连读发音练习档

连读 Liaisons 1. 元音与元音之间的连读 Linking vowels to vowels 元音对元音的连读实际上是在元音之间插入半元音j或w，从而使纯元音音节之间的过渡变得自然、流畅，读起来更加上口。半元音插入的情况如下： （1）前面的单词以开元音，如e或i:结尾，紧随其后的单词以元音开头，这时，在两个单词之间出现半元音j作为过渡。 （2）前面的单词以闭元音，如u或o结尾，紧随其后的单词以元音开头，这时，在两个单词之间出现半元音w作为过渡。 （3）为了把两个相邻的词连在一起，人们往往在以 或 a: 结尾的词后面加上r音，以便和后一个词的起首元音连接，这种添加的/r/ 称为“外加音”r。 Phrases： be on time blue on top say it may I weigh it up clue in blew away who else play around stay up see it through flew out knew it my only child the early bird very interesting day in and day out I am you are she is go out too often go away any other go on try it I saw it try again throw away no way see off how old no end Dialogue: Roy: Honey, why are you so angry? Susan: She says nothing. Roy: Honey, why are you so angry? Can you tell me? Susan: You dont love me, Roy. Roy: Why do you say such words? I love you very much. Susan: No, you used to be. But not now. You are in love with someone else. You are in love with my friend, Janet. You appreciate her very much. You think she is beautiful and fun to be with and you think Im dumb and uninteresting. Roy: Susan, just one last week I went out to have a lunch with her. There is nothing for you to be jealous about. I like your company much better than Janets. Susan: I envy her and also I hate her at the same time. Roy: Honey, you should know that I love you so deeply. Susan: Oh, shut up, Roy. Roy: But honey, I think youre terrific. There is nothing Susan: Oh, SHUT UP! 2. 辅音与元音之间的连读 Linking consonants to vowels 这是狭义上的连读，就是当前面的单词以辅音结尾，紧随其后的单词以元音开头，这时将前面的辅音同后面的元音连在一起，像是构成一个音节一样的读出来，以使语言更具有流畅自然的特点。但是连读必须是发生在短语或句子的同一个意群中的，在意群(及短语或从句)之间有停顿时，两个短语或两个从句间相邻的音不连读。 一般来说有两种连读： （1）在同一意群中的两个词，前者以辅音结尾,后者以元音开头，这两个音就可以连起来读。 （2）相邻的两个词中，前一个以字母r结尾，后一个词以元音开始，辅音/r/可与后面的元音连读。这种连读叫“r连读”。 Phrases： knock at look into take up take a chance take a back seat take a nap take a message to take advantage of take air look about look out of look over look up get out of get off get into get in get away get along with get up find out a cup of tea a box of books a package of gum a line of cars a glass of milk a bottle of beer a row of desks a bag of apples a carton of cigarettes Dialogue: Mary: Just outside the district there was a very dangerous bridge. Smith: Yes. Paul told me that two trucks crashed there in last month. Did you know how it happened? Mary: Well, George was driving the large truck. He was driving a little fast. Smith: George? Who is George? Do I know him? Mary: He is the son of the dentist in our district. I think you know him. He is now the manager of the travel agency in our district. Smith: Yes. I remember him. Hes always telling jokes. Well, was anybody injured? Mary: Oh, yes. The other truck went over the edge of the bridge, and three children and another passenger were badly injured. Smith: Were both trucks damaged? Mary: Yes. Smith: And what happened to George? Was he injured? Mary: I heard that he hurt his leg terribly and is still in hospital now. Read the following paragraph: It was the last night of the year. It was snowing heavily and the ominous sky had grown dark. A poor little girl was walking bare-foot through the streets trying to find people to buy her matches. She had had slippers on when she left home. But they were too big. She had lost them when she crossed the wide and deep street. So then she continued walking along without her slippers. The sad girl looked as thin as the matches that she was selling. She had already been walking in the wind and snow for a whole day. No one had bought anything from her; no one had given her even a copper penny. She was shivering with cold, yet she did not dare to go home. If she did not bring money home, her father would beat her. Besides, her home was as cold as the street. As her legs could no longer carry her, she sat down at the corner of the street. How fine it would be if she had a little fire before her! She drew a match from the box and struck it against the wall. Oh, how it burned! The girl struck one match after another. It really seemed as if she was sitting by a great beautiful stove. When the little fire was burning, in her imagination she saw a lot of fine things: a Christmas tree, a goose, and so on. It also seemed to her that her long dead grandmother was standing by her. She was the only person who had been good to her. The next day the New Years sun was shinning upon the little body that was lying there with the pile of burned matches. The poor girl had gently frozen to death on the last day of the Old Year. 3. 辅音与辅音之间的连读 Linking consonants to consonants （1）叠加 即前面单词结尾辅音与紧随其后的单词的起始辅音为同一个音时，只读一次。 Phrases： bad desk good day red dress tame monkey sad dog like candy deep pond grab Bob take care black coffee book case more rain part time job at two oclock hot tea car ride ripe pear stop playing keep pace sore ribs big game big garage big gate fall leaves （2）失爆： 顾名思义，指爆破音失去爆破。发生的条件：当前面的单词以p，b，t，d，k，g这六个爆破音中的任何一个结尾，而紧随其后的单词是以辅音开头的，这时前面单词中的爆破音失去爆破。读法是在发爆破音时只阻塞气流却不将之释放，说白了就是只作口型不发音。 Phrases： lap dog mad John pet lion truck stop big shoes hot day a suitcase sit down put it down red chair round table good teacher black gate cheap box a bad cold good tea bad boy work hard look good a blackboard a handbag bad news just great could be a great pity keep secret late for the flight leave the team sweet lips read the map a mad rat a vast grassland the last bark a fat cat a pop shop told him not to shout patent right feed the goat a red flag Dialogue 1: Rent Agent: Good morning, sir. Can I help you? Tony: Good day. Im looking for a one-bedroom apartment today. Rent Agent: Certainly. How much rent did you want to pay? Tony: Well, I didnt want to pay more than $900 a month. Rent Agent: $900 a month? We dont often have apartment as inexpensive as that. We have one apartment for $ 985 a month today, on Eleventh Avenue. Its near the municipal buildings. Tony: Is it furnished? Rent Agent: No, its unfurnished. It has a kitchen, but there are not many cookers. Theres a garden in the back, but the tenants cant use it. The landlord lives downstairs. Friends are forbidden in the apartment after midnight. No noise and no television after 11 Tony: No, thank you! I want to take an apartment, not a prison. Rent Agent: Ok, we would do as your requirement. And well contact with you later! Dialogue 2: Sally: Hello. Paul: Hello, Sally? This is Paul. Sally: Oh, hi, Paul. Paul: What happened yesterday? You didnt come. You forger the date we made, didnt you? Sally: Well, it rained hard all day and I had a bad cold, so I decided to stay at home and have a rest. Paul: You did? But I tried to call you at least 40 times and nobody answered. Sally: Oh, the telephone lines were damaged by the storm. They repaired them today. Paul: What did Bob do yesterday? Did he and his classmate go dancing? Sally: No, they stayed at home and played cards with other children. Paul: And what did you do? Did you play cards, too? Sally: No. I listened to records and studied. What did you do yesterday, Paul? Paul: I just told you, Sally. I tried to call you 40 times! Read the following paragraph 1: Here, then, is the problem that I present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race or shall mankind renounce war? People will not face this alternative because it is so difficult to abolish war. The abolition of war will demand distasteful limitations of national sovereignty. But what perhaps impedes understanding of the situation more than anything else is that the term mankind feels vague and abstract. People scarcely realize in imagination that the danger is to themselves and their children and their grandchildren, and not only to a dimly apprehended humanity. And so they hope that perhaps war may be allowed to continue provided modern weapons are prohibited. I am afraid this hope is illusory. Whatever agreements not to use hydrogen bombs had been reached in time of peace, they would no longer be considered binding in time of war, and both sides would set to work to manufacture hydrogen bombs as soon as war broke out, for if one side manufactured the bombs and the other did not, the side that manufactured them would inevitably be victorious. As geological time is reckoned, Man has so far existed only for a very short period one million years at the most. What he has achieved, especially during the last 6,000 years, is something utterly new in the history of the Cosmos, so far at least as we are acquainted with it. For countless ages the sun rose and set, the moon waxed and waned, the stars shone in the night, but it was only with the coming of Man that these things were understood. In the great world of astronomy and in the little world of the atom, Man has unveiled secrets which might have been thought undiscoverable. In art and literature and religion, some men have shown a sublimity of feeling which makes the species worth preserving. Is all this to end in trivial horror because so few are able to think of Man rather than of this or that group of men? Is our race so destitute of wisdom, so incapable of impartial love, so blind even to the simplest dictates of self-preservation, which the last proof of its silly cleverness is to be the extermination of all life on our planet? for it will be not only men who will perish, but also the animals, whom no one can accuse of communism or anticommunism. I cannot believe that this is to be the end. I would have men forget their quarrels for a moment and reflect that, if they will allow themselves to survive, there is every reason to expect the triumphs of the future to exceed immeasurably the triumphs of the past. There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we, instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? I appeal, as a human being to human beings: remember your humanity, and forget the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you can not, nothing lies before you but universal death. Read the following paragraph 2: Almost 60 percent of overweight women in Britain say they would not allow their partner to see them naked, a body image survey showed last Thursday. Despite the current craze for curvy figures, too much body fat has a devastating impact on every aspect of a womans life, Slimming Magazine said. The magazines annual survey of 2,000 women,