现代大学英语精读第四册 8b

Unit 8 b The international Language of Gestures Paul Ekman, Wallace V. Friesen, and John Bear On his first trip to Naples, a well-meaning American tourist thanks his waiter for a good meal well-served by making the A-Okay gesture with his thumb and f

现代大学英语精读第四册 8a

At the edge of a new century, globalization is a double-edged sword: a powerful vehicle that raises economic growth, spreads new technology and increases living standards in rich and poor countries alike, but also an immensely controversial process t

现代大学英语精读第四册 7c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 7b

Unit7b The Earth Poet Jesse Stuart Nothing ever escaped my father, for he was an earth poet who loved the land and everything on it. He liked to watch things grow. From the time I was big enough for him to lead me by the hand, I went with him over th

现代大学英语精读第四册 7a

TEXT A Spring Sowing It was still dark when Martin Delaney and his wife Mary got up. Martin stood in his shirt by the window, rubbing his eyes and yawning, while Mary raked out the live coals that had lain hidden in the ashes onthe hearth all night.

现代大学英语精读第四册 6c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 6a

Groundless Beliefs In future we are going to follow the practice----until it become a habit ----of classifying proposition s according to their grounds .Of every statement we come across, we shall ask :HOW DO WE KONW THAT?WHAT REASON HAVE WE FOR BELI

现代大学英语精读第四册 5c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 5b

Climbing the mountain of success Sydney J. Harris It has long struck me that the familiar metaphor of climbing the ladder for describing the ascent to success or fulfillment in any field is inappropriate and misleading. There are no ladders that lead

现代大学英语精读第四册 2b

THE HITCH-hiker It had been touch and go whether Carole Phillips would reach the London main-line station in time to catch the last train. She had worked very late last night, preparing a report on the small department she managed in the London offic

现代大学英语精读第四册 2c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 3a

Most students are usually introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names, dates,events and statistics. The students' skills are then tested by examinations that require them to show how

现代大学英语精读第四册 3b

The third person Graham Greene Somewhere behind the cakestall a man was whistling and Martins knew the tune. He turned and waited. Was it fear or excitement that made his heart beat-or just the memories that tune ushered in, for life had always quick

现代大学英语精读第四册 3c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 4a

A Drink in the Passage In the year 1960 the Union of South Africa celebrated its Golden Jubilee, and there was a nationwide sensation when the one-thousand-pound prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man, Edward Simelane. His wor

现代大学英语精读第四册 4b

Unit4b The bench Richard Rive We form an integral part of a complex society, a society complex in that a vast proportion of the population are denied the very basic privileges of existence, a society that condemns a man to an inferior position becaus

现代大学英语精读第四册 4c

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现代大学英语精读第四册 6b

Corn-pone Opinions Mark Twain Fifty years ago, when I was a boy of fifteen and helping to inhabit a Missourian village on the banks of the Mississippi, I had a friend whose society was very dear to me because I was forbidden by my mother to partake o

现代大学英语精读第四册 5a

Man of the moment Alan Ayckboun V-Vick Parks D-Douglas Beechey N-Nerys T-Trudy S-Sharon (The scene is set at the Spanish holiday villa of VIC PARKS. He is sitting in the garden with DOUGLAS, waiting for the television interview. There are two other p

儿童英语读物 The Zombie Project CHAPTER 2 Helping Out

After breakfast, the Aldens followed Maude out of the main lodge. They walked around to the back of the building. Here is our toolshed, said Maude. She opened a small wooden door, and they all walked inside. The room was filled with tools. There were