美式英语正音训练第58期:练习1&2&3&4&5

 　　Exercise 3-1 :

　　Word-by-Word and in a Sentence

　　that

　　He said th't it's OK.

　　than

　　It's bigger th'n before

　　as

　　'z soon'z he gets here...

　　at

　　Look' t the time!

　　and

　　ham'n eggs

　　have

　　Where h'v you been

　　had

　　He h'd been at home.

　　can

　　C'n you do it

　　Exercise 3-2:

　　Finding , , and Sounds

　　There are five ,

　　ten ,

　　and seventy-five sounds in the following paragraph.

　　Underscore them in pen or pencil.

　　The first one of each sound is marked for you.

　　Next, check your answers with the Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

　　Finally, take your markers and give a color to each sound.

　　For example,

　　mark green,

　　blue, and yellow.

　　Turn your CD off

　　and read the paragraph three times on your own.

　　Exercise 3-3:

　　Vowel-Sound Differentiation¹

　　Here we will read down from 1 to 24,

　　then we will read each row across.

　　Give the sound a clear double sound ee.

　　Also, the o is a longer sound than you might be expecting.

　　Add the full ooh sound after each "o."

　　Ann

　　ban

　　can

　　cat

　　Dan

　　fan

　　gap

　　hat

　　Jan

　　lamp

　　man

　　matter

　　Nan

　　gnat²

　　pan

　　ran

　　sand

　　shall

　　chance

　　tack³

　　van

　　wax

　　yam

　　zap

　　on

　　bond

　　con⁴

　　caught/cot

　　Don/dawn

　　fawn⁵

　　gone

　　hot

　　John

　　lawn

　　monster

　　motto

　　non

　　not/knot

　　pawn⁶

　　Ron

　　sawn

　　Sean

　　chalk

　　talk

　　Von

　　want

　　yawn

　　czar

　　un~

　　bun

　　come

　　cut

　　done

　　fun

　　gun

　　hut

　　jump

　　lump

　　Monday

　　mutter

　　none/nun

　　nut

　　pun

　　run

　　sun

　　shut

　　chuck

　　tuck

　　vug

　　won/one

　　young

　　result

　　across

　　1.

　　Ann

　　on

　　un~

　　2.

　　ban

　　bond

　　bun

　　3.

　　can

　　con

　　come

　　4.

　　cat

　　caught/cot

　　cut

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　　Exercise 3-4:

　　Reading the Sound

　　The Tn Mn

　　A fashionably tan man

　　sat casually⁷ at the bat stand,

　　lashing⁹ a handful of practice bats.

　　The manager,

　　a crabby old bag of bones,

　　passed by and laughed,

　　"You're about average, Jack¹⁰.

　　Can't you lash⁸ faster than that"

　　Jack had had enough,

　　so he clambered to his feet

　　and lashed¹¹ bats faster

　　than any man had ever lashed bats.

　　As a matter of fact,

　　he lashed bats so fast

　　that he seemed to dance.

　　The manager was aghast.

　　"Jack, you're a master bat lasher¹²!"

　　he gasped¹³.

　　Satisfied at last,

　　Jack sat back

　　and never lashed another bat.

　　Pause the CD and read The Tn Mn aloud.

　　Turn it back on to continue.

　　Exercise 3-5:

　　Reading the Sound

　　A Lt of Lng, Ht Walks in the Garden

　　John was not sorry

　　when the boss called off the walks

　　in the garden.

　　Obviously, to him,

　　it was awfully¹⁴ hot,

　　and the walks were far too long.

　　He had not thought

　　that walking

　　would have caught on

　　the way it did,

　　and he fought the policy

　　from the onset¹⁵.

　　At first,

　　he thought he could talk it over

　　at the law office

　　and have it quashed,

　　but a small obstacle*

　　halted that thought.

　　The top lawyers always bought coffee

　　at the shop across the lawn

　　and they didn't want to stop

　　on John's account.

　　John's problem was not office politics,

　　but office policy.

　　He resolved the problem

　　by bombing the garden.

　　Pause the CD

　　and read A Lt of Lng, Ht Wlks in the Grden aloud.

1 differentiation   

n.区别，区分

参考例句：

• There can be no differentiation without contrast. 有比较才有差别。
• The operation that is the inverse of differentiation is called integration. 与微分相反的运算叫做积分。

2 gnat   

v.对小事斤斤计较，琐事

参考例句：

• Strain at a gnat and swallow a camel.小事拘谨，大事糊涂。
• He's always straining at a gnat.他总是对小事很拘谨。

3 tack   

n.大头钉；假缝，粗缝

参考例句：

• He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
• We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。

4 con   

n.反对的观点，反对者，反对票，肺病；vt.精读，学习，默记；adv.反对地，从反面；adj.欺诈的

参考例句：

• We must be fair and consider the reason pro and con.我们必须公平考虑赞成和反对的理由。
• The motion is adopted non con.因无人投反对票，协议被通过。

5 fawn   

n.未满周岁的小鹿；v.巴结，奉承

参考例句：

• A fawn behind the tree looked at us curiously.树后面一只小鹿好奇地看着我们。
• He said you fawn on the manager in order to get a promotion.他说你为了获得提拔，拍经理的马屁。

6 pawn   

n.典当，抵押，小人物，走卒；v.典当，抵押

参考例句：

• He is contemplating pawning his watch.他正在考虑抵押他的手表。
• It looks as though he is being used as a political pawn by the President.看起来他似乎被总统当作了政治卒子。

7 casually   

adv.漠不关心地，无动于衷地，不负责任地

参考例句：

• She remarked casually that she was changing her job.她当时漫不经心地说要换工作。
• I casually mentioned that I might be interested in working abroad.我不经意地提到我可能会对出国工作感兴趣。

8 lash   

v.系牢；鞭打；猛烈抨击；n.鞭打；眼睫毛

参考例句：

• He received a lash of her hand on his cheek.他突然被她打了一记耳光。
• With a lash of its tail the tiger leaped at her.老虎把尾巴一甩朝她扑过来。

9 lashing   

n.鞭打；痛斥；大量；许多v.鞭打( lash的现在分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The speaker was lashing the crowd. 演讲人正在煽动人群。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The rain was lashing the windows. 雨急打着窗子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。

11 lashed   

adj.具睫毛的v.鞭打( lash的过去式和过去分词 )；煽动；紧系；怒斥

参考例句：

• The rain lashed at the windows. 雨点猛烈地打在窗户上。
• The cleverly designed speech lashed the audience into a frenzy. 这篇精心设计的演说煽动听众使他们发狂。 来自《简明英汉词典》

12 lasher   

n.堰，堰下的水溏，鞭打者；装石工

参考例句：

13 gasped   

v.喘气( gasp的过去式和过去分词 )；喘息；倒抽气；很想要

参考例句：

• She gasped at the wonderful view. 如此美景使她惊讶得屏住了呼吸。
• People gasped with admiration at the superb skill of the gymnasts. 体操运动员的高超技艺令人赞叹。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

14 awfully   

adv.可怕地，非常地，极端地

参考例句：

• Agriculture was awfully neglected in the past.过去农业遭到严重忽视。
• I've been feeling awfully bad about it.对这我一直感到很难受。

15 onset   

n.进攻，袭击，开始，突然开始

参考例句：

• The drug must be taken from the onset of the infection.这种药必须在感染的最初期就开始服用。
• Our troops withstood the onset of the enemy.我们的部队抵挡住了敌人的进攻。