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[1:40] Immersive English Listening for Gaokao 3500 Words: No.27 In-depth Reading of a Russian Poem

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This article offers No.27, a Russian poem, with English listening audio and synchronized text, integrating 3500 core Gaokao vocabulary words to aid English listening training. The immersive learning approach enhances listening comprehension and vocabulary accumulation, helping students easily overcome Gaokao English listening challenges.

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The original MP3 audio and synchronized English text help you efficiently master 3500 words through immersive learning. Each passage closely aligns with Gaokao exam scenarios, paired with clear pronunciation and key vocabulary explanations, allowing you to improve listening skills, consolidate vocabulary, and enhance language sense through repeated listening. Persist with one passage daily and easily conquer the Gaokao English listening challenges! Start now and let your ears “remember” the words, making English learning more natural! Below is the content from this issue of "40 English Short Passages to Master 3500 Gaokao Words through Immersive Listening." Keep accumulating to make your English more practical!

Since childhood Anton had often recited poems accompanied by pianists and violinists at wedding ceremonies before brides and bridegrooms exchanged rings. Gradually he found writing poems the most appropriate way to convey his joy and sorrow. When his poem, Contradictory Blank, won him a national championship and a scholarship to the Moscow University from a sponsor, he was just an unknown librarian.

After getting his diploma he devoted his life to writing poems. Using concrete but flexible language and the minimum of words is his style. He tried out different patterns and preferred nursery rhyme in particular. The following is a translation of one of his works made up of three sections.

Little sparrow with heavy load ran out of energy and very cold. No compass and all sweat salty. Can you go through the endless darkness?

Little balloon led out by the thread, flew over cottages and was very glad. With warmth transformed from sunlight he said he could forever fly.

Take it easy little balloon. Don't tease the sparrow with his wound. On the bare branch and have a rest. This diamond heart will eventually get success.

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appropriate
verb
1. give or assign a resource to a particular person or cause
e.g. I will earmark this money for your research
She sets aside time for meditation every day
Synonym: allowearmarkset asidereserve
2. take possession of by force, as after an invasion
e.g. the invaders seized the land and property of the inhabitants
The army seized the town
The militia captured the castle
Synonym: captureseizeconquer
tease
noun
1. the act of harassing someone playfully or maliciously (especially by ridicule)
provoking someone with persistent annoyances
e.g. he ignored their teases
his ribbing was gentle but persistent
Synonym: teasingribbingtantalization
2. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men
Synonym: coquetteflirtvampvamperminxprickteaser
3. someone given to teasing (as by mocking or stirring curiosity)
Synonym: teaserannoyervexer
compass
concrete
noun
1. a strong hard building material composed of sand and gravel and cement and water
diamond
noun
1. the baseball playing field
Synonym: ball fieldbaseball field
2. the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
Synonym: baseball diamondinfield
3. a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
e.g. he led a small diamond
diamonds were trumps
4. a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
5. a parallelogram with four equal sides
an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
Synonym: rhombusrhomb
6. very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
Synonym: adamant
scholarship
noun
1. profound scholarly knowledge
Synonym: eruditenesseruditionlearnednesslearningencyclopedismencyclopaedism
2. financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
transformed
adj
1. given a completely different form or appearance
e.g. shocked to see the transformed landscape
recited