时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力入门 (全四册)


英语课

Lesson 14 Part Ⅰ Warming-up Exercises

Part Ⅰ  Warming-up Exercises


A.Sentence Structure


Drill 1


1.Where?________________________________________


2.Whom?________________________________________


3.How long?______________________________________


4.Why?__________________________________________


5.How much?_____________________________________


6.From whom?____________________________________


7.How many?______________________________________


8.What?__________________________________________


9.How? __________________________________________


Drill 2


1._______________________________________________


2._______________________________________________


3._______________________________________________


4._______________________________________________


5._______________________________________________


                                                                                                           Score:___


B.Difficult Sentences


1.____to Venezuela will take _______________


2.____, post offices throughout England ______“One Penny” black stamps and“Two Pence 1” bluc stamps.


Lesson 14 Part Ⅱ John At The PostOffice


Part Ⅱ  John At The Post Office


Exercises:


1.____ The airmail rate to Venezuela is 50 cents a half ounce 2.


2.____ It usually takes two or three days for a letter to get to Venezuela by air.


3.____ It may take three to four weeks for a letter to get to the interior 3 of the country by air.


4.____ Regular  mail to Venezuela goes by boat.


5.____ Regular mail to Venezuela takes a longer time, because the sailings are irregular.


Lesson 14 Part Ⅲ How DidPostage Stamps Come Into Use


Part Ⅲ    How Did Postage 4 Stamps Come Into Use


Exercises:


Ⅰ.


1.Why were people unhappy to pay postage for letters in the early nineteenth century?


___________________________________________________


2.Why was the postage rate high at that time?


___________________________________________________


Ⅱ.


Rowland Hill, a schoolmaster in England, was the first to____ forward a proposal 5 to____ stamps. He thought it would be much easier for people to use stamps to____ postage. They could ____ to the nearby post office to____ stamps and put them on envelopes before they____ the letters.  The post office could simply____ seals on the stamps so that people could not use the stamps again.  In this way,  the post office did not need to send postmen to____ postage.  It only needed to send fewer postmen to____ letters. That was a good idea and the government finally____ it.



1 pence
n.便士;名词penny的复数形式
  • She counted out fifteen pence and passed it to the salesgirl.她数出15个便士交给女店员。
  • These apples are selling at 40 pence a kilo.这些苹果售价每公斤40便士。
2 ounce
n.盎司,英两
  • He poured in every ounce of power but couldn't make it.他竭尽了全力却无济于事。
  • He has used up the last ounce of oil.他已用完最后一滴油。
3 interior
adj.在内的,内部的,内地的,国内的;n.内部
  • There is water in the interior of the cave.在山洞的内部有水。
  • They went into the interior room.他们进了内室。
4 postage
n.邮费,邮资
  • This dictionary is 100 yuan,postage included.这本词典连邮费共100元。
  • All letters must be stamped with the correct postage.任何信件都应该按所需邮资贴邮票。
5 proposal
n.提议,建议;求婚
  • I feel that we ought to accept his proposal.我觉得我们应该接受他的建议。
  • They could not gain over anyone to support their proposal.他们无法争取到支持他们建议的人。
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ag(e)ing stage
alexeev
alpha-naphthyl group, alpha-naphthyl radical
anhydrite for agriculture
arrowhead wing
askar
austs
battlefield support missile
beyond cavil
bird-cherry ermines
borough-master
bronchiectatic
brugueras
centene
close-down
co-product
coaxial N type adapter N
column with cranked head
cotillage
creative technology
Cryptophagidae
cushion packing
damascene
declaration of births
defending zone
dibromomethylethylketone
Disug
Donuzlav, Ozero
duoprops
electro-magnetic braking
Ellersburg
executive jet
fluid fracturing
fool on
forniciform
fynd
garba
gartmann
glycaemic index
gravity feed stoker
Greers
harbinger-of-spring
heave a ship down
interpenetrating moulding
interstitial fluids
iron-shod
istiophorus albicanss
Kitonga
Komondorok
Krummendeich
led assembly
lidar ceilometer
Linnaea borealis
Litz-Jeanselme nodules
lonedom
loosehead
lump sum purchase
main electric lighting system
marginal set adjustment
Menāgrām
Meusicort
mike mugger
mismeasurement
mlma
Neopeckia herpotrichioides
non-dusty mine
pantherid
parred us
perichondrium graft
philbertia bernardi
pio
pornocopias
potato-ring
pregravate
presbycardia
product standard
residual protein
revenue effect
reversible control
river realignment works
role-player
sausage hounds
senhoras
slope carriage
spiral development
stale check
staphylococcus auresus
storize
tenotomes
terao
tightness test for hull
trailing wake
trim interceptor
tuning hammer
uninitiated
unliquidated claim
vacuum cock
viperine grass snake
wartime load
whiteface
whoopsie
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