初中英語聽力短文閱讀

1、初中英語聽力短文閱讀隨著英語聽力教學(xué)的不斷深入和發(fā)展，文化背景知識(shí)越來越受到重視,而且不少學(xué)生對(duì) 英美文化背景知識(shí)知之甚少。本文是初中英語聽力短文，希望對(duì)大家有幫助！Christmas-Home-In the United States對(duì)誕節(jié)-家里-在美國Christmas is considered a major holiday in the United States. Shopping malls have big sales,every-body gets happier, and everywhere shows red and green. As early as one mon

2、th before December25th,houses in the residential areas would be dressed up with flashing lights, ornaments, and sculptures. Normally lifeless downtown steets would be illuminated by trees featuring dazzlinglights, and skyscrapers would join in with decorations hanging down from top to bottom.在美國，圣誕節(jié)

3、被認(rèn)為是個(gè)主要的節(jié)日。到那時(shí)候，購物中心會(huì)進(jìn)行促銷活動(dòng)，每個(gè) 人都變得比平常高興，到處都是紅紅綠綠的。早在12月25號(hào)之前的一個(gè)月，在住宅區(qū)的 那些房子就會(huì)被人們以閃爍的燈，裝飾物和雕刻品裝扮起來。平常沒什么生氣的市中心街 道也都被樹上令人眩目的燈飾照亮了起來。還有摩天大樓也用裝飾品從樓頂垂下到地來加 入此一慶祝的行列。Stores aim at thisshopping seasonfor large sales as everyone is pruchasing gifts for everyone else. Santa Claus and reindeers come out to a

4、ttract customers and perform at special events asentertainers.商店都看準(zhǔn)了這個(gè)“購物季節(jié)”來進(jìn)行大型的促銷活動(dòng)，因?yàn)槊總€(gè)人都在買禮物給別 人。圣誕老從和馴鹿們出來招攬顧客，并在特別的節(jié)目中充當(dāng)演藝人員。The Christmas spirit permeates throughout the country. Starting three or four days before Christmas, employees go home on their vacation,and students begin their winter

5、 break. All the majortransportation systems like trains,buses, and airplanes are all full of people returing to their families. After two weeks,people return to work feeling refreshed to go about their regularactivities.這種圣誕節(jié)氣氛遍布全國。從圣誕節(jié)之前的三四天開始，員工就回家過節(jié)了，學(xué)生們 開始他們的寒假，所有的主要交通系統(tǒng)像火車，公共汽車和飛機(jī)都教滿了回家團(tuán)聚的人們。 兩

6、星期之后，人們恢復(fù)了精神回到工作中，繼續(xù)過他們平日過的生活。Awards-School-Encouragement頒獎(jiǎng)-學(xué)校-鼓勵(lì)Schools like to give out lots of awards. These awards serve the purpose of honoring the ones receiving them and also encouraging the others to do better. This strategy works, but by giving outtoo many, the awards could become commonpla

7、ce and less important.學(xué)校喜歡頒發(fā)很多獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)給學(xué)生。這些頒獎(jiǎng)的目的是給予得獎(jiǎng)人光榮，并鼓勵(lì)其他人更 加努力。這種策略有其效果，但如果給得太多的話，這些獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)就會(huì)變得很普通且變得不怎 么重要了。One type of awards is the excellence award. They give this to one person in each grade level who ranked first in a subject area.The subjects include math, science, language arts,socialstudies, fo

8、reign language,and various arts like theatre, dance, and visual arts. Those who get two or more of these awards immediately stand out.有一種獎(jiǎng)稱為優(yōu)秀獎(jiǎng)。校方把它頒發(fā)給各年級(jí)某一學(xué)科排名第一的人。這些學(xué)科包括 數(shù)學(xué)，科學(xué)，語文，社會(huì)學(xué)科，外語，和各種藝術(shù)學(xué)科，例如戲劇，舞蹈，和美術(shù)。如果 有人獲得兩個(gè)獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)以上，他馬上就會(huì)變成從人所矚目的焦點(diǎn)。Sometimes there are awards for those who improved significant

9、ly over the past. If a student is far from being the best,he could pretend to do badly first, then show much improvement the nexttime. Another interesting award is the outstanding ESLEnglish as a Second Languagestudent award, which is given to one ESL student for doing well in learning English. What

10、 is funny is that thereare rarely more than a handful of ESL students to choose from.有一些獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)是頒給那些比過去進(jìn)步很多的人。如果有個(gè)學(xué)生很難得獎(jiǎng)，他可以故意在 一開始表現(xiàn)得很差。而使下一次進(jìn)步了很多，這樣就可以獲得進(jìn)步獎(jiǎng)。另外一件有趣的是 杰出ESL英文是第二語言學(xué)生獎(jiǎng)，這是頒給一個(gè)英語學(xué)得最好的ESL學(xué)生。好笑的是，候 選的ESL學(xué)生很少會(huì)超過5個(gè)人。Beach Volleyball-Sports-Passion沙灘排球-體育-熱衷The best things about volleyball are t

11、he sense of teamwork and the interaction between players. Students and school teams often play in their gyms. Friends and families set up nets in a parkand play ther. Sometimes, even neighborhoods put together their own teams to compete with each other.打排球最棒的是隊(duì)員之間的合作和互動(dòng)的感覺。一般學(xué)生和校隊(duì)們常常在他們的體育 館打排球。朋友們和

12、家庭成員則在公園架個(gè)網(wǎng)子來玩。有時(shí)候，甚至鄰居也會(huì)各自組球隊(duì) 來相互比賽。Beach volleyball is the best. We often play with strangers near by on the beach, and it is always fun meeting new people. The teams can be all men, all women, or mixed. Usually we take turns, soeach group can rest and watch other people play.沙灘排球最好玩了。我們常在沙灘上和旁邊的陌

13、生人玩，認(rèn)識(shí)新面孔也是件有趣的事 情。隊(duì)里可以全部是男生，全部是女生，或混合的。通常我們輪流著玩，這樣子，每個(gè)隊(duì) 都可以休息并觀看別人玩。Sometimes we would have a barbecue on the side. Austin always seems to have an unlimited supply of ice-cold beer in his car, and Caroline somehow has everything we forgot to bring. Next wee, wewill be holding a tournament. Vincent came up with the idea,so he has been organizing the whole event this week. It will be fan