高中英语 第一部分 VOA慢速英语《美国万花筒》第10课（文本）素材.doc

高中英语 第一部分 voa慢速英语美国万花筒第10课英语翻议讲解：1.feature v. 以为特色;扮演重要角色例句：the newspaper featured the story of the event. 报纸以显著地位报道那个事件。2.avoid vt. 避免,躲避,回避例句：i must weigh my words to avoid any misunderstanding. 我须字斟句酌免生误解。3.fraternity n. 友爱,互助会,兄弟会例句：the mob declared for liberty, fraternity and equality. 那群人声称赞成自由、友爱、平等。4.intramural a. 校内的,内部的例句：most of the students participated actively in the colleges intramural sports program. 大多数学生积极参加学校内部的运动项目。5.underage a. 未成年的;未达成年的例句：the period during which one is legally underage. 末成年末达到法定年龄的时期。6.release v. 释放,解放,放松,豁免,免除,发表例句：the actors new film will be released next month. 这位男演员的新影片下个月公开发行。1.but one activity that legally is only supposed to be for people age twenty-one and over is drinking alcohol. be supposed to被认为,据说,应该例句：it was widely supposed to have been lost during the war. 普遍认为那东西在战争期间丢失了。2.he is one of the most influential guitarists and songwriters in rock and roll history. 形容词的最高级(1)形容词最高级有时单独使用，但前面需加定冠词：whats the best time to go there? 什么时候到那儿去最好？express mail is the fastest way to send a letter. 快递是寄信的最快办法。 its the latest fashion from paris. 这是巴黎来的最新式样。 the oldest is only nine. 最大的才九岁。 the highest mountain in japan is fuji. 日本最高的山是富士山。 in western europe germany has the most people. 在西欧德国人口最多。(2)有时跟一个短语或从句说明在哪个范围内如此： it is the largest island in europe. 它是欧洲最大的岛。yesterday was the hottest day of the year. 昨天是今年最热的一天。the yangtze is the biggest river in our country. 长江是我国最大的河流。 it was the cheapest hotel we could find. 这是我们能找到的最便宜的旅馆。this was the best beer (that) i have ever drunk. 这是我喝过的最好的啤酒。it was the worst film we had ever seen. 这是我们看过的最糟的电影。 (3)形容词前有时有定语或状语修饰：its second largest city is osaka. 它的第二大城市是大阪。the third largest city is los angeles. 第三大城市是洛杉矶。 she was by far the most active member in our group. 她是我们小组最积极的成员。(4)形容词最高级有时表示“非常”的意思，这时前面可加不定冠词或不加定冠词：its a most touching story. 这是一个非常动人的故事。 it was most stupid to act like that. 这样做是非常愚蠢的。 (5)形容词最高级还可用在某些短语中(这时常转化为名词)：she is ten years old at most. 她至多十岁。 well do our best. 我们将尽力而为。 英语听力原文：host:welcome to american mosaic in voa special english.(music)im doug johnson. today, we play music from the new band the dead weather .and we tell you about a film featuring three greats of the guitar.but first, we answer a question about college life in the united states.college lifethis weeks voa listener question comes from china. jody leung wants to know about university life in america.students playing basketball at the university of tampa in floridastudents who live away from their families are generally housed in dormitories at least for their first year. men and women often live in the same building, though they may live on separate floors.some dorms have a theme, like an international house, where students can learn about other cultures. in language houses, students try to avoid speaking their native language. the idea is to learn a different language.many colleges and universities have a greek system that students can join. this is a social system with fraternity houses for males and sorority houses for females. members take part in campus activities and volunteer work, and may also live and go to parties at greek houses.colleges and universities often have many clubs that students can join. these include political, religious and service clubs, as well as groups for activities like singing, dancing, cooking, even learning how to juggle.schools may also have intramural sports clubs. these are for students who do not play for a school team but want organized sports with other students.and schools will often recognize a new club or activity if enough students are interested.but one activity that legally is only supposed to be for people age twenty-one and over is drinking alcohol. some college presidents and others have suggested that a lower drinking age could have the effect of reducing alcohol abuse. others disagree and point to a study just published in the journal of the american academy of child and adolescent psychiatry.researchers found large reductions in heavy, or binge, drinking in young people between nineteen seventy-nine and two thousand six. they said this was likely a result of the legal drinking age being raised to twenty-one and other policy changes aimed at reducing underage drinking.but they found little improvement for college students. there was no reduction in binge drinking for college men. and college women twenty-one to twenty-three had bigger increases than non-students in that age group.it might get loudfilmmaker davis guggenheim is best known for an inconvenient truth. that was the movie about former vice president al gore and his efforts to fight climate change. the directors newest movie explores a very different subject. jim tedder explains.jim tedder:it might get loud is a film about three generations of guitar superstars: jimmy page, the edge and jack white. it helps us understand how each one developed his artistry and how each has shaped rock history.(music: stairway to heaven)the edge, left, and jimmy pagejimmy page played for led zeppelin and another british band before that, the yardbirds. he is one of the most influential guitarists and songwriters in rock and roll history.(music: where the streets have no name)the edge is the guitarist for u2. he helped give the irish band a musical identity with the use of delay effects in repeating notes.the edge: i drive everyone crazy trying to get the sound that i hear in my head to come out of the speakers. its my voice. that is my voice.(music: steady as she goes)and jack white is the singer and guitarist for the white stripes and the raconteurs. he is a rebellious and inventive guitar player heavily influenced by early blues music.in the movie, we learn about each musicians choice in guitars. and we learn how they got started. we also experience their personal side. for example, the film takes us to the high school where the members of u2 performed together when they were teenagers.jack whitein a way, it might get loud is a love story. it shows the close relationship between the guitarist and the guitar. davis guggenheim says he wanted to make a movie about rock music, but he did not want it to be about drugs and car wrecks.he wanted to show how three very different artists worked hard to become experts in their art. and he wanted to bring them together to perform. this is jack white:jack white: i plan to trick both of these guys, thats basically what i am going to do. trick them into teaching me all their tricks.we see jack white, jimmy page and the edge playing together. they exchange stories and teach each other songs. the energy they create fills the room, and their music.it might get loud opens in american theaters later this month.the dead weatherjack white can also be found in a new band that he put together in the last year: the dead weather. he brought in bass player jack lawrence from an earlier band that he created, the raconteurs. jack white is the drummer for the dead weather. singer alison mosshart comes from the kills. and guitarist dean fertita is a member of queens of the stone age.here is mario ritter with music from the dead weathers first album.mario ritter:that was hang you from the heavens, the first single released by the dead weather. the full album is called horehound. plant biologists may recognize that name as a member of the mint family.horehound arrived in stores july fourteenth. in its first week it went to sixth on billboard magazines top two hundred albums chart. it was number