Harp Seals（高三适用）

The Harp Seal is one of nature‘ s most beautiful and appealing creatures. Many years ago it was hunted for its pure white fur. Hunting Harp Seals is now illegal.     

National Sentiment Colours Scottish History （高三适用）

In Europe, men do not usually wear skirts. But the Scottish national costume( 服装 ) for men is a kind of skirt, It is called a kilt. The Scottish like to be different. They are also proud of their country and its history, and they feel thattory. That‘s why the menthe kilt is part of that hisstill wear kilts at old-style dances and on national holidays. They believe they are wearing the same clothes that Scottish men always used to wear.     

How to Mark a Book（高三适用）

There are all kinds of devices (方法) for marking a book intelligently and fruitfully(有效地).Here‘s the way I do it.     

Jomestown（高二适用 ）

The development of Jamestown in Virginia during the second half of the seventeenth century, was closely related to the making and use of bricks. There are several practical reasons why bricks became important to the colony.     

A Quick E-mail（高一适用）

Mr Lynch left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick E-mail. Unable to find the piece of paper on which he had written her E-mail address, he did his best to type it in from memory.     

Ship Accident（高二适用）

YANTAI: At least 150 passenger‘s and crew aboard a ship on the Yellow Sea were found dead and more than 140 remain missing in one of the country‘ s worst maritime (航海的) accidents on November 24, 1999 near the port city of Yantai in East China‘ s Shandong Province. Rescue workers reported late yesterday that only 36 survivors had been found.     

A Train Accident（高二适用）

At least 275 people were killed and 460 injured in Monday‘ s head-on train coUision(碰撞) in eastern India and rescue operations were continuing, the Press Trust of India said yesterday.     

The First Cotton Gin （高一适用）

Cloth-making was greatly increased, both in the United States and in England, by the invention of a machine to remove the seed from the cotton, which grew abundantly(大量地) in the southern area of the United States. This machine was the work of Eli Whitney, a young man from New England who had gone south to teach at school.     

Variety in Folk Songs（高一适用）

It is generally understood that a ballad is a song that tells a story, but a folk song is not so easily defined. A ballad is a folk song, but a folk song is not a ballad unless it tells a story.     

The Water Cycle（高二适用）

Most of the earth is covered with water. About 70 per cent of the water on earth is in the oceans,but water also exists in rivers and lakes. It occurs as ice or water vapour in the air. All together, there are about 330 million cubic (立方体的) miles of water on earth.     

Pioneering Spacecraft Landing Safely（高二适用）

The first test flight of China‘s manned space programme went perfectly as the country‘s unmanned spacecrafi(飞船) fell safely down in Inner Mongolia on November 21, 1999 after the first 21-hour travel.     

Mother＇s Day（高二适用）

An American woman Anna Jarvis ws the first person to decide that mothers should have a holiday in their honour each year.Miss Jarvis started her campaign in 1906 in her home city Philadelphia.She wrote thousands of letters to congressmen(国会议员）,city officials,teachers and newspaper publishers,     

What a Needle!（高二适用）

Everyone knows what a needle is. Of eourse there are many needles and needles. Needles for sewing maehines, needles for injection(注射), you name it. But few people think of the wonder a needle works in the hands of those who practise acupuncture（针灸疗法）。     

Cutting Down the Amount of Homework（高一适用）

More and more students in Beijing are getting shorter sleeping time according to a recent study.     

Mr,Mrs,Miss and Ms（高一适用）

Almost everyone knows the meanings of Mr, Mrs, and Miss. Mr is used before the surnames or full names of men. Mrs is for married women and Miss is for sigle women. But what is Ms?     

Don＇t Go to Kauai（高二适用）

Don‘t go to Kauai. Go to any of the other Hawaiian Islands—Maui, Lanai, the Big Island—but leave Kauai for us. The weather onKauai is so unpredictable. Sometimes it rains all day—in fact,     

Hongkong＇s Problem of Drinking Water（高一适用）

Water has been one of Hong Kong‘s biggest problems. Sometimes they have too much rain and this causes a great deal of damage. At other time they have not enough. Once water taps could be used for only four hours every fourth day. For the rest of the time, there was no water. Some of the water they use comes from China but it is not enough. They have an average(平均的) rainfall of about 216cm and it is very important to use all of it. Unfortunately,