新东方4+1语音语调第55课

Part One 听辨练习
A. Listen, circle the corresponding number if you hear????? in the word.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
B. Write down the words you hear on the tape, then fill in the blanks below.
1. New _______ 2. _______ tongue 3. _______ and old
4. in_______ 5. trade _______ 6. in my _______
7. three _______ 8. one _______ 9. bathing _______
　　
Part Two跟读练习
C. Listen and repeat. Notice the sound ????in the sentences.
1. Are you familiar?
2. The uniforms of the police are blue.
3. Both my grandpa and grandma are sitting in the yard.
4. I used to live in Shanghai.
5. Yesterday I heard a curious and beautiful tune.
6. Excuse me if I refuse, but this suit isn’t suitable.
7. Yale University is not in the State of New York.
8. Don’t argue, or you’ll make me furious.
9. When the orchard-yield will be gathered soon.
10. The dog in our yard awakes with a yawn.
D. Proverbs
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Love is the touchstone of virtue.
E. Tongue twisters
The yellow yacht from the Vineyard was owned by a young millionaire.
Did Yuppies yesterday yearn to see New York?
Part Three综合练习
F. Read after the tape
Initial: you yours yard yesterday year yield unify yen use yawn yes
　　yacht yoke yearn ear young yet yellow
Medial: union coal-yard opinion million value few abuse accuse fuel
　　humor hue huge hula humiliate music mute mutual numeral
　　nuance nucleus
Final: (this sound doesn’t occur at the end of words in English)
G. Sentence exercises
Exercise 1 : Listen to the sentences and write down the right words you hear on the tape.
1. I want some ______.
2. The _____ were painful for him.
3. Their son went to _____.
4. Haven’t you finished it _____?
Exercise 2 : Complete these sentences with the letters given.
1. The meter is a u____ of length.
2. May I u___ your pencil? Mine is lost.
3. In the y_____1867, they came to China.
4. We’re l_____ to our country.
Exercise 3 : Form a sentence with the words given below.
the new students about are union in arguing their things
Exercise 4 : Form sentences with the following words and give a reason.
1. you 2. your 3. yours 4. you
H. Passage
　　In the year of 1982, Ursular went to Yale University. After graduation, she started her own computer company. At the beginning, she didn’t do very well , but she accumulated a lot of experience from failure and later she became a millionaire.
I. Dialogue: underline the letters that sound ????.
A: Excuse me, you look familiar. Did you use to live in New York?
B: Yes.
A: Did you use to work at NYU?
B: Oh, did you know Hugh Young? He was a music student.
A: Hugh Young? Didn’t he use to wear a funny yellow jacket all the time?
B: Yes. And he used to play the piano with a jazz group at the university.
A: I remember Hugh. Most people thought he was a little…uh…peculiar. Do you
know what he’s doing now?
B: Yes, he’s a millionaire in Houston now.
A: A millionaire? As a jazz musician?
B: Oh, no. He’s an executive for a large computer company. I saw an interview
with him on TV yesterday. They were asking his opinion about future uses for
computers.
A: Well! I guess people don’t find him so peculiar anymore.
J. Rhymes
　　⑴ We waddle away from the water,
　　And now we will waddle back;
　　Then swish, swish, we are swimming again.
　　Quack! Quack! Quack!
　　
　　⑵ When the orchard yield will be gathered soon,
　　And the fields beyond are yellow with corn,
　　The dog in our yard awakes with a yawn,
And yaps and yelps at the yellow moon.