大学英语综合教程 第一册 unit 1a

[05:21.88]and he returned everyone's but mine.
[05:26.24]I was preparing myself for a command to report to Mr.Fleagle immediately after school for discipline
[05:33.82]when I saw him lift my paper from his desk and knock for the class's attention
[05:40.58]"Now,boys,"he said. "I want to read you an essay.
[05:45.31]This is titled, "The Art of Eating Spaghetti."
[05:49.99]And he started to read.
[05:52.55]My words!He was reading my words out loud to the entire class.
[05:58.11]What's more,the entire class was listening.Listening attentively.
[06:04.67]Then somebody laughed,then the entire class was laughing,
[06:09.82]and not in contempt and ridicule,but with open-hearted enjoyment.
[06:17.05]Even Mr.Fleagle stopped two or three times to hold back a small prim smile
[06:24.13]I did my best to avoid showing pleasure,
[06:27.97]but what I was feeling was pure delight at this demonstration
[06:33.40]that my words had the power to make people laugh.
[06:37.45]In the eleventh grade,at the eleventh hour as it were,
[06:43.62]I had discovered a calling.
[06:46.57]It was the happiest moment of my entire school career.
[06:51.64]When Mr.Fleagle finished he put the final seal on my happiness by saying,
[06:59.68]"Now that, boys,is an essay,don't you see.
[07:04.44]It's-don't you see -it's of the very essence of the essay,
[07:09.79]don't you see.Congratulations,Mr.Baker."
[07:14.13]off and on/possibility/take hold/bore
[07:20.66]associate/assignment/ turn on/ agony
[07:27.32]assign/anticipate/tedious/reputation
[07:32.88]inability/inspire/formal/rigid
[07:38.53]hopelessly/out of date/prim/primly
[07:44.20]severecktie/jaw/comic
[07:49.76]antique/ackle/essay/distribute
[07:55.64]finally/face up to/scan/spaghetti
[08:02.59]title/extraordinary/sequence/image
[08:09.43]adult/humor/recall/argument
[08:17.58]respectable/put down/recapture/relive
[08:26.36]violate/compose/turn in/command
[08:33.80]discipline/what's more/contempt/ridicule
[08:41.06]open-hearted/hold back/aviod/demonstration
[08:49.11]career/seal/essence/congratulation