There are thousands of cities and towns in the World that neither you nor I have ever heard of, yet millions of people call these cities and towns home. 世界上有成千上万座城镇你我都没有听说过,但有千百万的人称它们为家乡

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IN the north of Russia the ground is white with snow. 俄罗斯北部,土地白雪皑皑。 In the south of Russia the ground is blackalmost as black as coalbecause the soil is so rich, probably the richest in the World. 俄罗斯南部,土地是黑

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Chapter 28 Parlez-vous Franchise 第28章 你讲法语吗? I konw a boy who has never been to school and who has never had a French lesson in his life, but who can speak French fluently. 我认识一个小男孩,他从没有上过学,也从没有

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The Scots have a peculiar musical instrument called a bagpipe. 苏格兰人有一种很独特的乐器叫做风笛。 Its a bag made of a pigs skin and it has a pipe to blow it up as you would a balloon, 风笛的主要部分是一个用猪皮做成的

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Chapter 26 The Land of the Angles (continued) 第26章 盎格鲁人的土地(续) I once asked an Englishman if he lived in London.Why does every American think that every Englishman lives in London? 我曾经问过一个英国人是不是住在伦

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The oldest building in London, built long before the Great Fire, is one which from its name sounds like only part of a building. 伦敦有座最古老的建筑物在伦敦大火发生之前很早就建起了,它的名字听起来像某个建筑物的

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Chapter 25 The Land of the Angles 第25章 盎格鲁人的土地 England is an island. 英格兰是一个岛。 Angles once lived on the islandno, not Angelsbut people called Angles. 盎格鲁人曾经住在这个岛上不,不是天使,而是叫做

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When you sail for London you have to set your watch ahead each night when you go to bed, 如果你乘船去伦敦,每天晚上睡觉前你必须把手表调快一点, so that when you reach London your watch will be five hours ahead of the time y

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Chapter 22 Rubber and Coffee Land 第22章 橡胶和咖啡之国 Moutains make rivers. If a continent were flatabsolutely flat and level like a tablethere would be no rivers. 山脉造就了河流。如果大陆是平的像桌面那样平坦那就没有

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They often fight, not with bows and arrows, but with huge blow-pipesas long as a man 他们经常打斗,使用的武器不是弓和箭,而是巨大的吹矢枪足有一人长 using clay balls or little darts which have been dipped in poison. 枪内

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Men say they have found in Jerusalem the tomb of Adam, the first man. 据说人们在耶路撒冷找到了亚当世界上第一个男人的墓, They have also found the tomb of ChristHis sepulcherand right near Christ's tomb they have found in the

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The last most important place in Palestine is the city where Christ diedJerusalem. Christians call it their Holy City. 巴勒斯坦最后一个最重要的地方是耶稣去世的城市耶路撒冷,基督徒称它为自己的圣城, But, strangel

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In Sunday school I used to hear of Bethlehem and Jerusalem and other places in the Bible, 我小时候在主日学校常听到伯利恒、耶路撒冷以及其他一些在《圣经》里出现的地名。 but I had no idea then that there were any su

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The Temple built to the Goddess Diana was one of these wonders. 为女神狄安娜建造的神庙就是这七大奇观之一。 This Temple was at Ephesus in Asia Minor, and silversmiths made little copies of this wonderful temple to sell as souvenir

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The natives of Australia are black people called Bushmen. 澳大利亚本土著居民是被称为丛林居民的黑人, They can't count even up to ten nor write their names nor read a single word. 他们不识数,数数甚至数不到十,也不会

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Have you ever been homesick? 你有没有想过家? If you haven't, then you have never been far away from home for any length of time, or you never had a home. 如果没有,那么你一定没有出过远门,在外待过一段时间;或者你从

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An Englishman named Cecil Rhodes went out to South Africa for his health. 一位名叫塞西尔.罗得斯的英国人,为了健康来到南非; He happened to be there when diamonds were discovered and fortunes were being made, and he found his h

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How far do you suppose it is to Siberia from our country? 你猜从美国到西伯利亚有多远? how many miles away would you say? eight thousand?ten thousand miles? 你说有多少英里?8,000英里?10,000英里? As a matter of fact, it i

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I had come half-way round the World to see this sight 我曾环绕地球半圈专程来看这景观。 and had traveled days in such terrific heat that a sunstroke was as much to be feared as a stroke of lightning. 在旅行的那几天里,天气非常

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An elephant will wind his trunk around a log and load it on a train or ship, much as a machine called a derrick would do. 大象会用它的鼻子缠绕着圆木,像转臂起重机一样,把圆木放到火车或者轮船上。 One of the things a

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