糟糕的一天(英文)

"Listen," I said slapping my hand down on the desk in front of me. "I really need that book today. The computer says you still have it. The essay is due in tomorrow; please could you tell me where it is?" I had been in the library since about noon. The shadows were beginning to lengthen and my patience beginning to run out as the librarian stared up at me with all the sentient comprehension of a lobotomised teletubby.So I explained again that I very m uch needed this bookand that it w as not…     

快速阅读(英文)

Snow Queen There,in the market place,some of the boldest of the boys tied their sledges to the carts as they passed by so that they were pulled along and got a good ride.It was so capital! Just as they were in the very height of their amusement,a large sledge passed by them.It was painted quite white,and there was someone in it wrapped up in a rough white mantle of fur,with a rough     

热爱生活(英文)

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man' s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in     

完形填空(英文)

通读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。A man was walking along the street when he saw a woman struggling with a large box. It was half in and half 1 of her car. He was a helpful kind of man, so he went up to the woman and said, “Let me give you a hand with that box. It looks very 2 .”“That蒺s very kind of you,”the woman said. “I蒺m having a lot of 3 with it. I think it蒺s stuck(不能动,受阻).”“Together we蒺ll soon move it,”the man said. He 4 into the b…     

Visiting a Doctor(Ⅵ)A Visit to the Chinese Bone Doctor

Dialogue A(A=patient;B=doctor)A:This morning,while I was lifting a heavy box,I had a very suddenpain in my lower back.It was so bad that I fell to the ground,andcouldn't get up.B:Is the pain still as bad?A:Yes,it is.At first I felt faint,and broke out in a cold sweat.Now,     

2006年高考英语试题分析(全国Ⅰ卷)(3)

D Since my retirement(退休) from teaching music in 2001,I have spent a good deal of time painting as an artist. I actually began drawing again in the summer of 1995 when my father died, so perhaps I was trying to recover from the loss of my father, or maybe it was just that it brought back memories of him. In any case, I drew pen and ink animals and landscapes(风景画) much influenced(影响) by Krenkel and St. John for five years.     

完形填空精练(英文)

I watched attentively as my little brother was caught in the act.He sat in the corner of the living room,a(an)1 in one hand and my father’s hymnbook in the other.As my father walked into the room,my brother cowered(畏缩)slightly.He 2 that he had done something 3.From a distance,I saw that he had opened my father’s brand-new book and scribbled(乱写)across the length and breadth of the entire first page with a pen.Now,staring at my father 4,he and I both waited for his punishment. My father …     

破椅求修记(英文)

Some time ago I discovered that one of the chairs in my front hall had a broken leg. I didn't foresee any great difficulty in getting it mended, as there are a whole lot of antique shops in the Pimlico Road which is three minutes' walk from my flat, so I set forth one morning carrying the chair with me. I went into the first shop confidently expecting a friendly reception, with a kindly man saying, "What a charming     

晚宴(英文)

I first heard this tale in India, where it is told as if true-though any naturalist would know it wouldn't be. Later someone told me that the story appeared in magazine shortly before the First World War. That magazine story, and the person who wrote it, I have never been able to track down.The country is India. A colonial official and his wife are giving a large dinner party. They are seated with their guests-officials and their wives, and a visiting American naturalist- in their spacious     

微笑(英文)

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other-it doesn't matter who it is-and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other. Mother TeresaMany Americans are familiar with The Little Prince, a wonderful book by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. This is a whimsical and fabulous book and works as a children's story as well as a thought-provoking adult fable. Far fewer are aware of Saint-Exupery's other writings, novels and short stories.Saint-Exupery was a fighter pilot who fought against the Nazis and was killed in action. Before World War Ⅱ, he fought in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. He wrote a fascinating story based on that experience entitled The Smile( Le Sourire. )It is this story which I'd like to share with you now. It isn't clear whether or not he meant this to be autobiographical or fiction. I choose to believe it is the former.He said that he was captured by the enemy and thrown into a jail cell. He was sure that from the contemptuous looks and rough treatment he received from his jailers he would be executed the next day. From here, I'll tell the story as I remember it in my own words.     

英语的演变(英文)

World Language Once upon a time, people dreamed of a universal language so that all the peoples of the world could understand each other. Now, for the first time in human history, and quite by accident, it seems there is one——English. There are over 50 countries where it is the official language and the number of people who speak it as their mother tongue is somewhere between 375 and 400 million. Another     

November 21st,2000.Thursday,flurry

It is snowing and I am so glad .I don’t know why I am so fascinated by snow , maybe because my heart is as pure as it .Whenever it snows, I will be very happy and optimistic. I like walking in the snowfield alone, and I feel so wonderful. Only when I watch the snowflakes can I feel the existence of pure- ness and beauty in this world and the paradise full of happiness. The color of white stands for pureness and all the nice things. How I wish every-body had a heart as pure as snow! In tha…     

唾液(英文)

Many of us look down on saliva as something filthy. However, it is a wonder of Nature. It plays a big part in helping with proper digestion.Saliva helps in the process of digestion. It moistens food so that it will be easily chewed and swallowed. Also, saliva contains ptyalin. This helps break down starchy food into pieces of simpler sugars. Therefore, saliva in the mouth is the First stage of the digestion process.     

An Apple Seed

I realized I was holding an apple seed in my hand.It could become a beautiful big tree and grow thousands of apples in its lifetime.Each apple has several seeds that could grow a new tree,but why then the world isn’t filled with apple trees？It is a rule of nature that only a few of these seeds grow.And it’s quite often so with our dreams.Wonderful ideas come to our minds but they die too soon.We don’t take care of the little saplings,and we don’t protect them as we should.And then one day we wonder what happened to our dreams.     

幽默与笑话(英文)

1. Still in the Same Cemetery A man asked an acquaintance how his wife was; then, suddenly re- membering that she had been dead, she blurted out, “Does she still live in the same cemetery?” 2. The Juice in the Downpour It had been a long, hot summer, and a Vermonter was mighty glad when the rain came. One day while it was raining, he was out on the pa- tio having breakfast. “It felt so good, ”he told a friend.“I just went ahead and ate in the downpour. The only trouble was that it too…     

幽默与笑话

Peculiar Order
A visitor at a seaside hotel called over the head waiter at breakfast one morning and said： ＂I want two boiled eggs, one of them so undercooked it＇s runny, and the other so overcooked it＇s tough and hard to eat. Also grilled bacon that has been left on the plate to get cold; burnt toast that crumbles away as soon as you touch it With a knife; butter straight from the deep freeze so that it＇s impossible to spread; and a pot of very weak coffee, lukewarm.＂     

去伦敦

On a hot summer morning in 1989 I finished packing my things in my flat in Dublin. Two suitcases were not enough to hold them all so I had to use plastic supermarket bags for the remainder. My friend Tom arrived in his car to take me to the airport. After coffee at the airport we shook hands and said goodbye and it was only then that I noticed my hand was shaking. My voice was also shaking and my breath was coming out in uneven waves. Tom was my good friend from schooldays and in saying goodbye to him I was saying goodbye to so many good memories, saying goodbye to my country.     

寒窗心雨(英文)

1.As all know,the Spring Festival is the most traditional festival in China.Everybody loves it very much. When I was a little girl,I used to think why the Spring Festival was so enjoyable and what why Spring Festival attracted people so much. I asked my mother, but she just smiled and patted on my head.Now, I am not a little girl, so I have got to know the reason.     

A Trip to Qingdao

Last summer,I went to Qingdao with my parents.We took a high-speed rail and after an hour we got to Qingdao.It was a beautiful city.The sky was blue and the air was clean.On the second day after we got to Qingdao,we went to one of the most famous beach1.I was so careless that I lost our camera on the bus.We were very worried,so we got back2the bus station to look for it.To our surprise,we found a young man stand3beside the bus,with our camera in his hand.We were so thankful.     

享受人生中的美好(英文)

I must confless that I've been reluctant to pick up the mail lately, and I'm nervous about letting the children handle it.Maddie Belle likes to sort through the catalogs and junk mail (which I consider a form of recvcling)before I toss(投,掷)them into the bin,but this morning I kept my eye on her and as soon as she was done,I whisked(急忙运送)her off to the bathroom so we could both wash our hands. Maybe I'm overreacting(反应过火),and it's a small adjustment(调整) anyway—it's not like