Spend 15 minutes a day to easily practice listening! This book selects 2-minute short passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages of “pre-listening — catching key words — sentence-by-sentence understanding — overall retelling,” learners gradually progress and can understand over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantitative changes will lead to qualitative improvements, allowing your English listening to improve rapidly! Below is a compilation by the qicai website editor of some listening materials starting from the simplest English listening, suitable for junior and senior high school (beginner level).
My mother always told me that if I was lost, I could go up to a policeman and that he would help me to find my way home. I never did get lost, but I always remembered what my mother told me about the police. I think policemen look very nice in their uniforms. I see police officers drive by in their police cars. In my town we even have police officers on bicycles. Policemen and police women have a job that can sometimes be dangerous. They have to catch people who break the law. Sometimes they have to chase people or try to calm people down. To be a police officer, you need a lot of training. It's important to be able to deal with people effectively. A police officer came to our school. He had a police dog with him. The officer showed us how the dog could track down criminals. The dog was very smart. He could even find things that were hidden. Criminals sometimes hide things that they don't want the police to find. The policeman told us that he and his dog were partners. His dog lives at his house with the policeman and his family. Sometimes I see police cars on the side of the road. The police stop people who are speeding or are not wearing their seat belts. The police officers warn people or give out tickets. Sometimes they even have to arrest people. Police officers are just doing their job when they arrest people. Some people need to be arrested and put in jail to make it safer for the rest of us.noun
1. the act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track
Synonym: running
2. a course over which races are run
Synonym: racetrackracecourseraceway
3. any road or path affording passage especially a rough one
Synonym: cart trackcartroad
4. a bar or pair of parallel bars of rolled steel making the railway along which railroad cars or other vehicles can roll
Synonym: railrailsrunway
5. a pair of parallel rails providing a runway for wheels
6. a groove on a phonograph recording
7. (computer science) one of the circular magnetic paths on a magnetic disk that serve as a guide for writing and reading data
Synonym: data track
8. an endless metal belt on which tracked vehicles move over the ground
Synonym: caterpillar trackcaterpillar tread
9. evidence pointing to a possible solution
e.g. the police are following a promising lead
the trail led straight to the perpetrator
Synonym: leadtrail
10. a distinct selection of music from a recording or a compact disc
e.g. he played the first cut on the cd
the title track of the album
Synonym: cut
11. a line or route along which something travels or moves
e.g. the hurricane demolished houses in its path
the track of an animal
the course of the river
Synonym: pathcourse
noun
1. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
e.g. the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar
Synonym: apprehensioncatchcollarpinchtaking into custody
2. the state of inactivity following an interruption
e.g. the negotiations were in arrest
held them in check
during the halt he got some lunch
the momentary stay enabled him to escape the blow
he spent the entire stop in his seat
Synonym: checkhalthitchstaystopstoppage
adj
1. causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
e.g. a dangerous operation
a grave situation
a grave illness
grievous bodily harm
a serious wound
a serious turn of events
a severe case of pneumonia
a life-threatening disease
Synonym: gravegrievousseriousseverelife-threatening
2. involving or causing danger or risk
liable to hurt or harm
e.g. a dangerous criminal
a dangerous bridge
unemployment reached dangerous proportions
Synonym: unsafe
noun
1. activity leading to skilled behavior
Synonym: preparationgrooming
2. the result of good upbringing (especially knowledge of correct social behavior)
e.g. a woman of breeding and refinement
Synonym: educationbreeding