时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD4


英语课

 



Review Exercise H: Sentence Balance—Goldilocks    CD 4 Track 2


One of the most fascinating things about spoken English is howthe intonation 1 prepares the listener for what is coming. As you know, the main job of intonation is to announce new information. However, there is a secondary function, and that is to alert 2 the listener of changes down the road. Certain shifts will bedictated for the sake of sentence balance. Set phrases and contrast don't change, but the intonation of a descriptive phrasewill move from the second word to the first, without changingthe meaning. The stress change indicates that it's not the end of the sentence, but rather, there is more to come. This is why it is particularly important to speak in phrases, instead of word by word.


When we practiced Goldilocks and the Three Bears the first time, on page 34, we had very short sentences so we didn't need sentence balance. All of the underlined descriptive phrases would otherwise be stressed on the secondword, if the shift weren't needed.


There is a littlegirl called Goldilocks. She is walkingthrough a sunny forest and sees a small house. She knockson the door, but no one answers. She goesinside to see what's there. There are threechairs in the large room. Goldilocks sits on the biggestchair. It's too high for her to sit on. She sits on the middle-sized one, but it's is too low. She sits on the smallchair and it is just right. On the table, there are threebowls of porridge. She tries the firstone, but it is too hot to swallow. The secondone is too cold, and the thirdone is just right, so she eats it all. Afterthat, she goesupstairs to look around. There are threebeds in the bedroom. She sits down on the biggest one. It's too hard to sleep on. The middle-sized bed is too soft. The little oneisjust right, so she lies down and falls asleep.


In the meantime, the family of three bears comes home — the Papa bear, the Mama bear, and the Baby bear. They look around and say, "Who's been sitting in our chairs and eating our porridge?" Then they run upstairs and say, "Who's been sleeping in our beds?" Goldilocks wakes up when she hears all the noise and is so scared that she runs out of the house and never comes back.




1 intonation
n.语调,声调;发声
  • The teacher checks for pronunciation and intonation.老师在检查发音和语调。
  • Questions are spoken with a rising intonation.疑问句是以升调说出来的。
2 alert
adj.机警的,活泼的,机灵的;vt.使...警觉
  • Drivers must be on the alert for traffic signals.驾驶员必须密切注意交通信号。
  • The rabbIt'seems to be very alert all its life.兔子似乎一生都小心翼翼,十分警觉。
学英语单词
abductor ventralis muscle
acta
Ad Dukaydik
aerothermochemist
avon
basic categories of soil classification
be brought on the carpet
binding attachment
blow doors
bought in
brain surgeons
bryozoan
catches fire
class Cyanobacteria
clastobryum glabrescens
communistery
conchairamine
conjugate diametral plane
courtesy phone
cyclohexanone resin
direction to a jury
distance along the quasiorthogonal
doryl
dumb card
dye penetrant process
eakleite (xonotlite)
ecclesiasts
eddylike
elevon area
emptyish
energy-transfer equation
entrepreurialism
Ephedra rhytidosperma
erre
evaluation of merchandise
even grained texture
field check
frequency range expanding method
generalized Ohm's law
genter
genus bombaxes
Ghilarza
God's bones
graylisting
Hastie, William Henry
heidepriem
heterofermentangium
hinge type connection rod
induction type ammeter
Joule-Thomson valve
let there be
linearly polarized light output
loose-lifting piston
Lukovit
lusader
madryam
magnetoelectric transducer
maladie du sommeil
metal faced joinery
Mezzanego
mis-fired
Mlles.
Neu-Anspach
normal bonded-phase chromatography
Oratorio San Antonio
ovarian condition
package policy
pill mass roller
pindicks
plastic wax
Prehensile-Tailed
primapterin
printed circuit wiring
product motives
projectile-vomiting
pupping
reefous
roundness grade
routineness
scope of repairing course
second doctor
Serpentine Hot Springs
shofars
sodium tetraphosphate
spunking up
Stew in your own juices
stimulation therapy
syncephalis formosana
Tazolé
TDM bus switching
temperature-induced
the crown of the year
the watches of the night
tradeable
trellis post
trench mouths
tricuspid valves
two-cycle coast
unduly burdensome
vasa sanguinea retinae
Winthrop Harbor
wittner