大学英语课本文章背诵(2)

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Phil was overweight and nervous and worked too hard. If he wasn’t at the office, he was

worried about it. Phil was a Type A, a heart-attack natural. You could have picked him out in a

minute from a lineup.

Unit6:A valentine story

And there he stood. Her pale, round face was gentle and sensible, her gray eyes had a warm

and kindly glow. I did not hesitate.

My fingers gripped the small worn blue leather copy of the book that was to identify me to her.

This would not be love, but it would be something precious, something perhaps even better than

love, a friendship for I had been and must ever be grateful.

I squared my shoulder and saluted and held out the book to the woman, even though while I

spoke I felt chocked by the bitterness of my disappointment. I’m lieutenant John Blanchard, and

you must be Miss Maynell. I am so glad you could meet me; may I take you to dinner?

The woman’s face broadened into a smile. I don’t know what this is about, son, she answered,

but the young lady in the green suit who just went by., she begged me to wear this rose on my

coat. And she said it you were to ask me out to dinner, I should go and tell you that she is waiting

for you in the big restaurant across the street. She said it was some kind of test.

Unit7:What animals really think

Over the years, I have written extensively about animals intelligence experiments and the

controversy that surrounds them. Do animals really have thought ,what we call consciousness?

Wondering whether there might be better ways to explore animals intelligence than experiment

designed to teach human signs, I realized what now seems obvious: if animals can think, they will

probably do their best thinking when it serves their own purposes, not when scientists ask them

to.

And so I started talking to vets, animals researchers, zoo keepers. Most do not study animals

intelligence, but they encounter it, and the lack of it, every day. The stories they tell us reveal

what I’m convinced is a new window on animal intelligence: the kind of mental feats animals

perform when dealing with captivity and dominant species on the planet----humans.

Unit8:Fable of the lazy teenager

But this is just a tiny slice of the problem. The ability to perform even the simplest calculations

is only a memory among many students I see, and their knowledge of world history or geography

is nonexistent.

Moreover, there is a chilling indifference about all this ignorance. The attitude was summed up

by a friend’s bright, lazy 16-year-old son, who explained why he preferred not to go to U.C.I.A. I

don’t want to have to compete with Asians, he said. They work hard and know everything.

In fact, this young man will have to compete with Asians whether he wants to or not. He

cannot live forever on the financial, material and human capital accumulated by his ancestors. At

the point soon, his intelligence laziness will seriously affect his way of life. It will also affect the

rest of us. A modern industrial state cannot function with an idle, ignorant labor force. Plans will

crash. Computer will jam. Cars will break down.

英语作文:How to Deal with Anger?

1）许多人容易生气，生气危害健康；

2）生气如何危害健康。

3) 你认为应该如何有效地控制或减轻愤怒情绪。

*写作文时，第一段一定注意不要犯拼写和语法错误，给评卷老师留下好印象。二、三段要