【正文】 blic the scientific background it needs to make informed decisions on subjects like acid rain, the greenhouse effect, nuclear weapons, and genetic engineering? Clearly, the basis must lie in what is taught in schools.─Stephen Hawking(出自Select Readings)The Rabbits Who Caused All the Trouble Within the memory of the youngest child there was a family of rabbits who lived near a pack of wolves announced that they did not like the way the rabbits were living.(The wolves were crazy about the way they themselves were living, because it was the only way to live.)One night several wolves were killed in an earthquake and this was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that rabbits pound on the ground with their hind legs and cause another night one of the wolves was killed by a bolt of lightning and this was also blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that lettuceeaters cause wolves threatened to civilize the rabbits if they didn’t behave, and the rabbits decided to run away to a desert the other animals, who lived at a great distance, shamed them, saying, “You must stay where you are and be is no world for the wolves attack you, we will e to your aid, in all probability.”So the rabbits continued to live near the wolves and one day there was a terrible flood which drowned a great many was blamed on the rabbits, for it is well known that carrotnibblers with long ears cause wolves descended on the rabbits, for their own good, and imprisoned them in a dark cave, for their own nothing was heard about the rabbits for some weeks, the other animals demanded to know what had happened to wolves replied that the rabbits had been eaten and since they had been eaten the affair was a purely internal the other animals warned that they might possibly unite against the wolves unless some reason was given for the destruction of the the wolves gave them one.“They were trying to escape,”said the wolves, “and, as you know, this is no world for escapists.”Moral: Run, don’t walk, to the nearest desert Thurber(出自The Sounds of American English)第二篇：英語演講比賽Where has time goneSpeaking of where the time has gone, I cannot believe it is seriously 2014!When you stop and think about someone or something that happened, you think it was a couple weeks ago and actually it has been over 3 unbelievable, but ’m not going to say that I feel old, but I am starting to have a different relationship with think that what is most important to me now is to remember that time will pass anyway, not yours in particular, rather everyone’ live in a busy society, over the weekend, I found myself staring gloomily at the pile of homework on my desk, worrying about impending deadlines and wondering where all my time had someone stol