【正文】 or character 嚴厲的，嚴酷的Summer 夏日晨風，拂過我的臉龐，擾動我的夢想，飛揚在這青春讀書的好時光。I chanced to rise very early one particular morning this summer, and took a walk into the country to divert myself among the fields and meadows, while the green was new, and the flowers in their at this season of the year every lane is a beautiful walk, and every hedge full of nosegays, I lost myself, with a great deal of pleasure, among several thickets and bushes that were filled with a great variety of birds, and an agreeable confusion of notes, which formed the pleasantest scene in the world to one who had passed a whole winter in noise and freshness of the dews that lay upon everything about me, with the cool breath of the morning, which inspired the birds with so many delightful instincts, created in me the same kind of animal pleasure, and made my heart overflow with such secret emotions of joy and satisfaction as are not to be described or accounted for.—Joseph Addison, Tulips英語晨讀精華[注釋]：divert : to entertain by distracting the attention from worrisome thoughts or cares。amuse 消遣，通過把注意力從煩惱之事上轉移開而娛樂meadow : 草地hedge : 樹籬nosegay : 花束thicket : 灌木叢animal pleasure： 快感instinct : 本能overflow : to have a boundless supply and to be filled beyond capacity 溢出，充滿Joseph Addison 艾迪生J.(1672—l 719)，英國隨筆作家和詩人。生于威爾特郡，曾就讀于 牛津大學。曾任貿易和殖民地事務專員，1717 年被任命為國務大臣。同年他還創(chuàng)辦《旁觀 者》雜志。本文選自他的《郁金香》。Exploring the Oceans洋世界到底有多少未知的秘密? Ever wonder what lives in the Earth’s waters? Some 300 scientists from 53 different countries are wondering the same the first time in history, scientists are trying to count how many species of fish, animals and plants live under are conducting a census of life in the world’s oceans, which cover 70 per cent of the Earth’s study began in 2000 and is expected to end in 2010, at a cost of US$1 far, scientists have counted more than 15,000 species of fish and around 200,000 species of animals and plants in the expect to find at least another 5,000 species of believe that the animals and plants they’ve found so far represent just 10 per cent of the world’s total underwater means that they expect to find almost 2 million species of animals and 英語晨讀精華plants by 2010.“Our goal by 2010 is to know as much about life in the oceans as we know about life on land now,” says a marine biologist who is working on the newlydiscovered species are not all new of them have just never been recorded fear that the growing human population is decreasing the variety of species living in the hope the census will help them learn how human activity, such as fishing and agriculture, is affecting the oceans.[注釋]：species : 品種（單復數(shù)同形）census : official counting of the information 普查，種群普查conduct : to direct the course of。to manage or control 進行，主持surface : the outer or the topmost boundary of an object 表面represent : to stand for。to symbolize 代表 underwater : relating to, occurring, used, or performed beneath the surface of water 水中的biologist : 生物學家decrease : to grow or cause to grow gradually less or smaller, as in number, amount, or intensity 減少variety : a group that is distinguished from other groups by a specific characteristic or set of characteristics 種類Spring Song 布萊克的詩讀起來朗朗上口，有音樂的美感，充滿感性，喜歡的人很多。希望你也喜歡。Spring is ing, spring is ing,Birdies, build your nest。Weave together straw and feather,Doing each your is ing, spring is ing,Flowers are ing too:Pansies, lilies, daffodilliesNow are ing is ing, spring is ing,All around is fair，Shimmer and quiver on the river,Joy is everywhere.—— William Blake英語晨讀精華[注釋]：straw : a single stalk of threshed grain 稻草，麥稈pansies, lilies, daffodillies: 三色紫羅蘭、百合花、喇叭水仙花sahimmer : to shine with a subdued, flickering light 微光quiver : to shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement 顫抖，振動William Blake，布萊克（1757—1827），英國詩人，著有詩集《天真之歌》(1789)《經驗之歌》（1794）。他最重要的繪畫有《坎特伯雷香客》和《雅各的夢》。New Pictures of an Old Universe 這段科技文章看似復雜難懂，其實不難。讀的同時不妨仔細分析這類文章的特點，這對 于在考試中閱讀理解同類文章一定有幫助。For thousands of years humans have wondered how and when the universe first , thanks to some photographs taken by Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe(WMAP), scientists are much closer to understanding, even seeing, the universe in its beginning is all possible thanks to the WMAP satellite in orbit about one million miles above satellite is specially designed to record one kind of cosmic energy: microwave can use this radiation to show us what the universe looked like billion years ago!Wait a minute...how can this satellite show us a picture of the universe billions of years ago? The Big Bang created the universe in a huge explosion, and at the same time it created a specific field of radiation—called the cosmic microwave background, or CMB still lingers in the universe the satellite actually does is take pictures of the what did scientists learn from these new pictures? First, they learned that stars formed very soon— merely 200 million years— after the Big they were able to confirm estimates of the universe’s age: it was born about billion years is the age that 英語晨讀精華scientists long suspected to be true, but now they have the birthday pictures to prove it![注釋]：microwave: a highfrequency electromagnetic wave, one millimeter to one meter in wavelength, intermediate between infrared and shortwave radio wavelengths 微波probe: an exploratory action, expedition, or device, especially one designed to investigate and obtain information on a remote or unknown region 探測（器、衛(wèi)星、宇宙飛船）satellite: a celestial body that orbits a planet。a moon 衛(wèi)星orbit: the path of a celestial body or an artificial satellite as it revolves around another body（運 轉）軌道cosmic: of or relating to the universe, especially as distinct from Earth 宇宙的radiation: energy radiated or transmitted in the form of rays, waves, or particles 輻射 explosion: a release of mechanical, chemical, or nuclear energy in a sudden and often violent manner with the generation of high temperature and usually with the release of gases 爆炸specific: special