2020南京市英语中考阅读D篇

Television Viewers

电视观众

thanks for watching

感谢您的收看

especially thank you

特别感谢你

for agreeing to this interview

感谢你同意接受这次采访

on live television

在电视直播中

It’s a pleasure to meet you,

遇到你非常开心,

the first-known transgalactic visitor to Earth第一位已知的穿越银河系的地球访客

from a planet called Zademol

来自一颗名为扎德莫尔的行星

your biggest disappoints or challenges

你最大的失望或挑战

so far到目前为止

not the worst planet

不是最糟糕的星球

Mercury was much worse.

水星的情况要糟糕得多。

the aliens

外星人

unkind, overall

不友善的，总体的

roll their eyes

翻白眼

may be trying to avoid me

可能是想避开我

wash my own dishes and bathe myself

我自己洗碗，自己洗澡

so rude

那么粗鲁

I was used to having high standards

我习惯了高标准

choose where to stay

选择住宿地点

royalty and presidents on other planets

其他星球上的皇室成员和总统

adore me and begged me

崇拜我，乞求我

a chance to host me

一个招待我的机会

selected them

选择了他们

wants you to pitch in a little

希望你能出点力

it’s odd to me

这对我来说很奇怪

smarter than the smartest person on Earth比地球上最聪明的人还聪明

a boastful, spoiled alien

一个自吹自擂、被宠坏的外星人

Aziza Bellamy is hosting the interview. The sentence “Well, what you’re saying is surprising, Bertha.” is an opinion from the passage. From the passage. we know that Aziza is dissatisfied with Bertha. Aziza might write about the interview in his diary like this “It was an unusual interview, and an unexpected experience as well.” We can learn from the passage that being boastful will win us few friends.

阿齐扎·贝拉米(Aziza Bellamy)主持采访。文章里的这句话“好吧，你说的话令人吃惊，伯莎（Bertha）。”是这篇文章中的一个观点。我们知道阿齐扎（Aziza）对伯莎不满意。阿齐扎（Aziza）可能会在日记中这样写道：“这是一次不同寻常的采访，也是一次意想不到的经历。”我们可以从这段话中了解到，自吹自擂只会让我们少交几个朋友。