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[1:34] Improve English Listening for Gaokao: An Inspirational Story of Helping a Remote Village

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Master 3500 words for Gaokao English listening through immersive learning. This inspirational story tells how an astronaut helped a remote village, perfect for improving vocabulary, listening, and language sense.

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MP3 original audio reading with synchronized English text helps you master 3500 words efficiently through immersive learning. Each short story is close to Gaokao scenarios, with clear pronunciation and key vocabulary explanations, allowing you to improve listening, consolidate vocabulary, and enhance language sense through repeated listening. Stick to one story per day, and easily overcome Gaokao English listening challenges! Let your ears 'remember' words and make English learning more natural! Here is today's content from the series of 40 English short stories to master 3500 words for Gaokao immersive listening. Keep accumulating, and make your English closer to life!

A year ago, the famous astronaut received an invitation by airmail from a remote village. Intending to sniff some fresh air, he and his interpreter paid a fortnight visit there. It was a privilege for them to be there, but they were shocked by what they saw. The tracks were muddy. The river was drying up. Most villagers only possessed one broom, a few tins, and several jars, and their rectangular grass huts, with round angles, were surrounded by weeds. Besides, their school had no roof and platform, and the students had no concept of clicking a computer at all; they were badly in need.

Soon, the astronaut made a generous voluntary donation to the village. There were textbooks for students, sewing machines for tailors, and tractors for farmers. His distribution catalog also included operating a clinic and a trunk library, as well as giving weekly lessons to teach relevant farming knowledge like how to dry out seeds or raise oxen. He himself not only helped do some paperwork, but also purchased grills for boys to toast potatoes and combs for girls who were dying to get one.

The other day, he heard from the villagers again, inviting him to participate in the donation anniversary. For political and security reasons, he couldn't adjust his outgoing arrangement; otherwise, he would go. But his deeds were remembered forever.

This is the content sorted out by Qicaiwang about 40 English short stories to master 3500 words for immersive listening, hoping to be helpful to you!

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privilege
noun
1. a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
2. a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)
e.g. suffrage was the prerogative of white adult males
Synonym: prerogativeperquisiteexclusive right
3. (law) the right to refuse to divulge information obtained in a confidential relationship
voluntary
noun
1. composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance
2. (military) a person who freely enlists for service
Synonym: volunteermilitary volunteer
arrangement
noun
1. the act of arranging and adapting a piece of music
Synonym: arrangingtranscription
2. the spatial property of the way in which something is placed
e.g. the arrangement of the furniture
the placement of the chairs
Synonym: placement
3. an organized structure for arranging or classifying
e.g. he changed the arrangement of the topics
the facts were familiar but it was in the organization of them that he was original
he tried to understand their system of classification
Synonym: organizationorganisationsystem
4. the thing arranged or agreed to
e.g. they made arrangements to meet in Chicago
Synonym: agreement
5. a piece of music that has been adapted for performance by a particular set of voices or instruments
Synonym: musical arrangement
6. an orderly grouping (of things or persons) considered as a unit
the result of arranging
e.g. a flower arrangement
distribution
noun
1. the act of distributing or spreading or apportioning
2. the commercial activity of transporting and selling goods from a producer to a consumer
3. the spatial or geographic property of being scattered about over a range, area, or volume
e.g. worldwide in distribution
the distribution of nerve fibers
in complementary distribution
Synonym: dispersion
4. (statistics) an arrangement of values of a variable showing their observed or theoretical frequency of occurrence
Synonym: statistical distribution
possessed