英语学习20170331

慢速 大声 夸张

小处： 卷舌,d/t ,s/z,w/v不可懈怠

课文原文

Lesson Forty-five The power of press

Does the writer think the parents were lucky or unlucky to gain prosperity in this way,why?

But they suddenly became the parents of quintuplets,four girls and a boy, an event which radically changes their lives. The day after the birth of the five children,an aeroplane arrived in Aberdeen,bringing 60 reporters and photographers. The rise to fame was swift. Television cameras and newspapers carried the news to everyone in the country. Newspapers and magazines offered the family huge sums for the exclusive rights to publish stories and photographes. Gifts poured in,not only from unknown people,but from baby food and soap manufacturers who wished to advertise their products. The old farmhouse the family lived in was to be replaced with a new, 500,000 dallar home. Reports kept pressing for interviews,so lawyers had been employed to act as spokesmen for the family at press conferences. While the five babies were still quietly sleeping in oxygen tents in a hospital nursery,their parents were paying the price for fame. It would never again be possible for them to lead normal lives. They had became the victims of commercialization,for their names had acquired market value. Instead of being five new family members,these children had immediately become a commodity.

生词记录

• twins ---> double kill
• triplet ---> triple kill
• quadruplet ---> quadra kill
• quintuplet ---> penta kill
• sextuplet ---> hexa kill
• septuplet
• Octuplet

练习记录

• photographer
• conference
• commercialization
• commodity

点评记录

• To Gilbert

  • food % foo ---> full
  • home % horme
  • employ % oy --> o y

• To 007

  • suddenly % su
  • lives % v --> f

• From Gilbert

  • spokesmem % p
  • lead --> have

自我总结

• 生词是影响流畅度的主要因素
• 断句还是很成问题

时长累计

8.29