初中英语人教版03九年级10

[00:06.90]Lesson 37   1. Read and act
[00:11.31]Dad,this Sunday is Mother's Day.What are we going to do?
[00:16.30]Oh,dear! I almost forgot.Do you have any ideas?
[00:20.64]How about having a big dinner Sunday night? That's good idea.
[00:25.60]Hmm... I think each of us should give Mom a gift.
[00:29.52]Yeah.I'll give her a bunch¹ of red carnations².
[00:33.57]She likes flowers.What about you,Lily?
[00:37.43]Hmm...What shall³ I get her?
[00:40.28]Dad,what does Mom need most?
[00:43.44]I don't think she really cares what we'll give her.
[00:46.68]A bunch of flowers is enough for both Lucy and you.
[00:50.13]Then what will you do,Dad?
[00:52.38]I'll do all the cooking,washing and cleaning on that day.
[00:56.45]Wow! That'll be the best gift for Mom.
[01:00.21]Only on that day?
[01:02.01]No,till Father's Day comes.
[01:03.89]Lesson 38   2. Read   Mother's Day
[01:08.95]For hundreds of years the British people have remembered their mothers on Mothering Sunday.
[01:15.15]In the old days,workers had time off from work to visit their mothers.
[01:20.45] Today Mothering Sunday is called Mother's Day in Britain.
[01:25.10]Children send Mother's Day cards to their mothers.
[01:28.34]They give their mothers flowers or sweets as presents.
[01:32.07]Fathers and children do all the cooking and housework to give mothers a rest.
[01:37.43]They do their best to show their love for them.
[01:40.43]  In the USA,mothers are remembered on Mother's Day,too.
[01:45.24]Mother's Day started quite differently from the way it started in Britain.
[01:49.91]In the 1860s
[01:51.72]there was a terrible war⁴ in the United⁵ States between the North and the South.
[01:57.78]There was a small town in the middle of the USA called Pruntytown.
[02:03.00]In this town,half the people fought on the northern side,
[02:07.16]and half fought on the southern side.
[02:10.00]At the end of the war,the people hated each other.
[02:13.95]Mrs Anna Reese Jarvis wanted the people to make friends with each other again.
[02:19.41]So she started "Mother's Friendship Day".
[02:22.57]On that day,she visited all the other mothers in her town and said,
[02:28.45]"God bless⁶ you,let us be friends with each other again."
[02:32.29]Her idea succeeded.
[02:34.09]The same thing happened in other parts of the country.
[02:37.25]Soon,all the women in the United States followed her example.
[02:41.72]After Mrs Jarvis died,her daughter carried on the same idea,
[02:46.26]but she called Mother's Friendship Day Mother's Day.
[02:49.92]The first Mother's Day was celebrated⁷ in 1908.
[02:53.94]In 1914,Mother's Day,the second Sunday in May,became a public holiday.
[03:04.39]Lesson 40  2. Read
[03:08.52]In the old days,London was known⁸ as a city of fog⁹.
[03:13.17]The fog was as thick as pea-soup.
[03:16.09]London's fog was caused by factory smoke,so it was called "smog¹⁰".
[03:21.84]The smog was so thick
[03:23.80]that car and bus drivers could hardly see the road in front of them
[03:29.05]even during the daytime.
[03:30.90]People had to wear "smog-masks" over their faces when they went out.
[03:35.87]In December 1952,a very thick dark cloud came down over the city.
[03:42.32]it was the worst smog Londoners had ever had.
[03:45.95]Nearly fifty people died in road accidents.
[03:49.14]Many more people became very unhealthy.
[03:52.19]After three weeks,the smog began to lift slowly.
[03:56.32]Life in London returned to normal.
[03:59.06]But no long after that,over 4,000 people died as a result of the smog.
[04:05.91]In 1956,the British stopped burning coal in houses and factories in the city.
[04:12.41]London's air became cleaner.
[04:14.76]5.Poem
[04:16.62]"M" is for the million things she gave me,
[04:24.17]"O" means¹¹ only that she's growing old....
[04:28.22]"T" is for the tears¹² she shed¹³ to save me,
[04:32.76]"H" is for her heart of purest¹⁴ gold,
[04:36.92]"E" is for her eyes,with love-light shining,
[04:41.96]"R" means right,and right she'll always be,
[04:47.02]Put them all together,they spell "Mother",

[04:51.75]A word that means the world to me.  --Howard Johnson

1 bunch   

n.串，束；群，帮

参考例句：

• A bunch of girls was[were] sitting on the grass.一群女孩坐在草地上。
• I received a bunch of flowers yesterday.昨天我收到了一束鲜花。

2 carnations   

n.麝香石竹，康乃馨( carnation的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You should also include some carnations to emphasize your underlying meaning.\" 另外要配上石竹花来加重这涵意的力量。” 来自汉英文学 - 围城
• Five men per ha. were required for rose production, 6 or 7 men for carnations. 种植玫瑰每公顷需5个男劳力，香石竹需6、7个男劳力。 来自辞典例句

3 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？

4 war   

n.战争；vi.作战

参考例句：

• We ended the Korean war.我们结束了朝鲜战争。
• The war made many people lose their house and home.战争使许多人无家可归。

5 united   

adj.和谐的；团结的；联合的，统一的

参考例句：

• The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
• The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。

6 bless   

v.祝福，感激，保佑，保护

参考例句：

• May God bless you with a long life!愿上帝保佑你长寿！
• Bless you,my sister!祝福你，我的妹妹！

7 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。

8 known   

adj.大家知道的；知名的，已知的

参考例句：

• He is a known artist.他是一个知名的艺术家。
• He is known both as a painter and as a statesman.他是知名的画家及政治家。

9 fog   

n.雾，迷惑，苔藓；vi.被雾笼罩，变模糊；vt.使困惑，以雾笼罩

参考例句：

• The fog dispersed at ten o'clock.雾在10点钟散开。
• They used dry ice to fog the stage.他们用乾冰于舞台变得一片朦胧。

10 smog   

n.烟雾 (由smoke+fog合成的词)

参考例句：

• Smog blankets the city.烟雾笼罩着这个城市。
• The sky over the city was overspread with a heavy smog.城市上空罩上了一层烟雾。

11 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。

12 tears   

n.眼泪( tear的名词复数 )；破洞；裂口；裂缝v.撕( tear的第三人称单数 )；（使）分裂；撕碎；扯破

参考例句：

• She made a gallant attempt to hide her tears. 她强掩泪水。
• Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼里闪着晶莹的泪花。

13 shed   

n.车棚，小屋，脱落之物，分水岭；vt.使流出，放射，脱落，散发，摆脱；vi. 流出

参考例句：

• There are a lot of straws in the shed.棚子里有许多稻草。
• His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.他的嗅觉告诉他，他正走近牛棚。

14 purest   

adj.纯的( pure的最高级 )；单纯的；纯真的；干净的

参考例句：

• You're bigtime elegant, Francesca, in the purest sense of that word." 你是绝代美人，弗朗西丝卡，是从这个词的最纯正的意义上说。” 来自英汉文学 - 廊桥遗梦
• EGS is undoubtedly one of the purest materials routinely available. 电子级硅无疑是可常规应用的最纯的材料之一。 来自辞典例句