时间:2019-01-10 作者:英语课 分类:高中英语人教版必修


英语课

[00:07.00]Listening Task

[02:12.65]Listening Task

[03:55.42]READING TASK

[04:03.98]AN APRIL FOOL'S JOKE:THE NOODLE HARVEST

[04:09.55]"A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees."

[04:15.61]April Fool's Day,or April lst,

[04:22.77]is known 1 in many countries as a day for playing jokes on others.

[04:29.71]It is usually a time when children make fun of each other

[04:35.28]but sometimes other people can get caught in the fun too.

[04:41.23]One of the most famous jokes in England

[04:45.81]took place on British television in 1957.

[04:52.05]It was a Monday night

[04:55.81]when there were always many serious programmes on the television.

[05:01.58]One of them was called Panorama 2,

[05:05.71]which explored problems and progress all over the world.

[05:11.67]So nobody was surprised when it began with a report

[05:17.73]on the excellent noodle harvest in south Switzerland.

[05:23.40]The programme mentioned two reasons for the good crop:

[05:29.46]an unusually warm winter and the disappearance 3 of the insect

[05:36.12]that attacked the noodle crop every year.

[05:40.85]The reporter showed many noodle trees

[05:45.60]with the farmers pulling noodles off them and putting them into baskets.

[05:52.57]The people watching

[05:55.81]were told that they may not have heard of noodles from this part of the world

[06:01.69]because noodles were grown as part of small family businesses.

[06:07.86]The jprogramme makers 4

[06:11.02]realised that people might wonder why noodles were always the same size

[06:17.57]so they explained that

[06:21.23]"it was the result of many years'patient research with the trees

[06:27.79]to produce noodles of exactly the smae lenght."

[06:33.14]But even so they explained that the life of noodle farmer was not easy.

[06:40.51]"The last two weeks of March are an anxious time for noodle farmers.

[06:47.46]There is always a chance of very cold weather spoiling 5 their crop.

[06:53.73]Then it is difficult for them to get top prices on the world markets."

[07:00.57]Many people in England believed this story.

[07:05.61]They rang the BBC 6 to find out how to grow their own noodle tree.

[07:12.48]They were told to"place a piece of noodle in a tin of tomato sauce 7

[07:19.54]and hope for the best."

[07:23.09]This may seem very silly.

[07:27.06]But in the 1950s very few British people travelled abroad for their holidays

[07:35.11]and even fewer of them ate noodles.

[07:40.15]So it seemed possible to imagine that noodles grew on trees like apples,

[07:47.80]pears and nuts.

[07:51.28]Also people trusted the Panorama programme

[07:57.20]for its careful research and serious informations.

[08:03.16]So they were shocked to find the next day

[08:08.12]that they had all believed an April Fool's joke.

[08:14.39]Even today the report of the noodle harvest

[08:19.54]is remembered as one of the best April Fool's jokes ever



adj.大家知道的;知名的,已知的
  • He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
  • He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。
n.全景,全景画,全景摄影,全景照片[装置]
  • A vast panorama of the valley lay before us.山谷的广阔全景展现在我们面前。
  • A flourishing and prosperous panorama spread out before our eyes.一派欣欣向荣的景象展现在我们的眼前。
n.消失,消散,失踪
  • He was hard put to it to explain her disappearance.他难以说明她为什么不见了。
  • Her disappearance gave rise to the wildest rumours.她失踪一事引起了各种流言蜚语。
n.制造者,制造商(maker的复数形式)
  • The makers of the product assured us that there had been no sacrifice of quality. 这一产品的制造商向我们保证说他们没有牺牲质量。
  • The makers are about to launch out a new product. 制造商们马上要生产一种新产品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
v.变质( spoil的现在分词 );损坏;毁掉;破坏
  • You are spoiling this man's son. 贼夫人之子。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The murderer attempted to escape from law punishment by spoiling his own face. 那个杀人犯企图自毁容貌以逃脱法律的惩罚。 来自《简明英汉词典》
abbr.(=British Broadcasting Corporation)英国广播公司
  • She works for the BBC.她为英国广播公司工作。
  • The BBC was founded in 1922.英国广播公司建于1922年。
n.酱油,酱汁;调味汁
  • Some cream will enrich the sauce.在调味汁里加一些奶油会使其味道更加丰富。
  • This sauce is too thick-- add some milk.调味汁太稠,再加点奶.
学英语单词
a fact of life
a saucy miss
alkylphenol ethoxylates
amphibole-ariegite
aphanoconia badia
application
Arminians
automatic photometric titrator
available soil moisture
Barfleur, Pte.de
brearing bore
Christmas present
Chǒngbong
compressed-air sickness
condensing electroscope
deals and battens
desilicator
diplont
easing
economical combustion
electromagnetic method instrument
escalates
eschewment
ethyl propyl ether
Eurocentrism
extent of market
fast addressing of virtual storage
flat-nosed
flax comb
fluid hull
foamet
follicular/follicularis alopecia
gamma characteristic
gaseous cavitation
global decision
greatline
gutlessnesses
half-nephew
high speed A/D converter
Hunghutze
idiosoma
investment outlays
japanese girl
kerbing rib
knotterman
kobina
lolas
marine insurance business
medal plays
message type writer
message-ending character
metallic mineral products
meteoric water
miter end
motorized scraper
mucobuccal fold
Nelson Strait
Nerber's treatment
nigrofuscus
non-linear optical interaction
ocean surveillance satellite
of great worth
operationalities
Paget, Sir James
permissible head loss
petroleum ester
phonon expansion
Pigna
Pithagorean
poising agent
posttrematic branch
powder monitor
prolactin physiology
propepsin
Qeydū
quintane
radar service
rain attenuation
resolvings
sand fleas
say farewell to
settlement separate
side seam can
skrene
sub-zero treatment device
system of check and acceptance
taxed on world-wide income
terminal sequencer
thought on your feet
trailblazer
tube-shaped
two-stage injector
Uchiura-wan
uncloses
uterus atresia
Von Martius, Cachoeira
well-collimated beam
wulls
xenomorphicgranular
XLANG
zoomie