时间:2019-02-03 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  The New Zealand football team, the All Whites, has had a good result in their first World Cup game against Slovakia. The All Whites were not expected to do very well as they are only 78th in the world while Slovakia is 34th, but they scored a goal 30 seconds before the end of the match, for a 1-1 draw.

The football World Cup is held every four years and this year it is in South Africa, with 32 teams competing. The All Whites are there because they beat Bahrain last year to represent 1 the Pacific area, called Oceania 2. The last time the All Whites played in the World Cup competition was in 1982, where they lost every game.

More than 500 football fans have travelled from New Zealand to support the All Whites in South Africa. All the games are being broadcast on television so Kiwis who cannot go to South Africa can watch their team on tv, just like millions of other football fans all over the world.

The next two games for the All Whites will be difficult, as they are against Italy, who won the cup last year, and Paraguay, who are number 31 in the world. However New Zealand football fans are already very proud of their team’s performance in South Africa and will continue to support them, shouting “Go the All Whites!”

Contributed 3 by Chris Mahoney

Questions

1. If a rubgy test match was on at the same time as an All Whites game in the Word Cup, what game would most New Zealanders watch?

2. Is your country playing in the football World Cup? Are you able to watch the games on tv?

3. Do you think games should be decided 4 by a penalty 5 shoot-out?

4. Why are people so excited by football?



vt.表现,表示;描绘,讲述;代表,象征;回忆;再赠送,再上演;vi.提出异议
  • I'll represent to him the risk he is running.我要向他指出他所面临的险境。
  • We selected her to represent us.我们选她作为我们的代表。
n.大洋洲
  • Oceania is mainly made up of Australia and New Zealand.大洋洲主要是由澳大利亚和新西兰组成的。
  • Oceania is the smallest continent.大洋洲是最小的洲。
捐献( contribute的过去式和过去分词 ); 捐助; 撰稿; 投稿
  • Before closing I want to mention all those who contributed so generously. 在我结束讲话的时候,我想提一下所有慷慨捐赠的人。
  • His research has contributed enormously to our understanding of this disease. 他的研究对我们认识这一疾病贡献很大。
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。
n.处罚,刑罚,罚款
  • If you knock the ball with your hand in football,you will suffer a penalty.如果在踢足球时你用手碰到球,你将受到处罚。
  • One of those arrested could face the death penalty.被捕的那些人中有一人可能被判死刑。
学英语单词
acinic cell tumor
additive effect
adequate solution
algoparesis
ananyms
anterior cervical triangle
antidimming dise
arch bar
auramine, auramin
barbadosnut
blue-screen
Boveri, Theodor
Budenheim
business liability
carmen (el carmen)
collimating marks
complete neighbo(u)rhood system
composite capital
Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease
cross over to the other side
crown control
cyclical balanced budget
d'este
data interrogation language
dead-tired
DIALOG Information Service
dismissal statement
distraction-conflict model
duckin'
dulcinea
early frost hidden
ElErian
expand mandrel
fixed oil radical
foreign flavour
half vat
hemstitchings
hide one's light under a bushel
homemade computer
honeytrap
hydrogenated products
in situ curing
informative advertising
initial sensitivity
intra-observer reliability
Josephson
keep the land aboard
leminoprazole
liquid manure drill
make a pig of yourself
matrimonial rites
means of proof
mesocoracoid
middle ear effusion
military-intelligence
misdrawings
most famous of saddle horses
mulain
mushrooming of dislocations
NEP (new equipment practice)
non navigable river
Nord-Norge
Nyda
phased increase
piping hot
pointrels
process costing
programming language revision
purnick
quasi tort
redintegrative
regulations regarding the recruitment of workers
row sb. up Salt River
sarcoma of vagina
security/sensitivity
sight rule
single stage converter
slobber-chops
smurf attacks
spun-barrel reflector
strings along
tangential grinding force
Teddy Bears' Picnic
telechemic
telosemicollinite
tesler
tesselite (apophyllite)
tetra-acylated
tin-based alloy
tone arm for record player
trichopterous insects
trout cod
trypsinlike enzyme
turd cutter
undelete command
variable rate sampling
vector-electrocardiograph
viscountial
Waitahuna
yarmouth interglacial period
zealants