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数词的重音 1. 数字在名词前面要重读。 2. 像twenty-one, thirty-six, and forty-nine这样的数词，往往重读后面的部分。 Examples： 1. This book has ninety-six pages. 2. There are about ninety-six pages in this book. 3. We have fifty-three students in this class. 4. There are about seventy-nine floors in the building. 5. Take the No. twenty-three bus. 6. You are the 14th of the visitors today. 7. Five of the blue ones are my brother’s. 8. Today is March the tenth. 9. The cost has been reduced by 40 per cent. 10. Its grain output went up 16 percent last year. 11. It is one-third smaller than our country. 练习数字的发音 The United States is a land of great differences—differences in climate; in landscape; in altitude. The continental United States, the country’s territory on the North American continent, stretches about 4,500 kilometers from the eastern coast, that is, the Atlantic Coast, to the Pacific Ocean on the West; and it extends 2,557 kilometers from the northern boundary to the southern tip of Texas. The country borders Canada on the north and goes down south to Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico. Including the States of Alaska and Hawaii, the United States covers an area of nine million square kilometers, or, to be more exact, 9,191,843 sq. km., a little less than the area of the People’s Republic of China, which is 9,600,000 sq. km. There are altogether 50 states in the United States, the largest of which is Alaska (1,518,807 sq. km.). It was well known as Russian American until purchased by the Untied States from Russia in1867. It was linked to the United States by the Alaska Highway in 1942, and became the 49 the state of the U.S.A. in 1959. Texas is second in size (692,563 sq. km.), which is larger than France, but is only a little less than half of the area of China’s Xing Jiang Uighur Autonomous Region. Hawaii lies in the tropical zone of the Pacific, 3,200 km. away from the North American Continent. It is a group of islands, which became the 50 the state of the United States in 1959. Hawaii