Dama, meaning middle-aged women, was first used in the Western media by the Wall Street Journal in May when thousands of Chinese women were buying up record number of gold. They were the driving force in the global gold market between April and June when the gold prices dropped.
People can have an “intuitive” (直觉的) grasp of the meanings if they see pinyin, Kleeman said, adding that people avoided using an English word to keep the original meaning. The new words will be first uploaded on the official website before the dictionaries arrive. The online version is also renewed every three months.
Read the passage and tell if the following sentences are true (T) or false (F).
1.The word “tuhao” is likely to be taken in Oxford English Dictionary for its great influence.( )
2.The word “tuhao” used to be used in online community.( ) 3.The words “tuhao” and “dama” are similar in their meanings.( )
4.The passage mainly tells us the words “tuhao” and “dama” are likely to be taken in Oxford English Dictionary.( ) 5.The passage probably comes from a news report.( )
Module 3 My First Ride on a Train
1.And what a ride!一次多么奇妙的乘车经历! 2.We ate great meals cooked by experts! 我们吃的美味饭菜是由烹饪大师们做的。
3.We saw abandoned farms which were built more than a hundred years ago.
我们看到了被遗弃了的100多年前建造的农场。
4.Ghan is short for Afghanistan. Ghan是阿富汗的缩写。
5.The Afghans and their camels did this until the 1920s. 直到20世纪20年代,阿富汗人和他们的骆驼还在做着这样的工作。 6.Then the government built a new railway line,so they didn’t need the camels any more.
后来,政府修了一条新的铁路线,他们就再也不需要骆驼了。
7.I saw a lion for the first time when I was about four years old.
当我在大约四岁的时候,我第一次见到狮子。
8.Travelling at a speed of over 400 kilometres per hour,the train can complete the 30-kilometre journey in eight minutes.火车以每小时400多千米的速度前进,在8分钟内就能完成30千米的 路程。
True Travelling
In our hurry to get from one place to another,we failed to see anything on the way.Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world—or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way.When you travel by car or train,an unclear image of the countryside constantly smears the
windows.Car drivers,in particular,are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop.Is it the attractiveness of the great motorways,or what? And as for sea travel,it hardly deserves mention.It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: “I joined the navy to see the
world,and what did I see? I saw the sea.” The typical
twentieth-century traveller is the man who always says “I’ve been there.”If you mention the remotest and most evocative places,someone is bound to say “I’ve been there” meaning “I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.”
For the traveller on foot,on the other hand,travelling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes.He experiences the present moment with his eyes,his ears and the whole of his body.At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that a sound,satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travellers.
注释:1.smear/smI?(r)/ vt.弄得模糊不清 2.particular/p?'tIkj?l?(r)/ adj.特别的 3.obsess/?b'ses/vt.使痴迷
4.deserve /dI'z??v/ vt.应得;应受(赏罚等) 5.evocative /I'v?k?tIv/ adj.唤起(记忆等)的
根据语境,写出句中画线单词或词组的汉语意义。
1.Air travel gives you a bird’s-eye view of the world — or even less if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way.
2.It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song.
3.If you mention the remotest and most evocative
places,someone is bound to say “I’ve been there”...
4.He experiences the present moment with his eyes,his ears and the whole of his body.
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5.He knows that a sound,satisfying sleep will be his:the just reward of all true travellers.
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旅行中重要的不是结果,而是沿途的风景,以及看风景的心情。余光中说,“旅行的意义不是告诉别人‘这里我来过’。而是一种改变。一种因旅行而产生的心灵乃至精神的净化与洗礼。”
Module 4 A Social Survey—My Neighbourhood
1.It’s been six years since we last saw each other,you know. 你可知道,自从我们上次见面到现在已经有六年了。
2.And this is the first time I’ve visited your hometown. 这是我第一次来到你的家乡。
3.I feel very fortunate living here. 生活在这里我感到很幸运。 4.That sounds great. 那听起来太好了。
5.They’ve put up a lot of high-rise buildings recently. 最近他们建造了许多摩天大厦。
6.A friend’s told me about a nice little fish restaurant near here.
一个朋友告诉过我这附近有家小鱼馆不错。 7.It’s been very successful,so far. 到目前为止,非常成功。
8.Sometimes villages remain because people from the cities have bought a “second home” in the village,where they come and stay at weekends.
有时村子保留下来,是因为城市的人们在村子里买房作为“第二个家”,他们周末可以到这里来居住。
9.The price of homes goes up and people from the area cannot afford to buy a house there.
房子的价格上涨,那个地区的人们在那儿买不起房子。
When buying or renting a house,everyone expects not only the good quality of the house but also the nice
neighbours.However,different people have different standards of good neighbours.In my opinion,a good neighbour should be someone who respects your life,and is ready to help others and concerned about the environment in the neighbourhood.
First of all,it is very important for your neighbour to respect your life.Just imagine,if you have a neighbour who is curious about you,and tries to know more about you by whatever means,what will you feel?What is more,he or she may also talk