英国文学

正The Power of the Written Word There are more books published per person in the UK than in any other country in the world.In 2011,an amazing 229million were sold in Britain—despite an economic recession and the growing popularity of new digital readers.The     

2004音乐界财富榜

1.The Rolling Stones滚石乐队S84.1 million In 2002,when the Forty Licks tourbegan,the Stones were at Number Two on our list.What put them at NumberOne this year?The same thing that land-ed Mick Jagger and Keith Richards on thecover of Fortune:a tour that sold $212 million in tickets,catalog sales in the mil-lions,an exclusive deal with Best Buy for     

“Lion King”sells 3 million copies in return to video

Simba has come out roaring again in itsDVD debut. “The Lion King”sold 3 million copies in the first twodays of its new home-video release,distributor Disney saidThursday.     

Fitzgerald＇s View of Women in The Great Gatsby

F. Scott Fitzgerald,the famous American novelist in the 1 920 s,is known as the spokesman and laureate of the"The Lost Generation". Considered one of Fitzgerald’s representative works and the finest achievement of his literary career, The Great Gatsbyis widely recognized as a classic of American literature. The paper is an investigation of the patriarchal ideology and misogyny,with a discussion of their influence on the portrayal of women characters in The Great Gatsby.     

American Idioms （19）

flea market
A place where antiques second-hand things, and cheap Articles are sold, and especially one in the open air.
The local antique dealers held a flea market and fair on the high-school athletic field.
（The local antique dealers set up an open-air market on the high-school field for the sale of antiques and other items.）     

World's Worst Poet Expected to Sell for Thousands of Pounds

A collection of 35 poems by William Topaz McG- onagall,often referred to as theworld's worst poetin the English language,has sold for＄12,900 at an auction in Edinburgh. The collection,self-published by McGonagall, was sold by Lyon & Turnbull auctioneers Friday,     

Cleveland

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is the centerpiece of the North Coast Harbor skyline.
Cleveland grabbed headhnes in the 1970s as a financially strapped, rust-belt town with one of its waterways on fire. Today it boasts not only a very clean Cuyahoga River, but a stunning （ 令人震惊的）, revitalized downtown area as well.The city is home to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Muse um （a million facility designed by famed architect I.M. Pei）and the Great Lakes Science Center, which features an Omnimax theater.     

Mystery of the Bermuda Triangle

The Bermuda Triangle is also called Devil’s Triangle.It is an imagi-nary area in the Atlantic Ocean.It extends more than one—million squarekilometers between the island of Bermuda,the coast of southern Floridaand the island of Puerto Rico.Drawing an imaginary line to line these     

Main Characters in The Merchant’s Tale

Although Geoffrey Chaucer—the father of English literature wrote many works, he is best remembered for his unfinished frame narrative The Canterbury Tales. It is a collection of stories written in Middle English in the 14th century. The Merchant’s Tale is one of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Chaucer presents us a dark story about an old knight—January and his young wife—May. Chaucer’s attentive skill appears most of all in the characterization in this story.     

BETTER JOB学英语如何能帮你找到更好的工作

International English! English is the language of international communication. According to the British council, English is spoken as a first language by around 375 million people, and as a second language by a further 500 million. English has official or special status in about 80 countries, and is spoken in another 100, with a total population of over two billion users.     

On George Orwell ’ s Politics and the English Language

George Orwell is an important essayist in the 20th century and of great influence for his critical essays. Politics and the English Language is an essay with an aim to criticize the misused English at the historical setting when World War Ⅱ was about to break out. The following article is to explore the essay＇ s language style and its theme.     

On the Importance of Cultural Input in English Teaching

English as a foreign language has been a subject in middle school of China for years. Teachers and educators generation by generation have been trying to find an optimal method of teaching foreign language to help students master it better. After unceasing exploring, traditional teaching pattern has been im- proved and new teaching approaches appear such as Task-based language teaching and com- municative language teaching. However, what- ever teaching methods English teachers use in the class, they should not ignore the cultural input in English teaching. The successful and efficient English teaching should transform the single language teaching into the combination of language teaching and cultural teaching. The thesis is concerned with the significance of culture in English teaching. More specifically, some consideration will be given to the reasons and ways of teaching culture.     

Synergizing pedagogy, learning theory and technology in instruction： How can it be done？

Instructional reform movements in the 1990s called for an effective and concurrent integration of various educational components. For effective classroom instructional reform, it was suggested that teaching method （pedagogy）, learning theory, and technology be promoted concurrently to form synergistic relationship. Thus, the primary purpose of this paper is to report a research that investigated the use of constructivism （learning theory） and technology in project-based learning （pedagogy） in elementary school classrooms. This paper consists of three main parts. The first part introduces the idea of integrating elements of pedagogy, learning theory and technology in a synergistic manner. The second part outlines the research findings of the extent of such integration in an elementary school. The final part of this paper provides suggestion on how these elements can be integrated in an effective and synergistic manner in order to bring about an instructional reform in education.     

A Critical Examination of the Glocal TV Format in Japanese TV Industry

The glocal TV format, in my essay, refers to the format in which the imported TV programmes, usually with extensive popularity and high ratings, are localised to appeal to domestic audience in Japan. In recent decades with an increasing number of TV shows being imported, the Japanese TV industry has established a successful routine to adapt foreign TV programmes to a domestic consumer market despite the fact that imported TV programmes do not make up a high proportion of its TV industry.     

蒙提·派森：《争论门诊》

MonW Python were a famous comedy group who starred in the television show MonEy Python＇s Flying Circus from 1969 to 1974. Here＇s an extract from one of their famous sketches： The Argument Clinic. In this skit, a young man wants to pay to have an argument.     

Sand and Stone

The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert. During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped① the other one in his face.     

On Translation Strategies from the Perspectives of Thematic Progression

Thematic structure is an important grammatical device to organize the text,which is also an important aspect of discourse analysis.And thematic progression plays an important role in the analysis of textual cohesion and organization.This paper mainly discusses the theory of thematic progression and its application to translation between English and Chinese.     

The Techniques of Joseph's Characterization in "The Story of Joseph"

The Story of Joseph, from his sold to Egypt to his reunion with his family, is one of the longest stories of "The Old Testament". It's a story of a young man's growth which belongs to the fictional tradition of bildungsroman in the West. This paper explores the techniques of Joseph's characterization in the process of Joseph's reunion with his brothers.     

About Hearing Aids

Mr Green worked in a shop. The shop sold, cleaned and repaired hearing aids.O ne day an old m an entered the shop and put down a hearing aid in frontofM r G reen w ithout a word. “W hats the m atter with it?”M r G reen asked.The m an did not an- sw er. …