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
ad dabah
aircraft airconditioning system
Ambodimanary
androecia
animated cursors
atones for
Biankouma
biological composition
Birmingham wrie gage
bosh-shot
bragg-gray's principle
bridgefords
brit
busts out
butadiene styrene vinyl pyridine latex
Calabrian
canibale
cardston
cavitation-free propeller
clumsed
coelosomia
cold pressor test
collective immigration
compliance committee
constant impedence notch diplexer
covalent semiconductor
croisant
diagnosis-related group
direct recourse
dormitive principles
duplex luminaire
environmental disutility
farfuraceous
farm power
Flensborg
gene copy
genus Taraxacum
geographic(al) distribution
give it to
glass pocket
gliocyte
Howei
human health
hydrargyri mononitras
hydroxyamino-norleucine
hyperlink
immediate connection
insulated armature
James IV
karst base level(base of corrosion)
local power peaking
lollop
Lowe's syndrome
lunar crater
maritime-continental contrasts
market demands
Minnetonka, L.
molcajete
nonsynchronous starting torque
ore dressing
over-full employment
palletizer
pawsful
pcep
permeable layer
positivist jurisprudence
post-synaptic
Prikubanskiy Rayon
primary illusion
prisms
problem solving method
rear axle and suspension
Regozero
respiratory pulse
rhodosamine
sarcohysteric
self-reactive
semi literate
serfage
single-pass heater
sinter opal
sophorinum
speedskates
sphagrum peat
stepper piston
suspensory ligaments of penis
synthetic transfer function
takes the reins
tanglefooted
temporal mean flow
temporary equilibrium price
testosterone enanthatas
textual
top-chains
treasure-huntings
trocars
ult.
voltage-time converter
water-cooled bearing
welters
wocheinite (bauxite)
xeroradiographically