英语广角

英语幽默谚语格言趣味英语完形填空IsItfarAli, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Nasreddin.Nasreddin was already in bed.“It is late,”he said. “What do you want?”“I want you to write a letter to my wife,”said Ali. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for …     

老师的老师

“What do you want to be?”his father askedLei Yan.Lei Yan looked confused.It was aquestion he had never really understood or foundanswers to.He was only seven but already somany people had asked him the same question.     

英语趣味阅读2篇(英文)

Ali, who was working a long way from home, wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Nasreddin. Nasreddin was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. “What do you want?” “I want you to write a letter to my wife,” said Ali. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then said, “Has…     

阅读理解六则(英文)

(A) Ten-year-old Barack Obama was one of only three black students at his school in Hawaii,US.He felt very different from most other students. White girls wanted to touch his hair.A white boy asked him whether his father ate people.I lied to them that my father was a Kenyan prince.But I     

I''''M ORLONSEL SIMPSON!

The persona of this story was a boy in a gutter(贫民区)of San Francisco.Because of cacotrophia(营养不良),he got sick with his leg.H e couldn’t stand with his legstraight.A nd his calf(小腿)was even worse shrink(萎缩).But in his little soul,he got a dream only believed byhim self—he would becom e an all-powerful(全能的)playerof A m erican football.The boy was a fan of Jim Brown,a legendary foot-ball player.H e always went to the court to cheer his i-dol.But he was too poor to buy a ticket…     

俄罗斯传说

Once there were two brothers.One was rich,and one was poor—so poor he had only onehorse to plow his field,and that one died.Indesperation he asked his rich brother to lend him ahorse for just one day.At first his brother refused,butthe poor brother plead…     

水池边的牡鹿

A thirsty Stag went to a Pool to drink.As he saw hisown reflection(倒影)in the water,he was struck withadmiration(钦慕)for his fine antlers(角),but at the sametimc felt disgust for the weakness and slenderness of hislegs While he stood there,he was attacked by a Lion;buthe drew away from his pursuer,and kept his lead as theground over which he ran was open and free of trees But coming to a wood,he was caught by his antlersin the branches.and fell victim to his enemy “Woe is mel”he cried with his last breath,“I despisedmy legs which might have saved my life,but gloried inmy horns,which have proved my ruin.”     

A Lesson to Learn（初二适用）

John was the only on of a rich American businessman(商人).Usually hewas taken to school by the chauffeur([汽车]司机)in his father’s beautiful car,before the chauffeur took John’s father to his office.One evening his father toldhim that he had to go to the airport(飞机场)early the next day,so he wouldneed the car at the time when John had to go to school.He said that John’s     

窗

Two men,both seriously ill,occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain the fluids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back. The men talked for hours on end. They spoke of their wives and families,their homes,their jobs,their involvement in the military service,where they had been     

I Don t Get Off Here

The weather was bad that day.It was___heavily and it was dangerous to go on theicy(冰的)roads.Mr Smith was ___.Fewpeople would go out in such a cold day and therewas only one passenger(乘客)in his bus.Driv-     

美国习语及运用(十九)

mark,make one's这一习语的意思为“成功”,“出名”,“留下深远影响”。1.Despite the helpgiven to all of them by their father,Henry was the only one of the five brothers whomade his mark in the world.尽管五兄弟都得到了父亲的帮助,但真正有出息     

牵牛记

Ralph Waldo Emerson, the famous nineteenth-century poet and essayist, was out one day trying to get a calf into the 1)barn. But he made the common mistake of thinking only of what he wanted: Emerson pushed and his son pulled. But the calf 2)stiffened his legs and stubbornly refused to leave the 3)pasture.     

幽默二则(英文)

He WAnted Two Balloons The boy's clothing shop was giving away balloons to customers' chil- dren. One little fellow asked if he might have two.“Sorry,”the clerk said, “but we give only one balloon to each child. Do you have a brother at home?” The youngester was always truthful, but he wanted another balloon badly.“No,”he replied regretfully,“but my sister does, and I'd like one for him.”You Are Smarter Now “I want you to give me a pill to make me smarter,”the man told his docto…     

一杯牛奶可以温暖我们一辈子

One day,a poor boy who was trying to pay his way through school by selling goods door to door found that he only had one dime left.He was hungry so he decided to beg for a meal at the next house.     

He found him!

It was a blind date(that she was going to have to“thank”her girlfriend for later),and she'dshown the patience of a saint as he babbled on and on about his hobbies,rock climbing,his petpeeves,his driving techniques,and even the standards he used to choose his barber.     

来自监狱的信Prison(英文)

I read of a man who was involved in a tragic accident,He lost both legs and his left arm and only a finger and thumbremained on the right hand.There was only enough left ofthe man that had been to Suffer and reinember.     

完形填空练与析(英文)

Erik was a fourteen-year-old boy.Hethought he was a young man but his par-ents didn’t think so.They told him,“Whenyou begin to think about1others,you’ll be a young man.”One morning,Erik’s parents gave him2money to buy some hamburgers.He saw an old man there.The man lookedsick.Erik went up to him and found thatthe old man had lost his3andhadn’t had4for hisbreakfast.Erik took the oldman to the nearest restaurant.5the man ordered only aglass of water for himself.Erikfelt sorry for him,so he askedthe waiter to6...     

STORIES

Bruce got on the bus early in the morning. He was going to the next town to visit one of his friends. He had got up very early, and he felt tired. Soon he fell asleep. A short while later, he woke up in the middle of a dream. In his dream, he was in a busy street. People were pushing him hard and pulling at his clothes. As he woke up, he found that it wasn＇t only a dream.Somebody was really pulling at his coat pocket.     

One Piano Only

Jim was clever, but he never liked to work hard. He often said to his friends, "If you work hard, you will make a lot of money, but it doesn't seem good. I want easy work and a lot of money. That's the most interesting thing in the world(世界上)."So he could only be a thief (贼). But he still thought it was too much work, so he only told his friends what to do and got money from them.     

一组完形填空练与析(英文)

(A)Tom Krattenmaker and16-year-old Holland are father and daughter.Sometimes,when they listen to rock music together and talk about popculture,they both enjoy these__1__.Mr.Krattenmaker,from Pennsylvania,USA,recalled his relationshipwith his__2__when he was a teenager.“I would__3__have said to mymom,‘Hey,this new album(专辑)is really great—how do you like it?B”he said.“There was just a complete__4__in sensibility(情感)and__5__.”__6__was not the only gap.From clothing and hairstyles …