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献丑啦。娱乐一下

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  • 工作学习 / 外语学习 / 【朗读练习】交作业
    本文发表在 rolia.net 枫下论坛好像很久都没来了。忽然间想交篇作业。半年前还没法读长段落,现在可以斗胆试试。里边有几个词还是读错了。比如vision等等。不知大家最近都在忙啥。请帮我找找问题。我知道断句和连读还是我的弱项,继续努力。只是速度提高得还不够快。

    http://vocaroo.com/i/s0hMRhRFs6zj

    《Dear elite colleges, please stop recruiting students like me if you know we won’t get in》
    Dear Amanda,
    As the Dean of Yale College, I write to congratulate you on your academic success and to introduce you to Yale’s diverse opportunities and communities…. As you consider your college options, I hope that Yale remains among your top prospects.
    This is part of an e-mail I received from the prestigious Ivy League university this September. I admit, it made me feel pretty special, having Yale, one of the best universities in the world, court me, a fairly average high school senior from New Jersey.
    But why me?
    My grades are nothing to brag about, and I didn’t qualify for the National Merit Competition. I haven’t led a team sport, conducted scientific research or been in all-state band. My mom might tell me I’m brilliant, but I’m not even in the top quartile at my public high school (though admittedly, that quartile is jam-packed with overachievers, and ranges from 3.9 to 4.54).
    Naturally, I went to Google. I learned that each year, Yale courts not only me but roughly 79,999 other prospective students (down from 240,000 in 2005) for its class of 1,300. For the class of 2018, Yale rejected 93.7 percent of its applicants.
    Immediately, that grandiose vision of me, strolling through New Haven in a bulldog sweater, conversing about important intellectual matters with my esteemed peers and professors, was halted by an abrupt reality check.
    I’m not alone. Each year, colleges reach out to thousands of students with fancy brochures and solicitous e-mails, inviting them to apply. They contact many more students than they’ll accept, buying names for less than 50 cents a pop from places like the College Board, which has data on students’ PSAT or SAT range, self-reported GPA, ethnicity, religion and potential major. (Students must opt in before their data is shared).

    Here’s why: Colleges want prestige, and a high ranking on the infamous U.S. News and World Report lists. One way to get it? Low acceptance rates, which come from lots of applications.
    How to get lots of kids to apply? Swarm them with enough love and attention and eventually, some will succumb to the appealing notion that they’re good enough for top college X, Y or Z. (It’s working. According to Bloomberg, the number of high school graduates dropped 2.2 percent between 2008 and 2011. But college application numbers are soaring.)
    Then, a big chunk of them are rejected.
    This, I assume, is how I ended up hearing from Yale, even though I have approximately zero percent chance of getting in. According to the College Board, 95 percent of Yale’s enrolled students were in the top decile of their high school; 100 percent were in the top quartile.
    Colleges defend their outreach, arguing that they’re reaching students who might otherwise never apply. According to William Fitzsimmons, dean of Harvard admissions, “There are so many students out there in the world who might not automatically think about Harvard as a place to go…. The odds of reaching the top of anything are not good, but is that a reason not to try?”
    These colleges argue that the best low-income students don’t apply to the most competitive schools because they haven’t heard of them, don’t have an ally to guide them through the application process, or don’t realize that most top schools offer extensive need-based financial aid.
    But these kids don’t need pamphlets and false hope. They need experienced guidance counselors who can help them through the complicated process.

    The majority of the students that Fitzsimmons is talking about don’t consider Harvard because they’re not academically qualified. It’s like telling a slow runner with no chance at the Olympics to “train, train, train.”
    One last example: When I was a sophomore in high school, the University of Chicago started sending me brochures and e-mails about how I should:

    “discover all the extracurricular opportunities that the University of Chicago has to offer and consider becoming part of our talented, motivated, and involved community. Whether it’s fighting zombies or giving back to the community, at UChicago there’s not just something to do every day — there’s something you want to do.”

    As a naive high school sophomore, I felt pretty special having all of this attention from such a great school.

    Going into sophomore year, however, I had a 2.6 GPA. I scored 110 out of 160 on the math and critical reading sections of the PSAT, equal to an 1100 on those sections of the SAT.

    For the class of 2016, UChicago’s middle 50 percent of test scores for math and critical reading were in the range of 1440 to 1540. And for last year,only 1 percent of enrolled first-year students had GPA’s between 3.00 to 3.24 (there’s no data for the 2.50 to 2.99 category). Though my GPA has thankfully gone up (as has my SAT score), I was not nearly qualified when UChicago started courting me.

    Even now, it’s extremely unlikely that I’ll get in. No students were taken below the top quartile for the class of 2018, and altogether 91 percent of its applicants were rejected that cycle. Nice try, but I’d rather apply at places that I actually have a chance at getting into.

    So Yale, UChicago (and Brown and Cornell and Dartmouth and Columbia), stop giving me a false sense of hope.

    UChicago did send me an unsolicited fee waiver a while back though, and did extend its Early Action deadline just for me. Maybe the university really does want me?更多精彩文章及讨论,请光临枫下论坛 rolia.net
    • 沙发 明天听
      • 谢谢。请多指正其中的问题。这篇比较长,10分钟吧。
        • very good.
          • 是不是有进步?夸了,也帮助找找问题和改进的空间吧
            • 总体很不错,
              但感觉语速较慢,有的地方意群不对,进而影响了流利度,个别发音还有待改进。
              • 好像一直有这些问题。那么怎么才能尽快提高速度呢?
                • 拜师吧,我
                  建议你让公子帮忙。
                  • 能否详细地教教?学费先赊着,一定给。
                    公子,嗯,没耐心教。
                    前些天有一天我不让他玩儿游戏(玩儿得太多)时,他还贬损我的broken English,说学了半天也不见长进。我们之间好像除了文化上语言上的分歧,也确实没有啥矛盾。他还算比较懂事的孩子,可是一生气就拿我的文化背景来刺激我。气昏了我啦!那没啥办法,继续练呗。连孩子都歧视咱,何况本地那些人呢。
                    • 儿大不由娘,
                      忍着点儿吧,哈哈哈
                      • Of course
                        也不见得是坏事。有人督促,更有动力啊
    • ...
      我想了想,大概有几点我能想到的,拎出来给你听听,做个参考:

      1. 速度不是目的,把每个字发满发准是一个要素。
      2. 任何语言,都和唱歌差不多,而且都和呼吸有关。如果你说得畅通了,自然不会瞬间的气短。如果出去有滞障,那就 something is not right 了。要顺着呼吸的节奏。
      3. 语言的升降调,和情感有关,高高低低的。

      我觉得最好的办法可能就是大量的,面对面的对话。让对方声调高高低低带你自动跟随。
      • 这就涉及到语言能力本身了
        我本来说中文就比较慢(20出头时很快,后来变了),这的确是个问题。
        找人面对面,嗯,得雇个人,谁有那么多时间呢。看来学英语的外在条件也蛮重要的。
      • 嗯,像这样的。
    • 楼主这么好的嗓音,应该多出些中文朗诵的作品。
      • 她的中文朗诵非常非常好,绝对肉肉数一数二。
        • 在哪里?有没有链接呀?快!多谢!
          • 记不清在哪里了。好像空间姐六月份重发过一次,还带视频。呼吁再发一次!
            • 献丑啦。娱乐一下
              • 此音只应天上有啊!竟让俺落了几滴老泪!盼新作!快!多谢!
                • 想不到还会感动人。真是我的荣幸。谢谢分享
                  • 嗓音很好听,这是天赋,节奏,断句的点都掌握的很棒,这是功夫,感情真挚,令人感动。
              • 谢谢谢谢啦! 再别康桥,朗诵的真好,演绎的真好!千万别删啊,那我的半个小老乡看看听听。
                • 好吧,这次不关。难得有人愿意听
                  • 生情并茂,感人至深。没有对作品的深刻理解和切实体会是朗诵不出这种情感和效果的,比 人艺演员朱琳的朗诵一点儿不差。
                    • 别夸了,一会儿找不到北了。英文才有用,这个都是闲白儿
                      • 你的英文在一代国移里也绝对是中上水平啊。可以把你的朗诵介绍给朋友吗?
                        • 谢谢。英文的目标比较高,需要时间。这个视频可以给你的朋友啊,只要开着就是公开的。难得有这个荣幸
                          • 多谢,他们肯定会喜欢的。
                            • 他们?他们,,,好吧。不想知道了。大家多帮帮我提高朗读的水平,不胜感激
                              • 应该是they, 包扩他们和她们呢。
                                • ok
                • 哪半个啊?
                  • 泰拉还有-oknplm(oknplm)呀。
                    • 你不是北京的吗?
                      • 老父亲四十年代在山东呆了一些年。。。
              • 真好听啊!
                • 你也来一个吧,《荷塘月色》。
                  • 这个难度够大的
                  • 我不行,我是一个任性的孩子
                    • 那就给小猪讲孙静修老师的故事吧。