Day 2——话题：Entertainment and Mass Media（口语部分）

Passage Reading 段落朗读

These are habits which should have been outgrown long ago. The beginning reader is learning how letters can make words, how written words are pronounced, and how sentences are put together. Your reading purpose is quite different; it is to understand meaning.

It has been estimated that up to 75% percent of the words in English sentences are not really necessary for conveying the meaning. The secret of silent reading is to seek out those key words and phrases which carry the thought, and to pay less attention to words which exist only for the sake of grammatical completeness.

An efficient reader can grasp the meaning from a page at least twice as fast as he can read the page aloud. Unconsciously perhaps, he takes in a whole phrase or thought unit at one time. If he says or hears words to himself, they are selected ones, said for emphasis.

权威名师解析：

注意outgrow, pronounce, purpose, grammatical, completeness, unconsciously, emphasis等难词的发音。

outgrow  [aut'grəu]   (v) 过大而不适于 

pronounce  [prə'nauns]  （v） 发音；宣告

purpose     ['pə:pəs]   (n) 目的；意图

grammatical  [grə'mætikəl]  （adj.） 合乎文法的

completeness  [kəm'pli:tnis]   （n）完成；完整

unconsciously   [ʌn'kɔnʃəsli]  （adv.） 无意识地

emphasis      ['emfəsis]    （n） 强调；重点

Free talk

Causes of and Solutions to Teenagers’ Lack of Social Responsibility.

权威名师解析：

1.       Causes: the apple in parents’ eye (example: Most parents see their only child as the apple in their eyes)     movies and websites’ negative influence on teenagers.

2.       Solution:　role model ( teenagers acquire their behaviors though modeling; parents and teachers can act as role models.)　

3.       participate in some social activities （be a volunteer or join a club, make more friends ）

正文：I woke up one morning last week to read a story about teenagers’ lack of social responsibility. There are two causes of this phenomenon.

  First, after the adoption of family planning policy, most families have only one child. Thus, these parents see their only child as the apple in their eyes. They tend to indulge their children by never let the only child do housework. Living under such circumstances, some teenagers are increasingly reluctant to think for others, thus become self-centered.

  Second, some movies and websites have a negative influence on teenagers. Some movies mislead the teenagers that one can become successful and rich through illegal actions. Teenagers don’t yet have the ability to distinguish the right information from the false one. So they are easily affected by the movies and websites.

We should find a solution to it. Parents and teachers should act as role models for teenagers. Teenagers would imitate parents or teachers’ behaviors without thinking whether the behaviors are right or wrong. And at the same time, we should educate teenagers about the social responsibility such as making contributions to society, be a helpful person.