日期：2014-08-26 There were already signs that he had a good deal of talent. Harvest Smith, a classmate and close friend who in those days played basketball with him practically every day, thought he was the best player on their ninth-grade team -- he was small, but... 阅读全文>>

日期：2014-06-24 Lincoln was delighted to advocate the cases of those whom he knew to be wronged, but he would not defend the cause of the guilty. If he discovered in the course of a trial that he was on the wrong side, he lost all interest, and ceased to make any e... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-06-27 When Britain's great Prime Minister, Sir Winston Churchill, was young, he attended a public school called Harrow. He was not a good student, and as matter of fact, had he not been the son of a famous leader, he probably would have been thrown out of... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-05-19 MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold them in her arms. But my other children will never have the chance to know her and experience how loving and grac... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-02-27 One day in spring four men were riding on horseback along a country road. These men were lawyers, and they were going to the next town to attend court. There had been a rain, and the ground was very soft. Water was dripping from the trees, and the g... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-18 Bob Richards, the former pole-vault champion, shares a moving story about a skinny young boy who loved football with all his heart. Practice after practice, he eagerly gave everything he had. But being half the size of the other boys, he got absolut... 阅读全文>>

日期：2013-01-17 The English author, Richard Savage, was once living in London in great poverty. In order to earn a little money he had written the story of his life, but not many copies of the book had been sold in the shops, and Savage was living from hand to mout... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-11-29 In history no philosopher has ever affected more individual lives than Confucius did. For around 2000 years Confucianism was the most important single force in Chinese life. His beliefs were formed when he was a young man. Dismayed by the state Chin... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-09-06 A University professor at a well known institution of higher learning challenged his students with this question: Did God create everything that exists? And a student bravely replied, Yes, he did! God created everything? The professor asked. Yes sir... 阅读全文>>

日期：2012-04-02 Diogenes was a famous greek philosopher of the fourth century b.c., who established the philosophy of cynicism（愤世嫉俗） . He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something. When que... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-21 Henry Ford didnt always pay attention in school. One day, he and a friend took a watch apart. Angry and upset, the teacher told him both to stay after school. Their punishment was to stay until they had fixed the watch. But the teacher did not know... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-10-14 BECK is the group manager of Pets and Aquatics（水上运动） , in charge of both departments of aquatics and pets of Evergreen garden centre. Everyday he works together with his staffs, he is a manager but did all the jobs what should to do by the oth... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-07-22 Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and, in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his poli... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-06-01 This is the letter that Mr. White wrote before his death about his three books for children: Dear Reader: I receive many letters from children and can't answer them all -- there wouldn't be time enough in a day. That is why I am sending you this pri... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-03-02 THE LIFE and History of Aesop is involved, like that of Homer, the most famous of Greek poets, in much obscurity（朦胧，阴暗） . Sardis, the capital of Lydia; Samos, a Greek island; Mesembria, an ancient colony in Thrace; and Cotiaeum, the chief cit... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-01-12 Super Dan, as top-seeded Lin Dan of China is better known in the badminton（羽毛球） world, had his Olympic dream come true after claiming the men's singles gold by beating Lee Chong Wei of Malaysia on August 17 in the Beijing Olympics. His father,... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-27 Most people often dream at night. When they wake in the morning they say to themselves, What a strange dream I had! I wonder what made me dream that. Sometimes dreams are frightening. Sometimes, in dreams, wishes come true. At other times we are tro... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-12 Marjorie Baer used to joke about her retirement plans. She wasn't married and had no kids, but she didn't intend to be aloneshe and all her single friends would move into a fictional（虚构的，小说的） home she called Casa de Biddies. Instead, Baer d... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-04-12 当拳王阿里点燃亚特兰大奥运会的火炬时，他知道自己并没有被帕金森症打败。一直照顾他的妻子朗尼阿里说：谁能想到他是一个与病魔战斗的人呢？现在人们可以了解到他最真实的一面了。即使不开口讲话，他仍然拥有激励人心的力量。 Love doesn't stop when a parent, spous... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-02-24 Mark Twain was a famous American writer. He wrote many stories and many of them were funny stories. These stories are still read by many people all over the world. Besides writing, he also liked hunting and fishing very much, so one year he went to... 阅读全文>>