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
abisara burnii etymander
acylamino-
ammonium ferric chloride
answer machine
arteriae facialis
authority credentials
baby boomer
bacteria microscopic examining instruments set
baking chamber
blue-tit
blue-winged kookaburras
brizes
Busunya
casting and compacting of concrete
child-destruction
coinjections
comprehensive assembler
constant failure rate
constant pressure cycle
crossdress
crown gold
Deoxyeamptothecine
digit arithmetic
distinguish A from B
double hard-chine hull
economics of plant protection
enactest
epikote
essentias
fallen on
floorin' it
foetal hormone theory
genus gentianellas
grass cock
have a crush on him
hordes
humbuged
idle rich
indexing mechanism
information float
inter-market
International Ship Structures Congress
ip next generation
it was noised abroad that...
juli
knife support
kyowa
locking press-button
man in the oak
marshalling stations
material requisite
media players
Merremia tridentata
militant tendencies
multiwindow
neurotendinous
Nodi lymphatici paramammarii
oxiramide
palearctic faunistic region
Palestine soup
phosphoryl group
pipeline flexible joint
press fabrics
processor family
prosop-
Prunus japonica Thunb.
quick spike
reachieving
rhabdomyoma of heart
ricket
sausage roll
secondary ion emission microanalyzer
semi-ellipse
semi-pegmatitic
semicompiling
serial ports
serial variation
sintered metal product
sound-absorbing cover
sudden death
Sunday Str.
synthetic-rubber waste water
takeshitas
text library
Thai Muang
the ancients
Tonobrein
travelling expenses within the city
Trumpisms
tyrannicides
ultrahigh pressure mercury lamp
under one's hand
United Nations emergency force
unmoralizing
vacuum-formed
vaniotii
Vetalar
waterton-glacier international peace park
weslaco
Yonsu-ri