一場交通事故
【內(nèi)容提示】
根據(jù)下面的素材寫一篇短文,記敘一場交通事故的前前后后：
①一天晚上,Lee先生開車帶著他的妻子下班回家.他的妻子是一家醫(yī)院的護士.快到午夜了,她十分困乏,很快就睡著了.Lee先生看看她,笑了.
②Lee先生駕車很有經(jīng)驗,也很謹慎.開車走了一會兒,他注意到有一輛車在他后邊,車開得很快,超過他的車.
③駕駛那輛車的人很慌張,沒有看見迎頭開過來的卡車.為了避免撞車,他突然讓自己的車轉彎,車滑向路的一側撞到一棵大樹上.司機和乘客都受傷了.
④Lee先生急忙把車停在路旁,他的妻子也從車里出來幫助受傷的人.卡車司機也停下來幫忙.Lee先生驅車去給警察打電話.
⑤大約20分鐘后,一輛警察車和一輛救護車到了.人們把傷員抬到救護車上送往醫(yī)院.
⑥警察記錄事故的詳細情況,Lee先生和卡車司機把他們知道的情況都告訴了警察.警察感謝他們的幫助.Lee先生和妻子乘上自己的車繼續(xù)趕路回家.
【作文示范】
A Traffic Accident
One night Mr Lee was driving his wife home from work.She was a nurse in a hospital.It was almost midnight and she was quite tired out.She soon fell asleep.Mr Lee looked at her and smiled.
Mr Lee was a careful and experienced driver.He knew it was safer to drive slowly on a dark night.After some time he noticed a car following him.It was travelling very fast.Suddenly it overtook① his car.
The driver of the car was in a hurry.He did not see the approaching lorry.To avoid hitting it,he suddenly tuned his car.It skidded② off the road and hit a big tree.The driver and his passenger were injured③ .They were badly cut by glass from the broken windscreen④.Mr Lee quickly stopped his car by the side of the road.His wife got out of the car to help the injured.The lorry driver also stopped to help.Mr Lee drove off to telephone the police .About twenty-five minutes later,a police car and an ambulance⑤ arrived.The injured were carried into the ambulance and taken to hospital.
The policemen took down details of the accident.Mr Lee and the lorry driver told them all they could remember.The policemen thanked them for their help.Mr and Mrs Lee got into their car and continued their journey home.
【詞語解釋】
① overtake +uv+'teik] v.追上；趕上；超過
②skid[skid] v.（汽車等）打滑；滑向一側
③injure['indN+] v.損害；傷害 the injured（事故中的）受傷者
④ windscreen['windskri:n] n.（汽車等的）擋風玻璃
⑤ ambulance['$mbjul+ns] n.救護車
【寫法指要】
這篇文章按時間順序平鋪直敘地寫出了事故發(fā)生的前前后后,表達了故事中的人們不顧疲倦搶救傷員的互助友愛精神.
文章除了開頭交待的時間外,后面只用了“After some time”和About twenty-five minutes later”兩處表達時間順序的詞語,其他地方則是由動作發(fā)生的先后來表達時間順序的,但讀后讓人感到文章將事件的前因后果表達得清清楚楚,沒有一點含糊.
注意學習其中表達緊張場面的副詞,如 suddenly,quickly等.