时间:2019-02-02 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

A straight-A student got a C in cooking class and didn't like it. She didn't like it so much that her dad filed a complaint in federal court about it. He alleges 1 that the teacher, who is white, discriminated 2 against his daughter, who is black. He seeks to have her grade changed from a C to an A and asks for unspecified financial damages.


Virginia Brown is in the ninth grade at Ashley High School. Since her first year in school, she has had perfect attendance and all her grades have been A's. Virginia's father said her heart was broken when she got the C.


"She cried the whole weekend," he said. "She wouldn't come out of her room. Her eyes were red and puffy. My little girl hasn’t been this upset since her cat got run over by a car when she was 6 years old."


Virginia is a model student. She's the class president. She's on the swim team, the volleyball team, and the track team. She belongs to the chess club. She is a member of the Girl Scouts 3 and sings in her church choir 4.


The home economics teacher is 28-year-old Jessica Smith. This is her first year teaching. Ms. Smith said that discrimination was absolutely not the issue. “Some of my best friends are African-Americans," she said. “This isn’t a black and white problem. Everybody in America wants to sue everybody else. I’m going to sue them for defamation 5 of character and whatever else my lawyer comes up with.”


The school principal, who grew up in India, said that he supported Ms. Smith 100 percent. He said that Virginia is an excellent student who would have no problem getting into the best universities even with a C in cooking. “She won’t have any difficulty finding a great university, but she might have problems finding a husband,” he laughed. “She’d better look for a man who likes to eat out a lot.”

 



断言,宣称,辩解( allege的第三人称单数 )
  • The newspaper article alleges that the mayor is corrupt. 报纸上断言该市长腐败。
  • Steven was tardy this morning and alleges that his bus was late. 史提芬今天早上迟到的说词是公车误点了。
分别,辨别,区分( discriminate的过去式和过去分词 ); 歧视,有差别地对待
  • His great size discriminated him from his followers. 他的宽广身材使他不同于他的部下。
  • Should be a person that has second liver virus discriminated against? 一个患有乙肝病毒的人是不是就应该被人歧视?
侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员
  • to join the Scouts 参加童子军
  • The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组,然后开始巡逻这个地区。
n.唱诗班,唱诗班的席位,合唱团,舞蹈团;v.合唱
  • The choir sang the words out with great vigor.合唱团以极大的热情唱出了歌词。
  • The church choir is singing tonight.今晚教堂歌唱队要唱诗。
n.诽谤;中伤
  • Character defamation can be either oral or written.人格诽谤既可以是口头的也可以是书面的。
  • The company sued for defamation.这个公司因受到诽谤而提起诉讼。
学英语单词
-pathia
1-hydroxy-2-propanone
absychitical
acid-process gelatin
agistor
allodidiploid
alpha'-palmitestearin beta-oleo-alpha
ancylocone
Annunciation lily
appointment on secondment
atalantin
bark deduction
benaves
Betabactyl
breaks out in
BUFUs
butyl isopropylbenzene
CA (cancel)
carburetor main jet
caryotype
chokecoil
circulating motion
collection of books
cost planning and appraisal
cuppiest
damore
dolus directus
dot encapsulation
double deck ship
electronic ticketing
essentialities
extemporisers
file protection device
flush-deck hatchcover
forward mutual admittance
frump
gehen
general problem solver (gps)
genus Ailurus
give strength units
glacier lily
grayhound
hand ... down to
hen nights
high-level radiation
homeotypic(flemming 1887)
hop resin
hossein
hot piercing
house-league
hydrodynamic property
ineffigiate
initiating pulse
internal floating point
Irish stews
irrigated plot
LADME
lapping movement
light switch toggle
limited-resource
lower nicol
main engine cutoff
maritime coast radar
metric units
midtread
month finger
motorcycle speedometer
multiband antenna
odm
opacifiedglass
ordered nucleus
Oreti R.
overmoney
parchment(paper)
pedobiology
plumose
PNPMPC
prickly
project budget
pseudo-valuation ring
quartzindicator
remarketing
remedies for lack of conforming
repairs charge
rightfulness
Robert A. Heinlein
running status
rust roofing
says who?
single-gene-controlled traits
Spofadazine
stringy floppy
taoensis
thrust-augmented rocket
two seater aeroplane
tympanitic abscess
ultraportable PC
unknown recipients
V.
velthy
visible cloud image
wrathiness