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
absolute zero point
acetonide acetate
acetylacetic ester
active intervention
activity-on-node network
Advanced Short Take-Off and Vertical Landing
afterburn
amable
angular dimension
array destruction
Atkarskiy Rayon
bacillus homminis capsulatus
bolivian plat.
bridge processor
bridge voltage
brush over
capital projects
centre rail
ceratoduss
channel cross-sectional flow area
climatological station for specific purpose
commercial artist
commercial television
commodity circulation
coraciiform bird
current of comuntation
dayslong
decision of arbitration
descriptive geometry solution
dillenburg
diphenols
dissocialized
do a favor
down-draughts
eccrine hidroadenoma
emergency generator room
end sill bracket
end-plate potential
extreme terms of proportion
fansites
fast forwarded
front abutment pres-sure
fuck princess
Geroldsgrün
Greystone
ineffective supply
institution of electrical engineers (iee)
key-locked test switches
labountsovite (labuntsovite)
low complexity
megavolt ampere
methybutane
motherfecker
Mozduran(Marzdaran)
moze
nameword
nonferromagnetic material
of good repute
osculator
ownbrand
periphery of armature
Pharisian
Pinter
placental bundle
platinum plating
plug'n'play
pollution prevention and control technique
Pontefract cakes
power driven hoist ladder
prestation in lieu of performance
program encapsulation
propylitizations
radio frequency beam
re-roofings
reactivity accident due to water inleakage
reiter
repeated tension and compression test
retaliatingly
routinise
shiftings
singlepoint
Slavonska Požega
smsiscsrsos-s
sounding sand
supersocieties
sweat bullet
Tamarindo, Salinas
tarnishing
temperature sensitivity of pressure
tertiary butyl peracetate
the Eight Trigrams
think it scorn to
thionaphthol
to part cable
Toya-ko
tracheal matrix
twort
umws
uncrook
us army criminal investigation laboratories
us tour
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