【正文】 t 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(fù)數(shù)同形）census : official counting of the information 普查，種群普查conduct : to direct the course of。同年他還創(chuàng)辦《旁觀 者》雜志。生于威爾特郡，曾就讀于 牛津大學(xué)。amuse 消遣，通過把注意力從煩惱之事上轉(zhuǎn)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summon up 鼓起(勇氣等)，積聚stern : hard, harsh, or severe in manner or character 嚴厲的，嚴酷的Summer 夏日晨風(fēng)，拂過我的臉龐，擾動我的夢想，飛揚在這青春讀書的好時光。Home—A Joy Forever Home means a lot to me.“Be it ever so humble, there is no place like home.” I appreciate the warmth of my home, and regard it as one of the brightest and dearest spots on is the place where I can take refuge whenever I meet with difficulties, failures and even frustrations in my daily home, my dear parents and brothers and sisters will fort me and cheer me with their concern and encouragement, I will regain my selfconfidence and muster up all my strength and courage to face the stern realities of me, home is forever a joy where I can always find love, understanding, care and help.[注釋]：humble : low in rank, quality, or station。生于舊金山，求學(xué)于哈佛大學(xué)。a chip 薄片；雪片 Robert Frost: 弗羅斯特Whose woods these are I think I know,His house is in the village will not see me stopping here,To watch his woods fill up with little horse must think it queer,To stop without a farmhouse near,Between the woods and frozen lake,The darkest evening of the gives his harness bells a shake,To ask if there is some only other sound’s the sweep，英語晨讀精華Of easy wind and downy woods are lovely, dark and deep,But I have promises to keep,And miles to go before I sleep,And miles to go before I sleep.—— Robert Frost[注釋]：queer : deviating from the expected or normal。寫的是雪夜美景？寫的是守諾如一？寫的是 人生不得不向前行？不同的讀者會有完全不同的理解。deliberation 體諒，考慮uneasiness : 不安episode : an incident or event that is part of a progression or a larger sequence 插My Time of Happiness Each Day As a student, most of my time is spent on school work and other schoolrelated , my time of happiness each day is very , this is not to say that I am not happy every fact, I really enjoy ing home from school each evening and having dinner with my dinner, I read or watch some TV with my is a happy time for me every my happiest time of a day is just before I fall in bed, I think about all I achieved that day, and it makes me happy to know that the day was full.[注釋]：consequently : therefore 從而，因此achieve : to perform or carry out with success。fitting 恰當(dāng)?shù)膁ecorum: the conventions of polite behavior 禮貌agitated: 激動的，表現(xiàn)不安的Vacations in Space Want a ride in a spaceship? It will cost you about 20 million US least that’s what Dennis Tito recently paid for a trip to the International Space if you aren’t rich, but still want to travel in space? Don’t supported by NASA might make your dream e are refining a process that, if successful, will enable rockets to take off from the back of an people do end up taking vacations in space, don’t worry about finding somewhere to like British Richard Branson are already thinking about building hotels out there.[注釋]：NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration(美國)國家航空航天局；美國航天及太空總署end up: 結(jié)束；告終Keeping Pleasant In these grim times, weighed down with tension and pressure from the realities of life, many people have lost their sense of tend to keep a straight face all day long and fail to keep life in forget how to smile and finally bee physical and mental regard life as a burden, and tend to look on the dark side of goes a saying, “Laugh, and grow fat.” Laughter releases tension, and smiling helps create a pleasant social , thus, in a way, a sense of humor is an elixir that helps cure mental patients even improve their physical and mental health by reading humorous stories or watching funny proves that a sense of humor helps us look at the world in a true and healthy light and makes our life worth living.[注釋]：grim: rigid 無情的，嚴酷的tension: uneasy suspense 緊張(狀態(tài))，不安perspective: subjective evaluation of relative significance?？雌饋碇皇遣唤?jīng)意地抒寫著一己的經(jīng)歷和感受，所表現(xiàn)的多是零星雜碎的片段人生。在長期網(wǎng)絡(luò)流傳過程中，它澆灌了各個時代的文學(xué)園地，也灌溉了歷代文人，至今仍使人們受益。特點優(yōu)美，生動有趣。logic and rhetoric able to ：網(wǎng)絡(luò)美文概念在各種競爭日益激烈的今天，在網(wǎng)絡(luò)中，很多人都會喜歡一些比較傷感的美文，人們通過閱覽這種文章來對自己的心情進行調(diào)解，以此為一種精神上的寄托，從而延伸出了人們平時所說的傷感美文、唯美美文之類的一些分支。natural philosophy deep。poets witty。if he confer little, he had need have a present wit。else distilled books are, like mon distilled waters, flashy makes a full man； conference a ready man。and some few to be read wholly,and with diligence and books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others。that is, some books are to be read only in parts。nor to find talk and discourse。but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by not to contradict and confute。and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large,except they be bounded in by men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them。to use them too much for ornament,is affectation。and for ability, is in the judgement and disposition of expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one。s disfort, the uncertainty, the physical and mental challenge that I g