心路历程--食物

Dear Friends, This column is devoted to food.This is one of the topics that we think aboutand talk about and write about and worry about the most.It takes up much timeand space in all of our lives.It is one of the greatest sources of human enjoymentand one of the greatest sources of human anxiety. Eating is one of our fondest pleasures.It is a necessity of nature.Food enables us to survive.Everyone eats,every person,every animal,even plants must absorb food.An automobile cannot run without fuel,and human beings cannot live without food.In primitive soci     

NEW YORK CITY

New York is the largest city in the US—A.It is the place where the headquartersof the United Nations is located It is situ-ated at the mouth of the Hudson River(sometimes called the North River),cover-ing an area of about 946 square kilome-     

Vital-Signs(Ⅰ)

The environment organization—World Watch Institution (2) lastweek released its yearly report about the condition of the world and itsresources.The report is called “Vital Signs 1994”.It is a collection of studies about changes in economic,social and en-vironmental conditions throughout the world.It provides a general idea     

Penglai Mountain

One day in the summer vacation my classmates and I paid a visit to Penglai Mountain, which lies in the south of my hometown, Youxi. It is about one thousand metres far. It is said that the mountain is the highest one in Youxi.     

A Brief Account of Chinglish

Chinglish, or Chinese English is speech or writing in English that shows the interference of Chinese language or the influence of Chinese culture. It is liable to bring about misunderstandings in intercultural communication and has become a great obstacle to English education in China. It is high time to attach importance to the problems brought about by Chinglish and seek solutions to cope with the problems in question.     

如何在外语教学中培养人道主义精神

Foreign language teaching is a course with many teaching emphasis. Cultural teaching is one of them. It is possible tocultivate humanism in foreign language teaching through cultural learning. The purpose of fostering humanism is to help the stu-dents to have a correct cognition about themselves,about the knowledge they have gained,about history.They are supposed toset up a correct value system about the relationship among human beings, between human being and the society, between hu-     

Saying Poems Together

Doing things together makes us feel less lonely. Here is a poem to read together. It is about a plane. Follow the directions at the left.     

英语两篇

Dear Sarah.Thank you for your Ietter asking about the rebuilt Qianmen Street.Here is something about it .To begin with the Qianmen Street whase length is mare than 800 metres is filled with no less than 300 shops now.It is an old street with a histary of 600 years and mare,     

美国校园中的国际教育周

It is International Education Week in the United States,a time to think about and celebrate international education and exchange.The special week is a project of the State Department and the Department of Education. Officials of these agencies say Americans need to leam more about the world outside     

Animals

The largest animal ever to live on the earth is the blue whale(蓝鲸)It weighs about 80 tons--more than 24 elephants. It is more than 30 metres long. A newborn baby whale weighs as much as a big elephant.