时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(三月)


英语课

  Language sense enhancement

1.Read aloud paragraphs 4——5 and learn by heat

2. Read aloud the following poem:

I, too, sing America.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I'll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody'll dare

Say to me,

"Eat in the kitchen,"

Then.

Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed——

I, too, am America.

3.Read the following quotations 1. Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Crearor with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ——Thomas Jefferson

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if I am free. ——Clarence Darrow

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ——Abraham Lincoln.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ——Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Read the following humorous story for fun. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

When the First-grade class came in from recess 2(假期). Teacher asked: "Alice Smith, what did you do during recess?"

Alice said, "I played in the sand box."

The teacher said, "That's good. Go to the blackboard, and if you can write 'sand' correctly, I'll give you a fresh-baked cookie." Alice did, and got a cookie.

The teacher asked Billy what he did during recess.

Billy Johnson said, "I played with Alice in the sand box."

The teacher said, "Good. If you write 'box' correctly on the blackboard, I'll give you a fresh baked cookie."

Billy did, and got a cookie. Teacher then asks Little Tyrone Kaball what he did during recess.

Tyrone said, "I tried to play with Alice and Billy, but they threw rocks at me."

The teacher said, "Threw rocks at you? That sounds like blatant 3 (无耻的、露骨的) racial discrimination(歧视). If you can go the blackboard and write 'blatant racial discrimination' I'll give you a cookie."



1 quotations
n.引用( quotation的名词复数 );[商业]行情(报告);(货物或股票的)市价;时价
  • The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car. 保险公司要修理这辆汽车的三家修理厂的报价单。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These quotations cannot readily be traced to their sources. 这些引语很难查出出自何处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 recess
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
3 blatant
adj.厚颜无耻的;显眼的;炫耀的
  • I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.我无法相信这么显眼的一出喜剧能够欺骗谁。
  • His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.他管理的傲慢作风在他对待秘书的态度上表露无遗。
学英语单词
acceptance range
ajayi
anerythrism
anesthetised
antichemotactic
area of pressure
barking spiders
barometric corrections
be on the verge of
benign hypertrophy of the pons
big surprise
biocidal treatment
box-typed leg
buchli
capillary pore
carpet tile
Caudete
Champtercier
chinua
chloride
cholesteremic
citizen-soldiers
combination hub
concave clearance
conversion of a function
cowpeas
direction of pure wave
distichophyllum cuspidatum
ego psychology
end-bearing steel H-pile
energy resource
Enrico Fermi reactor
erecting shop
fishing operation
freegans
frost point hygrometer
galegas
get the mastery of
glass physicochemistry
goes deep
government issues
graphic symbols
green joe-pye weed
guarantee of payment
ilex bioritsensis hay.
infeeble
infiltration storage
initial ray
isopropyl nucleotide
Karewa I.
kidge
Kniveton
labor-intensive enterprises
matching of blood
Mawson
maximum stational phase
melilots
menuhins
nobay
non-cyclic
nonmales
nontracking precision clock
normark
owndynge
predosing
priority facility
profile copy grinding
QPP
Racephen
rebuffal
redemocratization
repair tolerance of composite
rlm-race
Roda de Ter
rubbish dumps
salespoint
Salonika
Saratoga chips
satellite launching
sloom
snowboy
solodize
sound logging
spongy bone
stag-evil
stop still
take a lot of work
temprature
theory of cost behavior
thermoionic cell
through-ticketing
tourmalets
trigeminal trophic syndrome
Trigonotis barkamensis
trunches
undoglike
upwash
variable-speed scanning
wallowa mts.
wide band seismograph
wuzhuyu decoction
x ray scattering