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10 IB Program Aims to Form“Students of the World” 国际文凭组织旨在培养“世界学生”

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仔细听

The International Baccalaureate Organization was founded in nineteen sixty-eight.It works with schools in one hundred forty-three countries to offer programs for students age three to nineteen.These programs,it says,“help develop the intellectual,personal,emotional and social skills to live,learn and work in a rapidly globalizing world.”

国际文凭组织成立于1968年。它与143个国家的学校合作,向3到19岁的学生提供课程。该组织称这些课程“有助于启发智力、塑造个性、培养情感和社会技能,使学生能适应快速全球化世界的生活、学习和工作。”

听力破解:intellectual,personal,emotional三个并列的词经常同时出现,此处也被播音员用升调表示并列关系,它们分别表示“才智的”、“人格的”、“情感的”。我们通常说的智商IQ即Intelligence Quotient;情商EQ即Emotional Quotient。

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The organization says IB programs are in more than three thousand schools.The majority of these schools offer IB diploma programs.

该组织表示已有3000多所学校启动了IB项目。其中大多数学校提供IB文凭课程。

词汇宝典:the majority of表示“大多数的”,如:The majority of people seem to prefer TV to radio.多数人喜欢电视胜过广播。注意与 a majority of的区别,其意思是“许多的,大量的”,如:A majority of poets and scientists are male.许多的诗人和科学家都是男性。

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High school students have to complete six courses,pass exams and write a twenty-page paper to earn an IB diploma.The courses are inhumanities,science,arts,math,a second language and their own language.

高中生们必须完成六门课程,通过考试,并撰写20页的论文才能获得IB文凭。这些课程涉及人文、科学、艺术、数学、第二外语及母语。

听力破解:本段中出现了很多并列短语,需注意语音语调的升降。在并列句中,并列连词and、or等的前后两分句都用降调。

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Students can also attend special events.Recently more than three hundred IB diploma students from thirteen countries attended a conference at the University of British Columbia in Canada.The five-day conference was called“The New Sustainability:Making Things Better,Not Just Less Bad”.

学生们还能参加特别活动。最近来自 13 个国家的 300多名 IB 文凭课程学员参加了在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚大学举行的一次会议。这次为期五天的会议的主题是“新可持续发展:让一切更好,不只是不坏”。

听力破解:Better和Less Bad都被播音员重读了,突出了对比的作用,better的程度要高于less bad。

词汇宝典:conference是名词,表示“会议”,比meeting等正式。固定搭配有press conference(记者招待会),video conference(视频会议),conference call(电话会议)等。

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The students heard from professors,graduate students,activists and others.One of the speakers was Drew Deutsch,director of IB Americas.He says the conference was meant as a way for students not only to learn about the environment,but also to develop lasting relationships.

“We want to send the students back to their schools to highlight issues surrounding protecting the environment,but also make sure these students become more students of the world,and that they form bonds with peers their own age from around the world.And,obviously,with social networking and the tools that are available to students today,we expect that they will have formed these bonds really for life.”

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学生们聆听了教授、研究生、活动家和其他人的观点。其中一名发言者是德鲁·多伊奇,他是美国IB课程的负责人。他说这次会议对学生们来说不仅是为了解环境,还是为了培养他们持久的人际关系。

“我们不但想要把这些学生送回他们的学校,来强调保护环境周边的一些问题,还要确保这些学生更加面向世界并和世界各地的同龄人建立起密切联系。同时很显然,通过社交网络和现如今学生们可以获得的一些工具,我们期待他们能建立起终生的联系。”

词汇宝典:此处的but also是not only...but also的省略形式。需要注意的是,not only 用在句首的时候,需要使用倒装形式,比如:Not only do you win,but so do your partners.不仅你会是赢家,你的队友也是赢家。

学着说一说

1.work with 与……共事;对……有效

▶work with 表示“与……在一起干;与……共事”,如:

A:Working with Tim,you must feel good,right?

和提姆一起工作,你一定感觉很棒吧?

B:Yeah,he is amazing.是啊,他太棒了。

▶表示“对……起作用”则可以这么说:

His story worked with them.他的故事对他们起了作用。

2.more than比……更多

口语常用的用法如下:

▶more than+名词,表示“不仅仅是”。如:

We need more than material wealth to build our country.

建设我们国家,不仅仅需要物质财富.

▶more than+数词,含有“以上、不止”之意,如:

More than one person has made this suggestion.

不止一人提过这个建议.

▶more than +形容词,可理解为“很,非常”的意思,如:

I assure you I am more than glad to help you.我非常乐意帮助你。

▶more than +(that)从句,基本意义是“超过(= over)”,可译成

“远非,难以,完全不能(其后通常连用情态动词 can)”。如:

That is more than I can understand.那非我所能懂的。

3.form bonds形成联系

▶bond 在此处表示“联系”,后常用 with 连接,如:

You should have the ability to form bonds with customers.

你应该有与客户建立联系的能力。

▶bond 还有“建立关系”的意思,如:

I haven't bonded with it.我没爱上它。