Were you very curious as a child
专升本英语全真模拟试题及答案
专升本公共英语全真模拟试题Part ⅠVocabulary and structure（40 points）Directions: There are 40 incomplete sentences in this part. For each sentence there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. Choose the ONE answer that best completes the sentences, and then write the choice in the brackets.1. Before the first non-stop flight made in 1949, it __________ necessary for all planes to land for refueling.A. would beB. has beenC. had beenD. would have been2. Although Anne is happy with her success, she wonders __________ ill happen to her private life.A. thatB. whatC. itD. this3. Children are very curious __________.A. at heartB. on purposeC. in personD. by nature4. We can assign the work __________ is reliable.A. to whoeverB. to whoC. to whomD. who5. It was essential that the application forms __________ back before the deadline.A. must be sentB. be sentC. would be sentD. were sent6. __________ for my illness I would have lent him a helping hand.A. Not beingB. Without beingC. Had it not beenD. Not having been7. __________ he works hard, I don't mind when he finishes the experiment.A. As soon asB. As well asC. So far asD. So long as8. As a public relations officer, he is said __________ some very influential people.A. to knowB. to have been knowingC. to be knowingD. to have known9. Some states have an income tax __________ to that of the federal government.A. sameB. similarC. alikeD. likely10. By the end of the year all but two people __________.A. have leftB. will leaveC. will be leavingD. will have left11. __________ I had done it, I knew I had made a mistake.A. MomentB. DirectC. DirectlyD. Constant12. All the tasks __________ ahead of time, they decided to go on holiday for a week.A. been fulfilledB. were fulfilledC. having been fulfilledD. had been fulfilled13. __________, a man who expresses himself effectively is sure to succeed more rapidly than a man whosecommand of language is poor.A. Other things being equalB. Were other things equalC. To be equal to other thingsD. Other things to be equal14. When I caught him __________ I stopped buying things there and started dealing with another shop.A. cheatingB. cheatC. to cheatD. to be cheating15. The car __________ halfway for no reason.A. broke offB. broke upC. broke downD. broke out16. Jean did not have time to go to the concert last night because she was busy __________ for her examination.A. to prepareB. to be preparedC. preparingD. being prepared17. Your hair wants __________. You'd better have it done tomorrow.A. cutB. to cutC. cuttingD. being cut18. Medical research has shown that the widespread use of cigarettes contributes __________ the increase ofcancers.A. towardsB. withC. forD. to19. In Disneyland every year, some 800,000 plants are replaced because Disney refused to __________ signsasking his "guests" not to step on them.A. put downB. put outC. put upD. put off20. __________ that the trade between the two countries reached its highest point.A. During the l960'sB. That it was the 1960'sC. That it was in the l960'sD. It was in the 1960's21. A Dream of the Red Chamber is said __________ into dozens of languages in the last decade.A. to have been translatedB. to translateC. to be translatedD. to have translated22. Silver is the best conductor of electricity, copper __________ it closely.A. followedB. to followC. followingD. being followed23. No sooner had we reached the top of the hill __________ we all sat down to rest.A. whenB. thenC. thanD. until24. You __________ all this office work! We have a secretary to do that sort of thing.A. shouldn't have doneB. must not have doneC. wouldn't have doneD. can not have done25. He finally __________ in reaching the top of the mountain.A. achievedB. enabledC. managedD. succeeded26. The match was cancelled because most of the members __________ a match without a standard court.A. objected to havingB. were objected to haveC. objected to haveD. were objected to having27. The engine __________ smoke and steam.A. gives upB. gives inC. gives awayD. gives off28. Both children and parents intended to visit the Great Wall __________ the weather went worse.A. ifB. unlessC. providingD. until29. Airplanes __________ people to travel through the air.A. forceB. enableC. letD. make30. The goals __________ he had fought all his life no longer seemed important to him.A. after whichB. for whichC. with whichD. at which31. __________ is known to the world, Mark Twain is a great American writer.A. ThatB. WhichC. AsD. It32. Which sport has the most expenses __________ training equipment, players' personal equipment and uniform?A. in place ofB. in terms ofC. by means ofD. by way of33. He smokes twenty cigarettes a day on an __________ .A. averageB. abnormalC. ordinaryD. regular34. No one had told Smith about __________ a lecture the following day.A. there beingB. there beC. there would beD. there was35. In some countries, __________ is called "equality" does not really mean equal rights for all people.A. whichB. whatC. thatD. one36. Our son doesn't know what to __________ at the university; he can't make up his mind about his future.A. take inB. take overC. take upD. take after37. I have kept that portrait __________ I can see it every day, as it always reminds me of my university days inLondon.A. whichB. whereC. whetherD. when38. We __________ a large number of cars from Japan.A. makeB. importC. comeD. export39. A completely new situation will ______ when the examination system comes into existence.A. ariseB. riseC. raiseD. arouse40. Only under special circumstances ______ to take make-up tests.A. permitted are freshmenB. freshmen are permittedC. are freshmen permittedD. are permitted freshmenPart ⅡReading Comprehension（40 points）Passage 1The favorite food in the United States is hamburger. The favorite place to buy a hamburger is a fast food restaurant. At fast food restaurants, people order their food, wait a few minutes, and carry it to their tables themselves. People also take their food out of the restaurant and eat it in their cars or in their homes. At some fast food restaurants, people can order their food, pay for it and pick it up without leaving their cars.There are many kinds of fast food restaurants in the United States. The greatest in number sell hamburgers, French fries and so on. They are popular food among Americans. Besides, fast food, Italian food, chicken, seafood and ice-cream are very many. The idea of a fast food restaurant is so popular that nearly every kind of food can be found in one.Fast food restaurants are popular because they reflect American life style. Customers can wear any type of dress when they go to a fast food place. Second, they are fast. People who are busy do not want to spend time preparing their own food or waiting while someone prepares it . In fast food restaurants the food is usually ready before the customer even orders it. Finally, most food in a fast food restaurant is not expensive. Therefore people are able to buy and eat at fast food restaurant often, while they may not be able to go to a more expensive restaurant very often.41. Hamburgers and French fries can be got at __________ the fast food restaurants.A. some ofB. most ofC. a part ofD. all of42. What do people do when they come to a fast food restaurant?A. They order and eat their food at the restaurant.B. They buy and take their food out and eat it in their cars or in their homes.C. They order, pay for and get their food in their cars.D. They do any one of the three above-mentioned things.43. Why do Americans like to go to fast food restaurants?A. It is because fast food restaurants are fast, informal, and inexpensive.B. It is because people can easily find fast food restaurants.C. It is because people like to eat hamburgers.D. It is because fast food restaurants sell nearly every kind of food.44. Is the food in fast food restaurants always ready before the customers order it?A. Yes, is it.B. No, it is seldom ready.C. Yes, it is cooked to order.D. No, not always, but usually. 45. Seafood and ice-cream are served at all fast food restaurants, aren 45. Seafood and ice-cream are served at all fast food restaurants, aren’’t they? A. Certainly.B. Yes, they are.C. No, I am afraid not.D. No, only at a few of them.Passage 2 Nuclear power's danger to health, safety, and even to life itself can be summed up in one word: radiation.Nuclear radiation has a certain mystery about it, partly because it can not be detected by human senses, that is, can not be seen or heard, or touched or tasted, even though it may be all around us. There are other things like that. For example, radio waves are all around us but we cannot detect them, sense them, without a radio receiver, Similarly, we cannot sense radioactivity without a radio detector. But unlike common radio waves, nuclear radiation is not harmless to human beings and other things.At very high levels, radiation can kill an animal or human being outright by killing masses of cells in vital organs. But even the lowest levels can do serious damage. There is no level of radiation that is completely safe. If the radiation does not hurt anything important, the damage may not be significant. This is the case when only a few cells are hit, and if they are killed outright, your body will replace the dead cells with healthy ones. But if the few cells are only damaged, and if they re-produce themselves, you may be in trouble. They reproduce themselves in a deformed way. They can grow into cancer. Sometimes this does not show up for many years.This is another reason for some of the mystery about nuclear radiation. Serious damage can be done without the victim being aware at the time that damage has occurred. A person can be irradiated and feel fine, then die of cancer five, ten or twenty years later as a result. Or a child can be born weak or liable to serious illness as a result of radiation absorbed by its grandparents.Radiation can hurt us. We must know the truth. 46. The author' s purpose in writing this passage is __________.A. to explain what nuclear power isB. to explain what nuclear radiation isC. to warn people of the danger of nuclearD. to list the bad points of nuclear power 47. All of the following are the shared qualities of nuclear radiation and common radio waves,except __________.A. they are all around usB. they cannot be touchedC. they cannot be seenD. they cannot be detected by human senses 48. The least serious damage nuclear radiation may do on a person is to __________.A. kill a few cells outright, which will be replaced with healthy onesB. damage a fen cells, which will reproduce themselvesC. kill masses of cells in vital organsD. deform some brain cells 49. Radiation can hurt us in the way that it can __________.A. kill large number of cells in main organs so as to cause death immediatelyB. damage cells which may grow into cancer years laterC. affect the healthy growth of the offspringD. all of the above50. We can infer from the passage that __________.A. the danger of nuclear radiation should not be emphasizedB. only nuclear radiation can cause cancerC. some people might have been hurt by nuclear radiation without their realizing itD. nuclear radiation can cause accidentsPassage 3Telephone, television, radio, and the Internet help people communicate with each other. Because of these devices (设备) , ideas and news of events spread quickly all over the world. For example, within seconds, people can know the results of an election in another country. An international football match comes into the homes of everyone with a television set. News of a disaster (灾难) , such as a flood, can bring help from distant countries. Within hours, help is on the way. This is because modern technology information travels fast.How has this speed of communication changed the world? To many people, the world has become smaller.Of course, this does not mean that the world is actually physically smaller. It means that the world seems smaller. Two hundred years ago, communication between the continents took a long time. All news was carried on ships that took weeks or even months to cross the oceans. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, it took six weeks for news from Europe to reach America. This time difference influenced people's actions. For example, a few battles in the war of 1812 between England and the United States could have been avoided (避免). A peace agreement had already been signed. Peace was made in England, but the news of peace took six weeks to reach America. During these six weeks, the large and serious Battle of New Orleans (新奥尔良) was fought. Many people lost their lives after a peace treaty (条约) had been signed. They would not have died if news had come in time. In the past, communication took much more time than it does now. There was a good reason why the world seemed so much larger than it does today.51. Why does news spread fast?A. Because of a peace agreement.B. Because of the changes of the world.C. Because of new technology.D. Because of modem transportation.52. According to this passage, ________ is very important to people in a disaster area.A. the newsB. new ideasC. fast communicationD. modern technology53. Which of the following statements is true based on the text?A. The world now seems smaller because of the faster communication.B. The world is actually smaller today.C. The world is changing in size.D. The distance between England and America has changed since the War of 1812.54. Two hundred years ago, news between the continents was carried _________.A. by telephoneB. by landC. by airD. by sea55. The New Orleans Battle could have been avoided if the peace agreement had been signed _________.A. by both sidesB. in timeC. in AmericaD. in EnglandPassage 4Anna Douglas was seventy-two years old when she started writing her newspaper column. She had been the director of a school before she retired, but she needed to keep busy. She was even willing to work without pay. That was the reason she found a volunteer job with an agency. The agency that she chose to work for was a business that helped other businesses find jobs for old people. Every day she talked with other retired people like herself. By talking, she recognized two things. Old people had abilities that were not being used. Old people also had problems--mostly problems with communication.Mrs. Douglas found a new purpose for herself. Through the years, from time to time she had written stories about people for national magazines. Now there was a new subject; old people like herself. She began to write a newspaper column called "Over Sixty", which focuses on getting old. She writes about the problems of old people, especially their problems with being misunderstood.Anna Douglas uses her thinking ability to see the truth behind a problem. She understands the reasons why problems begin. She understands old people and young people, too. For example, one of her readers said that his grandchildren left the house as soon as he came to visit. Mrs. Douglas suggested some ways for him to increase understanding with his grandchildren. She told him to listen to young people's music and to watch the most popular television shows."It's important to know something about your grandchildren's world," says Mrs. Douglas. "But most of all, keep your mind open. Do not close out other people. Listen to the other people in your family. Keep on talking. And above all else, keep on listening and communicating. You stop living when you stop sharing ideas with other."56. Mrs. Douglas, aged 72, is _________.A. the director of an agencyB. the director of a schoolC. a business managerD. a columnist57. What Mrs. Douglas needs is _________.A. moneyB. to keep busyC. an easy lifeD. to talk with old people58. By talking with retired people Anna Douglas recognized _________.A. that old people had ability but they were not willing to use itB. that old people had lots of questions to askC. that old people had difficulty in using their ability and making themselves understoodD. that old people were not interested in communication59. Anna Douglas' newspaper column _________.A. is about thinkingB. has ideas for youngstersC. discusses the problems of old peopleD. contains mostly funny stories60. According to Mrs. Douglas, what do old people need to learn to do?A. How to work.B. How to listen.C. How to criticize.D. How to complain.Part Ⅲ Cloze（20 points）Directions: There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked A, B, C and D. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage and write the corresponding letter in the brackets.More than forty thousand readers told us what they looked for in close friendships, what they expected __61__ friends ，what they were willing to give in __62__ ，and how satisfied they were __63__ the quality of their friendships. The __64__ give little comfort to social critics.Friendship __65__ to be a unique form of __66__ bonding. Unlike marriage or the ties that __67__ parents and children ，it is not defined or regulated by __68__ .Unlike other social roles that we are expected to __69__ as citizens, employees, members of professional societies and __70__ organization sit has its own principle ，which is to promote __71__ of warmth, trust, love, and affection __72__ two people.The survey on friendship appeared in the March __73__ of Psychology Today. The findings __74__ that issues of trust and betrayal(背叛) are __75__ to friendship. They also suggest that our readers do not __76__ for friends only among those who are __77__ like them, but find many __78__ differ in race ，religion ，and ethnic（种族的）（种族的）background. Arguably the most important __79__ that emerges from the data, __80__ ，is not something that we found but what we did not.61. A. to B. for C. ofD. on 62. A. return B. reply C. addition D. turn 63. A. about B. with C. ofD. by 64. A. effects B. expectations C. resultsD. consequences 65. A. appears B. feels C. leadsD. sounds 66. A. civil B. human C. mankindD. individual 67. A. attract B. attach C. controlD. bind 68. A. rule B. discipline C. lawD. regulation 69. A. play B. keep C. showD. do 70. A. those B. all C. anyD. other 7l. A. friendship B. interests C. feelingsD. impression 72. A. on B. in C. ForD. between 73. A. print B. copy C. issueD. publication 74. A. confirm B. resolve C. assureD. secure 75. A. main B. central C. neutralD. nuclear 76. A. ask B. appeal C. callD. look 77. A. more B. less C. mostD. least 78. A. friends B. what C. peopleD. who 79. A. summary B. decision C. conclusionD. claim 80. A. yet B. still C. moreoverD. However Part ⅣError Correction ( 10 points ) Directions: There are 10 sentences. Each of the following sentences has four underlined parts marked A, B, C and D. You are to identify the one that needs corrections, and then the one that needs correction, and then write down your choice in the brackets"[ ]".81. I am inferring in you comments that Mike 81. I am inferring in you comments that Mike didn’t ought to didn’t ought to didn’t ought to have broken into the room have broken into the roomwithout permission. A B CD 82.The tides of the Indian Ocean vary greatly, but not as much as that of the Atlantic or Pacific.A B CD 83.Was it him who telephoned just now?A B CD84.Some of the people were standing in the street watched the demonstration, while others were singing songs.A B C D 85.85.I’m going to I’m going to I’m going to have my letters type tomorrow afternoon if have my letters type tomorrow afternoon if have my letters type tomorrow afternoon if I’ve got I’ve got I’ve got them ready by them ready bythen. A B CD 86.What the family is experiencing basic change as result of historical processes is generally accepted by people.A B CD 87.Most cultures contain a number of common sayings and beliefs that are not really based on facts, whenAB examined, are proved to be misinformation.CD 88.About one-fifth of all the energy used in the Untied States are changed into electric power.A B CD 89.Internationalists of both parties, however, insisted that Americans took advantage of the historicA B CD opportunity, the victory of the Cold War.90.Even though he has been studying English for five years before he came to London, it is still difficultA BC for him to express himself.D Part Ⅴ Translation （20 points ）Section ADirections: There are 5 sentences in this section. Please translate them from Chinese into English.91. There must be a use for talent.92．Sound travels four times faster in water than in the air.93．It was not until you told me about it yesterday that I realized my mistake.94．China will be the largest market for automobiles if its economy continues to grow.95．I find it hard to leave the land where I have lived for 30 years and where there are sweet memories of mychildhood.Section BDirections: There are 5 sentences in this section. Please translate them from English into Chinese.96．这家工厂里的所有机器都是中国制造的。
英语介绍自己变化的作文
英语介绍自己变化的作文英文回答：I've always been a curious and introspective person, eager to explore the depths of my own mind and emotions. As I've journeyed through life, I've experienced countless changes that have shaped who I am today.One of the most significant changes I've undergone is in my perspective. As a child, I saw the world through a narrow lens, my focus primarily on my immediate surroundings. However, as I grew older and gained more experiences, my perspective gradually expanded. I began to recognize the interconnectedness of all things and the impact that my actions had on the world around me. This newfound awareness has made me more mindful of my choices and has driven me to live a life that is not only personally fulfilling but also contributes to the greater good.Another profound shift I've experienced is in my values. In my younger years, I was heavily influenced by external factors such as societal norms and expectations. As I matured, I realized that these external pressures did not truly align with my inner self. Through a process of self-discovery and introspection, I gradually developed my ownset of core values that guide my decisions and actions. These values include integrity, compassion, and a deep respect for the natural world. By living in accordance with my values, I feel a greater sense of purpose andfulfillment.In addition to these internal changes, I've also undergone significant physical transformations. As a child, I was a shy and awkward teenager. Over time, I gained confidence and grew into a more physically fit and healthy individual. While my physical appearance has undoubtedly changed, I've come to realize that true beauty lies not in external aesthetics but in the inner qualities that make us unique.Another area where I've experienced significant growthis in my relationships. As a child, my social circle was largely limited to family and close friends. As I entered adulthood, I made a conscious effort to expand my social network and connect with people from diverse backgrounds. Through these connections, I've learned about different cultures, perspectives, and ways of life. This exposure has broadened my horizons and made me more open-minded and tolerant.One of the most challenging changes I've faced is the loss of loved ones. Death is an inevitable part of life, but it can still be profoundly painful. Losing someone close to me has taught me the importance of cherishing every moment and expressing gratitude for the people in my life. It has also deepened my understanding of thefragility of human existence and the need to live each day to the fullest.While change can be daunting at times, it's anessential part of human growth and evolution. I've learned to embrace change and see it as an opportunity for personal development. By reflecting on the changes I've experienced,I've gained a deeper understanding of myself, my values,and my place in the world. I believe that the journey ofself-discovery is an ongoing process, and I look forward to the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.中文回答：我向来是一个好奇且善于内省的人，渴望探索自己内心的深处和情绪。
2020人教版八年级下册英语《期末测试题》(带答案)
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欧洲四个著名吝啬鬼（ThefourfamousEuropeanmiser）
欧洲四个著名吝啬鬼（The four famous European miser）The four famous European miser.Txt, always curious as a child, as young as change, as middle-aged as patient, as wise as older people. My flash, trouble is not youth, but pressure...... When women no longer live, no lie, no longer subject to changing moods, no longer love. The four great miser in European literatureIn the process of European literature, brings together a wide variety of goods of the miser images, including Shakespeare's comedy "the merchant of Venice" in the Sherlock Moliere comedy "stingy person" ("miser") in hartagon, Balzac's novel "Eugenie Grandet?" in Grandet, and Gogol's death "soul" in Prius Heekin, called for European literature immortal four Scrooges typical.These four images of the miser came into being in three countries, from the hands of four famous masters, involving social survival for several centuries, and summed up the process of the historical development of Europe in the past four hundred years. From the creation of the time, with slip Heekin appears late, Gogol's "dead souls" written in 1840s. But from the characters of class consciousness that should be classified as the earliest sprinkles keeps Heekin, he is the former Soviet Union of feudal serfdom under the landlord. Sherlock ranked second, he was in sixteenth Century, that is, the disintegration of feudal society, primitive accumulation of capital, the early days of the old loan sharks. He is the youngest as probable Abba, seventeenth Century French bourgeois capitalist development period, Grandet into four, he was the nineteenth Century French Revolution of bourgeois turmoil rich upstart speculation.These four generations of miser are similar in age, similar in temperament, common in personality and distinct in personality. In short, Sherlock's fierce sprinkles keeps Heekin pedantic, harpagon, suspicious, Grandet Jiaoxia, constitute their most dazzling eye-catching temperament and personality.Generally, there are four world literature Scrooges: one is written by Shakespeare Sherlock, the two is Moliere's hartagon, three is written by Balzac Grandet, four is under the pen of Gogol sprinkles keeps heekin. Among the high school Chinese textbooks, three of them are selected for students to read. This will help broaden the students' horizon and improve their aesthetic ability.Shakespeare, a great British dramatic master, made a successful portrayal of Sherlock's greedy, sinister and cruel miser in the merchant of Venice. Sherlock is a bourgeois usurer, in order to get more money, a court in Venice, he fit the pound of flesh "I asked him, I was in a very high price to buy, it belongs to me, I must take it to get his hand. Like all miser, greed is its general character. The reason why Sherlock refused two times and three times the loan repayment, and adhere to approximately from businessman Antonio chest cut off one pound of flesh, because Antonio to lend money to people without interest, influenced Sherlock's usury industry, so he took the opportunity to revenge, to kill Antonio, making his usury industry which can run in both directions unblockedly. Amass more wealth. Sherlock as a typical miser image, his personality is insidious cruel, when the court mediation to the borrower Antonio two times or even three times the money to repay him,Sherlock sinister said: "even if every piece of money this six thousand dollars can be divided into six parts, each part can be changed into a I don't have money, they, as long as I as about punishment. "Said in his shoe on the sharpener, ready to cut a pound of flesh from Antonio's chest, cruel to kill Antonio, but blindly stubborn, without the slightest sympathy. That's what Sherlock is different from other miser's personalities. When students read and appreciate, they must grasp this personality.The French realist literature master Balzac in his masterpiece "Eugenie Grandet?" also created a typical miser image -- grandet. Part articleselecting of Chinese textbook in high school when the choice of "family suffering" in a chapter, and give the text named "miser","Miser", namely guarding property in slaves, people should be the property of the master, is the wealth of the dominant, but Grandet has become a miser, "see gold, possession of gold, is the persistent Grandet crazy", money has made him alienated. For the sake of his property, he forced his nephew to torture his wife and deprive the only daughter of the inheritance of his mother. He would not allow his daughter to fall in love and ruin her whole life. The author through Grandet life description, which exposes the naked money relations between people in capitalist society.Avarice and parsimony are mutually reinforcing; the miser is greedy when he gathers wealth, and he is mean when he uses wealth. Like other misers, Grandet is greed, and mean as a ghost.But Balzac is generous, under his pen as a typical Grandet miser is "persistent crazy", especially a "Crazy", summarizes the characteristics of grandet. When the middle school students appreciate this character, they have to grasp the key of "Crazy" to understand its typicality. The seventy-six year old Chichikov old man saw her daughter playing with his Dingqingzhiwu gold dressing case, actually body a longitudinal, pounced on the dressing box, like a tiger pounced on a sleeping baby". A "vertical" and a "head" will old Grandet greed to crazy image activation to the paper. When the only female voice box is the lover's deposit, it is sacrosanct. When the old man tried to take it back, the old man pushed it hard, and then he fell down on his mother's bed. The gold inlaid in the dressing box alienated the love of father and daughter and made the miser go mad. But rob the emotion to wife daughter dressing case have faint reality that Grandet jumped from the madness in the whirlpool became very sober, "children, let us not a box you angry, take it," the old carpenter immediately put the box onto the bed, and to his room with a the Louis also fell on the bed, claiming to be sent to Europe's. Grandet "generous", to wife and daughter at a loss about what to do, rather baffling. The secret is clear to the miser. As a dressing case mad wife, half daughter according to the law, will inherit the family property, that is tantamount to gelangtai life, cunning Grandet small lost to know it, will shine up to his daughter, even in front of her affectation, trembling with affection for the bait, cheat her to give up the dead mother, the inheritance of property rights, and often use special feelings for the daughter to take advantage of valentine. All this shows another aspect of the miser's personality - "cunning."". But after all, Grandet was money mad. When he got to the deathbed retreat inthe eyes, vitality, he can open my eyes, but a few hours with eyes staring at the gold face as if into the Elysian Fields. When the priest put gold cross to give him a kiss on his lips, icons of Christ, do the last rites for him, he had made a terrible posture, want to grab the golden cross, the last effort to send his life. He died on her daughter's words are all taken care of, to come to my account. "Life is crazy for money, possession of money, money was finally a still trying calling for money to the grave, money has made him become a ghost, crazy cunning miser.When students appreciate this typical image, they can understand the typical meaning deeply only by grasping their personality characteristics - madness and cunning.Like Shakespeare and Balzac, the Russian literary master Gogol in his masterpiece "dead souls" in shaping a miser image - sprinkles keeps heekin. The middle school Chinese textbook named "sprinkles keeps Heekin".As a miser, and Sherlock Grandet although different personalities, but are greedy stingy in common, are deliberately plan to amass riches on behalf of the bourgeoisie. Gogol in Prius Heekin is the epitome of Russia's declining landlord and the epitome of the demise of Russian feudal society. Although the three as a greedy miser, but decadent is sprinkles keeps Heekin personality. He is rich, but looks like a beggar,The landlord has more than one thousand dead souls, to find the second in his warehouse with wheat flour and so many agricultural products, in the dry room and storeroom ofstorehouse is filled with nylon and linen, raw and cooked sheep, dried fish and various vegetables and fruit to is not easy, however he's extremely shabby everyday food and clothing. The clothes were like a woman's home clothes, stained with flour, and had a big hole in the back. Wearing a hat, as women wear, neck is also surrounded by a rather baffling thing, is the old socks? Or belt can not determine the bandage?. But not a scarf. His room, if not on the table a shabby cap is a witness, who also don't believe that this house is occupied by the living. His house with a pack of red liquid, the floating three flies on a piece of paper, cover glass... A... Yellow toothbrush, before the French still scored about Moscow, its owner had brushed teeth". Prius Heekin is a deposit, but even so stingy on their own. To others, you can imagine. The daughter married, he only sent a gift - a curse; son from the army for making clothes also from a rebuff, in addition to send him some curse, is no longer associated with his son, and even his life didn't care. His grain and straw have become a real difference is not only a dunghill in the above cabbage cellar; flour as hard as stone, had to axe wall down... Prius Heekin... Has not understand what some, but he is not enough, the day after his wealth converge, and through the road, do not clean, or even steal things. That's what he did.To appreciate this character, first of all, to grasp the essential characteristics of his decadent and declining and his own stingy personality, we can fully understand the social significance of the author's shaping this image.The total above three, a miser image selected by senior Chinese teaching material, its features are greedy and stingy withmoney when the money, but greed is different. Representative Sherlock and Grandet although all belong to the bourgeoisie, but the former is usury, the latter is the bourgeois upstarts; the former greed was insidious cruel, the greed to be cunning madness. Prius Heekin is a typical Russian decadent landlord class, different from the former two that he was extremely stingy on their own, so that the shape of the beggar and is wealthy. These three men and money alienated them into ghosts and became slaves of money.Moliere was a French classical comedy master in seventeenth Century, and his writing carried out a hot satire on all irrational social evils. The plot of "miser" was born out of "a jar of gold" by Pulao Matus, a writer from Rome. The hero hartagon is a typical miser, scrooge. He is stingy skin a flea for its hide. He is not only very harsh to the servant and his family, and I often go to bed hungry, even in the middle of the night hungry can't sleep sleep, then go to the stable eating buckwheat. Regardless of his children, each has his own favorite object, insisted that his son get rich widow, daughter to marry rich master. When he was buried in the garden deliberately plan money being taken away, he said, draw a hardly wished to live., living as much as a miser image.Moliere is good at shaping general and strong artistic images. Hartagon has become almost synonymous with. Moliere's distinctive character, but a little too thin to what critics say "flat characters". Moliere's comedy mostly follow the classical "three" principle, conflict, strict structure. Moliere used the "farce" technique to create a comic atmosphere, and to enhance the satirical effect of comedy.High school students should learn to appreciate the world masterpiece, appreciate law, put them together to read, know the greed in common, and thus the complete resolution of his personality, deeply understand the masterpiece social significance, gradually improve their aesthetic ability.The four is a miser: hartagon, Sherlock, Ge Lang, sprinkles keeps HeekinFeatures: Sherlock fierce sprinkles keeps Heekin pedantic, hartagon, suspicious, Grandet sly1. Sherlock (British dramatist Shakespeare's comedy "merchant of Venice")Jewish usurer, greedy, stingy, cold and cruel; although wealthy, but never enjoy, intent on usury. To limit her contacts with the outside world, with the money to elope with lover; ruthlessly abuse the deduction of servants, even the food not to eat; very hate Venice businessman Antonio, in order to get more money, a court in Venice, he fit the pound of flesh "I asked him. I was in a very high price to buy, it belongs to me, I must take it to get his hand. Like all miser, greed is its general character. The reason why Sherlock refused two times and three times the loan repayment, and adhere to approximately from businessman Antonio chest cut off one pound of flesh, because Antonio to lend money to people without interest, influenced Sherlock's usury industry, so he took the opportunity to revenge, to kill Antonio, making his usury industry which can run in both directions unblockedly. Amass more wealth. Sherlockas a typical miser image, his personality is insidious cruel, when the court mediation to the borrower Antonio two times or even three times the money to repay him, Sherlock sinister said: "even if every piece of money this six thousand dollars can be divided into six parts, each part can be changed into a I don't have money, they, as long as I as about punishment. "Said in his shoe on the sharpener, ready to cut a pound of flesh from Antonio's chest, cruel to kill Antonio, but blindly stubborn, without the slightest sympathy. That's what Sherlock is different from other miser's personalities.2. hartagon (French playwright Moliere comedy "stingy people", or the "miser", "miser")A typical miser and miser. He is stingy skin a flea for its hide. He is not only very harsh to the servant and his family, and I often go to bed hungry, even in the middle of the night hungry can't sleep sleep, then go to the stable eating buckwheat. Regardless of his children, each has his own favorite object, insisted on his son marry rich widow, want daughter to marry rich master. When he was buried in the garden deliberately plan money being taken away, he said, draw a hardly wished to live., living as much as a miser image.Moliere is good at shaping general and strong artistic images. Hartagon has become almost synonymous with. Moliere's distinctive character, but a little too thin to what critics say "flat characters". Moliere's comedy mostly follow the classical "three" principle, conflict, strict structure. Moliere used the "farce" technique to create a comic atmosphere, and to enhance the satirical effect of comedy.3. Grandet (French writer Balzac's novel "miser", the original name for "Eugenie Grandet.")"Miser", namely guarding property in slaves, people should be the property of the master, is the wealth of the dominant, but Grandet has become a miser, "see gold, possession of gold, is the persistent Grandet crazy", money has made him alienated. For the sake of his property, he forced his nephew to torture his wife and deprive the only daughter of the inheritance of his mother. He would not allow his daughter to fall in love and ruin her whole life. The author through Grandet life description, which exposes the naked money relations between people in capitalist society. Avarice and parsimony are mutually reinforcing; the miser is greedy when he gathers wealth, and he is mean when he uses wealth. Like other misers, Grandet is greed, and mean as a ghost.But Balzac is generous, under his pen as a typical Grandet miser is "persistent crazy", especially a "Crazy", summarizes the characteristics of grandet. When students appreciate this character,Only by grasping the key of "Crazy" can we deeply understand its typicality. The seventy-six year old Chichikov old man saw her daughter playing with his Dingqingzhiwu gold dressing case, actually body a longitudinal, pounced on the dressing box, like a tiger pounced on a sleeping baby". A "vertical" and a "head" will old Grandet greed to crazy image activation to the paper. When the only female voice box is the lover's deposit, it is sacrosanct. When the old man tried to take it back, the old manpushed it hard, and then he fell down on his mother's bed. The gold inlaid in the dressing box alienated the love of father and daughter and made the miser go mad. But rob the emotion to wife daughter dressing case have faint reality that Grandet jumped from the madness in the whirlpool became very sober, "children, let us not a box you angry, take it," the old carpenter immediately put the box onto the bed, and to his room with a the Louis also fell on the bed, claiming to be sent to Europe's. Grandet "generous", to wife and daughter at a loss about what to do, rather baffling. The secret is clear to the miser. As a dressing case mad wife, half daughter according to the law, will inherit the family property, that is tantamount to gelangtai life, cunning Grandet small lost to know it, will shine up to his daughter, even in front of her affectation, trembling with affection for the bait, cheat her to give up the dead mother, the inheritance of property rights, and often use special feelings for the daughter to take advantage of valentine. All this shows another aspect of the miser's personality - "cunning."". But after all, Grandet was money mad. When he got to the deathbed retreat in the eyes, vitality, he can open my eyes, but a few hours with eyes staring at the gold face as if into the Elysian Fields. When the priest put gold cross to give him a kiss on his lips, icons of Christ, do the last rites for him, he had made a terrible posture, want to grab the golden cross, the last effort to send his life. He died on her daughter's words are all taken care of, to come to my account. "Life is crazy for money, possession of money, money was finally a still trying calling for money to the grave, money has made him become a ghost, crazy cunning miser.4. (Russian writer Gogol sprinkles keeps Heekin novel "deadsouls")Prius Heekin was the epitome of the declining landlord in Russia and the epitome of the demise of feudal society in russia. Although the greedy and miserly Grandet be roughly the same, but the decadent personality is sprinkles keeps heekin.As a miser, and Sherlock Grandet although different personalities, but are greedy stingy in common, are deliberately plan to amass riches on behalf of the bourgeoisie. Gogol in Prius Heekin is the epitome of Russia's declining landlord and the epitome of the demise of Russian feudal society. Although the three as a greedy miser, but decadent is sprinkles keeps Heekin personality. He is rich but like a beggar, the landlord has more than one thousand dead souls, to find the second in his warehouse with wheat flour and so many agricultural products, in the dry room and storeroom of storehouse is filled with nylon and linen, raw and cooked sheep, dried fish and various vegetables and fruit. People is not easy, but he himself is extremely shabby everyday food and clothing. The clothes were like a woman's home clothes, stained with flour, and had a big hole in the back. Wearing a hat, as women wear, neck is also surrounded by a rather baffling thing, is the old socks? Or belt can not determine the bandage?. But not a scarf. His room, if not on the table a shabby cap is a witness, who also don't believe that this house is occupied by the living. His house with a pack of red liquid, the floating three flies on a piece of paper, cover glass... A... Yellow toothbrush, before the French still scored about Moscow, its owner had brushed teeth". Prius Heekin is a deposit, but even so stingy on their own. To others, you can imagine.The daughter married, he only sent a gift - a curse; son from the army for making clothes also from a rebuff, in addition to send him some curse, is no longer associated with his son, and even his life didn't care. His grain and straw have become a real difference is not only a dunghill in the above cabbage cellar; flour as hard as stone, had to axe wall down... Prius Heekin... Has not understand what some, but he is not enough, the day after his wealth converge, and through the road, do not clean, or even steal things. That's what he did.。
大学英语综合教程第二册第二六单元原文及翻译
1. It was early December 2003, my first season as a Salvation Army bell ringer, whenI was confronted with the question. I was standing just outside the doorway of a Wal-Mart, offering a "thank you" and a smile to each person who dropped a donation into my red kettle. A neatly dressed woman and her young son walked up to the kettle stand. While she searched her purse for some cash, the boy looked up at me. I can still see the confusion and curiosity in his eyes as he asked, "Are you poor?"2. "Well," I stammered, trying to think, "I have more than some people, but not as much as others." His mother scolded him for the social no-no, and they hurried off to do their shopping. His question, however, did not leave me.3. I've never thought of myself as "poor," but I can't deny certain facts. Every timeI fill out my 1040 form, I fall into one of the lowest income brackets. In the past 35 years, I've taken just one vacation trip. My TV is a black-and-white set that someone gave me eight years ago.4. Yet I feel nothing more than a passing whim to attain the material things so many other people have. My 1999 car shows the wear and tear of 105,000 miles. But it is still dependable. My apartment is modest, but quiet and relaxing. My clothes are well suited to my work, which is primarily outdoors. My minimal computer needs can be met at the library.5. In spite of what I don't have, I don't feel poor. Why? I've enjoyed exceptionally good health for 53 years. It's not just that I've been illness-free, it's that I feel vigorous and spirited. Exercising is actually fun for me. I look forward to long, energizing walks. And I love the "can do" attitude that follows.6. I also cherish the gift of creativity. When I write a beautiful line of poetry, or fabricate a joke that tickles someone, I feel rich inside. I'm continually surprisedat the insights that come through my writing process. And talking with so many interesting writer friends is one of my main sources of enjoyment.7. But there is one vital area of my life where I am not so well off. In a society that spends so much emotional energy on the pursuit of possessions, I feel out of place.8. When I was younger, there was an exceptionally interesting person I dated. What was most important to her, she told me, was "what's on the inside." I thought I had found someone special to share my life with. Then I took her to see my apartment. At the time, I lived in a basement efficiency with a few pieces of dated furniture. The only new, comfortable chair was the one at my desk. Shortly after her visit, our relationship went straight south.9. The seemingly abrupt change in her priorities was jolting. It remains a most memorable turning point in my personal journey.10. In contrast to relationships, stuff just doesn't mean that much to me. I think most people feel the same way—except when there are social consequences to not having particular items. There is a commercial on the radio that begins, "Everybody wants a high-end TV …" The pressure to purchas e is real. It may be true that everybody wantsa high-end TV. After all, nobody wants to be a nobody.11. But I'm happy to live without one. In fact, not being focused on material goods feels quite natural to me. There are many people throughout the world who would consider my lifestyle to be affluent.12. Near the end of the year, when I put on the Salvation Army's red apron, something changes inside me. Instead of feeling out of place economically, I begin to feel a genuine sense of belonging. As I ring my bell, people stop to share their personal stories ofhow much it meant to be helped when they were going through a rough time. People helping people is something I feel deeply connected to. While I'm ringing the bell, complete strangers have brought me hot chocolate, leaving me with a lingering smile. Countless individuals have helped to keep me warm with the sentiments of the season: "Thank you for ringing on such a cold day." "Can I get you a cup of coffee?" "Bless you for your good work." December is the time of year I feel wealthiest.13. Over the past four years, I've grown to understand more about myself because ofa single question from a curious child. As I've examined what it means to be poor, it has become clear to me what I am most thankful for: both my tangible and my intangible good fortune.富足的一生卡尔•格林1. 首次面对这个问题，是在2003年12月初，我第一次为救世军摇铃募捐的时候。
《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感（精选13篇）
《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感（精选13篇）《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感（精选13篇）当品味完一本著作后，想必你一定有很多值得分享的心得，是时候静下心来好好写写读后感了，到底应如何写读后感呢？以下是小编收集整理的《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感，欢迎大家借鉴与参考，希望对大家有所帮助。
《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇1I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story. This is definitely a book everyone can relate tothe adventures of tom sawyer is a literary masterpieces, written in 1876 by the famous author mark twain. Tom sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the mississippi river called stpetersburg. The story line is simple, the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in tom sawyers life.Tom sawyer seems to be the precursor of and the template for misfit kids such as dennis the menace, malcolm in the middle, and calvin and hobbs. What makes this story great is that tom sawyer represents everything that is great about childhood.The book is filled with toms adventures playing pirates and war with his friend joe harper.Tom has a trusted friend, huck finn, who few of the adults approve of. The book is filled with ideas of how the world works, such as how pirates and robbers work, that are so innocent, they could only come from a child. It is a story filled with action, adventure, ingenious ideas, love, and schoolyard politics. The whole story is seemingly a complication of what people did or wish they did during their childhood.The book is a little difficult to read at first. Personally, it takesme a little while to get used to the 19th century dialect in the book. Other than referring to persons of african decent in derogatory terms (which im sure uses terms even young children already know), the book would be an enjoyable read for people of all ages. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to feel young again, if just for a few hundred pages.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇2I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story.This is definitely a book everyone can relate to the Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a literary masterpieces, written in 1876 by the famous author Mark Twain.Tom Sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the Mississippi River called St.Petersburg.The story line is simple, the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in T om Sawyers life.Tom Sawyer seems to be the precursor of and the template for misfit kids such as Dennis the Menace, Malcolm in the Middle, and Calvin and Hobbs.What makes this story great is that Tom Sawyer represents everything that is great about childhood.The book is filled with Toms adventures playing pirates and war with his friend Joe Harper.Tom has a trusted friend, Huck Finn, who few of the adults approve of.The book is filled with ideas of how the world works, such as how pirates and robbers work, that are so innocent, they could only come from a child.It is a story filled with action, adventure, ingenious ideas, love, and schoolyard politics.The whole story is seemingly a complication of what people did or wish they did during their childhood.The book is a little difficult to read at first.Personally, it takes me a little while to get used to the 19th century dialect in the book.Other than referring to persons of African decent in derogatory terms (which Im sure uses terms even young children already know), the book would be an enjoyable read for people of all ages.I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to feel young again, if just for a few hundred pages.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇3The first impression that the boy Tom gave me was a naughty, mischievous boy, just as what Aunt Polly said. He never lacked the curiosity to explore new places, sometimes even risking his life, which I did not dare to! There were some great adventures of him with Huck or Joe. Huck was an orphan, and Joe was Tom’s classmate. Everybody in the small village knew Tom, mainly for Tom’s-you know kind of gallantry!I should tell you the adventures. The origin of the attempt was that Tom and Huck was getting curious to the world of outside, and they made an effort to run-away. However, when they were in the graveyard, some people appeared. They were Injun Joe, Huck’s fathe r, named Potter, and a doctor. Tom and Huck quickly hid behind the bush, and they saw them digging the coffins out, probably finding something valuable. They did not realize that what they witnessed was a murder! T om and Huck were extremely afraid, and they ran away rapidly. On the court, Potter was being accused of the murderer; however, Tom declared that it was Injun Joe who used Potter’s knife to kill the young doctor. On hearing this, Injun Joe broke the glass and ran away! This scared everybody, and To m’s brother, Sid, said that he always heard Tom mumbling something when he was asleep,and sometimes even shouting. Indeed, the accident was fluttering everybody in the town with fear.Before, Tom once fell in love with a girl called Lawrence. And he showe d off in front of the girl, trying to win the girl’s heart, but Lawrence ignored Tom’s appearance, and it made Tom sad. At present, Tom went for another girl for Becky. Yet, when Becky knew that Tom once loved Lawrence (it was probably childish thoughts), she refused Tom. Tom got so depressed that he resolutely committed the second escape.He made contact with Huck and Joe that afternoon, about where to meet, the code words of meeting, and the route, and so on and so forth. Each of them brought some food, and Huck brought some pipes (remind that Huck had no real home, and I had no ideas where he got the things). At midnight, they met at the place, and they took a raft down the river. After drifting for about several hours, they finally reached the destiny. There they lived for about several weeks, and while everybody thought they were drowned, they had a great time. They were no problems of food or water shortages. They promised to be a pirate, and would live there forever.If you were out from your relatives for a long time, wouldn’t you miss home? It was the same for those children. After several weeks, Joe felt that he missed home very much, and Tom could not seem to stop him. On this, Tom brought Joe and Huck his secret-On one night, when the rest of the boys fell asleep (of course they slept outside), Tom crept from the camp, and headed toward the town. He sneaked to his aunt’s room, and hid under the bed, while everybody- Mary (Tom’s sister), Sid, Aunt Polly and Joe Harper’s mother were having a meeting.There were a lot oftears, about how the boys were killed, and how they would treat the boys if they ever lived again, such things. Tom almost wanted to get out of the bed and hug Aunt Polly, but he couldn’t. At last, everybody went to sleep. T om went out from the bed, and flew to the camp. That was the secret- that the boys will go to their own funeral!While the boys were outside, all of the people in the town were discussing about the accidents. The town was immediately covered with a sense of doom. So the funeral was raised. Everybody wore a black suit, and they prayed something along with the priest. Just then, they saw somebody entering the gate, and what they saw was unbelievable. Three young souls came out from their coffins and showed up in front of everybody! The change of the atmosphere was imaginable. Aunt Polly, Joe Harper’s mother, Mary and Sid were astounded to find that Tom came so vivid in front of them, and so Tom and Joe became a hero in the school, even in the town.The real adventures of Tom were finding the treasures. 《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇4Recently, I have read a very interesting book, the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. And the companion volume is the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. This book described an American boy, Tom Sawyer’s fantastic adve nture. The author of this novel is one of my favorite writers, Mark Twain, who was honored as “the literary giant” and was good at writing satirical novels. The reason that I enjoy Mark Twain’s composition is that he always brought me into a funny world by using very simple description but perfect writing skills and attractive story structures. Nevertheless, when I finished reading his words, I would think some deeper and serious things that he wanted to convey to us.The style of Mark Twain’s composition i s humorous but actually very sharp, which exposed the weakness and the hypocrite of human nature and expressed his desiring for a perfect and ideal world.You don't know about me if you haven't read a book called the Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Mr. Mark Twain wrote the book and most of it is true. The heroin of this novel, Tom Sawyer, was a brave and active boy. But he got tired of his family, his school as well as the church. He was not satisfied with a hidebound life but dreamed of a free and venturesome life. This naughty but clever boy lost his parents since child. Thus he lived with his aunt who loved him very much. He always escaped from school, and played various games with his friends. He even fell in love with a girl and tried again and again to win her favor. One day, Tom and his friend Huck came across a murdering. An Indian Joe killed a doctor because of disagreement and imputed it to another partner Porter. The two young boys were extremely frightened and decided to keep the secret. But actually Tom was anxious all the time. After that, Tom had conflict with the girl, he leaved at home with Huck angrily and started their adventure. People in the town thought that they had died. When they held funeral for these boys, Tom and his friends appeared. Since then, Tom became hero in school, and reconciled with that girl. Soon, the court was about to judge that murder case. When everyone considered Porter as the murderer, T om bravely exposed the true murderer Joe. But unfortunately, Joe ran away, so Tom was trapped into enormous anxiety. Once time, Tom met a partner of Joe in a haunted house. He heard that they would go to find treasure. Several days later, Tom went to a picnic with his friends. But he and the girl Becky got lost in a cave. They had sufferedfrom hunger, thirsty, darkness and coldness for days in that cave. Worse still, they found that Indian Joe also in that cave. This time, all the town folk believed that they must have die. Especially Tom’ aunt and Thatcher were in deep sorrow. Beyond peopl e’ expectation, Tom and Becky found the way, and was sent to their home by others. And because of this accident, the cave was sealed. When Tom heard that, he told the judge that Joe was still stay at that cave. When the judge fetched someone to check it, Joe had died in the cave. Then, Tom and Huck got into that cave again, and found the treasure that Joe and his partner were finding. Tom got a happy ending, he became a rich man and was popular in his town.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a clear reflection of the child's life is full of Children's novels. I have to say that clever Tom reminded me of my childhood. We always lost something as we grow up and gradually got lost in our life. A child would not tell lies to other, a child would speak out their feelings without hesitation, a child would care too much about other’s opinions, and a child would bravely do what they wanted. Likewise, in that time, people were pretty reserve, and they did not dare to tell their own ideas, neither fight against the tradition. But Tom was brave. He challenged the tradition. He never restricted himself into school or homework like other child, he loved adventure and different challenges instead. He exposed the true murderer even though he might be dangerous. So the author Mark Twain designed a good ending for Tom.It was Mark Twain’s humor that attracted me most. But there was not only humor, people who read his books would learn something serious. He told us: tell the truth forever, such of words you need not record you to once say somewhat. Someonesaid that Mark Twain gave pleasure-real intellectual enjoyment to millions, and his work will continue to give such pleasure to millions yet to come. His humor was American, but he was nearly as much appreciated by Englishmen and people of other countries as by his own countrymen. He has made an enduring part of American literature.In a word, I gained much from this fantastic novel, and learned a lot from Tom Sawyer. And I believe that these harvests will have great effects on my whole life.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇5Tom Sawyer is a cunning, playful boy. He seems to be a showoff and likes to show his authority over other boys. He is around twelve years old as gathered from hints in Twain"s works. Tom is supposed to represent the carefree and wonderful world of boyhood in the early-mid 1800s. His best friends include Joe Harper and Huckleberry Finn. In The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Tom"s infatuation with Rebecca (alias Becky) Thatcher is apparent. He has a half-brother, Sid, a cousin, Mary, and his aunt is known as Aunt Polly, all with whom he lives. Tom is Aunt Polly"s dead sister"s son. It is unknown how T om"s mother died.Among the adventures T om gets himself into are going pirating with Huck Finn And Joe Harper. He also stumbles upon Injun Joe"s crime in which Widow Douglass is almost killed, and where thousands of gold rounds were involved. He also gets trapped with Becky Thacher, his fiancée, in a cave. After which, Injun Joe dies, and Huck gets adopted by the widow.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇6this winter holiday l read a book .the book name is the adventures of tom sawyer.the book's writer is mark twain.the book is talk about tom sawyer does not like school .hedoes not like work ,and he never wants to get out of bed in the morning.but he likes swimming and fishing,and having adventures with his friends.and he has a lot of adventures.but tom's adventures can be dangerous,too.one night in the graveyard he and huck finn see three men.who are they?and what are they doing in the graveyard,in the middle of the night?then the boys see that one of the men is injun joe...tom and huck never forget that night.they are afraid of injun joe-and they are right to be afraid because injun joe is very quick with a knife.this story is very interesting and exciting.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇7today, i was read the book which called “the adventures of tom sawyer.” this story is about a clever boy called tom sawyer.this book describes the nineteenth century, the mississippi river in a small town people's lives, it can be said at the time the united states are a microcosm of social life. small characters tom sawyer and his junior partner and seriously childish words and deeds can give us deep insight. they hate priests pack of lies, and do not like boring school of education and decently adults, and children a rival show. they smart and lively , integrity and courage, especially in some major events happened when, in a battle between justice and evil, in the moment of crisis comes, they will not hesitate to come forward.i think tom sawyer is a brave boy. he always gives his friends courage in danger and he tries his best to help other people.of course we know, tom is a very naughty boy, and his aunt polly is often angry with him. but i think he also is a good boy. he always can make other people happy.people always grow, besides height, body has grownstronger, and people’s thoughts are long. your view on the world is different, sensible, and no longer childish. but people are getting better.don't like the adventures of the ruthless villains, and his quest do bad, people see people hate. but at last he still las toman, got a starved to death in the cave.after reading the "adventures of tom sawyer," i really envy tom to have such an interesting experience. it seems this book with relish, and even sleepless nights.in my heart, i respect tom. maybe he is a hero. and i think i should learn something from tom sawyer.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇8At first glance, there are children joy works and many funny plots. But read carefully Mark Twain's works are more realisticand truly reflects the United States from free competition to monopoly of imperialism period of the social life. The theme is extensive, or against racial discrimination, or irony, vulgar, boring or criticized the hypocrisy of the bourgeoisie, or expose the imperialist ambitions. They are both of the author's childhood nostalgia and remembrance,it is also reflect the history of the United States social, record and criticizing the social moral. As the author said, they are written for adults.Because of the real life ,the author can't find the ideal,he put attention to the pre-war childhood living in the world. He abound poetic description and romantic style, depicting the lives of children in fun. The author ingeniously the innocent and lively children's psychology with the ordinary citizen to compare the vulgar conservative life highlights the lifeless life. Make the children feel disgust and false of the religious ceremony, inflexible and stale school life education system. The hero Tom to get rid of the bondage ofreality and the pursuit of freedom of heaven and earth, going to make a variety of "adventure". He lively, clever, full of fantasy and sense of justice... All of these are inconsistent with the capitalism life of that time, and not to be permitted by secular moral precepts and church.The two novels are based on the Mississippi River as the story background, the Mississippi River town is a microcosm of the entire United States. The works reflect the 19th century the various ills of American society, the disparity between the rich and the poor, urban and rural areas, in jinyuan empire behind the gilded age, hidden shocking poverty and backwardness.BUT there aredifference between the two works. Tom Sawyer peculiar to the full performance of childhood joy, fear, the pursuit of stimulation, the characteristics of personality on the freedom of children's naive, lively, made a very detailed description, language vivid, lifelike, is a novel in the true sense of pure children not many drab moralizing implied meaning is simple. "Huckleberry ? huckleberry Finn" is the theme of the more profound, mainly in the United States of racial discrimination and racial oppression, criticizing the southern plantation owners of black slaves brutal persecution and inhumane treatment.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇9Once Read, Forever Gained------Reading Report of The Adventures of Tom SawyerLook! There comes a wild boy, who is so dirty, so naughty and full of cunning ideas in his small head. Out of question, this is Tom Sawyer, one of Mark Twain’s famous characters.It was in my junior middle school that I read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer in Chinese version for the first time, which gave me a deep impression. Tom is dirty but honest and sympatheticas he dreams of being a swordsman and struggle his whole life for justice. Tom is naughty but he is brave enough to expose that wicked Injun. Tom is full of cunning ideas but active and smart. We can see that T om show it so interesting to paint the wall on purpose because he wanted someone to replace him. But the result was that other kids were willing to help him and even give Tom presents. How clever he is! Absorbed in the story at that time, I have totally admired this little hero Tom Sawyer, such a simple, courageous and positive guy who certainly can be my model except his excessive naughtiness which gave others especially Aunt Polly headache.I won’t forget the second time when I read this book. Just half a year ago, the grade of college entrance examination sadd ened me. The shadow didn’t disappear until I came across this book in my shelf while I was arranging my books. I counted myself fortunate to make such a correct decision to read it again, which benefited me a lot. I was surprised to realize that Tom is an orphan, which was ignored by me before. Without paternal affection and maternal love, T om can still lead a joyful life. How could I drown myself in sorrow as I am surrounded by my parents’ love? Tom disliked the boring lessons so he tried to get rid of the tame school life? Such a little boy is able to pursue a free life that he likes, why am I so stupid to be struck down by a grade, just a grade? Trapped in the cave, Tom behaved so bravely and calmly that I have to give him thumbs up. It’s an amazing thing that it was a book that sent me back to sunny days. “The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it. ” Now, I see it.So now I read the The Adventures of T om Sawyer for the third time, but in English version this time. Gain again! The story seems to be purer in English so I am abstracted by Tom’s innocence.We can’t find out such lovely innocence out of childhood. What are left are just piecemeal memories. Like a bottle of champagne, childhood will be aromatic with memories as time goes by. At this time, I want to give some literary comments as a university student. We have to mention the realism and romanticism at the mere mention of Mark Twain. He gave us a fantasy story with a child’s sight in this novel. Mark Twain showed us the realism by illustrating the life people live in the small town and satires bourgeoisie’s vulgarity and greed, the hypocrisy of children’s education, the morality and religion. On the other hand, he also described T om and his fellows’ pursuing the legendary, adventurous, romantic and happy life to express the beautiful hope to life and dream. The novel is filled with true portrayal of realism as well as the emotional expression of romanticism. It perfectly combines his artistic styles of realism and ideal romanticism.A good book is just like an ore, which you can gain something valuable whenever you mire. Once read, you could gain it forever.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇10I believe that one of the factors that makes a piece of literature or even a movie a masterpiece is how well the reader can relate to the story. This is definitely a book everyone can relate to.The Adventures of Tom Sawyer is a literary masterpieces, written in 1876 by the famous author Mark Twain. T om Sawyer is a mischievous young boy who lives in the small town on the Mississippi River called St. Petersburg. The story line is simple, the book reads like a biography or a memoir of a summer in T om Sawyer's life.It is a story filled with action, adventure,, ingenious ideas, love, and schoolyard politics. The whole story is seemingly a complication of what people did or wish they did during their childhood.The book is a little difficult to read at first. Personally, it takes me a little while to get used to the 19th century dialect in the book. Other than referring to persons of African decent in derogatory terms (which I'm sure uses terms even young children already know), the book would be an enjoyable read for people of all ages. I highly recommend this book for anyone looking to feel young again, if just for a few hundred pages.《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇11I was read the book which called “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. This story is about a clever boy called T om Sawyer.Tom is a naughty boy, he doesn’t like school and he doesn’t like work and he never wants to get up in t he morning. But he like playing like swimming, fishing and having adventures with his friends. In this story he and his friend have a lot of adventures. These adventures can be dangerous. One night in the graveyard he and Huck see three men. Then Tom and his friends saw a murder. Joey killed the doctor and referred to Peter. Tom and his friends exposed Joey and caught him and became hero.I think Tom is naughty but he is sympathetic and upright, he is brave he doesn’t afraid of Joey and full of his mind are wicked idea but he is clever and optimistic, he want his friend work for him, he make a lot of funny things.This book let me know we need to “The road sees rough, gone to bat” to face difficult things we can’t shrink back and we need to fight with them. In the same time l know if only have a dream have pursuit and should try our best to do it , we can’tgive up easily .It just like in our study life we need to do our best. When we have problem we need to overcome it and get better scores. 《汤姆索亚历险记》英文读后感篇12I read a very interesting book, the name of the book is called "Tom Sawyer, I like the book in the little hero and some story happened on him.Tom is a naughty, naive and lively children, but in the eyes of an adult who is also a real bad boy, he naughty, like mischief, play truant, the nature is the norm, not only in this way, he make trouble method also each time, let a person elusive, small-scale operations. Although he is a very bad very bad child, but also to make people laugh: penalty was painting the walls, and could come up with a good way to make a friend for him to complete, and make friends with him to take a variety of foods and toys for a chance to paint the walls. In this way, Tom not only comfortable, leisure and suddenly gained a lot of gifts.Let me more impressive is the story of Tom and huck and Joe three people formed a team when the pirates fled to a desert island. In this adventure, he met with difficulties, but he didn't lose heart, don't give up, again and again to challenge difficulties bravely, until down with difficulty.After reading this book, I feel that we meet with difficulties don't get discouraged, and strive to insist on. T om lives full of sunshine also tells us: as long as there is joy, have a dream, a dream can come true!我读了一本非常有趣的书，书的名字叫《汤姆索亚历险记》，我很喜欢这本书中的小主人公以及在他身上发生的一些故事。
霍金与牛顿英文介绍
One reason for Hawking 's success: "Weird families" love to travel and read
Hawking‘s mother, Isabel, was also an excellent student, not only from Oxford, but also in three major professions: philosophy, politics and economics. The couple, who live on the outskirts of London after their marriage, are the most intelligent and eccentric family in town. In the age when only the aristocracy could afford a car, the family was not rich enough to buy a second-hand taxi. According to hawking, his parents took them to the seaside every summer vacation and spent a whole holiday there. In fact, their car is only convenient for them to travel and explore nature. On the contrary, the material requirements of their family are basically zero. The family was silent, and at the dinner table was often a book for everyone to read and eat. Occasionally meet wonderful content, they exchange a few words of experience. The hawking family has few furniture and decorations, but the books are stacked.
高级英语Lesson 12 The Loons 课文内容
The LoonsMargarel LaurenceJust below Manawaka, where the Wachakwa Riverran brown and noisy over the pebbles , the scrub oak and grey-green willow and chokecherry bushes grew in a dense thicket . In a clearing at the centre of the thicket stood the Tonnerre family's shack. The basis at this dwelling was a small square cabin made of poplar poles and chinked with mud, which had been built by Jules Tonnerre some fifty years before, when he came back from Batoche with a bullet in his thigh, the year that Riel was hung and the voices of the Metis entered their long silence. Jules had only intended to stay the winter in the Wachakwa Valley, but the family was still there in the thirties, when I was a child. As the Tonnerres had increased, their settlement had been added to, until the clearing at the foot of the town hill was a chaos of lean-tos, wooden packing cases, warped lumber, discarded car types, ramshackle chicken coops , tangled strands of barbed wire and rusty tin cans.The Tonnerres were French half breeds, and among themselves they spoke a patois that was neither Cree nor French. Their English was broken and full of obscenities . They did not belong among the Cree of the Galloping Mountain reservation, further north, and they did not belong among the Scots-Irish and Ukrainians of Manawaka, either. They were, as my Grandmother MacLeod would have put it, neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring . When their men were not working at odd jobs or as section hands on the C.P. R. they lived on relief. In the summers, one of the Tonnerre youngsters, with a face that seemed totally unfamiliar with laughter, would knock at the doors of the town's brick houses and offer for sale a lard -pail full of bruised wild strawberries, and if he got as much as a quarter he would grab the coin and run before the customer had time to change her mind. Sometimes old Jules, or his son Lazarus, would get mixed up in a Saturday-night brawl , and would hit out at whoever was nearest or howl drunkenly among the offended shoppers on Main Street, and then the Mountie would put them for the night in the barred cell underneath the Court House, and the next morning they would be quiet again.Piquette Tonnerre, the daughter of Lazarus, was inmy class at school. She was older than I, but she had failed several grades, perhaps because her attendance had always been sporadic and her interest in schoolwork negligible . Part of the reason she had missed a lot of school was that she had had tuberculosis of the bone, and had once spent many months in hospital. I knew this because my father was the doctor who had looked after her. Her sickness was almost the only thing I knew about her, however. Otherwise, she existed for me only as a vaguely embarrassing presence, with her hoarse voice and her clumsy limping walk and her grimy cotton dresses that were always miles too long. I was neither friendly nor unfriendly towards her. She dwelt and moved somewhere within my scope of vision, but I did not actually notice her very much until that peculiar summer when I was eleven."I don't know what to do about that kid." my father said at dinner one evening. "Piquette Tonnerre, I mean. The damn bone's flared up again. I've had her in hospital for quite a while now, and it's under control all right, but I hate like the dickens to send her home again.""Couldn't you explain to her mother that she has to rest a lot?" my mother said."The mother's not there" my father replied. "She took off a few years back. Can't say I blame her. Piquette cooks for them, and she says Lazarus would never do anything for himself as long as she's there. Anyway, I don't think she'd take much care of herself, once she got back. She's only thirteen, after all. Beth, I was thinking—What about taking her up to Diamond Lake with us this summer? A couple of months rest would give that bone a much better chance."My mother looked stunned."But Ewen -- what about Roddie and Vanessa?""She's not contagious ," my father said. "And it would be company for Vanessa.""Oh dear," my mother said in distress, "I'll bet anything she has nits in her hair.""For Pete's sake," my father said crossly, "do you think Matron would let her stay in the hospital for all this time like that? Don't be silly, Beth. "Grandmother MacLeod, her delicately featured face as rigid as a cameo , now brought her mauve -veined hands together as though she were about to begin prayer."Ewen, if that half breed youngster comes along to Diamond Lake, I'm not going," she announced. "I'll go toMorag's for the summer."I had trouble in stifling my urge to laugh, for my mother brightened visibly and quickly tried to hide it. If it came to a choice between Grandmother MacLeod and Piquette, Piquette would win hands down, nits or not."It might be quite nice for you, at that," she mused. "You haven't seen Morag for over a year, and you might enjoy being in the city for a while. Well, Ewen dear, you do what you think best. If you think it would do Piquette some good, then we' II be glad to have her, as long as she behaves herself."So it happened that several weeks later, when we all piled into my father's old Nash, surrounded by suitcases and boxes of provisions and toys for my ten-month-old brother, Piquette was with us and Grandmother MacLeod, miraculously, was not. My father would only be staying at the cottage for a couple of weeks, for he had to get back to his practice, but the rest of us would stay at Diamond Lake until the end of August.Our cottage was not named, as many were, "Dew Drop Inn" or "Bide-a-Wee," or "Bonnie Doon”. The sign on the roadway bore in austere letters only our name, MacLeod. It was not a large cottage, but it was on the lakefront. You could look out the windows and see, through the filigree of the spruce trees, the water glistening greenly as the sun caught it. All around the cottage were ferns, and sharp-branched raspberry bushes, and moss that had grown over fallen tree trunks, If you looked carefully among the weeds and grass, you could find wild strawberry plants which were in white flower now and in another month would bear fruit, the fragrant globes hanging like miniature scarlet lanterns on the thin hairy stems. The two grey squirrels were still there, gossiping at us from the tall spruce beside the cottage, and by the end of the summer they would again be tame enough to take pieces of crust from my hands. The broad moose antlers that hung above the back door were a little more bleached and fissured after the winter, but otherwise everything was the same. I raced joyfully around my kingdom, greeting all the places I had not seen for a year. My brother, Roderick, who had not been born when we were here last summer, sat on the car rug in the sunshine and examined a brown spruce cone, meticulously turning it round and round in his small and curious hands. My mother and father toted the luggage from car to cottage, exclaiming over how well the place had wintered, no broken windows, thank goodness, no apparent damage from storm felled branches orsnow.Only after I had finished looking around did I notice Piquette. She was sitting on the swing her lame leg held stiffly out, and her other foot scuffing the ground as she swung slowly back and forth. Her long hair hung black and straight around her shoulders, and her broad coarse-featured face bore no expression -- it was blank, as though she no longer dwelt within her own skull, as though she had gone elsewhere.I approached her very hesitantly."Want to come and play?"Piquette looked at me with a sudden flash of scorn."I ain't a kid," she said.Wounded, I stamped angrily away, swearing I would not speak to her for the rest of the summer. In the days that followed, however, Piquette began to interest me, and l began to want to interest her. My reasons did not appear bizarre to me. Unlikely as it may seem, I had only just realised that the Tonnerre family, whom I had always heard Called half breeds, were actually Indians, or as near as made no difference. My acquaintance with Indians was not expensive. I did not remember ever having seen a real Indian, and my new awareness that Piquette sprang from the people of Big Bear and Poundmaker, of Tecumseh, of the Iroquois who had eaten Father Brébeuf's heart--all this gave her an instant attraction in my eyes. I was devoted reader of Pauline Johnson at this age, and sometimes would orate aloud and in an exalted voice, West Wind, blow from your prairie nest, Blow from the mountains, blow from the west--and so on. It seemed to me that Piquette must be in some way a daughter of the forest, a kind of junior prophetess of the wilds, who might impart to me, if I took the right approach, some of the secrets which she undoubtedly knew --where the whippoorwill made her nest, how the coyote reared her young, or whatever it was that it said in Hiawatha.I set about gaining Piquette's trust. She was not allowed to go swimming, with her bad leg, but I managed to lure her down to the beach-- or rather, she came because there was nothing else to do. The water was always icy, for the lake was fed by springs, but I swam like a dog, thrashing my arms and legs around at such speed and with such an output of energy that I never grew cold. Finally, when I had enough, I came out and sat beside Piquette on the sand. When she saw me approaching, her hands squashed flat the sand castle she had been building, and she looked at me sullenly, without"Do you like this place?" I asked, after a while, intending to lead on from there into the question of forest lore .Piquette shrugged. "It's okay. Good as anywhere.""I love it, "1 said. "We come here every summer.""So what?" Her voice was distant, and I glanced at her uncertainly, wondering what I could have said wrong."Do you want to come for a walk?" I asked her. "We wouldn't need to go far. If you walk just around the point there, you come to a bay where great big reeds grow in the water, and all kinds of fish hang around there. Want to? Come on."She shook her head."Your dad said I ain't supposed to do no more walking than I got to." I tried another line."I bet you know a lot about the woods and all that, eh?" I began respectfully.Piquette looked at me from her large dark unsmiling eyes."I don't know what in hell you're talkin' about," she replied. "You nuts or somethin'? If you mean where my old man, and me, and all them live, you better shut up, by Jesus, you hear?"I was startled and my feelings were hurt, but I had a kind of dogged perseverance. I ignored her rebuff."You know something, Piquette? There's loons here, on this lake. You can see their nests just up the shore there, behind those logs. At night, you can hear them even from the cottage, but it's better to listen from the beach. My dad says we should listen and try to remember how they sound, because in a few years when more cottages are built at Diamond Lake and more people come in, the loons will go away."Piquette was picking up stones and snail shells and then dropping them again."Who gives a good goddamn?" she said.It became increasingly obvious that, as an Indian, Piquette was a dead loss. That evening I went out by myself, scrambling through the bushes that overhung the steep path, my feet slipping on the fallen spruce needles that covered the ground. When I reached the shore, I walked along the firm damp sand to the small pier that my father had built, and sat down there. I heard someone else crashing through the undergrowth and the bracken, and for a moment I thought Piquette had changed her mind, but it turned out to be my father. He sat beside me on the pier and we waited, withoutAt night the lake was like black glass with a streak of amber which was the path of the moon. All around, the spruce trees grew tall and close-set, branches blackly sharp against the sky, which was lightened by a cold flickering of stars. Then the loons began their calling. They rose like phantom birds from the nests on the shore, and flew out onto the dark still surface of the water.No one can ever describe that ululating sound, the crying of the loons, and no one who has heard it can ever forget it. Plaintive , and yet with a quality of chilling mockery , those voices belonged to a world separated by aeon from our neat world of summer cottages and the lighted lamps of home."They must have sounded just like that," my father remarked, "before any person ever set foot here." Then he laughed. "You could say the same, of course, about sparrows or chipmunk, but somehow it only strikes you that way with the loons.""I know," I said.Neither of us suspected that this would be the last time we would ever sit here together on the shore, listening. We stayed for perhaps half an hour, and then we went back to the cottage. My mother was reading beside the fireplace. Piquette was looking at the burning birch log, and not doing anything."You should have come along," I said, although in fact I was glad she had not."Not me", Piquette said. "You wouldn’ catch me walkin' way down there jus' for a bunch of squawkin' birds."Piquette and I remained ill at ease with one another. felt I had somehow failed my father, but I did not know what was the matter, nor why she Would not or could not respond when I suggested exploring the woods or Playing house. I thought it was probably her slow and difficult walking that held her back. She stayed most of the time in the cottage with my mother, helping her with the dishes or with Roddie, but hardly ever talking. Then the Duncans arrived at their cottage, and I spent my days with Mavis, who was my best friend. I could not reach Piquette at all, and I soon lost interest in trying. But all that summer she remained as both a reproach and a mystery to me.That winter my father died of pneumonia, after less than a week's illness. For some time I saw nothing around me, being completely immersed in my own pain and my mother's. When I looked outward once more, I scarcely noticed thatPiquette Tonnerre was no longer at school. I do not remember seeing her at all until four years later, one Saturday night when Mavis and I were having Cokes in the Regal Café. The jukebox was booming like tuneful thunder, and beside it, leaning lightly on its chrome and its rainbow glass, was a girl.Piquette must have been seventeen then, although she looked about twenty. I stared at her, astounded that anyone could have changed so much. Her face, so stolid and expressionless before, was animated now with a gaiety that was almost violent. She laughed and talked very loudly with the boys around her. Her lipstick was bright carmine, and her hair was cut Short and frizzily permed . She had not been pretty as a child, and she was not pretty now, for her features were still heavy and blunt. But her dark and slightly slanted eyes were beautiful, and her skin-tight skirt and orange sweater displayed to enviable advantage a soft and slender body.She saw me, and walked over. She teetered a little, but it was not due to her once-tubercular leg, for her limp was almost gone."Hi, Vanessa," Her voice still had the same hoarseness . "Long time no see, eh?""Hi," I said "Where've you been keeping yourself, Piquette?""Oh, I been around," she said. "I been away almost two years now. Been all over the place--Winnipeg, Regina, Saskatoon. Jesus, what I could tell you! I come back this summer, but I ain't stayin'. You kids go in to the dance?""No," I said abruptly, for this was a sore point with me. I was fifteen, and thought I was old enough to go to the Saturday-night dances at the Flamingo. My mother, however, thought otherwise."Y'oughta come," Piquette said. "I never miss one. It's just about the on'y thing in this jerkwatertown that's any fun. Boy, you couldn' catch me stayin' here. I don' give a shit about this place. It stinks."She sat down beside me, and I caught the harshover-sweetness of her perfume."Listen, you wanna know something, Vanessa?" she confided , her voice only slightly blurred. "Your dad was the only person in Manawaka that ever done anything good to me."I nodded speechlessly. I was certain she was speaking the truth. I knew a little more than I had that summer atDiamond Lake, but I could not reach her now any more than I had then, I was ashamed, ashamed of my own timidity, the frightened tendency to look the other way. Yet I felt no real warmth towards her-- I only felt that I ought to, because of that distant summer and because my father had hoped she would be company for me, or perhaps that I would be for her, but it had not happened that way. At this moment, meeting her again, I had to admit that she repelled and embarrassed me, and I could not help despising the self-pity in her voice. I wished she would go away. I did not want to see her did not know what to say to her. It seemed that we had nothing to say to one another."I'll tell you something else," Piquette went on. "All the old bitches an' biddies in this town will sure be surprised. I'm gettin' married this fall -- my boy friend, he's an English fella, works in the stockyards in the city there, a very tall guy, got blond wavy hair. Gee, is he ever handsome. Got this real Hiroshima name. Alvin Gerald Cummings--some handle, eh? They call him Al."For the merest instant, then I saw her. I really did see her, for the first and only time in all the years we had both lived in the same town. Her defiant face, momentarily, became unguarded and unmasked, and in her eyes there was a terrifying hope."Gee, Piquette --" I burst out awkwardly, "that's swell. That's really wonderful. Congratulations—good luck--I hope you'll be happy--"As l mouthed the conventional phrases, I could only guess how great her need must have been, that she had been forced to seek the very things she so bitterly rejected.When I was eighteen, I left Manawaka and went away to college. At the end of my first year, I came back home for the summer. I spent the first few days in talking non-stop with my mother, as we exchanged all the news that somehow had not found its way into letters-- what had happened in my life and what had happened here in Manawaka while I was away. My mother searched her memory for events that concerned people I knew."Did I ever write you about Piquette Tonnerre, Vanessa?" she asked one morning."No, I don't think so," I replied. "Last I heard of her, she was going to marry some guy in the city. Is she still there?"My mother looked Hiroshima , and it was a moment before she spoke, as though she did not know how to expresswhat she had to tell and wished she did not need to try."She's dead," she said at last. Then, as I stared at her, "Oh, Vanessa, when it happened, I couldn't help thinking of her as she was that summer--so sullen and gauche and badly dressed. I couldn't help wondering if we could have done something more at that time--but what could we do? She used to be around in the cottage there with me all day, and honestly it was all I could do to get a word out of her. She didn't even talk to your father very much, although I think she liked him in her way.""What happened?" I asked."Either her husband left her, or she left him," my mother said. "I don't know which. Anyway, she came back here with two youngsters, both only babies--they must have been born very close together. She kept house, I guess, for Lazarus and her brothers, down in the valley there, in the old Tonnerre place. I used to see her on the street sometimes, but she never spoke to me. She'd put on an awful lot of weight, and she looked a mess, to tell you the truth, a real slattern , dressed any old how. She was up in court a couple of times--drunk and disorderly, of course. One Saturday night last winter, during the coldest weather, Piquette was alone in the shack with the children. The Tonnerres made home brew all the time, so I've heard, and Lazarus said later she'd been drinking most of the day when he and the boys went out that evening. They had an old woodstove there--you know the kind, with exposed pipes. The shack caught fire. Piquette didn't get out, and neither did the children."I did not say anything. As so often with Piquette, there did not seem to be anything to say. There was a kind of silence around the image in my mind of the fire and the snow, and I wished I could put from my memory the look that I had seen once in Piquette's eyes.I went up to Diamond Lake for a few days that summer, with Mavis and her family. The MacLeod cottage had been sold after my father's death, and I did not even go to look at it, not wanting to witness my long-ago kingdom possessed now by strangers. But one evening I went clown to the shore by myself.The small pier which my father had built was gone, and in its place there was a large and solid pier built by the government, for Galloping Mountain was now a national park, and Diamond Lake had been re-named Lake Wapakata, for it was felt that an Indian name would have a greater appeal totourists. The one store had become several dozen, and the settlement had all the attributes of a flourishing resort--hotels, a dance-hall, cafes with neon signs, the penetrating odours of potato chips and hot dogs.I sat on the government pier and looked out across the water. At night the lake at least was the same as it had always been, darkly shining and bearing within its black glass the streak of amber that was the path of the moon. There was no wind that evening, and everything was quiet all around me. It seemed too quiet, and then I realized that the loons were no longer here. I listened for some time, to make sure, but never once did I hear that long-drawn call, half mocking and half plaintive, spearing through the stillness across the lake.I did not know what had happened to the birds. Perhaps they had gone away to some far place of belonging. Perhaps they had been unable to find such a place, and had simply died out, having ceased to care any longer whether they lived or not. I remembered how Piquette had scorned to come along, when my father and I sat there and listened to the lake birds. It seemed to me now that in some unconscious and totally unrecognized way, Piquette might have been the only one, after all, who had heard the crying of the loons.NOTES1) Margaret Laurence: Born in Neepawa, Manitoba in Canada in 1926.Her publications include This Side of Jordan (1960), The Stone Angle(1964), A Jest of God (1966), The First Dwellers (1969), and The Diviners (1974).2) Rid: Louis Rid (1844-85) led two rebellions of Indians and Metis (people of mixed French and Indian blood) in 1869-70 and 1884-85.The latter rebellion was crushed in the battle of Batoehe, Manitoba, and Riel was executed.3) patois: dialect4) broken English: English that is imperfectly spoken with mistakes in grammar and syntax5) neither flesh, fowl, nor good salt herring; also 'neither fish, flesh, nor fowl' meaning 'not anything definite or recognizable'6) C. P. R. : Canadian Pacific Railroad7) Mountie: a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police8) Nash: a former make of automobiles9) Big Bear and Poundmaker: leaders of the Cree10) Tecumseh (1768-1813): chief of the Shawnee11) Father Brebeuf: Jean de Brebeuf (1593-1649), Jesuit missionary to the Hurons12) Hurons, Shawnee, Cree and Troquois: Indian tribes13)West Wind ...the west: the first two lines from "The Song My Pad die Sings" by Pauline Johnson (1861-1913), Canadian poet who was the daughter of an English woman and a Mohawk chief14) Hiawatha: romantic poem about Indians by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow15) Cokes: a popular shortened form for Coca-Cola, a carbonated soft drink manufactured in the U. S.16) I don't give a shit: once taboo but now a colloquial slang, meaning' I don't care a bit'。
初一英语名人故事完形填空题40题
初一英语名人故事完形填空题40题1Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history. He was born in Germany in 1879. As a child, he was very curious and liked to ask questions. Einstein was not a good student in school. But he loved to learn on his own. Later, he became a great scientist. His theory of relativity changed the way people think about space and time.1. Albert Einstein is a famous ___.A. artistB. scientistC. writerD. musician答案：B。
解析：根据文章第一句“Albert Einstein is one of the most famous scientists in history.”可知爱因斯坦是一位著名的科学家，故选B。
A 选项artist 是艺术家；C 选项writer 是作家；D 选项musician 是音乐家，都不符合题意。
2. Einstein was born in ___.A. 1879B. 1880C. 1881D. 1882答案：A。
解析：文章第二句“He was born in Germany in 1879.”明确提到爱因斯坦出生于1879 年，故选A。
3. As a child, Einstein was very ___.A. shyB. braveC. curiousD. lazy答案：C。
解析：文中“As a child, he was very curious and liked to ask questions.”表明爱因斯坦小时候很好奇，故选C。
奇怪小孩英语作文带翻译
奇怪小孩英语作文带翻译Title: The Curious Child。
Once upon a time, in a quaint little town nestled amidst rolling hills and whispering forests, there lived a peculiar child named Emily. With eyes as wide as the moon and a mind buzzing with endless questions, Emily was known far and wide as the curious child.One sunny afternoon, as Emily roamed the cobblestone streets, her gaze fell upon a gnarled old tree standing in the town square. Its branches twisted and turned like ancient fingers reaching for the sky. Intrigued, Emily approached the tree, her curiosity ablaze."Hello, Mr. Tree," she chirped, her voice as melodious as a songbird's. "Why do you stand here all day, never moving or speaking?"The tree remained silent, its leaves rustling gently inthe breeze. Undeterred, Emily pressed on."Do you ever get lonely, Mr. Tree? Or do you have friends among the birds and the squirrels?"Again, the tree offered no reply, but Emily fancied she saw a flicker of movement amidst the leaves, as if the tree were nodding in agreement."Ah, so you do have friends!" Emily exclaimed, clapping her hands in delight. "I knew it! Even the oldest, quietest things in the world have companions."As Emily continued her conversation with the tree, the townsfolk watched in amusement and wonder. Some shook their heads and chuckled, while others marveled at the child's boundless imagination. But Emily paid them no mind, lost in her own world of questions and discoveries.Days turned into weeks, and still, Emily visited the old tree, regaling it with tales of her adventures and dreams. And though the tree never spoke a word, Emily felta deep kinship with it, as if they shared a secret language known only to them.Then, one stormy night, as lightning danced across the sky and rain poured down in torrents, Emily rushed to the town square, fearing for her silent friend. To her dismay, she found the old tree battered and broken, its branches snapped and its leaves scattered.Tears welled in Emily's eyes as she cradled the tree's trunk in her arms, whispering words of comfort and solace. And in that moment, she knew what she had to do.With the help of the townsfolk, Emily gathered toolsand materials, and together they set to work. Day and night, they toiled tirelessly, breathing new life into the old tree, until at last, it stood tall and proud once more.As the first rays of dawn illuminated the sky, Emily smiled up at her friend, her heart overflowing with joy."There," she said, her voice soft but resolute. "Nowyou'll never be alone again."And though the tree remained silent as ever, Emily knew that somehow, deep down, it understood.In the end, Emily learned that curiosity was not just about asking questions, but also about seeking answers, forging connections, and finding beauty in the world around her. And as she skipped home, hand in hand with her silent friend, she knew that her adventures were only just beginning.中文翻译：标题，好奇的小孩。
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CURIOSITY: Were you very curious as a child?
If we had no school, how would children learn about themselves and the world around them? Do we need school or not? Why do we have schools?
Were you good at tests in school? Which subjects did you do well in? Why did you do well in them? Which subjects did you do badly in? Why? Were there any subjects you did not like because you did not like the teacher, or did
not like the way the subject was taught?
Apart from the classes, which other things did you like / dislike about school?
DEBATE
TEAM A: You strongly believe that the current system of education and testing is the best one.
TEAM B: You believe that the current education and testing system needs to be changed completely
How to plan for a debate:
1.have a general discussion with your team, getting lots of points to support your argument. Think about which points the other side will make. How will you argue against them?
2. Decide who will talk about which points during the debate. Each person should prepare carefully
USEFUL PHRASES FOR GIVING OPINIONS / DEBATING:
Formal
I'm (absolutely) convinced (that) ...
I've always held that ...
I maintain that ...
Neutral
I (strongly) feel (that) ...
I (very much) doubt (that) ...
I (strongly) suspect (that) ...
In my view / opinion ...
To my mind ...
I'm (strongly) in favour of ...
I (firmly) believe (that) ...
Informal
I reckon (that)...
If you ask me...。