Which is the best way to learn a language?

In schools, boys and girls are learning foreign languages. Do you know how many languages there are in the world? There are about one thousand and five hundred. English is one of the most important languages because so many people use it, not only in England and America, but also in other countries of     

美国人的婚礼(英文)

Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do.There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare;there are weddings on mountain-tops with guests barefooted; and there have been weddings on the ocean floor with oxygen tanks for the guests. But many weddings,no matter where or how they are performed, include certain traditional customs.     

American Election

There are two major political parties in America, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party. The Democratic Party tends to represent the interests of the middle or lower-middle classes, including many farmers and smaller businessmen. The Republican Party represents the interests of big businesses, big manufactures, merchants, financiers, and prosperous farmers and objects to governmental intervention in business. The two parties both believe in individualism, defend capitalism and uphold private ownership of means of production. One char-acteristic of the two parties is their loose organization. Anyone can join or desert any party freely. An American can register him as a Democrat at one election and then as a Republican an at another. He can even register as a member of one party but takes part in the election of another. Even within one party, there are differences about what the party should do. Sometimes a party＇s different members may advocate different pohcies in different areas.     

Mechanic behavior of unloading fractured rock mass

1. Introduction Rock mass is composed of rock blocks and various kinds of structural planes. Most structural planes are joints defined as cracks or fractures in rock along which there has been little or no displacement [1]. Under different engineering condition, the mechanical behavior of rock mass is different. In excavation of slope and cave, most region of the rock mass is unloaded. Especially in a high steep slope or a large underground project, the larger the excavation and the dimension…     

撒哈拉沙漠

The Sahara1is the largest desert in the world,1,000miles from south to north and3,000miles from east to west.But you mustn’t think of it as a“sea of sand”.There are plains of hard sands andplateaux2with dried-up water,and there are mountain ranges.Most of the Sahara receivesalmost no rain at all,and so there are no trees,no flowers and grass.But there are places with plenty of underground3water.Where underground watercomes to the surface,there are oases4.There you willfind lots ofdate-pal…     

Venice

Venice is a beautiful city in 1 It's one of the most 2 cities in the world. It's built on a group of small islands (岛).3 stone bridges cross the rivers 4 the islands. On the rivers there are little boats. They are the "water buses" of Venice. If we travel 5 the rivers 6 a boat, Italians may 7 us about the beautiful     

看狗如何“大义灭亲”

Directions:Read the following passage.The passage is followed by several questions or unfinished statements.For each of them there are four choices marked A,B,C and D.Choose the one that fits best according to the information given in the passage. Don’t try telling Mark Bouch that dogs are man’s best friends.His pet Keilar helped land him in prison. He dropped his package of amphetamine(安非他明) at the feet of the police as they began a search of his house. Bouch,26,was confident that the two officers would not find the     

An Analysis of the Dual Sides of Shylock’s Character

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most outstanding comedies of Shakespeare. The story happened in Venice in 16th century. Shylock is a typical character in this play. Shylock was looked down upon and humiliated by Christians as a Jew. Shylock, who found everyone in that society was against him, felt him isolated by Christians in Venice. But it is true that as a usurer, shylock was greedy and miserly, he lost kindness and reason; Shylock was oppressed and humiliated as a Jew. This paper focuses on the dual sides of Shylock’s character. On one hand he is miserly, unfeeling, vicious and sly; on the other hand, he is oppressed and humiliated.     

The Crazy English Verb System

The English verb system is highly complex and difficult to learn. This comes as no surprise because there are at 14 different verb forms. Each of these forms conveys (i) the basic meaning of the verb, and (ii) a different aspect or mode of an action. The following article attempts to assist his/her task to explain one of the most difficult chapters of English grammar.     

真正的美丽

Consider... YOU. In all time before now and in all time to come, there has never been and will never be anyone just like you. You are unique in the entire history and future of the universe. Wow! Stop and think about that. You're better than one in a million, or a billion... You are the only one like you in a sea of infinity!!! You're amazing! You're awesome1 ! And by the way, TAG, you're it. As amazing and awe- some as you already are, you can be even more so. Beautiful youn…     

A Brief Analysis of Shylock's Positive Characters

The Merchant of Venice is one of the most successful works written by the famous British playwright William Shake?speare, and the discussion of the Jew-Shylock has always been a focus in literary circles. Shylock is viewed as a negative role, but the author considers that Shylock's positive characters such as capability, toughness and love for family as well as the faithfulness to Judaism are worthwhile for people to learn. This thesis will analyze Shylock's positive characters based on the historical back?ground of The Merchant of Venice. And it proves that Shylock is a Jewish hero, then explores the profound revelations which Shy?lock's positive characters give.     

奇妙之树——椰子树

The coconut palm is a tree growing in warm climates1. It has no branches, but a mass2 of big leaves at the top. It is found in villages, parks, house gardens and along the coast in South East Asia. It can grow to a height of thirty metres and live as long as one hundred years. It grows best along the coast because of the sandy soil and moist3 sea breezes4.     

巨石

This story happened about five hundred years ago in asm all village.O ne day there was an earthquake.N othingw as destroyed and no one was hurt.B ut a huge rock fellfrom a nearby m ountain and stopped in the m iddle of theroad.W hen the earthquake stopped,m any people cam e tothe road and saw the rock.Som e of the strongest m entried to lift the rock out of the road.B ut theycouldn’t m ove it.They tried to push it butfailed.They tried to pull it with ropes but noth-ing worked.“W ell,”they…     

完形填空实战练习(八)(英文)

A Directions:For each blank in the following passage there are four words or phrases marked A,B,C,and D.Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context. In the company in which I work,each of us is afraid of at least one person.The lower your 1 is,the more people you are afraid of.But all the people are afraid of the twelve men at the top who helped 2 and     

Methodology Analysis——Comment on Communicative Language Teaching (CLT)

Language teaching approaches are always changing according to social needs for various talents and there is no exception for Communicative Language Teaching(CLT).From 1960s,people become more and more interested in communicative function of languages.Communicative Competence,Functional Linguistics,Speech Act Theory and related learning theories help the CLT form the teaching aim of cultivating students’communicative ability.Scholars start to regard language communicative competence as the final teaching purpose.This article will explore CLT in terms of language teaching views,advantages and disadvantages.What is more,it comes to the following conclusions:there exists no language teaching approach that is absolutely superior,including CLT.Language teachers should use different approaches flexibly so as to reach the teaching aim.     

成功大变身(英文)

F. Scott Fitzgerald once observed "there are no second acts in America." Although that may have been true in 1925, the rule no longer applies in this day and age. These days, celebrities reinvent(彻底改造) themselves on nearly an hourly basis, effortlessly segueing(继续) from one remarkably successful career to the next. Stay tuned as I present 3 of my very favorite second acts.     

马可·波罗的故事(一)节选

Venice is built on several islands in the sea.There are not many streets in Venice,but there are a lot of canals.Ships come to Venice from all over the world.     

Little Body Confronting Great World:A Study of Portia’s Compromise with Male-Dominated Society in The Merchant of Venice

It is said that there is no hero in The Merchant of Venice, but a heroine, who is Portia, an independent, intelligent and beautiful Renaissance lady, who makes great efforts to grasp and defend her happiness. Her excellent performance in Shylock’s suit also exhibits her extraordinary splendor as the focus of the whole play. However, she has to accept the conventional orientation for a woman’s fate, obedient to her father and her husband, and yet she cannot participate in the social career unless in disguise.     

On-line estimation of concentration parameters in fermentation processes

INTRODUCTION Saccharomycete, closely linked with human life, is the only microbe that has been utilized to the extent of over a million tons in the world, and is one of the modelled biological bacteria mostly used in modern genetic engineering. Since there are no effective online instruments for measuring the production or resultant concentration, which is a very important quality index in fermentation process, soft sensors (Martin, 1997; Tham et al., 1991; Assis and Filho, 2000; Salgad…     

Entrepreneurial attributes among postgraduate students of a Pakistani university

This paper explores entrepreneurial attributes among the students of The Islamia University of Bahawalpur, a public sector Pakistani university. Multistage sampling was employed to maximize the representation. Five hundred and twenty one master＇s level students from thirty departments returned completed questionnaires. Three factors emerged： self efficacy, efficiency and commitment, and entrepreneurial inclinations. The majority of the students exhibited positive entrepreneurial attributes. However, there was no significant difference between negative and positive entrepreneurial attributes. There was no significant impact of demographic variables such as gender, parental income and profession on entrepreneurial attributes. Impact on practice and policy is discussed.