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小学英语背诵110 篇英语阅读理解短文原始资料Passage 1.WoodpeckerPassage 2.A Busy DayPassage 3.The dog and his reflectionPassage 4.An honest boyPassage 5.A birthday partyPassage 6.The Farmer and the Snake Passage 7.Two Young TreesPassage 8.Hong Kong is a nice placePassage 9.WaterPassage 10． Twins' BedroomPassage 11． DogsPassage 12． The Best JobPassage 13． A Clever MonkeyPassage 14． What are stars LikePassage 15． Radio and TelevisionPassage 16． It ’ s cool behind youPassage 17． Father ’ s HobbyPassage 18． I don’ t think soPassage 19． Seven days in a weekPassage 20． My special FriendPassage 21． A Day in My LifePassage 22． The SeaPassage 23． A Good Young Pioneer Passage 24． Sea horsePassage 25． A Cat and a BirdPassage 26． A Flying FoxPassage 27． Flying BirdsPassage 28． AirPassage 29． ClocksPassage 30． SwimmingPassage 31． A missing tigerPassage 32． JimPassage 33． A Chinese BoyPassage 34． Jim ’ s FamilyPassage 35． Our HousePassage 36． Our MonitorPassage 37． My bedroomPassage 38． A Piece of meatPassage 39． Our ClassroomPassage 42． An Old MousePassage 43． A hungry foxPassage 44． Help Each OtherPassage 45． The WeatherPassage 46． What’ s Happening Passage 47． KangaroosPassage 48． A Pair of ShoesPassage 49． We get the Wrong car passage 50． Be politePassage 51． The SunPassage 52． Air JordanPassage 53． The strongest power in the world Passage 54． Who is the GodPassage 55． KitesPassage 56． Teacher's OfficePassage 57． FallPassage 58． PandasPassage 59． Books on " How to "Passage 60． The Pianist and an Old Woman Passage 61． The favorite coatPassage 62． NoisePassage 63． The dietPassage 64． A cheap mealPassage 65． ComputersPassage 66． Two American presidents Passage 67． A second language.Passage 68． A snowman.Passage 69． Lucky and unluckyPassage 70． The Great Wall of China Passage71.Helen ’ s glassesPassage 72． A desertPassage 73． Animal's home.Passage 74． An outingPassage 75． Go fishingPassage 76． The candy kingPassage 77． YawnPassage 78． Two thievesPassage 79． A Giant KitePassage 82． The frog that changes colorPassage 83． The city of San FranciscoPassage 84． Benjamin FranklinPassage 85． Stop writingPassage 86． The robotsPassage 87． A broken mirror and bad luckPassage 88． Hair and BeardPassage 89． A lovely weekendPassage 90． A bridgePassage 91． A yo-yoPassage 92． Funny presentsPassage 93． Fire fighterPassage 94． Excuse mePassage 95． A letter to grandpaPassage 96． HalloweenPassage 97． School NewspaperPassage 98． A letter to you.Passage 99.Why do we need the forestsPassage 100． KitesPassage 101．First AidPassage 102． Our SensesPassage 103．Play baseball with the familyPassage 104．Charlie’-smaile friendPassage 105．Surfing the netPassage 106．Teddy bearPassage 107．TlachtiPassage 108． Olympic GamesPassage 109．Doing ChoresPassage 110． Ancient EgyptPassage 1.WoodpeckerThere are many apple trees in a garden.They ’ re good friends.One day an old tree is ill.There are many pests in the tree． Leaves of the tree turn yellow ． The old tree feelsvery sad and unwell ．Another tree sends for a doctor for him ．At first, they send for a pigeon, but she has no idea about it． Then they send for an oriole, and she can ’ t treat the old tree well ．Then they send for a woodpecker.She is a good doctor ． She pecks a hole in the tree and eats lots of pests．At last the old tree becomes better and better ．Leaves turn green and green.Passage 2.A Busy DayToday is Sunday!On Sundays, I usually play the flute. My father usually reads the newspaper. Mymother usually cleans the house． But today my mother is in bed ． She is ill ． My fatherhas to do the housework ．Now, he is cleaning the house ．“ Sam, can you help me? “ Yes,” Dad! ”Now, we ’ re washing the car． Where’ s my sister, Amy?She is playing my flute ．What a lucky girl!Passage 3.The dog and his reflectionOne day a dog with a piece of meat in his mouth was crossing a plank over a stream ． As he walkedalong,he looked into water,and he saw his reflection ． He thought this was anotherdog carryinga piece of meat．And he felt he would like to have two pieces．So he snapped at the reflection in thewater, and of course, as he opened his mouth, the piece of meat disappeared quickly.Passage 4.An honest boyTony is seven years old．He is an honest and polite boy ．One day, it was Sunday．Tony, his sister andhis mother stayed at home． He was watching TV and his sister was reading books ． His mother waswashing clothes ．Just then, his father came back with a bagof pears． Tony likes pears very much and he wantedto eat one． His mother gave him four an d said,“ Let ’ s sharethem. ” “ Which pear do you want, Tony?” asked his mother．“ The biggest one, mum.” “ What? ” said his mother,“ Yo should be polite and want the smallest one.” “ Should I tellpolite,alie justmum?to be ”Passage 5.A birthday partyToday is Susan’ s birthday．She is nine years old． Her friends are in her home now ． There is abirthday party in the evening ． Look!Mary is listening to the music． And Tom is drinking orangejuice ． Jack and Sam are playing cards on the floor ．Lily and Amy are watching TV ． Someone isknocking at the door ． It ’ s Henry．He brings a big teddy bear for Susan ． The teddy bear isyellow ． Susan is very happy． All the children are happy ． They sing a birthday song for Susan.Passage 6.The Farmer and the SnakeIt was a cold winter day. A farmer found a snake on the ground． It was nearly dead by cold ． TheFarmer was a kind man． He picked up the snake carefully and put it under the coat ．Soon thesnake Began to move and it raised its mouth and bit the farmer ．“ Oh, My god! ” said the farmer,“ I save your life, but you thank me in that way．You must die.” Then he killed the snake with astick ． At last he died, too.Passage 7.Two Young TreesTwo young trees are standing on the top of the hill． Their names are Tim and Alan.One day, it’ s sunny and ．warmSome birds are singing in the trees ．The wind blows, and the trees aretalking ．“ What do you want to be when you grow up?．’’“I ’asksm notTimsure．Ithink I want to bea chair or a desk.” answers Alan,“ Maybe I want to bea toy box or a baseball bat ． I like chil dren. “” What do you want to be when you grow up?” asks Alan ．“ Me?” says Tim,“ I just want to be．aI wanttree to bea house for birds and spiders．I want to have many apples ．And when it ’ s sunny and hot, people and animals can stand under me.”Passage 8.Hon gkong is a nice placeHong Kong is a nice place, especially in summer ． Julyis ahot monthin HongKong.But it’ san excellent time for swimming ． There is a beautiful beach at RepulseBay( 浅水湾 ) ．To get there, you can take a bus from Central ． Lots of people go to the beach onSundays and Saturdays． But if you go on a weekday, it is will be not so crowded.Visitors toHongkong need passports.But people from many countries do not need visas.Hongkong is a niceplace for holiday ．There are many shops.Water is very important for living things ． Without water, there must be no life on the earth ．All theplants and animals need water to drink, to cook food and to clean ourselves ． Water is needed infarms, factories, offices, schools, families and many other places.Water is found in seas, rivers and lakes ． It can be found everywhere in the world, and it also canbe found in the air.This is the twins’ bedroom．Itisanice room．The two beds look the same．This bed is Lily’ s and thatone is Lucy ．’s The twins have one desk and two chairs ． Their clock, books and pencil-boxes areon the desk． Their schoolbags are behind the chairs ． Some nice flowers are on the desk ． Somenice pictures are on the wall ．Is there a kite?Yes, it ’ s under Lily ．The’sbedroom is very nice.Passage 11.DogsOne of the animals that help people a lot is the dog ．In some countries, dogs pull wagons ．In thecold north, dogs pull sleds.There are other ways that dogs help us, too．Policemen use them to look for missing people ．Soldiersuse them to carry letters and medicine .On farms, dogs take care of sheep and keep them in thefields ．At night, they take the sheep home ．Dogs help the blind with work ．Some dogs are good andkind ．Some dogs are good at another skill.Passage 12.Th e Best JobBetty is a lazy girl ． She doesn ’ t study hard, and she doesn’ t help her mother with the housework, either．“ What are you going to be when you grow up, Betty?．”“ YouMother’reaskstoo lazy．No jobwill ever fit you.”“ But I know one,” says the girl,“ I’ m going to be Father Christmas,be Father Christmas?” Mother is surprised,“ But why?”“ Because he works only one day inwhole year.”Passage 13.A Clever MonkeyA little monkey picks up a pumpkin and wants to take ithome.But the p umpkin is toobig. The monkey can’ t take it home.Suddenly he sees a panda riding a bike towards him ．He watches the bike．“ l have a good idea．I canroll the pumpkin ． It likes a wheel.”So he rolls the pumpkin to his home ． When his mother sees the big pumpkin, she is surprised andsays, “ How can you carry it home?” The little monkey answers proudly,lift it, but l can roll“ l can’t it. ” His mother smiles and says,“ What a clever boy!”Passage14． Wh at Are Stars Like?Have you ever wondered about the stars?In some ways, stars are like people ．They are born ．Theygrow old ．And they die ．A star is born from dust and gas ．Slowly the dust and gas make a ball ．Theball gets very hot ．Then it starts to give off light ．The young star grows into a giant ．Many years goby． The older star begins to get small again ． At last its light goes out ． The star’ s life is over.Passage 15.Radio and TelevisionRadio and television are very popular in the world lions of people watchTV.Perhaps more people listen to the radio.The TV is more useful than the radio.On TV we can see and hear what ishappening in the world ．However,radio isn’ tlost.It is still with us ． And listeners arebecoming more ． That ’s because a transistor radio isn lost .It’is t still with us．It is very easyto carry ． You can put one in your pocket and listen to it on the bus or your bike when you go towork.Passage 16.It ’ s cool behind youIt ’s two o’ clock in the afternoon.The sun is shinning and it’ svery hot.Nancyhas to meet her mother at the train station.Now she ’s walking in the street ．There are no trees and she’s fat．So she feels very hot．But shedoesn’t find a boy walking just behind her ．And she meets a friend and says“ hello ” to him “． Who ’s the boy behind you ？” asks the man ．Now she sees the boy．She is angry and asks,“ Why are you walking behind me, boy?” “ Thereno ’s shade in the street, you know.” answers the boy．“ It ’ s cool behind you, I think.”Passage 17.Father ’ s HobbyMy dad works from Monday to Friday in a bank．he uses the computer to count money.Hisjob is very important in the bank.Dad is also busy at home.At weekends he cooks dinner ． Usually he cooks Italianfood ． On Sundays he makes five pieces of pizza ．Sometimes he cooks chicken and makesChinese food ． My mum watches and helps him ． I help my dad, too ． I wash the dishes.Many people think it is strange for a man to cook． But my dad enjoys his hobby ． Cooking relaxeshim ． He is a weekend cook.Passage 18.I don ’ t think soJack is a good boy but he doesn’ t like to use．Hehisoftenheadsays something withou thinking.Itmakes others unhappy.Mr ． Black teaches math in a school． He’ s old now and he likes children.On the Friday Mr． Blackdoesn ’ t go to work, because he’ s ill in．aAndhospitalJack ’ s mother will see him after dinner．“ Iwant to be there with you. ” says Jack.“ You’ rea rude boy． I can’ t take you there. s’’ say his mother．“ Don’ t worry, mum．I won ’ t do that again．Please believe me．” says Jack．In the hospital,Jack says nothing at first ． When they’ releaving ,he says to Mr .Black,“ You lookfine ． The doctor says you’ re going to die, but I don．’”tthink soPassage 19.Seven days in a weekThere are about fifty-two weeks in a year.And there are seven days in eachweek.The first day of a week is Sunday． The other days of a week between Sunday and Saturday are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday Thursday and Friday.Monday is thesecond day, Tuesday is the third day, Wednesday is the fourth day,Thursday day,and Friday is the sixth day.What’ s the last day？Do you know? Passage 20.My special FriendI have a friend in the U.S ． His name is Don Adams ． I know him very well, never met him.We write to each other all the time.My letters are is still hard for me to write in English.I received a letter from yesterday.It makes me very happy.He is coming to my country for summer． We are going to see each other for the first time.Passage 21.A Day in My Lifeis the fifth butI have very short.It Dona visit nextMy family lives on this street ．In the morning, my father goes to work and all the children go toschool ．My mother takes us to school everyday ．She does the housework．She always has herlunchat home, and sees her friends in the afternoon． In the evening all the children come homefrom school.They always get home early ． My father goes home from work and he is oftenlate． After supper my two brothers and I do our homework． We go to bed at ten.Passage 22． The SeaWhat do know about the sea？Some people have seen it but others haven ． The sea’tlooks beautiful on a fine sunny day and it can be very tough when there is a strong wind.Whatother things do you know about it?Of course, the sea is very large ．In the world there is moresea than land．If you have swum in the sea, you know that the sea is salty.Rivers carry salt fromthe land into the sea． Some places of the sea are saltier than the otherplaces．Do you know the Dead Sea? It is so salty that you can ’ t sink when you are in thewater!And fish cannot live in it!Passage 23.A Good Young PioneerLi Hua is a Yong Pioneer ． He is going to the park ．Now he is waiting for a bus.Suddenlyhe finds a watch on the ground. He asks some people,“ Whose watch is it?” But the watch isn ’ t theirs．So he gives the watch to a policeman.Now Li Hua gets on the bus ．He is sitting near the window ．An old woman gets on the bus ．Shehas no seat．So he stands up and says,“ Here is a seat for you,． PleaseGrannysit here”Passage 24.Sea horseThere are all kinds of horses in the world ．But one of them you can．’It tdoesnride’ t live on land, butin the sea.It looks like the head of horse ． So the people call it sea horse． In fact,the seahorse is a small fish ． It likes to live in warm water． A sea horse stands up in the water when itswims.Father horse carries the eggs to keep them safe in its pouch． When the eggs are hatched, thebaby horses swim away.Passage 25.A Cat and a BirdThere are three trees near the house．There is a big tree, and two small trees.In the big tree there is a bird ．Can the bird sing?Yes, it can ． What’ s under the big tree?It ’ s a cat.“ I want some food,” thinks the ．cat“Bird, my good friend, Come here!It ’s time to play games” says the cat.“ No today, thank you! ” says the bird,“You can’!Goodbye!tcatchme” Look!The bird is flying!A flying fox is not a fox at all ．It is a bat ． But this bat looks like a fox ． A flying fox is very big ． It likes to eat fruit ． Sometimes the flying fox is called fruit bat.The flying fox flies into fruit trees ． Then the bat eats all the fruit ．So fruit farmers do not like theflying fox.Passage 27.Flying BirdsBirds don’ t fly high up in the sky．The air is too thin.It is hard for birds to breathe in thin air.Thin air doesn’ t hold them up.Birds fly near the ground so that they can see where they are ． The birds look for places theyknow ．Then they do not get lost ． Some birds fly so low over the ocean that the waves oftenhide them． Many birds fly a long distance in the spring and autumn.Passage 28.AirAir is all around us ．It is around us as we walk and play ．From the time we were born air is aroundus on every side．When we sit down, it is around us ．When we go to bed, air is also around us ．We live in air ． We can live without food or water for a few days, but we cannot live for more than a fewminutes without air ．We take in air ．When we are working or running we need more air ． When weare asleep, we need less air．We live in air, but we cannot see it ．We can only feel it when it is moving.Moving air is called wind ．How can we make air move?Here is one way ． Hold an openbook in front of your face, close it quickly．What can you feel?What you feel is air.Passage 29.ClocksThere are many clocks in the Brown．’Theyshouseare in different rooms.A big clock stands in acorner of the sitting room ．It is a very, very old clock, but it still keeps good time．Mr．Brown windsit once a week.Passage 30． SwimmingSwimming is a good sport ．It ’ s popular．People like swimming because the water makes people feel cool ． But if they swim in a wrong place, it is very dangerous．These years, some people died when they were enjoying themselves in water and most of them were students ． Summer holiday will be there again． I want to give you some advice ．First, don’ t get into the water when you are alone．Second, don’ t get into the water if there is a No swimming sign．Third, you should be carefulin the water ． If you remember these, swimming will be safe and it’ s good for your health.Passage 31.A missing tigerWe used to have a cat called Tiger．He was a beautiful tabby with a great deal of character ．He wasa natural hunter, and very soon no mouse dared to show its face in our house.Unfortunately Tiger also used to catch a lot of birds and this made him very unpopular with some ofthe neighbors．Onday day, just after his second birthday, Tiger disappeared ．Perhaps he was run over by a car, for at that time we lived near a busy street ． Although we offered a reward, we never discovered what had happened to him and we never saw him again.Passage 32.JimJim gets up at 6:30．His home is near his school ．He leaves home at 7:30.They begin classat 8:00．He has lunch at home． After lunch he plays games with his classmates, in the afternoon,Jim has three classes． He leaves school at 4:30.Passage 33.A Chinese BoyI ’ m a Chinese boy．My name is Chen Dong ．I am twelve ．I have two sisters．My sisters and Iare all students.My father is a teacher ．He is a Chinese teacher．He teaches in No． 19 Middle School ． My motheris a teacher,too ．She teaches English in the No ． 11 Middle School.Passage 34.Jim’ s FamilyA picture is on my desk ． This is a picture of Jim mily ．’Thesfa man is Jim’ s father．Awoman is behind Jim ． She is his mother． They are teachers．A girl is in the picture,too.She is Jim ’ s sister.Her name is Kate Green.Jim and his sister are in the same school.But theyaren ’ tin the same grade． They look like their mother． They are English.Passage 35.Our HouseOur home is near the school ．We have a house． Itis a good house． The house has three rooms．Oneis a living room ．The other two are bedrooms ．In the living room there is a table and sixchairs.There are some flowers on the table ．There is a garden in front of the house ． Our house isn’ t big, but we like it.Passage 36.Our MonitorThis is Lin ．She is from Beijing．She studies very hard.In class she can answer the teacher’ s questionsvery quic kly ．Lin loves her classmates and often helps them with their lessons.Everybody says she is a very good monitor.Passage 37.My bedroomThis is my bed room ．There are two windows in it． Near the window there are some red flowers ．A map of China is on the wall ．You can see four shoes and a basketball under my bed．Thereare trousers and a coat on the bed．Many schoolbooks are on my desk.And there are three lights in my bedroom ． One is on my desk, and the other two are near my bed.Passage 38.A Piece of meatA dog has a large piece of meat in his mouth． Near the water he looks down andsees himself in the water ． He thinks it is another dog ． That dog has also a large piece of meat in his mouth ．He says to himself,“ I want to get his meat.Then I can have two pieces.” He opens his mouth to bark and his meat goes down into the water.Passage 39.Our ClassroomOur classroom is bright and clean ．But it is not big ． There are twenty-three desks and chairs init． They are new ．There ’ s a big desk in front of the classroom ． It’ s for our teachers.There are five pictures on the right wall ． There ’ s a mapof the world and a map of China on theleft wall.Beside the window there’ s a bookshelf．There are many books on it ． Our classroom is verynice.We have lessons here． We like our classroom.Passage 40． Our schoolThis is our school ． There are many classrooms init. There are eight hundred students and sixty — nine teachers in our school ． There are manytrees and flowers in it ． All the teachers and students like our school very much.We cometo schoolat seven.We have four classes in the morning and two in theafternoon.Our classroom is big and clean ． We have lessons here．We do our homework at home.All the students study hard.It ’ nesfi today．Tom and his family are at a park ．The man in white is his father ．He is standing bythe lake and looking at the boats ． The woman in blue is his mother ．She is sitting on thegrass． Beside his mother is Alice, his sister ． She is eating cake．The park is big, and there aremany trees and flowers init． They are having a good time.Passage 42.An Old MouseAn old woman has a cat ．The cat is now very old ．She cannot run fast, and she cannot bite．One daythe old cat sees a mouse．she jumps and catches the mouse.But she cannot bite it．So the mouse gets out of her mouth and runs away.Then the old woman is very angry because the cat cannot kill the mouse ．She begins to beat the cat． The cat says to her,“ Don’．tBebeatfriendlymeto me． When I was young, I did go od work for you.”Passage 43.A hungry foxA hungry fox is from a forest． He arrives at a village ． He wants to find some food ．He comes to a house and pulls the door ．But it locked ．He sees there is a hen inside.“ Hello I’ll come to visit you,” he tells．“theI knowhen that you are ill ．Come out and let metake your temperature.”“ Thank you, ” says the hen.“I have a headache． But if I come out, you will kill me.”Passage 44.Help Each OtherLook!Kate is flying a bird kite．Oh, her kite is in the tree ．And it is broken. She can ’ t climb upthe tree． Li Lei and Jim are coming here ． Li Lei is helping her ． He is getting the kite from the tree．But he can ’ t get down．Jim is helping Li Lei． Li Lei is jumping to the wall． They are getting down from the wall.Kate, Jim, and Li Lei are mending the kite under the tree ．They are goodfriends.Passage 45.The WeatherThe weather in Shanghai is not always good ．In winter it is often cold and wet ．In summer it is very hot．Spring is very beautiful． It is not very cold, but we have a lot of rain in spring． Autumn is thebest season． The days are clear and dry and it is sunny and warm all the time.The weather in Shanghai is sometimes warmer than in Beijing． But in summer it is cooler inBeijing than in Shanghai.Passage 46.Wh at ’ s Happening?It is in autumn ． A young man comes to a forest ．He’ s walking beside the forest． On his right is ariver ． On his left is the forest ． Suddenly he sees two green eyes looking at him from the trees ． Atiger is getting ready to jump on him.What does he do?He must jump into the river ．In the river there is a big crocodile．Its mouth is verybig ．The young man closes his eyes． The tiger jumps over him.And the young man openshis eyes． Now the tiger is in the mouth of the crocodile.Passage 47.KangaroosThere are many kangaroos in Australia and not onlyin zoos.You can see them everywhere outside of the cities and towns ．When theywant to have a rest on their tails, kangaroos are also very good at looking after theirbabies． mother kangaroos keep their babies safe in their pockets.Passage 48.A Pair of ShoesOne day an old man is taking the train to his hometown .One of his shoes falls onto the ground, butthe train starts.He cannot pick it up,then he takes off the other and throws it near thefallen shoe．A boy beside him asks him,“ Why do you do that?” He answers,“ If a man picks t he may get a pair of shoes.”Passage 49． We get the Wrong car!One day my wife and I go shopping at a shop ．We stop the car in front of the shop ． An hour laterwe come back to the car with many things ． But we can not open the car door ．“ Oh, dear,” says mywife ．“ What shall we do?” “ Let ’ s ask that policeman!” The policeman．Acomesfew to help us minutes later, he gets the door open． Just at that moment a man comes up and shouts, “ Why are youopening my car door?” We look at the number of the car and our faces turn red.Passage 50． Thank you.Many people like to say“ Thank you ” when others help them or say something kindto them． It is a very good habit.You should say“ Thankyou ” when someone passes you the salt on the table, when someone iswalking ahead of you keeps the door open for you, when someone says you have done your workwell, or you have bought something nice or your city is very beautiful ． Thank you is used notonly between friends,but also between parents and children, brother and sister ．Let ’ s learn tosay Thank you.Passage 51． The SunThere is nothing more important in life than the sun ．Without the sun all living things on Earth woulddie.The sun is a star．In the sky there are thousands of stars like the sun ．They are as large as the sun andashot as the sun． At night you can see many stars, but in day-time you c an only see one star- thesun． The sun is much nearer to us than any other stars． That is why it looks like the biggest andbrightest of all the stars ． The distance of the sun from the Earth is as much as 150 millionkilometers ．Most of the stars are thousands of light years away form the Earth ．Do you know what alight year is?Nothing in the world travels faster than light.It travels 300,000 kilometers asecond． One light year is the distance that light travels in one year.Passage 52． Air JordanMichael Jordan(1963-)is one of the most famous basketball players in the world． He was born inBrooklyn, New York． He didn ’ t like to talk about himself． He was also very short． He didn ’ t playvery well when he joined the basketball team in his high school at first． But the next year thingschanged greatly for him, as he grew much taller ．Michael Jordan became famous when he joined theuniversity basketball team in North Carolina ． Michael used his quickness and strength to reach thebasket again and again．He played so well that people call him Air Jordan． After college,Michael became a member of the Chicago Bull basketball team ．The NBA was very surprised atthis high-flying player.He was named Rookie of the year in 1985 and the most Valuable Playerin 1987 ． He once set a record by getting 63 points in one game.Passage 53． The Strongest Power in the World.One day a great general asks his soldiers,“ What is the strongest power in the world?”soldiers put up their hands ．They want to answer the question ．The general asks the first man tospeak． The first man is younger than the other three, and he． He say’s,not“strongMyun is the strongest．It can kill anyone.” “．ThankNext, youplease.” The second man is very strong．Hesays,”I don ’ think that’．strueSoldiers use guns． So a soldier is the strongest.” The third man says, Soldiers use guns, but our general gives orders． So I think our general is the strongest.” The four man is the oldest．He says,” Love is the strongest．With love, people don’ t need guns. ” The genera says nothing． He takes out a medal and gives it to him.Passage 54． Who is the God?Tom likes sweets very much ．But his mother never gives him any, because she thinks they are badfor his teeth ． But when Tom ’ s uncle gives him some, she always lets him eat the sweets．She wantsto make her brother happy.One evening, a few days before Tom’ s birthday, heprayingwas in his bedroom．“ Please,God, ” he shouted．“ Let them give me a bog box of sweets as my birthday present.” His heard this and came into the room ．“ Why are you shouting, Tom?” she．“askedGo can hear youquite well, even when you talk quietly.” “ I know, ” answered the clever boy,“ but m next room can ’ t. ”Passage 55． Kites.Do you know how to fly a kite?Do you know how to make a kite?Can you describe the shapes ofkites?Today, people all over the world make and fly kites for fun.Kite were the first flying machines ．People in China used kites as fly machines more than 2000 yearsago． In Marco Polo ’ s report, the Chinese used big kites to carry people up into the sky.The idea of kites helped people to make planes ． In 1894 in Australia, Lawrence Hargrave made fourvery big kites ． These four kites lifted him 5 metres into the air． Today, the wings of planes are justlike kites.Now people around the world use kites in festivals ．Kites can have all kinds of colors and shapes, butthe most important thing is to fly well.Passage 56． A n interesting newspaperEvery morning Mike goes to work by train ． As he has a long trip, he always buys a newspaper ． Ithelps to make the time pass more quickly.。

新概念英语必背优秀文章精读第14篇 Too high a price？

新概念英语必背优秀文章精读第14篇 Too high aprice？请根据中文翻译，看一下下面两个句子能否顺利地填写出来。

原文：_______________1__________________When you come to think about it, there are only four ways you can deal with rubbish：dump it, burn it, turn it into something you can use again, attempt to produce less of it. We keep trying all four methods, but he sheer volume of rubbish we produce worldwide threatens to overwhelm us.Rubbish, however, is only part of the problem ofpolluting our planet. The need to produce ever-increasing quantities of cheap food leads to a different kind of pollution. Industrialized farming methods produce cheap meat products： beef, pork and chicken. The use of pesticides and fertilizers produces cheap grain and vegetables. The price we pay for cheap food may be already too high： Mad Cow Disease (BSE) in cattle, salmonella in chicken and eggs, and wisteria in dairy products. And if you think you'll abandon meat and become a vegetarian, you have the choice of very expensive organically-grown vegetables or a steady diet of pesticides every time you think you're eating fresh salads and vegetables, or just having an innocent glass of water!However, there is an even more insidious kind ofpollution that particularly affects urban areas and invadesour daily lives, and that is noise. Burglar alarms going offat any time of the day or night serve only to annoy passers-by and actually assist burglars to burgle. Car alarms constantly scream at us in the street and are a source of profound irritation. A recent survey of the effects of noise revealed (surprisingly?) that dogs barking incessantly in the night rated the highest form of noise pollution on a scale ranging from 1 to 7. The survey revealed a large number of sources of noise that we really dislike. Lawn mowers whiningon a summer's day, late-night parties in apartment blocks, noisy neighbors, vehicles of al kinds, especially large container trucks thundering through quiet village, planes and helicopters flying overhead, large radios carried round in public places and played at maximum volume. New technologyhas also made its own contribution to noise. A lot of people object to mobile phones, especially when they are used in public places like restaurants or on public transport. Loud conversations on mobile phones invade our thoughts orinterrupt the pleasure of meeting friends for a quiet chat. The noise pollution survey revealed a rather spurring and possibly amusing old fashioned source of noise. It turned out to be snoring! Men were found to be the worst offenders. It was revealed that 20% of men in their mid-thirties snore.This figure rises to a staggering 60% of men in their sixties. Against these figures, it was found that only 5% of women snore regularly, while the rest are constantly woken or kept awake by their trumpeting partners.__________2_________________翻译：污染就是我们为这个人口过密，过度工业化的星球所付出的代价。

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Class One,Grade FourIt is Tuesday today. Boys and girls are all at school。

They usually come to school by bus.Their teacher is at school，too. The teacher’s name is Gu Yan. She is young. She usually comes to school on foot.Look at the classroom of Class One, Grade Four. In this room, you can see a boy and a girl. The boy is eleven. His name is Jack. The girl is Emma. She is twelve. John is Jack’s friend. He is an American boy.根据短文内容判断正误，正确的写T,错误的写F.( )1.Boys and girls are all at home today.( )2.The boys and girls go to school by bus.( )3.Miss Gu is not old.( )4.Miss Gu usually goes to school by bike.James Is IllJames is a primary school(小学) student. He’s in Grade（年纪）Three now. He has a round face and wears glasses. He likes playing football and swimming. But today he doesn’t go to school. He’s ill.He’s in bed. He had a bad cold. He must stay in bed for a week.根据短文选择正确的答案( )1.James is a student.A.primary schoolB.middle schoolC.senior school( )2.Jame is in Grade . A.Too B.Three C.Two( )3.Jame likes . A.basketball B.football C.table tennis ( )4.James is in bed because .A.he is tiredB.he is illC.he is sleepy( )5.James must stay in bed for . A.a day B.a week C.two weeksThe Lion’s DinnerLion: Good afternoon, Mrs Rabbit. Let me eat you.Rabbit: Don’t eat me, Mr Lion. I’m old. That mouse is younger than me.Lion: Miss Mouse, Miss Mouse, let me eat you.Mouse: Oh, no. Many birds are standing over there.Lion: Birds, I will eat you. You are my dinner.Birds: You are bad. We can fly, can you?Lion: No, I can’t. But where is my dinner、根据短文选择正确答案( )1.The lion is . A.full B.hungry C.scared(受惊吓的) D.happy ( )2.The lion doesn’t eat the rabbit,because there is a over there.A.deerB.birdC.goatD.mouse( )3.Can the birds fly ?A.No,t hey can.B.Yes,they can.C.No, they can’t.D.Yes,they can’t. ( )4.The lion can't fly. He at last.A.eat dinnerB.eat the rabbitC.doesn’t have dinnerD.eat the mouse ( )5.The lion doesn’t eat the mouse,because ther are over there.A.birdsB.rabbitsC.goatsD.deersThe first Day of SchoolIt’s the first day of school. Lily wants to go back to school. She wants to see her friends, She wants to meet her new teachers.Lily gets up early in the morning. She washes the face and eats the breakfast. Then she rides her bike to school. She sees her friends on the playground. She plays hide-and-seek（捉迷藏）with them. In the classroom, Lily meets her new math teacher. Her name is Mrs Green. Lily likes Mrs Green. She can speak English very well. Lily thinks she is a nice teacher.根据短文判断正误( )1.It’s the first day of the new year. ( )2.Lily wants to meet her friends. ( )3.Lily goes to school by bus. ( )4.L ily’s new teacher is a nice woman. ( )5.Mrs Green is Lily’s English teacher.根据表格判断正误( )1.Peter palys basketball, but Cindy doesn’t play basketball.( )2.Jack doesn’t play TV games. Cindy doesn’t play Tvgames, either(也).( )3.Cindy watches TV. Peter watches TV, too.( )4.J ack doesn’t watch TV. Peter doesn’t watch TV, either.( )5.Peter doesn’t sleep a lot . Jack doesn't sleep a lot , either.SamSam is a teacher of math. He is not young, but he is not old. He is 40 years old. He has a round(圆的) face and black hair. He is short. There are forty students in his class. They all like him.Now it’s in the afternoon. Look, some students are studying in the classroom. Sam is there, too. He is helping them to study math. He is a old teacher, and he is a good friend of his students.根据短文选择正确答案( )1.What does Sam do?A.He is a worker.B.He is a teacher.C.He is a doctor.D.He is a nurse.( )2.What colour is his hair?A.It’s black.B.His hair is white.C.It is brown.D.He has yellow hair.( )3.How many students are there in his class?A.There are fourteen students in his class.B.There’s forty.C.He has forty.D.There are forty in it.( )4.Sam is a good teacher,isn’t he?A.Yes ,he isn’t.B.No,he is .C.No,he isn’t.D.Yes, he is.( )5.What are the students doing in the classroom?A.They are walking there.B. They are doing their lessons.C. They are helping their teacher.D. They are good friends of Sam.See a DoctorMother: Good morning, Doctor!Doctor: Good morning, Mrs Brown. What’s wrong with your son, John?Mother: He looks ill.Doctor: Hello, John. How do you feel now?John: I don’t feel well, Doctor.Doctor: Open your mouth, John. Show me your tongue. Say“Ah”.J ohn: Ah…Doctor: John has a bad cold, Mrs Brown.Mother: Can he go to school?Doctor: No. He must be in bed and take some medicine.Mother: Thank you ,Doctor. 根据短文选择正确答案( )1.The doctor comes to see John .A.in the morningB.in the afternoonC.at night( )2.John is .A.a doctorB.the doctor’s sonC.Mrs Brown’s son( )3.What’s wrong with John? He is .A.feeling illB.illC.very good( )4.Can John go to school? .A.Yes,he can.B.No,he can’t.C.I don’t know.( )5.The doctor asks John open his mouth to see his .A.stomachB.tongueC.teethJim’s FamilyIt’s nine o’clock in the evening. The family are all at home. Jim’s father is sitting in a chair. He’s watching TV. Jim’s mother is standing near the window. She’s giving some food to a bird. Polly says, “Thanks! Thanks!” Where’s Jim? Oh, he’s behind the door. Kate,Jim’s sister, is looking for him. They are playing games. They have no homework on Sunday evening. 根据短文选择正确答案( )1.There are members(成员) in the family.A.threeB.fourC.fiveD.six( )2.Who is watching TV in a chair?A.JimB.Jim’s motherC.Jim’s fatherD.Jim’s sister( )3.Jim and Kate are .A.good friendsB.two girlsC.two boysD.brother and sister ( )4.The children doing their homework.A.aren’tB.isn’tC.don’tD.not( )5.What’s Kate doing?A.She’s doing her homework.B.She’s standing near th e window.C.She’s looking for a pen.D.She’s playing games.You Can Use MineTim: Where are you going?Nancy: I’m going to the classroom.What’s the weather like outside(外面)?Tim: It’s raining and windy. You should take an umbrella (雨伞) with you.Nancy: But I haven’t got one.Tim: You can use mine. I don’t need(需要) it now. Here it is.Nancy: Thank you very much. Bye.Tim: Bye.根据短文填空1.What’s the like outside?2.It’s and windy.3.Nancy hasn’t an umbrella.4.You should take an umbrella you.5.You can use .Lucy and Lily’s BedroomThis is Lucy and this is Lily. They are twins(双胞胎).They are twelve. This is their bedroom. It’s a nice room. The two beds look the same. This bed is Lily’s and that one is Lucy’s .The twins have two desks and two chairs. Lucy’s chair is green and Lily’s blue. Lucy’s skirt(裙子) is on her bed. Lily’s coat is on the clothes line(晒衣绳). Their clock,books and pencil-boxes are on the desk. Their schoolbags are behind the chair. Their bedroom is very nice and tidy(整洁的).根据短文选择正确答案( )1.Lucy and Lily are .A.brothersB.sistersC.friendsD.boys( )2.Lucy and her sister have .A.two chairs and one deskB. two desks and one chairC.two chairs and two desksD. one desk and one chair( )3.Lily’s chair is and Lucy’s is .A.ren, blackB.yellow, blackC.blue, greenD.red, yellow ( )4.Where’s Lucy’s skirt?A.It’s on the clothes line.B.It’s on their desk.C.It’s on her bed. C.It’s on her sister’s bed.( )5.Which sentence(句子) is right?A.Their classroom is very nice.B.Their two chairs don’t look the same.C.Their clock,coats and pencil-boxes are on the desk.D.Their schoolbags are under the chair.Where Do They Sit?Six children go to the cinema to see a new film. The film is about animals.Their seats numbers are 5A, 5B, 5C, 5D, 5E and 5F. They sit in the same row. Mingming doesn’t sit next to John.He sits next to Sue. Helen sits between Sam and John. Sam sits in 5A.Mary sits on the left of Mingming. Which seats do they sit in?A Sunny DayIt is beautiful sunny day. There isn’t a cloud in the sky. Grey wants to have lunch outside. But we decide(决定) to have a swim first. After swimming, we have lunch under the trees. Then we lie(躺) in the sun for a while（一会儿）.In the afternoon, it begins to get cloudy. At five o’clock, we have to go back because it starts to rain.根据短文回答下列问题1.What do we do on a sunny day?2.What do we decide to do first?3.What’s the weather like in the afternoon?4.Why do we have to go back home?5.When do we go home?My Cousin’s ComputerMy cousin（堂表兄弟）has a computer. But I don’t have a computer. So I often go to my cousin’s home.I draw pictures and play computer games on my cousin’s computer. I can draw chickens, tables, chairs and so on（等等）.But my cousin can’t draw pictures o n the computer. I like playing the Harry Potter game best（最好）, because it’s very exciting（令人兴奋的）.I like computers very much and I want a computer, too.根据短文内容填空I often go to my home because my cousin has a .I draw and play games on his computer.But my cousin can’t draw on the computer. I like the Harry Potter game ,because it’s very .Nobody（没有人）Jeff lives in a big city. His father has a shop there and his mother is a doctor. He is seven years old now and begins（开始）to go to school this autumn. It’s a little far from their house and his father drives（驾驶）a car to take him to school every day. So he is never late for class and his teachers like him. It’s Monday today. Miss Green is teaching（教）them to count from one to ten（从一数到五）.Jeff is studying hard. Soon he can count them. Miss Green is happy and asks,“How many people are there in your family,Jeff?”Jeff stands up and says,“Nobody, Miss Green.”“Why?”“Mother,father and I are not at home now.”根据短文回答问题1. Where does Jeff live?2. What does Jeff’s mother do?3. Why does Jeff’s father drive a car to take him to school every day?4. What is Miss Green teaching them today?5. How many people are there in Jeff’s family?(一)In my family, there are three people, which is my mother, my father and I. My mother likes cooking, and my father likes reading. We are very happy, and play together a lot. My mother always looks after me, and my father looks after me too. I love my parents!1. How many people are there in my family ?A OneB TwoC Three2.What does my father like ? He likes ___-.A cookingB PlayingC reading3.Who always looks after me ?______A my fatherB my motherC my parents4.Are we happy?A Yes , I amB Yes ,we’re notC Yes .we are5.Do I love my parents ?A No, I’m notB Yes ,I amC Yes ,I’m not.（二）There are three people in my family,My father is a worker ,he often plays basketball with me,He hopes me to be "YAO MING".My mom is a teacher,she often does housework ,I often help her.I am very happy with my mom and my father.So,that's my happy family1．What does my father do ?A . A teacherB A workerC . A Student2. What does my father like playing ?A basketballB houseworkC piano3.Who does my father hope me to be ?A HeB Yao MingC Liu Xiang4.Is my mother a teacher ?A Yes ,I amB Yes ,she isC Yes ,he is5.Who helps my mother do housework ?A My fatherB Yao MingC .I（三）A train stops at a station（车站）. A young man wants to come out, but it is raining. A boy is standing under a big umbrella. The young man says to the boy. “Can you go and get us two hambugers, one for you and one for me? Here are two dollars.” “Great!” say the boy and he goes to buy hamburgers. After some time, the boy is back. He is eating a hamburger. “Where is my hamburger?” asks the young man. “Oh, there is only one hamburger left. So I’m eating mine. Here is your dollar. ”1．Where is the young man ?A At a stationB Under a big umbrellaC On the train2.What does the young man want to buy ?A UmbrellaB HamburgersC Dollars3.Who helps the young man ?A A boyB A manC .Nobody4.Does the young man get a hambuger ?A No ,he doesn’tB Yes ,he doesC .No ,he does5.Is the boy clever（聪明的）?A Yes ,he isn’tB Yes ,he isC .No ,I’m not。

小学英语阅读100篇中英对照

小学英语阅读100篇一引导语：下面小编为大家带来小学英语阅读100篇一，谢谢您的阅读Man! 可怜的人!Look at this man. 看这个人。

What is he doing He's carrying a very big box. 他在做什么他在搬一个非常重的大盒子。

The box is full of big apples. 这个盒子装满了大苹果。

He wants to put it on the back of his bike and take it home. 他想把它放到他的自行车的后面带回家。

Can he do that No, I don't think so. 他能做到吗不，我不这样认为。

Why not Because the box is too full and too heavy. 为什么不呢因为这个盒子太满了太重了。

Look! What's wrong He drops the box. Poor man! 看!发生了什么事他的盒子掉下来了。

可怜的人!凯特Kate is a new student. She is twelve. She is from America. 凯特是个学生。

她12岁。

她来自美国。

She can speak English very well and she can speak a little Chinese. 她可以讲非常好的英语，能说一点汉语。

111She is in Nanjing. Her parents are doctors. 她在南京，她的父母都是医生。

Kate is studying in a school near her home. 凯特在她家附近一所学校学习。

She has classes from Monday to Friday. 她从星期一到星期五有课。

On Saturdays and Sundays, she often plays games with her Chinese friends. 在星期六和星期天，她经常和她的中国朋友玩游戏。

大学英语四级考试精读荟萃100篇

大学英语四级考试精读荟萃100篇(44):露天演出的服装Pageants are usually conceived on a fairly large scale, often under the auspices of some local or civic authority or at any rate in connection with local groups of some kind. This sometimes means that there is an allocation of funds available for the purpose of mounting the production, though unfortunately this will usually be found to be on the meager side and much ingenuity will have to be used to stretch it so that all performers can be adequately clothed.Most pageants have a historical flavour as they usually come about through the celebration of the anniversary of some event of historic importance, or the life or death of some local worthy. Research among archives and books in the public library will probably prove very useful and produce some workable ideas which will give the production an especially local flavour. From the first economy will have to be practiced because there are usually a great number of people to dress. Leading characters can be considered individually in the same way as when designing for a play; but the main body of the performers will need to be planned in groups and the massed effect must be always borne in mind.Many pageants take place in daylight in the open air. This is an entirely different problem from designing costumes which are going to be looked at under artificial lighting; for one thing, scenes viewed in the daylight are subject to many more distractions. No longer is everything around cut out by the surrounding darkness, but instead it is very easy to be aware of disturbing movement in the audience of behind the performers. Very theatrically conceived clothes do not always look their best when seen in a daylight setting of trees, verdant lawns and old ivy-covered walls; the same goes for costumes being worn in front of the mellow colors of stately homes. The location needs to be studied and then a decision can be made as to what kinds of colors and textures will harmonize best with the surroundings and conditions and then to carry this out as far as possible on the funds available.If money is available to dress the performers without recourse to their own help in the provision of items, it is best to arrange for all the cutting and pinning together of the costumes to be done by one or two experienced people than to be given out to the groups and individuals for completion. When there is little or no money at all, the garments need to be reduced to the basic necessities. Cloaks and shawls become invaluable, sheets and large bath towels and bath sheets are admirable for draping. Unwanted curtains and bed spreads can be cut to make tunics, robes and skirts. These are particularly valuable if they are of heavy fabrics such as velvet or chenille.Colors should be massed together so that there are contrasting groups of dark and light, this will be found to help the visual result substantially. Crowds of people gathered together in a jumble of colors will be ground to look quite purposeless and will lack dramatic impact.The use of numbers of identical head-dresses, however simply made, are always effective when working with groups. If these are made of cardboard and painted boldly the cost can be almost negligible. Helmets, hats and plumes will all make quite a show even if the costumes are only blandest or sheets cleverly draped. The same can be said of theuse of banners, shields and poles with stiff pennants and garlands—anything which will help to have a unifying effect. Any kind of eye-catching device will always go with a flourish and add excitement to the scenes.1. The main idea of this passage is[A]. Pageants. [B]. Costumes on the stage.[C]. Costumes for pageants. [D]. How to arrange a pageant.2. It can be inferred that the most important factor in costume design is[A]. money. [B]. color. [C]. harmony [D]. texture3. Why will much ingenuity have to be required in costume design?[A]. Because pageants take place in daylight in the open air.[B]. Because different characters require different costumes.[C]. Because the colors and textures must be in harmony with the setting.[D]. Because an allocation of the funds available is usually rather small.4. Why do most pageants have a historical flavour?[A]. Because most pageants take place for celebration.[B]. Many pageants take place for amusement.[C]. A lot of pageants take place for religion.[D]. Because pageants usually take place for competition.Vocabulary1. conceive 设想，想象to be conceived 设想好的，构思好的2. under the auspices of 在……的主办下3. meager 贫乏的，不足的4. mount 登上，制作，上演5. flavour 风味，风格，情趣6. archive(s) 档案(馆)7. distraction 使人分心的事8. ivy 常春藤9. mellow 柔和的10. recourse (to) 依赖，求助于11. drape 覆盖，披上12. invaluable 无价的，非常贵重的13. tunic (古时)长达膝盖的外衣，穿在盔甲上的战袍14. chenille 绳绒绒(织品)15. jumble 混乱，搞乱16. pennant 细长三角旗17. garland 花环，花冠难句译注1. This sometimes means that there is an allocation of funds available for the purpose of mounting the production, though unfortunately this will usually be found to be on the meager side and much ingenuity will have to be used to stretch it so that all performers can be adequately clothed.[结构简析] 复合结构。

大学英语四级考试精读荟萃100篇

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Passage 95. A box of apples A man was going to the house of some rich person. As he went along the road, he saw a box of good apples at the side of the road. He said, "I do not want to eat those apples; for the rich man will give me much food; he will give me very nice food to eat." Then he took the apples and threw them away into the dust.He went on and came to a river. The river had become very big; so he could not go over it. He waited for some time; then he said, "I cannot go to the rich man's house today, for I cannot get over the river."He began to go home. He had eaten no food that day. He began to want food. He came to the apples, and he was glad to take them out of the dust and eat them. Do not throw good things away; you may be glad to have them at some other time.

英语基础精读荟萃：theonlywaytotravelisonfoot

英语基础精读荟萃：The only way to travel is onfootPassage one（The only way to travel is on foot）The past ages of man have all been carefully labeled by anthropologists. Descriptions like Palaeolithic Man , Neolithic Man , etc., neatly sum up whole periods. When the time comes for anthropologists to turn their attention to the twentieth century, they will surely choose the label Legless Man . Histories of the time will go something like this: in the twentieth century, people forgot how to use their legs. Men and women moved about in cars, buses and trains from a very early age. There were lifts and escalators in all large buildings to prevent people from walking. This situation was forced upon earth dwellers of that time because of miles each day. But the surprising thing is that they didn t use their legs even when they went on holiday. They built cable railways, ski-lifts and roads to the top of every huge mountain. All the beauty spots on earth were marred by the presence of large car parks. The future history books might also record that we were deprived of the use of our eyes. In our hurry to get from one place to another, we failed to see anything on the way. Air travel gives you a bird s-eye view of the world or even less if the wing ofthe aircraft happens to get in your way. When you travel by car or train a blurred image of the countryside constantly smears the windows. Car drivers, in particular, are forever obsessed with the urge to go on and on: they never want to stop. Is it the lure of the great motorways, or what? And as for sea travel, it hardly deserves mention. It is perfectly summed up in the words of the old song: I joined the navy to see the world, and what did I see? I saw the sea. The typical twentieth-century traveler is the man who always says I ve been there. You mention the remotest, most evocative place-names in the world like El Dorado, Kabul, Irkutsk and someone is bound to say I ve been there meaning, I drove through it at 100 miles an hour on the way to somewhere else.When you travel at high speeds, the present means nothing: you live mainly in the future because you spend most of your time looking forward to arriving at some other place. But actual arrival, when it is achieved, is meaningless. You want to move on again. By traveling like this, you suspend all experience; the present ceases to be a reality: you might just as well be dead. The traveler on foot, on the other hand, lives constantly in the present. For him traveling and arriving are one and the same thing: he arrives somewhere with every step he makes. Heexperiences the present moment with his eyes, his ears and the whole of his body. At the end of his journey he feels a delicious physical weariness. He knows that sound. Satisfying sleep will be his: the just reward of all true travellers.1、Anthorpologists label nowaday s men Legless becauseA people forget how to use his legs.B people prefer cars, buses and trains.C lifts and escalators prevent people from walking.D there are a lot of transportation devices.2、Travelling at high speed meansA people s focus on the future.B a pleasure.C satisfying drivers great thrill.D a necessity of life.3、Why does the author say we are deprived of the use of our eyes ?A People won t use their eyes.B In traveling at high speed, eyes become useless.C People can t see anything on his way of travel.D People want to sleep during travelling.4、What is the purpose of the author in writing this passage?A Legs become weaker.B Modern means of transportation make the world a small place.C There is no need to use eyes.D The best way to travel is on foot.5. What does a bird s-eye view mean?A See view with bird s eyes.B A bird looks at a beautiful view.C It is a general view from a high position looking down.D A scenic place.VOCABULARY1.Palaeolithic 旧石器时代的2.Neolithic 新石器时代的3.escalator 自动电梯，自动扶梯4.ski-lift 载送滑雪者上坡的装置5.mar 损坏，毁坏6.blur 模糊不清，朦胧7.smear 涂，弄脏，弄模糊（尤指画面、轮廓等）8.evocative 引起回忆的，唤起感情的9.El Dorado11.Irkutsk 伊尔库茨克（原苏联亚洲城市）难句译注与答案详解The only way to travel is on foot 旅游的唯一方法是走路难句译注1.Air travel gives you a bird s-eye view of the world or even if the wing of the aircraft happens to get in your way. 【参考译文】飞机旅行，你只可俯视世界――如果机翼碰巧挡住了你的视线，就看得更少了。

英语美文背诵文选100篇修订

英语美文背诵文选100篇1. The First SnowThe first snow came. How beautiful it was, falling so silently all day long, all night long, on the mountains, on the meadows, on the roofs on the living, on the graves of the dead! All white savethe river, that marked its course be a winding black line across the landscape; and the leafless tress, that against the leaden sky now revealed more fully the wonderful beauty and intricacies of their branches. What silence, too, came with the snow, and what seclusion! Every sound was muffled, every noise changed to something soft and musical. No more tramping hoofs, no more rattling wheels! Only the chiming of sleigh-bell, beating as swift and merrily as the hearts of children. (118 words)From KavanaghBy Henry Wadsworth Longfellow7. The Importance of Scientific ExperimentsThe rise of modern science may perhaps be considered to date as far as the time of Roger Bacon, the wonderful monk and philosopher of Oxford, who lived between the years 1214 and 1292. He was probable the first in the middle ages to assert that we must learn science by observing and experimenting on the things around us, and he himself made many remarkable discoveries. Galileo, however who lived more than 300 years later (1564 to 1642), was the greatest of several great men, who in Italy, France, Germany or England, began by degrees to show how many important truths could be discovered by well-directed observation. Before the time of Galileo, learned men believed that large bodies fall more rapidly towards the earth than small ones, because Aristotle said so. But Galileo, going to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, let fall two unequal stones, and proved to some friends, whom he had brought there to see his experiment, that Aristotle was in error. It is Galileo's sprit of going direct to Nature, and verifying our opinions and theories by experiment, that has led to all the great discoveries of modern science.(196 words)From LogicBy William Stanley Jevons陈冠商《英语背诵文选》8. Address at GettysburgFourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceivedand so dedicated, ca n long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.But, in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate-we cannot consecrate-we cannot hallow-this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, heave consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us, the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us tobe here dedicated to the great task remaining before us-that form these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion; that wehere highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain; that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, for the people,shall not perish from the earth. (268 words)By Abraham Lincoln9. A Little Girl (1)Sitting on a grassy grave, beneath one of the windows of the church, was a little girl. With herhead bent back she was gazing up at the sky and singing, while one of her little hands was pointing to a tiny cloud that hovered like a golden feather above her head. The sun, which had suddenly become very bright, shining on her glossy hair, gave it a metallic luster, and it was difficult to say what was the color, dark bronze or black. So completely absorbed was shi in watching the cloud to which her strange song or incantation and went towards her. Over her head, high up in the blue, a lark that was soaring towards the same gauzy could was singing, as if in rivalry. As I slowly approached the child, I could see by her forehead, which in the sunshine seemed like a globe of pearl, and especially by her complexion, that she uncommonly lovely.(159 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》10. A Little Girl (2)Her eyes, which at one moment seemed blue-gray, at another violet, were shaded by long black lashes, curving backward in a most peculiar way, and these matched in hue her eyebrows, and the tresses that were tossed about her tender throat and were quivering in the sunlight. All this I didnot take in at once; for at first I could see nothing but those quivering, glittering, changeful eyes turned up into my face. Gradually the other features, especially the sensitive full-lipped mouth, grew upon me as I stood silently gazing. Here seemed tome a more perfect beauty than had ever come to me in my loveliest dreams of beauty. Yet it was not her beauty so much as the look she gave me that fascinated me, melted me. (129 words)(302 words)From Aylwinby Theodore Watts-Dunton陈冠商《英语背诵文选》11. Choosing an OccupationHodeslea, Eastbourne,November 5, 1892Dear Sir,I am very sorry that the pressure of other occupations has prevented me form sending an earlier reply to your letter.In my opinion a man's first duty is to find a way of supporting himself, thereby relieving other people of the necessity of supporting him. Moreover, the learning to so work of practical value inthe world, in an exact and careful manner, is of itself, a very important education the effects ofwhich make themselves felt in all other pursuits. The habit of doing that which you do not dareabout when you would much rather be doing something else, is invaluable. It would have savedme a frightful waste of time if I had ever had it drilled into me in youth.Success in any scientific career requires an unusual equipment of capacity, industry, and energy. If you possess that equipment, you will find leisure enough after your daily commercial work is over,to make an opening in the scientific ranks for yourself. If you do not, you had better stick tocommerce. Nothing is less to be desired than the fate of a young man who, as the Scotch proverb says, in 'trying to make a spoon spoils a horn," and becomes a mere hanger-on in literature or in science, when he might have been a useful and a valuable member of Society in other occupations.I think that your father ought to see this letter. (244 words)Yours faithfullyT.H. HuxleyFrom Life and Letters of Thomas Henry HuxleyBy Leonard Huxley陈冠商《英语背诵文选》12. An Important Aspect of College LifeIt is perfectly possible to organize the life of our colleges in such a way that students and teachers alike will take part in it; in such a way that a perfectly natural daily intercourse will be established between them; and it is only by such an organization that they can be given real vitality as placesof serious training, be made communities in which youngsters will come fully to realize how interesting intellectual work is, how vital, how important, how closely associated with all modern achievement-only by such an organization that study can be made to seem part of life itself. Lectures often seem very formal and empty things; recitations generally proved very dull and unrewarding. It is in conversation and natural intercourse with scholars chiefly that you find how lively knowledge is, how it ties into everything that is interesting and important, how intimate apart it is of every thing that is interesting and important, how intimate a part it is of everything thatis "practical" and connected with the world. Men are not always made thoughtful by books; butthey are generally made thoughtful by association with men who think. (195 words)By Woodrow Wilson陈冠商《英语背诵文选》13. Night (1)Night has fallen over the country. Through the trees rises the red moon, and the stars are scarcely seen. In the vast shadow of night the coolness and the dews descend. I sit at the open window to enjoy them; and hear only the voice of the summer wind. Like black hulks, the shadows of thegreat trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass. I cannot see the red and blue flowers, but I know that they are there. Far away in the meadow gleams the silver Charles. The tramp of horses' hoofs sounds from the wooden bridge. Then all is still save the continuous wind or the sound ofthe neighboring sea. The village clock strikes; and I feel that I am not alone.(128 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》14. Night (2)How different it is in the city! It is late, and the crowd is gone. You step out upon the balcony, andlie in the very bosom of the cool, dewy night as if you folded her garments about you. Beneath lies the public walk with trees, like a fathomless, black gulf, into whose silent beloved spirit clasped inits embrace. The lamps are still burning up and down the long street. People go by with grotesque shadows, now foreshortened, and now lengthening away into the darkness and vanishing, while a new one springs up behind the walker, and seems to pass him revolving like the sail of a windmill. The iron gates of the park shut with a jangling clang. There are footsteps and loud voices; --a tumult; --a drunken brawl; --an alarm of fire; --then silence again. And now at length the city is asleep, and we can see the night. The belated moon looks over the roofs, and finds no one towelcome her. The moonlight is broken. It lies here and there in the squares, and the opening of the streets-angular like blocks of white marble. (195 words)(323 words)By Nathanial Hawthorne陈冠商《英语背诵文选》15. An October Sunrise (1)I was up the next morning before the October sunrise, and away through the wild and the woodland. The rising of the sun was noble in the cold and warmth of it; peeping down the spreadof light, he raised his shoulder heavily over the edge of gray mountain and wavering length of upland. Beneath his gaze the dew-fogs dipped and crept to the hollow places, then stole away in line and column, holding skirts and cling subtly at the sheltering corners where rock hung overgrass-land, while the brave lines of the hills came forth, one beyond other gliding.The woods arose in folds, like drapery of awakened mountains, stately with a depth of awe, and memory of the tempests. Autumn's mellow hand was upon them, as they owned already, touched with gold and red and olive, and their joy towards the sun was less to a bridegroom than a father. (152 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》16. An October Sunrise (2)Yet before the floating impress of the woods could clear itself, suddenly the gladsome light leaped over hill and valley, casting amber, blue, and purple, and a tint of rich red rose, according to the scene they lit on, and the curtain flung around; yet all alike dispelling fear and the coven hoof of darkness, all on the wings of hope advancing, and proclaiming, "God is here!" Then life and joy sprang reassured from every crouching hollow; every flower and bud and bird had a fluttering sense of them, and all the flashing of God's gaze merged into soft beneficence.So, perhaps, shall break upon us that eternal morning, when crag and chasm shall be no more, neither hill and valley, nor great unvintaged ocean; when glory shall not scare happiness, neither happiness envy glory; but all things shall arise, and shine in the light of the Father's countenance, because itself is risen. (153 words)(305 words)By Richard D. Blackmore陈冠商《英语背诵文选》17. Of Studies (1)Studies serve for delight, for ornamental, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament, is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, natural plants, that need proyning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. (157 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》18. Of Studies (2)Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted; others to swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in theless important arguments, and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things. Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; an if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. (170 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》19. Of Studies (3)Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend. Abeunt studia in mores. Nay there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body mayhave appropriate exercises. Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases. So every defect of the mind may have a special receipt. (163 words)(490 words)By Francis Bacon陈冠商《英语背诵文选》20. Books (1)The good books of the hour, then, --I do not speak of the bad ones—is simply the useful or pleasant talk of some person whom you cannot otherwise converse with, printed for you. Very useful often, telling you what you need to know; very pleasant often, as a sensible friend's present talk would be. These bright accounts of travels; good-humoured and witty discussion of questions; lively or pathetic story-telling in the form of novel; firm fact-telling, by the real agents concernedin the events of passing history; --all these books of the hour, multiplying among us as education becomes more general, are a peculiar characteristic and possession of the present age: we ought to be entirely thankful for them, and entirely ashamed of ourselves if we make no good use of them. But we make the worse possible use, if we allow them to usurp the place of true books: for, strictly speaking, they are not books at all, but merely letters or newspapers in good print. Our friend'sletter may be delightful, or necessary, today: whether worth keeping or not, is to be considered. (189 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》21. Books (2)The newspaper may be entirely proper at breakfast time, but assuredly it is not reading for all day. So though bound up in a volume, the long letter which gives you so pleasant an account of the inns, the roads, and weather last year at such a place, or which tells you that amusing story, or gives you the real circumstances of such and such events, however valuable for occasionalreference, may not be, in the real sense of the word, a "book" at all, nor, in the real sense, to be "read". A book is essentially not a talked thing, but a written thing; and written, not with the viewof mere communication, but of permanence. The book of talk is printed only because its author cannot speak to thousands of people at once; if he could, he would-the volume is mere multiplication of his voice. You cannot talk to your friend in India; if you could, you would; youwrite instead: that is mere conveyance of voice. But a book is written, not to multiply the voice merely, not to carry it merely, but to preserve it. (190 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》22. Books (3)The author has something to say which he perceives to be true and useful, or helpfully beautiful.So far as he knows, no one has yet said it; so far as he knows, no one else can say it. He is bound to say it, clearly and melodiously if he may; clearly, at all events. In the sum of his life he findsthis to be the thing, or group of things, manifest to him; --this the piece of true knowledge, or sight, which his share of sunshine and earth has permitted him to seize. He would fain set it down for ever; engrave it on rock, if he could; saying, "this is the best of me; for the rest, I ate, and drank,and slept, loved and hated, like another; my life was as the vapour, and is not; but this I saw and knew: this, if anything of mine, is worth your memory, " That is his "writing"; it is, in his smallhuman way, and with whatever degree of true inspiration is in him, his inscription, or scripture.That is a "Book". (186 words)(565 words)By John Ruskin陈冠商《英语背诵文选》24. The Value of Time (1)"Time" says the proverb "is money". This means that every moment well spent may put some money into our pockets. If our time is usefully employed, it will either turn out some useful and important piece of work which will fetch its price in the market, or it will add to our experienceand increase our capacities so as to enable us to earn money when the proper opportunity comes. There can thus be no doubt that time is convertible into money. Let those who think nothing of wasting time, remember this; let them remember that an hour misspent is equivalent to the loss ofa bank-note; an that an hour utilized is tantamount to so much silver or gold; and then they will probably think twice before they give their consent to the loss of any part of their time.Moreover, our life is nothing more than our time. To kill time is therefore a form of suicide. Weare shocked when we think of death, and we spare no pains, no trouble, and no expense to preserve life. But we are too often indifferent to the loss of an hour or of a day, forgetting that ourlife is the sum total of the days and of the hours we live. A day of an hour wasted is therefore so much life forfeited. Let us bear this in mind, and waste of time will appear to us in the light of acrime as culpable as suicide itself. (250 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》25. The Value of Time (2)There is a third consideration which will also tend to warn us against loss of time. Our life is abrief span measuring some sixty or seventy years in all, but nearly one half of this has to be spentin sleep; some years have to be spent over our meals; some over dressing and undressing; some in making journeys on land and voyages by sea; some in merry-making, either on our own accountor for the sake of others; some in celebrating religious and social festivities; some in watchingover the sick-beds of our nearest and dearest relatives. Now if all these years were to be deducted from the tern over which our life extends we shall find about fifteen or twenty years at our disposal for active work. Whoever remembers this can never willingly waste a single moment ofhis life. "It is astonishing" says Lord Chesterfield "that anyone can squander away in absolute idleness one single moment of that portion of time which is allotted to us in this world. Know thetrue value of time; snatch, seize, and enjoy every moment of it!" (187 words)陈冠商《英语背诵文选》26. The Value of Time (3)All time is precious; but the time of our childhood and of our youth is more precious than any other portion of our existence. For those are the periods when alone we can acquire knowledgeand develop our faculties and capacities. If we allow these morning hours of life to slip away unutilized, we shall never be able to recoup the loss. As we grow older, our power of acquisitiongets blunted, so that the art or science which is not acquired in childhood or youth will never be acquired at all. Just as money laid out at interest doubles and trebles itself in time, so the precious hours of childhood and youth, if properly used, will yield us incalculable advantages. "Every moment you lose" says Lord Chesterfield "is so much character and advantage lost; as on the other hand, every moment you now employ usefully is so much time wisely laid out at prodigious interest."A proper employment of time is of great benefit to us from a moral point of view. Idleness is justly said to be the rust of the mind and an idle brain is said to be Satan's workshop. It is mostly whenyou do not know what to do with yourself that you do something ill or wrong. The mind of theidler preys upon itself. As Watt has said:In works of labour or of skillLet me be busy too;For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. (249 words(686 words)By Robert William Service陈冠商《英语背诵文选》27. Spring The Resurrection TimeSprings are not always the same, In some years, April bursts upon our Virginia hills in one prodigious leap—and all the stage is filled at once, whole choruses of tulips, arabesques of forsythia, cadenzas of flowering plum. The trees grow leaves overnight.In other years, spring tiptoes in. It pauses, overcome by shyness, like my grandchild at the door, peeping in, ducking out of sight, giggling in the hallway. "I know you're out there," I cry. "Comein!" And April slips into arms.The dogwood bud, pale green, is inlaid with russet markings. With in the perfect cup a score of clustered seeds are nestled. Once examined the bud in awe: Where were those seeds a month ago The apples display their milliner's scraps of ivory silk, rose-tinged. All the sleeping things wakeup-primrose, baby iris, blue phlox. The earth warms-you can smell it, feel it, crumble April in your hands.The dark Blue Mountains in which I dwell, great-hipped, big-breasted, slumber on the western sky. And then they stretch and gradually awaken. A warm wind, soft as a girl's hair, moves sailboat clouds in gentle skies. The rain come-good rains to sleep by-and fields that were dun as oatmealturn to pale green, then to Kelly green.All this reminds me of a theme that runs through my head like a line of music. Its message is profoundly simple, and profoundly mysterious also: Life goes on. That is all there is to it. Everything that is, was; and everything that is, will be. (259 words)by James J. Kilpatrick陈擎红《英语背诵散文》27. Spell of the Rising MoonAs the moon lifted off the ridge it gathered firmness and authority. Its complexion changed from red, to orange, to gold, to impassive yellow. It seemed to draw light out of the darkening earth, foras it rose, the hills and valleys below grew dimmer. By the time the moon stood clear of the horizon, full chested and round and the color of ivory, the valley were deep shadows in the landscape. The dogs, reassured that this was the familiar moon, stopped barking.The drama took an hour. Moonrise is slow and serried with subtleties. To watch it, we must slipinto an older, more patient sense of time. To watch the moon move inexorably higher is to find an unusual stillness within ourselves. Our imaginations become aware of the vast distances of space, the immensity of the earth and the huge improbability of our own existence. We feel small but privileged.Moonlight shows us none of life's harder edges. Hillsides seem silken and silvery, the oceans still and blue in its light. In moonlight we become less calculating, more drawn to our feelings.(184 words)by Peter Steinhart陈擎红《英语背诵散文》28. The Enchantment of Creeks (1)Nearly everybody has a creek in his past, a confiding waterway that rose in the spring of youth.……．My creek wound between Grandfather's apricot orchard and a neighbor's hillside pasture. It banks were shaded by cottonwoods and redwood trees and a thick tangle of blackberries and wild grapevines. On hot summer days the quiet water flowed clear and cold over gravel bars where I fished for trout.Nothing historic ever happens in these recollected creeks. But their persistence in memory suggests that creeks are bigger than they seem, more a part of our hearts and minds than mighty rivers.Creek time is measured in the lives of strange creatures, in sandflecked caddis worms under the rocks, sudden gossamer clouds of mayflies in the afternoon, or minnows of darting like silvers of inspiration into the dimness of creek fate. Mysteries float in creeks' riffles, crawl over their pebbled bottoms and slink under the roots of trees.While rivers are heavy with sophistication and sediment, creeks are clear, innocent, boisterous, full of dream and promise. A child can wade across them without a parent's cautions. You can go it along, jig for crayfish, swing from ropes along the bank. Creeks belong to childhood, drawing you into the wider world, teaching you the curve of the earth. (214 words)陈擎红《英语背诵散文》29. The Enchantment of Creeks (2)Above all, a creek offers the mind a chance to penetrate the alien universe of water, of tadpolesand trout. What drifts in creek water is the possibility of other worlds inside and above our own.Poet Robert Frost wrote: "It flows between us, over us, and with us. And it is time, strength, tone, light, life, and love.Creeks lead one on, like perfume on the wind. A creek is something that disappears around a bend, into the ground, into the next dimension. To follow a creek is to seek new acquaintance with life.I still find myself following creeks. In high mountain meadows I'll trace their course into the limegreen grass and deep glacial duff, marveling at the sparkle of quartz and mica. The pursuit liquefies my citified haste and lifts weight from my shoulders. Once, in the California desert, as hummingbirds darted from cactus blossoms, I heard the babble of rushing water. My ears led me over dusty hillsides and sown scabrous ravines to an unexpected ribbon of clear, cold water, leaping from rock to rock, filling little pools. The discovery seemed Biblical. It filled me with joy. (191 words)(405 words)by Peter Steinhart陈擎红《英语背诵散文》30. "Why Measure Life in Heartbeats "If one realizes that our time on this earth is but a tiny fraction of that within the cosmos, then life calculation in years may not be as important as we think. Why measure life in heartbeats Whenlife is so dependent on such an unreliable function as the beating f the heart, then it is fragile indeed. The only thing that one can depend upon with absolute certainty is death.I believe that death may be the most important part of life. I believe that life is infinitesimally briefin relation to the immensity of eternity. I believe, because of my religious faith, that I shall "returnto the Father" in an afterlife that is beyond description. I believe that though my life was short in years, it was full in experience, joy, love and accomplishment; that my own immortality will reside in the memories of my loved ones left behind, mother, brother, wife, children, dear friends.I believe that I will die with loved ones close by and, one hopes, achieve that great gift of God-death in peace, and with dignity. (184 words)by John A. Macdonald陈擎红《英语背诵散文》31. If I were a Boy Again (1)If I were a boy again, I would practise perseverance oftener, and never give up a thing because it was hard or inconvenient. If we want light, we must conquer darkness. Perseverance can sometimes equal genius in its results. "There are only two creatures," says a proverb, "who can surmount the pyramids -the eagle and the snail."If I were a boy again, I would school myself into a habit of attention; I would let nothing come between me and the subject in hand. I would remember that a good skater never tries to skate in two directions at once. The habit of attention becomes part of our life, if we begin early enough. I often hear grown-up people say, "I could not fix my attention on the lecture or book, although I wished to do so," and the reason is, the habit was not formed in youth.If I were to live my life over again, I would pay more attention to the cultivation of the memory. I would strengthen that faculty by every possible means, and on every possible occasion. It takes a little hard work at first to remember things accurately; but memory soon helps itself, and gives very little trouble. It only needs early cultivation to become a power. (213 words)华江《英语名篇佳作100篇背诵手册》32. If I were a Boy Again (2)。

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Passage Fourteen(Antarctica and Environment)Antarctica has actually become a kind of space station - a unique observation post for detecting important changes in the world’s environment. Remote from major sources of pollution and the complex geological and ecological systems that prevail elsewhere, Antarctica makes possible scientific measurements that are often sharper and easier to interpret than those made in other parts of the world. Growing numbers of scientists therefore see Antarctica as a distant-early-warning sensor, where potentially dangerous global trends may be spotted before they show up to the north. One promising field of investigation is glaciology. Scholars from the United States, Switzerland, and France are pursuing seven separate but related projects that reflect their concern for the health of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet - a concern they believe the world at large should share.The Transantarctic Mountain, some of them more than 14,000 feet high, divide the continent into tw o very different regions. The part of the continent to the “east” of the mountains is a high plateau covered by an ice sheet nearly two miles thick. “West” of the mountain, the half of the continent south of the Americas is also covered by an ice sheet, but there the ice rests on rock that is mostly well below sea level. If the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared, the western part of the continent would be reduced to a sparse cluster of island.While ice and snow are obviously central to many environmental experiments, others focus on the mysterious “dry valley” of Antarctica, valleys that contain little ice or snow even in the depths of winter. Slashed through the mountains of southern Victoria Land, these valleys once held enormous glaciers that descended 9,000 feet from the polar plateau to the Ross Sea. Now the glaciers are gone, perhaps a casualty of the global warming trend during the 10,000 years since the ice age. Even the snow that falls in the dry valleys is blasted out by vicious winds that roars down from the polar plateau to the sea. Left bare are spectacular gorges, rippled fields of sand dunes, clusters of boulders sculptured into fantastic shapes by 100-mile-an-hour winds, and an aura of extraterrestrial desolation.Despite the unearthly aspect of the dry valleys, some scientists believe they may carry a message of hope of the verdant parts of the earth. Some scientists believe that in some cases the dry valleys may soak up pollutants faster than pollutants enter them.1. What is the best title for this passage?[A] Antarctica and environmental Problems.[B] Antarctica: Earth’s Early-Warning station.[C] Antarctica: a Unique Observation Post.[D] Antarctica: a Mysterious Place.2. What would the result be if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet disappeared?[A] The western part of the continent would be disappeared.[B] The western part of the continent would be reduced.[C] The western part of the continent would become scattered Islands.[D] The western part of the continent would be reduced to a cluster of Islands.3. Why are the Dry Valleys left bare?[A] Vicious wind blasts the snow away.[B] It rarely snows.[C] Because of the global warming trend and fierce wind.[D] Sand dunes.4. Which of the following is true?[A] The “Dry Valleys” have nothing left inside.[B] The “Dry Valleys” never held glaciers.[C] The “Dry Valleys” may carry a message of hope for the verdant.[D] The “Dry Valleys” are useless to scientists.V ocabulary1. distant-early-warning sensor 远距离早期报警传感器2. plateau 高原，3. 高地4. slash 挥砍5.6. blast 一阵疾风/狂风7. vicious 邪恶的，8. 凶魔般的9. gorge 峡谷10. ripple 起伏，11. 使起微波12. sand dune 沙丘13. verdant 绿色14. extraterrestrial 地球之外的15. aura 气氛难句译注1. Growing numbers of scientists therefore see Antarctica as a distant-early waning sensor, where potentially dangerous global trends may be spotted before they show up to the north.【结构简析】see … as 把……看作。

Where定从修饰Antarctic。

【参考译文】因此，2. 越来越多的科学家把南极洲视为一个远距离早期报警敏感器，3. 在那里地球许多潜在的危险动向早在它们出现于北方以前就能发现。

4. The part of the continent to the “east” of the mountain东指5. 的使印度正南的这一部分。

或山移动的那部分洲。

6. an aura of extraterrestrial desolation应译为：与地球格格不7. 入的一种荒凉隔绝的气氛。

或与世隔绝的一种荒凉气氛。

写作方法与文章大意这是一篇有关南极洲科研考察的重要性的科普文章。

采用因果，点面结合写法。

首先提出：由于南极洲远离污染，又不同于其它任何地方，普遍存在着复杂的地质和生态环境，所以这块地方就可能得到更敏锐又易解释的科学测量结果。

它成了监察世界环境变化的观察哨和空间站，后面几段就写了进行考察的方面和结果。

答案详解1. A 南极洲和环境问题。

B. 南极洲：地球最早的报警战。

C.南极洲：独一无二的观察哨。

D. 南极洲：神秘的地方。

三项都是总内容众的组成部分。

2. D 大陆西部成为一群岛屿。

第三段“横断南极的山脉，3. 有的高达一万4. 四千多英尺，5. 把这大陆分成情况各异的两个地区。

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