美式英语正音训练第31期:Exercise 1-37 Descriptions and Set Phrases

 　　Exercise 1-37:

　　Descriptions and Set Phrases—Goldilocks

　　Read the story and stress the indicated words.

　　Notice if they are a description, a set phrase¹ or contrast².

　　For the next level of this topic, go to page 111.

　　Repeat after me.

　　There is a little girl.

　　Her name is Goldilocks.

　　She is in a sunny forest.

　　She sees a small house.

　　She knocks on the door, but no one answers.

　　She goes inside.

　　In the large room, there are three chairs.

　　Goldilocks sits on the biggest chair, but it is too high.

　　She sits on the middle-sized one, but it is too low.

　　She sits on the small chair and it is just right.

　　On the table, there are three bowls.

　　There is hot porridge in the bowls.

　　She tries the first one, but it is too hot;

　　the second one is too cold, and the third one is just right, so she eats it all.

　　After that, she goes upstairs.

　　She looks around.

　　There are three beds, so she sits down.

　　The biggest bed is too hard.

　　The middle- sized bed is too soft.

　　The little one is just right, so she lies down.

　　Soon, she falls asleep.

　　In the meantime³, the family of three bears comes home —

　　the Papa bear, the Mama bear, and the Baby bear.

　　They look around.

　　They say, "Who's been sitting in our chairs and eating our porridge?"

　　Then they run upstairs.

　　They say, "Who's been sleeping in our beds?"

　　Goldilocks wakes up.

　　She is very scared.

　　She runs away.

　　Goldilocks never comes back.

1 phrase   

n.短语，词组；成语，习语

参考例句：

• The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
• That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.这就是我一直找的那个短语。

2 contrast   

vt.使与…对比，使与…对照；vi. 与…形成对照；n.对比，对照，差异

参考例句：

• In contrast with her sister,she is very tall.与姐姐相比，她个子很高。
• Black hair is a sharp contrast to the white skin.黑发白肤形成鲜明的对照。

3 meantime   

n.其时，其间；adv.同时，当时

参考例句：

• I continued working,meantime,he went out shopping.我继续工作，这期间他出去买东西。
• In the meantime we pressed on with the airlift.与此同时，我们加紧进行空运。