3 A Visit to Volcanoes National Park and Haleakala National Park 游览火山国家公园和哈莱阿卡拉国家公园

仔细听

Let me ask you a question：What is the tallest mountain on Earth？Most school children will say the answer is Mount Everest near the border between Nepal and Tibet.

让我来问你一个问题：地球上最高的山是什么？大部分学生会回答说是位于尼泊尔和西藏边界的珠穆朗玛峰。

听力破解：ask you连读；此外，tallest mountain重读，表明了本段新闻是关于最高山的话题。

词汇宝典：on Earth中的Earth大写时，意思是“在地球上”；小写时，意思是“究竟”，如：What on earth are you laughing at？你们究竟在笑什么？

仔细听

There is something that is three hundred four meters taller than Mount Everest.However，it is mainly underwater.It begins at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean，and rises more than seventeen kilometers from the ocean floor.

有座山比珠穆朗玛峰还要高304米。但是，它大部分都在水下。它始于太平洋底，耸立在洋底，高度超过17千米。

听力破解：that is连读为[′ðætiz]。

仔细听

Its name is Mauna Loa.In the Hawaiian language，Mauna Loa means“Long Mountain.”Mauna Loa is more than half of the island of Hawaii，the largest of the Hawaiian Islands.

It is also the largest and most active volcano on Earth.It has produced liquid rock called lava more than thirty times since records were first kept in eighteen forty-three.Today，Mauna Loa is quiet.It is not producing lava.However volcano experts say it is only a matter of time before this happens once again.

它的名字叫作莫纳罗亚山。在夏威夷语中，莫纳罗亚的意思为“长山”。莫纳罗亚山占据了夏威夷岛一半以上的土地，是夏威夷群岛中最大的岛。

它也是地球上最大和最活跃的火山。自1843年首次记录喷发以来，它已经超过30多次喷涌出熔岩。如今，莫纳罗亚山很平静，并不喷发熔岩。然而，火山专家称，这座火山再度喷发只是时间问题。

听力破解：first的尾音[t]和kept的首音[k]构成双爆破，前者要失去爆破。

仔细听

Mauna Loa is not the only volcano on the island of Hawaii.

There are four others.Three of them are no longer active.Oneof them still is active.It is named Kilauea.It has produced lava more than fifty times in the last one hundred years.At this moment，red hot lava is pouring out of Kilauea.It has been doing this since nineteen eighty-three.

莫纳罗亚山不是夏威夷岛上唯一的火山。除它之外还有4座火山，其中3座已不再活跃，一个仍旧活跃，叫作基拉韦亚火山。

在过去的100年里，它喷出熔岩超过50多次。现在，红色炽热的熔岩还在从基拉韦亚火山喷涌而出，从1983年起就一直如此。

听力破解：There are连读，根据发音规则，前一个词是以-r或者-re结尾，后一个词是以元音开头，这时r或re不但要发[r]音，还要与后面元音连读；此外，It is连读为[itiz]。

学着说一说

1.a matter of time时间问题

▶matter有“事件，问题”的意思，a matter of的意思是“关于……的问题”，如：

It is merely a matter of time.这只是个时间问题。

▶matter 的常用短语还有 as a matter of fact，指“事实上，其实，实际上”，如：

As a matter of fact，I did nothing.实际上，我什么也没干。

▶口语中我们还常说 It doesn't matter.意思是“不要紧。”，如：

A：What if we are late？我们迟到了怎么办？

B：It doesn't matter.不要紧。

2.no longer不再，已不，不复，再也不

▶no longer 表示“不再……”，如：

I'm no longer a student.我不再是个学生了。