时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:中级类英语听力


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 Upon the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, the fifty-seven-year-old Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell, K.C.B., contacted Lord Kitchener and offered to come out of retirement 1 to serve Britain in its hour of need. The War Secretary, however, believed that the veteran officer had a far more crucial part to play on the home front, training and mobilizing the organization he had founded six years earlier and that now constituted an army in itself: the Scouting 3 Movement. Under the auspices 4 of their beloved Chief Scout 2, Boy Scouts 5 and Girl Guides were soon working in a variety of capacities and taking up key positions left vacant by soldiers and nurses who had gone to the front lines. In the wake of air-raids, while the Zeppelins still hummed in the distance, Scouts dug survivors 6 out of the London rubble 7, tended to the wounded, and pedaled through the streets blowing the "All Clear" on their bugles 8.


1. During the Great War of 1914, who did Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Baden-Powell offer to serve?


 The Girls Guides


 The Boy Scouts


 The Scouting Movement


 Britain in its hour of need


 


2. What was Lord Kitchener's position?


 War Secretary


 Britain's Prime Minister


 Chief Scout


 Lieutenant-General


 


3. What were the Scouts jobs during the war?


 Dug survivors out of the London rubble


 Tended to the wounded


 Pedaled through the streets blowing the All Clear on their bugles


 All of the above


 

1 retirement
n.退休,退职
  • She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
  • I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
2 scout
n.童子军,侦察员;v.侦察,搜索
  • He was mistaken for an enemy scout and badly wounded.他被误认为是敌人的侦察兵,受了重伤。
  • The scout made a stealthy approach to the enemy position.侦察兵偷偷地靠近敌军阵地。
3 scouting
守候活动,童子军的活动
  • I have people scouting the hills already. 我已经让人搜过那些山了。
  • Perhaps also from the Gospel it passed into the tradition of scouting. 也许又从《福音书》传入守望的传统。 来自演讲部分
4 auspices
n.资助,赞助
  • The association is under the auspices of Word Bank.这个组织是在世界银行的赞助下办的。
  • The examination was held under the auspices of the government.这次考试是由政府主办的。
5 scouts
侦察员[机,舰]( scout的名词复数 ); 童子军; 搜索; 童子军成员
  • to join the Scouts 参加童子军
  • The scouts paired off and began to patrol the area. 巡逻人员两个一组,然后开始巡逻这个地区。
6 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
7 rubble
n.(一堆)碎石,瓦砾
  • After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后,花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
  • After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。
8 bugles
妙脆角,一种类似薯片但做成尖角或喇叭状的零食; 号角( bugle的名词复数 ); 喇叭; 匍匐筋骨草; (装饰女服用的)柱状玻璃(或塑料)小珠
  • Blow, bugles, blow, set the wild echoes flying. "响起来,号角,响起来,让激昂的回声在空中震荡"。
  • We hear the silver voices of heroic bugles. 我们听到了那清亮的号角。
学英语单词
-ranking
a hard nut to crack
A/C (aircraft)
Acrolatinoe
affix-stripping
alosa menhaden
analog memories
analog process
antigravitation
Arzbach
Austerian
avar
bone like tissue
boots up
choke stone
Chungerpei
collective side occupation
crossbaring
crossed paralysis
dermato
direct positive process
electrical point detector
elicitation of a selling price
emotionalized
endhand
ethylene glycol monoethyl ether acetate
Ethylmalonic-Adipicaciduria
exculpatory
exploratory map
Extreme Ultravioet Explorer
faconde
fluctuate between hopes and fears
foodstuff control apecial account
general test facility
grabable
grown-junction phototransistor
hertz hallwachs effect
homopaternal
hovers
hyper-social
idiopathic cholestasis of pregnancy
inherent statistical uncertainty
insect borne disease
intermediate pump
irrigable area
Isherwood, Christopher(William Bradshaw)
isochromism
Jacksonesque
kilocuses
lactariid
lax bros
lincoln memorials
ma'amed
male-only
marine bacteria
medical immunology
melteigite carbonatite
mesobilatriene-IX
metastrophe
methocidin
odd-odd spin
offtime report
Ottoman-Turkish
oxidation-reduction quality
passer montanuss
people people
pepe arrangement
personal goods
personnel scientist
pick up some habits
Plead.
postexodontic complication
QKtP
quf
radiotelegraph autoalarm
reflection operator
ringfence
Saalfelden
scouring of river banks
sebotrophic
slider box
space-filling model
spectacor
Spitzka's bundle
springing arrangement
stable type gravimeter
stand in the shoes of sb.
stare into
stepnephew
Sunday dinner
supramastoid crest
technological lubrication
test dispatching
torrences
transpeciate
triacetyloleandomycin
unweathered
vault buck
View the source of the current frame cell
waks
weather a financial crisis
xenobiological