一. 课文内容
No one can avoid being influenced↑ by advertisements. Much as we may熟练划过去 （尽管）pride↑ ourselves on our good taste, we are no longer free to↑ choose↑ the things we wants, for advertising｜ exerts a subtle /d/ influence on us. In their efforts to persuade us连读 to buy this or that product, advertisers have made a close study两个s合在一起 of human nature and have连读 classified all~ our连读 little weaknesses.
Advertisers discovered years ago that all of us love to get something for nothing. An advertisement which begins with the magic word free~ can rarely go wrong. These days, advertisers not only offer free ↑samples试用装, but free↑ cars, free houses, and free trips round the world as well. They devise↑ hundreds of competitions which will enable us to win huge sums of money. Radio and television have made it possible for advertisers to capture the attention of millions↑ of people in this way.
During a radio programme↑, a company of biscuit manufacturers once asked listeners to bake↑ biscuits and send ↑them（代词读得弱） to their factory. They offered to pay $10 a pound for the biggest biscuit baked/t/ by a listener. The response to this competition was tremendous~. Before long↑, biscuits of all shapes and sizes began arriving at the factory. One lady brought in a biscuit on a 'wheelbarrow~. It weighted nearly 500 pounds. A little later↑, a man came along with a biscuit which occupied the whole boot~ （后备箱）of his car. \\All the biscuits that were sent were carefully↑ weighed. The largest was 713 pounds. It seemed certain↑ that this would win the prize. But just before the competition closed, a lorry arrived at the factory with a truly↑ colossal↑ biscuit which weighed 2,↑400↑ pounds. It had been baked by a college student who had used over 1,000 pounds of flour↑, 800 pounds of sugar↑, 200 pounds of fat↑, and 400 pounds of various other ingredients↓. It was so~ heavy ~that a crane had to be used to remove it from the lorry. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had antici'pated. For they bought the biscuit from the student for $24,000.
二.小词积累
1.pride↑ ourselves on our good taste 以……为傲
- exert on 强加（impose on）
- rarely go wrong不能有错的
- giveaway 试用装
- sample体验=experience
- boot（英国），trunk（美国）后备箱
- offer录取通知书，报价
- 关于车的部分
- baked 动词做t，形容词id
- colossal / kə'lɑsl/ 巨大的，庞大的
- occupied 有人（厕所） ，vacant/free 无人
- much as- =although-= though- ,引导让步状语从句：虽然/尽管……但是……
三. 读音纠正
- flour读音跟flower
- much as we may熟练划过去
- 连读: persuade us; and have; all our;
- 语调上扬，首先先抓住重音，然后把调升上去
- 短句用来过渡，长句用来说理
