A Passage for Comprebension

A man named Smith was sitting on his roof during a flood, and the water was up to his feet. Before long a fellow in a canoe passed and shouted, "Can I give you a lift to higher ground? "No,thanks, " said Smith. "I have faith in God and he will save me." Soon the water rose to Smith's waist. At this point a motor boat pulled up and someone called out, "Can I give you a lift to higher ground? "     

The Doctor and His Patient

A doctor was explaining the effects of a pear and a jujube. He took a pear and said,"A pear is good to our teeth,but bad to our spleen. " Then,he picked up a jujube and said,"A jujube is opposite     

笑话一则(英文)

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said:"If you kiss me,I'll turninto a beautiful princess."He bent over,picked up the frog and put it in his pocket.The frog spoke up again and said:"If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess,I willtell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero."The man took the frog out of hispocket,smiled at it,and returned it to his pocket.The frog spoke up again and said,"If you kiss me and turn me back i…     

小水滴亮鼠鼠

Little sunny water sleeping in a corner.Wake up,wake up,wash your face and make a bumble shake.Oh,shake it to the right and shake it to the left.     

The Translation of Figures in Interpretation

Figure has always been a "bottleneck" of high-quality interpretation. This paper attempts a theoretical analysis of the main causes of the bottleneck and discusses the skill of interpreting figures. It also sums up intensively various forms related to interpreting figures for interpreters to achieve a high-quality interpretation.     

Be a Polite Person

"Be a polite person", we were taught to be polite since we were children. Par-ents bring us up1, and teach us how to be polite. Politeness helps us to make friends. Politeness makes our life happy and enjoyable.     

Two Friends and Tow Apples

Tom and Mike were good friends. Sometimes they were kind to each other, but sometimes they were not.One day they went out for a walk together. At noon they were very hungry and they went into a restaurant to have lunch. The waiter came up to them and asked: "What can I do for you?"Please bring us two apples first, " said Tom.     

幽默三则

A Drinker's SuccessA heavy drinker realized the harm done to him by wine and made up his mind to give up drinking. One day he went shopping in the town near his home. He was determined to come back home without even sipping(呷)a drop of wine. Shopping over, he passed by a wine shop. "Here is a place to test myself," he thought, and went away. He felt encouraged with this first success . He came to another wine shop, and did the same, bravely. He was very glad. Finally he came to his favorite wine shop near his house. He went into it and drank happily to celebrate his success in abstinence from wine(戒酒)all day.     

Dress Design in My Opinion——Art and Dress

"Design is defined as to plan,conceive,and set up a program,also including to conceive,drawing and modeling."The process of dress design is"to conceive and make up the effective drawings and plane graph based on the demands of the desig nees,then to produce according to the design drawings,so as to complete the whole process of design’.Of course,the dress de sign is actually related with design.However,in the field of dress design,the most important factor that affects design is"art".From the history of dress,it’s easy to find the trace of trend of art.     

Playing a Game

Bored during a long flight, a famous scholar leaned over and woke up the sleeping man next to him to ask if he would like to play a game. "I'll ask you a question," the scholar explained, "and if you don't know the answer, you pay me $ 5. Then you ask me a question, and if I don't know the answer, I'll pay you $50."When the man agreed to play, the scholar asked, "What's the dis'tance from the earth to the moon?" Flummoxed(使惶惑地), the man handed him $5. "Ha!" said the scholar. "It's 238, 8…     

教你正确用(二十八) Holidays——美国的节假日(上)(英文)

My favorite days are, of course, holidays. On those days, I don't have to go to work and can put my up feet to enjoy a cup of tea and catch up with the writing of "A Cup of English." There are many holidays in the U.S., on some of which you can take a day off but on others you can't. Many of my friends in China also celebrate western holidays, such as St. Valentine's Day, Mother's Day, and Christmas. Today, let's chat about some of the important holidays in the U.S. and their meanings. By the way, my definition of an "important holiday" is a day we take off from work, which is also called a legal holiday.     

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.     

狼请客

A wolf and a fox were good friends.One day the wolf caught a chicken,and said to the fox,"Go and kill it,cook it well.I’ll invite the bear to share it with us."The fox agreed and boiled the chicken.Soon it was ready.The chicken was so delicious that he couldn’t stand it.He ate up a chicken wing,then a chicken leg...Soon all the chicken was eaten up by him!After a while,the wolf returned home.He asked,"Is the chicken ready?""More or less!"answered the fox guiltily~1.     

完形填空练与析(英文)

A A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor's meeting at the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1, but he came up to me and placed his right foot close to mine on the floor. "Frank! " I cried in astonishment. He couldn't 2, as I knew, but all the time 3 his foot against mine. My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about hundred other people slept every night. Two     

完形填空小练笔

I remember as a small child when we would havethese gatherings where someone would come up andask,"What are you going to be when you grow up?"Well,it(?)being a cowboy or some super hero.Later it was a fireman, policeman, lawyer…As Igrew older my dreams of the future(?)When,atlast,I was in college,I made up my(?)to become apeacher(牧师)as my father.(?)I studied and pre-pared for that life.I reached(?)in the end and I waspreaching nearly full-time for much of my adult life.However,for many, there is a"thief"which goes     

教你正确用(二十八)

Holidays--美国的节假日(上) My favorite days are, of course,holidays.On those days ,I don't have to go to workand can put my up feet to enjoy a cup of tea and catch up with the writing of "A Cup ofEnglish."There are many holidays in the U.s.,on some of which you can take a day off but on others you can't.     

Bicycle or Bull?

A burly professional wrestler was visiting his friend in a small town and one night they stayed a little too long at the pub. Not wanting to drive they decided to walk home. As they were crossing a farmers field a bull charged them. The wrestler grabbed the bull by the horns and they went down in a snarling heap. Finally the bull jumped up and ran away. "Wow" said the friend "that was quite a tussle." "Yeah" the wrestler replied "and if I hadnt had that last drink I wou…     

What goes up...

A father was at the beach with his children when the tour-year-old son Fan up to him, grabbed hishand, and led him to a place on the shore where a seagull lay dead in the sand. "Daddy, what happenedto him?" the son asked. "He died and went to Heaven," the dad replied. The boy thought a moment as he and his father stood looking at the seagull. Finally the son said,"Why did God throw him back down?"     

Preparation of high performance ceramic tiles using waste tile granules and ceramic polishing powder

This paper presents an innovative approach to reusing waste tile granules （TG） and ceramic polishing powder （PP） to produce high performance ceramic tiles. We studied formulations each with a TG mass fraction of 25.0% and a different PP mass fraction between 1.0% and 7.0%. The formulations included a small amount of borax additive of a mass fracton between 0.2% and 1.2%. The effects of these industrial by-products on compressive strength, water absorption and microstructure of the new ceramic tiles were investigated. The results indicate that the compressive strength decreases and water absorption increases when TG with a mass fraction of 25.0% are added. Improvement of the compressive strength may be achieved when TG （up to 25.0%） and PP （up to 2.0%） are both used at the same time. In particular, the compressive strength improvement can be maximized and water absorption reduced when a borax additive of up to 0.5% is used as a flux. Scanning electron microscopy reveals that a certain amount of fine PP granules and a high content of fluxing oxides from borax avail the formation of glassy phase that fills up the pores in the new ceramic tiles, resulting in a dense product with high compressive strength and low water absorption.     

GETTING UP ON COLD MORNING

Some people say it is a very easy thing to get up on a cold morning.You have only,they tell you,to take the resolution1;and the thing is done.This may be very true;just as a boy at school has only to take a flogging2,and the thing is over.But we have not at all made up our minds3 upon it;and we find it a very pleasant4 exercise to discuss5 the matter,candidly6,before we get up.This at least7 is not idling8, though it may be lying9.It affords10 an excellent answer to those,who ask how lying in…