Lisa likes rabbits. She has ten pictures of rabbits on the walls in her room. Some of the rabbits are running and some are eating. Some are hopping and some are sleeping. One day, Lisa told her mother she wanted a real rabbit because she was tried of just looking at pictures of them. She wanted to hold a rabbit in her arms and play with it. She wanted to feed it carrots and green vegetables. On Lisa’s tenth birthday, her mother bought her a real rabbit. This made Lisa very happy. She played with it all day. That evening, she put the rabbit in a box in her room.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章2.

 

　　Taming practiced baseball every day. He was the best player in his school. No one hit the ball harder than he. No one ran faster than he. One day, an exchange student from Canada came to his school. His name was Peter. He was also a good baseball player. He could pitch better than anyone else. He joined the team and started practicing with Taming. They became good friends. They were both asked to play on the school team. Their team went to the finals. In the game, Peter pitched well and Taming hit a home run. Their team won the championship that year.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章3.

 

　　Almost every American child wants a summer job. It is a chance to get away from Mon and Dad, to make new friends, to do things by himself, and to make some pocket money. It may also be a useful experience for the future. Children wash cars, take care of babies, or cut the grass for their family or neighbors. John’s first summer job was selling lemonade with Tom on the beach. They could save little money, because they drank much of their lemonade themselves. It was so hot on the beach.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章4.

 

　　There are a lot of languages in the world.

 

　　In Taiwan, most boys and girls study English. Why do they have to study it? Because it is used in a lot of countries.

 

　　English is a great help and a very important language when they try to understand the people of other countries.

 

　　What is the best way to learn English?

 

　　Listen to good English first. Then use English at every chance. We have some chances to use it around us.

 

　　We have to learn much about other countries.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章5.

 

　　Mary has moved into a five-story apartment house. Her rented room is too dirty to live in. the wall papers are faded, the gas oven is out of order, the desk and chair are dark brown, and the curtains and bedspread are pink. The owner has told her that she can paint the walls and desk and chair, fix the gas oven, and wash the curtains and bedspread in order to make the room more comfortable. Mary gave up living here. And soon she moved out.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章6.

 

　　Beth went to a business college to learn typing when she was eighteen years old. A year later, she passed her typing exams quite easily, and then went to look for work. She was living with her parents.

 

　　A lot of people were looking for typists at that time, so it was not difficult to find work. Beth went to several offices, and then chose one of them. It was near her house. She thought, “I’ll walk there every morning. I won’t need to go by bus.”

 

　　She went to the office again and said to the manager, “I want to work here, but how much will you pay me?”

 

　　“We’ll pay you $00 each week at first,” the manager answered, “and $50 after three months.”

 

　　Beth thought for a minute and then said, “All right, then I’ll start three months from now.”

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章7.

 

　　I sat at the corner table in a restaurant. A middle-age man and woman sat at a table next to me. The woman, who looked about fifty, drank coffee and talked to the man. The man who was nice-looking, didn’t pay any attention to what she said. She looked displeased. Then, it was about half an hour since they didn’t say anything. At last, the man said something to woman. Now they got up and walked toward the door. And then, the waiter ran after them and said, “Here is your check.”

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章8.

 

　　On Wednesday morning at eleven o’clock, Betty and I were walking along the street. I had just parked my car. Because Betty wanted to walk around and I was tired of driving a car. Suddenly I heard someone running from the bank. He was tall and thin. More important, he had a bag of money and a gun in his hand. Betty almost cried when she saw a man having a gun. But I couldn’t do anything. Just standing. That man ran up the street and disappeared at last. The police and TV reporters arrived at the spot in less than ten minutes. They interviewed us about this case. The next morning, I was surprised to find that our picture was in the newspaper. On reading the newspaper, I called up Betty. She was very excited. On the phone, I promised her to meet at the park at four o’clock to show our picture in the newspaper.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章9.

 

　　The sun gives more light than all the electric lights in the world. It gives us light and heat. Without sunshine, nothing will grow in the world.

 

　　At night we can see the stars. All day the stars are in the sky, but the light from the sun is bright, so we can’t see them. The stars are bright only when the sky is dark.

 

　　The stars look very, very small, but some are bigger than the sun. Things look small when they are far away. Planes in the sky look like toys, but on the ground they are very big.

 

　　The moon is a ball, too, like the earth and the sun. It is smaller than the stars, but it looks bigger because it is nearer to the earth. The moon has no light. It is bright because the sun shines on it.

 

　　練習(xí)英語口語的文章10.

 

　　How much paper do you use every year? Perhaps you can’t you can’t answer that question quickly. Some countries use as much as 50 kilograms of paper for each person in a year. Countries like the United States, England and Sweden use more paper than other countries.

 

　　Paper is made from the wood of trees. So the forest countries like Canada, Sweden, Norway, Finland and the United states have become the most important countries in paper making. Finland makes the best paper in the world.

 

　　Today paper-making machines are very big, and they make paper very fast. Watch them run! The biggest machines can make a piece of paper 400 meters long and six meters wide in one minute.

 

　　When we think of paper, we think of newspaper, books, letters, and writing paper. But there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspaper. For example, paper keeps you warm. In Finland’s cold winters, the farmers wear paper boots in the snow. Nothing is warmer than paper boots.