PART ONE - LIFE AT GATESHEAD
CHAPTER ONE
The Fight

Suddenly the door opened. John Reed ran in.
"Where are you, your little rat? " he said. He did not see my hiding place. "Eliza! Georgy! I Jane is not here! Tell Mamma she's gone outside - what a bad girl she is! "
"How lucky I [-----1-----] the curtain! " I thought. I knew he would never find me, because he was very stupid. But his sister Eliza was not stupid,and she knew exactly where I was.
"She's in the window [-----2-----]., John!" she said. Immediately I came out, because I did not want them to be angry with me. "What do you want?" I asked him.
"Say,what would you like,Master Reed? "he said, sitting in a comfortable chair. "I want you to come here."
" John Reed was fourteen, and I was only ten. He was large, ugly, and fat. He often [-----3-----] too much at meals which made him look like a pig. Usually he was away at school, but his mother had made him come home for a while, because she thought his health was not good. He did not have anything to do but fight with his sisters, get into troube with Bessie, and treat me badly.

Vocabulary Focus

get into trouble with……惹上麻煩，例如：Tom got into trouble with the police（湯姆惹事落到警方手里）