An Old Cat

An old woman has a cat.The cat is now very old.She can not run fast(快),and she can not bite(咬). One day the old cat sees a mouse,she jumps and catches the mouse.But she can not bite it,so the mouse gets out of her mouth and runs away.     

“方向”不同，介词各异

A young woman was driving alone through the country. It was getting dark and raining, Suddenly she saw an old woman by the side of the 1 ,holding her hand out as if she needed a lift(搭车).     

Mother Teresa The Nobel Peace Prizer 1979

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje, Macedonia, on August 27, 1910. Her family was of Albanian descent. At the age of twelve, she felt strongly the call of God. She knew she had to be a missionary(传教士) to spread the love of Christ. At the age of eighteen she left her parental home in Skopje and joined the Sisters of Loreto, an Irish community of nuns with missions in India. After a few months' training in Dublin she was sent to India, where on May 24, 1931, she took her initial vows (誓言) as a nun. From 1931 to 1948 Mother Teresa     

Stick To It!

Mary Jane McLeod was ten years old.Her grandmother, who lived with the family.said, “She’s no-wisepretty,but she’s strongas a mule(骡子).”Thiswas a perfect descrip-tion(描绘)of the littleNegro girl.     

A Mother Elephant's Care For Her Baby

A mother elephant takes good care of her baby. But she even punishes(惩罚) the baby when he is bad. Once a baby elephant was walking along the bank of a river and he was very near the edge(边缘). The other elephants were not far away.The baby s m other cr…     

猜猜看

(一)She was enjoying a swim,then she found something nice to eat.She was very happy.Suddenly,she felt something hurt her mouth,and she was scared and tried to get away.It was too late.She came out of water very fast.What happened?What was she?(二)There’re nine kinds of animals hidden in the labyrinth(迷宫).Can you name them out?猜猜看…     

完形填空高分训练

In the city of Fujisawa, Japan, lives a woman named Atsuko Saeki. When she was a teenager, she 1 of going to the United States. Most of what she knew about American 2 was from the textbooks she had read. I had a 3 in mind： Daddy watching TV in the living room, Mummy 4 cakes and their teenage daughter off to the cinema with her boyfriend.     

阅读理解三则(英文)

(A) I have had thousands of classes since I started school nine years ago. But only one class was the most important. It happened last term just after I had got a bad result in an exam. I was sad and had lost my confidence ( 信心). I decided to go to a class which can tell me how to be successful. The speaker walked into the room. But she did not start talking like a teacher. In- stead, she held up a 20 yuan note! “Who wants this?”she asked. Unsurprisingly, everyone in the class held up …     

五大银幕杀手

5. Samara Morgan -" The Ring"Like evil movie children before her ( The Village of the Damned, The Bad Seed, The Exorcist), little Samara Morgan is one bad apple. Sure, at first you think she s a victim - those sad, lost eyes, all that long stringy black hair, the freaky(怪诞的),oppressive mom-butas the film progresses, you realize she s simply evil incarnate(化身的). Hell, she can walk out of your TV (couch potatoes beware) to scare you, literally, to death! Re-made from the Japanese film Ringu, Gore Verbinski s The Ring utilized the doubly frightening concept of     

A High School Teacher

Mrs.Cox teaches English in a large high school located in the inner area of abig city on the West Coast. Ever since she was a young girt,Mrs.Cox had wanted toecome a teacher.She has taught eight years now and hasn't changed her mind.After she graduated from high school,Mrs.Cox went on to college.Four yearslater,she received her bochelor's degree(B.A.)in English and her teaching cer-tificate.Then she was qualified to teach in the secondary schooh of her state.In the     

SALUTE TO ALL TEACHERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN

There is a story many years ago of an elemen-tary school teacher.Her name was Mrs.Thompson.And as she stood in front of her 5~(th) grade class onthe very first day of school,she told the children alie.Like most teachers,she looked at her studentsand said that she loved them all the same.But thatwas impossible,because there in the front row,slumped in his seat,was a little boy named Teddy     

Li Yuchun:Slow Students Should not Have a Sense of Inferiority

Li Yuchun(李宇春)has made her first at- tempt at lyrics.She wrote the words of Slow Students(《差生》)and acted as the director of its MV by herself.Miss Li emphasizes that she doesn’t do so on a sudden impulse(心血来潮).     

The Girl and the Geese

In the United States there was an unusual story of a girl. One day while she was taking a 1 along the bank of a lake, the girl happened to see 20 wild goose （野雁） eggs. After some time the girl knew their 2 would not return to her eggs and she decided to take 3 home. There she 4 put the eggs in the heat of a lamp （灯）. Several days later the eggs 5 and the baby geese came into the world.     

趣味完形填空

A shopkeeper in England was sent a telegram 1 him of the news 2 his 3 won 100,000 pounds in the Irish Sweepstakes(爱尔兰大马赛). He 4 to be home nursing a heart condition, and his wife opened the message. 5 that the 6 news might 7 a heart failure to her husband, she invited the family 8 to dinner and asked him to 9 on the good news with professional tact(策略). After dinner, the doctor 10 his patient to one side.     

Li Na said she was once a fan of Zhou Bichang

Like all the other girls, Li Na(厉娜) likes snacks, little pets, idol(偶像) plays...but unlike the other girls, she was lucky enough to become an idol who has plenty of her own fans last summer. Though she has become famous overnight, Li Na is still a plain girl. She even says that she was once a crazy fan of Zhou Bichang(周笔畅) the year before last.     

给宝宝带去温暖

When Alexandra Holderman of Indiana was five years old,she saw a baby dressed in only a T-shirt,diaper(尿布),and blanket in the middle of winter.Alexandra could tell that the baby was very cold."He had red,chapped(皲裂的)skin and a runny nose,"she remem-bers.That same     

Humour

My friend's father was proud of his family of six children. He frequently referred to his wife as "Mother of Six" , much to her annoyance(烦恼). Finally, she cured him of his habit. At the end of a party, he called out loud enough for everyone to hear,     

MTV时尚人物艾希莉·辛普森(英文)

Ashlee Simpson was born on Octo- ber 3, 1984 in Texas, USA. She's the younger sister of pop star Jessica Simpson. Ashlee has been preparing for a career in entertainment[娱乐] since she was a child. At the age of four she started dancing, and by the time she was 11, she became the youngest person ever admitted[接纳] into the prestigious[有名望的] School of American Ballet. She began to dance professionally[专业的] at age 14.     

From Bondage to Bondage:Analysis of Jessica in The Merchant of Venice

Jessica, the daughter of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice, has often been hailed as a free woman after she disentangles herself from the bondage of her patriarchal father. However, this paper argues that she is still prejudiced against by her new friends because she is considered to be a Jewess by blood. So her flight from her father is not an escape from bondage but a plunge into another kind of bondage.