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2006/6/24 英语欣赏RICH BEYOND MEASURE By Christine Barnes CELEBRATION IS MORE THAN A HAPPY FEELING.. CELEBRATION IS AN EXPERIRENCE IT IS LIKING OTHERS ACCEPTING OTHERS LAUGHING WITH OTHERS. Douglas R.. Stuva Today I feel rich beyond measure. What began as a new idea for my department’s celebration of the holiday season has become a very moving and enriching experience. I was tired of the usual “draw names and buy a joke gift for under $15” way of holiday celebration, so I proposed that we try something different. “How about giving each other the gift of acknowledgement?” I asked. Everyone agreed; they were even enthusiastic. A few days before Christmas, six of us gathered in my office. To start, I asked that we all observe a few ground rules. The person whose turn it was to acknowledged could only say “thank you”. I also pointed out that it might be natural to feel uncomfortable giving and receiving acknowledgement, but if some people were truly uncomfortable, they could ask for their acknowledgement in private. Silence and pauses were deemed to be all right. They were probably just opportunities to let the good stuff sink in. As we began our process, it stuck me that the tribes and communities that pass their cultures along through storytelling are very wise people. Invariably, whoever was speaking would tell a story that illustrated the acknowledgement that he or she wanted to make. Each of us started our communication by naming our colleague, “Mary”, for example, “the gift you give to me is…” as each group member spoke to the person being acknowledged, I began to see sides of my colleagues I wasn’t aware of. One male staffer acknowledged another male for his state of grace that shone through. Another said, “I rest easy knowing you are the one in your position.” Other comments included: “You give me the gift of your patience,” “You listen to me,” “I knew the moment I met you that I belonged here,” and so on. It was a privilege to be there. The spirit and connectedness we shared for those 60 minutes became bigger than we were. When we finished, no one wanted to speak; we didn’t want to break the spell. It had been woven with heartfelt, authentic, simple truths that we had shared with each other. We were all humbled and enriched by it.
[译文] 无与伦比的富有 克里斯蒂.白纳斯（著） 庆祝不仅是一种快乐的感觉，它也是一段经历，是喜欢别人，接受别人，同别人一起畅笑的经历。 道格拉斯.R.施托瓦
今天我觉得无与伦比的富有。起初部门要进行节日庆祝的主意后来变成了一个相当感人而且丰富多彩的经历。 我已经厌倦了原来那种庆祝圣诞节的方式“写下名单后购买价钱在15美元以下的玩笑礼物”，因此我提议尝试新方式。“给每个人送出赞词如何？”我问。人人都同意了；他们表露出更多的热心。圣诞前几天，我们六人聚在办公室里。我要求首先人人都要遵守几条共同的规则。轮到被赞的人只能说“谢谢”。我还指出，说出和接受赞词有可能令人感觉不自在，他们可以要求私下里告诉。沉默与无言表示没问题。他们也许是在借此酝酿美玉良言。 开始后，令我惊诧的是，这群不同的人非常聪明地通过讲故事来传达他们的不同文化。人人都会用讲述一个故事来说明他/她想要表达的赞美之言。 比方说，我们每人向同事说的时候都这么开始；“玛丽，你给我的礼物是……”当中一人向另一人说着赞词的时候，我看到了不曾注意到过的同事们的其他方面。一个男同事称赞另一个男同事卓尔不群的潇洒风度。另一个人说：“有你办事我很放心。”别的赞词还有：“你给予了我耐心，”“你倾听我的话，”“认识你的时候我就明白自己属于这儿，”等等。在这工作真是有幸。 在那六十分钟之内我们所分享的快乐和密切是前所未有的。说完以后，没有人想说话；我们不想破坏了美好的气氛。我们彼此分享的是用心与真实简单的事实编织起来的时光。我们全都心平气和并因它而丰富起来。
Learning without thinking will lead to puzzlement, thinking without learning will lead to idleness. 学而不思则罔，思而不学则殆。
1． You never know what you can till you try. 2． You cannot eat your cake and have it. 3． You can’t burn the candle at both ends. 4． You can’t judge of a tree by its bark. 5． You may take a horse to the water but you can’t make him drink. 6． You never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 7． You should never remember the benefits you have offered nor forget the favor received.
1. You never know what you can till you try. 2. You cannot eat your cake and have it. 3. You can’t burn the candle at both ends. 4. You can’t judge of a tree by its bark. 5. You may take a horse to the water but you can’t make him drink. 6. You never know the worth of water till the well is dry. 7. You should never remember the benefits you have offered nor forget the favor received.
2006/6/4 英语鉴赏“ARE YOU GOD?” By Dan Clark IT IS ONE OF THE BEAUTIFUL COMPENSATIONS OF THIS LIFE THAT NO ONE CAN SINCERELY TRY TO HELP ANOTHER WITHOUT HELPING HIMSELF. ----Chirles Dudley Warner
One cold evening during the holiday season, a little boy about six or seven was standing out in front of a store window. The little child had no shoes and his clothes were mere rags. A young woman passing by saw the little boy and could read the longing in his pale blue eyes. She took the child by the hand and led him into the store. There she bought him some new shoes and a complete suit of warm clothing. They came back outside into the street and woman said to the child, “Now you can go home and have a very happy holiday.” The little boy looked up at her and asked, “Are you God, Ma’am?” She smiled down at him and replied, “No son, I’m just one of his children.” The little boy then said, “I knew you had to be some relation.”
［译文］ “你是上帝吗？” 丹.克拉克（著） 真诚地帮助别人就是帮助自己，此乃生命的一个美丽补偿。 查尔斯.达德力.华纳
圣诞时节的一个寒冷夜晚，一个六、七岁大的小男孩站在商店的橱窗跟前。小男孩没有鞋穿，衣衫褴褛。一个年轻的女子走过，看见小男孩，读到了他浅蓝色眼睛里的渴望。她拉过孩子的手，带她进了商店。她在商店里给他买了新鞋和一整套暖和的衣服。 他们走出街上，女子对男孩说：“现在你可以回家过个开开心心的节日了。” 小男孩仰头看着她：“你是上帝吗，夫人？” 她俯首笑着对他说：“不，孩子，我只是他的一个孩子。” 接着小男孩说：“我就知道你和他有关系。” 2006/5/27 sentences for thinking• Some sentences for thinking N Nothing Attracts Success Like Success -- John Kehoe • If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it. --William Arthur Ward. • If You Believe In Yourself You Can Achieve Anything! The world is a tragedy to those who feel, and a comedy to those who think. - Shakespeare
I think, I am; therefore, I am, I think. - George Carlin, comedian
Old age puts more wrinkles in the mind than in the face. - Montaigne
• He who will not reason is a bigot (执拗的人；固执己见的人); he who cannot is a fool; he who dares not is a slave. - William Drummond Change your thoughts and you change your world. - Norman Vincent Peale
A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. - Alexander Pope
The only man who can change his mind is the man who’s got one. - Edward Noyes Westcott
• The purpose of your body is to carry your brain around. - Thomas Edison Man is the only animal that blushes — or needs to. - Mark Twain
Imagination is more important than knowledge. - Albert Einstein
It takes a very unusual mind to make an analysis of the obvious.
• Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. - Walter Lippman Start out with an ideal and end up with a deal. - Karl Albrecht
Reading comprehensionRICH BEYOND MEASURE By Christine Barnes CELEBRATION IS MORE THAN A HAPPY FEELING.. CELEBRATION IS AN EXPERIRENCE IT IS LIKING OTHERS ACCEPTING OTHERS LAUGHING WITH OTHERS. Douglas R.. Stuva Today I feel rich beyond measure. What began as a new idea for my department’s celebration of the holiday season has become a very moving and enriching experience. I was tired of the usual “draw names and buy a joke gift for under $15” way of holiday celebration, so I proposed that we try something different. “How about giving each other the gift of acknowledgement?” I asked. Everyone agreed; they were even enthusiastic. A few days before Christmas, six of us gathered in my office. To start, I asked that we all observe a few ground rules. The person whose turn it was to acknowledged could only say “thank you”. I also pointed out that it might be natural to feel uncomfortable giving and receiving acknowledgement, but if some people were truly uncomfortable, they could ask for their acknowledgement in private. Silence and pauses were deemed to be all right. They were probably just opportunities to let the good stuff sink in. As we began our process, it stuck me that the tribes and communities that pass their cultures along through storytelling are very wise people. Invariably, whoever was speaking would tell a story that illustrated the acknowledgement that he or she wanted to make. Each of us started our communication by naming our colleague, “Mary”, for example, “the gift you give to me is…” as each group member spoke to the person being acknowledged, I began to see sides of my colleagues I wasn’t aware of. One male staffer acknowledged another male for his state of grace that shone through. Another said, “I rest easy knowing you are the one in your position.” Other comments included: “You give me the gift of your patience,” “You listen to me,” “I knew the moment I met you that I belonged here,” and so on. It was a privilege to be there. The spirit and connectedness we shared for those 60 minutes became bigger than we were. When we finished, no one wanted to speak; we didn’t want to break the spell. It had been woven with heartfelt, authentic, simple truths that we had shared with each other. We were all humbled and enriched by it.
[译文] 无与伦比的富有 克里斯蒂.白纳斯（著） 庆祝不仅是一种快乐的感觉，它也是一段经历，是喜欢别人，接受别人，同别人一起畅笑的经历。 道格拉斯.R.施托瓦
今天我觉得无与伦比的富有。起初部门要进行节日庆祝的主意后来变成了一个相当感人而且丰富多彩的经历。 我已经厌倦了原来那种庆祝圣诞节的方式“写下名单后购买价钱在15美元以下的玩笑礼物”，因此我提议尝试新方式。“给每个人送出赞词如何？”我问。人人都同意了；他们表露出更多的热心。圣诞前几天，我们六人聚在办公室里。我要求首先人人都要遵守几条共同的规则。轮到被赞的人只能说“谢谢”。我还指出，说出和接受赞词有可能令人感觉不自在，他们可以要求私下里告诉。沉默与无言表示没问题。他们也许是在借此酝酿美玉良言。 开始后，令我惊诧的是，这群不同的人非常聪明地通过讲故事来传达他们的不同文化。人人都会用讲述一个故事来说明他/她想要表达的赞美之言。 比方说，我们每人向同事说的时候都这么开始；“玛丽，你给我的礼物是……”当中一人向另一人说着赞词的时候，我看到了不曾注意到过的同事们的其他方面。一个男同事称赞另一个男同事卓尔不群的潇洒风度。另一个人说：“有你办事我很放心。”别的赞词还有：“你给予了我耐心，”“你倾听我的话，”“认识你的时候我就明白自己属于这儿，”等等。在这工作真是有幸。 在那六十分钟之内我们所分享的快乐和密切是前所未有的。说完以后，没有人想说话；我们不想破坏了美好的气氛。我们彼此分享的是用心与真实简单的事实编织起来的时光。我们全都心平气和并因它而丰富起来。
2006/5/16 listening script期末voa 听力5篇
1. (March 2 , 2006) Wind power grows as alternative US energy source
Windmill are sprouting across the United States, as Americans search for non-polluting alternative energy sources. The West Coast state of California is the U.S. leader in wind power.
Wind turbines dot hillsides in several parts of the state, including Tehachapi, in the desert northeast of Los Angeles.
Lee Brace of G.E. Energy stands beneath a slow-spinning propeller, attached to a wind turbine that his company is testing. "The larger the blade, it seems the slower they move. You're looking at 58 meters blades, and three of them on top of the tower there, about 240 feet up in the air."
The tower is 75 meters tall, and atop it is a one-point-five megawatt turbine, which provides enough power for 500 houses.
More than 4,000 wind turbines dot these desert hillsides. Some date from the 1980s and are just a fraction of the size and output of this model.
Down the road, Oak Creek Energy Systems operates 200 turbines, including another massive one-point-five megawatt test model. Michael Burns sits in front of a bank of computer monitors, which use color codes to track the temperature and status of the windmills. "The green ones are on line. If it's white, it means the turbine is off. Everything is all right on it but there isn't enough wind. And like a click on the turbine and find out the status survey California gives birth to the wind industry in the United States, but 16 other states, from North Dakota to Kansas, have greater potential, according to the American Wind Energy Association. Texas now ranks number two in wind production for the country.
But the association says the source remains largely untapped, providing less than one percent of U.S. electrical generation. Denmark, by contrast, gets 20 percent of its power from the wind. Linda White of the Kern Wind Energy Association, based in Tehachapi, says alternative energy sources can supplement dwindling supplies of coal, oil and natural gas, which provide most U.S. electrical generation. "As long as the wind is there, the water is there or the sun is there, we will have those renewable resources. And I think if we were to have much more of a mix or put more sustainable or alternative energy sources within our current mix, it will extend the life of those finite fuels," she said.
Government incentives in places like California are promoting the use of renewable energy sources. Ed Duggan of Oak Creek Energy Systems says, with better planning, utility companies can make more efficient use of available energy. "Maybe on a windy day, you hold the water behind the dam and save that energy for the days that the wind doesn't blow. Or maybe you keep your gas-fired peaking generator turned off on a windy day, but you run it on a day while it's a hot day when all the air conditioners are on in Los Angeles."
The industry still has work to convince Americans of the virtues of wind power. Some residents complain the large towers are unsightly, and environmentalists have criticized the windmills as dangerous to birds. This is more of a problem at another site in Northern California, which is on a migration route. In response to complaints, owners have agreed to a temporary shutdown of some of that area's wind turbines during this year's winter migration.
1) According to Lee Brace of G.E. Energy, the _________ the blade, it seems _________________________. 2) The tower is _______ meters tall, and atop it is a ____________________ megawatt turbine, which provides enough power for _______ houses. 3) The American Wind Energy Association says the source remains largely untapped, providing___________________________________________________. Denmark, by contrast, gets__________________________________________________________. 4) Linda White of the Kern Wind Energy Association says alternative energy sources can supplement dwindling supplies of __________________________________, which provide ___________________________________________. 5) What do some residents complain about the virtues of wind power? And what do the owners agree to do in response to those complaints? Some residents complain _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. In response to complaints, owners have agreed to ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.
2. (March 4, 2006) It is something all human beings do, regardless of where they live, how they worship, or what they believe: They sleep.
Except that for a growing number of Americans, sleep has become elusive.
Pat Foucht is 67-year-old, and lives in upstate New York. Eight years ago, she developed breast cancer and underwent extensive medical treatments. Ever since, her life has not been the same. "I'm just wide awake all night long. And sometimes now, I'll have a wake-up and can't get back to sleep. But it's mainly falling asleep."
Foucht is one of an estimated 60 million Americans who regularly suffer from insomnia, either because they are taking medication, or experiencing pain, or not eating right. Or - according to Russell Rosenberg, who directs the Sleep Medicine Institute in Atlanta, Georgia - simply because they are living in the modern world.
"It's a 24/7 society now. That is, you have Internet 24 [hours], 7 [days a week], television, radio. Everything can keep you distracted from the time you need to sleep. Plus, people are working harder, working more jobs, trying to squeeze in more family-time, more leisure-time and so forth, and so there's only so much time to do all the things we want to do in one particular day."
According to an annual poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, in 2005, 75 percent of Americans experienced sleeping problems ranging from minor and transient to severe and chronic.
1) Except that for _______________________, sleep has become __________. 2) Pat Foucht is ________ -year-old, and she developed ___________________________ and underwent ____________________________________. 3) Pat Foucht is one of an estimated ____________________Americans who suffer from _____________, either because______________________________, or ___________________, or __________________________. 4) According to Russell Rosenberg, why do people suffer from insomnia? "It's a 24/7 society now. That is, you have Internet 24 [hours], 7 [days a week], television, radio. __________________________________________________________________________Plus, people are working harder, working more jobs, trying to squeeze in more family-time, more leisure-time and so forth, and________________________________________________________________________________." 5) According to an annual poll conducted by the National Sleep Foundation, in 2005, to what extent did 75 percent of Americans experience sleeping problems? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. (March 9, 2006)
The latest issue of Time Magazine features an article on the film "Brokeback Mountain". With this kind of mainstream attention, some are wondering, have gay Americans finally reached to a point of acceptance on the big screen? Here is commentator Betty Baye:
There are lots of black folks in the movies and on television today. But I’m old enough to remember the days when if the TV guide brought news that some black person was going to appear, say on the Ed Sullivan show. Every Negro with a television set tuned in. And every Negro without a TV found some place to be that had one. When Sammy Davis Junior, Lola Fanala , Niptsy Russel, or Bill Cospie showed up on the Johnny Carson show, Negroes stayed up late to watch.
Such appearances were seen as signs of racial progress, and that TV producers and advertisers had discovered that black audiences were worth cultivating. Surveys did show after all that black people tended to be fiercely brand loyal to advertisers who pay them some attention.
And today I'm wondering whether or not the movie "Brokeback Mountain" might be evoking similar feelings among gay Americans that they 've arrived. Though it cannot honestly be argued that gays have been absent from Hollywood. I dare say that if gays had taken a leave of absence that Hollywood might have died in the birthing process. Gays weren’t absent, but they sure were hidden. And not until years later did the world learn that many of Hollywoods and early television’s leading men were as gay as Paris. But that fact was carefully hidden to protect careers, advertisers and also to protect the fantasies of millions of female fans that Rock Hudson, for example, really was the macho man of their dreams.
As for "Brokeback Mountain", I didn't make it to its opening night here in Louisville. But friends say there were long lines at the Baxter. That's the favorite movie house locally for the mature audiences. And those long lines at the Baxter , i'm told, were filled with many joyful, openly gay couples, being openly affectionate, hugging and kissing, i'm told.
When I went to see "Brokeback Mountain" Monday, the crowd was more subdued, but the theatre was still unusually full for a week night. I enjoyed the movie, but I must confess that I left the Baxter wondering if not for the twist of the two main characters being gay cowboys; would "Brokeback Mountain" be stirring up such a fuss? Would the movie be being talked about as if it's the best thing since sliced bread and undoubtedly a sure-win for Oscars. I mean, I guess what troubles me in this case is the deliberate hype perpetrated by the spin machines to strongly suggest that "Brokeback Mountain" contains lots of hot sex scenes between two men. And if I was gay and I'm not, I wouldn't necessarily think of "Brokeback Mountain" as the great breakthrough movie that many suggested is.
It's a fine movie. It’s better than average in fact. But I believe that gay people will really note that they’ve arrived when their special relationships aren't treated as oddities for which movie audiences have to be counted into scene by promises of soft porn. Sex isn’t what "Brokeback Mountain" is about.
1) According to commentator Betty Baye, TV producers and advertisers had discovered that black audiences were worth cultivating because________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________. 2) That fact that many of Hollywoods and early television’s leading men were___________________________ was carefully hidden to ___________________________________________________________________________. 3) According to commentator Betty Baye, there were long lines at the Baxter, and those long lines were filled with _____________________________________________________________________________________________________, hugging and kissing. 4) Why did Betty Baye say that “if I was gay and I’m not, I wouldn’t necessarily think of ‘Brokeback Mountain’ as the great breakthrough movie that many suggested is” ? “I mean, I guess what troubles me in this case is _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________” 5) According to Betty Baye, what will gay people note from this movie? “I believe that gay people will really note that _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________.”
4. (March 26, 2006)
Saudi Students Return to U.S. Colleges
College for many international students starts with intensive English. Reading and writing instructor Barbara Dowling is used to hearing a potpourri of accents. But this quarter, her Oregon State University students come overwhelmingly from one place, Saudi Arabia.
It's a huge turnaround. After the terrorist attacks in September of 2001, nearly all the Saudi students studying in the United States went home for fear of being caught in an anti-Arab backlash.
Last year, the Saudi government decided to try to repair relations with people-to-people contact. Saudi embassy spokesman Nail Al-Jubeir sasys that a scholarship program will expose Americans to ordinary, friendly Saudis. "I think a country's best ambassadors are their people, and in this case, we have the best and brightest who are coming to study here, to learn about America, what America is first hand." And that leads to the more important goal, says Al-Jubeir: to foster a more favorable view at home of the monarchy's partnership with America.
"We have a generation that graduated from the U.S. whose children in the last four or five years have never been here and we're trying to encourage them to come to the U.S." he explains. "What we're seeing is a new generation that is coming of age, that is learning what America is on television. Unfortunately, that is not what America is."
Al-Jubeir says the Kingdom plans to award 20,000 scholarships over the next four years -- each one covering full tuition, room, and board.
But one Middle East expert in Washington suggests it would take political breakthroughs, like an end to the Iraq War or a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, to reduce ill will significantly. Nevertheless, retired Ambassador Phil Wilcox welcomes the Saudi student resurgence. "Twenty thousand more students is a lot of students. Presumably, [after] the benefit of higher education in this country they'll go back into senior positions in business and government and academia in Saudi Arabia and that would have a positive change in their society."
They've already brought about a positive change in Oregon. The director of OSU's English Language Institute, Deborah Healey, has 88 Saudis enrolled this quarter, the most since the early 1980's. "It's really a good deal for the state and helps subsidize the domestic students by having other people who pay the full ride. So we are doing our bit to balance the trade deficit," she laughs.
The new enrollees are not helping balance the gender distribution on campus, though. Healey says the vast majority of the Saudi students coming over are male. "Women really can't travel without a chaperone. We have at least one who came with her brother. So he was also admitted as a student and that enabled her to come. Her family would not worry about her that way."
Personal recommendations seem to play a big role in how students pick their schools. Fahad Al Mohazey, 20, compared Michigan State and Oregon State and ended up here in Corvallis, "because my friend told me it is a quiet city, a nice city. The weather is not so bad, except the rain."
The moisture -- and the lush greenery that results -- are actually a major attraction for some of his cohorts. Al Mohazey says he wasn't scared to come to the U.S. because he believes Americans no longer equate Arabs with terrorism. "I think everything is cool right now," he says. "I am very welcome here. I feel that the Corvallis people are very kindful and nice with me." Al Mohazey is taking intensive English before pursuing studies in accounting at OSU.
Maha Mohamed, 23, says she's here because her American-educated father spoke highly of Oregon. She wears a headscarf in the computer lab, but otherwise blends in with a Western style sweater and dressy pants. "I might take my masters in computer sciences and a M.B.A." She explains that her family was not worried about sending her to the United States. "I am married. My husband is with me." He is also a student at OSU. Mohamed says she hopes to open her own business when she gets back home.
The first wave of Saudi scholarship recipients enrolled at colleges in nearly every state of the union, making the influx a nationwide phenomenon. Saudi students are on track to become one of the biggest foreign contingents at the University of Arkansas. Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington, has seven presently enrolled, but expects to go as high as 80 over the next few years.
Administrators say the numbers would have been even higher this winter were it not for visa troubles. Student visa applicants undergo extensive background checks and must appear at a consulate for an in-person interview. However, at the same time that more Saudis hope to attend U.S. schools, on-going security threats have forced a reduction in U.S. consulate staffing around the Kingdom.
1) Oregon State University students come overwhelmingly from one place, Saudi Arabia, which is a huge turnaround because after the terrorist attacks in _______________________________, nearly all the Saudi students studying in the United States went home for fear of _____________________________________________________________. 2) Saudi embassy spokesman Nail Al-Jubeir says that a scholarship program will ______________________________________, and that leads to the more important goal: __________________________________________________________________________. 3) Al-Jubeir says that the Kingdom of Saudi plans to award ___________________ scholarships over the next ___________ years ---each one covering __________________________. 4) The first wave of Saudi scholarship recipients enrolled at colleges in __________________________________________, making the influx __________________________________________. 5) What visa troubles to Saudi students do administrators mention? Student visa applicants ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. (March 27, 2006) Jack Nicholson's announcement for best picture drew a gasp of surprise, as a small-budget film about racial strife in Los Angeles earned the Oscar for best picture.
"And the Oscar goes to Crash."
The film overtook the favored Brokeback Mountain. Crash also won Oscars for its original screenplay and film editing.
As expected, Taiwan-born filmmaker Ang Lee was named best director for Brokeback Mountain, a tale of unexpected love between two cowboys. Lee said the film's characters taught him something.
"They taught all of us who made Brokeback Mountain so much about not just all the gay men and women whose love is denied by society, but just as important, the greatness of love itself."
Brokeback Mountain was also honored for its adapted screenplay and original score.
George Clooney was named best supporting actor for the espionage thriller Syriana. In a year with films that tackled controversial issues, Clooney said Hollywood and the movie academy, which presents the Oscars, are at times outside the mainstream. He says that is not a bad thing.
"We're the ones who talked about AIDS when it was just being whispered, and we talked about civil rights when it wasn't really popular. This academy, this group of people gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters.I'm proud to be part of this academy."
1) Jack Nicholson’s announcement for best picture drew a gasp of surprise, as ______________________________________________________________________________. 2) Crash won Oscars for its ________________________________________________, and Taiwan-born filmmaker Ang Lee was named _________________________ for __________________. 3) What did the characters in “Brokeback Mountain” teach Lee according to his own saying? “They taught all of us who made Brokeback Mountain so much about _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________” 4) The best supporting actor George Clooney said Hollywood and the movie academy, which ___________________________, are at times outside the ___________________. 5) Why is George Clooney proud to be part of the academy? Because “we are the ones who ___________________________________________________________________________, and __________________________________________________________________________.
2006/5/11 长句翻译21. Eliminating problems by transferring the blame to others is often called scape-goating. 22. The chief foods eaten in any country depend largely on what grows best in its climate and soil. 23. Over a very large number of trials, the probability of an event’s occurring is equal to the probability that it will not occur. 24. Most substance contract when they freeze so that the density of a substance’s solid is higher than the density of its liquid. 25. The mechanism by which brain cells store memories is not clearly understood. 2006/5/3 长句翻译16. The development of mechanical timepieces spurred the search for more accurate sundials with which to regulate them. 17. Anthropology is a science in that anthropologists use a rigorous set of methods and techniques to document observations that can be checked by others. 18. Fungi are important in the process of decay, which returns ingredients to the soil, enhances soil fertility, and decomposes animal debris. 19. When it is struck, a tuning fork produces an almost pure tone, retaining its pitch over a long period of time. 20. Although pecans are most plentiful in the southeastern part of the United States, they are found as far north as Ohio and Illinois. 2006/5/1 learning English through translationMY FATHER’S LESSONS By Cathy Downs WHAT SCUPTURE IS TO A BLOCK OF MARBLE EDUCATION IS TO THE SOUL. ----Joseph Addison
My father was one of those old-fashioned country preachers who spouted verses from the pulpit of his little Baptist church and made the listeners tremble in their seats. He could recite whole chapters from John without ever glancing at the Bible clutched in his hand. One afternoon after school, my father and I drove an old dirt road to visit one of the elderly ladies of the congregation. I had just received my new third-grade reader. It was my first real hard cover book and I was very proud of it. I had already read one story to my father and was starting another one, when I cane to a word that I did not know. I held the book up so father could see it and asked him what the word was. He mumbled something about not being able to read and drive at the same time, so very slowly I spelled the word: “a-u-t-u-m-n.” My father drove on in silence. Angry, I yelled at him, “Can’t you read?” My father pulled the car over to the side of the road and turned off the ignition. “No, Cathy, I can’t read,” he whispered softly. “No, I can’t read.” He reached over and took my new book out of my hand, “I can’t read anything in this book,” he said with such pain that even I, an eight-year-old child, could feel it. Very quietly, my father began to talk of his childhood, of the big family that survived by the physical labor of its members. If it was time to harvest the crops, school and books could wait. They had to hoe cotton in the summer and pick it in the fall. In the winter, they had to slaughter and preserve animals. There were many mouths to feed, and everyone had to pull his or her load. To make life even more difficult, my father had two brothers who were handicapped, so the others had to double up and do the work they could not. As a result of his excessive absences from school, my father failed several grades. His motivation to learn evaporated, and at the age of 16, he dropped out. I will never forget the sorrow in my father’s voice as he told me this story. He seemed so ashamed and saddened to not have been able to help his five children with their lessons in school. “But Father, how could you read whole chapters of the Bible aloud from the pulpit, without ever missing a word?” I asked. He explained that he memorized the passages that my mother read aloud to him over and over. When I heard that, I loved my father more than ever. He was a remarkable man and it was at that moment that I vowed to teach him how to read. Whatever lessons my teacher gave me at school, I shared with my father. I taught him the sounds and patterns of language as I learned them. When I read a story at school, I came home and taught my father to read it. When I struggled with a new concept, he struggled along with me, in return he helped me find mnemonic devices to memorize items that I needed to pass tests. Soon he learned to write simple stories and poems. Then he was able to write quotations and jot down notes that he needed for his sermons. The proudest moment of my life came when my father read the scripture—really read it—for his Sunday sermon. In 1977 doctors diagnosed my father with terminal lung cancer, and he died nine months later. During those final months he read the Bible from Genesis through Revelation. His proudest moment was when he closed the Bible, knowing he could read all that was written inside it. Before my father died, he thanked me for the gift that I had given him. He didn’t realize, however, the gift that he had given me: I knew that just as he was called to be a pastor, I was called to be a reading teacher. Because of my father, I believe that if I can spare one child the heartache and humiliation of illiteracy, my career as a teacher is wholly worthwhile. Thank you, Father.
[译文] 父亲的课程 凯茜.道丝（著） 教育对于心灵的作用，正如雕刻对于大理石的作用。 约瑟夫.艾迪生
父亲是一位老式的乡村牧师，他能在小小的浸礼会教堂讲坛上滔滔不绝地朗诵经文，把听众吓得在座位上直打哆嗦。他无需看一眼手里握着的《圣经》，也能把《约翰》全篇背诵出来。 一天下午放学以后，父亲和我驾驶在一条尘土飞扬的旧路上，去拜访一位年长的姐妹。我刚拿到三年级的新书。那是我的第一本硬皮书，我为此非常骄傲。 我给父亲念完了一个故事并开始念第二个时，遇到了一个生字。我举起书让父亲看，问他那生字。他一边咕噜了声什么说看不到，一边开着车，于是我便慢慢地拼着单词：“a-u-t-u-m-n。”父亲沉默着继续开车。我生气地叫喊起来：“你不识字吗？” 父亲把车开到路边，关掉电门。“是的，我不识字。”他伸出手来从我手中拿过书本。“这本书中我一个字也不认识，”他说话的时候是那么痛苦，连只有八岁大的我也感受得到。 很平静地，父亲开始谈论起他的童年，他生长在一个大家庭中，每个家庭成员靠做体力活来糊口。碰上收获季节，学校和书本就要屈居第二。他们必须在夏季松土里播下的棉花，秋季采摘。冬季要宰杀牲畜，做成腌肉。许多张嘴嗷嗷待哺，每人都肩负着重担。更让生活艰难的是，父亲还有两个残疾兄弟，于是其他人还要做出双份工作以顶替他们做不了的那份。频繁的缺课使父亲数次留级。他失去了念书的志向，在十六岁那年退了学。 我将永远难忘父亲，向我需述说往事时的悲痛嗓音。他似乎很惭愧，很伤心，因为他不能为五个孩子在学业上有所帮助。 “可是爸爸，那你怎能在讲坛上大声地念诵《圣经》全篇而只字不漏？”我问道。他解释说，妈妈把那些篇章反复大声地念给他听，他再背下来。我听了这些话，比以往更爱我的父亲了。他优秀非凡，从那刻起，我发誓要教会父亲认字。 不管老师在学校里教了什么，我都和父亲一起学。我边学边教父亲音标和句型。我在学校学的故事，就回家教会父亲。我为了一个新的概念绞尽脑汁时，他也和我一块用功。反过来他帮我找办法来记住要考试的内容。很快地，他学会了写简单的故事和诗歌。然后他能写下引言，大致记下布道用的笔记了。当父亲在星期天布道时念出的经文——真正念出的时候，那是我一生中最骄傲的时刻。 1977年，医生诊断出父亲是肺癌晚期，九个月后他去世了。在最后的那几个月中，他读着《圣经》，从《创世纪》读到《启示录》。他最感到骄傲的，是合起《圣经》时，知道自己可以读出里面所写的一切。 父亲在去世之前感谢我送给他的这份礼物。他却没有意识到自己送给我的礼物：我知道，正如他是一位牧师，我成为了阅读课教师。因为父亲的缘故，我相信，只要我帮助了一个孩子从文盲的痛苦和羞辱中解脱出来，我的教师生涯完全有了价值。谢谢您，父亲。
2006/4/29 supplementary readingChoose Optimism By Rich Devos
If you expect something to turn out badly, it probably will. Pessimism is seldom disappointed. But the same principle also works in reverse. If you expect good things to happen, they usually do! There seems to be a natural cause-and-effect relationship between optimism and success. Optimism and pessimism are both powerful forces, and each of us must choose which we want to shape our outlook and our expectations. There is enough good and bad in everyone’s life --- ample (充足的) sorrow and happiness, sufficient joy and pain --- to find a rational basis for either optimism or pessimism. We can choose to laugh or cry, bless or curse. It’s our decision; From which perspective do we want to view life? Will we look up in hope or down in despair? I believe in the upward look, I choose to highlight the positive and slip right over the negative. I am an optimist by choice as much as by nature. Sure, I know that sorrow exists. I am in my 70s now, and I’ve lived through more than one crisis. But when all is said and done, I find that the good in life far outweighs the bad. An optimistic attitude is not a luxury; it’s a necessity. The way you look at life will determine how you feel, how you perform, and how well you will get along with other people. Conversely, negative thoughts, attitudes, and expectations feed on themselves; they become a self-fulfilling prophecy (自我实现的预言). Pessimism creates a dismal place where no one wants to live. Years ago, I drove into a service station to get some gas. It was a beautiful day, and I was feeling great. As I walked into the station to pay for the gas, the attendant said to me, “How do you feel?” That seemed like an odd question, but I felt fine and told him so. “You don’t look well,” he replied. This took me completely by surprise. A little less confidently, I told him that I had never felt better. Without hesitation, he continued to tell me how bad I looked and that my skin appeared yellow. By the time I left the service station, I was feeling a little uneasy. About a block away, I pulled over to the side of the road to look at my face in the mirror. How did I feel? Was I jaundiced (害黄疸病的) Was everything all right? By the time I got home, I was beginning to feel a little queasy (感到恶心的). Did I have a bad liver? Had I picked up some rare disease? The next time I went into that gas station, feeling fine again, I figured out what had happened. The place had recently been painted a bright, bilious yellow (胆汁黄), and the light reflecting off the walls made everyone inside look as though they had hepatitis (肝炎)! I wondered how many other folks had reacted the way I did. I had let one short conversation with a total stranger change my attitude for an entire day. He told me I looked sick, and before long, I was actually feeling sick. That single negative observation had a profound effect on the way I felt and acted. The only thing more powerful than negativism is a positive affirmation, a word of optimism and hope. One of the things I am most thankful for is the fact I have grown up in a nation with a grand tradition of optimism. When a whole culture adopts an upward look, incredible things can be accomplished. When the world is seen as a hopeful, positive place people are empowered (赋予) to attempt and to achieve. Optimism doesn’t need to be naïve. You can be an optimist and still recognize that problems exist and that some of them are not dealt with easily. But what a difference optimism makes in the attitude of the problem solver! For example, through the years I’ve heard some people say that the money spent on our space program has been wasted. “Instead of spending $455 million to put a man on the moon,” they say, “why not spend that money here on earth on the poverty problem?” but when you ask them exactly how they would spend that money to solve the poverty problem, most of them don’t have an answer. “Give me a solution,” I tell them, “and I’ll raise you the money.” Think in positive terms about how to address the issue rather than criticizing money spent on another program, such as American’s space program, which resulted in many positive discoveries that have benefited mankind. Optimism diverts (转移) our attention away from negativism and channels it into positive, constructive thinking. When you’re an optimist, you’re more concerned with problem-solving than with useless carping (怨天尤人的) about issues. In fact, without optimism, issues as big and ongoing as poverty have no hope of solution. It takes a dreamer--- someone with hopelessly optimistic ideas, great persistence, and unlimited confidence --- to tackle a problem that big. It’s your choice.
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1. Do you agree with the author’s statement “If you expect something to turn out badly, it probably will. …... If you expect good things to happen, they usually do!” ? 2. How can some people be so optimistic about life and others so pessimistic? Do you love to be around optimistic people? Why? Give at least three reasons. 3.No matter what happens in our life, we always get to choose how we will respond - with pessimism or with optimism. Which one do you choose? (Remember optimists live 20% longer than pessimists!) 4. If you were able to give someone a gift of a new feeling, what feeling would you give her/him? 2006/4/24 长句翻译11. Acids are chemical compounds that, in water solution, have a sharp taste, a corrosive action on metals, and the ability to turn certain blue vegetable dyes red. 12. Billie Holiday’s reputation as a great jazz-blues singer rests on her ability to give emotional depth to her songs. 13. Essentially, a theory is an abstract, symbolic representation of what is conceived to be reality. 14. Long before children are able to speak or understand a language, they communicate through facial expressions and by making noises. 15. Thanks to modern irrigation, crops now grow abundantly in areas where once nothing but cacti and sagebrush could live. 2006/4/13 长句翻译6. Numerous other commercial enterprises, from theaters to magazine publishers, from gas and electric utilities to milk processors, bring better and more efficient services to consumers through the use of computers. 7. Exceptional children are different in some significant way from others of the same age For these children to develop to their full adult potential, their education must be adapted to those differences. 8. The great interest in exceptional children shown in public education over the past three decades indicates the strong feeling in our society that all citizens, whatever their special conditions, deserve the opportunity to fully develop their capabilities. 9. It serves directly to assist a rapid distribution of goods at reasonable price, thereby establishing a firm home market and so making it possible to provide for export at competitive prices. 10. Apart from the fact that twenty-seven acts of Parliament govern the terms of advertising, no regular advertiser dare promote a product that fails to live up to the promise of his advertisements. 2006/4/6 长句分析1. The American economic system is, organized around a basically private-enterprise, market- oriented economy in which consumers largely determine what shall be produced by spending their money in the marketplace for those goods and services that they want most. 2. Thus, in the American economic system it is the demand of individual consumers, coupled with the desire of businessmen to maximize profits and the desire of individuals to maximize their incomes, that together determine what shall be produced and how resources are used to produce it. 3. If, on the other hand, producing more of a commodity results in reducing its cost, this will tend to increase the supply offered by seller-producers, which in turn will lower the price and permit more consumers to buy the product. 4. In the American economy, the concept of private property embraces not only the ownership of productive resources but also certain rights, including the right to determine the price of a product or to make a free contract with another private individual. 5. At the same time these computers record which hours are busiest and which employers are the most efficient, allowing personnel and staffing assignments to be made accordingly. And they also identify preferred customers for promotional campaigns. 2006/3/29 句子理解Quotes about Success and Failure (Unit 4) 1. A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill 2. There is only one success – to be able to spend your life in your own way. – Christopher Morley 3. Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. ~ Denis Waitley 4. Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure. ~ Kenneth Boulding ~ 5. Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill 6. Half the failures in life arise from pulling in horse as he is leaping. --- Julius C. 7. Success has always been the worst of liars. --- Friendrich Nietzsche. 8. You win only if you aren't afraid to lose. ~ Rocky Aoki ~ 9. Failure is an event, never a person. ~ William D. Brown ~ 10. Failure is the tuition you pay for success. ~ Walter Brunell ~ 11. A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed -- I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself. ~ Georges C.~ 12. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ~ Confucius ~ 13. You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what's that? Come up with a smiling face, It's nothing against you to fall down flat/ But to lie there- that's a disgrace. ~ E. V. Cooke ~ 14. The most important of my discoveries has been suggested to me by my failures. ~ Sir Humphrey Davy ~ 15. You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. ~ Walt Disney ~ 16. Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. ~ Edward Dowden ~ 17. Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. ~ Charles J. Givens ~ 18. No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes. ~ William E. Gladstone ~ 19. Failures to heroic minds are the stepping stones to success. ~ Thomas C. Haliburton ~ 20. Notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, I have failed three times, and what happens when he says, I am a failure. ~ S. I. Hayakawa ~ 21. If you are doing your best, you will not have to worry about failure. ~ Robert S. Hillyer ~ 22. Accept failure as a normal part of living. View it as part of the process of exploring your world; make a note of its lessons and move on ~ Tom Hobson ~ 23. Success is 99 percent failure. ~ Soichiro Honda ~ 24. I am not judged by the number of times I fail, but by the number of times I succeed; and the number of times I succeed is in direct proportion to the number of times I can fail and keep on trying. ~ Tom Hopkins ~ 25. There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. ~ Thomas H. Huxley ~ 26. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ~ Cassius Longinus ~ 27. You can't be a winner and be afraid to lose. ~ Charles Lynch 28. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. ~ Oprah Winfrey 29. Losing is a part of winning. ~ Dick Munro ~ 30. Men do not fail; they give up trying. ~ Elihu Root ~ 31. Many a man never fails because he never tries. ~ Norman Macewan ~ 32. Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before reaching forty. ~ Al Neuharth ~ 33. I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ~ George S. Patton ~ 34. Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ~ Rick Pitino ~ 35. If one does not fail at times, then one has not challenged himself. ~ Dr. Porsche ~ 36. Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet. ~ German Proverb ~ 37. If you're not big enough to lose, you're not big enough to win. ~ Walter Reuther ~ 38. Failure is not fatal; victory is not success. ~ Tony Richardson 39. Every failure is a step to success. ~ William Whewell ~ 40. I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy. ~ Anthony Robbins ~ 41. The surest way to fail is not to determine to succeed. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan ~ 42. There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient. ~ Sri Swami Sivananda ~ 43. It is inevitable that some defeat will enter even the most victorious life. The human spirit is never finished when it is defeated... it is finished when it surrenders. ~ Ben Stein ~ 44. Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson ~ 45. Not many people are willing to give failure a second opportunity. They fail once and it's all over. The bitter pill of failure is often more than most people can handle. If you're willing to accept failure and learn from it, if you're willing to consider failure as a blessing in disguise and bounce back, you've got the potential of harnessing one of the most powerful success forces. ~ Joseph Sugarman ~ 46. Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair. 2006/3/28 口语练习Explain the meaning of following sentences:
1. A bad beginning makes a bad ending.不善始者不善终。 2. A bad workman always blames his tools. 自己笨，怪刀钝。 3. A close mouth catches no flies. 口紧不会招祸。 4. A creaking door hangs longer on the hinges. 危扉长不倒，旧弱耐苟延。 5. A fault confessed is half redressed. 承认错误等于改正了一半。 6. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 患难朋友才是真正的朋友。 7. A good lather is half the shave. 良好的开端等于成功的一半。 8. A little learning is a dangerous thing. 一知半解，危害不浅。 9. A small leak will sink a great ship. 小漏能沉大船。 10. A sound mind is a sound body. 有健全的身体，才有健全的心智。 11. A straw shows which way the wind blows. 草动见风向。/ 见微知著。 12. A thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich. 强盗发财充绅士。 13. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. 一环薄弱，全链易断。 14. A tree must be bent while it is young. 育人须趁年轻时。 15. Accidents will happen in the best regulated families. 家规再严，事端难免。 16. Actions speak louder than the words. 身传重于言教。 17. After a storm comes a calm. 雨过天晴 18. After rain comes fair weather. 雨过天晴。 19. All are not thieves that dogs bark at. 狗冲着叫的不见得都是小偷。 20. All his geese are swans. 他总是言过其实。 21. All is grist that comes to his mill. 到他磨里都是粉。 22. All’s well that ends well. 结果好就是好。 23. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. 只做不玩，聪明孩子会变傻。 24. All roads lead to Rome. 条条大路通罗马。/ 殊途同归。 25. As a man sows, so he shall reap. 种瓜得瓜，种豆得豆。/ 善有善报，恶有恶报。 26. At Death’s summons each must go. 死神有召，无可违抗。 2006/3/19 key to the translation1. Italian hand 暗中干预
2. Dutch courage 一时之勇
3. American cloth 防水布
4. Turkish delight 土耳其软糖
5. French leave 不辞而别 key to translation课外练习一的答案，：(提高理解的正确性)
1. 尽管他们知道这笔钱不少，但到底多少钱不清楚。 2. 在一批信中去寻找线索，我们必须耐心地在堆积如山的材料中筛选出有关的一点儿事实。 3. 他们坚持认为从1750到1850年这段时间的工业化的直接结果给大批的英国人带来了广泛的贫穷和苦难。 4. 高度的卫生和质量控制的重要性再如何强调都不过分。 5. 我决不允许我的孩子有半点儿娇气。 6. 人群在长跑运动员跑最后一圈时为他们打气。 7. 工业革命肯定没有使大多数民众的生活状况恶化反而有所提高。 8. 绝大多数学生都利用同样的机会学习数学。 9. 如果你知道今天早上他吃了多少块饼干，你会明白为什么乔那么胖。 10. 他们侵吞了工人创造的大部分价值。 2006/3/13 key to the exercisekey to 1． 过去的痛苦就是快乐。 3． 脑中有知识，胜过手中有金钱。 4． 风暴使树木深深扎根。 5． 心之所愿，无所不成。 6． 心动不如行动。 7． 凡事必先难后易。 / 放弃投机取巧的幻想。 8． 伟大的理想造就伟大的人。 9． 天助自助者。 10．四个简短的词汇概括了成功的秘诀：多一点点！ 比别人多一点努力、多一点自律、多一点决心、多一点反省、多一点学习、多一点实践、多一点疯狂，多一点点就能创造奇迹！ 11．实践长才干。 12．东好西好，还是家里最好。 13．三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。 14．行路有良伴就是捷径。 15．滴水穿石。 16．祸不单行。 17．不经灾祸不知福。 18．迟做总比不做好；晚来总比不来好。 19．过而能改，善莫大焉 / 亡羊补牢，犹未晚也。 20．如果事情值得做，就值得做好。 21．无热情成就不了伟业。 22．行动比语言更响亮。 23．只有死人才不犯错误。 24．伟大始于渺小。 25．一个今天胜似两个明天。 26．事实从来不怕调查。 27．舌无骨却能折断骨。 28．勇敢的尝试是成功的一半。 29．通百艺而专一长。 30．忠告是无价宝。 2006/3/6 兴趣阅读The Lantern’s Festival
Falling on the 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Year, the Lantern Festival takes place under a full moon, and marks the end of Chinese New Year festivities欢庆. The Lantern Festival dates back to shrouded legends of the Han Dynasty over 2000 years ago.
Legend of the Lantern Festival's Origin
The Modern Lantern Festival While the Lantern Festival has changed very little over the last two millennia, technological advances have made the celebration more and more complex and visually stimulating. Indeed, the festival as celebrated in some places (such as Taipei, Taiwan) can put even the most garish过分装饰的American Christmas decorations to shame. They often sport unique displays of light that leave the viewer in awe.
Master craftsman will construct multicolored paper lanterns in the likeness of butterflies, dragons, birds, dragonflies, and many other animals; these accentuate强调the more common, red, spherical 球形的 lanterns. Brilliantly-lit floats and mechanically driven light displays draw the attention of the young and old alike. Sometimes, entire streets are blocked off, with lanterns mounted above and to the sides, creating a hallway of lamps. Some cities in North China even make lanterns from blocks of ice! And just as in days gone by, the billion-watt background sets the scene for dragon and lion dances, parades, and other festivities. Yuan Xiao and Tang Yuan 2006/3/4 翻译key to the Translation:
Chinese red 朱红
French grey 浅灰
Russia blue 蓝灰色
Do you know the meaning of the following words?
1. Italian hand
2. Dutch courage
3. American cloth
4. Turkish delight
5. French leave
2006/3/2 课外练习
课外练习一：(提高理解的正确性)
1. The actual amount of money was not known though they knew that it was large. 2. Working from clues in the body of the letters, we must patiently sift a mountain of material for a few pertinent grains of fact. 3. They insisted that its immediate results during the period from 1750 to 1850 were widespread poverty and misery for the bulk of the English population. 4. The importance of the maintenance of the highest degree of sanitation and quality control cannot be overemphasized. 5. I would on no account authorize in my child the smallest of arrogance. 6. The crowd cheered the runners on as they started on the last lap of the race. 7. Industrialization certainly did not worsen and may have actually improved the conditions for the majority of the populace. 8. The vast majority of have taken equal advantage of similar opportunities to study mathematics. 9. Had you seen the number of cakes Joe consumed at breakfast this morning, you would have understood why he is so fat. 10. They have appropriated the major portion of the value produced by the workers. 答案下周公布2006/2/4 口语练习Please explain the meaning of the following sentences in English: 1． Pain past is pleasure. 2． While there is life, there is hope. 3． Wisdom in the mind is better than money in the hand. 4． Storms make trees take deeper roots. 5． Nothing is impossible for a willing heart. 6． The shortest answer is doing. 7． All things are difficult before they are easy. 8． Great hopes make great man. 9． God helps those who help themselves. 10． Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd a little bit more. 11． In doing we learn. 12． East or west, home is best.） 13． Two heads are better than one. 14． Good company on the road is the shortest cut. 15． Constant dropping wears the stone. 16． Misfortunes never come alone/single. 17． Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 18． Better late than never.） 19． It's never too late to mend. 20． If a thing is worth doing it is worth doing well. 21． Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. 22． Actions speak louder than words. 23． Lifeless, faultless. 24． From small beginning come great things. 25． One today is worth two tomorrows. 26． Truth never fears investigation. 27． The tongue is boneless but it breaks bones. 28． A bold attempt is half success. 29． Knowing something of everything and everything of something. 30． Good advice is beyond all price.
请同学们先挑简单的练. 2006/1/14 key to 选择题(六级)
Key to 选择题(六级) 1 – 5 DBCBB 6 - 10 BBDCC 11 – 15 BDCBB 16 - 20 BCDBA 21 – 25 CCACA 26 – 30 CCCCD 有可能会错, 欢迎讨论. 2006/1/12 选择题(六级)21．Since the two countries couldn’t ______ their differences, they decided to stop their negotiations. a. rectify b. oblige c. reconcile d. obscure 22．If you cast your mind ahead 10 years, information services will be ______ in the service industry. a. massive b. notable c. predominant d. reciprocal 23．Everyone in the room was weeping by the time he finished the ______ story of the orphan’s plight. a. pathetic b. panic c. profound d. premature 24．They were trying to find out the ______ for the growth of this kind of plant. a. optical b. option c. optimum d. optimism 25．The taxi driver ______ about our luggage and seemed to be in a thoroughly bad temper. a. trampled b. groaned c. grieved d. growled 26．Rich countries can have many poor people whereas poor countries can have exceptionally wealthy ______. a. elites b. recruits c. teases d. guardians 27．Network marketing is now attracting an ______ number of professionals from many fields. a. incredible b. inherent c. unprecedented d. unimaginable 28．My boss has always attended to the _______ of important business himself. a. transaction b. stimulation c. transition d. solution 29．Frankly speaking, your article is very good exception for some ______ mistakes in grammar. a. obscure b. glaring c. trivial d. rare 30．The purpose of the survey was to ______ the inspectors with local conditions of economy. a. address b. convince c. notify d. acquaint 答案过几天提供. 2006/1/8 选择题(六级)续
1． If you want to develop vast reserves of oil and gas, we should ______ with more enterprises. a. commerce b. collaborate c. concede d. correlate 2． The Space Age ______ in October 1957 when the first artificial satellite was launched by the Soviet Union. a. initiated b. originated c. embarked d. commenced 3． To ______ for these unpleasant experiences he drank a little more than was good for him. a. commence b. compromise c. compensate d. compliment 4． Of course only very small portion of the information we ______ has a dramatic effect or is difficult to accept. a. encounter b. confront c. generalize d. overwhelm 5． By what ______ will you judge whether the work is board in scope? a. standard b. criterion c. treaty d. domain 16. I think she hurt my feelings ______ rather than by accident as she claimed. a. virtually b. deliberately c. literally d. appropriately 17. The large companies will get larger in an attempt to ______ global market, and the small ones will still be in demand to serve local and regional customers in niche market. a. tangle b. suppress c. dominate d. undermine 18. Customers’ needs constantly shift and involve, and from customers’ perspective and help in adapting their usage to meet these involving needs will ______ their loyalty. a. deliberate b. boost c. highlight d. enhanced 19．I had no way of knowing if the gun in his hand was a ______ or a real commodity. a. formidable b. fake c. genuine d. gigantic 20．It’s said that the new services will make great contribution to ______ and profit figures. a. deficit b. bonus c. revenue d. tariff
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