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
abominating
accessory protein
accuracy control
acidic electrolysis bath
Ada group
anting-anting
apodeictical
applanometer
Arabianized
articulated-type diesel hydraulic locomotive
associate's degree
astrophysical fluid dynamics
autor-
bandolining
black-headed gull
call progress
cantabrias
Cardamine reniformis
Celsus' papules
chickenyards
Chico, R.
coelosomy
complex simple Lie group
coverage cycle
d.f.c.
debug heap
deplanement
docking area
DRH
dwellings
eodiscid
eriq
Erysimum sinuatum
etch copy
evaporator tower
falsiloquence
ficus caricas
gaborik
girleen
Guantol
honest reducibility
information need
jezekite
just friend
legal department
liddon
local arrangement
magnesite-alumina refractory
meadow jumping mice
micro-computings
mid-square method
military force
molecular knife
montmorillonite group
Māndāri
nafissa
normal earth fixed axis system
nuclear cell
ocular proptosis
Oligoplites
organization of shipping administration
outer throat diameter
p-leucaniline
pathomimia
polar symmetry
polyacene
polyisoprene
polystylistic
progressistes
proportional integral derivative controller
pulse-off period
rated ripple current
required field intensity
Rodby
salted food
SE-1702
seedling from spore
selective amnesias
self propelled sprayer
semirevolution
Sen'kove
serious disease
signal lever platform
slip form paver
stalderite
steal one's thunder
stock of wheat
strausbaugh
substituteless
summer-castle
survey of existing station yard survey
talking machine
The deuce you he can
thermograms
thomson's theory
timbul
tithly
transcription elongation
tremil
trousseaux
zoophagy