【背誦】新概念第四冊Lesson 2

本著啃透一篇文章的原則，跟讀了這一篇無數遍。大約開始跟讀這篇有一個月了吧。最近很多網友回來，很想念Jennea，想起來她以前的背功。我也趕鴨子上架，不愛背誦的人背一篇。新概念裏隻有第四冊的雙數課是女聲讀的，所以從第二課開始背誦。

 

Lesson 2 Spare that spider
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends ? Because they destroy so
many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human
race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would
devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection
we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat
insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed
by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do
the least harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them.
One can tell the difference almost at a glance for a spider always has eight legs
and an insect never more than six.
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf ? One authority on
spiders made a census of the spiders in a grass field in the south of England, and
he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre, that is something
like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for
at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the
wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content
with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects
destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total
weight of all the human beings in the country.
T. H. GILLESPIE Spare that Spider from The Listener

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• 今天怎麽這麽清淨啊？我還是把這個貼出來吧。新聲姐姐來聽。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 17:09:32

• 嘩，背都背得這麽好，文青不愧為文青，實在挑不出磚，隻是表個學習態。 -bingli- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 18:09:56

• 老大，給我們點希望吧，我們趕不上啊，您老的速度忒快了 -金迷- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 18:13:11

• 和文青一比，她就好象是火箭升空，帶條火尾，咱就象兩輪腳踏車，還要是推的。 -bingli- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 20:06:34

• 說到做到，背得很好！佩服！ -EnLearner- ♂ (538 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 19:52:39

• 謝謝愚公！金磚！hungry那個可能還是ng發不到位的問題。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 09:43:46

• 我簡直佩服你五體投地了。。我能跟讀一遍就燒高香了。。shock，shock！也給我動力了！ -beautifulwind- ♀ (117 bytes) () 04/18/2012 postreply 22:31:44

• 謝謝美風，你跟我說過這個，但是我還沒有掌握，一快了就更忘了。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:06:03

• 妹妹的背功真好！ -NewVoice- ♀ (1478 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 03:55:22

• 謝謝姐姐！說的都是我的難點，太對了。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:06:56

• impressive. "devour" seems a bit off. -jingbeiboy- ♂ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 04:31:54

• 恩，這個詞我得再練練。有V又有au和卷舌，難產戶。 -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:08:18

• oh, you recited it! My gosh! I thought your read it -sportwoman- ♀ (193 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 05:05:53

• 覺得應該是the movements of my tongue. -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:10:15

• Thank you wenqing! You are awesome! :) -sportwoman- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 15:13:03

• 這個, 就隻有景仰了~ -lilac09- ♀ (75 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 06:43:49

• 謝謝mm，好磚！ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:11:18

• 青兒背誦得精彩。同問候Jennea,也想起cha-cha，背900句說新聞等。 -斕婷- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 07:31:09

• 謝謝紫兒！ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 10:11:42

• 這會兒有點兒空兒了，先一並謝過樓上各位童鞋，再慢慢回貼！ -非文學青年- ♀ (0 bytes) () 04/19/2012 postreply 09:29:24