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
Accident-insurance
agate jasper
An Khanh
ant-lions
anthropometrist
apogonia formosana
astacins
automatic breech mechanism
automatic ignition
axial region
baille
benzilic acid rearrangement
bite indicator
broadbeam geometry
budget-cutting
CAVD-TEST
charge correlator
Chodro
coenochyma
coir rope
comminuation
copytaker
crystal-balling
CUSUMs
danza de los montoneros (mexico)
data description skeleton
DEAB
desert polish
diabellis
double warps
dual grid tube
ecclesi-
elotes
EOF (end of file)
European perches
external definition
faisable
fine grain development
flexible bus
gamosa
gas core reactor
get back to
give a view of
glove money
head down tilt
immunotransfusion
inband
jackup
labyrinth packing
larsenite
long interspersed element (LINE)
manchu filbert
MartinIndex.
Mechnica
Medveđa
Midgard
MS-Windows
mullites
musselin
N-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-methionine
neutron density fluctuation
niobite (columbite)
nonnaturalist
normalness
notch position
nylon-covered
obviosity
out-of-service
owise
physiographic geology
Pleura parietalis
Polymnia uyedalia
practical marine engineering
propylene product
purge status date
Pyrausta nubilalis
railway distribution system
refraction index profile
road intersection
senseful
show one's right
side fired kiln
silicon resin
sinjiangensis
snetterton
space power unit
square-link chain
standard for discharge of pollutants
storage address display lights
story book
temperature divertor
Trego County
treiman
Tunga
Tyconius
unpremeditate
unsized coal
Untersberg
Vishālgarh
whitworth screw thread gauge
yardperson
yaw checking anchor