现代大学英语精读第四册 10a

Text A The Telephone When I was growing up in Magdaluna, a small Lebanese village in the terraced, rocky mountains east of Sidon, time didn't mean much to anybody, except maybe to those who were dying. In those days, there was no real need for a cale

现代大学英语精读第一册Unit11

Lesson Eleven TEXT A The Midnight Visitor Robert Arthur Pre-class Work I Read the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet. Ausable did not fit the desc

现代大学英语精读第一册Unit06

Lesson Six TEXT A The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street (Act I) Rod Serling Pre-class Work I Read the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes dictionaries or the glossary yet. CHARACTERS

现代大学英语精读第一册Unit02

Lesson Two TEXT A Going Home Pete Hamill Pre-class Work I Read the text once for the main idea. Do not refer to the notes, dictionaries or the glossary yet. They were going to Fort Lauderdale, Florida

现代大学英语精读第四册 4c

abrest Africans avert brandy ceremony cognac complimentary confidentially constrained contemplation demonstrator deserted disgusting envy exhibit expel flat for God's sake goodwill herald inarticulateness incomprehensible indisputably insoluble jubil

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 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 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 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 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 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 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4 1b

The Pleasures of Learning*/Gilbert Highet As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought: even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all th

现代大学英语精读第三册 14b

Text A Mercy at Appomattox I'm not a Civil War buff. I've never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga calling to me to walk over them and re-enact what happened there. The story is just too sad. But one Civil War site did keep be

现代大学英语精读第三册 13a

Glossary affluent a. 丰富的, 富裕的n. 支流, 富人 axe n. 斧, 斧头vt. 削减(人员、经费、计划、机构等) banal a. 平凡的, 陈腐的 battered 弄垮的 beam n. 光线 ray or stream of light behead vt. 斩首, 砍头 boast 吹牛

现代大学英语精读第三册 07b

The train was about three-quarters of an hour from its destination and was travelling at a good sixty miles an hour when Mr. Harraby-Ribson, a prosperous businessman, rose from his seat, lifted his suitcase down from the rack and threw it out of the

现代大学英语精读第三册 08a

absorbing [?b's?:bi?] adj. 吸引人的；极有趣的 v. 吸收（absorb的ing形式） altruistic [,?ltru'istik] adj. 利他的；无私心的 ample ['?mpl] adj. 丰富的；足够的；宽敞的 ant蚂蚁 aptly['?ptli]adv. 适宜地；适当地 br

现代大学英语精读第三册 09b

A DILL PICKLE by Katherine Mansfield AND then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very careful

现代大学英语精读3 02a

Glossary alley n.小路, 巷 bitterness n.苦味, 悲痛, 怨恨 call it quits 停止 civil war 内战 Congressman n.国会议员, 众议院议员 dirt road 土路 down and out 落魄 drip n.水滴vt.(使)滴下vi.(使)滴下 druggist n.药商, 药材商

现代大学英语精读第三册 03b

Michael Dell's Two-Billion-Dollar Dream One afternoon in 1977, as his parents and two brothers fished in the Gulf of Mexico, 12-year-old Michael Dell sat on the beach, painstakingly putting together a trotline, a maze of ropes to which several fish h