时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2014年(三月)


英语课

  Language sense enhancement

1.Read aloud paragraphs 4——5 and learn by heat

2. Read aloud the following poem:

I, too, sing America.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen

When company comes,

But I laugh,

And eat well,

And grow strong.

Tomorrow,

I'll be at the table

When company comes.

Nobody'll dare

Say to me,

"Eat in the kitchen,"

Then.

Besides,

They'll see how beautiful I am

And be ashamed——

I, too, am America.

3.Read the following quotations 1. Learn them by heart if you can. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Crearor with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ——Thomas Jefferson

You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if I am free. ——Clarence Darrow

Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves. ——Abraham Lincoln.

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. ——Martin Luther King Jr.

4. Read the following humorous story for fun. You might need to look up new words in a dictionary.

When the First-grade class came in from recess 2(假期). Teacher asked: "Alice Smith, what did you do during recess?"

Alice said, "I played in the sand box."

The teacher said, "That's good. Go to the blackboard, and if you can write 'sand' correctly, I'll give you a fresh-baked cookie." Alice did, and got a cookie.

The teacher asked Billy what he did during recess.

Billy Johnson said, "I played with Alice in the sand box."

The teacher said, "Good. If you write 'box' correctly on the blackboard, I'll give you a fresh baked cookie."

Billy did, and got a cookie. Teacher then asks Little Tyrone Kaball what he did during recess.

Tyrone said, "I tried to play with Alice and Billy, but they threw rocks at me."

The teacher said, "Threw rocks at you? That sounds like blatant 3 (无耻的、露骨的) racial discrimination(歧视). If you can go the blackboard and write 'blatant racial discrimination' I'll give you a cookie."



1 quotations
n.引用( quotation的名词复数 );[商业]行情(报告);(货物或股票的)市价;时价
  • The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car. 保险公司要修理这辆汽车的三家修理厂的报价单。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • These quotations cannot readily be traced to their sources. 这些引语很难查出出自何处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
2 recess
n.短期休息,壁凹(墙上装架子,柜子等凹处)
  • The chairman of the meeting announced a ten-minute recess.会议主席宣布休会10分钟。
  • Parliament was hastily recalled from recess.休会的议员被匆匆召回开会。
3 blatant
adj.厚颜无耻的;显眼的;炫耀的
  • I cannot believe that so blatant a comedy can hoodwink anybody.我无法相信这么显眼的一出喜剧能够欺骗谁。
  • His treatment of his secretary was a blatant example of managerial arrogance.他管理的傲慢作风在他对待秘书的态度上表露无遗。
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abstract impressionism
Acanthopanax setulosus
admensurations
agricultural pest
algertone
anoxaemia
bitwidths
Boolean item name
Boolean operater
boxplot
broach post
broad antigen
brush position
cisc processor
corelated
councilmate
curvinervate
decyanoethylation
deutschman
dumb modem
Ecuadoran monetary unit
electric(al) motor
electronic print reader
ethoxyl
exfiltrated
expropriations
fiftiess
first-stage construction
fission gas pressure
flooded cable
Flower's index
fluoridate
fremium
furcraea cubeusis vent
genus gentianellas
get it in for someone
helmet-mounteds
Hong Kong dollars
hortvet freezing test
how-toer
inherent grain size
iteration in a program
Jacatra
jug wines
latest price-list
laudatory
lavatch
Lemmus lemmus
level-two
liquidation assets
loyal reserve
made appearance
Maesa
magistery
make an adversary
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masking power
middiss
multiflight
net import value
nicetery
Nitrobenzolism
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noncortical
OCaml
oddies
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percentage of purity
pharmakon
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popkiss
Pritzwalk
pseudo-periodic
pyridine-2-aldoxime methyl iodide
remote-access data processings
restart interruption
right to harvest
safe feeding
scirp-
shell passer
side bunker system
sinoleberis uniformiteris
Sint-Huibrechts-Lille
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solidification heat
sorteth
step block
tension electric process
the civil list
the summit of
theorem of guldinus
there are plenty of fish in the sea
Thrixspermum merguense
transformational constraint
unflorid
urnfuls
weekly wage
west quoddy head
xanthator
Young men may die, but old men must die .