[00:00.00]Unit 9 Although Patsy cannot see,she can read
[00:07.08]A Let's read
[00:10.92]Anne has a blind friend.
[00:15.15]Her name is Patsy Wu.
[00:19.51]She is fifteen.
[00:22.75]She cannot see at all.
[00:27.12]However,she goes to school everyday by bus.
[00:32.99]She goes to a special school for blind children.
[00:38.35]Although Patsy cannot see,she can read.
[00:43.10]She reads braille.
[00:46.34]Letters in braille are dots.
[00:50.49]Blind people feel the dots with their fingers.
[00:55.25]Different arrangements of dots represent different letters.
[01:01.20]Although there are many books in braille,there are not any magazines.
[01:07.74]Patsy likes TV and Entertainment Times,so Anne reads it to her.
[01:15.18]She visits her once a week.Patsy also has some talking books.
[01:22.34] Famous actors have read these books into a microphone and recorded them.
[01:29.10]People can buy these talking books on cassettes.
[01:33.86]However,Patsy's parents are poor and cannot afford to buy her these cassettes.
[01:42.22]However,her friends usually give her cassettes for presents
[01:47.96]and she plays them on he Walkman.
[01:51.73]She can also borrow talking books from the public library
[01:58.39]and her school has a good collection.
[02:02.64]Although Patsy is blind,she is a happy child.
[02:08.42]She never complains.
[02:11.89]She has lots of friends and they all help to make her life rich and full.
[02:18.74]F A joke
[02:23.70]A man jumped out of a plane.He was wearing a parachute.
[02:31.35]However,the parachute had holes in it.
[02:37.10]Luckly there was a haystack below him.
[02:42.35]However,the haystack had a fork in it.
[02:48.72]Luckily,the man missed the fork.
[02:53.58]However,he also missed the haystack.
[02:59.93]Words and expressions
[03:05.10]although
[03:06.93]conj.尽管，虽然
[03:08.76]Patsy
[03:10.48]帕齐(女子名)
[03:12.21]however
[03:13.63]无论如何;不管怎样;然而
[03:15.06]special
[03:16.44]a.特殊的，特别的
[03:17.83]braille
[03:19.14]n.布莱叶盲文，点字法
[03:20.46]arrangement
[03:22.08]整理，排列;安排,准备
[03:23.70]represent
[03:25.18]vt.代表;表示;象征
[03:26.65]entertainment
[03:28.39](受)招待娱乐;表演会;文艺节目
[03:30.13]once a week
[03:31.85]一周一次
[03:33.58]famous
[03:35.04]a.著名的
[03:36.50]actor
[03:37.94]n.男表演;行动者
[03:39.38]microphone
[03:40.85]n.话筒,麦克风
[03:42.33]record
[03:43.70]vt.记录;录(音)
[03:45.07]cassette
[03:46.44]n.盒式磁带
[03:47.81]afford
[03:49.19]担负得起(费用，损失，后果等);买得起
[03:50.56]public
[03:52.02]公用的,公共的
[03:53.48]a good collection
[03:55.26]大量收集
[03:57.04]make one's life rich and full
[03:59.37]使......的生活丰富多彩
[04:01.71]Louis
[04:03.08]路易斯(男子名)
[04:04.45]invent
[04:05.79]v.发明
[04:07.12]code
[04:08.44]n.代号,代码,密码
[04:09.76]deaf
[04:11.08]a.聋的
[04:12.40]lip
[04:13.61]n.嘴唇
[04:14.82]get good marks
[04:16.55]获得好成绩
[04:18.27]aid
[04:19.59]n.助手;辅助物
[04:20.91]a hearing aid
[04:22.49]助听器
[04:24.07]parachute
[04:25.50]n.降落伞
[04:26.92]luckily
[04:28.36]幸运地
[04:29.79]haystack
[04:31.23]n.干草堆
[04:32.67]Unit10 It was raining,so we did not go out
[04:39.51]A Let's read
[04:43.17]It was raining yesterday,so Anne and Ken did not go out.
[04:49.93]Instead they stayed in and decided to make a chocolate cake.
[04:56.41]"The cake won't be ready until Mummy comes home from work.
[05:01.98]She'll be pleased,"Anne said.
[05:06.42]She found flour,eggs,margarine and sugar.
[05:12.76]She took them out and put them on the kitchen table.
[05:17.81]"There isn't any chocolate,so I'll have to get some," she said.
[05:23.97]"I'll run down to the shops."
[05:27.81]Anne went out and Ken was on his own.
[05:33.98]He wanted to help,so he looked for a mixing bowl.
[05:39.44]He found one in the cupboard under the sink.
[05:44.01]Then he took a wooden spoon out of the drawer.
[05:48.37]"I've watched Mummy make a cake,"he thought,"so I can make one myself.
[05:55.74]He poured all the flour in to the bowl and added them margarine.
[06:02.21]The margarine was very hard.
[06:06.16]He could not mix it into he flour with the spoon,so he used his hands.
[06:12.72]He soon had flour all over himself.
[06:17.39]Next,he tried to add the eggs.
[06:21.94]He did not break them neatly,so he made an egg mess on the table.
[06:28.47]He did not want to waste he eggs,
[06:32.44]so he scraped them off the table
[06:36.59]and put them into the bowl with the flour and margarine.
[06:42.23]Then he poured in all the sugar.
[06:46.60]He stired and stired the mixture but it was not very smooth.
[06:52.76]It was also very hard.
[06:56.39]There was not any milk in the refrigerator,so he put in some water.
[07:02.84]He put in too much and the mixture was now like yellow paint.
[07:09.61]When Anne came back and saw the mess,she was very angry.
[07:16.77]Words and expressions
[07:20.24]instead
[07:21.68]ad.代替,顶替
[07:23.12]margarine
[07:24.64]n.(用动物或植物脂肪制成的)人造黄油
[07:26.17]mix
[07:27.45]vt.使混合,搀和
[07:28.73]mix sth.into...
[07:30.61]用......混入
[07:32.49]mixture
[07:33.86]n.混合;混合物
[07:35.24]sink
[07:36.56]n.洗条槽
[07:37.87]wooden
[07:39.19]a.木制的
[07:40.51]an egg mess
[07:42.45]鸡蛋糊
[07:44.38]waste
[07:45.70]n.浪费
[07:47.02]scrape
[07:48.49]vt.刮;擦
[07:49.97]scrape sth.off
[07:51.80]把......擦掉
[07:53.63]smooth
[07:55.05]a.(液体,浆糊)调匀的;平滑的,光滑的
[07:56.47]refrigerator
[07:58.20]n.冰箱,冷冻机
[07:59.92]properly
[08:01.31]适当地;正当地
[08:02.69]stiff
[08:04.01]a.硬的
[08:05.33]alarm
[08:07.07]n.警报
[08:08.80]an alarm clock
[08:10.72]闹钟
[08:12.64]go off
[08:14.08]使发声;突然响起
[08:15.52]turn on
[08:16.99]打开(电源)
[08:18.47]oven
[08:19.79]n.烤箱
[08:21.11]rack
[08:22.78]n.搁物架
[08:24.45]sandwich
[08:26.97]n.三明治,夹心面包片
[08:29.49]a chemist's shop
[08:31.11]药店
[08:32.73]fashion
[08:34.12]n.式样;时兴;风尚
[08:35.50]paint
[08:37.03]n.颜料;油漆
[08:38.56]cough medicine
[08:40.39]咳嗽药
[08:42.21]toothpaste
[08:43.74]n.牙膏
[08:45.27]a pair of jeans
[08:46.99]一条牛仔裤
