I am going to continue reading NCE4(New concept English 第四册）. I like NCE 4 due to its high efficiency as I passed my CET6(大学英语六级） after I read some lessons of NCE4.
Lesson 2 Spare that spider 不要伤害蜘蛛 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects? Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings. Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six. How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country. T. H. GILLESPLE Spare that spider from The Listener New words and expressions beast n. 野兽 census n. 统计数字 acre n. 英亩 content adj. 满足的
I am going to continue reading NCE4(New concept English 第四册）. I like NCE 4 due to its high efficiency as I passed my CET6(大学英语六级） after I read some lessons of NCE4.
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My reading：
Original reading（美音版）：
（美音版link)： https://www.tingclass.net/show-5046-920-1.html
(英音版link）：https://m.irrting.com/English/nce/191053 （按照一句话一行贴出，清晰）
Lesson 2
Spare that spider
不要伤害蜘蛛
First listen and then answer the following question.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects?
Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Because they destroy so many insects, and insects include some of the greatest enemies of the human race. Insects would make it impossible for us to live in the world; they would devour all our crops and kill our flocks and herds, if it were not for the protection we get from insect-eating animals. We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders. Moreover, unlike some of the other insect eaters, spiders never do the least harm to us or our belongings.
Spiders are not insects, as many people think, nor even nearly related to them. One can tell the difference almost at a glance, for a spider always has eight legs and insect never more than six.
How many spiders are engaged in this work on our behalf? One authority on spiders made a census of the spiders in grass field in the south of England, and he estimated that there were more than 2,250,000 in one acre; that is something like 6,000,000 spiders of different kinds on a football pitch. Spiders are busy for at least half the year in killing insects. It is impossible to make more than the wildest guess at how many they kill, but they are hungry creatures, not content with only three meals a day. It has been estimated that the weight of all the insects destroyed by spiders in Britain in one year would be greater than the total weight of all the human beings in the country.
T. H. GILLESPLE Spare that spider from The Listener
New words and expressions
beast
n. 野兽
census
n. 统计数字
acre
n. 英亩
content
adj. 满足的
你可能会觉得奇怪， 蜘蛛怎么会是我们的朋友呢？因为它们能消灭那么多的昆虫，其中包括一些人类的大敌，要不是人类受一些食虫动物的保护，昆虫就会使我们无法在地球上生活下去，昆虫会吞食我们的全部庄稼，杀死我们的成群的牛羊。我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。此外，蜘蛛不同于其他食虫动物，它们丝毫不危害我们和我们的财物。 许多人认为蜘蛛是昆虫，但它们不是昆虫，甚至与昆虫毫无关系。人们几乎一眼就能看出二者的差异，因为蜘蛛都是8条腿，而昆虫的腿从不超过6条。 有多少蜘蛛在为我们效力呢？一位研究蜘蛛的权威对英国南部一块草坪上的蜘蛛作了一次调查。他估计每英亩草坪里有225万多只蜘蛛。这就是说，在一个足球场上约有600万只不同种类的蜘蛛。蜘蛛至少有半年在忙于吃昆虫。它们一年中消灭了多少昆虫，我们简直无法猜测，它们是吃不饱的动物，不满意一日三餐。据估计，在英国蜘蛛一年里所消灭昆虫的重量超过这个国家人口的总重量。
我把英音版的链接也放进主帖了。:)
“All u need in this life is ignorance and confidence，and then success is sure.”
Mark Twain
从来没有讨厌过spider, 小时候看过Charlotte's Web中文书，
Charlotte's Web 仍然是一部成人童话，充满了哲理，伦理，更有给Charlotte 配音的声音... ...
Ordinary miracle, beautiful humble lives, piglet , spider, rat
和你总学东西，那个Wilbur的声音真好听，这个片子还挺有意思，真动物拟人，声音和嘴形match很好：）
新概念第四册真是科普，边学英语边科普边学语法，这课有虚拟语气，看到了吗？：）
90 / 5000 Translation results 聽原文：注意她的語氣音调、呼吸，重點音節，停顿拉长
Listen to the original: Pay attention to her tone, her breathing, her emphasis syllables,
我几十年没注意过发音，我的问题太多了。但是改一点是一点。devour and million 花了好长时间练习，还是读的怪怪的。
不知道怎么读would and should 中的 “L”， 结果查字典发现这里“L” 不发音。