雅思听力材料来源|雅思听力材料：AnAmericanChristmas

【#英语听力# 导语】英语听力的提高是一个需要长期坚持的过程，要有持之以恒的毅力和决心，在平常多多练习。下面是®文档大全网分享的雅思听力材料：An American Christmas。欢迎阅读参考！

　　"We wish you a merry Christmas, we wish you a merry Christmas…"Have you heard that song? Yup! It's Christmas time! This Christmas, I stayed with my "host family"1. It was an amazing experience to see how a typical American family would celebrate the biggest western festival of the year.

　　Christmas, like our Spring Festival, has a meaning in itself. Christmas Day, which is on December 25, is the birthday of Jesus Christ--the son of God. That's why it is called Christmas. On that day, Christians would get together with their families to celebrate the birthday of Jesus. But nowadays, the religious meaning of Christmas has become less emphasized. To many families, it is just a time of family reunion and the ever-exciting present-giving.

　　Our school had been on winter vacation since December 11. I stayed at my friend, Stephen Stapczynski's house--his family was my "host family". Although Christmas was still more than ten days ahead, the festive spirit had already been teeming everywhere. The Christmas tree had already been set up, and on every windowsill, there were Christmas lights. On the first day I arrived at their house, Stephen and I helped Mrs. Stapczynski put decorations on the Christmas tree. The tree looked so nice with all the lights on and the beautiful ornaments dangling from its branches.

　　As Christmas came closer, the whole neighborhood had made preparations too. Some people would hold parties at their houses, inviting all their neighbors to come. So every night, if you went out, you would see a long line of cars parked in front of some house--a party's on!

　　What's more, the Christmas decorations that some people put on their windows and in gardens were just amazing. On one night, we went out in our car for a "tour of lights". There was one street that was so famous for its lights that it got its way into the local paper. We had a hard time finding the well-hidden street, but it turned out to be worth the effort. Lights shone brightly in front of nearly every house, on trees, bushes, doors, windows…everywhere, taking different shapes, making it seem almost like daytime. Huge inflatable figures in the front gardens were waving to us: there were Santa Clauses2, of course, chuckling merrily away; and there were also other Christmas figures, like Rudolph3--the red-nosed reindeer--with his red nose gleaming ever so brightly; even Bart Simpson--a character in the famous comedy The Simpsons--had joined the jolly party, wearing a Santa's hat. The street set off a lot of "ooh"s and "aah"s inside the car.4 When we left, there was a line of cars in the street, all there to see the lights.

　　Christmas is the time for exchanging presents. Stephen and Niko had been thinking about their Christmas lists (a list of things they wish "Santa"to give them for Christmas) for a long time. I didn't want to ask for anything, but the Stapczynskis were so kind to "force"me make one list as well (Mr. Stapczynski told me if I didn't make one he would chop off my legs). So I wrote down a couple of things that I would like to have, and gave the list to them--sorry, my mistake--to Santa.

　　Finally, Christmas Eve came. There was a special Christmas service at the church at 6 p.m. It was certainly a very interesting experience for me. The priest started the service reading and sang out extractions from a holy book--The Divine Liturgy. For several times, we would stand up and pray. Sometimes, the church choir would start singing. The atmosphere was very quiet and holy. Then there was a ceremony called "The Receiving Communion". People waited in line to "receive"a spoonful of food from the priest. It was a very special Christmas tradition. The food was made from bread and wine. The bread represents the body of Jesus, and the wine represents his blood. After this ceremony, the priest had a speech. He reminded us not to forget the true meaning of Christmas, and let Jesus really live inside us--that is, to love the people around us wholeheartedly. I think that no matter if you are a Christian or not, this principle should be part of our lives. After the priest finished his speech, the part that I enjoyed most came: Christmas carols5. Christmas carols are songs that people sing at Christmas, such as "Jingle Bells", "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", "Silent Night"and so on. Some were very merry, others sounded quite holy, but all of them were beautiful. I closed my eyes, and let all the peacefulness and happiness that were in the songs flow through me. What a feeling it was!

　　We went to sleep earlier that day for we had to get up early on Christmas Day to open our presents. Sure enough, when I was still half-way during a sweet dream, Stephen burst into my room and told me to get up and open presents. There were a huge pile of presents under the Christmas tree, and there was such a mysterious mist shrouding them that made me eager to see what they all were. So one by one, we went through all the presents. Mr. and Mrs. Stapczynski had bought me everything I had written on my Christmas list--and a lot more! I got music CDs, film DVDs, clothes, books… I was very happy, and I didn't know how to express my appreciation for what they had done for me. Stephen and Niko had gotten a lot of presents too, and they had already been trying out their new games!

　　In the afternoon, we went to Mrs. Stapczynski's brother, Uncle Stan's house. They had prepared a marvelous meal for us. A lot of their friends and relatives also came. I saw Stephen and Niko's grandparents, Yiayia and Papou (words of grandma and grandpa in Greek--Mrs. Stapczynski's parents came from Greece, so they like the boys using Greek words to call them). They were very kind to me, and treated me just like one of their family members. We had a very luxurious meal, consisting of turkey, beef, pork, and all sorts of other food.

　　After the meal, when all the stomachs were full and everyone was feeling drowsy6 from all the food, we just sat around the table and chatted, just like what we Chinese people do at the Spring Festival. After all, Christmas, like the Spring Festival, is a time for us to get away from our busy lives, a time for family gathering, and a time to have some fun.

　　Notes:

　　1. host family: 寄住家庭或接待家庭。学校安排那些圣诞节仍留在美国的国际学生住在当地的寄住家庭中。

　　2. Santa Claus: 圣诞老人。

　　3. Rudolph:　每到圣诞节，圣诞老人乘坐驯鹿雪撬给孩子们送礼物，其中指路的驯鹿的名字叫Rudolph，它的鼻子是红色的，所以称其为"red-nose reindeer"。

　　4. 街上的景象使车中响起一片惊奇的声音。set off: 激起，引起。

　　5. carol: (圣诞)颂歌。

　　6. drowsy: 困倦的。

扩展阅读：雅思听力有效练习方法介绍

　　一、听写法
　　 在雅思听力考试中，最终体现成绩的是答题卡上面填写的内容，因此只听懂是远远不够的，能够写对才是最终的得分要素。而很多烤鸭在考试中都会出现这样的问题：听到答案时，却来不及写下来录音就已经到了下一题;或者听出了答案，下笔时却写不对。总结起来，由两大原因：一是拼写速度太慢，二是对单词熟练程度不够。

　　解决上述的两个问题，听写法是最有效的方法。在听写的练习中，大家可以及时发现自己对哪些单词的拼写没有掌握或者是模棱两可，这对单词的熟练掌握有很好的帮助。同时，在听写练习中，能够提高大家的书写速度，和边听边做笔记的能力，这对于雅思听力考试中快速记下所听到的答案也是很有帮助的。

　　二、影视作品练习法

　　说道雅思听力练习，怎么少的了英剧、美剧以及英文电影呢?影视作品的妙处是创造了一种活生生的语言环境，这个语言环境包罗万象――语言、文化、思维。在这个环境中耳闻目染，大家的雅思听力就会不断的提高，当然口语也会得到很好的提高。那么，问题来了，怎样用影视作品练习雅思听力呢?这中间当然还是有技巧可循的，大家在练习的过程中也要掌握正确的方法，才能够有效提高雅思听力水平。

　　三、冷凝法

　　看到这个方法，很多烤鸭会感到疑惑，其实冷凝法的重点是教会大家“吃透”一个练习材料。在雅思听力备考中，特别适合听力练习的材料并不多，因此大家要充分利用有限的资源。冷凝法将听力练习分为四步：初听、细听、冷却、回暖，经过这四个步骤，大家已经将这份练习材料完全掌握，可谓是“物尽其用”。

　　四、精听法

　　众所周知，雅思听力注重对细节的考查，因此在雅思听力练习过程中大家需要掌握每个英语音节的发音特点以及音节在单词中的发音变化规律，而这些只有通过精听才能够真正实现。可见精听对于雅思听力的提高有着根本性的作用。当然，要达到精听应有的效果，大家就必须要掌握正确的精听练习方法，这样才能够有效提高雅思听力水平。

　　五、泛听法

　　很多考生对泛听有一定的误解，认为所谓“泛听”就是泛泛的听，不需要动脑，只要把英语当做生活背景就可以了。其实这种理解是错误的，这样是无法真正有效提高雅思听力水平的。泛听虽然不像精听那样要求大家掌握每一个句子、每一个单词，甚至是每一个音节的含义，但是却要求大家在听的过程中要掌握文章的大意。因此泛听需要建立在一定的词汇量的基础之上进行，也就是说对于雅思听力初学者，其实是不建议开始备考听力的时候就用这种方法的。

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