Interesting English Maths

（一） A Blind Man Looked After His Watermelons A blind man put his six baskets of watermelons as the fol lowing triangle （see the following Key（图示 ）, and he sat in the eenter of the triangle. There were 24 watermelons altogether. And nine watermelons were in each side. He touched them once every day. If he found there were nine watermelons altogether in the three baskets in every side,he was at ease.     

小故事四则(英文)

At the Barber's Shop I go to the barber's shop（理发店）every two weeks．I don't like very long hair．When I go to the barber's shop，we al－ways talk a lot．He tells me all his news，and I tell him all mine．He meets a lot of interesting people in his shop every day and he likes to talk with most of them．So he always has lots of news for me．Every year the barber goes to France（法国）for two weeks for his holiday．And when he comes back to England，he has a lot of interesting and funny news．When he cuts my hair，he tells me about beautiful old cities and quiet little villages（宁静的小村庄），     

狗与骨头

A dog once stole a bone from a butcher's（屠夫）shop. He ran off down the street as fast as he could, across the meadow（草地）in the village and down the hill to a bridge over a stream. There he stopped out of breath, to look at the clear, clean water.     

重要启事

Jack was an able worker. He could do 1 the work in the factory and often helped his boss （老板） Mr. King. Mr. King liked him and he got much money. But he enjoyed drinking and he spent most of his money 2 the drinks. When he drank much, he 3 control （控制） himself. His boss had told him to stop 4, but he didn＇t listen to her. The woman had to leave him. Now he lived in a small and old house alone.     

Shamrock Maze

The leprechaun（小妖） is worried（发愁）, because he can not find the gold. Can you help him find his way to the pot（罐） of gold in this shamrock（三叶草） maze（迷宫）？     

故事城堡

There＇s a tall tree in the forest（森林）.A snail（蜗牛）lives under the tree, He is little. He has a shell. But he wants to climb（爬）to the top of the tree. He wants to see the big world.     

"David Copperfield": Perfect Reflection of Dickens'''' Creative Ideas

Charles Dickens（1812—1870）was the most popular and internationally known as an Engilsh novelist. Being the greatest representative of the English critical realism, he gives us a most vivid picture of the everyday life of the ordinary people of his time. He created a large number of characters , well drawn, full of life and unforgettable.He has suffered so bitterly himself as a child and had seen so much evil that he burned with the desire to fight it to the end .While presenting a truthfu…     

猜一猜

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
Matthew leaves home in the morning to go to school. When he leaves the house he looks at the clock in the mirror. The clock has no numeral indication and for this reason the boy makes a mistake in interpreting the time （mirror-image） just assuming the clock must be out of order.     

英语典型陷阱题50例（二）

（接上期）11．——in thought,he almost ran into the car in front of him．     

The Longest Race

When Pheidippides left school, he served in the Athenian （雅典的） army. In the year 490 B.C., bad news reached Athens. The Persians （波斯人） had gathered together an army of 20,000 men. They wanted to take the whole country of Greece （希腊）. The Athenian army had only half that size.     

2014年高考阅读理解题选读——议论文11篇

（一）
（辽宁D篇）Travis is the manager of G＆G where he is responsible for forty employees（雇员）and profits of over$2 million per year.He＇s never late to work.He does not get upset on the job.When one of his employees started crying after a customer screamed at her,Travis took her away.＂Your working uniform is your shelter,＂ he told her. ＂Nothing anyone says will ever hurt you. You will always be as strong as you want to be.＂     

Something Left

1. One night, Tom was about to go to bed when he heard the doorbell rang. He opened the door and saw Mike stood there. Tom was frightened because he owed（[δu]欠）Mike a lot of money, and he didn＇t want to return money to Mike.     

阅读理解 突击训练

Simon is an executive（行政人员） of a computer company. He was going io Dalian for a conference （会议）. The conference would starton January 18th, but when he called the booking office for a ticket, he was told that there were only flights to Dalian on 17th, One was at 10： 10 in the morning and the other was at 3：30 in the afternoon. Simon couldn＇t leave until lunch time, so he could only take the 3：30. The flight number is 366. He had to pay 960 yuan plus another 50 yuan for the airport construetion fee （建设费）.     

The Three Little Pigs and the Big Friendly Wolf

Once upon a time there were three little pigs who lived with their mother and father on a farm．One day the youngest pig thought that he would go and build himself a home．When he had only gone one kilome－ter he found a pile of straw（稻草）．It took him a whole day to build the house，but when it was finished it didn't look like a house，so he fixed it up．About a week later，the other pigs decided that they would go and build houses too．The second oldest pig made his house of sticks（树     

Ou Di Entered the Entertainment Industry to Pay Off Father＇s Debt

Ou Di （欧弟）from Taiwan has become popular as a host of Day Day Up （《天天向上》） in Hunan TV. But, not long ago, in an interview with the program entitled ＂Tell Your Story,＂he told with sobs his hard days when he had to pay off his father＇s debt.     

阅读理解训I练（六）篇

（A） A very new, young officer was at a station. He was on his way to visit his mother in another town, and he wanted to telephone her to tell her the time of this train, so that she could meet him at the station in her car. He looks in all his pockets, but found that he did not have the right money for the telephone, so he went outside and looked around for someone to held him.     

Beethoven

Beethoven(贝多芬）was one of the greatest composers(作曲家）in the world. He was born in 1770 and died in 1827.Even as a child Beethoven did not have a happy life. His father was a singer. But he was lazy and always drank a lot. When the boy was only four，his father decided to make him a musician. So Beethoven had to play hour after hour on different musical instruments（乐器）.He learned so fast that he was able to go around and give concerts when he was only 11. When he was 17，he won hi…     

A case of overlapping Bickerstaff＇s brainstem encephalitis and Guillain-Barre syndrome

Objective： There is no report on Bickerstaff s brainstem encephalitis （BBE） patients in China. We here report the first case of BBE in China. Methods： Clinical features, results of electromyography, eleetroencephalography （EEG）, magnetic resonance imaging （MRI） and cerebrospinal fluid （CSF） examination were studied to clarify the characteristics of this syndrome. Results： A 44-year-old man presented himself at our inpatient department with somnolence and dizziness as his initial symptoms. He developed multiple cranial nerves paralysis especially internal and external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia and tetraparesis within 1 week. His condition rapidly deteriorated, and he experienced coma. Electromyography showed indications of peripheral nerve dysfunction, electroencephalography revealed loss of basic rhythm, MR1 demonstrated high-intensity abnormalities on T2-weighted images of medulla oblongata, and CSF albuminocytological dissociation was defined abnormally as high protein. Ten months later, he almost completely recovered. Conclusion： BBE, fisher syndrome （FS） and Guillain-Barre syndrome （GBS） are similar clinically; BBE and FS were proposed to be the variant of GBS.     

Albert Einstein and Moscicki＇s Patent Application

Much was said and written during the 2005 World Year of Physics about Einstein＇s work in the Bern, Switzerland, Patent Office（Fig. 1）. He took the post（Technical Expert 3rd Class）there after completing his studies at the Zurich Polytechnic（later called ETH） in 1900 and being unsuccessful in his attempts to obtain a university position. However,little seems to be known of the patent applications he examined during his five years at the office in Bern. This paper discusses one of those applications--one that was submitted by rather remarkable individual.     

Which Sweater is Jim Looking for？

Jim has three sweaters. Now he is looking for one of them. Please read the dialogue（对话）, and then find out which sweater Jim is looking for.