求现代大学英语精读1unit6第2版精读3（学生用书）pdf

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Lesson Four ：Wisdom of Bear Wood
Michael Welzenbach
1. When I was 12 years old, my family moved to England, the
fourth major move in my short life. My father
’s government job
demanded that he go overseas every few years, so I was used to
wrenching myself away from friends.
2. We rented an 18th-century farmhouse in Berkshire. Nearby were
ancient castles and churches. Loving nature, however, I was
most delighted by the endless patchwork of farms and
woodland that surrounded our house. In the deep woods that
verged against our back fence, a network of paths led almost
everywhere, and pheasants rocketed off into the dense laurels
ahead as you walked.
3. I spent most of my time roaming the woods and fields alone,
playing Robin Hood, daydreaming, collecting bugs and
bird-watching. It was heaven for a boy
— but a lonely heaven.
Keeping to myself was my way of not forming attachments that
I would only have to abandon the next time we moved. But one
day I became attached through no design of my own.
4. We had been in England about six months when old farmer
Crawford gave me permission to roam about his immense
property. I started hiking there every weekend, up a long,
sloping hill to an almost impenetrable stand of trees called Bear
Wood. It was my secret fortress, almost a holy place, I thought.
Slipping through a barbed-wire fence, I
’d leave the bright sun
and the twitter and rustle of insects and animals outside and
creep into another world
— a vaulted cathedral, with tree trunks
for pillars and years ’ accumulation of long brown needles for a
softly carpeted floor. My own breathing rang in my ears, and
the slightest stirring of any woodland creature echoed through
this private paradise.
5. One spring afternoon I wandered near where I thought I
’d
glimpsed a pond the week before

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