练习材料：

L9(2)：Flying cats

All these cats had one experience in common: they had fallen off high buildings, yet only eight of them died from shock or injuries.

Of course, New York is the ideal place for such an interesting study，because there is no shortage of tall buildings.

There are plenty of high-rise windowsills to fall from！

One cat, Sabrina, fell 32 storeys, yet only suffered from a broken tooth.

'Cats behave like well-trained paratroopers.' a doctor said.

It seems that the further cats fall, the less they are likely to injure themselves. In a long drop, they reach speeds of 60 miles an hour and more. At high speeds, falling cats have time to relax. They stretch out their legs like flying squirrels. This increases their air-resistance and reduces the shock of impact when they hit the ground.

ɔːl ðiːz kæts hæd wʌn ɪksˈpɪərɪəns ɪn ˈkɒmən: ðeɪ hæd ˈfɔːlən ɒf haɪ ˈbɪldɪŋz, jɛt ˈəʊnli eɪt ɒv ðɛm daɪd frɒm ʃɒk ɔːr ˈɪnʤəriz.

ɒv kɔːs, njuː jɔːk ɪz ði aɪˈdɪəl pleɪs fɔː sʌʧ ən ˈɪntrɪstɪŋ ˈstʌdi，bɪˈkɒz ðeər ɪz nəʊ ˈʃɔːtɪʤ ɒv tɔːl ˈbɪldɪŋz.

ðeər ɑː ˈplɛnti ɒv ˈhaɪraɪz ˈwɪndəʊsɪlz tuː fɔːl frɒm！

wʌn kæt, Sabrina, fɛl 32 ˈstɔːriz, jɛt ˈəʊnli ˈsʌfəd frɒm ə ˈbrəʊkən tuːθ.

kæts bɪˈheɪv laɪk wɛl-treɪnd ˈpærəˌtruːpəz.' ə ˈdɒktə sɛd.

ɪt siːmz ðæt ðə ˈfɜːðə kæts fɔːl, ðə lɛs ðeɪ ɑː ˈlaɪkli tuː ˈɪnʤə ðəmˈsɛlvz. ɪn ə lɒŋ drɒp, ðeɪ riːʧ spiːdz ɒv 60 maɪlz ən ˈaʊər ænd mɔː. æt haɪ spiːdz, ˈfɔːlɪŋ kæts hæv taɪm tuː rɪˈlæks. ðeɪ strɛʧ aʊt ðeə lɛgz laɪk ˈflaɪɪŋ ˈskwɪrəlz. ðɪs ˈɪnkriːsɪz ðeə eə-rɪˈzɪstəns ænd rɪˈdjuːsɪz ðə ʃɒk ɒv ˈɪmpækt wɛn ðeɪ hɪt ðə graʊnd.

任务配置：

L0＋L4

知识笔记：

新词：common 普通的；shock 休克，震惊；injury 伤害，损害；ideal 理想完美的；shortage 缺少，不足；windowsill 窗沿，窗台；storey 楼层；suffered 被损害；behave 表现；paratrooper 伞兵；likely 可能；stretch 伸展，延伸，持续；squirrel 松鼠；resistance 抵抗，阻力；reduce 降低；impact 影响，碰撞，冲击

词组：in common共有；fall off 跌落；no shortage of 不缺乏；fall from 从某处跌落；suffered from 遭受，患有；stretch out 伸展，伸直

练习感悟：

这一堂课的内容十分丰富，单词和词组的比例也是看起来很舒服的那种……比昨天那半篇好读了不少。