时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:听英文对话做选择


英语课
原文:

Father: Mikey. Time for bed [Why?] Why? It's getting dark out. Well, do you want to talk before you go to bed? [Yeah] Uh, what do you want to talk about?
Boy: Um, the zoo.
 
Father: The zoo? Oh, that was so fun when we went to the zoo. What did you like best about the zoo?
 
Boy: Um, the porcupines 1.
 
Father: They were big, weren't they. And what else . . . yeah. What else do you remember?
 
Boy: Um, the two giraffes.
 
Father: The two giraffes? And were they taller than me or shorter than me?
 
Boy: Over your head.
 
Father: They were over my head. They were pretty tall. And what else do you remember? I remember . . . didn't you see an elephant? [Yeah] What about the elephant do you remember? [Um] What was he . . . was he eating? [Yeah] He was eating. And then, mommy said something happened with the elephant. That he did something.
 
Boy: He throwed dirt on us.
 
Father: He did? Oh, how did he do that? With his foot?
 
Boy: No, with his trunk.
 
Father: And then you fed some ducks. What color were the ducks?
 
Boy: White.
 
Father: And what other animals do you remember?[Um] Wasn't there some type of show.
 
Boy: Yeah. A bird show.
 
Father: A bird show? What did the birds do?
 
Boy: Um, flied.
 
Father: Oh, they flew around!
 
Boy: One flied.
 
Father: Oh, one flew. Were they good birds? [Yeah] Were they naughty at all?
 
Boy: One was naughty.
 
Father: What did it do?
 
Boy: Um, did, to, thing, what you . . . it the . . . the man what it could not do. [Translation: It did something it wasn't supposed to do.]
 
Father: Uhh, okay. And then you saw some butterflies, didn't you? [Yeah] What colors were they?
 
Boy: After the bird show.
 
Father: After the bird show you saw them. And were the butterflies flying around all over the zoo?
 
Boy: Uh, um, they're inside.
 
Father: They were inside, what, a little building? [Yeah] What was the building made of? Was it made of wood? [No] What was it made of? [Glass] Oh, made of glass. And couldn't the butterflies fly out of the glass? [No] No, oh, what stopped them from flying out?
 
Boy: Um, the air.
 
Father: Oh, the air. Oh, there was air coming down? [Yeah] Oh, well that's great. Well, it's time to go to bed now. Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs 2 bite. Good night.
 
Boy: Good night.

1. What did the boy like best about the zoo?
A. porcupines
B. penguins 3
C. polar bears
2. What did the elephant do at the zoo?
A. The elephant kicked dirty food in their direction.
B. The elephant sprayed water at the children.
C. The elephant tossed 4 dirt at the people.
 
3. According to what little the boy said, what can we infer about the bird show?
A. One of the birds performed exactly as expected. 
B. A bird didn't mind the trainer very well.
C. They couldn't see the birds from where they were sitting.
 
4. Where did the boy see the butterflies?
A. inside a glass enclosure 5
B. in a wire building near the bird show
C. flying around the zoo
 
5. What does the expression, "Sleep tight" mean found at the end of this conversation?
A. It refers to the idea of wrapping yourself up in blankets to keep warm.
B. It represents the feeling of having good dreams throughout the night.
C. It makes reference 6 to old-style beds that used ropes to hold up the mattresses 7.
 
正确答案:

1. porcupines
2. The elephant tossed dirt at the people.
3. A bird didn't mind the trainer very well.
4. inside a glass enclosure
5. It makes reference to old-style beds that used ropes to hold up the mattresses.

 

1 porcupines
n.豪猪,箭猪( porcupine的名词复数 )
  • Porcupines use their spines to protect themselves. 豪猪用身上的刺毛来自卫。
  • The59 victims so far include an elephant, dromedaries, monkeys and porcupines. 目前为止,死亡的动物包括大象、峰骆驼、子以及豪猪。 来自互联网
2 bugs
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 penguins
n.企鹅( penguin的名词复数 )
  • Why can penguins live in cold environment? 为什么企鹅能生活在寒冷的环境中? 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Whales, seals, penguins, and turtles have flippers. 鲸、海豹,企鹅和海龟均有鳍形肢。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 tossed
v.(轻轻或漫不经心地)扔( toss的过去式和过去分词 );(使)摇荡;摇匀;(为…)掷硬币决定
  • I tossed the book aside and got up. 我把书丢在一边,站了起来。
  • He angrily tossed his tools and would work no longer. 他怒气冲冲地扔下工具不肯再干了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 enclosure
n.围绕,圈地,围场,围墙,附件,封入物
  • We were led to a fenced enclosure.我们被带到一处用篱笆围住的场地。
  • I received your enclosure with gratitude.附件收到,十分感谢。
6 reference
n.提到,说到,暗示,查看,查阅
  • We spent days going through all related reference material.我们花了好多天功夫查阅所有有关的参考资料。
  • I like to have my reference books within my reach.我喜欢把参考书放到伸手可取的地方。
7 mattresses
褥垫,床垫( mattress的名词复数 )
  • The straw mattresses are airing there. 草垫子正在那里晾着。
  • The researchers tested more than 20 mattresses of various materials. 研究人员试验了二十多个不同材料的床垫。
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a shit-ton
a. angularis
alien to
antihacking
bazin formula
bear sb company
Beromünster
bitoo
borderless printing
bottle collections
branchial system
broadcasting time
burditt
cadews
cafetoria
cetiedil
child development centre
coal-water-oil emulsion
cocoon waste
Comtists
Continorm
control method
correlation control unit
cub sharks
decyl acetate
demothballing
dinitromethane
director of radio equipment
dirt seal
discogastrula
display to
do the double over sb
elastic properties
expectation hypothesis
federal income tax withheld
find-faulting
fixed overhead budget variance
flag leaf
fortoin
gastric-bypass
global wind system
go shooting
grasp reflex
Greenland Res.
hard cataract
hoisting machine
house-guest
Iceland disease
information retrieval services
integrated value
juxtaposings
kaltleiter
Kekule structures
Kemerovo
lane of traffic
lock in circuit
main program counter
Messianic
middy
Milow
moral character
New Norfolk
non concentrating collector
once-through circulation
oppose an action
oschelephantiasis
outs-of-tune
paragus (pandasyophthalmus) tibialis
Parji
paroxysmal eruption
pink-eye
postnotal plate
procs
pyrrosia tonkinensis(christ) ching
quercetins
reflection attenuation
retail deposit
ridge piece
riebe
Rignano sull'Arno
sajad
septisyllables
shaoxing opera
simple microscope
smallmouthed black basses
solid-set sprinkler irrigation
square red clay floor tile
stapedotomies
stitched point
symbolic device
system principle
tambourins
tank ferry
thermal-stress distribution
those present
threequarters
treloxinate
ultra-high power graphite electrode
underwater motor
waste caustics
Yangoda
zirconium silicates