2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
There are about fifteen hundred languages in the world .But only a few of them are very important .English is one of these .Many ,many people use it ,not only i
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
We say that a person has good manners if he or she is polite, kind and helpful to others. Every one likes a person with good manners. But no one likes a person
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Once, a long time ago, I went to a railway station. I planned to take the ninth train to New York and go on a journey with a friend. Many people were on the pla
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Margie kept her diary almost every day. One day she wrote, 17 may,2155 and then this sentence: Today Tommy found a real book.It was a very old book. Its pages w
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
I once knew a little man. He grew every day twenty-four hours older without becoming any taller or larger. This made him unhappy. For he wished very much to be
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
On these days, much of the profit of a business sometimes the whole of its success depends on the use of the odds and ends.The odds and ends are various small t
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
I went through four years of high school in Alabama, and became active in clubs and sports.I made a lot of friends and became a regular boy. But one thing was i
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
It was one o'clock and I was hungry. I found a place, seated myself, and reached for the menu.The man sitting at the other side of the table rose. "Sir," said
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
One day a beggar was walking along from house to house.He carried an old bag in his hand, and was asking at every door for a few cents to buy something to eat.W
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
(Adapted from This is America)For over 200 years, visitors to the United States have been trying to explain what makes Americans different from the people of ot
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
It was two days before Christmas. Everything went wrong with me.I was due at my post--the toy department at K-Mart--at eight. But I was ten minutes late, becaus
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
I walked into the office and shook hands with a smiling man named Mr. White. He was dressed very well, compared to me. There was a pile of papers on his desk."I
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
There didn't seem to be anything to add to our talk. Everything was on the cards."How about children" she asked."There. Two boys and a girl.""That's exactly w
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Long, long ago there lived a king and a queen, who owned wide forests, great gardens, and beautiful palaces. Still they were not altogether happy, for they had
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
On her sixteenth birthday, the king's daughter felt tired of her palace. She wandered alone into the dark woods. And in a very lonely spot she saw a castle amo
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Education is not an end, but a means to an end. In other words, we do not educate children only for the aim of educating them. Our purpose is fit them for life.
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
(After Erma Bombeck)According to her height and weight she should be a guard for the rich. She has iron-willed blood, one shoulder is lower than the other, and
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
(After Judy Syfers)I am a wife, and not by accident, a mother of two children.Not long ago a friedn of mine came to me and told me that he was looking for a wif
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
New York has a short history of some three hundred years. In 1626, the Dutch settlers "bought" Manhattan Island from the Indians. They "paid" them several piece
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Can fish hear fishermen moving along the stream? What are the facts about the ability of a fich to see? Can they tell the difference between colours?The sharp h
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Noth of the Himalaya Mountains, in the eastern part of Asia, lies China. Thousands of years before the birth of Christ, the blackhaired, yellow-skinned people w
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
In 1911 a penniless young man left England for America. His future was uncertain, but he did not believe it could be worse than his past. He had grown up among
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
(After Benjamin Franklin)When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday filled my pocket with coppers. I went at once to a shop where they sold
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
(After Rachel Carson)There was once a town in the heart of America. All life there seemd to live in peace with is suroundings. The town lay in the middle of wea
2009-02-17所屬欄目:大學英語精讀(修訂本)
Hilary Smith belonged to a good family. But by the age of twenty, he had spent all the money the good old family had. He then had some trouble with the bank and