时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(三月)


英语课

  Language sense enhancement

1.Read aloud paragraphs 4——5 and learn by heat

2. Read aloud the following poem:

I, too, sing America.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I'll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody'll dare

Say to me,

"Eat in the kitchen,"

Then.

Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed——

I, too, am America.

3.Read the following quotations 1. Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Crearor with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ——Thomas Jefferson

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if I am free. ——Clarence Darrow

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ——Abraham Lincoln.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ——Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Read the following humorous story for fun. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

When the First-grade class came in from recess 2(假期). Teacher asked: "Alice Smith, what did you do during recess?"

Alice said, "I played in the sand box."

The teacher said, "That's good. Go to the blackboard, and if you can write 'sand' correctly, I'll give you a fresh-baked cookie." Alice did, and got a cookie.

The teacher asked Billy what he did during recess.

Billy Johnson said, "I played with Alice in the sand box."

The teacher said, "Good. If you write 'box' correctly on the blackboard, I'll give you a fresh baked cookie."

Billy did, and got a cookie. Teacher then asks Little Tyrone Kaball what he did during recess.

Tyrone said, "I tried to play with Alice and Billy, but they threw rocks at me."

The teacher said, "Threw rocks at you? That sounds like blatant 3 (无耻的、露骨的) racial discrimination(歧视). If you can go the blackboard and write 'blatant racial discrimination' I'll give you a cookie."



1 quotations
n.引用( quotation的名词复数 );[商业]行情(报告);(货物或股票的)市价;时价
  • The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car. 保险公司要修理这辆汽车的三家修理厂的报价单。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These quotations cannot readily be traced to their sources. 这些引语很难查出出自何处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 recess
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
3 blatant
adj.厚颜无耻的;显眼的;炫耀的
  • I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.我无法相信这么显眼的一出喜剧能够欺骗谁。
  • His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.他管理的傲慢作风在他对待秘书的态度上表露无遗。
学英语单词
a little better
Akjoujt
alloy spring steel
anorexic
antiordinance
apophysitis tibialis adolescentium
ATP-ase
bad quarto
be ripped off
beuk
Bofors gun
bwanali
car-ownerships
carraccis
cauliflowered
chlorophorus taiwanus
clearness number
coldtolerant
considerated
cuddledown
dehydroretinal
diminitif
disability income exclusion
duplex, half
durnins
equivocal
establishment of correspondent relationship
faus
flood axis
frequency-trend relay
Gabor
glucose -tm
gross gain
gwyndaf
haematogenic
hard cherry
hydrosciences
illaqueate
kikyo
kina
lifting beam with hook
love-affairs
lower our flag
ludophiles
marine data file
market map
melanagromyza dolichostigma de meijere
middle-wave
miramars
motorvate
net profit from operation
neutral burning
news objectivity
Noan
Nodan-ri
noise thermometre
non conformances
observation mast
Office Live Workspace
ortho-xylene
ostrisize
para-anisic aldehyde
parallelogrammatic
paraplegia tetanoid
pardon all but myself
particle distribution of fly ash
pencil-pusher
performance tests
phylogenetic development
Plagiobryum
Plate Number Society
process biochemistry
proprium
radiotelemetering
rail-cambering machine
red buckeyes
rejector
Rhododendron changii
saintlike
salt-fog chamber
scheduled tribe
scutaro
shadow formation principle
sine wave convergence
solder metal
sponge tree
stand ... up
swacking up
thin-wall channel
triple whammy
ultrasonic Doppler blood flow meter
under ... feet
unified power flow controller
uphand welding
v.x
vacuum distilling apparatus
Ventriculus sinister
wet climate
witzelsucht
word bite
zaikais
zappable