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Dictation
Unit 1
The most
important day I remember in all my life is the one
on which my teacher,
Anne
Sullivan,
came
to
me.
It
was
the
third
of
March,
1887,
three
months
before
I
was
seven years old.
On
the
afternoon
of
that
eventful
day
,
I
stood
on
the
porch,
dumb,
expectant,
I
guessed
from
my
mother
’
s
sign
and
from
the
hurrying
in
the
house
that
something
unusual was about
to
happen, so I
went to
the door and waited on the steps.
Hanging
down from the porch was sweet-
smelling honeysuckle. My fingers lightly touched
the
familiar
leaves
and
blossoms
which
had
just
come
forth
to
greet
the
sweet
southern
spring. I did not
know what surprise the future held for me.
I felt approaching
footsteps. I stretched out
my
hand as I supposed to
my
mother.
Someone took it, and I was caught up
and held close in the arms of her who had come
to help me discover all things to me,
and, more than anything else, to love me.
Translation:
1.
They al
believe that he had a slim chance of success.
2.
I
didn
’
t know why she has an
air of sadness all the time.
3.
It was after
all
the students had taken their seats
that the president of the
students
’
union
proceeded to announce the camping
itinerary
.
4.
The stomach is a vital organ of the
human body; please take good care of it.
5.
He considered
it ridiculous
for the
general
manager to attach so
much
importance
to those routine trifles.
6.
Her
study
, which ranged over many languages
and cultures, was full of challenge.
7.
As is
scheduled, all the members of the stuff take turns
to do late duty
.
8.
She was
greatly
upset at the thought of
leaving
her parents and
living on
her own
in a remote area.
9.
We do not
worry so much about her qualifications for the job
as about her health.
10.
He was
greatly excited about the prospect of leaving a
cruise around the world.
Paragraph translation
From
Fred
’
s
point
of
view,
the
interview
was
very
smoothly
indeed.
Five
days
before,
he
had
applied
for
a job at a small
business company
and
now
he
was being
interviewed by one of its directors.
Fred had been working as a salesman. He
wanted to change his job not because he
was
short
of
money
,
but
because
as
a
salesman
he
could
hardly
enjoy
any
leisure
at
all.
Fred
had
been
worried
that
he
might
lose
his
head
and
say
something
silly,
but
fortunately he found
that he had a lot in common with the director.
It
was
clear
that
the
director
was
quite
satisfied.
Fred
was
thinking
that
his
chances of
landing
the
job
were
favorable when the
director proceeded
to ask,
“
Do
you mind working
overtime?
”
Pré
cis writing
(Unit 1)
I
applied
for
my
first
job
before
I
entered
the
university
because I was
short
money
.
The
school where I applied for a
job was ten miles away from where
I lived and I was not sure if I
could get the job. However, after a
terrible journey I was so depressed that I no
longer felt nervous.
The
V
ictorian schoolhouse stood amid fumes
and dust by a busy main road. The headmaster was
not at all scholarly, neither was the
inside of the academic looking. By and by I
discovered that the
headmaster and I
had very little in common. He wanted me to teach
twenty-four boys from seven
to
thirteen
who
were
to
be
split
up
into
three
levels.
I
had
to
teach
everything
including
the
subjects I abhorred.
Furthermore, I had to work on Saturdays too. The
pay, however, was low. To
top it all, I
had to work under a woman, the
headmaster
’
s wife, who was
the real manager of
the
school.
Dictation Unit 2
The sun was
getting warm as Philip put on his skates and
prepared to get on the ice. At the
edge
of the lake the ice was still quite hard, and he
did not seem to realize there was any danger,
but nearer the middle of the lake the
warm sun had already begun to melt the ice.
After making a few practice turns,
Philip set out to cross the lake at its widest
point. In order
to make himself go
faster, he tried to race his own shadow as it fell
on the ice ahead of him. When
he was
about half way across, the weak ice suddenly broke
beneath his weight at once and he fell
through it. For 20 or 30 seconds
afterwards he was not even able to scream. Then at
least he found
his voice, shouted for
help, and almost immediately afterwards blacked
out.
When he opened his eyes again, he
was lying in bed in his own home, with his father
bending
anxiously over him.
“
Y
ou should have
known better than to do a silly thing like
that!
”
were the
first comfortless words he heard after
his narrow escape.
Translation:
1.
This old man lived overseas when he was
young and had many unusual experiences.
2.
She is a well-
liked physics teacher with a lot of teaching
experience.
3.
My
shoes are brand new;
I’
d
rather stay until it clears up.
4.
Upon
leaving the small house where she lived
in her childhood, she looked her good-
bye at
every familiar object around.
5.
He was asked
to leave for Xi
’
an at such
short notice that he didn
’
t
even leave time to call his
wife.
6.
Their
reluctance to join us in the speech contest really
spoilt our fun.
7.
Please note
that every student should keep classroom
discipline, and you are no exception.
8.
I
don
’
t care so
much
about working
overtime
occasionally,
but
about
your
calling
off
my
holidays with no notice.
9.
The speaker
cleared his throat to claim the attention of the
audience.
10.
He
was tired of hustle and bustle of the urban life
and hoped to move to, expecting a change
in his current life style.
Paragraph translation
When
I
was
very
little,
I
longed
to
go
to
the countryside with
my
father
and
brother,
but
I
never
got
a
chance.
Father
went
once
a
year
during
his
holiday
to
the
countryside
where
my
grandmother lived. As a rule, he took
my brother Qiangqiang with him. I remember when I
was
four, there was a lot of talking
about countryside-going as
Father
’
s holiday was drawing
near. I
was certain that this time
Father would take Qiangqiang along as usual. But
one morning while I
was
in
the
bedroom
playing
with
my
doll,
Mother
called
up,
“
Pingping,
come
down.
”
To
my
surprise, Mother told me
with tears in her eyes that I would be sent to my
grandmother
’
s. I was
delighted and looked everywhere for my
father and Qiangqiang, but they were nowhere to be
seen.
When the time came for me to
leave, Mother murmured,
“
Pingping, try to be good. Mama and
Papa
are sure to come to see you
soon.
”
It was not till then
that I knew
I would be going to the
countryside alone, all alone. I clung
to my mother, weeping tears of sadness.
Dictation Unit 3
Strange things
happen
to time when
you
travel, because
the earth
is divided
into
24 zones, one
hour apart
for every
two
zones.
Y
ou can
have days with
more or
fewer
than 24 hours, and
weeks with more or fewer than seven days.
If you
make a
five-day trip across the
Atlantic Ocean,
your ship
enters a different
time
zone
every
day
.
As
you
enter
each
zone,
the
time
changes
one
hour.
Traveling
west,
you set
your clock back; traveling east,
you
set
forward.
Each day of
your trip
has either 25 or 23 hours.
If
you
travel
by
ship
across
the
Pacific,
you
cross
International
Date
Line.
BY
agreement,
this
is
the
point
where
a
new
day
begins.
When
you
cross
the
line,
you
change
your
calendar
one
full
day
,
backward
or
forward.
Traveling
east,
today
becomes yesterday; traveling west, it
becomes tomorrow.
Dictation Unit 4
The Global Theater is a playhouse built
just outside London in1599. It is the most
famous
theater
in
history:
on
its
stage
Shakespeare
’
s
greatest
plays
were
first
performed.
Big
enough
to
hold
about
2,500
people,
the
Globe
had
three
levels
of
galleries
surrounding
an
unroofed
yard.
Extending
from
one
side
of
the
yard
to
the
center
was
an
open
stage.
From
the
stage
floor
rose
two
posts
to
support
an
overhanging canopy known
as the
“
heavens
”<
/p>
.
The Globe was built in
London by the Burbage brothers in 1599. At the
same time,
wishing to bind
the
Lord
Chamberlain
’
s company
closely
to the
new
playhouse, they
planned
a
novel
partnership
in
which
the
brothers
divided
ownership
of
the
Globe
among
themselves
and
five
of
the
actors
in
the
company
,
one
of
whom
was
Shakespeare.
After
1609,
when
the
company
opened
a
second
theater,
the
Globe
became
less
important. ON June 29,
1613, during a performance of
Shakespeare
’
s King Henry the
Eighth,
fire
destroyed
the
Globe.
It
was
rebuilt
within
a
year
but
was
destroyed
forever by the
Puritans in 1644.
Dictation
Unit 5
Throughout the
long
period,
the French showed
noticeably
more enthusiasm
for a
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