May: This Olympic park is so big!

Guide: Yes. Now we are in the Olympic stadium, the center of this park.

May: Splendid! When is it gonna be finished?

Guide: The whole stadium is to be finished this June.

May: How many seats are there in the stand?

Guide: Oh, there are 5000 seats in total.

May: I didn’t know it would be so big!

Guide: It is! Look there, those are the tracks. And the jumping pit is over there.

May: Ah…I see. Hey, look the sign here: “No climbing”.

Guide: We put many signs with English translations for foreign visitors.

May: Does it mean not to climb over the railings?

Guide: Yes. But my little daughter once got across it without climbing.

May: Oh? How did she do that?

Guide: She crawled under it.

阿美：这个奥运公园可真大啊！

导游：是啊，我们现在在奥运体育场，公园的中心。

阿美：真壮观！它什么时候能完工？

导游：整个体育场将在这个6月完成。

阿美：看台上有多少个座位？

导游：哦，一共有5000个。

阿美：我以前不知道它竟有这么大！

导游：是很大！看那儿，那是跑道，远一点那边是沙坑。

阿美：啊……我看到了。嘿，看这块标识：“禁止攀爬”。

导游：我们为外国观光者设置了很多带有英语翻译的标识。

阿美：它是不是说禁止攀爬栏杆呢？

导游：是啊。但是我的小女儿有一次没有攀爬就过去了。

阿美：哦？那她怎么办到的呢？

导游：她是从下面爬过去的。

May: The Olympic park is to be completed this June. The Olympic Stadium is the center of the park. It is so big. It holds about 5000 seats in the stand in total. For foreign visitors, they put up many signs with English translations. Everything is getting ready for the 2008 Olympics!

stadium n. 体育场

center n. 中心

stand n. 看台

pit n. 坑

translation n. 翻译

crawl vi. 爬

across prep. 横越，穿过

动词过去式变化的读音

规则动词过去式的读音规则-(e)d

1.在清辅音后面，读/t/ finished jumped watched knocked

2.在元音或浊辅音后面，读/d/crawled saved spoiled played

3.在/t/和/d/后面，读/id/seated hooded fainted repeated

不规则动词过去式的变化与动词原形区别挺大，读音变化也大，具体单词还得具体查找读音。

朗读练习：hoped hopped mixed missed finished played lamed moved tried flied