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
act of contravention
adult progeria
agardhii
alikeness
asynchronous sampling
Atacama Desert
average profit margin
bittacomorphella lini
bodekynne
breakwall
Brent Blend
brodequin
cardiophonography
carrier specificity
catacrotic limb
charles edouard jeannerets
chemical oxygen demand (cod)
chemiluminescence immunoassay
chilling press
consistent belief
Cross-sectional approach
crozet islands
crystalline carbonate
cutesy pie
device name
displeasedly
duus
emf-temperature coefficient
expected progress from selection for single traits
Faust jig
flabergasting
fluorescent magnetic particle inspection machine
gastric calculus
gold value
Gwyneth
heat homing guidance
high-sounding
hip disease
hostey
image-sensing panel
intelligent collision avoidance system
interventional therapeutic procedures
laundry and hot shower drains tank
little nodal points score
loan translation
lose all trace of
manganesite putty
McCollum terrestrial ammeter
McLennan County
mitsubishi bank ltd
Mizodin
monorchisms
morone americanas
mucin cells
Ndao, Pulau
neuroballistic
obituaries
octoxynol
onium acids
open-circuit operation
optic neuritis
optimal condition
Paracelsistic
parlormaids
parroco
physician fingers
platichthys flesuss
Poninka
pours in
preepileptic
pulse load
put toaccount account
Qulay'ah, Ra's al
rayes
razi
re-votes
rheological analysis
rotating fairing
Sameiciolina
saviorism
screw-type press
shavee
single-cylinder
snap peas
statue niche
strike a bargain
suasory
subjunctive conditionals
sublunar point
suit sb's book
tee-boxes
thalamicanimal
thulite
transcription-independent
transmove
Tubalai
unit sphere
vertical astigmatism compensator
volpenhein
weight ton method
whithers
with money scarce