日期：2008-03-11 练习： 1. What does 'that hope' in the first paragraph refer to? A) The hope that America would be discovered. B) The hope to start a new life. C) The hope to see the mysteries of the New World. D) The hope to find poverty here. 2. When did American... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-03-11 第四十九篇 The Beginning of American Literature American has always been a land of beginnings. After Europeansdiscovered' America in the fifteenth century, the mysterious New World became for many people a genuine hope of a new life, an escape from... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. Scotland is thought to have made important contributions to the civilization of the Western world because of A) the great thinkers who were born there. B) the methods introduced by its distinguished scholars. C) the first-class education i... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第四十八篇 Finding Enlightenment in Scotland In the 1740s, the famous French philosophy Voltaire said We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilization. That's not a bad advertisement for any country, especially when it comes to attracting peopl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. What determines your weight? A)Your working manner. B)Your eating habit. C)Your life style. D)Your genes. 2. What did Jules Hirsch do in his study? A)He let the eight fat people skip supper. B)He let the eight fat people skip breakfast. C)... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第四十七篇 The Best Way to Reduce Your Weight You hear this: No wonder you are fat. All you ever do is eat. You feel sad: I skip my breakfast and supper. I run every morning and evening. What else can 1 do? Basically you can do nothing. Your genes,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. What's the reaction of Mrs. Czarnecki when she was annoyed by the barking of her neighbor's dog? A) She went to her neighbor's door to complain about it. B) She wrote to the local government and suggested that a law should be made to prohi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第四十四篇 Who (Doesn't) Let the Dogs Bark? For the past year, Cornelia Czarnecki said, the barking of her neighbor's German shepherd1 has awakened her repeatedly at 4 a.m. The dog often barks for hours at a time, said Mrs. Czarnecki, a Clifton2 res... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 词汇： Mice n. 老鼠（复数） bioethicist n. 生物伦理学家 Sibling n. 兄弟姐妹 注释： 1. brothers and sisters born 50 years apart 出生年份相隔50年的兄弟姐妹 2. We had better not go anywhere near it 我们最好离它远点，这里的it指代前面讲的anti-ageing tech... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第三十七篇 Who Wants to Live Forever? If your doctor could give you a drug that would let you live a healthy life for twice as long, would you take it? The good news is that we may be drawing near to that date. Scientists have already extended the l... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. What is Sunset Song mainly about? A)The First World War. B)The beauty of the sunset. C)The new European world. D)The lives of rural Scottish farmers. 2. Which statement is NOT true .of Chris? A)She is the heroine of Sunset Song. B)She had... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第三十六篇 A Tale of Scottish Rural Life Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song (1932) was voted the best Scottish novel of all time by Scottish's reading public in 20051Once considered shocking for its frank description of aspects of the lives of Scotl... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. ...these are cities concerned with the past in the first paragraph refer to cities that A) are worried about their past. B) have a glorious past to be proud of. C) want to maintain their traditional image. D) are very interested in their o... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第二十三篇 The Only Way Is Up Think of a modem city and the first image that come to mind is the skyline. It is full of great buildings, pointing like fingers to heaven. It is true that some cities don't permit buildings to go above a certain height... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. The shop workers in the Western world are glad when Christmas is over because they don't have to A) rush their feet off all day. B) listen to the music playing all the time in the shop. C) work overtime to make more profits for the boss. D... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第二篇 Silence Please If there is one group of workers across the Western world who will be glad that Christmas is over, that group is shop workers. It is not that they like to complain. They realize that they are going to be rushed off their feet a... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. Parents in the United States tend to ask their children A) to save food. B) to wash the dishes. C) not to waste food. D) not to eat too much. 2. Why do American restaurants serve large portions? A) Because Americans associate quantity with... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第四部分 阅读理解 阅读下面的短文。每篇短文的后面有五个问题，每个问题有四个备选答案。请根据短文的内容选择最佳答案。 第一篇 Eat Healthy Clean your plate! and Be a member of the clean-plate club1! Just about every kid in the US has heard this from a pa... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 练习： 1. Paragraph 2 2. Paragraph 3 3. Paragraph 4 4. Paragraph 5 F Export of Talking Machines A Growth of Economy B Servant Economy C Strength of the Creative Economy D Weakness of the Creative Economy E Gift of Talking 5. Every country has its ow... 阅读全文>>

日期：2008-01-26 第十一篇 Is There a Way to Keep the Britain's Economy Growing? 1 In today's knowledge economy, nations survive on the things they do best. Japanese design electronics while Germens export engineering techniques. The French serve the best food and Am... 阅读全文>>