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1. Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.--John Donne建立在美貌基础上的爱情，如同美貌一样，不久就会消失。----J 邓恩 2. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, and therefore is winged cupid painted blind. --Wi

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文章来源：http://www.putclub.com/html/course/basic/EnglishUSA/2005/0823/6799.htmlConversation A : At the AirportCHARLES: Mary! Mary Scott!MARY: Charles? Hello, Charles.CHARLES: Good morning. How are

Anyone who cares about what schools and colleges teach and how their students learn will be interested in the memoir of Ralph W. Tyler, who is one of the most famous men in American education.

积极看待每一天If your life feels like it is lacking the power that you want and the motivation that you need, sometimes all you have to do is shift your point of view.如果你觉得心有余力不足，觉得

Our “Mommy and Me” time began two years ago. My next-door neighbor and fellow mother, Christie, and I were out in our front yards, watching seven children of age 6 and under ride their bikes u

Many animals recognize their food because they see it. So do humans. When you see an apple or a piece of chocolate you know that these are things you can eat. You can also use other senses when you ch

It was a winter morning, just a couple of weeks before Christmas 2005. While most people were warming up their cars, Trevor, my husband, had to get up early to ride his bike four kilometers away from

Most people want to know how things are made. They honestly admit, however, that they hardly know a thing when it comes to understanding how a piece of music is made. Where a composer begins, how he m

Today about 70 countries use Daylight Saving Time (DST). Daylight Saving was first introduced during World War I in Australia. During the world wars, DST was used for the late summers beginning Januar

It is difficult for doctors to help a person with a damaged brain. Without enough blood, the brain lives for only three to five minutes. More often the doctors can’t fix the damage. Sometimes th

I first went to Harrow in the summer term. The school had the biggest swimming pool I had ever seen. It was a good joke to come up behind a naked boy, and push him into the pool. I made quite a habit

Odland remembers like it was yesterday working in an expensive French restaurant in Denver. The ice cream he was serving fell onto the white dress of a rich and important woman.Thirty years have pas

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: “I’m only a 1050.” The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT

Brian Walker chews pens. He bites them so hard that his boss has warned him to stop or buy his own. Kate’s weakness is more acceptable-she is unable to walk past a cake shop without overeating. Sophin

我的答案： C,A,Dquilt: 被子piece together: 把…拼合〔凑〕起来 e.g. She pieced together odds and ends of cloth. 她将零头布凑成整块。 crooked: 畸形的, 弯曲的, 歪的 stitch: 缝；缝补；缝合

我的答案： B,B,DCruelty：n. 残忍，残酷；虐待desert: vt. 舍弃，遗弃councilor：议员deserve：vt. 应受, 应得, 值得 stand out: 突出; 显眼, 引人注目, 脱颖而出例：The bold print stands out very well. 黑体字非常醒目。fine: 罚款

The literal meaning of philosophy is “love of wisdom”. But this meaning does not tell us very much. Unlike the other disciplines, philosophy cannot be defined by what you study, because it is actually

The small number of newborn babies, which has been caused by high prices and the changing social situation of women, is one of the most serious problems in Asia. When people talk about it, you can hea

我的答案： B,B,Cencourage vt. 鼓励,支持,激励

我的答案： B,D,D

When Andrea Peterson landed her first teaching job, she faced the daunting task of creating a music program with almost no money for equipment or supplies in a climate where standards-based learning w

August (Excerpt)八月之美(节选) Charles Dickens/查尔斯 狄更斯 There is no month in the whole year, in which nature wears a more beautiful appearance than in the month of August.一年之中，没有任何一个月份的自然风光比得过八月的风采。Spr

我的答案： C,B,B,Ajournalism: 新闻工作 keep up with:跟上, 不落人之后 例：We have to work hard to keep up with these excellent students.为了跟上那些优秀学生, 我们得努力学习了。on the corner of：（在街道）拐角处 on the corner(of two streets) 在两条街道相交的一角nickel：五分镍币good-for-nothing：adj.无用的，

Professor Barry Wellman of the University of Toronto in Canada has invented a term to describe the way many North Americans interact these days. The term is "networked individualism”. This concept is

Some people think that as more and more people have televisions in their homes, fewer and fewer people will buy books and newspapers. Why read an article in the newspaper, when the TV news can bring y

Dusk/黄昏David J. Ebner/戴维 埃布纳Looking into the sunset I can’t help but notice that despite her beauty,a sense of struggle and hopelessness surround the sky.凝望夕阳，我无法抑止地看到，无论她是如何的美丽动人，挣扎和绝望依然萦绕天幕。Deep ins

我的答案： C,A,BNeed to look at it again.

Thinking Some scientists claim that we humans are the only living things that are conscious — we alone are aware that we are thinking.No one knows how consciousness works — it is one of science’s la

People believe that climbing can do good to health. Where can you learn the skill of climbing then? If you think that you have to go to the mountains to learn how to climb, you’re wrong. Many American

If you look for a book as a present for a child, you will be spoiled for choice even in a year there is no new Harry Potter. J.K Rowling’s wizard is not alone. The past decade has been a harvest for g

A month after Hurricane Katrina, I returned home in New Orleans. There lay my house, reduced to waist-high ruins, smelly and dirty.Before the trip, I’d had my car fixed. When the office employee

Some people bring out the best in you in a way that you might never have fully realized on your own. My mom was one of those people.My father died when I was nine months old, making my mom a single

DDDcome across: 偶然发现, 偶然遇见 例：I came across him in the street yesterday.昨天我在街上无意中碰到了他。luxury：n.奢侈, 豪华illusion: 错觉, 幻想, 错误观念give birth to: 生; 引起, 产生item: 商品lifespan: 存在期;使用期;有效期out-of-date: 老式的,过时的,落伍的

Teens don’t understand the big fuss. As the first generation to grow up in a wired world, they hardly know a time when computers weren’t around, and they eagerly catch the chance to spend hours onli

When people want to know about the weather, they usually go to their radios, TVs, newspapers, or to the Internet. However, you can also find many weather signs among wildlife, because of their highl

Louis Armstrong had two famous nicknames. Some people called him Bagamo. They said his mouth looked like a large bag. Musicians often called him Pops, as a sign of respect for his influence on the wor

In June, 2007, a group of students from eight high schools in Winnipeg, the capital of Canada’s Manitoba province, will begin test-launching a satellite the size of a Rubik’s cube.The one-kilogram

Photos that you might have found down the back of your sofa are now big business!In 2005, the American artist Richard Prince’s photograph of a photograph, Untitled (Cowboy), was sold for $ 1, 248, 0

The traditional tent cities at festivals such as Glastonbury may never be the same again. In a victory of green business that is certain to appeal to environmentally-aware music-lovers, a design stude