初中英语人教版03九年级08

[00:08.39]Lesson 29   1. Read and act
[00:14.94]Would you like to come to my home on Thursday evening?
[00:20.30]Sure.What have you planned?
[00:24.66]My mom's having some of our friends over for Thanksgiving.
[00:30.54]Um,what's that?
[00:34.38]It's a very special American holiday.
[00:39.24]We celebrate it on the fourth Thursday of November.
[00:44.41]What do you do to celebrate it?
[00:48.67]We give thanks to God¹ for all that we have got.
[00:53.52]It's also a time for family and friends to get together.
[00:58.78]So it's a little like the Chinese New Year.  Yeah,that's right.
[01:04.94]I suppose there will be lots of food.
[01:09.38]Yes,more than you can eat. Great.
[01:14.14]I've always wanted to try traditional American food.
[01:19.60]What time should I be there?  Is 6:30 OK?
[01:24.95]That's fine. Thanks.See you then. See you.
[01:30.91]2.Read and act
[01:35.35]Hi,Mum.Gee,something smells good. nI'm cooking the turkey for dinner.
[01:42.43]Do you need any help?
[01:45.67]Thanks.I could use a bit of help.
[01:50.21]Why don't you set the table for me?
[01:54.44]All right.Shall² I put spoons with the knives and forks?
[02:00.08]Of course,sweetie.We'll need them for the cranberry³ dish.
[02:05.73]OK.Anything else you need?  No,that's all.
[02:15.60]Lesson 30
[02:18.66]2. Read  Give a title⁴ for this story.
[02:24.22]  Americans have been celebrating Thanksgiving
[02:29.37]in one way or another since the 1600s.
[02:35.32]However,this holiday wasn't really celebrated⁵ in the modern way until the 1890s.
[02:44.18]At that time,the leaders were searching for a holiday
[02:49.74]that could bring the people together as one nation⁶,
[02:54.79]especially new immigrants⁷ from abroad.
[02:59.51]Some leaders tried to change the true history of the first Thanksgiving
[03:05.89]more that a little bit.
[03:09.23]They wrote about how the English settlers⁸ found friendship with the Indians
[03:15.79] who they met in the new land called America.
[03:20.96]They said that the settlers and the Indians were like brothers and sisters.
[03:27.73]These leaders also described the first Thanksgiving meal
[03:34.20]as one cooked by the settlers for their guests,the Indians.
[03:39.95]So it seemed that the settlers and the Indians lived happily together.
[03:46.12]  Sadly,some of what Americans were told was really just a myth⁹.
[03:52.78]Soon after the first Thanksgiving,
[03:57.04]the Indians began to have problems with the settlers.
[04:02.21]Some of the settlers had strange diseases¹⁰ that killed many of the Indians.
[04:08.87]The settlers,who had a strong belief¹¹ in God,
[04:14.15]wanted to teach their religion¹² to the Indians.
[04:18.87]Most of the Indians,however,weren't interested in it.
[04:24.02]About twenty years after the first settlers arrived in New England,
[04:30.26]fighting often broke out between the settlers and the Indians.
[04:36.32]The settlers took most of the land from the people
[04:41.18]they had once called their friends.
[04:45.15]Many of the Indians who were still alive ran away
[04:50.19]to live with French settlers in Canada.
[04:54.56]Some were not so lucky.
[04:58.32]They were sold as slaves¹³ in the south of the country.
[05:03.46]  However,the story is not all sad.
[05:08.22]In fact,the first Thanksgiving was a time of celebration¹⁴.
[05:14.46]William Bradford,one of the leaders of the settlers,
[05:20.13]invited an Indian named Squanto and his family to dinner.
[05:25.98]These Indians had helped the settlers to become better farmers.
[05:31.73]The Indian leader,his family and many others were also invited.
[05:38.39]Everyone gave thanks for a successful harvest
[05:43.25]and ate a great feast¹⁵ for three days.
[05:48.00]Today,Thanksgiving lasts only one day
[05:53.36]but American families still get together every autumn to give thanks
[06:00.12]and have a big meal with friends and neighbours¹⁶.
[06:05.58]Lesson 31  1. Read and answer
[06:16.14]You may be surprised to learn
[06:20.08]that some Indian groups had six Thanksgiving festivals every year

[06:26.32]The first was in early February.
[06:30.40]It celebrated the harvest of a juice from special trees.
[06:36.04]The second took place in the early spring.
[06:40.30]It celebrated the planting of seeds¹⁷ in the ground.
[06:45.37]The third Thanksgiving was celebrated in the late spring
[06:51.01]for the first fruit of the season.
[06:55.09]The next was in the summer to give thanks for the corn¹⁸.
[07:00.05]The fifth festival came in late autumn to celebrate the harvest.
[07:06.81]The last took place during the winter so give thanks for another safe year.
[07:16.48]Lesson 32  2.Dictation¹⁹
[07:22.44]1 This is an Indian prayer²⁰ of thanks.
[07:28.21]Listen to the tape as you read the text and write in the missing²¹ words.
[07:34.66]2.Form a small group and read the text aloud.
[07:40.33]Then choose one person to read it to the rest of your class.
[07:46.68]Gwa!Gwa!Gwa! Now the time has come!
[07:53.84]Hear us,Great Father of the Sky!
[07:58.98]We are here to () the truth,for you want only truth.
[08:06.53]We are your children,Great Father of the Sky.
[08:12.09]Now begins our ().
[08:16.35]With this fire and smoke we () our prayers²² to you.
[08:23.33]Now in teh beginning you () us with all we need on earth.
[08:30.38]You  said:I shall make the earth for the people to live on.
[08:37.15]They shall look to the earth as their mother and they shall say,
[08:43.81]"It is she who gives us much."
[08:48.07]We are ( ) for the earth and each other.
[08:53.32]So this is why we have come her today to give you thanks.
[08:59.48]Now see the smoke from the ().
[09:04.21]It rises high into the sky.
[09:08.86]We will eat food from our hard work.
[09:14.03]You have given us a world to grow many things.
[09:19.59]You give us the () corn.  It keeps us ().
[09:26.26]Now it grows colder.
[09:30.33]But it will be warm again in the spring and life will return to us.
[09:37.59]We ( ) you and we are thankful²³.
[09:42.32]The () from the fire rises again.See the () and hear our words.
[09:51.15]4.Read
[09:54.81]Many,many years ago,Sister Corn wanted to bring more pleasure to her people.
[10:01.47]She had already made the shoes they wore.
[10:05.73]Now she wanted to make something different.
[10:09.99]So she asked the Great Spirit²⁴ if she could make little people of corn husk.
[10:15.94]The Great Spirit agreed.
[10:19.42]Then Sister Corn began the hard work and made a very beautiful young corn woman.
[10:26.78]One day this woman went into the forest and looked at herself in a clear lake.
[10:33.03]She saw how beautiful she was and become very proud and naughty²⁵.
[10:39.29]Soon people became unhappy,
[10:44.26]so the Great Spirit told the woman not to be so proud,but she didn't listen.
[10:50.81]The Great Spirit decided²⁶ to teach her a lesson:
[10:55.46]she would have no face,nor could she talk to the people,
[11:01.50]the birds,or the animals of the forest.
[11:06.64]She must walk around the earth forever²⁷ looking for something to do
[11:12.29]to get her lovely face back again.
[11:16.65]To this day,the Indian people do not put any face on their corn husk dolls

1 god   

n.上帝，神；被极度崇拜的人或物

参考例句：

• God knows how the cat got up on the roof.只有天知道那只猫是怎样爬上房顶的。
• God wills that man should be happy.上帝愿人类幸福。

2 shall   

v.aux.（主要用于第一人称）将

参考例句：

• I shall always love you.我将永远爱你。
• Which club shall we join?我们要参加哪个社团？

3 cranberry   

n.梅果

参考例句：

• Turkey reminds me of cranberry sauce.火鸡让我想起梅果酱。
• Actually I prefer canned cranberry sauce.事实上我更喜欢罐装的梅果酱。

4 title   

n.头衔，名称，标题，所有权，资格，冠军；vt.赋予称号，加标题于；adj.标题的

参考例句：

• I don't think I am worthy of such an honourable title.这样的光荣称号，我可担当不起。
• She has won the title of the world's champion.她获得了世界冠军的称号。

5 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

6 nation   

n.民族；国家；国民

参考例句：

• The President gave an address to the nation over the radio.总统向全国发表广播演说。
• The country needs a leader who will hold the nation together.这个国家需要有一个能把全民族团结起来的领袖。

7 immigrants   

n.移民( immigrant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Illegal immigrants were given the opportunity to regularize their position. 非法移民得到了使其身份合法化的机会。
• Immigrants from all over the world populate this city. 这个城市里生活着来自世界各地的移民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 settlers   

n.移民，侨民( settler的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• white settlers in Africa 非洲的白人移民
• After the settlers left, the area reverted to desert. 早期移民离开之后，这个地区又变成了一片沙漠。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 myth   

n.神话，神话故事

参考例句：

• The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.这个故事与某个希伯来神话有相似之处。
• The story is a pure myth.这故事纯属虚构。

10 diseases   

n.疾病( disease的名词复数 )；弊端；恶疾；痼疾

参考例句：

• Smoking is a causative factor in several major diseases. 抽烟是引起几种严重疾病的病因。
• The illness frequently coexists with other chronic diseases. 这种病往往与其他慢性病同时存在。

11 belief   

n.相信，确信，信任，信念，认为

参考例句：

• Their society was built around a belief in God.他们的社会建立在信仰上帝的基础上。
• Nothing can shake the basis for my belief.什么也动摇不了我信念的基础。

12 religion   

n.宗教，信仰；信念，关心的事

参考例句：

• What religion do you have?你有什么宗教信仰？
• Yoga is not a religion.瑜伽不是一种宗教。

13 slaves   

n.奴隶( slave的名词复数 )；苦工；完全受（某事物）控制的人；完全依赖（某事物）的人v.奴隶般地工作，做苦工( slave的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. 美国奴隶直到1863年才获得自由。
• fashionistas who are slaves to the latest trends 被潮流牵着鼻子走的赶时髦者

14 celebration   

n.庆祝，庆祝会；典礼

参考例句：

• The celebration passed off successfully.庆祝活动圆满结束。
• The celebration of Christmas is a custom.庆祝圣诞节是一种习俗。

15 feast   

n.盛宴，筵席，节日

参考例句：

• After the feast she spent a week dieting to salve her conscience.大吃了一顿之后，她花了一周时间节食以安慰自己。
• You shouldn't have troubled yourself to prepare such a feast!你不该准备这样丰盛的饭菜，这样太麻烦你了！

16 neighbours   

邻居( neighbour的名词复数 )； 邻近的人[物]； 邻国； 世人

参考例句：

• The neighbours' kids are the bane of my life . 街坊邻居的孩子让我生活得很不安宁。
• He became embroiled in a dispute with his neighbours. 他与邻居们发生了争执。

17 seeds   

n.种子( seed的名词复数 )；子孙；起源；（尤指网球比赛）种子选手

参考例句：

• During the winter the seeds lie dormant in the soil. 冬天种子在土壤中休眠。
• a packet of wild flower seeds 一包野花籽

18 corn   

n.(美)玉米，(英)小麦，谷物(中)包裹

参考例句：

• Corn was first grown in America.玉米最先在美国种植。
• Was the camel carrying corn?那头骆驼驮的是谷物吗？

19 dictation   

n.听写，口述，命令

参考例句：

• We have a dictation every English class.每次上英语课我们都进行听写测验。
• We will have a dictation now.我们现在要进行听写训练了。

20 prayer   

n.祈祷，祈求，请求，恳求；祷文，祷告者，恳求者

参考例句：

• We heard the calling of the bells to prayer.我们听见了召唤祈祷的钟声。
• Everyone in church knelt in prayer.教堂里每个人都跪着祈祷。

21 missing   

adj.遗失的，缺少的，失踪的

参考例句：

• Check the tools and see if anything is missing.检点一下工具，看有无丢失。
• All the others are here;he's the only one missing.别人都来了，就短他一个。

22 prayers   

祈祷( prayer的名词复数 )； 祈祷（习惯）； 祈祷文； 经文

参考例句：

• to say your prayers 祷告
• He says his prayers every night before he goes to bed. 他每晚睡觉前都做晚祷。

23 thankful   

adj.感谢的；感激的

参考例句：

• I am very thankful to you.太感谢你了。
• You should be thankful to be alive.你能活下来，应该感到很欣慰。

24 spirit   

n.烈酒（常用复数）；精神；情绪

参考例句：

• You're feeling her spirit.你感受着她的精神。
• His selfless spirit is worth praising.他的无私精神值得赞扬。

25 naughty   

adj.顽皮的；淘气的

参考例句：

• Because you have a naughty daughter!因为你有个淘气女儿！
• The naughty boy was asking for trouble.那个调皮的男孩是自找麻烦。

26 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

27 forever   

adv.(=for ever)永远；总是

参考例句：

• Teacher is powerful in a child's eyes forever.老师在孩子们的心中永远是强者。
• You can't depend on your parents forever.你不能永远依赖你父母。