广州初中4Alesson8

　　[00:00.00] Unit 8  Lesson 29
[00:04.88]New word and expression¹
[00:08.86]danger
[00:10.17]n.危险
[00:11.49]in danger
[00:13.02]在危险中；
[00:14.55]suddenly
[00:15.99]adv.突然地
[00:17.42]at first
[00:18.86]首先
[00:20.30]corner
[00:21.62]n.角落；角；拐角
[00:22.94]cry
[00:24.25]v.喊叫；哭
[00:25.57]wing
[00:26.85]n.翅膀
[00:28.13]help
[00:29.31]n.帮助
[00:30.48]from then on
[00:32.12]从那时起
[00:33.75]Simon
[00:35.17]n.西蒙
[00:36.60]Lesson 29  Exercise 1
[00:41.67]Listen to the story and answer the questions.
[00:47.41]Zhenhui and her cousin were playing at their grandmother's house one day,
[00:53.58]when suddenly they heard a loud crash² at the window!
[01:00.13] They ran outside.At first,they couldn't find anything.
[01:06.69]Then Zhenhui saw something lying in a dark corner It was a bird.
[01:14.24]'Oh, you poor thing,' Zhenhui said gently³. 'You've broken⁴ your wing.'
[01:28.40]'It's in pain. I'd better kill it,' said her cousin.
[01:33.36]'No!No!You can't just kill it! Birds and animals are living things, too!
[01:42.22]cried Zhenhui and she ran to find a box.'We can mend its wing.'
[01:50.58]She picked the bird up and put it carefully into the box.
[01:56.43]'Grandma,what should I do?' she asked. 'I don't know how to mend its wing.
[02:04.79]'There's a woman in the next street.Her name is Mrs Lu.
[02:10.85]She looks after sick animals.She'll know how you can mend its wing,'
[02:17.93]her grandmother answered after thinking⁵ for a minute or two.
[02:22.89]Zhenhui went to Mrs Lu's house and showed her the bird.
[02:28.95]Mrs Lu told Zhenhui to leave it with her. She knew what to do.
[02:36.03]'Can I visit the bird again? Can I bring it some seeds⁶?' asked Zhenhui.
[02:42.87]'Yes, come and see it as often as you like and bring some seeds for it, too.
[02:49.64]All help is welcome.
[02:53.11]'From then on, Zhenhui often went to Mrs Lu's to help her look after her animals.
[03:00.48]Lesson 30
[03:03.54]New word and expression
[03:07.61]passenger
[03:09.04]n.游客；乖客
[03:10.46]pigeon⁷
[03:11.79]n.鸽子
[03:13.12]passenger Pigeon
[03:14.80]旅鸽
[03:16.47]forever(=for ever)
[03:18.75]永远
[03:21.04]milliond of
[03:23.26]数以百万计的
[03:25.48]so...that
[03:26.96]如此   以致
[03:28.43]by
[03:29.66]prep.到   为止
[03:30.89]none
[03:32.21]pron.一个也没有
[03:33.52]American Vuffalo
[03:35.35]n.野牛
[03:37.18]not only...but also
[03:39.36]不但   而且
[03:41.54]save
[03:42.88]v.救；挽救
[03:44.21]stop(sb.) from(doing sth.)
[03:46.53]阻止（某人做某事）
[03:48.86]as
[03:50.14]conj.因为，由于
[03:51.42]Lesson 30Exercise 1
[03:55.86]Work in pairs.
[03:58.92]Student A reads 1.1and Student B reads 1.2Then answer the questions together
[04:10.38]DICTIONARY OF THE WORLD'S BIRDS AND ANIMALS
[04:15.03]1.1 Passenger Pigeon In 1850, millions of these birds lived in the USA.
[04:24.39]Every year, they flew north to spend the summer in Canada.
[04:30.03]They flew in groups.
[04:33.79]These groups were sometimes so large that they turned the sky black.
[04:40.03]Then people began to move from Europe to the USA to live.
[04:45.68]These people soon learned⁸ that these birds were good to eat and easy to kill.
[04:52.65]They killed them so quickly that by 1880 there were nearly none left.
[04:59.60]The last Passenger Pigeon in the world died in a zoo in 1914.
[05:06.36]1.2 American Buffalo⁹ A hundred years ago,American Buffaloes¹⁰ were in danger, too.
[05:16.63]People were killing¹¹ them not only for their meat but also for their skins.
[05:22.80]Once, there used¹² to be twenty million of them but by 1890 there were only 550!
[05:31.55]People saw they were in danger and worked hard to save them.
[05:37.11]They stopped other people from killing them.
[05:41.08]Slowly, the population of these animals began to grow again.
[05:46.64]Today, there are many thousands of them
[05:50.80]Lesson 31
[05:54.25]New word and expression
[05:58.32]opening hours
[06:00.06]营业时间；开放时间
[06:01.80]abult
[06:03.12]n.成年人
[06:04.43]coffee
[06:05.75]n.咖啡
[06:07.07]exit
[06:08.60]n.出口
[06:10.13]entrance
[06:11.60]n.入口
[06:13.08]lantern¹³

　　[06:14.52]n.灯笼，提灯
[06:15.95]lce Lantern Destival
[06:17.87]冰灯节
[06:19.79]unusual
[06:21.27]adj.不平常的，异常的
[06:22.75]Lesson 31Exercise 2
[06:28.62]Look at the Zoo sign and listen to the zoo's answer phone message.
[06:36.67]The information you hear will be a little different
[06:42.31]from the information go the sign .Writer down the new informationm
[07:58.69]Lesson 32
[08:01.93]New word and expression
[08:05.88]government
[08:07.30]n.政府
[08:08.72]forest
[08:10.11]n.森林
[08:11.49]unlike
[08:12.92]prep.不像，和  不同
[08:14.34]every fifty years
[08:16.17]每隔五十年
[08:18.00]whole
[08:19.38]adj.整个的
[08:20.77]tust
[08:22.09]n.长牙
[08:23.41]adopt
[08:24.93]v.收养
[08:26.46]Lesson 32  Exercise 1
[08:31.82]Chian is the home of the Glant Pandas.
[08:37.38]Read and listen and say if the sentences are(T)or(F)
[08:44.75]Pandas are one of the world's most favourite animals.
[08:50.63]People like them because they look like funny,gentle.
[08:56.50]toy bears But more and more of them are dying¹⁴.
[09:03.76]If they go on dying.one day,the world may only have toy pandas!
[09:11.71]Long ago,pandas lived in many different parts of China,
[09:17.87]but now you can only find them in a few places in the mountains of Sichuan.
[09:25.92]Shanxi and Gansu.
[09:29.99]Although the Chinese govemment is working very hard to help the pandas
[09:36.34]and give them a safe place to live .
[09:40.28]there are not as many pandas as there used to be.
[09:44.96]Today,there are only about 1.000 living outside zoos.
[09:51.91]Why?First,there are not as many bmboo forests as there used to be
[10:00.27]People have cut down many of the forests
[10:05.23]so that they can use the land to grow food.
[10:10.40]Second,unlike other members of the grass family.
[10:16.33]some kinda of bamboo¹⁵ have flowers and seeds only once every fifty years.
[10:24.98]This means¹⁶ that there are no new bamboo plants for fifty years
[10:32.35]Sometimes,a whole bamboo forest grows so old that it dies suddenly.
[10:41.20]Pandas eat a lot of bamboo.They must eat for about 12 hours to get enough food!
[10:50.27]If there is not enough food for them in one forest,they must move to another .
[10:57.63]If there are no other forests near,they die.
[11:03.20]Third,in many places in the world,
[11:08.16]people will pay a lot of money to have a beautiful panda skin.
[11:14.12]In one year,146 pandas died because people wanted to buy their skins!
[11:22.97]Unit 8
[11:26.13]Time for a rhyme¹⁷ Pandas in danger
[11:32.58]They live in bamboo forests.And eat for tweleve hours a day.
[11:39.53]If there and move away Our pandas are slowly dying,One day they may all be gone.
[11:52.20]So we have to do something very soon.
[11:56.88]So that they can live on and on.
[12:01.61]Revision Exercises
[12:05.45]Exercise 1 Circle the words you hear.
[12:45.81]Exercise 2 Listen to the sentences and fill in the words.
[14:05.37]Exercise 3
[14:08.61]Listen to the situations and the questions.Choose the correct responses¹⁸.
[15:46.57]Exercise 4
[15:49.81]Listen to the questions and the conversations,choose the best answers.
[19:22.48]Exercise 5 Listen to the passages and fill in the table.
[21:15.01]Exercise 6 Listen and answer the questions you hear.
[22:04.15]Exercise 7 Listen to the passage and say if the sentences are ture(T)or(F)
[23:30.46]Exercise 8 Listen to the story and answer the questions.

1 expression   

n.表达，表示，表现，表情，措辞，词句

参考例句：

• He looked at me without expression.他毫无表情地看着我。
• Her face was without expression.她的脸上没有表情。

2 crash   

n.碰撞，坠落，坠毁；撞击声，爆裂声；失败，瓦解；vt.碰撞，坠落，坠毁；vi.碰撞

参考例句：

• There was a serious car crash this morning.今晨发生了一起严重的撞车事故。
• The cars hit with loud crash.汽车相撞发出巨大的轰隆声。

3 gently   

adv.轻轻的；温和的

参考例句：

• I should knock at the door gently.我应该轻轻地敲门。
• Push your chair in gently.轻轻把椅子推进去。

4 broken   

adj.坏掉的，患病的，被制服的，断掉的；vbl.break的过去分词

参考例句：

• He is mending a broken cup.他在修补破杯子。
• Something was broken in my engine.我的发动机里有个东西损坏了。

5 thinking   

n.思考，思想；adj.思考的，有理性的；vbl.想，思考

参考例句：

• All thinking men will protest against it.凡是有思想的人都会抗议这件事。
• Thinking is mainly performed with words and other symbols.思想主要是用言语和其他符号来表达的。

6 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

7 pigeon   

n.鸽子

参考例句：

• The pigeon homed from a distance of 100 miles.鸽子从百英里之外返回窝巢。
• How many pigeon eggs do you need?你要几个鸽子蛋？

8 learned   

adj.有学问的，博学的；learn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
• In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。

9 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

10 buffaloes   

n.水牛（分非洲水牛和亚洲水牛两种）( buffalo的名词复数 )；（南非或北美的）野牛；威胁；恐吓

参考例句：

• Some medieval towns raced donkeys or buffaloes. 有些中世纪的城市用驴子或水牛竞赛。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Water buffaloes supply Egypt with more meat than any other domestic animal. 水牛提供给埃及的肉比任何其它动物都要多。 来自辞典例句

11 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

12 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。

13 lantern   

n.灯笼，提灯，航标灯；vt.装上提灯

参考例句：

• This is a Chinese lantern.这是中国的灯笼。
• The lantern hanging overhead swung in the wind.吊在高处的灯在风中摇动。

14 dying   

adj.垂死的，临终的

参考例句：

• He was put in charge of the group by the dying leader.他被临终的领导人任命为集团负责人。
• She was shown into a small room,where there was a dying man.她被领进了一间小屋子，那里有一个垂死的人。

15 bamboo   

n.竹；竹子；adj.用竹子制的

参考例句：

• She sometimes uses a bamboo as a stick.她有时用竹竿当手杖。
• People use bamboo to build houses.人们用竹子建造房屋。

16 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。

17 rhyme   

n.韵，押韵，韵文；vi.押韵，作诗；vt.使押韵，用韵诗表达

参考例句：

• I cannot find a rhyme to " hiccups ".我不能找到和 “hiccups”同韵的词。
• The last two lines of this poem don't rhyme properly.这首诗后两句不怎么压韵。

18 Responses   

n.反应( response的名词复数 )；回答；（礼拜仪式中的）答唱咏；[基督教]（礼拜仪式中会众同牧师）轮流应答（或吟唱）的祈祷文

参考例句：

• The above-mentioned working paper has received favorable responses from many countries. 上述工作文件得到了许多国家的支持和响应。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• To me, all these spontaneous responses of his were contemptible and despicable. 他的这些，在我看来都是笑柄，可鄙的。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译