Practice English listening in just 15 minutes a day! This book features selected 2-minute passages with moderate difficulty, ideal for beginners. Through four stages—Preview Listening, Keyword Spotting, Sentence-by-Sentence Understanding, and Full Retelling—you’ll gradually improve and comprehend more than 90% of the content. With consistent practice, you’ll experience a qualitative leap in your listening skills! Below is a collection of beginner-level English listening content suitable for junior and senior high school students, compiled by the editor of qicai.com.
My name is Anne. I love flowers. I have a flower garden. My garden is in front of my house. My neighbor has a garden too.adj
1. delighting the senses or exciting intellectual or emotional admiration
e.g. a beautiful child
beautiful country
a beautiful painting
a beautiful theory
a beautiful party
2. (of weather) highly enjoyable
e.g. what a beautiful day
noun
1. a nearby object of the same kind
e.g. Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
Synonym: neighbour
2. a person who lives (or is located) near another
Synonym: neighbour
noun
1. a facility that provides a source of water
e.g. the town debated the purification of the water supply
first you have to cut off the water
Synonym: water systemwater supply
2. a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants
e.g. he asked for a drink of water
3. the part of the earth's surface covered with water (such as a river or lake or ocean)
e.g. they invaded our territorial waters
they were sitting by the water's edge
Synonym: body of water
4. binary compound that occurs at room temperature as a clear colorless odorless tasteless liquid
freezes into ice below 0 degrees centigrade and boils above 100 degrees centigrade
widely used as a solvent
Synonym: H2O
5. once thought to be one of four elements composing the universe (Empedocles)
6. liquid excretory product
e.g. there was blood in his urine
the child had to make water
Synonym: urinepisspeepiddleweewee
noun
1. a black garment (dress) worn by a widow as a sign of mourning
Synonym: widow's weeds
noun
1. a flag that shows its nationality
Synonym: colours
2. a distinguishing emblem
e.g. his tie proclaimed his school colors
Synonym: colours