【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 other me, so I suggested he see a doctor, and have his legs checked years, he refused and told me I was crazy, but last week, he finally enough, the doctor discovered his left leg was a quarter inch shorter than his quick bit of surgery later, he was cured, and both legs are exactly the same length now, and he no longer leans.“So,”I said, “You didn39。t believe me when I told you a doctor could fix your just looked at me and said, ”I stand 傾斜slightly 輕微地check out 檢查refuse 拒絕quarter 四分之一surgery 手術(shù)cure 治愈fix 治愈stand corrected 認(rèn)錯笑話——“我誠懇認(rèn)錯”我有一個朋友，他似乎總是微微向左傾斜。這個問題曾經(jīng)非常困擾我，所以我建議他去看醫(yī)生，檢查一下他的腿。幾年來，他總是不聽我的建議，還說我不正常，但是上星期，他終于去看了醫(yī)生。果真，醫(yī)生發(fā)現(xiàn)他的左腿比右腿短四分之一英寸。一個很快的小手術(shù)后，他康復(fù)了，現(xiàn)在他的兩條腿完全一樣長了，他也不再傾斜了?！澳憧?，”我說，“那時我告訴你醫(yī)生可以治好你的腿時你還不相信我呢?！彼粗艺f：“我認(rèn)錯了?！盡aking a KiteOne day, Paula and Richard decided to make a they went out and found two straight sticks of the same brought them back home and tied them with a piece of string into the shape of a they took some string and used it to tie the four ends of the sticks , they spread some brightly coloured paper over the frame and glued it around the stuck a tail made of paper to one of the corners, and tied a long string to the centre of the the next windy day, they took the kite to a hill near their house and flew stick 直木棍tie 系string 繩子shape 形狀cross 十字spread 傳開frame 框架stick 粘tail 尾巴windy 有風(fēng)的做一個風(fēng)箏一天，保羅和理查德決定做一個風(fēng)箏。首先，他們出門找了兩根一樣長的直木棍。他們把木棍帶回家，用一根繩子把它們綁成十字形。然后他們又拿了些繩子，把木棍的四個頂端連在一起。然后，他們把一些顏色鮮艷的紙涂上膠水，粘在風(fēng)箏的框架上。他們將紙做的尾巴粘在一角，在風(fēng)箏中間系上一根長繩。在接下來的一個有風(fēng)的日子里，他們就在家附近的小山上放風(fēng)箏了。Animals in DangerSome of the animals and birds in the rainforest, such as monkeys and woodpeckers, live in the are always swinging and flying from onetree to another looking for food among the leaves and even sleepin the treetops so they do not have to e down to the you heard that such animals and birds in the rainforests are in danger?Because people are cutting down so many trees in the forests, the animals arelosing their you know the reasons for it? Yes, people want wood, paperand a result many animals and plants are forests are sobadly damaged that they bee 雨林woodpecker 啄木鳥treetop 樹頂swing 搖蕩leaves 樹葉（leaf的復(fù)數(shù)形式）branch 樹枝desert 沙漠瀕 危 動 物一些雨林中的動物和鳥類生活在樹頂上，例如猴子和啄木鳥。它們總是從一棵樹蕩到或飛到另一棵樹上，在樹葉和樹枝間尋找食物。它們甚至在樹頂睡覺，所以它們不用到地面上來。你知道嗎？雨林中的這些動物正處于危險中。因為人們砍伐了森林中的許多樹，動物們失去了家園。你知道人們砍樹的原因嗎？是的，人們需要木材、紙和土地。所以，許多動物和植物正在消亡。一些森林遭到了嚴(yán)重的破壞，變成了沙漠。English in the WorldSome people say that the English language no longer belongs to the English，and it belongs to the is estimated that the number of people who useEnglish exceeds 750 these, about 350 million are native speakers, while the rest use it as an official we add to this number the people who have acquired the language to some extent, the total isclose to one plays an increasingly important role in the world as a medium for conducting international business and diplomacy, as well as in science andmedicine, the Internet, air and sea munications, international sports events, radio and TV programs, pop songs and 估計exceed 超過native 本族的，本國的official 官方的acquire 掌握to some extent 達(dá)到某種程度billion 千萬increasingly 越來越多地medium 工具，手段conduct 實(shí)行，執(zhí)行international 國際的diplomacy 外交medicine 醫(yī)藥munication 通信event 事件世界上的英語有人說英語已不再屬于英國人了，它屬于全世界。據(jù)估計，使用英語的人超過七億五千萬，其中大約有三億五千萬是以英語為母語的人，而其余的人將英語作為官方語言使用。如果我們再加上已經(jīng)掌握英語到一定程度的人，這個總數(shù)將接近十億。英語，作為進(jìn)行國際業(yè)務(wù)和外交的工具，在世界上起著越來越重要的作用。它還在科學(xué)、醫(yī)藥、互聯(lián)網(wǎng)、空中及海洋通信、國際體育賽事、電臺電視節(jié)目、流行歌曲及電影中發(fā)揮著越來越重要的作用。A FriendWhen you read an English book, you often e across new might tryto guess what the words mean from the words you know, but when you cannotguess the meanings of new words at all, what should you do?You have a good friend him you can learn what a word means, how topronounce a word, how to use a word, and so friend can always be withyou, and you can always ask him to help you know who this friend is?It is a can learn some important things about words from it，so you must know how to use across 碰到guess 猜測朋 友當(dāng)你讀英語書時，你經(jīng)常會碰到新單詞。你可能試著從你知道的詞中猜這些詞的意思，但是當(dāng)你無法猜出這些詞的意思時，你該怎么辦呢？這時你有一個好朋友。從他那里你可以學(xué)到單詞的意思、發(fā)音及用法等。這個朋友可以經(jīng)常伴你左右，你可以經(jīng)常請他幫忙。你知道這個朋友是誰嗎？他就是字典。你可以從他那里學(xué)習(xí)有關(guān)詞匯的眾多重要知識，所以你必須學(xué)會如何使用字典?！癐 Have Never Heard You in Carmen”Mark Twain was once invited by a friend to go to the friendwasvery and his wife had their own box at the the operathe friend39。s wife talked all the also talked rather talked so much that it was often difficult for Mark Twain to listen to the the end of the opera she turned to Mark Twain and said, “Oh, mydear Mark Twain, I do want you to be with us again next Friday 39。m sureyou will like it — the opera will be Carmen.”“Thank you very much,”said Mark Twain.“That will be have never heard you in Carmen.”Carmen 《卡門》（歌劇名）invite 邀請opera 歌劇box 包廂theatre 劇場，戲院“我還從未聽過你唱卡門”有一次，一個朋友邀請馬克?吐溫去看歌劇。這個朋友很有錢。他和他的妻子在劇院有自己的包廂?？锤鑴r，朋友的妻子一直在說話。她說話的聲音還挺大。她的話那么多，馬克?吐溫根本聽不清歌劇。歌劇臨近結(jié)束時，她轉(zhuǎn)而對馬克?吐溫說：“噢，我親愛的馬克?吐溫，我真的想讓你再和我們一起度過下周五。我保證你會喜歡的——下周的歌劇是《卡門》?！薄胺浅８兄x，”馬克?吐溫說。“想來會很好。我還從未聽過你唱《卡門》?！盠earning English in EnglandI came to England last have been in England for eleven amgoing to finish my studies in England soon, and will leave for China next first it was very difficult for me to municate with other people in I can speak English much better, and even understand Englishtelevision, because I have studied hard and my teachers and classmates havehelped me a have lots of English friends of them have even invited me fordinner at their are interested to learn about China and Chinese time they ask me a lot of questions, I realize how little I knowabout my own 交流在英國學(xué)英語去年夏天，我來到英國?，F(xiàn)在我在英國已經(jīng)待了十一個月了。我將很快結(jié)束在英國的學(xué)習(xí)，下個月我就將回中國了。一開始，我覺得很難用英語和別人交流?，F(xiàn)在我英語說得好多了，甚至可以看懂英語電視，這是因為我學(xué)習(xí)很努力，老師和同學(xué)對我的幫助也很大?，F(xiàn)在我有許多英國朋友。一些朋友甚至邀請我去他們家吃飯。他們對中國和中國人很感興趣。每當(dāng)他們問我許多問題時，我才意識到自己對祖國的了解是如此之少。The Hare and the TortoiseOne day a hare was telling the other animals how fast he could run.“I can beat anyone!”cried he.“Will one of you try a race with me?” “I will,?said the tortoise