DailyListening.ppt

Daily Sentence 玛丽就如何学好英语给了我一些意见。 Mary gave me some advice on how to learn English well. Daily ListeningVOA Special English Date: Feb. 17 expressions about water Daily Sentence 随着经济的快速发展，中国在国际上扮演越来越重要的角色。 With the rapid development of economy, China plays a more and more important role in the world. Expressions about water are almost as _______ as water itself. But many of the expressions using water have ____________________. The expression to be in hot water is one of them. It is a very ____ expression. Hot water was used five-hundred years ago to mean ____________________. One story says it got that meaning from the custom of throwing extremely hot water down on enemies ________ a castle. Daily Sentence 为了进入大学，中国学生必须参加高考。 In order to go to university, Chinese students have to take the university entrance exams. That no longer happens. But we still _____ hot water. When we are in hot water, we are _____________. It can be any kind of trouble -- serious or not so serious. A person who _____________ can be in hot water with the police. A young boy can be in hot water with his mother, if he walks in the house _______________. Being in deep water is almost the same as being in hot water. When you are in deep water, you are in________________. Imagine a person who cannot swim being thrown in water _____________. You are in deep water when you are facing a problem that you do not _______________________. You can be in deep water, for example, if you invest in stocks without knowing anything about the stock ______. Daily Sentence 唐恩综合症使他过正常的生活很困难。（ Down‘s Syndrome make it difficult... ） Downs Syndrome makes it difficult for him to live a normal life. To keep your head above water is a colorful expression that means staying ____________. A company seeks to keep its head above water during economic hard times. A man who loses his job tries to keep his head above water until ____________________. Water over the dam(水坝) is another expression