《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 4 手语她
时间：2018-12-04 作者：英语课 分类：英语语境识词
Unit 1 04
There is one language 2 that is in use in every country in the world. The people who use it are young and old, thin and fat, short and tall. It is everybody's second language. It is easy to understand, although 3 you can not hear it. It is sign language.
When you wave 4 to a friend who is across 5 the street, you are using sign language. When you smile at someone 6, you are saying 7, "I want to be friendly 8." but you are not using speech 9. You are using sign language. When you raise 10 your hand in class, you are saying, "Please ask me. I think I know the correct 11 answer."
Babies who can not talk can point at things. They are using sign language. A policeman who wants to stop traffic 12 holds up his hand. He is using sign language. Winston Churchill's famous 13 "V-for-Victory" was 14 sign language, too.
Many years ago, a French 15 priest 16, Charles Michel de l'Epee, became 17 interested 18 in education 19 for deaf 20 people. He invented 21 a finger alphabet 22. It is still in use. People can make signs for letters and spell words with their hands, and deaf people can read and understand them.
The priest who made 23 up the finger alphabet also founded 24 the first school for the deaf in Paris in 1760. Teachers and doctors who wanted to help deaf people went to Paris and learnt Abbe de l'Epee's system 25. Then they taught 26 it to their students and patients 27. Soon there were schools for the deaf in many countries.
Today in the United 28 States 29, there are special TV news 30 programs 31 for deaf people. The newsreader tells the new in sign language. At the same time, the words appear 32 on the TV screen 33.
There is also a National 34 Theater 35 of the Deaf. Most of the actors 36 in this group are deaf. They travel 37 from city to city and do plays, readings 38, poems 39 and dances in sign language and pantomime. Two members tell the story or speak the lines during 40 the performance 41.
The actors in the Theater of the Deaf do not finger spell every word. Sometimes they use hand signs. When they put two hands together, it means 42 "sandwich". They can make a roof 43 with their hands over their heads when they want to show "house". One finger in front of an actor's mouth means "quiet". With sign language, you can talk to people who are behind windows that are closed 44. And when you go swimming with your friends, you can have a conversation 45 under water!
- Is English a hard language to learn?英语是一种难学的语言吗？
- Language is a wonderful thing.语言是极好的东西。
- Although my car is very old,It'still runs very well.我的汽车虽然很旧，但仍然跑得很快。
- Although he worked hard,he failed in the exam.虽然他很努力，但他考试没有及格。
- He walked across the road carefully.他小心地过马路。
- You can go across the bridge.你可以越过这座桥。
- Saying and doing are two things.说和做是两码事。
- I know a chinese saying.我知道一句中国谚语。
- I did not lose a word of his speech.他的演说我没有听漏一个字。
- We were listening in to the Prime Minister's speech.我们正在收音机旁听首相的广播演说。
- Why didn't you raise the question at the meeting? 这问题你怎么没有在会上提出来？
- He went to ask for a raise.他要求增加工资。
- She gave a correct answer.她给了个正确的答案。
- Choose the correct one from these words.选择正确的词填空。
- That will help the traffic.这会促进交通状况。
- He had a traffic accident.他出了交通事故。
- The hotel is famous for its suppers.那个酒店以晚餐而著称。
- He is famous for his learning.他以有学问而出名。
- She reads French quite well,but doesn't speak it.她法语的阅读能力相当强，但不会讲。
- The only French city she enjoyed was Paris.巴黎是她惟一喜欢的法国城市。
- He confessed to a priest that he had sinned.他向神父忏悔他犯了罪。
- The priest visited all the old people in the parish.牧师探望了教区里的所有老人。
- He became a doctor at the age of 27.他27岁时成了一名医生。
- He became a millionaire when he was still young.他还年轻时就成了百万富翁。
- to be interested in wildlife conservation 对野生动物保护感兴趣
- I told him I wasn't interested, but he wasn't deterred. 我已告诉他我不感兴趣，可他却不罢休。
- He had a good education.他受过良好的教育。
- We mustn't cut the cost of education.我们不应该削减教育经费。
- Esperanto was invented as an auxiliary language. 世界语是作为辅助语发明的。
- Who invented the steam engine? 谁发明了蒸汽机？
- There are 26 letters in the English alphabet.英语字母表中有26个字母。
- The last letter of the alphabet is Z.字母表的最后一个字母是Z。
- They were not made in china.它们不是中国制造的。
- The monkey made a long arm for the peach.猴子伸臂去摘桃子。
- All our fears proved ill-founded. 我们所有的担心结果都证明是杞人忧天。
- His fear turned out to be well founded. 他的恐惧证明是有道理的。
- He is good at the subject of social system.他擅长于社会制度问题。
- He created a new system of teaching foreign languages.他创造了一种新的外语教学体系。
- Children must be taught to be careful of traffic.必须教育孩子要当心车辆。
- Miss Brown taught my daughter last year.去年是布朗小姐教我女儿的。
- This drug is contraindicated in patients with asthma. 这种药哮喘病人禁用。
- Patients were being discharged from the hospital too early. 病人都过早获准出院。
- The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
- The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
- the assumed differences between the two states 两种状况的假定区别
- He barnstormed across the southern states in an attempt to woo the voters. 他在南方各州作巡回演说，企图拉选票。
- These programs will integrate with your existing software. 这些程序将和你的已有软件可综合成整体。
- the Customs Service's drug interdiction programs 海关的毒品查禁方案
- The students appear very nervous.学生们看起来很紧张。
- When night falls,stars appear.夜晚来到时星星出现。
- You can see him on the TV screen quite often.你可以经常从电视屏幕上见到他。
- She first appeared on the screen ten years ago.十年前，她第一次出现在银幕上。
- In our country new year's day is a national holiday.在我国，元旦是全国性的假日。
- Tomorrow is a national holiday.明天是全国性节日。
- Excuse me,where is the entrance to the theater?请问剧院的入口在哪里？
- Her mother never went to the theater.她母亲从不去戏院看戏。
- The actors were still in costume and make-up. 这些演员仍是戏装打扮。
- the freemasonry of actors 演员的志趣相投
- We can now travel by air.现在我们可以坐飞机旅行。
- Autumn is the best season for travel.秋天是旅行的最好季节。
- As part of the celebrations they staged a big,open-air multimedia event,with music,videos,poetry readings,dance and improvisations. 在庆典中，他们举行了大型的露天多媒体活动，其中有音乐、录像、诗朗诵、舞蹈和即兴表演。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- They have compiled a collection of Elementary Readings on the Natural Scieces to help young people in their studies. 为了便于青少年学习，他们编了一套《自然科学小丛书》。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- We will now hear the students read their poems, beginning with Tom. 现在我们来听听学生们朗诵他们的诗作，从汤姆开始吧。
- The poems have been translated into more than ten languages. 这些诗已被译成十几种文字。
- What did you do with yourself during the summer holidays?暑假你是怎样度过的？
- London is full of visitors during May and June.五六月间伦敦挤满了游客。
- The performance lasted for three hours.表演持续了三个小时。
- His performance in the exams was not very good.他考得不很好。
- 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。
- He closed his eyes.他闭上了眼睛。
- He was out of work when the factory closed.他在工厂倒闭后失业了。
- Conversation is one of pleasures of life.交谈是人生一大乐趣。
- We'll carry on a conversation with her tomorrow.我们将于明天与她会谈。