高中英语人教版高一上08

[00:04.60]Lesson 9   1 Dialogue
[00:10.66]Yang Mei is now studying in the States.
[00:15.41]She meets her new teacher,Sara,for the first time.
[00:20.45]SAra is an American.They are talking before the term starts.
[00:27.32]SARA:     So you are Yang Mei.Nice to meet you.
[00:31.87]Yang MEI:  How do you do ?I'm sorry.I know only a little English.
[00:38.74]I have some difficulty¹ in pronouncing some of the words in English.
[00:44.80]SARA:    No,you're doing fine.       Yang Mei:  Thank you.
[00:49.84]SARA:    And when do you take your next exams?   Yang MEI:  In June.
[00:55.41]SARA:    I see.What do you want to do next fall?
[01:00.16]Yang MEI:  Pardon?Would you please say that again more slowly?
[01:05.72]SARA:    What do you want to do next fall?
[01:09.59]Yang MEI:  Next what? I'm sorry I don't quite follow you.
[01:15.44]SARA:    What do you want to do next September? Do you have any plans?
[01:22.89]Yang MEI:  I'd like to study medicine and become a doctor.
[01:27.64]SARA:    Right.Nice meeting you,Yang Mei.bye.
[01:33.20]Yang MEI:  Goodbye.
[01:40.75]Lesson 10    Reading²
[01:44.88]Read the passage quickly and find out some American English words and expressions⁴.
[01:52.85]AMERICAN ENGLISH(1)
[01:57.11]Many students want to know about the differences between American English and British English.
[02:04.55]Written English is more or less the same in both Britain and America,
[02:10.61]though there are some spelling differences.
[02:14.69]For example,the words colour,centre and travelled
[02:21.14]are spelt color,center,and traveled in American English.
[02:27.91]   The differences in the spoken language are greater.
[02:33.47]For example,Americans say dance,and in southern England the say danse[da:ns].
[02:43.32]In America they pronounce not [nat];in southern England they say not[].
[02:51.26]However,most of the time,people from the two countries
[02:56.59]do not have any difficulty in understanding⁵ each other.
[03:01.63]   How did these differences come about?
[03:05.78]There is no quick answer to this question.
[03:10.15]When people from England travelled to other countries,
[03:15.11]they took the English language with them.
[03:19.47]At first,the language stayed the same as the language used⁶ in Britain,
[03:26.00]but slowly the language began to change from one part of the world to another.
[03:32.77]   Sometimes,the English spoken in America or Canada or Australia changed;
[03:40.21]but sometimes the language spoken in these places stayed the same,
[03:46.38]while the language in England changed.
[03:50.64]For example,300 years ago,the English talked about "fall".
[03:58.00]Today,most British people talk about "autumn".
[04:03.57]But Americans still talk about "fall"
[04:07.93]just as people do in some parts of western England.
[04:13.49]In the same way Americans use the expression³ "I guess" (meaning "I think")
[04:20.47]just as the British did 300 years ago.
[04:25.43]A great many words and expressions have come into the language from American English,
[04:32.20]For example:movie,gas,store,mail,radio,right away (at once),
[04:42.25]way of life,and so on.
[04:51.50]Lesson 11
[04:54.77]1 Reading    AMERICAN ENGLISH(2)
[05:01.30]American English has changed over the centuries,too.
[05:06.02]There are several reasons for this.
[05:09.66]One of the reasons is that people travelled to America
[05:14.62]from all the European coutries and from other parts of the world,too.
[05:20.47]They started to use English,
[05:24.13]but they also brought in some words from their own languages.
[05:29.17]For example,the word "cent" in American money is from old French.
[05:36.43]One of the states in the USA is called "Florida";
[05:41.29]in Spanish⁷ this means⁸ the "land of flowers".
[05:45.84]There are a great many American Indian words,for example "to howl"means"to cry".

[05:53.38]And "cookbook⁹" is a German word.

1 difficulty   

n.困难，费劲；难事，难题；麻烦，困境

参考例句：

• If there is any difficulty,please let us know promptly.倘有困难，请迅速通知我们。
• A little difficulty like this is nothing to us.这点困难算不了什么。

2 reading   

n.阅读，知识，读物，表演，对法律条文的解释；adj.阅读的

参考例句：

• Children learn reading and writing at school.孩子们在学校学习阅读和写作。
• He finds pleasure in reading.他从阅读中得到乐趣。

3 expression   

n.表达，表示，表现，表情，措辞，词句

参考例句：

• He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
• Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。

4 expressions   

n.表情( expression的名词复数 )；表示；（数学）表达式；词

参考例句：

• ritualized expressions of grief 以例行的方式表达悲伤
• The fashionable remarks of today often become the commonplace expressions of tomorrow. 今天的时髦话往往变成明天的陈词滥调。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 understanding   

adj.能谅解的；通情达理的；n.理解

参考例句：

• We must have a clear understanding of the problem.我们对这一问题必须有一个清醒的认识。
• Because she is understanding,people around her confide in her.因为她通情达理，周围的人都相信她。

6 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。

7 Spanish   

adj.西班牙人的，西班牙的，西班牙语的；n.西班牙语

参考例句：

• She grew up in Spain,so her first language is Spanish.她在西班牙长大，第一语言是西班牙语。
• I can read Spanish but can't translate into it.我能阅读西班牙语，但不能翻译成西班牙语。

8 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

9 cookbook   

n.食谱；烹调书

参考例句：

• The woman bought a cookbook to learn how to cook. 那个妇女买了一本烹调书来学烹调。
• Can you find the cookbook to make French bread?你能找到做法国烤面包的食谱吗？