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
advowtry
Alcides
altra
American quaking aspen
ascochyta piricola
bankfields
be perturbed
bergblau
Berneburg
best-of-seven
brake-clutch motor
calcified fibroma
cecal phlegmon
cheddar
clearing agent
clomacrane
communications protocols
company training allowance
comparative ad
control elements
copoints
cypraea errones
decay prevention
delay ambiguity function
depreciation arbitrary
diauxic
energy subsidy
energy-independent
exploratively
fair value measurement
False Claim Act
fixed overflow
foam at
Formylsulfisomidine
ghaist
hangar-deck
Hautes Fagnes
heaven-gate
heterostatic method
Hlödhufell
Howship-Romberg(syndrome)
hydrolyse
ice fd. (isfjorden)
in side
instrument unit
interchange price
ion beam current density
ISS (Industry Standard Specifications)
knappertsbusch
lacewell
Lake Forest Park
locusta migratoria manilensis
louis-napoleon
loust
Massoretic, Massoretical
Mesural
multiple acting
mutual relationship
nuclein bases
oblique sternals
occlusor muscle
Okino-shima
overyear regulation
passive homing system
pibbles
Pilipili
pique crepe
Primula yunnanensis
quartermaster demand
R. G. L.
reference drawing number
residual circulation
reverse scissors kick
rhabdovirus
riffer
RUN(pheniprazine)
sarmentum
scummings
Sestri Levante
side-by-side execution
single-inlet
sleep paroxysmal
small tortoiseshells
space environmental monitor
St-Valéry-en-Caux
stagnantly
sterigmatocystin
tar pollution
Titanox C
transfer control
uncuckolded
unpooled
up to full strength
vaporings
vespertilio murinuss
vouch for sth
wheat variety development by selection
whitewings
wildcarding
Wonderware
young stage of erosion cycle
zsa