Going to School for the First Time

I shall never forget going to school for the firsttime.I remembered____in the morning and starting to____while my mother began cooking my breakfast.Shekept on____me to hurry up or I would miss the bus,orI would not catch the bus.I soon finished____because Iwas too____to eat much.I was a very small child and I     

The Best Time of My Life

It was June 15, and in two days I wouht be turning thirty. I was afraid that my best years were now behind me. So I asked my neighbor Nicholas, a 79-year-old man, “What was the best time of your life？” Without hesitation, Nicholas replied, Well, Joe, this is my philosophical answer to your philosophical question：     

情书

Dear Gavin, As the autumn months come once again and many people think of this as the start of the drab,dull time of year,I know better．And my love,the reason I know better is because of you．Already in my late thirties when I divorced and left a terrible situation,I thought true love would never come my way．But there you were,a strong plain-spoken man fourteen years older than me,as wonderful as the other situation was cruel．As much as my heart and soul began turning more and more to yours,I knew my dream of sharing a true romance with you could probably never be．     

Sinfully Delicious Apples That You Should Never Try to Eat

Last weekend,I went apple picking.It’s one of my favorite fall traditions,and I have been going every year since I can remember.When I was a kid,my mother made a trip to the apple orchard a magical thing.She taught me how to gently twist an apple, so that it would pop off the branch without others plunking to the ground.She would point out the sun-kissed fruits at the tippy top of the trees while I climbed to get them.     

完形填空小练笔

I remember as a small child when we would havethese gatherings where someone would come up andask,"What are you going to be when you grow up?"Well,it(?)being a cowboy or some super hero.Later it was a fireman, policeman, lawyer…As Igrew older my dreams of the future(?)When,atlast,I was in college,I made up my(?)to become apeacher(牧师)as my father.(?)I studied and pre-pared for that life.I reached(?)in the end and I waspreaching nearly full-time for much of my adult life.However,for many, there is a"thief"which goes     

人生最艰难的一课就是学会相信自己

正I lost my sight when I was four years old hy falling off a box car in a freight yard in AtlanLic City and landing on my head.Now I am thirty-two.I can vaguely remember the brightness of sunshine and what red color is.It would be wonderful to see again,but a calamity can do strange things to people.     

父亲的眼睛(英文)

I went to the woods when my daddy died,to a thicket of blackberry brambles shut off from the rest of the wortd.When the preacher came to find me, I pressed my face deep into the thorns and was still as a stone,Hid for long enough, I thought, and the world would return to normal. The preacher would stop calling my name, and my daddy would come home.     

完形填空题专练

A I had my first job at the age of thirteen,when a friend of my mother who owned a bookshop hired me for six hours a week to help her in the shop．I was very 1 to earn my own pocket money and my parents 2 interfered(干涉)with how I spent it,even when I was spending it 3．They believed that by earning money,spending it,and learning from the 4,I would     

Bend,but don t break

One of my fondest memories as a child is going by the river and sittingon the bank. There I would enjoythe peace, watch the water rush downstream and listen to the singing of birdsandtherustlingofleavesinthetrees.     

On the Days When Mother is Away

For the need of work, my mother went to TianJin ten days ago. I will not see her for a month. At the beginning, I thought I was independent and that the pace of my life would not be upset(1) . But I was wrong. On the third day when my mother is away, began to collapse(2) . I had a fever, my head ached as if it would explode(3). I thought I would die if I didn't have my mother with me. I hate my cowardice(4) and uselessness, but I just couldn't control my missing heart. After one week…     

阅读理解精练(英文)

I arrived in the classroom, ready to share my knowledge and experience with 76 students who would be my English literature class. Having taught in the US for 17 years, I had no doubt about my ability to hold their attention and to impress on them my admiration for the literature of my mother tongue.     

山丘上的城堡

When I was six years old I broke my leg I was running from my brother and his friends And tasted the sweet 1)perfume of the mountain grass as I rolled down I was younger then Take me back to when I found my heart and broke it here Made friends and lost them through the years And I've not seen the 2)roaring fields in so long I know I've grown I can't wait to go home     

Never Give up

"Never give up!" I've heard this a thousand times,but not until I was taught by these experiences of my life did I realize its true meaning. I have been learning how to ride the unicycle[独轮脚踏车] since I was only six years old.In the year before my learning,I had seen many other students ride a "one wheel cycle" on the playground and perform confidently on the stage.That was so cool! But riding a unicycle was not as easy as expected,since I had to keep my balance on the one wheel.     

Control yourself when giving a speech

Do you feel nervous when you are asked to give a speech? Yes I will. I would be nervous when going to the front and giving a public speech and I could even feel my heart beating quickly.     

On Being a Minolity Of One

When I first went to China to teach English I was at a rural school in the south. The closest city was Conghua, with about eighty-five thousand people. I liked to go there on my one day off each week to buy fruit and other things to have in my dorm at the school. Sometimes, I would go with one of the other foreign teachers but many times I would go alone and I would be the only westerner in the city, a minority of one.     

There Was Nobody Available

I was going to bed the other night when my wife told me that I had left the light on in the shed.She could see from the bedroom window.As I looked for myself,I saw that there were people in the shed taking things.I phoned the police,but they told me that no one was in this area to help at this time,but they would send someone over as soon as they were available.I said OK,hung up,and waited one minute,then phoned     

名人论“智慧”

Mark Twain:When I was a boy of fourteen,my father was so ignorant[愚昧的] I could hardly stand to have the old man around.But when I got to be twenty-one,I was astonished[惊讶的] at how much the old man had learned in seven years.     

珀里斯特拉

Peristeri means a clove in Greek. It's also the name of the area I was staying while I was visiting my grandmother's family in Athens, Greece. Surrounded by a myriad of unfamiliar faces, jetlagged and exhausted, I tried to make sense of all the buzzing conversations going on around me. Sitting on the veranda of my grandmother's sister's home in Peristeri, I studied the faces of my relatives; I barely knew any of them at the time, and the newness of my surroundings captivated me, regardless of my knee-trembling sleepiness.……     

在影院里玩手机

Something I enjoy doing most in my leisure time is going to the cinema-the movies-to watch a great film.It's two hours of relaxation and escapism[逃避现实] from real life.But when I kick back[休息,放松]in my seat to enjoy the film and tuck into my box of popcorn,I'm often irritated[恼火的,被惹怒的]by seeing someone next to me texting on their mobile phone or worse still,talking to someone.     

变形记

I haven't thought I would come back and sit at the desk, tapping out my mind in front of the computer. I was obsessed with the idea that I would not write any more.