北师大版高中英语模块11--Unit33(1)-2

[00:00.50]7 A man goes round calling
[00:03.28]on old-age persioners,
[00:05.24]selling them bogus home security systems
[00:07.72]for hundreds of pounds.
[00:09.92]8 A little girl tells her mother
[00:12.01]that her brother has eaten some sweets
[00:14.60]that their mother had told them not to eat.
[00:17.81]9 A woman has a terrible morning
[00:20.77]in which everything seems to go wrong.
[00:23.37]She retells the story throughout the day
[00:25.75]to various friends,each time adding to
[00:28.63]the story to make it more ausing.
[00:31.36]By the end of the day
[00:32.49]it has changed considerably¹!
[00:34.79]10 A husband asks his wife why she thinks
[00:38.50]he is putting on weight.
[00:40.38]She has thought for years that he is inactive
[00:42.87]and drinks too much beer,
[00:44.62]and tells him so bluntly².
[00:47.81]11 A group of young men set up some photos
[00:50.80]of what are supposed to be aliens.
[00:53.83]Thousands of people are taken in,
[00:55.66]and they end up selling their pictures
[00:57.24]to several newspapers.
[00:59.68]12 A teenager who played truant³
[01:02.58]tells his parents that he went to school.
[01:04.29]

1 considerably   

adv.极大地；相当大地；在很大程度上

参考例句：

• The economic situation has changed considerably.经济形势已发生了相当大的变化。
• The gap has narrowed considerably.分歧大大缩小了。

2 bluntly   

adv.钝地；率直地；迟钝地

参考例句：

• To put it bluntly , I want a divorce. 坦白地说，我要离婚。
• She told me bluntly it was my own fault. 她坦率地说那是我个人的错。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 truant   

n.懒惰鬼，旷课者；adj.偷懒的，旷课的，游荡的；v.偷懒，旷课

参考例句：

• I found the truant throwing stones in the river.我发现那个逃课的学生在往河里扔石子。
• Children who play truant from school are unimaginative.逃学的孩子们都缺乏想像力。