A Story About Walruses

A walrus(海象) is a kind of amphibians(两栖动物). Many of them live on the islands(岛) of the Arctic Ocean(北冰洋). There were very few people living there. One day a hunter named Tom and his brother, Jack, got there by boat.Suddenly they saw a young walrus swimming in the river. They wanted to catch it alive. Tom threw(投掷) spears(梭镖) at its head, then he tied it up(把......拴在) to a tree because he wanted to have a rest. It began to cry. When some big walruses heard it crying, they c…     

底价

There was a man who loved fine art. He loved it so much that he lived for it. It had become his whole life, and had literally engulfed him. He would work really hard to save up some money, just so he could buy another piece of fine art. He would buy Rembrandt's, Picasso's and many others' works of fine art.The man had been widowed some years before but he had a son. As he raised his son, he included him in his hobby of collecting art. As his son grew, he also became a great art collector. His dad was very proud of him.Collecting fine art was something that they both loved to do and it brought them very close together.Some years passed by and their country suddenly engulfed in a war. The son, like so many other young men, enlisted and went off to serve his country. He had been gone for some time, and then it happened.     

Funny Questions

1.A friend of mine says to me that his son is only four years old,but can speak English fluently and clearly.Though I don't believe it,that's true.Why? 2.An orange fell to the ground dirtied.If there is no water,how can I clean it and eat it? 3.Neither a plane nor a bird am I,though you can see me in the sky.Full of water,yet not a river or the sea.What do you think I can be? 4.Jim wanted to go into the house.He brought out the key and opened the door.But whatever he did,he couldn't push the door.     

Devil or Victim—An Analysis of the Characterization of Heathcliff in Wuthering Height

The character Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights is a controversial character that has aroused severe debate among critics and readers long since it was published in 1847.He is considered is a cruel devil and his acts in this novel are too far beyond a normal human’s moral acceptance.However,in spit of physical strength and his power of revenge,he is in a way also a victim of love and society.His destiny is doomed since he came into this world as the one who is"The Other"to take the revenge.     

天堂之路

A man is waiting for wife to give birth. The doctor comes in and informs the dad that his son was born without torso, arms or legs. The son is just a head! But the dad loves his son and raises him as well as he can, with love and compassion. After 21 years,the son is old enough for his first drink. Dad takes him to the barand tearfully tells the son he is proud of him. Dad orders up the biggest, strongest drink for his boy. With all the bar patrons looking on curiously and the bartender shaking his head in disbelief,the boy takes his first sip of alcohol. Swoooop! A torso pops out!The bar is dead silent; then bursts into a whoop of joy. The father,shocked, begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"! The bartender still shakes his head in dismay. Swoooop! Twoarms pops out. The bar goes wild. The father, crying and wailing,begs his son to drink again. The patrons chant "Take another drink"!     

STORIES

A David was a young man who worked in an office in a big city.He liked fishing very much,but did not often get a chance to go fishing. Then one summer he decided to have a holiday in a beautiful place in the mountains where there were a lot of streams."I will be able to have some good fishing there," he said to himself. The first morning after he arrived,he carried his fishing rod and walked to the nearest stream.He saw an old man standing beside the water,so he asked him whether it was a private (私人的) stream.The old man answered that it was not.Then he asked,"Well,then it won't be a crime (犯罪) if I catch some fish here,will it?"     

餐桌上的大学你今天学到了什么?

When papa was growing up, at the turn of the century in a village in northern Italy, education was for the rich. Papa was the son of a dirt-poor farmer. He used to tell us that be couldn't recall a single day when he wasn't working. The concept of doing nothing was never a part of his life. In fact, he couldn't fathom it. How could one do nothing?     

Ethnic Stereotypes and the Fostering of Cross-cultural Communicative Competence for Media Majors

With the development of cross-cultural mass media,it seems clear that only with cross-cultural communicative skills can people fit themselves well for their jobs in today’s society.As a media professional,he or she is a receiver of a large amount of media data domestic and abroad,and on the other hand,he or she is also a participator and a creator of media communication products.Therefore,it would be more urgent to enhance the cross-cultural competence of media talents so that they are able to qualify for cross-cultural communicators.The study of ethnic stereotypes,a perceptional factor in intercultural communication,may throw lights on fostering cross-cultural communicative competence for media majors.     

Two Foolish Men(初二适用)

Once there was a very foolish man.One day he put a bag of rice onthe back of his horse and went to town to sell it.The horse ran fast andhe could not catch up with it,so he got on the back of the horse.Soon thehorse began to go very slowly.     

A Conflict of Life Styles Embodied in Family Relations: A Psychological Study of Mother

Mother in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg,Ohio is a typical story reveals Anderson’s dissatisfaction with the change of life style in his time.In this story he has created a father who dares not to face reality directly but only cherishes some illusion of wealth and political power.The mother is totally against the life style in vogue,but her resistance meets constant failure be cause of the great power of it.In the following,the psychological state of the couple will be studied with an eye on there relation and their respective relation with the son,hoping this will give more insight to the understanding of Anderson’s artistic product.     

男孩、蝴蝶和蜘蛛网

There was once a newborn butterfly at rest,basking on aflower on a bright warm sunny day. A young boy passing by noticed the beauty of thisyoung butterfly.An ecstatic desire to catch it welledup in him as thoughts of showing it to his playmates would bea proud super deal indeed. With these thoughts prevailing,he exhausted all effortsto grasp the butterfly as it escaped him.     

A Rich Father

John D. Rockefeller, the well-known millionaire, gave away millions, but he himself was very mean about small sums of money. One day he went to stay at a hotel in New York and asked for the cheapest room in it. He said, "I am staying here alone and only need a small room."The manager showed him into a room and said, "This is our smallest and cheapest room," and added, "but why do you choose a poor room like this? When your son stays here, he always has our most expensive room; yours is our …     

A Good Example of Hemingway’s Iceberg Principle:The Killers

Hemingway established a well-known literary theory - iceberg principle.He said he always attempted to create his literary works according to this principle.In his opinion,if a prose writer has a pretty clear idea of what he writes about,then he can omit the things he knows,and the readers will strongly feel that what the writer has omitted seems to have been written as long as what he writes is authentic.Hemingway himself once said,"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one eighth of it being above water."Here,one eighth refers to the information given by the author,and the rest refers to the unwrit ten information that can be acquired in readers’imagination on the basis of the one eighth.The Killers is a good example of Hemingway’s iceberg principle.This essay will analyse the characters in it to show how the principle was used in this short story.With no doubt the iceberg principle leaves a large space for the readers to imagine and better understand Hemingway’s works.     

给老师的一封信(英文)

Below is a copy of the full letter author Margaret Trimer-Hartley and her husband sent in the fall to her son’s new teacher. Dear Mrs.Emmons, First,let me tell you we are thrilled that our son Nikolas Hartley has been chosen to be in your class and in the looping program! I believe your background and the consis- tency of looping will give Nikolas the stimulation and stability he so desperately     

Orientalism and Heart of Darkness

Heart of Darkness was written by Joseph Conrad and published as a whole in 1902.The story begins on a British ship"the Nellie"moored on the coast of the Thames.It mainly talks about what Marlow sees and thinks when he begins his journey up to the Congo Riveres and reveals a turning process of a white colonizer called Kurts who is at the very beginning,an idealistic white colonizer trying to bring"civilization"and"progress"to the Africa but in the end falls into a greedy,cruel person.The novel,on the one hand,describes the terrible life of African peple and reveals the tyranne,greed of western colonism and stong racism;and on the other hand,it also shows readers a strong orientalism towards the Africa.So my purpose of the paper is to analyse how Orientalism is revealed in the Heart of Darkness.     

编辑台

Pets are wonderful creatures! I had my first when I was just a little boy;a hamster called Cloudy. He was a very talented escape artist, and figured out how to open the door of his cage. Fortunately, whenever he escaped he＇d hide in the same place, and so he was always easy to retrieve. After him we got a cat, a black and white tom called Oscar. A grumpy animal, he was also very smart - he had a catflap, and a magnetic collar that opened it, and he used to use it to let his other cat friends into the house, so that we＇d come downstairs in the morning and find two or three of them scattered around the laundry.     

Character Analysis of Jeremiah Donovan in "Guests of the Nation"

Guests of the Nation displays vividly the gravity of the tragic dilemma in which O’Connor’s characters are caught,between military duty and the ancient sancta of the moral law.In this paper,the author analyzes Jeremiah Donovan,the Irish commanding officer,who is seemingly unfriendly and cold-blooded because he delivers the news of the impending executions to Bonaparte,the innocent narrator and also one of the Irish guards and it is Donovan who fires the gun at the execution.To the exterior,he is a cold antagonist who mercilessly murdered the two English hostages.However,Donovan is a character of dualities and as a victim of the war,he is a character full of contradicts.In the interior,Donovan is a character tortured by the conflicts between what is natural and what is unnatural.     

A Funny Family

<正>Mr Brown was born in a poor family. He couldn’t go to school when hewas young. Now he’s a porter(1)and works at a station. He doesn’t think it’snecessary(2)to know some knowledge(3)of science. His son, Bill, began to goto school last year. The boy likes nothing except playing. He doesn’t listento the teachers in class and can’t do his homework after class. It’s the hard-est thing for him to do maths exercises. And he wants to drop it.     

READINGS

An English student went to a city in the south of America to study there. He walked around the city to look for a warm room to live in. One evening, he was walking along the street with a map in his hand. He saw a small board (木板) in the window of a house, the word "Room" was on it. " What a nice room this is! " he said. " The windows are in the     

阅读特训营

The Return of "The Flying Garbage Can" 1 Every spring scores of people flock to the Buzzard Festival at Hinckley,Ohio.They come to watch for buzzards.Most would be glad just to catch a glimpse of a buzzard.If they do see one of these "flying garbage cans",it will probably be circling high in the sky.From there it can watch the ground for signs of the waste and the dead animals on which it feeds. 2 The buzzard is the ugliest bird in the United States. In fact, it may well be the ugliest bird in the world.lt has a small,bare,