There are so many expressions in American English that sound pleasant but are not. “Face the music” is a good example. When someone says he has to “face the music”, it does not mean he is going to a concert. “Face the music” means accepting and dealing with the punishment of an action.
Americans often use the word “face” in this way. For example, “I can't face another night of camping! It's cold and rainy. ” or “In life, you must face your fears. ” “Face” used in this way is very common.
But now, let's go back to facing the music. Imagine a friend asks you to take care of her beautiful red sports car. She gives you the keys and says, “Thanks so much for watching my car while I'm away. But please, do not drive it. It is an extremely（极其）fast car. ” But you do not listen. You want to show off to some friends. So, you drive it around town one night. As bad luck would have it, you lose control of the car and drive it into a stop sign. Bang!
When your friend returns, you must tell her what you have done and “face the music”. The “music” here is the result of your actions. It could be losing her friendship or paying for repairs to her sports car or both. Whatever the music is, you must face it.
There are other American expressions that mean the same thing as “face the music”. To “take your medicine” means accepting the results from something bad you have done. And if someone says, “You made your bed. Now lie in it. ” He means you created a bad situation and now you will experience the results!
1. 将划线短语 the punishment of an action 译为汉语。2. 列举两个表示承担自己不良行为所导致的结果的短语。
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3. 回答问题。What does“You made your bed. Now lie in it. ”mean?
4. 选出第四段中face the music中the music 指代的内容。
A. Lose the friendship.
B. Pay for repairs to the sports car.
C. Go to a concert.
D. Listen to the music.
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5. 找出最能表达文章主题的句子。
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【推荐2】"Fall" and"Autumn"
What season is it in October? If you ask people from the UK, they will tell you it's "autumn". But if you go to the US, you will find that people use“autumn" or“fall".
According to Dictionary .com, both words have been around for a long time, but neither of them was the first to describe this season. During this season, crops (庄稼) would become ripe (成熟) and farmers would have a big harvest. So in Old English, this season was simply called "harvest" .
Then, in the 1600s, more people left their farms and moved to cities. With fewer people farming, the word "harvest" became less useful. English speakers needed a different name for the season. They knew leaves fell from trees during the season, so people started calling it“the fall of the leaf", or“fall" for short.
But at the end of the 1600s, autumn, from the French word "autompne" and the Latin "autumnus" came to England. "Fall" as the word for this season disappeared slowly.
At the same time, people in the UK were making their first trips to North America. They brought both the words“fall" and“autumn" with them. That's why today's Americans have two names for one season.
Title: “Fall” and “Autumn” | |||
| The names of the season in October | People in the UK call it “autumn”. | ||
| People in the US call it | |||
| In the UK | In Old English | It got the name "harvest" because it was time for farmers to | |
| In the 1600s | "The fall of the leaf" or “fall” | ||
| At the end of the 1600s | "Autumn" appeared in England. It | ||
| In the US | At the end of the 1600s | People in the UK started to travel to North America and brought these two words there. | |
Who owns English?
1 English is spoken by about 400 million people, mostly in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. In Ghana, India and Singapore, English is used as a working language, for example, between bosses and secretaries, and between doctors and patients, although there are other languages for everyday use. In China and many other countries, English is the most important foreign language that children learn at school, because when they grow up, it will be quite possible for them to meet people from other countries. They will need a common language to communicate with each other. English is now used by nearly a quarter of the world’s population, and anywhere you go in the world, there is a good chance that you will meet someone who speaks English.
2 The reason why English is spoken everywhere is that in the nineteenth century, English became the language of world trade. And in the twentieth century, the US spread English through newspaper, television and films. It is now the common language for international travel, science, industry, and recently, information technology and the Internet.
3 It is also important to know that English has borrowed many words from other languages, for example, "restaurant" from French, "zero" from Arabic, "piano" from Italian, and "tofu" from Chinese.
4 Will the importance of English last? As China continues to grow, many people think that Chinese will become as common as English by the middle of the twenty-first century. More and more schools in Europe are teaching Chinese as a foreign language, together with some European languages. However, most people still think that English will be used most around the world, at least for the next twenty or thirty years.
5 So who owns English? The answer is everyone who speaks it-the British, the Indians and the Chinese all help make it a rich language. Even though we speak different types of English, we are all part of an international club. We all own English.
1. How many people in the world use English?2. According to the writer, why do you need to learn English at school?
3. What does Paragraph 2 mainly tell us?
4. Are there any words from other languages in English?
5. What is considered to be the world language before the middle of the 21st century?
6. What do you think the writer’s purpose of writing this passage is?
Wang Mengqiu, the inventor of Hover Gamera(无人相机), was born in Hangzhou in 1982．He once studied at Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Stanford University in the United States．He became famous overnight because of the invention．
Forget selfie sticks (自拍杆)！ Compared to other cameras, Hover Gamera has many advantages．
★It can fly and stay in mid-air, follow your face to make sure it gets the perfect picture．
★It can be controlled by using a smartphone．
★It records movements with a 13 MP camera and takes 4K video．
★It is the best choice for weddings, sports games and holidays．
Mr．Wang also said, “The main design consideration is easy and safe to take for the users．It's light and small．It can be folded in two, so it can be easily put into a big．When the power is low, it can land on the ground safely on its own．” It’s reported that a company has raised $25 million to product it．The camera sold for $ 599 in 2016 in the USA．The plan is to make it available in China and the USA first．
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过5个词。
1. Why did Wang Mengqiu become famous overnight?
2. How can a Hover Camera be controlled?
3. Why is Hover Camera easy and safe to take?
4. How much did it sell for?
5. What do you think of Wang Mengqiu?
Cooking should be considered as art just like any other activity which requires skills and knowledge. It is often said that students are supposed to learn scientific facts as well as how to prepare meals. The following will explain why cooking should be taught in schools.
Schools are supposed to teach knowledge to the students so that they can lead successful independent lives when they are out of school. Also, they can step into the world knowing how to make a living.
When schools offer cooking lessons, students will show an interest in it and might take cooking as a career. This will give them the chance to perfect their basic skills and be creative in the kitchen.
One of the main reasons why cooking should be taught in schools is that the students always use a lot of money to buy ready﹣made food, while in the real sense they could prepare a nice meal with less cost by buying the required ingredients.
Schools do not just teach how to prepare delicious meals. Students are also taught to follow the instructions in a standard when mixing ingredients. If it is, ‘add 1/4 spoon of salt,’ students should only add that amount. So there is no more or less.
| Cooking Should Be Taught in Schools. | ||
| Opinion | Students should learn | |
| An important skill in life | ● Students can lead independent lives ●Students can depend on themselves for basic living after graduation. | |
| Discovering future career. | ●Students might take cooking as a career. ●Students can | |
| Avoiding waste money | Students can prepare nice dishes with | |
| | Students are taught to follow the instructions in a standard. | |
【推荐3】You Can Choose Your Grandma!
Have you heard of Golden Hook? Golden Hook is a group of twenty grandmas and a young man with a clever business idea. They make beautiful, handmade, wool hats and sell them all around the world. You don’t buy Golden Hook hats in a shop. If you want one, you go to their website and choose the style, size and colours you want. Then you look at photos and choose a grandma. The grandma knits (织) the hat by hand just for you. One week later, you get the hat with a special message from the grandma inside. You can see people wearing Golden Hook hats in Paris, London, Tokyo and New York. People love the hats because every hat is different.
Golden Hook was started in Paris, by Jeremy Emsellem. In 2005, when he was 19, Jeremy began knitting hats for fun. He wore the hats in class, and other students really liked them. Everyone wanted one! Jeremy made hats for 50 students, but he didn’t have time to make hats for everyone. Then, in 2007, he visited his old aunt and had an idea. His aunt and her friends were all grandmothers. They didn’t have a job and they didn’t look after their children, so they had lots of time. They were really bored. They were also very good at knitting. Jeremy talked to his aunt’s friends. He asked them if they wanted to make his hats. Six of the grandmothers said “Yes”. In 2008, Jeremy started the Golden Hook company and set up the website. In the first year, they only sold 300 hats, but the company expanded quickly. Soon after, in 2010, Golden Hook employed 20 grandmas. Three years later, in 2012, a famous shop introduced the hats to Tokyo – Japanese people loved the grandma’s hats. In the future, Jeremy’s goal is to have Golden Hook Grandmas all over the world.
With Golden Hook, everyone wins. The customers get excellent hats. The grandmas get money, and something interesting to do. And Jeremy? Jeremy is 25, and the CEO of an international company.
1. What is Golden Hook?2. Why do people like Golden Hook hats?
3. What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
4. What is Jeremy’s future goal?
5. Why does everyone win with Golden Hook?
