听美文故事记6级单词03-03

Los Angeles Times Wins Pulitzer Prize Honors 2005普利策奖 《洛杉矶时报》再度胜出 The Los Angeles Times won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service on Monday for a series of articles exposing deadly medical problems and racial injust

听美文故事记6级单词03-01

12-year-old expert brings top encyclopaedia to book A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest - the fifteenth - edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Lucian George, 12, a pupil at

听美文故事记6级单词02-10

The Life of the Greatest Comedy Artist -- Charlie Chaplin To a failure, hardship is an excuse；To a success, hardship is great fortune. Stagestruck Charlie Chaplin plodding all the way. Charlie Chaplin was born on April 16, 1889 in London. Her fathe

听美文故事记6级单词02-06

President Putin dresses up to play war games 俄总统普京戎装上阵体验远程轰炸和导弹发射 Russian President Vladimir Putin sits inside the Tupolev-160 strategic bomber jet at the Moscow's Chkalovsky military airport (AFP) President Vl

听美文故事记6级单词02-05

In Atlantic City大西洋城惊魂 On a recent weekend in Atlantic City, a woman won a bucketful of quarters at a slot machine(老虎机，一种赌具）. She took a break from the slots for dinner with her husband in the hotel dining room. But firs

听美文故事记6级单词03-05

French spiderman climbs world's tallest building Daredevil climber Alain Robert, known as the French Spiderman, defied stiff winds and rain to climb the world's tallest skyscraper, Taipei 101 Saturday. Robert, dressed in a red rain jacket, tights and

听美文故事记6级单词05-01

UNIT 5 1. The Temple of Zeus In his right hand a figure of Victory made from ivory and gold.In his left hand, his scepter inlaid with all metals, and an eagle perched on the sceptre.The sandals of the god are made of gold, as is his robe. Pausanias t

听美文故事记6级单词05-02

2.The Hanging Gardens of Babyllon The approach to the Gardens sloped like a hillside and the several parts of the structure rose from one another tier on tier.On all this, the earth had been piled and was thickly planted with trees of every kind that

听美文故事记6级单词05-03

3.Fengzheng Fengzheng is a kind of folk toy as well as a handicraft. It is made from slender slips of bamboo as the frame with thin paper plastered and a long thread to fly with. It flies into the sky with wind. However, fengzheng in its earliest sta

听美文故事记6级单词06-10

10. Japan's Yong Bring the Kimono Back into Style There was a time when no self-respecting twentysomething Japanese woman with a modicum of style would have been seen out and about in a kimono. The garment was seen as over-priced and uncomfortable, a

听美文故事记6级单词06-06

6. Wedding the United States Weddings in the United States vary as much as the people do. There are church weddings with a great deal of fanfare; there are weddings on mountain-tops with guests barefooted; and there have been weddings on the ocean fl

听美文故事记6级单词04-01

Unit 4 1.Flower in Home Decoration Just as people have their own personalities,so do their homes.Professionals use this technique constantly.Open up any home magazine to see how flowers are used to achieve a sophiscated look. And yet you need not be

听美文故事记6级单词04-02

2.Microwave Tomato Sauce We've developed a simple microwave method of cooking tomatoes down for sauce. We cut out the stem ends and blanch the whole tomatoes in boiling water until the skins begin to split (about a minute), then plunge them into cold

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4. Sending a Gift Like Flowers In a classic case of supply and demand, the price of roses peaks on Valentine's Day. Women may be used to receiving flowers on birthdays and anniversaries. They may even quickly notice the presence of flowers on these o

听美文故事记6级单词05-09

9. Jazz- The first Thirty Years As a musical language of communication, jazz is the first indigenous American style to affect music in the rest of the World. The city of New Orleans features prominently in early development of jazz. A port city with

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2. Cleopatra,the Queen of Egypt Shortly before the birth of Christ, Egypt was still ruled by a living goddess, Cleopatra, a Greek descended from one of Alexanders generals. She looked back to the Golden Age of Alexanders world empire and was determin

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Drivers warned against loud music Listening to loud music while driving can seriously hamper reaction times and cause accidents, new research suggests. A Canadian study found people took up to 20% longer to perform physical and mental tasks to loud m

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5. Smiles That Destroy the Myth of Female Intuition The popular assumption that womens powers of intuition exceed those of men has been overturned by a new study. Psychologists who tested the abilities of more than 15,000 people to identify the since

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WHATEVER LOVE MEANS DIANA Although neither or them remembered the occasion, Diana first met her future husband when she was just a baby. It happened during the winter of 1961, when twelve-year-old Charles, Prince of Wales, was visiting his mothers Sa

听美文故事记6级单词06-09

9.The Great Lakes The Great Lakes are the greatest wonder of America. It is the largest group of lakes in the world and the biggest body of fresh water. It is hard to grasp that a land should contain several freshwater seas so big that a ship can ste