Lesson 24-1 A skeleton in the cupboard

We often read in novels how a seemingly respectable person or family has some terrible secret which has been concealed from strangers for years. The English language possesses a vivid saying to describe this sort of situation. The terrible secret is called 'a skeleton in the cupboard'. At some dramatic moment in the story, the terrible secret becomes known and a reputation is ruined. The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine, a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.

　　It is all very well for such things to occur in fiction. To varying degrees, we all have secrets which we do not want even our closest friends to learn, but few of us have skeletons in the cupboard. The only person I know who has a skeleton in the cupboard is George Carlton, and he is very proud of the fact. George studied medicine in his youth. Instead of becoming a doctor, however, he became a successful writer of detective stories.

任務配置：L0+L4

詞音：novel,seemingly,respectable,secret,skeleton,cupboard,dramatic,heroine.

詞義：seemingly? 看起來；cupboard? 碗櫥；食柜。

練習感悟：

明天一定學連讀規則，今天事情太多練完朗讀已經十二點多了。但很開心的是，今天做了一些之前沒信心的事，現在我知道了自己能夠改進的地方在哪，以及進一步應該做些什么。

一句話，就是干。