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wrong shape for a heavenly messenger. Anyway, it's time to stop wondering whether she came from heaven or a nearby town. What matters is this: whoever she was, Aunt Esther Gubbins was right.\

1.处理器 处理器是计算机的大脑。它也被称为微处理器或CPU。它解释从其它设备接收的全部 指令,并执行这些指令,如让打印机打印。一般来讲处理器的速度越快,计算机通常能够 执行指令和任务的速度就越快。这样,游戏可以玩得更顺畅,电子表格的运算可以进行得更快

Text Analysis: Main Idea and Devices for Developing It New words Main idea of the Main idea of each text and devices part and devices Text for developing it for developing it

Background Information Organization of the Text Introductory Questions Text& New Word Reading Intensive Study Exercise Check-up Assignment

1. Definition of tone Tones are pitch variations, which are caused by the differing rates of vibration of the vocal cords. 声调是由于声带振动的速率的不同而引起的音高变化

Part Two Sounds in Connected Speech 1. Strong and Weak Forms 2. Assimilation and elision 3. Liaison 4. Length of a sound 5. Word stress 6. Sentence stress 7. Rhythm 8. Sense groups and Pause

The importance of phonetic study 1) Phonetics is the science of speech sounds. It deals with the sound system of a language. A language consists of three important elements, namely, speech sounds, vocabulary and grammar. Speech

202.The length of a sound is the length of time during which it is held on continuously in a given word or phrase. The principal facts concerning length in English are given in the following rules: 203. Length of vowels 1.English vowels [i:], are longer than the other English vowels in similar context,i.e when surrounded by the same sounds, and pronounced with the same degree of stress Thus the vowels in bead

When we talk, we don't talk in single words but in groups of words spoken continuously. These groups of words which are closely connected in meaning and in grammar are called sense groups. sense group is tone-group-(语调群) in intonation. long sentence can be cut up into two or more tone-groups We may make a short pause after each group, but not during the group