12-sided One Pound Coins

You＇re travelling to some village. At some point there is a fork in the road. You could go two ways but only one of them leads to the village. Lucky for you there are two men standing next to the fork. But unfortunately one of them always lies and one always speaks the truth and you do not know who is who. Since the men do not really like to help you, you are allowed to ask one of them only one question. Which question should you ask＇？     

你知道保持健康的规则吗？(英文)

Good health is necessary to happiness and success. If we do not have good health, how can we work hard? And ifwe cannot work hard, how can we succeed and how can we be happy? Money can do many things and make one enjoythe world in many ways, but it has no meaning to one who is not in good health.A number of useful rules can do much to make good health, if we follow them.Firstly, we must take food at regular times (定时) and never too much.Secondly, keep our rooms airy. Fresh air is essential…     

同步阅读(Unit12)(英文)

Passage A When we can see well, we do not think about our eyes often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we come to see how important our eyes are. People who are near,sighted(近视的) can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Many people who do a lot of close work, such as writing and reading, become near,sighted. Then they have to wear glasses in order to see distant things clearly. People who are far,sighted(远视的) face just the opposite problem. They can see things…     

Teaching English For Communication——A Brief Discussion of Some Communication Activities

What do we teach English for? For Language itself? Definitely not. Language is a means of communication. So it is no good teaching English all about its grammar rules and long lists of words without using it in real communication. Very often we have many students,who bave studied English for 6—10 years and acquired a vocabulary of thousands of individual words and a good mastery of hundreds of grammar rules but can not use them as a means of communication.     

A PAIR OF SOCKS

One fine afternoon I was walking along Fifth Avenue,when I remembered that it was necessary to buy a pair of socks.Why I wished to buy only one pair is unimportant.I turned into the first sock shop that caught my eye, and a boy clerk who could not have been more than seventeen years old came forward. "What can I do for you,sir?" "I wish to buy a pair of socks."His eyes glowed.There was a note of passion in his voice. "Did you know that you had come into the finest place in the world to buy socks?"I had not been aware of that,as my entrance had been accidental. "Come with me,"said the boy,     

手机短信有助于抑制哮喘

Helping young adults better manage their asthma may be as simple as sending asthma-related text messages to theirmobile phones, according to a team of UK researchers. This is " one way we might be able to progress in trying to make asthma and (asthma) medications fit around the lives of young people and not the other way around, " Dr. Ron     

《美丽心灵》

A Beautiful Mind is the true life story of John Forbes Nash Jr., a mathematical genius and Nobel Prize winner, who simply wants to think—about theories, about life, about love—if only his own mind would let him do it. Story剧情The film spans (横越) the life of John Nash (Russell Crowe) from mathematical prodigy (天才,神童), to delusional (妄想症) schizophrenic (精神分裂症), to Nobel Prize winner. We first meet John in 1948, and he is entering Princeton University as a graduate student. He rarely goes to class and calculates his mathematical theories on dorm room and library windows. Most of his colleagues steer clear of (避开,绕开) him, except his roommate, Charles (Paul Bettany), who tries to lighten him up. John eventually closes in on a hypothesis (假设)for an economic theory and becomes a star in the math     

A Brief Analysis of Misconceptions and Problems of Educational Narrative Inquiry

As a qualitative research method, the educational narrative inquiry is widely used in educational research. However, there exists some misconceptions about what is narrative inquiry and how to do educational narrative inquiry among the beginners who are interested in this method. Educational narrative research can not invent education event, nor is seen as a conventional research method. And the narrative inquiry should not be considered equivalent to ordinary way of telling stories. This paper will make a brief analysis of misconceptions and problems of educational narrative inquiry to help the beginners to better understand narrative inquiry and do this kind of research in a proper way.     

Nora's Possible Way Out——To See It through a Comparative Study between Nora and Kristine

Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is regarded as a kind of "canon". As the play shares an open ending, many critics seem to try to find a way out for Nora. Nora is supposed as the first woman to pronounce the "Women Declaration of Independence". She has become the most courageous women for fighting an equal place in family. However, this paper focuses mainly on the comparison between Nora and Kristine the relatively less popular character. Kristine plays a role of girlhood friend of Nora as well as the one who solves the debt problem and brings a new problem into Nora’s family. She serves a model for Nora. Ibsen writes Nora as she is, but it is Kristine who leads Nora onto the road of finding herself. Through the image of Kristine we can conclude that Nora might have all kinds road to tread before her but each one leads to a home-her true home.