机器人

Scientists have written a report on the future of trade and industry. They talk about the role robots will play in industry.What is a robot？Basically，it is a machine which is de-signed to do the work of a human being. It is usually controlled by computer. Once it has been given a set of things to do，it will do the job on its own.Nowadays，Britain has 120 robots at work in industry. This compares badly with other industrial countries. In Japan，there are 4，000 robots in use. In the USA …     

海中巨兽

There are thousands of kinds of animals that live in the sea. One of the most interesting of these animals is the whale.The whale is the largest animal in the world. It is not a fish. It is a mammal. It breathes air through its lungs as people do. The whale can stay under the water for more     

Digging into the Culture Background of the Target Language——Prerequisite of learning a foreign language

The term, culture shock, was introduced for the first time in 1958 to describe the anxiety produced when a person moves to a completely new environ- ment. This term expresses the lack of direction, the feeling of not knowing what to do or how to do things in a new environment, and not knowing what is appro- priate or inappropriate. The feeling of culture shock generally sets in after the first few weeks of coming to a new place. "Coming to America is like jumping into cold water," says an inte…     

An Analysis of Humor from a Perspective of Systemic Functional Linguistics

The Functional Linguistics provides a new perspective for the study of language in the present time.It regards language as a semiotic system.It also interprets language as a network of meaning potential.It accounts for what one can do linguistically and provides the set of linguistic choices.What the speaker do is the realization of these choices and certain meanings then are expressed.This present paper has conducted a discourse study of humors.The theoretical framework of humor analysis in this paper is systemic-functional linguistics,especially the theory of context.     

A Brief Analysis of Misconceptions and Problems of Educational Narrative Inquiry

As a qualitative research method, the educational narrative inquiry is widely used in educational research. However, there exists some misconceptions about what is narrative inquiry and how to do educational narrative inquiry among the beginners who are interested in this method. Educational narrative research can not invent education event, nor is seen as a conventional research method. And the narrative inquiry should not be considered equivalent to ordinary way of telling stories. This paper will make a brief analysis of misconceptions and problems of educational narrative inquiry to help the beginners to better understand narrative inquiry and do this kind of research in a proper way.     

The Influence of Contexts on Vocabulary Testing

In vocabulary testing,whether to adopt context is a heat-debated topic.In the article,an experiment is designed to investigate what is the effect of zero context and sentence context on the vocabulary testing?And how do the different kinds of context in vocabulary affect the subjects’performance?The experimental result demonstrates that sentence do play an important role in helping text-takers to figure out the correct meaning or target words.     

The Story of Stone

This is a story which tells that there was a rich man who wished to do something for people. First he decided to find out whether they deserved his help. So he placed a very large stone in the center of a village, and hid nearby to see what would happen. One man came and complained1 about the stone in the road, but did not do anything.     

My Favorite Place

There is a big library in myschool.That is my favorite place.In thelibrary,there are many books,magazines andnewspapers.We Can do some reading in the     

Sit-down Habit Is Killing Us

How many hours do you spend sitting in a chair every day？ Eight hours in the office plus three hours in front of the TV after work is the pattern for many people.     

永远

I do know that birds continue to live and procreate as long as the weather is amenable and the food there's if it were a deal between them, the weather and the crops.No questions asked.And the birds are in earnest about it,as I am in earnest about finding a reason for their lives,for what reason I myself do not understand. So I too,in my     

English People and Tea

Drinking tea is a main part of the English people's life. In the morning, husband or wife, still in bed, may get a cup of tea brought by others before getting up. For hotel guests, the first thing they do after they wake up in the morning is to drink tea. Even in small inns, electric teapots are prepared for the customers.     

Grammar and Its Teaching: Challenging the Myths

Grammar is often misunderstood in the language teaching field. The misconception lies in the view that grammar is a collection of arbitrary rules about static structures in the language. Further questionable claims are that the structures do not have to be taught, learners will acquire them on their own,     

The Olympic Games and I

To us Chinese, the 29th Olympic Games is very special, because it will be held in Beijing the capital of China. As a middle school student, I do think I can do something for the games.     

本月习语累积

<正> Success is an accumulation of small achievements. Left in the lurchMeaningAbandoned in a difficult position without help.OriginThis has nothing to do with lurches in the sense ofsudden unsteady movements.There are suggestions that lurch is a noun thatoriginated from lich - the Old English word for corpse.Lych-gates are roofed churchyard entrances that adjoin     

My teacher

I have a teacher. He's Mr Wang. He is the most handsome man in this world, I think. He has a pile of work to do every day. He always has a lot of work to do. We love     

Grammar as process

Is grammar a thing or is it something that happens? This paper will argue that maybe it is a bit of both. When we describe language, as in the grammar of English, grammar is more noun-like than verb-like. It is a body of facts about the language: "The present perfect is formed by the auxiliary have plus the past participle", etc. On the other hand, when we use language in real communication, grammar manifests itself in ways that seem to have little to do with the conscious appli     

"Cultural Default"and Adding Gloss Translation in Literary Translation

The translation practice is not only a change of language but also a change of culture. The"cultural default"is derived from the cultural differences between the SL (Source Language) and TL (Target Language), is a very troublesome thing for the translators. When there appears the phenomenon of cultural default, it is necessary to compensate for it, in this way, adding gloss translation is a very good way to do it , especially in the literary translation. This essay will discuss the phenomenon of"cultural default"and advantage of adding gloss translation in literary translation.     

英语儿歌大家唱

1 What do you see? What do you see in the bedroom?. I see a be in the bedroom.2、What do you see? What do you see in the bedroom? I see a sheet. I see a bed in the bedroom.     

热爱生活(英文)

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the alms-house as brightly as from the rich man' s abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in     

Advantage and Disadvantatge of Surfing on the Internet

Now in the world, it is a common practice for people to go on the Internet. With its convenience and fast speed, one can get a lot of information from the Internet. In a minute one comes to the section2 you want. What one needs to do is to press the button or type a few letters on the computers.