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[0:44] Beginner English Daily Reading: Rainbows and Natural Scenery After the Rain

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This article provides beginners with an engaging English short reading exercise, describing a rainbow and natural scenery after the rain, accompanied by listening practice to help improve English listening and reading skills.

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Learn English easily in just 1 minute a day! This website offers short English readings suitable for beginners, each with audio and the original text. The content is interesting and moderately challenging. By reading one article a day, you can develop language sense and improve your reading and listening skills. Start your English progress journey now! Here is some listening content collected by the qicai editor Xiao Wu from the beginner English reading exercise of one short English passage per day.

Just now, it rained heavily, but now the sky is clear and blue. Suddenly, I saw a beautiful rainbow in the sky.

It has many colors, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. It looks like a colorful bridge in the sky.

Many birds are flying around it. I saw a fairy tale world. The rainbow is so beautiful.

That's all for the listening content of the beginner English reading exercise of one short English passage per day collected by qicai editor Xiao Wu. We hope you gain something after listening!

Listening Comprehension

bridge
noun
1. any of various card games based on whist for four players
2. a structure that allows people or vehicles to cross an obstacle such as a river or canal or railway etc.
Synonym: span
3. an upper deck where a ship is steered and the captain stands
Synonym: bridge deck
4. the link between two lenses
rests on the nose
Synonym: nosepiece
5. a denture anchored to teeth on either side of missing teeth
Synonym: bridgework
6. a wooden support that holds the strings up
7. a circuit consisting of two branches (4 arms arranged in a diamond configuration) across which a meter is connected
Synonym: bridge circuit
8. the hard ridge that forms the upper part of the nose
e.g. her glasses left marks on the bridge of her nose
9. something resembling a bridge in form or function
e.g. his letters provided a bridge across the centuries
fairy
noun
1. a small being, human in form, playful and having magical powers
Synonym: faeryfaeriefaysprite
2. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
Synonym: fagotfaggotfagnancepansyqueenqueerpoofpoovepouf
suddenly
adv
1. quickly and without warning
e.g. he stopped suddenly
Synonym: abruptlyshortdead
2. happening unexpectedly
e.g. suddenly she felt a sharp pain in her side
Synonym: all of a suddenof a sudden
3. on impulse
without premeditation
e.g. he decided to go to Chicago on the spur of the moment
he made up his mind suddenly
Synonym: on the spur of the moment
colors
noun
1. a flag that shows its nationality
Synonym: colours
2. a distinguishing emblem
e.g. his tie proclaimed his school colors
Synonym: colours