初三英语听力短文阅读

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初三英语听力短文篇1

Did you ever hear the saying, “it’s easier to get the Mississippi to change its course than get a stubborn child to change his mind”? I guess whoever made this one up didn’t know that the Mississippi actually does change its course about every thousand years or so.

你是否听说过这句谚语：“让密西西比河改道比让固执的小孩改主意更容易。”我猜编出这句谚语的人不知道密西西比河的确每隔一千年左右就会改一次道。

How could a river change its course? Actually, the whole process is due to silt. Every year, erosion from farm fields and building projects washes millions of tons of soil into streams and rivers. When these tributary streams and rivers empty into the Mississippi, the floating soil particles are carried along in the fast-moving water from the heart of the continent towards the delta, where the river meets the sea.

河流怎么会改道呢?实际上，改道的全过程都是淤泥在起作用。每年，农田和建筑工程由于侵蚀作用而将大量泥土冲入溪流和河水之中。当这些支流的小溪和河流注 入密西西比河时，漂浮在其上的土壤颗粒也随着快速流动的河水顺流而下，从大陆中心流向三角洲地区——也就是河流汇入大海的地方。

At the delta, the main channel of the river forks into many smaller channels. The water in the main channel slows down, and the floating soil settles to the bottom. Over time, this sediment builds up, and the main channel becomes shallower and shallower until it finally overflows and forms a new river, leaving the old channel to become a swamp.

在三角洲地区，密西西比河的主河道分叉，分出许多小河道。主河道的河水流速变缓，悬浮的土壤颗粒沉入河底。久而久之，这些沉积物将河底抬高，主河道变得越来越浅，最终导致河水漫过河道形成一条新的河流，而旧河道则成为沼泽。

Over the past eight thousand years, the Mississippi’s main channel has become clogged up and changed course at least seven times. Under natural conditions the city of New Orleans should now be underwater, but this has been prevented by the Army Corps of Engineering’s spending millions of dollars to prevent the Mississippi from changing course.

在过去的八千年里，密西西比河的主河道至少阻塞并改道了七次。在自然状态下，现在的新奥尔良市应该已经身居河底了，但是美国陆军工程花费了上百万美元阻止了密西西比河再次改道。

So maybe the saying is wrong. Maybe stopping the Mississippi from ch hanging its course is the really hard thing to do.

所以，也许谚语是错误的。阻止密西西比河改道才是件困难的事情。

初三英语听力短文篇2

The young people who talk of the village as being "dead" are talking nothing but nonsense, as in their hearts they must surely know. The village is not dead. There is more life in it now than there ever was. But it seems that "village life" is dead. Gone for ever. It began to decline about a hundred years ago, when many girls left home to go into service in town many miles away, and men also left home in increasing numbers in search of work. There are still a number of people alive today who can remember what "village life" meant. It meant knowing and being known by everybody else in the village. It meant finding your entertainment in the village of within walking distance of it. It meant housewives tied to the home all day and every day. It meant going to bed early to save lamp oil and coal.

Then came the First World War and the Second World War. After each war, new ideas, new attitudes, new trades and occupations were revealed to villagers. The long-established order of society was no longer taken for granted. Electricity and the motorcar were steadily operating to make "village life" and "town life" almost alike. Now with the highly developed science and technology and high-level social welfare for all, there is no point whatever in talking any longer about "village life". It is just life, and a better life.

初三英语听力短文篇3

School Bus-School-Tuesday

校车-学校-星期二

I am on the School bus sitting by my classmates.Tina,Linda,Jackie and Lisa.I do not like to gossip with them. so I am listening to a new CD I bought last week

我现在在校车上，旁边坐的是我的同学：蒂娜，琳达，杰姬和莉落。我不喜欢跟她们鬼扯，所以我正听者我上网新买的CD。

Rock is the type of music that I like I just went to a rock concert two months ago.It was da-bomb.

摇滚乐是我喜欢的那一种音乐，我两个月前才去了摇滚乐的演唱会，那真是棒极了。

Anyway, I am pulling out the sandwich that I bought from 7-11.I am really hungry.one sandwich will not be enough.but I will hava to baar with it.

好啦(不管怎样)，我拿出我在7-11买的三明治，我真的饿了，所以一个三明治根本不够我吃，但是我必须忍着这一点。

My father gives me only ten bucks a day But I am saving five dollars every day to buy a car it is a long way to go,but I will be patient.

我父亲一天只给我十块钱，但是我每天都要省下五元来买车子，这是一个长过的计划(长远的路要走)，但我会有耐心的。