上海牛津初中英语九年级下--CHAPTER 4 READING

CHAPTER FOUR READING

[00:11.23]page fourty-seven

[00:13.74]Joyce wanted to encourage students to  read more famous  books.

[00:20.24]So,in her newspaper,

[00:23.54]she printed this funny story from a book called The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[00:29.94]by Mark Twain.Tom Sawyer Paints The Fence 2 Saturday morning came

[00:41.33]and everything was bright and fresh.

[00:45.40]Every boy in town was happy,except Tom Sawyer.

[00:51.07]Tom stood on the sidewalk with a bucket 3 of white paint

[00:56.66]and a brush with a long handle in his hands

[01:01.96]He looked at the fence that his aunt had told him to paint and felt very depressed 4

[01:10.56]It was thirty yards long and three yards high!

[01:16.96]He dipped his brush in the paint and painted a corner of the fence.

[01:23.46]Then he stood back and looked at it.

[01:28.16]The section that was painted was so small,

[01:33.05]and the unpainted section was so big!

[01:38.22]He sat down under a tree to have a rest.

[01:43.60]He began to think of all the games which he had planned for the day.

[01:50.60]Soon the boys who were free would come along and make fun of him.

[01:57.92]But just then,he had a wonderful idea.

[02:02.41]He picked up his brush and went back to work.

[02:06.90]Ben Rogers came along the road,singing happily and carrying an apple

[02:14.40]He stopped and looked at Tom.

[02:17.20]Tom went on painting and ignored Ben.'I'm going swimming,'

[02:24.69]said Ben.'Do you want to go swimming,Tom? But I guess you can't.

[02:31.88]You have to stay and work,don't you?'Tom went on painting.

[02:38.98]'Work?' he said.'This isn't work.I'm enjoying myself.

[02:45.67]Does a boy get a chance to paint a fence like this every day?'

[02:52.04]Ben thought about this.Tom went on painting,carefully.

[02:59.72]Sometimes he stopped,stood back to look at the fence,

[03:05.42]and then added 5 a bit more paint in just the right place

[03:11.90]Ben was watching Tom's every move

[03:16.91]He was getting more and more interested.After a while

[03:24.30]he said,'Tom,will you let me do some painting?'

[03:30.70]Tom thought about it,and said,'No,Ben,I can't.You see,

[03:38.91]Aunt Polly wants it to be done properly.

[03:43.40]I'm the only one who can do it right.'Oh,please,Tom,'

[03:51.50]begged Ben.'I can do it.I'll be really careful Just let me try.

[03:59.31]I'll give you half of my apple.I'll give you all of it!'

[04:05.50]Well,all right,Ben,'said Tom.'But you must be careful.'

[04:15.11]He gave Ben his brush with worry on his face but joy in his heart

[04:23.71]He sat down again under the tree,and started to eat the apple

[04:29.40]that Ben had given him.All day,

[04:34.42]boys came to make fun,but they ended up staying to paint.

[04:41.21]When Ben got tired,Billy Fisher was waiting.

[04:46.69]He gave Tom a kite for a chance to paint.

[04:51.29]Then Johnny Miller 6 offered him twelve marbles,and so on.

[04:57.87]By late afternoon Tom had gained all sorts of toys,

[05:04.98]and the fence had gained three coats of paint

[05:10.39]Later Aunt Polly came to look at Tom's work.

[05:15.48]She was so pleased when she saw the painted fence that she gave Tom a large cake!

[05:26.37]LISTENING page fifty

[05:32.17]Taking notes from a  lecture

[05:36.38]You are now going to hear a lecture about the writer Mark Twain

[05:43.48]His real name was Samuel Clemens

[05:48.37]Listen to the lecture and complete the notes below

[09:58.05]SPEAKING page 54

[10:01.73]A Talk time

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[10:27.83]2 tan 9 ten toes tear

[10:39.40]3 than then those there

[10:48.39]4 Dan tan than den ten

[11:05.29]then doze toes those dare tear there

[11:21.80]A2

[11:28.27]the rapid rescue

[11:32.27]the smooth and rapid rescue

[11:39.66]carried out the smooth and rapid rescue

[11:46.77]Tina and ten others carried out the smooth and rapid rescue

[11:57.95]A3

[12:03.23]Mothers,fathers,sisters,brothers,

[12:11.53]Uncles,aunties and many others,Wept and sang and shouted,

[12:20.73]When the spaceship safely landed.

[12:25.64]A4 Work in pairs to say the conversation below.

[12:37.13]Stress the underlined 10 words or syllables 11

[12:42.44]and make your voice rise (/)or fall(\) at the arrows 12.

[12:49.54]Also pay attention to pronunciation

[12:54.43]The man who just came in.What do you call him?

[13:03.52]Peter.That's what you call him

[13:08.72]The suit that he's wearing.

[13:13.31]Where do you think he bought it?

[13:18.12]From a hawker stall 13 by the look of it.What's wrong with it?

[13:24.70]Don't you like it?

[13:27.71]It doesn't fit him for one thing.And look at the trousers.

[13:35.52]They have holes in them.anna  But that's the latest fashion!

[13:43.12]They're cooler in summer

[13:47.12]MORE PRACTICE page 57

[13:56.91]An extract 14 from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

[14:02.40]Tom and Becky walked down a winding 15 passage

[14:09.89]holding their candles high.

[14:12.98]They saw names and dates written on the wall with candle smoke

[14:18.98]by visitors to the cave before.

[14:23.29]Becky and Tom read some of them as they walked along.

[14:28.49]They were talking so much that it was a littlewhile

[14:32.88]before they noticed they were now in a part of the cave

[14:37.48]that had no writing on the wall.

[14:40.88]They used candle smoke to write their own names on the rock and walked on

[14:47.95]Soon they came to a place where a little stream of water was running

[14:54.56]Over the years the cave wall was shaped by the running stream,

[15:00.75]and it looked like a frozen 16 waterfall.

[15:05.17]Tom went behind it and lit it up with his candle so that Becky could see it better

[15:13.16]Behind the stone waterfall he found an opening in the rock

[15:19.07]leading downwards 17.At once he wanted to explore it

[15:24.97]Becky agreed and together they started to walk down into the earth

[15:31.97]They wound 18 this way and that,far into the cave

[15:37.85]making smoke marks here and there to show the way back

[15:43.44]This was exciting.They would have a lot to tell their friends above

[15:49.03]when they returned.In one place,they found a huge,

[15:55.04]open space full of shining stalactites

[16:00.44]as long and thick as a man's leg.They walked around it

[16:06.74]and left by one of the  many passages that opened into it

[16:11.83]The next place they found was full of bats

[16:16.64]There were thousands of them.

[16:20.04]The candlelight woke them up,and they flew at the candle flames at once

[16:26.65]Tom knew this was dangerous and took Becky's hand to hurry her away

[16:33.33]He pulled her into the first opening he found And not too soon

[16:40.65]one of the bats struck Becky's candle out with its wings

[16:46.52]The bats chased 19 them for quite a long way,

[16:51.62]but they ran into every new passage that they came to

[16:56.92]and at last got away from the bats.