时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:365个英语简短小故事


英语课

It was the first day of class. Two of her new ESL classmates wanted to know where Tara was from. They were both from Iraq. Because Tara looked Iraqi, one of the women asked Tara, in English, if she was from Iraq. Tara replied, “No, I’m not.” Then the women took turns asking Tara if she was from Iran, or Syria, or Jordan. To each question, Tara responded 1 with a simple no. Laughing, one woman said to the other, “She's not from anywhere!” The two went to their desks, talking to each other in Arabic 2.


The next day, the teacher divided the students into groups of four. The students in each group asked introductory questions of each other. A student in Tara’s group asked her, “Where are you from?” Tara answered that she was from Iraq. The two women who had questioned Tara the day before were sitting only a few feet away. Both of them heard Tara’s response.


“Aha!” they both exclaimed 3. “You ARE from Iraq!” Tara smiled and said yes. Then she apologized to both of them for lying the day before. She explained that she had not wanted to get into an Arabic conversation with them. It had been her experience that many ESL students continued to speak their native language in ESL class, and Tara had not come to ESL class to practice her Arabic. In her opinion, ESL students should try to speak English only.


“I agree,” said Rose.


“You’re 100 percent right,” agreed Jennifer. “Rose and I must stop speaking Arabic to each other. Right, Rose?” Rose nodded, and then said something in Arabic. All three women laughed.


Over the next four months, Tara became friendly with both women, although she never spoke 4 a word of Arabic to them during class or break.


 



1 responded
回答,回报,响应( respond的过去式和过去分词 ); 有反应; 有效果; 有影响
  • Most of the staff who responded to the questionnaire were supportive. 回答了问卷的职员大多数表示支持。
  • She responded to the news by bursting into tears. 她听到那个消息后眼泪夺眶而出。
2 Arabic
n.阿拉伯语;adj.阿拉伯语的,阿拉伯人的,阿拉伯式的
  • It is not easy to learn Arabic.学阿拉伯语不容易。
  • Arabic script reads from right to left.阿拉伯文是从右至左读的。
3 exclaimed
vt.exclaim的过去式v.呼喊,惊叫,大声说( exclaim的过去式和过去分词 )
  • "We have a good chance of winning," he exclaimed optimistically. “我们很可能获胜。”他乐观地喊道。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • She exclaimed in delight when she saw the presents. 她见到礼品高兴得叫了起来。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
学英语单词
acidic salt
addition solid solution
agricultural ecological geography
armeniaca amara
atibeprone
automatic cheese winding machine
Ban Sa Yai Som
Bilings
blearing
brochonema
buchmann
canaria
canyoners
chess board pattern
cholangiocyte
citizen juries
cmave
cognitive experience
common output file
corneal
correction of errors in medical classics
cross site scripting
Dacrycarpus
data localization
Deutzia esquirolii
dicyanobiphenyl
diurnal mean
double game
drum sort
effective filtration pressure
gang dies
gering
glycylglycinuria
green film
guestling
gun-towers
gwion
Hahotoé
Hamstead beds
handling automation
hejin
hydraulic mixer
integropallial
interventralis
itcas
jigsaw identification
journalize (verb)
laborador current
leptospermone
line record
loin-rag
lower tension carriage
membranae perinealis
metapedes
microsporon lanosum
milk tetany
multilateral investment insurance
New Ionian
Nickel-Metal Hydride
nonconnections
open table
orbiting space station
over-the-board
oyez
Paluzza
pinch for
pituitary principle lobe
postify
prolegate
Prunus spinulosa
random file organization
reconnaissance tactical missile
roust out
rubber-bonded-to-meteal pad
salicionals
Selago
self-publicist
silica glass-vitreous silica
single retort stoker
slip-resistant tile
sound eraser
spacer button
stage-dives
steamest
steel frames
string expression interpreter
strut-type
support of allied activities
suspension of the prescriptive period
tall-grass prairie
the sweeney
toe a line
transmission ofenergy
trivial response
unconsistency
unmountable
uqbar
vector model of atomic structure
Venetian velvet
white dragon
ZIFT
zurbarn