时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:高中英语人教版2000年高二


英语课

[00:08.28]Bruce and Zhou Lan are talking on the telephone about stamps.

[00:13.84]Hello.Can I speak to Zhou Lan, please?

[00:18.31]This is Zhou Lan speaking.

[00:21.66]Hello,Zhou Lan.This is Bruce.

[00:25.73]Excuse me for ringing you so late in the evening,but I've only just got home.

[00:32.29]That's OK.

[00:35.13]I would like to ask you about some stamps.

[00:39.29]Do you still have the cock 1 year stamp?You had it when I last saw you.

[00:45.45]I'm afraid I don't have it any more.I sold it last week.

[00:51.10]Oh!What a pity!

[00:54.54]I'm sorry.I didn't know you wanted it.What a shame!

[01:00.29]It doesn't matter.I only decided 2 to get one today.

[01:05.57]It's a pity I didn't think of it earlier.

[01:09.72]Do you want me to find one for you?

[01:14.08]Yes,please.That would be kind of you.

[01:18.34]I've been working

[01:21.08]so hard recently that I haven't had any time for collecting new stamps.

[01:27.46]OK.I'll ring you if I have any news.

[01:32.00]Thanks very much.Bye.Goodbye.

[01:36.26]Lesson 22  2 Reading comprehension 3

[01:48.12]COINS

[01:50.89]The earliest coins in the world were used in China from about the year 650 BC.

[01:58.83]They were called bei money.

[02:02.49]Later,another type of coin was used,with holes in it,

[02:08.34]and these were used for the next 2,000 years,that is,from 221 BC until 1916.

[02:19.39]Coins may be of different sizes,weights,shapes,and of different metals.

[02:26.76]They may have different designs on the two sides.

[02:31.72]It is common to have the head of a famous person on one side.

[02:37.68]Today the coin is usually pressed with the name of the country,

[02:43.45]the value of the coin and the date.

[02:48.10]However,in the past the date was not always included.

[02:53.95]Before coins appeared,seashells,rings,bamboo sticks,

[03:01.21]wood and pieces of cloth were all used for money.

[03:06.67]Coins can be made of different kinds of metal mixed together.

[03:12.31]The earliest coins in the west were made of gold mixed with silver.

[03:19.26]The new Chinese panda coin is made of 99.99% gold.

[03:27.31]Sometimes people discovered collections of coins that had been buried.

[03:33.47]One such collection was found in England in 1978.

[03:39.64]It contained 54,951 coins dating from the years 260-275 AD.

[03:53.30]The largest collection ever found in England was one of about 200,000

[04:00.85]silver pennies 4 all of them over 600 years old.

[04:07.09]These collections of coins sometimes tell a story that has been forgotten.

[04:13.54]In 1978 a person was looking round an old gold-mining town in northern Australia.

[04:21.80]He discovered in the ground a pot containing 32,000 Chinese metal coins.

[04:29.56]The coins included examples of almost all the types of Chinese coin that had been made

[04:36.82]between the 7th century and the late 1870s.

[04:42.78]How had they got there?

[04:46.01]It is known 5 that thousands of Chinese

[04:50.27]worked in the gold mines in the late 19th century.

[04:55.63]It is possible that one of them kept a kind of bank

[05:00.67]where the workers could keep their money safe.

[05:05.14]Possibly this person died without anyone knowing where the coins were hidden.

[05:11.67]Lesson 23  1 Reading comprehension

[05:22.01]COLLECTING STAMPS

[05:25.17]If you are just starting to collect stamps,

[05:29.43]here is some advice for you to follow.

[05:33.19]1.At the beginning,collect as many stamps as you can.

[05:39.36]The ones which you decide not to keep can be traded with other people.

[05:44.92]Never throw stamps away.

[05:48.26]2.Don't keep the envelope,unless it is unusual.

[05:53.31]However,

[05:55.97]do keep the envelope if it is the first date when that particular stamp is used.

[06:02.81]Some people are very interested in these "first day covers".

[06:08.46]3.Sooner or later you will decide that you want to collect a certain kind of stamp

[06:15.90]It may be stamps from a particular country,or stamps of a particular kind


[06:22.35]like stamps with a bird design on them,for example.

[06:27.08]This will make your collecting much more interesting.

[06:31.34]You can then look for new ones to add to your collection.

[06:36.09]4.Do join a group.There is a lot to learn about stamps and others can help you.

[06:44.35]Also it is great fun.

[06:47.90]You will soon learn which stamps other people are collecting

[06:52.87]and they will start to trade stamps with you too.

[06:57.23]5.Go to stamp sales and buy whatever you can afford.

[07:03.18]You can often pick up packs of used stamps very cheaply 6.

[07:08.83]6.Old stamps that have not been used are usually more expensive than used stamps.

[07:16.90]Perhaps at the beginning you may only afford used stamps.

[07:22.46]7.Sooner or later,you will find something unusual.It may even be valuable.

[07:30.51]Finally,remember that stamp collecting is fun.

[07:35.58]It can be exciting to get stamps which you do not have yet.

[07:40.30]Also,many stamps have unusual and beautiful designs,so enjoy them!

[07:47.36]Words and expressions Unit 6

[07:53.13]cock                 shame                coin                 shape

[07:56.60]n.公鸡               n.遗憾的事           n.硬币               n.形状,外形

[08:00.08]seashell             ring                 silver               collection

[08:03.81]n.海贝               n.环型物             n.银                 n.收藏品

[08:07.55]penny (pence)        look round=look around                    mine

[08:12.87]n.便士               仔细查看                                  vt.开采

[08:18.18]bank                 material             possibly             hide(hid,hidden)

[08:23.26]n.银行               n.材料               adv.可能的           vt.&vi.隐藏

[08:28.34]hand out             here and there       whenever             trade

[08:32.13]分发                 各处,处处            conj.每当,无论何时   vt.用…交换

[08:35.92]envelope             sooner or later      whatever             afford

[08:40.05]n.信封               迟早                 凡是…的事物         vt.担负的起,提供


 



1 cock
n.公鸡,雄鸟;旋塞,开关
  • The cock is crowing.这只公鸡正在啼鸣。
  • The cloud was in the shape of a cock.那云成公鸡形。
2 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
3 comprehension
n.理解,理解力;领悟
  • The teacher set the class a comprehension test.老师对全班同学进行了一次理解力测验。
  • The problem is above my comprehension.这个问题超出我的理解力。
4 pennies
n.of penny;便士( penny的名词复数 );(美国、加拿大的)一分钱;少量的钱
  • He had a few pennies in his pocket. 他口袋里有几个便士的硬币。
  • Pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters are United States coins. 1分铜币、5分镍币、1角银币和2角5分银币是美国硬币。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 known
adj.大家知道的;知名的,已知的
  • He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
  • He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。
6 cheaply
adv.廉价地;粗俗地
  • Old bikes can be bought quite cheaply.旧自行车很便宜就能买到。
  • This apartment rents cheaply.这套公寓租价便宜。
学英语单词
Abensanil
acetyl amp
anthemwise
arithmetical set
asphygmia
autophene(hadm 1955)
Balanopsidales
basic nuclear installation
bridge steel plate
buttiglione
cannon fodders
cenobitic
Charles Laughton
chemical refining process
cheruped
claudetite
countyr-
cranks
curaca
dedicature
diastemic
dimethyl oxalate
do you come here often
dull-witteds
duncishly
effiction
embarcaderoes
entodon challengeri par.
Ephemerina
FLIS
funded debenture interest
fungicidal finish
general efficiency
giddiness
gleems
glottis spuria
grajahu (grajau)
GSTCHQ
gutta
half tide
Herod Agrippa II
highway engineering
horse sickness
hot stove rule
hypophysial stalk
hysterocatalepsies
IGDP
instrument mode
It makes no odds.
kaafir
kerith
Lenting
Lepidophytineae
lidgate
lobe attachment module
medium solder
megabronchus
memory protection key
milk cooling equipment
mixture method lubrication
Mozarabic chant
multi suffix tree
national service of legal metrology
Ni-Al gyromagnetic ferrite
Nilazid
now, now
office phone
on successive occasions
oncocytoma
osteoidosteoma
ovarian fibroma
over-compensating
penup
Polyscias
portabelt
preparationist
ratio method
Roman coriander
salganea gressitti
saw chain filing machine
Selection rectangle
selfholding
semiflexible board
Sergiyevskaya
shifting of attention
shrinking percentage
Sicorten
signal quality detection
silent love
sino-latin
Sotheby
Spirotrichonympha
st. eustatiuss
strunk
sudden warming
swidneite (svidneite)
time flutter
total productive maintenance
typewriter cloth
user-driven
veriloquently
working atmosphere