时间:2019-01-23 作者:英语课 分类:听英文对话做选择


英语课
原文:

News Reporter: Hello. This is Charles Richards from Channel 7 News, and we're down here, uh, at the City Mall, interviewing people on how they celebrate Christmas. And, uh, hi young lady. What is your name?
Young Girl: Elizabeth Carter 1.
 
News Reporter: And, uh, Elizabeth, uh. How does your family celebrate Christmas?
 
Young Girl: We go sledding, and we go over to my grandparents' house and have dinner with them.
 
News Reporter: Well, that is great, and let me ask this young man. Hi, what is your name? [Johnny.] And Johnny, how old are you?
 
Johnny: Five.
 
News Reporter: And, uh, does your family eat anything particular 2 for Christmas?
 
Johnny: Turkey . . .
 
News Reporter: And what does Christmas mean to you?
 
Young Girl: Going to my grandma's and making their breakfast.
 
News Reporter: Going to grandma's and making breakfast. And let me ask another young man. Hi, what is your name? [Steven.] Okay, and Steven, what does Christmas mean to you?
 
Steven: Giving but not expecting to get.
 
News Reporter: Now, that's kind of hard for a young man like yourself. What does that mean: Giving by not expecting?
 
Steven: Well, one thing that we do is secret giving.
 
News Reporter: Secret giving? Now how does that work in your family?
 
Steven: We sneak 3 up to the porch 4 of somebody that we want to give to, we put the gift that we want to give to them, ring the doorbell, and hide.
 
News Reporter: Ring the doorbell and hide? Uh, so you're not expecting something; you just want to be generous 5 to someone else. Is that right?
 
Steven: Yeah. That's correct.
 
News Reporter: And let's interview one more. And, uh, how do you celebrate Christmas? What is the best thing about Christmas and what does it mean to you?
 
Child: It means 6 getting off from school!
 
News Reporter: Getting off from school?! Do you all feel that way?
 
Group of Children: Yeah!!
 
Young Girl: Because I hate homework.
 
News Reporter: Yeah. Well, that all here from the City Mall. Channel 7 reporting.
 

1. Where does this news program take place?
A. at a shopping center
B. at a local school
C. in a city market place
2. How does the young girl, Elizabeth, celebrate this holiday with her family?
A. They go out to eat at a restaurant.
B. They visit close relatives 7.
C. They go to see a movie.
 
3. What does Johnny and his family eat on this day?
A. turkey
B. ham 8
C. chicken
 
4. What sentence best describes Steven's feelings about Christmas?
A. It's a time when people exchange gifts with friends, family, and teachers.
B. It's a holiday when friends give gifts during an elaborate 9 dinner.
C. It's a day when people think of others without waiting for a gift in return.
 
5. The final young woman says that the best thing about Christmas is:
A. receiving presents from classmates.
B. having a vacation from school.
C. sleeping late every day.
 
正确答案:

1. at a shopping center
2. They visit close relatives.
3. turkey
4. It`s a day when people think of others without waiting for a gift in return.
5. having a vacation from school

 

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  • Although fatigue shows readily on Carter, he bounces back quickly. 卡特虽然容易显出疲劳的样子,但他恢复得很快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The carter flipped at the horse with his whip. 赶大车的人扬鞭朝着马轻轻地抽打。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.个别的,各个的;独有的,特殊的,特别的
  • We each have our own particular tastes,haven't we?我们各有所好,不是吗?
  • She likes fruit and apples in particular.她喜欢水果尤其是苹果。
vt.潜行(隐藏,填石缝);偷偷摸摸做;n.潜行;adj.暗中进行
  • He raised his spear and sneak forward.他提起长矛悄悄地前进。
  • I saw him sneak away from us.我看见他悄悄地从我们身边走开。
n.门廊,入口处,走廊,游廊
  • There are thousands of pages of advertising on our porch.有成千上万页广告堆在我们的门廊上。
  • The porch is supported by six immense pillars.门廊由六根大柱子支撑着。
adj.慷慨的,大方的,慷慨给予的
  • She was kind and generous.她心地善良,宽容大量。
  • She was generous with her money.她很乐于仗义疏财。
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
n.亲属( relative的名词复数 );相关物;亲缘植物(或动物);[语法学]关系词
  • She went to visit relatives in Wales. 她去威尔士看望亲戚了。
  • They're always farming out their children on their relatives. 他们总是把孩子寄养在亲戚家。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.火腿,大腿,笨拙的演员;adj.过火的,做作的;v.演得过火
  • Please give me a can of ham.请给我一罐火腿。
  • The ham is very good today.今天的火腿很好。
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  • You understand the situation;I needn't elaborate any further.你对情况是了解的,我不必再进一步详谈了。
  • He made an elaborate hairstyle.他做了一个复杂的发型。
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absolute fatal wound
act of terrorism
advance copy
air-cooled turbine blade
aligned dimension
arctic mouse-ears
as pale as ashes
ato unit
bank holiday
bar silver
barbier
beam of uniform section
beam splitting dichroic mirror
boiler cupboard
boiling point elevation
C'esaro convergent series
Caldeirão, Sa.do
christianly
click-to-dial
configuration partition function
consistent deformation
continuous overhead sprinkling
copper clad steel
cross reference list
customs tael
decennary forbids
declaration for warehouse
dedecorated
densely ionization radiation
dequass
digital audio inputs
disclosure principle
dreadnaught,dreadnought
earnings surprise
error-deformation string
Evoron
exauguration
farming bacteriology
fidei-commissum
Freyburg
fruit-seed
gamma-butyrolacton
gauge fixing
glass table
gravity assist
grease proof wrapping
hencoops
hepatic rickets
hexylester
hot alignment
hub ratio
imporose
indeterminate fauit
Indiegogo
inter row cultivator
isobits
job confirmation
level holding pipe
Lord High Steward (of England)
multidiversified
napocor
nardoo
news summary
nuclear emulsion
optic papillae
overdimension container
overtighten
ovular
paramyxoviral
pee-eye
Pharmacometric
pigheadednesses
post-axiad
Power Five
quartz still
ratiometer
red bay
reelin
regenerative braking
reteeing
robern
safe in life and limb
see's
side house
simulated environment test
SlimBrowser
Softran
solar proton
SPDL
spheric earth
tamisier
tetons
thiaestrane
three-star
tubicoles
uncontrolled rise
unwilling to spend money
Uzunisa
vertical vane copying milling machine
Weiss' reflex myopic reflex
xylotrechus formosanus
Yongding