听力训练Exercise

1. What do the students do several days before Homecoming?
2. What will people talk about when seeing old friends?
3. Many high schools and with a football team have a homecoming game. This can be the most thing of the year except or commencement day. Students plan Homecoming Day for many before the day.
4. There are signs to luck to the team, and many other to welcome all the students. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or years after they leave school. During the day people like to teachers that they remember from long ago.
5. Everyone soon comes to the football game. When the game is half over, the comes onto the field and plays school songs. Aother important is when the Homecoming Queen or King .

Background Information 背景信息
Homecoming Day 就是校友的返校日，以前毕业的校友可以利用这一天回到母校看一看，而校方有时也会特意安排一些球赛让这些校友们回味一下当年的学生生涯。

Words & Phrases
词汇与短语
Words:
commencement 毕业典礼；开始
homecoming 返校；回国；回老家

Phrases:
be half over 结束一半
talk together about... 一起谈论......
come onto the field 上场
worth remembering 值得记住
even if 即使，尽管

Sentence Patterns 句型
1. It is a great honor to be chosen. 这对于被选中的学生来说是极大的荣誉。
It is a great honor to... 非常荣幸
2. This can be the most important thing of the year except graduation or commencement day. 这是除了学校毕业典礼和开学以外一年里最重要的事情。
This can be... 这会是......

听力答案
参考答案
1. They start to decorate the school.
2. Those happy years in school.
3. colleges, important, graduation, weeks
4. wish, signs, thirty, look for
5. watch, band, moment, appears

听力原文
Homecoming Day
In American schools there is something called Homecoming Day. Many high schools and colleges with a football team have a homecoming games. This can be the most important event of the year except graduation or commencement day. Students plan homecoming day for many weeks in advance.

Several days before Homecoming, students start to decorate the school. There are signs to wish luck to the team, and many other signs to welcome all the graduates. Many people still come to Homecoming twenty or thirty years after their graduation.

The member of school clubs build booths(摊位) and sell lemonade, apples and sandwiches. Some clubs help to welcome visitors.

During the day people like to look for teachers that they remember from long ago. Often they see old friends and they talk together about those happy years in school.

Everyone soon comes to watch the football games. When the games is half over, the band comes onto the field and plays school songs. Another important moment is when the Homecoming Queen or King appears. All the students vote a most popular student Homecoming Queen or King. It is a great honor to be chosen.

Homecoming is a happy day, but it is not perfect unless the football team wins the games, Even if the team loses, the students still enjoy Homecoming. Some stay at the school to dance, and others go to a party. For everyone it is a day worth remembering.

在返校日的前几天，学生们就开始布置学校了。有为球队加油的啦啦队歌，还有欢迎所有学生返校的标语。很多人在毕业后20年或30年后还会来参加返校日。

在这一天，大家会去看望自己的老师，他们通常也会看望自己的老朋友，与他们一起谈论过去在学校的欢乐时光。

每个人都来观看橄榄球比赛。当比赛进行到一半的时候，乐队会到场地上演奏校园歌曲。另一个重要的时刻就是返校日王后或国王出现的时候。所有的学生共同投票选出人气最高的学生当返校王后或国王，而这对于被选中的学生来说是极大的荣誉。

返校日是一个愉快的日子，但是只有橄榄球队获胜才是完美的。即使球队输了球，学生们仍然喜欢返校日。有些人留在学校跳舞，其他人则去参加派对。这是值得每一个人纪念的一天。