PART TWO - THE SCHOOLGIRL
CHAPTER FIVE
Mr. Brocklehurst's Visit

It was hard to get used to the rules at Lowood, and to the extremely cold, hard winter. In January, February and March there was deep snow, but we still had to go outside for one hour every day. We had no warm boots or gloves, and my hands and feet hurt badly from the cold. We were growing children, and needed more food than we got. Sometimes the [-----1-----] big girls made us little ones give them our teatime bread or evening biscuit.
One afternoon, when I had been at Lowood for three weeks, a visitor came to see us. As the man entered the schoolroom all the teachers and pupils stood up. When I saw the visitor I felt afraid. It was Mr. Brocklehurst, the man who had talked to Mrs. Reed and I at Gateshead. I had been afraid he would come. I remembered that Mrs. Reed had told him I was a terrible child. He had [-----2-----] her to tell all the teachers about me. If he spoke to the teachers, they would think of me as a bad child forever!
At first Mr. Brocklehurst spoke very quietly to Miss Temple. I could hear him, because I was in the front of the class.
"Miss Temple," he said, "I am told that you gave a lunch of bread and cheese to the girls recently. Why did you do that? It is not in the rules!"
"Well, sir," said Miss Temple, "the breakfast was so badly cooked that the girls couldn't possibly eat it, and they were hungry."
"Miss Temple, listen to me. You know that these girls must become strong, patient and [-----3-----]... If they do not have some little thing, do not give it to them. Tell them to be brave and suffer, like Christ Himself. Remember what the Bible says. Man does not live by bread alone, but by the word of God! When you put bread into these children's mouths, you feed their bodies but you starve thei souls!"

Vocabulary Focus

growing:成长中的，现在分词作形容词表示进行时态。若已发育成熟，就应用过去分词grown up