大鱼的ScalersTalk第四轮新概念朗读持续力训练Day 4

练习材料：Lesson 54 55

任务配置：L0

知识笔记：

Lesson54Sticky/ˈstɪk.i/fingers

After breakfast, I sent the children to school and then I went to shops. It was still early/ˈɜː.li/when I returned home. The children were at school, my husband was at work and the house was quiet. So I decided to make some meat pies. In a short time I was busy mixing butter and flour and my hands were soon covered with sticky pastry/ˈpeɪ.stri/. At exactly that moment, the telephone rang. Nothing could have been more annoying/əˈnɔɪ.ɪŋ/ . I picked up the receiver between two sticky fingers and was dismayed/dɪˈsmeɪ/when I recognized the voice of Helen Bates. It took me ten minutes to persuade/pəˈsweɪd/her to ring back later. At last I hung up the receiver. What a mess! There was pastry on my fingers, on the telephone, and on the door-knobs/nɒb/. I had no sooner got back to the kitchen than the door-bell rang loud enough to wake the dead. This time it was the postman and he wanted me to sign for a registered letter!

Sticky粘的

Sticky pastry 粘粘的面糊

Pie馅饼

Doorknobs门把手

Receiver 电话的电筒

Dismay失望

Register挂号邮寄

Registered letter挂号信

No sooner …than刚….就

Lesson55 Not a gold/ɡəʊld/mine/maɪn/

 

Dreams of finding lost treasure/ˈtreʒ.ər/almost came true recently. A new machine called 'The Revealer' has been invented and it has been used to detect gold which has been buried in the ground. The machine was used in a cave near the seashore/ˈsiː.ʃɔːr/where--it is said--pirates/ˈpaɪ.rət/used to hide gold. The pirates would often bury gold in the cave and then fail to collect it. Armed with the new machine, a search party went into the cave hoping to find buried treasure. The leader of the party was examining the soil near the entrance to the cave when the machine showed that there was gold under the ground. Very excited, the party dug a hole two feet deep. They finally found a small gold coin which was almost worthless. The party then searched the whole cave thoroughly/ˈθʌr.ə.li/but did not find anything except an empty tin trunk/trʌŋk/. In spite of this, many people are confident that 'The Revealer' may reveal something of value fairly soon.

Mine矿

Gold mine金矿

Revealer探测器

Seashore海岸

Trunk行李箱