初中英语人教版03九年级10

[00:06.90]Lesson 37   1. Read and act

[00:11.31]Dad,this Sunday is Mother's Day.What are we going to do?

[00:16.30]Oh,dear! I almost forgot.Do you have any ideas?

[00:20.64]How about having a big dinner Sunday night? That's good idea.

[00:25.60]Hmm... I think each of us should give Mom a gift.

[00:29.52]Yeah.I'll give her a bunch 1 of red carnations 2.

[00:33.57]She likes flowers.What about you,Lily?

[00:37.43]Hmm...What shall 3 I get her?

[00:40.28]Dad,what does Mom need most?

[00:43.44]I don't think she really cares what we'll give her.

[00:46.68]A bunch of flowers is enough for both Lucy and you.

[00:50.13]Then what will you do,Dad?

[00:52.38]I'll do all the cooking,washing and cleaning on that day.

[00:56.45]Wow! That'll be the best gift for Mom.

[01:00.21]Only on that day?

[01:02.01]No,till Father's Day comes.

[01:03.89]Lesson 38   2. Read   Mother's Day

[01:08.95]For hundreds of years the British people have remembered their mothers on Mothering Sunday.

[01:15.15]In the old days,workers had time off from work to visit their mothers.

[01:20.45] Today Mothering Sunday is called Mother's Day in Britain.

[01:25.10]Children send Mother's Day cards to their mothers.

[01:28.34]They give their mothers flowers or sweets as presents.

[01:32.07]Fathers and children do all the cooking and housework to give mothers a rest.

[01:37.43]They do their best to show their love for them.

[01:40.43]  In the USA,mothers are remembered on Mother's Day,too.

[01:45.24]Mother's Day started quite differently from the way it started in Britain.

[01:49.91]In the 1860s

[01:51.72]there was a terrible war 4 in the United 5 States between the North and the South.

[01:57.78]There was a small town in the middle of the USA called Pruntytown.

[02:03.00]In this town,half the people fought on the northern side,

[02:07.16]and half fought on the southern side.

[02:10.00]At the end of the war,the people hated each other.

[02:13.95]Mrs Anna Reese Jarvis wanted the people to make friends with each other again.

[02:19.41]So she started "Mother's Friendship Day".

[02:22.57]On that day,she visited all the other mothers in her town and said,

[02:28.45]"God bless 6 you,let us be friends with each other again."

[02:32.29]Her idea succeeded.

[02:34.09]The same thing happened in other parts of the country.

[02:37.25]Soon,all the women in the United States followed her example.

[02:41.72]After Mrs Jarvis died,her daughter carried on the same idea,

[02:46.26]but she called Mother's Friendship Day Mother's Day.

[02:49.92]The first Mother's Day was celebrated 7 in 1908.

[02:53.94]In 1914,Mother's Day,the second Sunday in May,became a public holiday.

[03:04.39]Lesson 40  2. Read

[03:08.52]In the old days,London was known 8 as a city of fog 9.

[03:13.17]The fog was as thick as pea-soup.

[03:16.09]London's fog was caused by factory smoke,so it was called "smog 10".

[03:21.84]The smog was so thick

[03:23.80]that car and bus drivers could hardly see the road in front of them

[03:29.05]even during the daytime.

[03:30.90]People had to wear "smog-masks" over their faces when they went out.

[03:35.87]In December 1952,a very thick dark cloud came down over the city.

[03:42.32]it was the worst smog Londoners had ever had.

[03:45.95]Nearly fifty people died in road accidents.

[03:49.14]Many more people became very unhealthy.

[03:52.19]After three weeks,the smog began to lift slowly.

[03:56.32]Life in London returned to normal.

[03:59.06]But no long after that,over 4,000 people died as a result of the smog.

[04:05.91]In 1956,the British stopped burning coal in houses and factories in the city.

[04:12.41]London's air became cleaner.

[04:14.76]5.Poem

[04:16.62]"M" is for the million things she gave me,

[04:24.17]"O" means 11 only that she's growing old....

[04:28.22]"T" is for the tears 12 she shed 13 to save me,

[04:32.76]"H" is for her heart of purest 14 gold,

[04:36.92]"E" is for her eyes,with love-light shining,

[04:41.96]"R" means right,and right she'll always be,

[04:47.02]Put them all together,they spell "Mother",

[04:51.75]A word that means the world to me.  --Howard Johnson