情人节

每年的2月14日,人们向他们所爱的人寄送鲜花、糖果及问候卡来庆祝情人节。我们这样做是为了纪念圣·瓦伦丁。你也许会问:“谁是圣·瓦伦丁?”O n February14th each year,people celebrate V alentine s D ay bygiving flowers,candy,and cards to those they love.W e do this in honorofSaintV alentine.Y ou m ay be wondering,“W ho is St.V alentine?”It w as said that V alentine w as a priest who served during the thirdcentury R om e.There w as an em peror at that tim e by the nam e ofClaudius II.Em peror Cla…     

完形填空一则(英文)

Therecom es a tim efor every childw hen fantasiesend and realitybegins.Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny36to be M um and Dad and heroesfade aw ay.I don’t know if m ost people re-m em ber this37but I know when it38to m e.39an ordinary sum m er day m ygrandfather told m e one of his crazy sto-ries.I headed off to find the Indians that40said lived in the woods and go offto have m y41.Tw o hours later I had a sm all42badly m ade raft.I took43to thepond along with a branch from a tree touse as …     

The Long Journey of Marco Polo

More than 700 years ago,the 17-year-old Marco Polo set out from Venice for China.He would spend 24 years exploring a world as far away and mysterious to Europeans of his day as the moon and stars are to us.And the tales he brought back,later put into book form still make the most fascinating travel narrative of all time.ButM arco wasn蒺tthe firstPolo to reach China.H is fatherand unclegotthere m any years before him .The Polos were leading m erchants ofVenice who traveled widely inthe Nea…     

同学

M r.Sm ith m oved to another town,and soon he needed a new doctor,so he went to see one.H e sat down in the waiting room and lookedaround.The doctor's nam e was on the wall.Suddenly M r.Sm ith rem em-bered there had been a classm ate w ith the sam e nam e in his class at se-chool,and he had becom e a doctor.A s he w ent in to see the doctor,he rem em bered a young,handsom estudent,and was sad to see how old and heavy and grey this m anlooked.M r.Sm ith said to him,“G ood m orning,D octor.…     

My English Teacher

M r Zhang is our English teacher.H e is am iddle-aged m an w ith thick glasses.H e is talland handsom e.There is always a sm ile on hisface.M r Zhang is good at teaching and he al-ways tries his best to m ake his lessons livelyand interesting.W e can easily understand andrem em ber his lessons. H e uses different w aysto im prove our abilities in listening, speaking,reading and w riting. H e often tells us som efunny stories. Som etim es he even draws funnypictures on the blackboard and sin…     

知识卡

尤利乌斯·恺撒,伟大的皇帝,出生于公元100年7月12日。恺撒是一位军事、政治天才。他使罗马帝国成为最强大的古代帝国,并影响了人类文明的进程。Julius Caesar,a great em peror was born on July12in100BC.H e was am ilitary and politi-cal genius.H e turned the Rom an em pire into the greatest of all the ancient em pires,and influ-enced the course of civilization.知识卡…     

完形填空例析一则

School was over and I was both m entally and physically tired. I sat at the very front of the bus because of m y 1 to get hom e. Sitting at the front m ade m e 2 out like a shiny coin in a pile of dull pennies. Jane,the driver tried to break the 3 atm osphere by striking the m atch of 4 . I tried to m ind m y m anners and 5 listened, but usually I was too busy thinking of m y day.O n this day, 6 ,her conver- sation was w orth listening to. “M y father’s sick,” she said to no one in 7 .I c…     

Love Means Giving

M y brother,M ingm ing,is in the third grade.Every m onth he saves 20yuan of his pocket m oney to buy holiday presents for those he loves in the Project H ope School. O ne day,M ingm ing and I w ent to a nearby superm arket.H e picked up a hand basket and went off on his ow n while I was waiting patiently reading in a bench. H alf an hour later when he cam e up to the check- out counter,there was a sm ile on his face. M ingm ing reached into his pocket for m oney,but there was only ten yua…     

A Clever Cock

One day,a hungry(饥饿)fox cam e near to a cock and said,“I re- m em ber w hat a w onderful singer your father w as. I wonder whether you can sing better than your father.” H earing these words,the cock closed his eyes and began to sing. The fox snatched him with his m outh and carried him away. The people of the town cried (大 叫 ), “Look!The fox is carrying offour cock!” Then the cock said to the fox,“H ello,M r Fox. The people are saying that you are carrying their cock. Tell them t…     

高二英语单元检测(Units3～4)

U nit 3 A rt and architecture Ⅰ.单项填空 1.W ith the sun shining,the scene of the m ountains and fields ap- pears fascinating(迷人的). A .snow-covered B .snow -covering C.covering-snow D .covered-snow 2.Y oung people should never sim ply m aterial com forts. A .go against B .go in for C.go aw ay w ith D .go through 3.The film w as so thatit m ade the old ladies to tears. A .m oving;m oved B .m oved;m oving C.m oving;m ove D .m oved;m oved 4.A s a Party m em ber,you m ustbehave . A .such…     

阅读理解(英文)

Ⅰ.完形填空M r.H odge w as a1farm er.H e had hundreds ofchickens,and sold eggs and the m eatand gota lotof2them,buthe lived in a very3partofthe country,and he found4his hens(母鸡)laid5in thesum m er.So he decided to putair-conditionings(空调)into his chicken-house6they would lay wellallthrough the year and he could getm ore eggs and in that way earn m ore m oney.The owner ofthecom pany w hich7the air-conditioning cam e to see him,and w hen he saw M r.H odge蒺s house,hethoughtthathe m ightbe a…     

一位改变学生命运的老师

Steve,a twelve-year-old boy w ith alcoholic parents,w as about to be lost forever,by the U.S.education sys-tem.R em arkably,he could read,yet,in spite of hisreading skills,Steve was failing.H e had been failingsince first grade,as he w as passed on from grade tograde.Steve w as a big boy,looking m ore like a teenagerthan a twelve year old,yet,Steve w ent unnoticed untilM iss W hite.M iss W hite was a sm iling,young,beautiful red head,and Steve w as in love。For the first tim e in his younglife,he couldn’t ta...     

Tongue Twisters

1. Tom turned to the tired teachers and told them not to play tabletennis atten pastten.2. A great group of good girls are glad to give the grandm a glassesand go to the grandpa for green grass atthe gate ofthe garden.3. M aybe M onitor M ike m ade m any m istakes in m ath m atch onM onday m orning,yetM iss M ary didn tm ind.4. Please pass Peters parent a piece of paper to paint a m ap and apicture ofpeasants for the people planting apple trees.5.Five fleas and five flies floatfrom the flow…     

The Stories About Edison

Thomas Edison was born in 1847.W hen he was young,life was noteasy for him . H e had to be a new sboy on a train. A fter the work wasdone,he read a lot of books and m ade experim ents(实验).H e becam every interested in science.In 1871,one day,Edison蒺s father told him that his m other had diedin illness.Edison cried bitterly(悲哀地).H e decided to be m ore diligentin his research(研究)work while his m other was buried(安葬).Som e m onths later,Edison and M ary got m arried(结婚).A fter m …     

餐具—叉子的来历

“Fingers w ere m ade before forks. ” W hen a person gives up goodm anners, puts aside knife and fork, and dives into his food, som eone is likelyto repeatthatsaying. The fork w as an ancient agricultural tool, but for centuries no onethoughtofeating w ith it. N ot untilthe eleventh century, w hen a young ladyfrom C onstantinople broughther fork to Italy,did the custom reach E urope. By the fifteenth century the use ofthe fork w as w ide spread in Italy. TheEnglish explanation w as th…     

你知道感恩节吗?

Thanksgiving is A m erica s national holiday for giving thanks to G od.Thanksgiving D ay has a special significance for A m ericans because it istraced back to that group of people w ho w ere am ong the first to com e tothe N ew W orld in search offreedom.In1620,102sea-w eary Pilgrim s landed on the peninsula of C apeCod.Their ship,the M ayflow er,had intended to go to V irginia,but itm ade its landfall far to the north.A fter som e w eeks of exploring,thecolonists decided not to m ake th…     

海外来鸿(英文)

H i,dad!H ow are you in Beijing?M om and I went to the Chinese schoolthis m orning.It w as a big school.M omand I went to its fourth floor for registra-tion.U nfortunately,M om didn’t bring anycash,so w e got m oney from the bank.Thecost of registration was75dollars.O n our way back,we m et a wom anwho brought a ten-year-old boy.She askedus if there was any K arate(空手道)trainingclasses,and we said w e were sorry becausewe were also the new com ers there....M om wanted to buy a new sw i…     

高中英语第三册词汇知识检测(Units1-8)(英文)

1.Both sides exchanged their view s on a wide of topics they wereinterested in atthe m eeting.A .am ount B .collection C .num ber D .range2.Jim s close to his brother m ade people m istake them for one an-other.A .identification B .m em bershipC.probability D .resem blance3.She said she could not allthe inform ation given in the broadcast.A .accum ulate B .absorb C .adm ire D .appoint4.Itw ould be a m istake to this law to situations which are outsidethis range.A .apply B .use C .em ploy…     

On the Studies of Saussure and his Theories by Chinese Scholars

Saussure and his linguistic theories have great influences for the study of linguistics and second language acquisition of the world over.Chinese linguistics more or less is influenced by Saussure’s theories.This paper is aiming to review all papers written by Chinese scholars on the records by CNKI(Chinese National Knowledge Infrastructure) from 1979 to September 28(2012),meanwhile,and trying to analysis on studies of topics and contents in different periods about Saussure and his theories in China.     

A Good Lesson

A rich old lady who lived near D r Sw ift often sent him presents byher boy servant. Sw ift took her presents but never gave the boy anythingfor his work.O ne day as D r Sw ift w as busy with his w riting,the boyrushed (闯进) into his study (书房), knocked his books out of theirplaces,threw the parcel(包)on the desk and said,“M y m istress(女主人)sentyou two ofher rabbits.”Swift turned round and said,“Thats notthe way to deliver(递送)apresent,boy.N ow ,you sit down in m y chair and watch…