Beethoven

Beethoven was a famous pianist. He was born on December 16, 1770. He grew up in Germany. When he was young, his father taught him to play the piano. He was a very clever boy.In 1787, he went to school and became a music teacher. In 1802, he could hear nothing, but he wrote some pieces of music.Once, Beethoven was walking in a street. Suddenly, he stopped, because he heard some-     

斯科特医生

Jim was in despair.Nothing was going right for him at the hospital.He had been strongly criticized.mainly for the mistake he made when called out to assist at a birth.He suspected that he was no longer trusted at the hospital and he decided to change his iob.As a result of reading an advertisement.he was able to arrange an in- terview with a doctor who was looking for a part- ner.The doctor.whose name was Scot,lived in Thorby,a small town in the North of England.     

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…     

In the Fog

One morning there was such a thick fog that the drivers could hardly see the roads. Mr Brown was driving a car in the street. He was driving slowly, but still he was afraid that he might bump into a tree or something. Just then he saw a red car in front and decided to follow it.     

STORIES

Bruce got on the bus early in the morning. He was going to the next town to visit one of his friends. He had got up very early, and he felt tired. Soon he fell asleep. A short while later, he woke up in the middle of a dream. In his dream, he was in a busy street. People were pushing him hard and pulling at his clothes. As he woke up, he found that it wasn＇t only a dream.Somebody was really pulling at his coat pocket.     

A Story of Little Quyuan

Quyuan is a great poet(诗人)in China .When he was a little boy,he saw many poor* people.They were hungry every day.He wanted to help them.One day,he found a big rock* near his house.There was a hole* in the rock.     

British Missionary Timothy Richard and Chinese Modern Education

I. A Brief Account of Timothys Life Story Timothy Richard was born in the prefecture of Kamarden Wales in British in 1845. In 1859, he was christened and became a believer of the Baptists in British. In 1865, he entered into Futwatul Theological Seminary, Harward. After his graduation, he became a Christianity clergyman. In 1870,he was sent to China by British Baptists to do missionary work in Yantai, where he got acquainted with Alexander Williamson and Calvin Wilson Mateer, and me…     

哥伦布

Columbus was born in 1451 in Genoa of Italy.His father was a wool merchant.When he was 26 years old,he became to make merchant voyages.The farthest countries he reached were Iceland and Guinea.     

幽默故事

A Mr Leonard was twenty-three years old and very rich.He was not married and he lived in two rooms in a small house in a city.Every summer he went down to the sea for a holiday.He stayed in small,cheap hotels,but he always wanted to have a clean,tidy room.He hated dirty places. One summer a friend of his said,"Go to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea.I went there last year,and it was very nice and clean." So Mr Leonard went to the Tower Hotel in Whitesea.But there was a different manager that year.     

Bill Gates，Head of Microsoft

As a teenager in 1972, Bill Gates once said that he would be a millionaire by the time he was 20. Only 15 years later he was a billionaire. And by 1992, as head of the Microsoft company,he became the richest man in America with assets(资产) ofabout US$ 6. 3 billion.     

A Dentist

Mr Baker was a strong man. He was a good footballplayer and spent a lot of time on the game when hestudied in a medical callege (医学院). But he was hurtonce when he was playing football with his friends. Hisright leg was broken in the accident and he couldn't playany longer. He was sorry for it and liked to watch thegame. Now the young man worked in a hospital. He was agood dentist (牙医) and many patients asked him forhelp. He was always busy and had little time to watchthe matches. He had to watch them on TV at home in     

Dickens and Social Reform

<正>Dickens holds a unique position in Egnlish literature. He was not only a great writer; he was also a social reformer at heart. In many of his novels, he portrayed a vivid picture of life in England in the early part Of the nineteenth century. Full of social passion, he assaulted social abuses violently, and worked steadily on behalf of the humble and theoppressed. He was indeed a     

Jack and His Gold

Jack was a very rich man. He had got a bag of gold from business, but he did not know where to keep it. He was afraid that thieves might 1 his house and steal it away. One day when it was time to go to bed, he put the gold bag beside his pillow (枕头) and tied the bag to his arm. But he was awake all night because he was worrying about the gold. Finally, he 2 to hide the bag of gold in a hole near a tall tree in his back garden.“But the people m ay still know that there s gold in t…     

Some Strange Journeys

Jules Verne was a Frenchman who was born in 1828.He was not an inventorand he was not a scientist,but he read a great many scientific books.He had a verystrong imagination and he loved adventure although he did not have many great adven-tures himself.He wrote a number of exciting books about the things which he thoughtthat scientists and inventors would one day be able to do.Years later,many of the     

STORIES

A David was a young man who worked in an office in a big city.He liked fishing very much,but did not often get a chance to go fishing. Then one summer he decided to have a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains where there were a lot of streams."I will be able to have some good fishing there," he said to himself. The first morning after he arrived,he carried his fishing rod and walked to the nearest stream.He saw an old man standing beside the water,so he asked him whether it was a private (私人的) stream.The old man answered that it was not.Then he asked,"Well,then it won't be a crime (犯罪) if I catch some fish here,will it?"     

第十八讲时间表达法

1. Since always refers to a continuing period of time from a point in the past until the present. Eg. Ever since you were born you have been troublesome [you are still troublesome]. The company has been successful since the new Managing Director was appointed [it is still successful]. He has been smoking heavily since he was a teenager [he is still smoking heavily]. Don't use since for periods which ended in the past. Don't say: Since 1990 right up to the end of 2000 he was living in Australia. We began the preject since 1998. He has been smoking heavily since he was a teenager until he was forty.     

The Elephant Did It!

A man was travelling abroad in a small red car. One day he left the car and went shopping. When he came back, its roof was badly damaged. Some boys told him that an elephant had damaged it. The man did not believe them, but they took him to a cirus which was near there. The owner of the elephant said, “I am very sorry! My elephant has a big, round, red chair. He thought that your car was his chair, and he sat on it!” Then he gave the man a letter, in which he said that he was sorry and that he would pay for all the damage.     

The Story of a Snail

When a snail crossed the road,he was run overby a turtle.Regaining consciousness in the emergency room,he was asked what caused the accident.     

STORIES

正A Bruce got on the bus early in the morning.He was going to the next town to visit one of his friends.He had got up very early,and he felt tired.Soon he fell asleep.A short while later,he woke up in the middle of a dream.In his dream,he was in a busy street.People were pushing him hard and pulling at his clothes.As he     

The Price of Steak

Tom was a shopkeeper.He had a small corner shop.It was open fromseven in the morning until eleven at night and sold many different things.Tom worked hard in his shop but he had a good business and he was happy. Then a supermarket opened across the street.The supermarket was tentimes the size of Tom’s shop.