英语四级听力练习集锦39

All Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned¹ in Kindergarten…

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be,

I learned in kindergarten.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate mountain,

but there in the sandbox at nursery² school.

These are the things I learned:

Share everything. Play fair. Don’t hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Wash your hands before you eat.

Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.

Live a balanced life.

Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

Take a nap³ every afternoon.

When you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands and stick together.

Be aware of wonder.

Remember the little seed in the plastic cup?

The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why,

but we are all like that.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the plastic cup —

they all die. So do we.

And then remember the book about Dick and Jane and the first word you learned, the biggest word of all:

Look. Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.

The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation⁴. Ecology and politics and sane⁵ living.

Think of what a better world it would be if we all —

the whole world — had cookies and milk about 3 o’clock every afternoon

and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.

Or if we had a basic policy in our nations

to always put things back where we found them and cleaned up our own messes.

And it is still true, no matter how old you are,

when you go out into the world, it is better to hold hands and stick together.

1 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

2 nursery   

n.托儿所；苗圃

参考例句：

• They have decided to start up a nursery in the factory.他们已决定要在工厂里开办一个托儿所。
• Her company ran its own workplace nursery.她的公司开办了内部的托儿所。

3 nap   

n.(白天)打瞌睡，打盹

参考例句：

• The nap of the coat has been worn off.外衣上的绒毛已经磨掉了。
• Don't bother me while I am taking my nap.我小睡的时候不要打扰我。

4 sanitation   

n.公共卫生，环境卫生，卫生设备

参考例句：

• The location is exceptionally poor,viewed from the sanitation point.从卫生角度来看，这个地段非常糟糕。
• Many illnesses are the result,f inadequate sanitation.许多疾病都来源于不健全的卫生设施。

5 sane   

adj.心智健全的，神志清醒的，明智的，稳健的

参考例句：

• He was sane at the time of the murder.在凶杀案发生时他的神志是清醒的。
• He is a very sane person.他是一个很有头脑的人。