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.
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