The Classification of English Vowel Phonemes 3 страница

Her father was a wood-cutter½ and her mother was a cook. She cooked 'food for the woodmen½ who worked in the wood.

When he was free,½ her father 'took her for 'long walks in the woods ½ to watch woodpeckers,½ woodcocks,½ cuckoos½and other wood birds. Once she even 'saw a wolf.

When the weather was good ½ she could bathe in the brook.

Her mother 'taught her to cook,½ and soon she could 'cook almost anything ½ without ·ever a look at a cookery-book.

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1. Boone: This is Mr Doolittle.

Hughes: How do you do!

2. Cooper: What would you ·do?

Toole: It’s up to you. You must ·make ·up your own ·mind.

3. Tudor: When can you ·come?

Troup: As soon as the ·weather im proves.

4. Boothe: It’s absolutely true.

Mac Dougall: But who’s going to be·lieve it?

5. Doone: I ar rived on ·Tuesday after noon.

Truefitt: At e xactly what ·time in the after·noon?

6. Boots: I don’t ·care if I do ·lose my ·schooner.

Cooling: How can you ·say such a ·foolish thing?

7. Boosey: Doolittle re fused to ·go to ·school.

Coombe: Wasn’t it ·absolutely foolish of him?

8. Bootle: Which would you ·choose, if ·you were ·me?

Doolittle: The new ·one, of ·course.

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Al though it was June,½ and the moon was new½ the sur roundings of the La goon½ were hardly ro'mantic for 'Mr and ·Mrs Cooper. The weather was un 'usually cool,½ the place itself was 'quiet as a tomb,½ and almost as gloomy.

Certainly ½ the Coopers were in 'no ·mood to ·go 'swimming in the pool,½ but their friends in duced them to ·do so.

Later as the 'evening ·grew 'cooler and cooler,½ the Coopers and a 'few tourists½had good ·reason to re'gret their foolishness,½ for Mrs Cooper and 'several ·people of their ·group 'caught cold½ and had to 'send for the 'local phy sician, Dr Woosley.

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1. Ask 'Buck if he’d 'like a nother ·lump of ·sugar.

2. Rutt won’t ar·rive before ·lunch on Sunday.

3. Mother 'told her 'not to come.

4. Don’t 'touch this 'money till 'next month.

5. She was as snug as a 'bug in a rug.

6. Something must be 'done to 'save the funds.

7. With utmost care ½ my ·uncle un rapped the bundle.

8. There wasn’t 'much sunshine in ·London last Monday.

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Dunn: What do we 'do now?

Hutt: Look for some lunch, I should think. I’m hungry.

Dunn: Everywhere’ll be full round here. We’d better ·go to my club.

Hutt: Your club’s a bit far,½ don’t you think? Hadn’t we 'better see½if we can ·get in somewhere first?

Dunn: I don’t think it’s ·really worth it. We will if you like,½but if a taxi comes a long ½ I ·think we’d ·better grab it and ·go to the club.

Hutt: Here is one. No, ½he’s taken. There’s a nother ·though. Taxi.

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1. Bert’s the 'last 'person to 'want to hurt you.

2. Is Earny ·going to 'leave by the 'eight thirty?

3. Which work d’you 'want her to 'finish first?

4. I’ll re turn the ·journals when I ·come on Thursday.

5. They’ll be serving ·lunch earlier on Thursday.

6. The curtain fell ½and the re hearsal was ad journed.

7. Earnest was dis'turbingly dis'cursive through·out the journey.

8. The first and the 'third verses ½were 'most ·difficult to learn.

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“The Im portance of 'Being Earnest”,½while not the 'first of 'Oscar 'Wilde’s works,½ was 'one of his earliest at'tempts at comedy.

The chief 'character of the play ½ is a person 'named 'Earnest Worthing,½ and the play’s title de'rives from the 'word “earnest”,½ Earnest being 'both the name of the hero ½ and the indi cation of his character,½ though in some res· pects½ Earnest 'Worthing was far from being earnest ½ in im personating an en 'tirely fic'titious person. Earnest’s 'life 'furthermore was 'rather a worthless ·one,½ but as the play pro ceeds,½ he turns ·out to be a 'fairly likable person,½ with no ·worse 'purpose in life ½ than to win the 'hand of the 'girl he loves.

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“We must be careful,” said Mr Pickwick,½ after ·listening at·tentively to Sam’s tale,½ “ not for out own sakes,½ but for that of the 'young lady. We must be very cautious.”

“ We,” said Mr ·Winkle, ½ with ·marked emphasis.

Mr Pickwick’s 'momentary 'look of indig'nation at the tone of ·this re mark ½ sub sided into his character'istic ex'pression of be nevolence, as he re ·plied:½

“ We, sir. I shall ac company you.”

“ You,” said Mr ·Winkle.

“ I,” re·plied Mr ·Pickwick, ·mildly. “In af fording you this interview ½ the young lady has 'taken a 'natural per haps½but still a ·very im'prudent step. If I am ·present at the meeting, ½ a mutual friend who is 'old enough to be the 'father of both parties,½ the voice of 'calumny can 'never be 'raised against her here after.”

Mr Pickwick’s ·eyes 'lightened with 'honest exul tation as he ·spoke ·thus. Mr Winkle was touched by this ·little ·trait of his ·delicate res·pect for the · young ·protegee of his friend,½ and took his 'hand with a 'feeling of re·gard a kin to vener ation.

“You shall go,” said Mr ·Winkle.

“I will,” said Mr ·Pickwick. “ Sam,½ have my 'greatcoat and 'shawl ready,½ and order a con'veyance to ·be at the door to·morrow evening, ½ rather ·earlier than is 'absolutely necessary,½ in ·order that we may be in good time.”

Mr Weller ·touched his hat,½ as an earnest of his o bedience,½ and with drew to make 'all 'needful prepa'rations for the expe dition.

(Charles Dickens)

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1. I’ll take the papers when I come a little later.

2. Gray’s pronunci'ation is quite different from Bacon’s.

3. Will you wait till I’ve had time to ar range it?

4. Is Jane going to leave by the eight twenty- eight?

5. Grace wants you to take the class to day.

6. Payne said he’d wait for us at the station.

7. They’ll play the game later in the day.

8. The train was derailed by a violent gale.

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1. Clay: Could you stay and play a nother game?

Baker: I’m afraid I’m al ready late.

2. Taylor: I am sorry I gave the game away.

Bray: It doesn’t matter, Jake. We all make mistakes sometime.

3. Mc Kay: What does the cable say?

Trail: Jane and Ray have been de layed ½ but will get here to day.

4. Page: He didn’t make it that way.

Gray: Which way did he make it, then?

5. Davis: It rained on seven days out of eight.