P1ay Roof（Ⅱ）——A New Kind of Playground

That was tuesday,and all the rest of the week jack and sally were very busy.first they tookthe tickets around to all the families in the two buildings.that was easy after they‘d rung the first few doorbells.miss fidgett said,     

The Gift of Magi(extract)

One dollar and eighty-seven cents.That was all. And sixty cents of it was in pennies.①Pennies saved one and two at a time by bulldozing the grocer and the vegetable man and the butcher until one's cheeks burned with the silent imputation of parsimony(2)that     

THE DOG HERO

<正>Keeper was a lovely shaggy dog that lived at a big farmhouse where there were two boys and a little girl to admire and pet him. Although Keeper loved the children, the one he loved best of all was Mary, the youngest of the family. And how little Mary loved Keeper. Wherever Mary went Keeper would follow. That was why he was called Keeper as he was always keeping his eyes on Mary.     

三个愿望

No one ever said that Melinda Alicewas nice.That wasn’t the wordused.No,she was clever,even witty.She was called--never to her face,however—Melinda Malice.Melinda Alicewas clever and cruel.Her mother,whenshe thought about it at all,hopedMelinda would grow out of it.To her     

While You Were Out of Town

I left the man with the steam cleaner all alone in the house and watched from my shack as he poured bucket by bucket the gray brackish water that had rinsed our comings and goings from the carpet.That morning I had moved all the small items-hassock,coffee…     

心有多宽

It isn’t the size of your house as sueh That matters 50 muCh at all. It，5 the gentle hand and its loving toueh，That make it great or small. The friends who eome and the hour they Who out of your house dePart，will judge it not by the style you show·Bu     

超级聪明豆(四)(英文)

Fast Food Question: Sally, George, and Frank were picking up their fast,food orders-a burger, a plate of fries, and a slice of pizza."Who ordered what?"asked the man at the counter. George said,"I didn't order the pizza."The boy who ordered the fries said, "Oh, I thought you did."That was all the man at the counter needed to know. Who got each order?     

克利斯托弗·马娄(1564～1593)

The Passionate Shepherd to His Love COME live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. There will we sit upon the rocks And see the shepherds feed their flocks, By shallow rivers, to whose falls Melodious birds sing madrigals.     

一个夜晚

Xie Yan's spirits were sinking with the setting sun. Spring was her favourite season and the time a few weeks afterthe Spring Festival were especially dear to her. That was when the     

小幽默共赏(英文)

That Man Knows the FutureNasreddin was cutting a branch of a tree inhis garden.While he was sawing,another manpassed in the street.He stopped and said,     

Come With Me，Sir

David Moore taught science in a school.He needed some expensive books,and so he 1 them.He 2 them in his car in a quiet street.Then he bought 3 things at other shops.At six he came back to the car,one window was 4 and the books were not there. That night he wrote a letter to 5 .The next day he went to the police. One Friday,people read this 6 the newspaper"Have you any old books?I buy old and modern books.Open all day on Saturday.David Moore…     

天上掉下个好闺蜜

I sat on the plane and wondered if I would 1)end up hating Emily.That same part of me also wondered if I should have gone at all.What if I was 2)stuck for three days wearing a false smile and pretending I found her 3)halfway 4)tolerable? Or what if,instead,I was the one who ended up on the receiving end of the false smiles,being regarded with 5)minimum tolerability? What if we found each other so 6)unbearable we would never speak again? There were so many things that could go wrong.     

Love and Time

Once upon a time,there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness,Sadness,Vanity and all of the others including Love. One day it was announced to all of the feelings that the island was going to sink to the bottom of the ocean.All the feelings prepared their boats to leave except Love.She wanted to hold out and try to save the     

Water Facts and Conservation Tips

Do You Know Nearly 97 percent of all the world’s water is salty or otherwise undrinkable. Another 2 percent is locked in ice caps and glaciers(冰河).That leaves 1 percent for all our needs.Water     

永远的纯真——《小飞侠彼得·潘》赏析

原作节选 That was the last time the girl Wendy ever saw Peter.For a little longer she tried for his sake not to have growing pains;and she felt she was untrue to him when she got a prize for general knowledge.But the years came and went without bringing the careless boy;and when they met gain,Wendy was a married woman,and Peter was no more to her than a little dust in the box in which she had kept her toys.     

爱·时间(英文)

Once upon a time,there was an island where all the feelings lived: Happiness,Sadness, Knowledge,and all of the others, including Love.One day it was announced to the feelings that the island would sink,so all constructed boats and left Except for Love.     

THE WORLD CUP IN MY HEART

44 years!That’S such a long timefor Chinese. But, in 2002, we rushedinto the final circle in Korea JapanWorld Cup. We all hoped the Chinese team could surprise the worlk,just as Senegal won France. On June 4th,during the two hours before the match which beganat 2:30p.m,I couldn’t sleep.I was thinking of the first match forChina in Team C all the time.We had to win it because it’s veryimportant.Fortunately,the first class was P.E.My classmates were so     

The Life of American Cowboys

你想知道美国西部牛仔流行的原因吗？你想知道他们过去的主要工作和生活情况以及现在吗？请读读下篇文章。A cowboy wears a big hat and rides a strong horse under the wide, open skies of the American West. He can rope a cow and jump from the top of a building onto a waiting horse. He is a man of few words, a man of lonely independence(独立)and complete freedom. That is the motion picture image(画像) of an American cowboy, but not all the images are true. A real cowboy of the old west was simply a fa…     

In a Zoo

Tony was very poor and wanted to get a job. One day he read in a news-paper that a man was wanted to work in a zoo.“That will be wonderful,”he thought,“I like animals, and looking after them will be interesting.”So Tony went to the manager of the zoo and asked for the job.“You look     

最糟的钢琴课,没有之一

"Mom,remember the time you made me go to a piano lesson with a broken arm?" my elder daughter 1)quipped as the family were enjoying a Sunday lunch.Ouch.That one 2)stung.I don't know what hurt the most:the fact that Megan's arm was broken or the fact that I did,in fact,take her to a piano lesson with a fresh break. I was a high school 3)guidance counselor by day and wife and mom of two by night.My days began early with waking and dressing the girls,dropping them off at two different sites,and then racing to school.And it usually ended with a student following me to the car,talking all the way.I would then race to pick up the girls.Then we were off to piano,violin,dance or church activities,4)snacking as we 5)wove through traffic in the car.