Practice listening for 15 minutes every day and improve effortlessly! This book features 2-minute passages with moderate difficulty, suitable for beginners. Through four stages—pre-listening, keyword catching, sentence-by-sentence comprehension, and overall retelling—you can gradually understand over 90% of the content. With consistent practice, quantity will lead to quality, and your English listening skills will improve dramatically! Below is a beginner-level listening passage organized by qicai.com, suitable for junior and senior high school students.
Colors Red is a vibrant color. Roses are sometimes red. Blood is red. Red is red. White is the color of snow. Clouds are very often white. Blue is the color of the sky and the ocean. Black isn't really a color at all. A crow is black. Tar is black. Black is black.noun
1. disgraceful gossip about the private lives of other people
Synonym: scandalmalicious gossip
2. the state of being covered with unclean things
Synonym: filthgrimesoilstaingreasegrunge
3. the part of the earth's surface consisting of humus and disintegrated rock
Synonym: soil
4. obscene terms for feces
Synonym: crapshitshitepoopturd
noun
1. a conspicuously marked or shaped tail
2. emblem usually consisting of a rectangular piece of cloth of distinctive design
3. stratified stone that splits into pieces suitable as paving stones
Synonym: flagstone
4. flagpole used to mark the position of the hole on a golf green
Synonym: pin
5. a listing printed in all issues of a newspaper or magazine (usually on the editorial page) that gives the name of the publication and the names of the editorial staff, etc.
Synonym: masthead
6. a rectangular piece of fabric used as a signalling device
Synonym: signal flag
7. plants with sword-shaped leaves and erect stalks bearing bright-colored flowers composed of three petals and three drooping sepals
Synonym: irisfleur-de-lissword lily
noun
1. street names for marijuana
Synonym: potgreen goddessdopeweedgagesesssenssmokeskunklocoweedMary Jane
2. bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle
Synonym: eatageforagepasturepasturage
3. a police informer who implicates many people
Synonym: supergrass
4. narrow-leaved green herbage: grown as lawns
used as pasture for grazing animals
cut and dried as hay
noun
1. a large body of water constituting a principal part of the hydrosphere
2. anything apparently limitless in quantity or volume
Synonym: sea
noun
1. orange color or pigment
any of a range of colors between red and yellow
Synonym: orangeness
2. round yellow to orange fruit of any of several citrus trees
3. any citrus tree bearing oranges
Synonym: orange tree
4. any pigment producing the orange color
noun
1. street names for cocaine
Synonym: cokeblownose candyC
2. precipitation falling from clouds in the form of ice crystals
Synonym: snowfall
3. a layer of snowflakes (white crystals of frozen water) covering the ground
noun
1. the star that is the source of light and heat for the planets in the solar system
e.g. the sun contains 99.85% of the mass in the solar system
the Earth revolves around the Sun
Synonym: Sun
2. any star around which a planetary system revolves
3. a person considered as a source of warmth or energy or glory etc
4. the rays of the sun
e.g. the shingles were weathered by the sun and wind
Synonym: sunlightsunshine
adj
1. of colors that are bright and striking
2. of sounds that are strong and resonating
e.g. the men's vibrant voices
3. vigorous and animated
e.g. a vibrant group that challenged the system
a charming and vivacious hostess
a vivacious folk dance
Synonym: vivacious