标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 2 Track 5

 

Exercise 1-37: Descriptions and Set Phrases—Goldilocks                                    CD 2 Track 5 

Read the story and stress the indicated words. Notice if they are a  description , a  set  phrase or contrast. For the next level of this topic, go to page 111. Repeat after me. 

 There is a little girl .  Her name is Goldilocks.  She is in a  sunny  fores t .  She sees a  small  house. She  knocks  on  the door, but  no one  answers. She  goes inside.  In the  large  room,  there are  three chairs .  Goldilocks  sits on the  biggest  chair,  but it is too  high .  She sits on the middle -sized  one,  but it is  too  low .  She sits on the  small chair  and it  is just right.  On the table, there are  three bowls.  There is hot  porridge   in the bowls. She tries the  first  one, but it is too  hot;  the  second one is  too  cold ,  and the third  one is  just  right ,  so she eats it all. After that,  she  goes upstairs.  She looks  around.  There are three  beds ,  so she  sits  down.  The  biggest bed  is  too  hard .  The  middle-s ized  bed is  too  soft .  The  little  one is just  right ,  so she  lies  down.  Soon, she falls   asleep .  In the meantime,  the family of  three  bears  comes home — the  Papa bear,  the  Mama bear,  and the Baby  bear.  They look  around.   

They say, "Who's been sitting in our chairs and eating our porridge?" Then they  run up stairs. They say, "Who's been sleeping in our beds?"  Goldilocks wakes  up.  She is  very  scared .  She  runs away.  Goldilocks  never comes  back . 

Note Up to this point, we have gone into gr eat detail on the intonation¹ patterns of nouns² . We shall now examine the intonation patterns of  verbs. 

1 intonation   

n.语调，声调；发声

参考例句：

• The teacher checks for pronunciation and intonation.老师在检查发音和语调。
• Questions are spoken with a rising intonation.疑问句是以升调说出来的。

2 nouns   

n.名词；名词( noun的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• French differs from English in having gender for all nouns. 法语不同于英语，所有的名词都有性。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Nouns join to form compounds. 名词和名词结合构成复合词。 来自《简明英汉词典》