【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 his how can you know where the word is in thousands of English words? How to find it in the dictionary both quickly and correctly? First, all the English words are arranged in the alphabetical the dictionary you can first see the words beginning with the Ietter A, then B,C,D,E…That means if there are two words “desert”and “pull”,” “desert”will be certainly before“pull”.Then if there,are two words both beginning with the same letter,you may look at the second the third, the fourth…For example, “pardon”is before “plough”, “judge”is before “just”, you understand how to look up a word in a dictionary? The dictionary will be your good friend,I hope you’ll use it as often as possible in your English 、Travel by bikeIf you go to visit London, you’ll see a lot of buses and cars on the ’ll also see a lot of bikes because more people travel by are a lot of reasons for , it is very cheap to buy a bike, and it is quick, often have to wait for a bus for half an the bus es, there are so many other buses and cars on the roads that the bus moves very traveled to work by bus for about four often arrived at work late and one day, about two years ago, a friend of mine said, “ I go to work by don’t we travel together?”“Because my bike is old.” I answered, “And there are so many buses and cars on the ’ll feel frightened“You needn’t feel frightened!” said my friend.“If you follow me and we ride slowly, you’ll be fine.”The next day I brought myself a new we went slowly, we arrived ai work took 40 minutes to go to work by bus, but only half an hour by bike!Now I don’t feel love going go work by take a different road every arrived at work very ’ve got a little more money now, and more important, I feel people think in the same way as I ’s why you see a lot of bikes on the year you’ll see more, I am in the future we will have roads for bikes hope 、American food habitsGenerally speaking, American food is rather bland and are popular and are served all the year American people are “calorie” is evident in menus offering “l(fā)ow calorie” or “weight watchers” markets one can find “No Cal” drinks(meaning without calories)such as ginger ale or cola.“Diet” foods without sugar or salt are also available in food in American restaurants tend to assume that everyone drinks a waiter suddenly asks “Now or later?” what he means is “Do you want coffee with your meal now or later?” Many American drinksCoffee with their dining out in the US we can ask for tea, milk,coke,bear and so on, if we prefer these to coffee, American restaurants cannot serve beer, wine, or liquor unless they are licensed to do main course in American meals is usually meat, fowl, or fish, but rarely is more than one of these上海寶茁教育濟(jì)南學(xué)習(xí)中心中小學(xué)課外輔導(dǎo)專家七、Insects We often think of insects as being is not quite insects are example, flies carry insects carry disease, are at war with insects most of the insects kill plants in the spray the fields to get rid of these this mean that all insects are harmful? are of great help to make bees and other insects, many trees would have no make insects eat other insects that kill fruit you ever seen a praying mantis? People who do not know about the praying mantis sometimes kill think it is this insect is of great help to farmers and eats insects that kill ago, many people thought of most insects as , we know the difference between harmful insects and those that help 、Special language Can you see the rabbit’s tail? When a rabbit sees something dangerous, it runs tail is white and moves up and down as it rabbits see the tail moving, and they run, know that there is something rabbit has told them something without making a has given them a other animals use this kind of a cobra is angry, it raises its hood and makes itself look warns other a bee has found some food, it goes back to its cannot tell the other bees where the food is by speaking to them, but it does a little dance in the tells the others where the food animals say things by making we humans speak in the same we have something that no animal hasa large number of animal has the wonderful power of living in different countries make different kinds of there are about fifteen hundred different languages in the words you know are called your should try to make your vocabulary as many books as you you meet a new word, find it in your dictionary is your most useful 、A good idea Mike and Tom had studied in the same they had finished middle school, Mike went to college but Tom found work in a young man likes smoking very much and it’s bad for his he coughs day and night and he’s too weak to he was sent spent all money on smoking and sometimes he has little food to Tom met Mike in the finished college and began to work in a post office and was paid Tom knew about it, he asked Mike to lend two hundred dollars to found it was difficult to refuse and year later Mike was going go marry and needed a lot of told Tom about said he would pay off the debt the next three months passed and Tom did not pay off his one day Mike went to his house again and said, “Haven’t you found any ideas to pay off your debt?”“Yes, I have.” Answered Tom.“ If you help me, I’ll pay off my debt at once.” “what’s it?”“Please lend me five hundred dollars again.” Said the man.“I shall pay you back two hundred dollars, and I’ll pay back two hundred dollars, and I’ll spend one hundred dollars on some bread and a newer 第四篇：英語經(jīng)典短文The Importance of Keeping Optimistic保持樂觀的重要性Honourable judges, ladies and gentlemen, 尊敬的評委、女士們、先生們：Good afternoon!Today I would like to talk about the importance ofkeeping we encounter difficulties in life, we notice thatsome of us choose to bury their heads in the , however,this attitude will do you no good, because if you will have no courageeven to face them, how can you conquer them? Thus, be optimistic, ladiesand gentlemen, as it can give you confidence and help you see yourselfthrough the hard times