得见。”
抱怨声消失了，接着是一阵兴奋的低语声。“埃玛！她甚至能够在整个大学城穿梭。”“我们可以跟着她走。”“你真是一个天才呀！”
女生们非常高兴，笑语喧哗，鼓起掌来。她们穿戴好，一群人激动地朝埃玛的房间走去。她们在楼道中发现了埃玛，在她打开寝室的门之前，这群女生就把她围了起来。
埃玛笑着问：“你们为什么都这么兴奋？”
“我们能不能跟着你去自助食堂？我们在暴风雪中什么都看不到。”
大家都笑了起来。
“我认为可以。我先走，你们排成一列搭着肩膀跟在我后面。”
一个女生恳求道：“我们现在可以出发了吗？我饿坏了。”
埃玛又笑了，说道：“没问题，我们带上密斯一起去。”
她进了寝室，过了一会儿，牵了一只狗出来。这群女生在门口乖乖地排起了一列长队，准备迎战外面的寒冷。每个人都把手放在了前面女生的肩膀上。
埃玛打开了大门，把大家领了出来。她笑着说：“我猜，你们可以把这个称做盲人给正常人引路。”
说完，埃玛和导盲犬密斯带领着这群饥饿的鸭子朝自助食堂走去。
心灵小语
狗和我们人类一样，都是地球生命的一部分，我们虽然没有相同的血缘，却有着相似的生活习性和丰富的情感，它们有的时候比人类更加敏感，人类要相信它们。
记忆填空
1. For 3 days straight, the___ swirled and billowed, burying the isolated campus. Here and____stray groups of students struggled single file against the_____, like ducklings following their mother_____ a road.
2. She went into her____and returned moments later with a____ on a harness. The girls lined____ obediently at the front door, ready to___ the cold. They each placed their hands on the____ of the girl in front of them.
佳句翻译
1. 1966年，冬天以迅猛之势袭击了我们位于纽约北部的大学，这是几十年来从未见过的。
译________________________________
2. 第三个女生的眼睛一亮。
译________________________________
3. 她们穿戴好，一群人激动地朝埃玛的房间走去。
译________________________________
短语应用
1. The fimale students in dormitory B were confronted with the same problem...
be confronted with：面临（危险、困难等）
造_______________________________
2. They bundled up and excitedly trooped down the hall to Emma’s room.
bundle up：使穿暖；把……捆扎
造_______________________________
把东西收拾干净
Learning How to Be Roommates
埃尔莎?林奇 / Elas Lyunch
I was never very neat. Later in life I learned to attribute this flaw to my creative genius, saying that my bouts of disorganization were simply the flip side of my unique gifts and talents. Yet, when I arrived at college, I hadn’t come up with any impressive reasons for my big messes. They just were—and my roommate didn’t seem to appreciate their contribution to my bright future.
I’m not sure why they stuck us together. I don’t think they could have possibly picked 2 more different people to room together. Kim was extremely organized. She labeled everything and each item she owned had its place. She even had one of those cute little pencil holders—and used it! Mine had become a collection spot for bits and pieces of paper, odds and ends. I think one pen may have found its way into the pencil holder but I certainly didn’t put it there.
Kim and I fed off each other. She got neater and I got messier. She would complain about my dirty clothes, I would complain about Lysol headaches. She would nudge my clothing over to one side and I would lay one of my books on her uncluttered desk.
It came to a head one fateful October evening. Kim came into the room and had some kind of fit because one of my shoes had found its way (inexplicably) beneath her bed. I didn’t know what was so significant about that shoe but it infuriated her! She picked it up, tossed it toward my side of the room and managed to knock my lamp onto the floor. The light bulb shattered, covering the layer of clothes I had been planning to fold that very night. I leapt off the bed in horror and immediately started yelling about her insensitivity and rudeness. She yelled back similar frustrations and we each ended up pushing toward the door to be the first to slam our way out of the room.