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y was a special birthday, another decade lived or endured, just as you choose to look at it.八十大壽,畢竟非同一般,不管怎么說你又活了十年,或者說熬了十年,是活還是熬,全在于你怎么看了。48. It covered the whole distance from broken –hearted misery to bursting happiness—too fast.先是令人心碎的痛苦,繼而是極度的喜悅,從一個極端到另一個極端—變換得實在太快了。46. Freed from TV, forced to find their own activities, they might take a ride together to watch the sunset.如果他們從電視中的束縛中解脫出來,不得不自己安排活動,他們可能會全家驅車去看日落。44. The present question is that many people consider impossible what is really possible if effort is made.目前的問題是,很多人把其實只要付諸努力就能做到的事情看成是做不到的。很多問題是大學水平,這些小學生能夠解答出來。簡析:關鍵詞for a run去跑步。簡析:比喻形象生動。解決問題容易的辦法并非總是最容易的。簡析:關鍵詞picture活用為動詞想象,設想。34. These words, I have just made up, have to stand for thing and ideas that we simply can’t think of.這些詞,是我編造的,只是代表我們不能想到的事物和觀念。簡析:關鍵詞rest in 依賴。31. After their stay, all visitors receive a survival certificate recording their success, that is, when guests leave the igloo hotel they will receive a paper stating that they have had a taste of adventure.當美國人第一次游覽歐洲時,他們通常發(fā)現德國比法國對他們來說更加“陌生”,因為他們在標牌和廣告上看到的德語,比起法語更加不同于英語。28. We even have different word for some foods, meat in particular, depending on whether it is still out in the fields or at home ready to be cooked, which Shows the fact that the Saxon peasants were doing the farming. while the upperclass Normans were doing most of the eating.26. Before 1066, in the land we now call Great Britain lived peoples belonging to two major language groups.1066年以前,在我們現在稱為英國的土地上,住著屬于兩個主要語種的民族。 a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.一個女人最親密的女性朋友可能是第一個告訴她離開一次失敗的婚姻。23. In general, women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.一般來說,女人相互的友誼基于相互分享情感和支持,但男人間的關系以共同參與社會活動為特征。簡析:關鍵詞rather than 而不是。戈德是對有機食品感興趣眾多購買者當中的一位,遍及英國的超市依賴更多像他那樣的購買者,因為他們要增加有機食品生意。19. It is Sue Townsend’s musical play, based on her bestselling book.它是蘇珊17. He had realized that the words: “one of six to eight” under the first picture in the book connected the hare in some way to Katherine of Aragon, the first of Henry VIII’s six wives.他曾認識到那本書里第一幅圖畫下面的那些詞“一、六、八”在某些方面將這個野兔和阿拉甘的凱撒英,即亨利八世的六個妻子當中的第一個妻子,聯系起來。簡析:關鍵詞aim for 針對。14. They had no connection with the outside world for more than a thousand years, giving them plenty of time to build more than 1000 huge stone figures, called moat, for which the island is most famous.他們已有一千多年與外界沒有聯系,這給他們充足的時間來修建1000多座巨大的石像,被稱為莫艾,因為有這個東西這個島嶼極其出名。簡析:關鍵詞sell on (to)使接受。 their shining brown eyes, wagging tails, and unconditional love, dogs can provide the nonjudgmental listeners needed for a beginning reader to gain confidence, according to Intermountain Therapy Animals(ITA) in salt Lake City.據鹽湖城的ITA的觀點,閃爍的棕色眼睛,搖著尾巴,并有無條件的愛心,狗能成為無判斷力的(忠實的)聽者,這是剛開始搞閱讀的小孩所需要的。簡析:夾雜兩個定語從句。 from Animal Hospital will delight all fans of the programme and anyone who was a lively interest in their pet, whether it be a cat,dog or snake!來自動物醫(yī)院(這個電視節(jié)目)的故事(這本書),將使這個電視節(jié)目的愛好者以及對無論是貓、狗還是蛇這類寵物有濃厚興趣的任何人感到高興。6. It is one of many language books that are now flying off booksellers’ shelves.它是現在很暢銷的許多外語書中的一本。簡析:關鍵詞other than而不是。3. Perhaps the best sign of how puter and internet use pushes up demand for paper es from the hightech industry itself, which sees printing as one of its most promising new market.或許,表明電腦及因特網使用促進人們對于紙張的需求的最好跡象源于高科技產業(yè)本身,印刷業(yè)被認為是高科技產業(yè)極有前景的新市場之一。2. It is difficult to measure the quantity of paper used as a result of use of Internetconnected puters, although just about anyone who works in an office can tell you that when is introduced, the printers start working overtime. That is, the growing demand for paper in recent years is largely due to the increased use of