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来自世界不同地方的六位学生在美国相遇。他们都是交换学生，到美国大学就读一个学期，学习英语，了解美国文化，同时修专业课程。英语“日常会话” (Everyday Conversations)系列围绕这六位学生在美国的经历展开。这套材料适于中级或中级以上英语水平的学生使用。Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume.https://share.america.gov/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/DEC-W1-D3.mp3?_=1

Lee: I’m so jealous that you’ll be spending part of your winter break in the rain forest. As an environmental science major, I’d love to go to the rain forest to study it.

Peter: I’m really excited to go. I’ll be volunteering at a school for two weeks. I’ll be helping one of the classroom teachers there.

Lee: Are you nervous?

Peter: Not about working in the school. I’m just worried about malaria.

Lee: Right. Mosquitoes in that area carry malaria. But can’t you get vaccinated or something?

Peter: There’s no vaccination for malaria, but I can take a drug. I will have to take a pill every day while I’m there.

Lee: Definitely don’t forget to take it. Malaria can kill you.

Peter: I know. Fortunately, governments and NGOs are increasing awareness about the disease and giving people mosquito nets to help with disease prevention.

Lee: That’s good. So you’ll be sleeping under a mosquito net too?

Peter: I think so!

让我们来学习一些词语（也可阅读英文解释）：

A winter break：学校寒假 ，包含元旦等节日

A rain forest ：雨林，即热带多雨气候中的丛林

To volunteer：志愿或义务做事

Malaria：疟疾，可通过蚊子传染的一种疾病

To be vaccinated：防疫接种

Awareness：意识，觉悟

A mosquito net：蚊帐

Prevention: 预防（名词）

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Six students from around the world meet. What do they have in common? They are all exchange students studying at a U.S. university for a semester. Throughout the semester, they learn more English, learn about U.S. culture, and learn more about their fields of study. This series of Everyday Conversations is about these six students and their experiences during a semester at a university in the U.S. These conversations are for intermediate-level English-language learners or higher.

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Lee: I’m so jealous that you’ll be spending part of your winter break in the rain forest. As an environmental science major, I’d love to go to the rain forest to study it.

Peter: I’m really excited to go. I’ll be volunteering at a school for two weeks. I’ll be helping one of the classroom teachers there.

Lee: Are you nervous?

Peter: Not about working in the school. I’m just worried about malaria.

Lee: Right. Mosquitoes in that area carry malaria. But can’t you get vaccinated or something?

Peter: There’s no vaccination for malaria, but I can take a drug. I will have to take a pill every day while I’m there.

Lee: Definitely don’t forget to take it. Malaria can kill you.

Peter: I know. Fortunately, governments and NGOs are increasing awareness about the disease and giving people mosquito nets to help with disease prevention.

Lee: That’s good. So you’ll be sleeping under a mosquito net too?

Peter: I think so!

Now let’s review the vocabulary.

A winter break is a period of vacation between semesters of college or other schools that includes the winter holidays, such as New Year’s Day.

A rain forest is a forest in a tropical area (an area that is very warm and near the equator of the earth) that gets a lot of rain.

To volunteer means to offer to do something without being paid to do it or without being asked.

Malaria is an infectious disease (a disease that can be spread) that causes fever and chills and is passed to people by mosquitoes.

To be vaccinated means to be given a substance (usually by injection with a needle) to protect against a particular disease.

Awareness: knowing that something exists and is important.

A mosquito net is a net (an object made with pieces of string, rope, etc., and woven together) that is hung over a bed, etc., to keep out mosquitoes.

Prevention: the act of stopping something bad from happening

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