世界上最大的蟑螂

The cockroach shown in the picture is an Australian burrowing cockroach.It is the biggestcockroach in the world. People living in a densely-populated city have shown a new tendency:craze about pets.Some of them like to keep clean,low-maintenance insects like cockroaches. Do you like to keep some of them?     

入乡随俗吃西餐

Eating in Western restaurants is a little differentthan eating in a Chinese restaurant.It is importantto understand the differences and follow them.Whenin Rome,do as the Romans do.     

The Effectiveness of Top-Down and Bottom-Up Process in Listening Comprehension

Top-down and bottom-up processes are two popularly-used method in teaching listening,but each of them has deficiencies.This essay will attempt to demonstrate that both top-down process and bottom-up process are necessarily useful,and adopting them appropriately conduce to effective and efficient listening comprehension.The first section of this paper will critically examine the advantages and disadvantages of the two processes.It will then illustrate the benefit of employing them in an interactive way.     

小剧场

A boy/girl： Today is April lOth. It＇s morning and the sun shines in the east. I put some seeds in the soil. And I give them some water too.     

时尚潮流馆（英文）

It＇s warmer and warmer（越来越暖和） in spring. Some kids are going to the park. Will you go with them？     

猜谜语(英文)

1.In a roundhouse,there are twobright windows.Theyopen in the m orning,but at night theyclose.Tell m e whatthey are.(G uess athing.)2.It has cities,but no houses there;It hasforests,but no trees there;It has railways(铁路),but no trains on them;It has rivers,but no fishin them;It can be folded(折叠).W hat is it?(G uess a thing.)3.W hat is black w hen it is clean andwhite when it is dirty?(R efer to a thing in theclassroom.)4.W hat has a lot of teeth but no m outh?(R efer to a thing which i…     

Differences between Spoken Language and Written Language and Their Influence in English Teaching

Spoken language and written language serve different functions in communication.It’s necessary for English teachers to know the differences between them in order to teach effectively.This thesis analyzes the differences between spoken language and written language in four respects and their influence in English teaching.     

生活的乐趣

Joy in living comes from having fine emotions,trusting them,giving them the freedom of a bird in the open.Joy in living can never be assumed as a pose or put on from the outside as a mask.People who have this joy do not need to talk about it;they radiate it.They just live out their joy and let it splash its sunlight and glow into other lives as naturally as a bird sings.We can never get it by working for it directly.It comes,like happiness,to those who are aiming at something higher.It is a b…     

阅读理解精选(英文)

A Shenzhou 7 will be China’s third manned spaceship. It will carry three taiko- nauts (Chinese astronauts) on a five day space mission(任务) and one of them will carry out the nation’s first spacewalk mission in 2008. It may be launched in October 2008 …     

World Expo 2010

World Expo 2010 is holding in Shanghai. It lasts from May 1st to October 31st, 2010. The Expo site covers a total area of 5.28 km2. It spans （横跨）both sides of the Huangpu River, with 3.93 km2 in Pudong and 1.35 km2 in Puxi. There are five functional zones marked A, B, C, D and E. Each of them has different functions.     

How to Deal with the Other Four Dollars？

One day Mr Johnson took Bob to his favorite restaurant. It was a French restaurant. The waiter was from France. But he didn＇t speak to them in French.     

词义大配对

Rearrange the words and match them to their meanings. 整理这些单词并和它们的意思相配。a.hfis animal living in water b.arbowni It is in the sky,and has seven colors. C.uertyk Americans eat it on Thanksgiving Day. d.loshoc the place we study in     

Strange Posters

Long long ago there lived three tailors (裁缝). They are John, Peter and Black. They worked in the same street in London. One day one of them, John, put up a poster(广告). It said, “The best tailor in London.”     

The Story of Tomatoes

It was said that tomatoes were first grown in the forest in Peru in South America.They looked bright red and beautiful when they were ripe.People called them“Lang Tao”.They were regarded as an ornamental plant which couldn’t be eaten.     

What I Have Learned from Hollywood Movies:

1.It does not matter if you are heavily outnum-bered in a fight invoiving martial arts:your enemies will Wait patientlf to attackyou one by one,dancing around in a threat-ening manner until you have knocked outthe guys before them.     

A Mid-autumn Festival

Chinese people like Mid-autumn Festival.It usually comes in September. On that day,every family will eat moon cakes.Moon cakes are round and delicious,like the full moon. There are different kinds of moon cakes.Some have nuts in them,and     

Why Adam and Eve Lost Their Home

(1)Adam' and Eve are being pul out of the beautiful garden of Eden.(2)It is because they did something God told them not to do. God told them they could eat food from the trees of the garden. But from one tree God said not to eat, or else they would die. He kept that tree as his own.(3}One day when Eve was alone in the garden, a snake spoke to her. It told Eve to eat fruit from the tree from which God told them not to eat . Now, when Jehovah made snakes he did not make them so they could talk. So this     

Translation Strategy of Domestication and Foreignization

In recent years,domestication and foreignization have been discussing heatedly in translation field More outcomes have sprung up.It pushes the topic to a greater depth.Here the common phenomenon of them will be discussed.     

It works in practice

More tested lessons, suggestions, tips and techniques which have all worked for ETρreaders. Try them out for yourself - and then send us your own contribution.All the contributors to It Works in Practice in this issue of ETρwill receive a free copy of The Language Teacher's Voice by Alan Maley, published by Macmillan. Macmillan have kindly agreed to be sponsors of It Works in Practice for the coming year and contributors will be given copies of books in their Teacher Development Series.     

Aesthetic Processing for Theatre Translation

Theatre translation is one of the most neglected areas in the field of translation.Theatre is a special member of the literature family in that it doubles as a branch of the performing art.It follows that the aesthetic constitutions of a dramatic creation is a complex problem. It is the translator’s duty to grasp the artistic features of the literary creation and reproduce them in the version since the most important thing in a piece of literature is its artistic features.