北师大版高中英语模块4--Unit12Culture Shock warm-up2

[00:01.45]3 It's difficult to say what is typical,
[00:05.08]as we've become such a multicultural¹ society.
[00:08.22]Our weather hasn't changed though
[00:10.26]and people still spend a lot of time
[00:11.89]talking about it!In terms of food,
[00:14.43]our traditional roast² beef
[00:16.26]or fish ans chips are not as popular
[00:18.12]as they used to be.
[00:19.77]People eat a lot more "international"
[00:21.71]food these days:Italian food,Indian food,
[00:24.96]that kind of thing.Free time?
[00:28.09]If you go to a park any weekend,
[00:30.13]you'll see lots of people jogging,
[00:32.29]walking or fishing.
[00:33.93]There are a lot of fitness³ fanatics⁴!
[00:36.06]We like watching sport too,
[00:37.52]especially footabll, though our natinal teams
[00:40.34]always seem to lose!
[00:41.77]A lot of us go abroad for our holidays
[00:44.14]every year.Greece and Italy
[00:46.32]are the most popular destinations,
[00:48.88]probably because the weather's so nice.
[00:51.60]There we are.I've mentioned the weather again!
[00:54.82]Exercise 3 Listen to the people again
[00:57.91]and make notes about these things:
[00:59.56]

1 multicultural   

adj.融合多种文化的，多种文化的

参考例句：

• Children growing up in a multicultural society.在多元文化社会中长大的孩子们。
• The school has been attempting to bring a multicultural perspective to its curriculum.这所学校已经在尝试将一种多元文化视角引入其课程。

2 roast   

v.烤，炙，烘；n.烤肉；adj.烤(烘)过的

参考例句：

• There's a piece of roast beef.这儿有一块烤牛肉.
• Put the meat into the oven to roast.把肉放到炉子里去烤。

3 fitness   

n.适合，适当，健康，健身

参考例句：

• They're doing exercises to improve their fitness.他们为增强体质而做体操。
• No one questions her fitness for the job.没人怀疑她能胜任这项工作。

4 fanatics   

狂热者，入迷者( fanatic的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The heathen temple was torn down by a crowd of religions fanatics. 异教徒的神殿被一群宗教狂热分子拆除了。
• Placing nukes in the hands of baby-faced fanatics? 把核弹交给一些宗教狂热者手里？