1.      What does Auggie think about the hearing aid?

At first he refuses to try them, he thinks they are ugly and will make him weird among his classmates. But after he tries it, he has much better feeling in his ears than before.

2.      Why does Via and Mum have a quarrel?

Via doesn’t want her friends in high school know that she has a deformed brother. But Mum doesn’t know the exact reason so she can’t understand why Via doesn’t tell her about this big event.

3.      What’s wrong with Diasy?

She was getting older, having something wrong in her body. The day after a family quarrel, she started whispering all of a sudden. When the family sent her to vet, she was difficult to breath. So the vet put a needle into her leg and ended her life.

Annoy

If someone or something annoys you, it makes you fairly angry and impatient.

Snitch

To snitch on a person means to tell someone in authority that the person has done something bad or wrong. (INFORMAL)

造句：She likes snitching to her teacher so everyone doesn’t like talking to her.

She snitched on her brother when he skipped school.

Slam

If you slam a door or window or if it slams, it shuts noisily and with great force.

Eg: I ran down the hallway to my room and slammed the door behind me so hard that I actually heard little pieces of the wall crumble inside the door frame.

造句：I slammed the door behind me.

习惯用法

Buy into

1.to purchase a portion of or interest in

2.to accept or believe (something) as true

Eg: it was starting to feel like the majority of boys weren’t buying into Julian anymore.

Draw a blank

to fail to get an answer or a result

eg: He asked me for my phone number and I drew a blank - I just couldn't remember it.

like的实用性

It’s like when you’re in a room where one of the lightbulbs on the ceiling isn’t working, but you don’t realize how dark it is until someone changes the lightbulb and then you’re like, whoa, it’s so bright in here!

Fix 用于形容治愈

Eg: But they can fix her.

I don’t think I would have recognized her. 我差点认不出来她。