Part V：听力与口语训练

　　段落1

　　One evening a young man in New York, who was known to be something of a musician, read one of his songs to a small group of his friends. The song was highly praised, but afterwards, one of his friends said, “I was very much interested in Jack’s music, but it was stolen from a book.” These words were repeated to Jack. Jack was very angry and asked for an apology. “Well,” said his friend, “I don’t often take back what I have said, but this time I must say I was mistaken. When I got back to my room, I looked in the book and found that the song was still there!”

　　段落2

　　Tommy is my big black dog. He is so strong that he can carry me on his back. He likes to run and play with me. He likes to follow my father around the fields, too. One day, my father took off his coat and put it on the ground under a big tree. Tommy stood watching him. My father said, “Watch my coat, Tommy.”

　　Tommy sat down on the coat. My father forgot all about his coat and went home without it. Later in the evening, I missed my dog. I looked everywhere for him, calling, “Tommy, Tommy!” But Tommy didn’t come. Soon my father wanted something that was in his coat pocket. Then he remembered what he had done. He went back to the big tree. What do you think he saw? Tommy was sitting on the coat so that nobody could carry it away!

　　常用语句：

　　1.Jack is known to be something of a singer.

　　2.He is something of a dancer.

　　3.I had a get-together with a small group of my friends.

　　4.His English is always highly praised.

　　5.He is always highly praised for his English.

　　6.We highly praise him for his bravery.

　　7.He gave me a present but asked it back soon afterwards.

　　8.My bicycle was stolen last night.

　　9.If your words are repeated to your boss, he’ll fire you.

　　10.I’m here to apologize to you for what I said. I hope you would accept my apology.

　　11.I never take back what I have said. It’s not like me.

　　12.I had thought it was Jack who took away my lap top, but I was mistaken.

　　13.Jack is so brave that he dares kill mosquitoes.

　　14.Well, I’d like to follow you around the village.

　　15.I went back home with empty hands.

　　16.I always go to class with an English dictionary, but today I come without it.

　　17.We went to the beach and swam for a while, and later in the afternoon, we had a barbecue there.

　　18.Who do you think you are?

　　19.What do you think you can do?

　　20.Where do you think she is from?

　　单词与短语：

　　New York 纽约；something of a musician 算是个音乐家吧，凑合着算是个音乐家吧；be highly praised 受到高度称赞，受到好评；afterwards adv.过后，后来；music n.音乐；stolen 被偷(steal的过去分词)；be repeated to 传给了，被重复给了；ask for an apology 要求道歉；take back what I have said收回我说过的话；mistaken adj.错了；strong adj.强壮的；follow sb. around vt.跟随某人到处去；later in the evening之后在晚上了，晚上稍晚的时候；miss vt.想念；look everywhere for到处寻找；pocket n.口袋；carry sth. away把某物给拿走；dancer n.舞蹈家，跳舞高手；singer n.歌唱家，唱歌高手；dare 敢于(做)；mosquito n.蚊子；village n.村子；empty adj.空空的

　　Part VI：快速阅读

　　Annoying(令人恼火的) Shadows(影子)

　　The soldiers(士兵) had just moved to the desert(沙漠) and as they had never been in such a place before, they had a lot to learn.

　　As there were no trees or buildings in the desert, it was, of course, very hard to hide their trucks from(藏匿) enemy planes. The soldiers were, therefore, given training in camouflage(伪装), which means ways of covering something so that the enemy cannot see where it is. They were shown how to paint their trucks in irregular(不规则的) patterns(图案) with pale(浅色的) green, yellow, and brown(棕色) paints(油漆) and then to cover them with nets(网) to which they had tied small pieces of cloth.

　　The driver who had the biggest truck went to(费了) a lot of trouble to camouflage(伪装) it. He spent several hours painting it, preparing a net and searching for some heavy rocks with which to hold the net down(把网压下来). When it was all finished, he looked proudly at his work and then went off to have his lunch.

　　But when he came back to the truck after he had had his meal, he was surprised and worried to see that his camouflage work was completely spoilt(毁掉) by the truck's shadow, which was growing longer and longer as the afternoon advanced(前进). He stood looking at it, not knowing what to do about it.

　　Soon an officer arrived and he too saw the shadow, of course.

　　"Well, "he shouted to the poor driver, "what are you going to do about it? If an enemy plane comes over, the pilot will at once know that there is a truck there."

　　"I know, sir," answered the soldier.

　　"Well, don't just stand there doing nothing!" said the officer.

　　"What shall I do, sir?" asked the poor driver.

　　"Get your spade(铲子) and throw some sand over the shadow, of course!" Answered the officer.