Part I Listening and Reading

Part I Listening and Reading

I. Listen and read along.

英语的26个字母中有A、E、I 、O、U五个元音字母,元音字母o的字母组合是这五个元音字母中,字母组合发音最零散的一个,即最复杂的一个,元音字母o的组合有oo, oa, or, ou,ow, oy。这些组合起来的发音非常多,但是发音规则也比较明显。现总结如下:

oa /əu/—boat, soap, load, toast

/ɔ:/— broad, abroad, broadway

oo /u/—look, good, book, cook

/u:/—food, mood, moon, choose

/ʌ/—flood, blood

or /ə/ —visitor, director, doctor, error

/ə:/—worse, work, word, worm

/ɔ:/—story, fork, horse, pork

ou /au/—loud, round, count, couch

/ʌ/—touch, trouble, couple, country

/u:/—soup, group, route, wound

/ə/—famous, jealous, nervous, dangerous

/ɔ:/—brought, thought, naughty, bought

/əʊ/—soul, mould, shoulder, though

/u/—could, would, should(此种发音的单词较少)

/ʊə/—tourism (此种发音的单词较少)

/ɔ/—cough(此种发音的单词较少)

ow /əu/—row, low, know, own

/au/—town, power, now, crowd

oy /ɔi/—boy, toy, joy, soy

II. Listen to the sentences and underline the monograms mentioned above.

1. The director chooses to cook food on his own.

2. The couple in the crowd bought a book about making soap.

3. The boy brought some soup to the wounded soldiers.

4. The story about the toy is known around the world.

5. He is a brave soul who shouldered the dangerous work.

Learn phonetics notes.

英语中的重音分为单词重音和句子重音两种。

1. 单词重音

英语单词由于音节的数量不一,就出现了读起来有轻有重的现象。一般情况,每个单词都有一个音节是重读的,称重读音节,符号/'/是重音符,如sorry /'sɒri/;其余的音节不重读,称非重读音节。但有的多音节词,除了一个重读音节之外 ,还有一个次重读音节,符号/, /是次重音符。如congratulations /kən,grætjʊ'leɪʃ(ə)ns/ 中,重读音为/leɪ/,次重读音为/græ/。

2. 句子重音

我们在朗读英语或用英语交谈时,有些词读得或说得又轻又快,而且较为含糊,有些词则读得或说得又重又慢,而且较为清晰。那些读得或说得响亮而清晰的词就是句子重音所在。

例如:There is a 'book on the 'desk.

He is the 'right man for the 'job.

Listening Skills

序号的听读

序号包括房间号码、楼层号码、门牌号码等。序号的读法遵从一些原则。现在我们以门牌号码为例来介绍。

I. 如果是两位数,则通常采用普通数词的读法。

如:56 Harley Street 读作:fifty-six Harley Street

II. 如果是三位数,将第一个数字和后面两个字按普通数词的读法。

如:345 Harley Street 读作:three forty-five Harley Street

如果后面两位数字是00,则要使用hundred。

如:200 Harley Street 读作:two hundred Harley Street

III. 如果是四位数,通常将其分为两个两位数来读。

如:3152 Harley Street 读作: thirty-one fifty-two Harley Street

如果其中有数字0,则通常读作字母o。

如:3709 Harley Street 读作:thirty-seven O nine Harley Street

如果其中有两个数字是0,则前面一个仍按前面一组的两位数来读。

如:3008 Harley Street 读作: thirty O eight Harley Street

如果最后两个数字是00,则通常读作hundred。

如:2200 Harley Street 读作:twenty-two hundred Harley Street

3000 Harley Street 读作:thirty hundred Harley Street