高中英语教学：Twillight.docx

CONTENTS Title Page About the Author Copyright Preface 1. First Sight 2. Open Book 3. Phenomenon 4. Invitations 5. Blood Type 6. Scary Stories 7. Nightmare 8. Port Angeles 9. Theory 10. Interrogations 11. Complications 12. Balancing 13. Confessions 14. Mind Over Matter 15. The Cullens 16. Carlisle 17. The Game 18. The Hunt 19. Goodbyes 20. Impatience 21. Phone Call 22. Hide-And-Seek 23. The Angel 24. An Impasse Epilogue PREFACE I’ D NEVER GIVEN MUCH THOUGHT TO HOW I WOULD DIE—though I’d had reason enough in the last few months—but even if I had, I would not have imagined it like this. I stared without breathing across the long room, into the dark eyes of the hunter, and he looked pleasantly back at me. Surely it was a good way to die, in the place of someone else, someone I loved. Noble, even. That ought to count for something. I knew that if I’d never gone to Forks, I wouldn’t be facing death now. But, terrified as I was, I couldn’t bring myself to regret the decision. When life offers you a dream so far beyond any of your expectations, it’s not reasonable to grieve when it comes to an end. The hunter smiled in a friendly way as he sauntered forward to kill me. 1. FIRST SIGHT M Y MOTHER DROVE ME TO THE AIRPORT WITH THE WINDOWS rolled down. It was seventy-five degrees in Phoenix, the sky a perfect, cloudless blue. I was wearing my favorite shirt—sleeveless, white eyelet lace; I was wearing it as a farewell gesture. My carry-on item was a parka. In the Olympic Peninsula of northwest Washington State, a small town named Forks exists under a near-constant cover of clouds. It rains on this inconsequential town more than any other place in the United States of America. It was from this town and its gloomy, omnipresent shade that my mother escaped with me when I was only a few months old. It was in this town that I’d been compelled to spend a month every summer until I was fourteen. That was the year I finally put my foot down; these past three summers, my dad, Charlie, v