初中英语新目标八年级上10

[07:43.44]Our school wasn't in a very good place.
[07:47.80]It was next to a train station.
[07:51.56]Sometimes it was difficult to hear the teacher because of all the trains outside.
[07:58.22]The school was small,too,and the classrooms were very crowded.
[08:04.47]There were usually forty or fifty students in every class.
[08:09.80]There was no TV at that time,so we didn't know a lot about the world.
[08:16.35]I remember our geography textbook had beautiful photographs
[08:22.41]from far away places like India,China,and Africa.
[08:28.79]Geography was really interesting for kids in those days!
[08:34.43]Families were poor because it was the time of the Great Depression.
[08:40.31]I wore my elder brother's old uniform.
[08:44.67]My shoes had holes where you could see my toes.
[08:49.71]It was terrible!We were poor but we still enjoyed ourselves.
[08:56.97]I loved to play baseball and ice hockey after class.
[09:02.15]But we played ice hockey on frozen ponds.
[09:06.69]Not inside like the kids today.
[09:10.77]Words and expressions in Culture unit 1
[09:20.93]grow                 grow up              Washington D. C.     capital
[09:29.40]v.生长,发育,增长     成长,长大            华盛顿哥伦亚特区     n.首都，首府
[09:37.88]bet                  stand for            mean                 Columbia
[09:45.67]v.打赌               代表,表示            v.表示...            哥华伦比亚
[09:53.45]name after           historical                                monument
[10:00.08]以...命名            adj.历史上的,有关历史的                   n.纪念碑,纪念物
[10:06.72]aerospace                                 rocket
[10:10.90]n.地球大气层及其外面的空间,太空           n.火箭,冲天炮
[10:15.08]into                 space                fiction
[10:20.90]prep.进入..之内,向内 n.空间,太空          n.虚构之事,捏造的故事,小说
[10:26.73]science fiction      have a picnic        city park
[10:34.00]科幻小说             去野餐               城市公园
[10:41.28]go down to                                hang out             dream
[10:48.01]从一个地方去另一个地方                    经常出没,闲荡        n.梦;梦想;幻想