1、背诵为王篇一：背诵为王1 Chinese New YearChinese New Year is the most important festival for Chinese people all over the world. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year. The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chinese New Year takes pl
2、ace between January 1 and February 19.On the Chinese calendar every year has an animals name. These animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chinese legend says that these twelve animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the
3、 winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the oxs back, and then at the end jumped over the oxs head to arrive first!The Chinese believe that a person born in aparticular year has some of the characteristics
4、 of that animal.lunar 月(亮)的exact 确切的calendar 日历rat 鼠ox 公 牛rabbit 兔子ram 公羊rooster 公鸡legend 传说name after 按.命名particular 特别的 characteristic 特征春 节关于全世界的华人来说，中国的新年是最重要的节日。人们也称它为春节或农历新年。 公历春节确实切日期每年都在变化。但是春节一般都在 1 月 1 日 到 2 月 19 日 之间。 在农历中，每年都有一个生肖。这些生肖是鼠、牛、虎、兔、龙、蛇、马、羊、猴、鸡、狗和猪。据传说，这十二个动物举行了一次赛跑，第一年就以获胜者鼠命
5、名，其他十一年就依照动物们到达终点的顺序命名。聪明的鼠跳在牛背上，在最后时刻跳过牛的头顶第一个到达终点！中国人相信在某一年出生的人具有这一年生肖的一些特征篇二：背诵为王第二册文本1 Learning English in a New EnvironmentI was a little shy about talking to people when I firstarrived in America ， but I had a strong desire to broaden myhorizons and meet new people Once I gathered the courage
6、tostart conversations with people ， I found how easy it was tomake new friends Every day ， I heard enough new English expressions to make myhead spin I found that when I was honest and asked about themeanings of unfamiliar expressions ， Americans were veryhelpful and took pains to explain them to me
7、 Native speakers of English tend to speak very fast ， and atfirst I was just stunned and looked at them with a dazedexpression on my face I solved that problem by asking peopleto speak more slowly broaden 开阔，拓宽horizon 眼界，视野courage 勇气spin 晕头转向take pains to explain 煞费苦心肠解释tend to speak 倾向于说stunned 惊愕地
8、dazed 茫然地在新的环境中学习英语第一次到美国，与人说话时我总有些害羞，但是我特别渴望能够开阔视野，结识新朋友。当我鼓起勇气开场与人交谈，我觉察原来结交新朋友是多么容易的事啊。每天耳边出现的繁多的新英语表达法把我弄得晕头转向。我觉察当我老实地向美国人询咨询那些不熟悉的说法的意思时，他们特别乐于助人，并煞费苦心肠向我解释。以英语为母语的人说话一般特别快，一开场我只能惊愕地一脸茫然地看着他们。我让他们说得慢一些，如此我就处理了这个咨询题2 Too Difficult To SpellA policeman returned to his police station one evening a
9、ndreported to the sergeant that he had found an old car with nolicense plates “ Where was it asked the sergeant “ In EcclesiastesStreet ， beyond the bridge ， answered the policeman The sergeant opened the report book and began to write Heasked the policeman how to spell the name of the street ， buth
10、e was not sure whether the spelling was correct At last hedecided the name was too difficult for him to spell So heordered the policeman to write the report The policeman alsotried to spell the name of the street ， but he couldnt ，either Then the policeman put his helmet on and began towalk out slow
11、ly “ Where are you going the sergeant asked “ Back to Ecclesiastes Street ， answered the policeman “Im going to push the car round the corner into Green Streetsergeant 警官license plate 汽车牌照helmet 头盔太难拼写一天晚上，一个警察回到警察局，向警官报告说他觉察了一辆没有牌照的旧汽车。 “车在哪里？警官咨询。“在 Ecclesiastes 大街，在桥的那边。警察答复。警官翻开报告本开场记录。他咨询警察如何拼写
12、那条大街的名字，但是他吃不准他的拼写是否正确。最后他觉得这个名字太难，他拼不出来。因而，他命令警察来写报告。警察拼了半天，也拼不出来。警察戴上他的头盔，渐渐地往外走。“你到哪里去？警官咨询。“回到 Ecclesiastes 大街去，警察答复，“我要把那辆车推到 Green 大街的拐角上去3 Where Does the Word “ Robot Come From ？The word robot comes from the Czech word robota ， meaningheavy labour A robot is a machine that works automatically
13、 Robots can do a wide variety of tasks They are especiallysuitable for doing jobs too boring ， difficult ， or dangerousfor human beings Robots efficiently carry out such routinetasks as welding ， drilling and painting automobile body parts They also produce plastic food containers and wrap ice cream
14、bars Some industrial robots can even make electronicequipment and watches The science and technology that dealswith robots is called robotics A typical robot performs a task by following a set of instructionsthat tells it exactly what must be done to complete the job Theseinstructions are entered an
15、d stored in the robots “ brain of acomputer or part of a computer efficiently 有效率地routine 日常的，例行的weld焊接drill 钻孔electronic 电子的“ Robot （机器人）是如何得此名字的？机器人 (Robot) 来源于捷克语 Robota 一词，意思是“累人的活。机器人确实是一种能自动操作的机器。机器人能够做许多工作，尤其适用于从事那些人们看来单调、困难、危险的工作。机器人能有效地做那些重复性的劳动，如焊接、钻孔和为汽车零部件喷漆。它们还能用于制造塑料食品包装容器或包扎雪糕等工作。有些工业机器人还能组装电子设备和手表。研究机器人的科技叫人工智能学。一台典型的机器人必须通过准确执行它被告知的完成一项工作的一系列指令才能完成任务，这些指令储存在其“头脑即计算机内4 ReadingI think that people should spend more time reading Readinghas a lot of advantages One of them is that it helps youdevelop readi
