高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin Care素材

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高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit5 Two Basic Ways to See Growth素材

Unit 5Two Basic Ways to See GrowthThere are two ba sic ways to see growth: one as a product, the other as a process. People have generally viewed personal growth as an external result or product that can be identified and measured. The worker who gets a promotion, the student whose grades improve, the foreigner who learns a new language -- all these are examples of people who have measurable results to show for their efforts.By contrast, the process of personal growt h is much more difficult to determine, since by definitio n, it is a journey and not the specific signposts and landmarks along the way.The process is not the road itself, but rather the attitudes and feelings people have, their caution and courage, as they encounter new experiences and unexpected obstacles.In their process, the journey never reall y ends; there are always new ways to experience the world, new ideas to try, new challenges to accept.In order to grow, to travel new roads, people need to have a willingness to take risks, to confront the unknown, and to accep t the possibility that they may fail at first.How we see ourselves as we try a new way of being is essential to our ability to grow.Do we perceive ourselves as quick and curious? If so, then we tend t o take more chances and to be more open to unfamiliar experiences.Do we think we are shy and indecisive? Then our sense of timidity can cause us to hesitate, to move more slowly, and not to take a step until we know the ground is safe. Do we think we are slow to adapt to change or that we are not smart enough to cope with a new challenge?Then we are likely to take a more passive role or n ot to try at all.These feelings of insecur ity and self-doubt are both unavoidable and necessary if we are to change and grow.If we do not confront and overcome th ese internal fears and doubts, if we protect ourselves too much, then we cease to grow.We become trapped inside a shell of our own making.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit40 Customs of Halloween素材

Unit 40Customs of HalloweenHalloween is an annual celebration. How did this peculiar custom originate?The word "Halloween" comes from All Hallows Eve. November 1, "All Hallows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints.It was believed that during the period from Oct. 31 through to Nov. 1, the boundaries betweenour world and the world of the dead were weakened, allowing spirits of the recently dead to cross over and hunt the living. In order to make themselves and their homes less appealing to these spirits,the ancient Celts put out fire in thei r homes to make them cold and undesirable, and b uilt huge scared bonfires, where the people gathered to burn crops and animals as sacrifices to Gods. Duringthe celebration, the Celts wore costumes, typically cons isting of animal heads and skins, and attempted to tell each other's fortune. When the celebration was over, they relit their hearth fires from the sacred bonfires to help protect them during the coming winter. They also dressed up in odd costumes and parade through their villages to scare off any recently departed souls who mightbe searching for bodies to inhabit.How did the custom of "trick-or-treat" come into being? On Nov. 2, early Christians would walk from village to village begging for "soul cakes", made out of square pieces of bread with currants. The more soul cakes the beggars received, the more prayers they would promise to say on behalf ofthe dead relatives of the donors. The prayers, it was believed, cou ld accelerate a soul's passageto heaven. The practice, once referred to a s "going-a-souling" was eventually taken up by children who would visit the houses in their ne ighborhood and be given apples, buns or money. During the Pioneer days of the American West, the housewives would give the children candy to keep from being tricked. The children would shout "Trick or Treat!"The Jack-o'-lantern custom comes from Irish folklore. Jack, a notorious drunkard, tricked Satan into climbing a tree. Jack then carved an image of a cross in the tree trunk, trapping the devilup the tree. Jack made a deal with the devil that, if he would never tempt him with alcohol again,he would let him down the tree. After Jack died, he was denied entrance to Hell because he had tricked the devil. Instead, the devil gave him a hollowed-out turnips, with an ember inside, to light his way through the darkness. Originally, the Irish used turnips as their "Jack's lanterns".But when immigrants came to America, they found pumpkins were far more plentiful and easier to carveout than turnips. So the jack-o'-lanter n in America was a hollowed-out pumpkin, lit with an ember.1 / 1。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin En

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of VitaminEnhanced Skin Care素材Unit 91The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin CareMost of us know that vitamins can work wonders on our skin from the inside. However, many people have yet to realize the benefits of using vitamins on the outside. Below is a simple guide to aid you through the daunting maze of vitamin-enriched products, while making sure your skin get its remended daily allowance of beauty.VITAMIN A: helps with fine lines and wrinkles. As some have learned the hard way, attempting to hide fine lines and wrinkles behind layers of make up is a losing battle. Better to improve the condition of your skin with products containing retinoids -- a class of Vitamin-A derivatives. However, due to the lower levels of retinoids in some consumer products, it may take a bit longer to see the desired result.VITAMIN B: A healthy glow, moisture retention. Vitamins B-3 and B-5 have bee popular additions to skin-care products because of their ability to assist in retaining moisture. B-3 is a relatively new ingredient on the marketplace but has demonstrated great promise, offering a milder alternative to acidic elements, which some feel is too harsh for their plexions. B-5 is a more mon skin-care additive, and is widely recognized for its (along with Vitamin E) moisturizing ability. It's also good for those with sensitive skin, as some creams made with Vitamin-E have been known to cause irritation.VITAMIN C: Repairs sun damage. Vitamin C has been one of skin-care's hot sellers for the past several years due to its proven effectiveness as an antioxidant.Antioxidants are a critical natural defense against "free radicals", unstable molecules that age the skin as a result of pollution, smoking and sun exposure. Vitamin C can protect the skin from UV damage caused by prolonged sun exposure by reducing the amount of free radical formation. However ,while it can help safeguard against skin damage and reduce discoloration, it should be used in conjunction with ,not in place of, a good sunscreen.VITAMIN E: Repairs dry, rough skin. Vitamin-E is another powerful antioxidant that is monly used in lotions and creams for its moisturizing ability. Though some of the "miraculous" healing claims of Vitamin-E supporters have been exaggerated over the years, it is still widely recognized for its proven ability to help retain moisture in the skin.VITAMIN K: Repairs dark, under-eye circles. Dark circles under you eyes can make you look old beyond your years. And while getting a good night's sleep is always remended, topical Vitamin-K is a good additional defense against discoloration under the eyes. Often used as a treatment for spider veins, Vitamin K enters through the pores all the ways to the damaged capillary or artery and helps to clot the blood, thus stopping any seepage -- often the cause of dark circles -- and allowing the tissue to heal itself. In addition to K, Vitamin-C is also known for its ability to diminish dark circles, and using a product (or products) containing both vitamins is a good bet.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US素材Unit 80Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the USDuring and after World War II, challenges to segregation became more common and more successful. Three major factors accounted for this:-- The Great MigrationThe g reat migrat ion was the movement of blacks from the Southern states to the Northern and Western ones for a range of reasons including better jobs, better schools, and a less racist environment. It began during World War I, continued during the 1930s, and expanded dramatically in the 1940s and 1950s. The great migration introduced millions of blacks to a world in which formal segregation did not exist and basic facilities, like transportation, restaurant, and public bathrooms, were open to all people. However, the North was not without racism. Blacks could not move to certain neighborhoods, were denied access to many jobs, and were informally segregated. But, despite segregation and exclusion by individuals, unions, and employers, blacks who moved to the North were able to love without the oppression of day-to-day segregation. They were thus better able to oppose legalized segregation in the South.-- Changes in American PoliticsWhile the great migration changed how black Americans lived, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the New Deal altered American politics by setting a precedent for government activism. The administration of President Frankl in Roosevelt assumed a new role of intervening in society to ensure jobs, justice, and the prosperity of the American people, who were severely affected by the Depression. Roosevelt himself was liberal on race and appointed blacks to high offices. The president's wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, made clear her hatred for segrega tion. In a gesture that symbolized a sharp break with previous administrations, she invited the National Council of Negro Women to have tea at the White House. By the eve of World War II, black voters regularly elected officials in a number of Northern states. These newly elected officials actively fought against segregation and racism although not always successfully.-- Social and Cultural ChangesA final drive to the civil rights movement was World War II. The struggle against Nazism forced some Americans to reconsider the legitimacy of racism in the United States. The Holoc aust of six million Jews, merely because of their ethnicity, led some Americans to realize that racism could be a threa t to democracy itself. Blacks also served in the military in unprecedented number s. Thus, the war experience though t many people that equality was possible. Following the war, black veteransreturned with a new sense of purpose. Joining them in the struggle against segregation was a better-educated and financially more secure black middle class and working class living in the North. Many blacks had earned high wages in war industries, were members of industrial unions, and politically active. Finally, the postwar world forced the government to face the threat that segregation posed to international relations. After the war, many colonies in Asia and Africa gained their independence from European domination. At the same time, the Cold War struggle with the Communist Government of USSR forced the Unit ed States to seek the good will of these nations. Segregation undermined the nation's ability to negotiate with these new nations while giving the USSR ammunition in its propaganda war against the United States. Leaders of the American foreign policy establishment urged an end to segregation at home as a way of fighting Communism abroad.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 94 Manageria

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 94 ManagerialStereotypes素材Unit 94Managerial StereotypesWhe n we travel to a foreign country, we carry in our baggage a preconceived idea in that country. Much of the knowledge we have of different nationalities exists as stereotypes -- conventional and over-simplified pictures without individualities. Stereotypes also exists about occupations or profession s. Descriptions about managers from different countries may be something like this:American managers have in-dept knowledge of the business they run and baseball, but know little about the rest of the world. They think that everyone who is not American wishes he was. They only lose when the playing is not even. The quarterly dividend is their cardinal goal, and quick fixes are the means to accomp lish it.British manager s became managers by studying literature and history at Oxford and by going through the old boy network. Thy have a broad, but not always thorough knowledge of their company's operations. British managers i nvariably are polite and they spice their conversations with humorous anecdotes that executives of other nationalities fa il to appreciate.French managers are Napoleonic and their management style is imperial. Stiff hierarchies discourage informa l relations and nurture a sense of "them" v ersus "us". It's difficult to reach the boss. The flow of information always goes one-way: downward. French managers love to talk, though not always about items on the agenda. Their initial response to proposals is always negative just because they like debate.German managers prefer to go by the book. They have years of technical training and high degrees. They are formal and serious. Meetings are conducted with attention to details and they sometimes raise their voice and pound the table to see if they can intimidate the other party into making concessions.Italian managers are flexible, and often ignore company rules. They prefer telephone and personal contact to memos and faxes. Management is paternalistic. Bosses give their employees protection. They, in turn, are loyal and identify with company goals. Informal networks of family and powerful friends matter much in business.Japanese managers say yes when mean no. Rank and social status are important and they are formal and reserved. The main duty of Japanese managers is maintain harmony and motivate subordinates to work for the good of company.Swedish managers are practical, technically capable but unimaginative. They have no sense o f humor and take everything you say literally. They often spend moretime telling you what's wrong with their products than what's good about them. Swedes dress in sports shirts and slacks for meeting and are neurotic about punctuality.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 90 Virtual Grave素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 90 Virtual Grave素材Unit 90Virtual GravePeople are mortal. The bodies in which we live our real existence simply have a restricted life span. Ultimately we all die of old age, or sooner of an illness or accident. When one person's life ends irreversibly, it is the beginning of a period of deep mourning for the survivors, in which they try to deal with the loss of their loved one, friend, parent or child. The relatives mourn over the definitive departure of their loved one. And mostly they find this extremely difficult. More and more people explicitly look for a personal way to cope with mourning. Nowadays our North-European civilization permits us to express the feeling of dismay, of loss, of sorrow.The use of the Internet penetrates all aspects of our social life. This does not only change the way in which we work, learn and play with one another "from a distance", but also the way in which we have contact in intimate and ultimate events such as love and death. How does the use of the Internet change our funeral rites and rituals and how does it affect our ways of coping with death? The Internet can be used in three ways: to involve all survivors in the organization of the funeral ceremony: virtual funeral services; to honor the deceased in a respectful manner: virtual graves; to cope with the loss together with fellow-sufferers: virtual mourning groups.Modern people live two lives. One in the real, physical world and the other in the virtual world created by the Internet. People who are online for their work or for fun increasingly wonder what it means to die online. Survivors feel the urge to make death public. This is usually done by way of an obituary in a newspaper,the pilation of a memorial book, and by erecting a tombstone. While a memorial site in the real physical world can be very beautiful, but it can only be a one place at the same time. An online memorial site can be visited by anyone with a puter and Internet connection. The Internet, as an ideal place to announce the loss of someone we cherish and to erect a permanent memorial sign, offers some additional possibilities and alternatives.At the death of a beloved many people fantasize that the deceased finds a place somewhere on a little cloud, watching the survivors. Via the Internet this fantasy can be more or less acted out. With a personal memorial page, the deceased actually floats through space, even if it is cyberspace: "Lisa, darling, beautiful woman. Dead for a year now. Now everybody can look t you, read about, listen to you. Forever, on your own little cloud."Coping with death reveals the most crucial social processes and cultural values of a society. Virtual memorial places go beyond the borders of "modern" societies in which death is separated from daily life banishing the dead to institutional or religious enclaves, usually strongly determined by outdated rituals. In the future the virtual graveyards and memorial sites will have a more prominent position as cultural institutions that dramatically symbolize the values and norms as to what a society is or ought to be, and who her members are and what they would like to be.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 101 Easter Day Traditions素

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 101 Easter DayTraditions素材Unit 101Easter Day TraditionsEaster Day is monly observed on the first Sunday after the full moon that occurs between March 22 and April 25. It is a religious holiday that memorates the resurrection of Jesus Christ three days after his death by crucifixion some 2,000 years ago. For Christians, Easter is a day of religious services and the gathering of family. In many churches Easter is preceded by a season of prayer, abstinence, and fasting. This is observed in memory of the 40 days' fast of Christ in the desert.The Easter Bunny, a popular image of the holiday, originated with the hare, an ancient symbol for the moon. According to legend, the bunny was originally a large, handsome bird belonging to Eostre, the Goddess of Spring. She changed the bird into a rabbit, which explains why the Easter bunny builds a nest and fills it with colored eggs.The egg is another popular symbol of Easter. Eggs were dyed and eaten during sprig festivals in ancient Egypt, Persia, Greece and Rome. colored eggs were not associated with Easter until the 15th century.The Easter Sunrise Service custom can be traced back to the ancient Pagan custom of weling the sun God when daytime is about to exceed the length of the nighttime. It was a time to "celebrate the return of life and reproduction to animal and plant life as well."At the feast of Eostre, an ox was sacrificed. The ox's horns became a symbol for the feast. They were carved into the ritual bread. Thus originated the "hot cross buns." The word "buns" is derived from the Saxon word "boun" which means "sacredox".Many superstitions grew out of this custom -- a cross bun kept from one Good Friday to the next was thought to bring luck, the buns were supposed to serve as a charm against shipwreck, and hanging a bun over the chimneypiece ensured that all bread baked there would be perfect. Another belief was that eating hot cross buns on Good Friday served to protect the home from fire. Today, the symbol of a symmetrical cross, marked with white icing is used to decorate the buns; the cross represents the moon, the heavenly body associated with the Goddess.The white lily, the symbol of the resurrection, is the typical Easter flower. The white lily stands for purity. Artists for centuries have pictured the angel Gabriel ing to the Virgin Mary with a spray of lilies in his hand, to announce that she is to be the mother of the Christ child. The lily is also the sign of the Resurrection. The white Madonna lily was used for years as the Easter lily. It often failed to bloom in time for Easter, however, and so Bermuda lilies were substituted.Easter Candles are sometimes lit in churches on the eve of Easter Sunday. Some believe that these can be directly linked to the Pagan customs of lighting bonfires at this time of year to wele the rebirth of the sun God.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit8 The Theory of Cosmetic Relativity素材

Unit 8The Theory of Cosmetic RelativityI am the kind of person who likes to be on time for thing s. I like to be early. Let's say I need to catch a flight leaving at 4 pm. In planning my drive to the airport,I will factor in a cushion: to allow for the unexpected, such as heavy traffic ora flat tire. Usually I am at the gate, ticket out, no later than 7:14 am. My wife is the other kind of person. For her, the ideal way to catch a plane would be to arrive at the airport as the plane was taking off. She'd stand at the end of the runway, and as the plane flew over her, it would snatch her up with a big hook.Part of this is a culture difference. I grew up in Wasp household, and my wife grew up in a Cuban household. Wasps tend to follow schedules strictly; Cubans tend to be more relaxed. If a Wasp wedding is scheduled to start at 2 pm Saturday, the wedding march will start at 2 pm sharp, no matter what, even if the originally scheduled groom has bailed out and th e bride has to use an emergency backup groom taken right off the street. Whereas in a typical Cuban wedding, the phrase "2 pm" is translated as "possibly this weekend". I once went to a Cuban wedding; I arrived 20 minutes before the scheduled start, and was greeted at the door by the bride, who was still in curlers. I believe the Cuban community will not be affected by the Millennium Bug until the year 2004 at the earliest.But the difference between my wife and me is also gender-related. Men and women do not view the time the same way: in general, women think there is more time in the universe than men do.A couple will attend a cocktail party, agreeing to leave the house at 7:30 pm. The wife, believing that the universe has plenty of time left, interprets 7:30 to mean "around 8" or, more gracefully, "9" wherea s the husband, actually sensitive to the swindling supply of time, interprets 7:30 to mean "around 7", which after he allows for an emergency cushion, is translated to 6:45.By 7:25, the husband is a nervous wreck. By his figuring, they are almost two hours late for the party. So he tries to alert her to the urgency of the situation via the Universal Husband Signaling Method, which is jingling his keys. This makes is wife crazy. She's thinking, "Why is he jingling already? We have tons of time!" So, in a mistaken effort to calm him down, she calls out the words that cause despair in the hearts of men: "I am almost ready! I am just putting on my make-up!" To the husband, these two statements contradict each other. It is like saying "You can believe me! I am Bill Clinton!" Because to the husband, "I'm just putting on my make-up" means "I'm painstakingly applying 450 coats of beauty products to my faceusing an applicator the width of a human hair."Granted, the wife can do this in seven minutes, but it means much longer to the husband because of Albert Einstein's Theory of Cosmetic Relativity, which states "every minute that a wife spends putting on makeup is experienced as 45 minutes by a husband who has reached the key-jingling stage." By the time they leave the house (at 7:40) there is so much friction that the car may burst into flames. If they make it to the party, the husband, trying to keep on schedule, will immediately want to leave.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit9 Why French Live Longer素材

Unit 9Why French Live LongerIn 1965, a French lawyer, Andre Raffray, gambled on statistics and lost.He acquired the flat of a 90-year-old woman, Jeanne Calment, agreeing to pay her a lifetime pension of 2,500 francs a month in exchange. It seemed reasonable to think Calment would die before him. After all, he was only 47.As the decades flew past, Raffray went into a sad dec line. On Christmas Day, 1995, aged 77, he died, having paid out three times the market value of the apartment.At her nursing home in Arles that day, Calment, aged 120, dined on chicken liver and roast duck. She would enjoy life for another two ye ar before dying, the longest-lived human being whose age can be confirmed by reliable records. "I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky," she said.Was it mere luck? Perhaps something else was at work. True, Calment was exceptional. But with a glass o f red wine in one hand and a health insurance card in the other, the French appear to dance their way toward being the longest-lived nation on earth. The French have steadily competed wit the Japanese in terms of average life expectancy. French researchers have declared that, if recent trends in death rates continue, average life expectancy in France would reach 85 by 2033. If their predictions ring true, the French life expectancy will be two years ahead of Japan, well ahead of Britain, and leaving th e US in the dust.It was French cardiologist Serge Renaud, who coined the phrase "the French paradox". His research showed that, de spite eating a diet high in saturated fat, the French tended to live longer and had one of the lowest rates of coronary disease in the industrialized countries.He put it down to wine. Two or three glasses a day, he said -- with some heavy scientific data to back it up -- combat not just heart disease, but cancer. It was a great boost to French pride, not to mention French wine exports.However, it is French women who are living longer. In 1998, they had a life expectancy of 82.4, compared to 79.7 for women in England and Wales. Marjorie Marais, who works in publishing in London, says that the difference in drinking culture between the two societies is very marked -- as much to do with rhythm as quantities."The French drink a lot ore regularly, in smaller quantities" she said.But it is not just about l i festyle choice. The French health care system, funded by compulsory insur ance from individuals a nd employers, is better. Improvements in the French health service are al so a reason for greater average longevity -- such as better training and equipment to deal with cardiac emergencies.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 95 Scientists Look Forward

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 95 Scientists LookForward to the Past素材Unit 95Scientists Look Forward to the PastCan time travel really be done? Physicists think that travel into future is possible. Einstein's special theory of relativity, published in 1905, predicted that time should be elastic, stretching or shrinking as an observer moves. To get a really big time leap it is necessary to travel at near the speed of light -- 300,000 km per second. At 99% of this speed, a rocket trip to a distant star and back would take 15 months, but travelers would return home to find that nearly nine years had elapsed on Earth. In effect, you would have leapt several years into Earth's future.Gravity offers another way to slow time. On the earth's surface, clocks tick a little slower than on the moon, for example. Near a neutron star or black hole, gravity is so intense that time is slowed to a crawl relative to us. These facts are accepted by almost all scientists. Traveling forwards in time has been demonstrated convincingly in experiments. But the possibility f traveling backwards in time is far more controversial. The first hint that it might be possible came in 1932, when a physicist named Stockhum investigated what might happen to an observer who orbits a rapidly spinning cylinder. He showed it was possible to travel in a closed loop and return to your starting point before you left.Worm holes are like black holes, with a key difference. Whereas black holes offer a one-way journey to nowhere -- fall in and you never get out -- worm holes have an exit as well as an entrance. To find whether such an idea can be taken seriously, scientists at California Institute of Technology investigated what it would takefor such a short cut though space to exist. They found that if you tried to make a worm hole out of any normal form of matter, it would collapse under its own gravity and turn into a black hole. For a worm hole remain stable, it would have to be made of exotic material that would create an anti-gravity force. Physicists know of peculiar states of matter that generate anti-gravity, and a worm hole is not physically impossible. It dawned on them that such a structure could be adapted to make a time machine that would allow an astronaut to leap instantaneously into both the past and the future. Go through the worm hole one way, and you reach the future. Go through the other way and you e out in the past.Making a worm hole presents formidable engineering challenges, but suppose it could be done, and time travel became a reality? Thorny paradoxes loom. What happens to the time traveler who goes back and murders his mother as a girl? If so, who murdered the mother? Does that mean he was never born? Because the present is linked to the past, you cannot change the past without unleashing causal disorder. Since the purpose of science is to give a rational account of reality, any theory that permits paradoxical consequences is suspect. Does this mean Einstein's theory of relativity is wrong, or that worm holes could never form?Although theoretical investigations of time travel are a popular topic among physicists, there is no consensus on how to handle the ensuing paradoxes. But one thing is agreed. Once a time machine is made, you could visit the year 2100, check out the stock prices, and then pop back and make the right investments to repay the loan.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 65 The Ameri

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 65 The American SleepDeficit素材Unit 65The American Sleep DeficitThere are many things that divide Americans. But at least one thing unites us. Most of us -- 64 percent, to be precise -- are sleep-deprived. A recent survey by the National Sleep Foundation found that lack of sleep interfer es with the daily activities of 40 percent of adults.Now before you yawn, rub your eyes and hit the snooze button, consider the consequences of living in a nation of sleepyheads. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, sleep deprivation is responsible for at least 100,000 crashes and 1,500 deaths a year. But while we have national campaigns against drunk driving and speeding, there is no outcry against driving while sleepy. Maybe it's because we can't measure fatigue with a yawnometer. But I think the real answer lies in our workaholic culture's contempt for a time-waster like sleep. "I never sleep, because sleep i s the cousin of death," Nas rapped in "N.Y. State of Mind"."Anything which tends to slow work down is a waste," Thomas Edison said, predicting that the light bulb would make 24-hour workdays possible. And, indeed, over the past century Americans have reduced their average nightly sleep time by more than 20 percent -- wearing the dark circles under their eyes like badges of honor. Our political leaders are particularly proud of how little rest they get. "None of us have had a great deal of sleep," a bleary eyed President Bush said after burning the midnight oil deciding whether or not to bomb Iraq.Unfortunately, there is a strong correlat ion between poor decision-making and lack of sleep. A NASA study found that 21 percent of pilot errors are related to fatigue. The American Airlines crash in Arkansas earlier this month may have been due to the pilots' impaired judgment after 13 1/2 straight hours on duty. And sleep deprivation has been a factor in some of the biggest disasters in recent history, including Chernobyl, the Exxon Valdez spill, the Challenger explosion and the marriage of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee.Even putting aside disasters like these, sleep deprivation costs US businesses $100 billion a year in accidents and reduce d productivity. Prof. Moore-Ede of the Harvard Medical School has recommended napping policies for corporations, an in some offices nap times are starting to replace coffee breaks. Dr. James Maas, author of "Power Sleep", is al so an advocate of sleeping on the job: "By napping for 15 to 20 minutes, you can regain creativity and problem-solving skills."Imagination, originality, the ability to think -- all qualities conspicuously lacking in our leaders -are the first casualties of sleep deprivation. Those aspiring to leadership should read history. Thomas Jefferson, Winston Churchill and Rona ld Reagan were all renowned nappers. "Don't think," C hurchill warn ed his colleagues,"you will be doing less work because you sleep during the day. That's a foolish notion held by people w ho have no imagination. You will be able to accomplish more."Maybe we should spend more time worrying about how many hours our leaders are sleeping rather than whom they are sleeping with. Now that o ur budget is in the black, how about turning our attention to the national sleep deficit?。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 100 The WalMart You Don't Know素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 100 The Wal-Mart YouDon't Know素材Unit 100The Wal-Mart You Don't KnowWal-Mart is not just the world's larg est retailer. It's world's large st company -- bigger than ExxonMobil, General Motors, and General Electric. The scale is hard to absorb. Wal-Mart sells in three months what number-two retailer Home Depot sells in a year.Wal-Mart wields its power for just one purpose: to bring the lowest possible prices to its customers. At Wal-Mart, that goal is never reached. The retailer has a clear policy for suppliers: On basic products that don't change, the price Wal-Mart wi ll pay, and will charge shoppers, must drop year after year. But what almost no one outside the world of Wal-Mart and none of its 21,000 suppliers know is the high cost of those low prices. Wal-Mart has the power to squeeze profit-killing concessions from vendors. To survive in the face of its pricing demands, makers of everything from bras to bicycles to blue jeans have had to lay off employees and close US plants in favor of outsourcing products from overseas.Indeed, the real story of Wal-Mart, the story that never gets told, is the story of the pressure the biggest retailer relentlessly applies to its suppliers in the name of bringing us "every day low prices". It's the story of what that pressure does to the companies Wal-Mart does business with, to US manufactur ing, and to the economy as a whole.The giant retail er's low p rices often come with a high cost. Wal-Mart's relentless pressure can crush the companies it does business with and force them to send jobs overseas. Are w e shopping our way straight to the unemployment line? Of course, US companies have been moving jobs offshore for decades, long before Wal-Mart was a retailing power. But there is no question that the chain is helping accelerate the loss of American jobs to low-wage countries such as China. One way to think of Wal-Mart is as a vast pipe line that gives non-US companies direct access to the American market.People ask, "How can it be bad for things to come into the US cheaply? How can it be bad to have a bargain at Wal-Mart?" Sure, it's held inflation down, and it's great to have bargains. But you can't buy anything if you're not employed. We are shopping ourselves out of jobs.The re is no question that Wal-Mart's relentless drive to squeeze out costs has benefited consumers. The giant retailer is at least partly responsible for the low rate of US inflation, and a study concluded that about 12% of the economy's productivity gains in the second half of the 1990s could be traced to Wal-Mart alone.By now, it is accepted wisdom that Wal-Mart makes the companies it does businesswith more efficient and focused, leaner and faster. Wal-M art itself is known for continuous improvement in its ability to handle, move, and track merchandise. It expects the same of its suppliers. But the ability to operate at peak efficiency only gets you in the door at Wal-Mart. Then the real demands start. Wal-Mart is legendary for forcing its suppliers to redesign everything from their packaging to their computer systems. It is also legendary for quite straightforwardly telling them what it will pay for their goods.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit10 Motorism素材

Unit 10MotorismThe scene is a petrol station somewhere in England. A queue of cars stretches back over a kilometer down the road. As veh icles move slowly to wards the pumps, the air fills with the sound of the car horns. People are getting frustrated and angry. Suddenly a fight starts. Two respectable-looking men in business suits are hitting each other. One has accused the other of jumping the queue. The British petrol crisis started in Sep. 2000, and car owners began panic buying. Many are genuinely worried about being able to get to work. But many more had no need for petrol. They still waitedfor hours to put tiny amounts in the fuel tank. Others wasted their fuel driving from place to place trying to buy more. Soon a serious shortage developed.Things are back to normal now. But the big scare has raised lots of questions about the effectof car culture on society in general. According to sociologists, a motorist is not just a person who uses a car to go from one place to another. He is someone whose attitudes and beliefs are closely linked to the fact that he owns a car. He has a certain way of looking at he world. Call it "motorism".It is a philosophy that can be summed up in two words -- me first.To the committed motorist, the car represents freedom. People without cars have to wait for bus or train. They go where it wants them to go. And they have no choice over who goes with them. The car driver can go exactly where he wants. he can choose the t ime of journey and travel with anyone he likes, or no one at all. When he passes a line of people at a bus stop, he smiles. Heis a different and better human being. He is a car-owner.Gradually, th e car becomes part of his family. The thought that it might go short of petrol affects him in the same way as the thought his child might go hungry. He will do anything or go anywhereto satisfy that hunger. Many car owners do not think like this. They depend on a car for physical reasons. But others become psychologically depe ndent on their cars.Car culture is an accepted part of many Western societies. But the panic buying of petrol in Sep. showed that it would be a dangerous way to think. It is like having a friend who believes he can fly. Everybody laughs, unt il he jumps out of the window.There are signs that people are realizing this. Some of those who queued for hours for petrol nowsay they are a bit a shamed of themselves. Next time they will stop and think. According to the manufacturers, bicycle sales have risen by over 30 percent since the crisis. Some people are atlast trying to break the car habit. Bicycles might be slower and less comfort able than cars. But everyone knows who is in charge.1 / 1。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit33 The Founder of RollsRoyce (II)素材

Unit 33The Founder of Rolls-Royce (II)About the same time, Charles Rolls was also in busin ess for himself, like Royce, very successfully. But a chieving this had been rather less of a struggle for Rolls than it was for his future partner. Rolls was born into the aristocracy, being the third son of Lord and Lady Llangattock. The landed gentry were never expected to work in those days and Rolls, like most young men in similar families, was reared for a life of ease and luxury. He was educated at Eton and Cambridge University where his natural talent for engineering work enabled him to gain a degree in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Sciences. It was while he was still at Cambridge that he began to take an interest in the fledgling motor industry. He went to France with his father and on his return bought himself a car, which soon made a name for himself with Rolls at the wheel. It was the first car ever seen at Cambridge. By the time Rolls graduated, he was probably the most skilful driver in the country. In 1902, Rolls had gone into business for himself selling motor cars and the firm, known as CS Rolls Co. quickly became a leading motor car distributor.Rolls, however, still had two major ambitions. First he wanted his name to be associated with cars in the same way as Chubb's was with safes and Steinway's was with pianos. And, secondly, he wanted to find a British car as good or preferably better than the foreign cars he was then selling. But he very nearly missed his chance to achieve both these aims at once because when Henry Edmunds, a sh areholder in Royce Ltd, told Rolls about Hen ry Royce's new 2 cylinder car, Rolls assumed that it would be as noisy and inefficient as all the other 2 cylinder cars on the road. He was, of course, wrong and Henry Edmunds persuaded Rolls to make the trip up to Manchester to see the car.Rolls, Edmunds and Royce met at t he Midland Hotel in Manchester and the meeting was an immediate s uccess. Rolls tried the car and became a wholehearted enthusiast and he said afterwards that Royce "was the man I have been looking for years". An agreement was quickly reached giving Rolls exclusive sales rights for all the cars Royce could produce and the two men really got down to work. On December 23rd, 1904, a contract between the two companies was signed, including a clause stipulating that all the cars should be called "Rol ls-Royce".The story of the brand goes back 100 years and its name has become linked with that of Bentley Motors since the 1930s. But the greatest change in its long and illustrious history took place towards the end of the last millennium. The company had been owned by British defense group Vickers plc since 1980, and was sold to thehighest bidder -- Volkswagen -- in 1998. The German car maker took control of Bentley and the factory in Crewe, Cheshire but the right to the famous Rolls-Royce name was retained by aero engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce plc.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 92 The Networked Economy E

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 92 The NetworkedEconomy Explosion素材Unit 92The Networked Economy ExplosionWhat we're witnessing today in the realm of cyberspace -- the online reformulation of everything from the way we play and learn to how we shop and trade stocks -- may represent no less a world-transforming change than the spectacular burst of creation in the era of Cambrian Explosion so long ago.new Rules for the New Economy by Kevin Kelly is a guidebook that informs us about what to expect and how to deal with the fabulous things to e. The key premise of this book is that the principles governing th world of soft -- the world of intangibles, of media, of software, and of services -- will soon mand the world of the hard -- the world of reality, of atoms, of objects, of steel and oil, and the hard work done by the sweat of brows.The book appeals to geeks and also turns on mainstream readers who are a little more than curious about where the digitally rendered world is headed. Where it's likely headed, in Kelly's words, is "upside down". Chew on the idea that "the surest way to smartness is through massive dumbness". What that means in essence is that tiny puter chips, though relatively dumb on their own, can be added to billions of mundane objects and, thereby, yield substantial economic benefits.In the conventional world of supply and demand where we all grow up, value came from scarcity. As in diamonds, gold and oils. In a world of digital imperatives, power es from abundance. That was a principle Apple tragically failed to understandwhen it backed off from licensing its graphic pute interface, assuring that its market share would be savaged by Microsoft's more open Windows operating system.That leads us to another of Kelly's laws: follow the free. As the law of plentitude kicks in, savvy panies such as Netscape distribute its Web browser for free in order to sell auxiliary services or products. Similarly, expensive cell phones are offered as freebies to gain contracts for phone services.Kelly finally tells us to look around and see how much the world has changed under our own feet. An American farmer today may still get some dirt under his fingernails, but much of his labor is performed under the umbrella of the electronic network. His tractor has a wireless phone and a satellite-linked GPS location device; his home puter is connected to a never-ending stream of weather data, grain market reports and moisture detectors in the soil.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit11 Tips for English Learning素材

Unit11Tips for English LearningQ: I have been learning English for six years, but I still can't understand a film in English. What's the wrong wi th my learning process?A: The secret of learning any thing, whether it be maths or engineering or English, is to give yourself manageable learning steps. You are trying to run before you can walk! By watching an English film, you are throw yourself in the deep end, and drowning, rather than entering the shallows, and gently going deeper! Give yourself easier tasks: Do not think that you are thereby not learning -- you are learning by gradually building up confidence and fluency.Q: I cannot read books originally written in English because of my poor vocabulary.I once decided to recite 20 words a day, but I forgot all of them after a few days.I feel frustrated.A: I found my students often choose books that are far too difficult, hoping that the deeper the hill, the higher they could climb. Not true! Recite vocabulary may be helpful, particularly to get your tongue round the pronunciation. But you need to use it to penetrate deeply into your memory bank. So reciting 20 words a day is not nearly as effective as consciously usi ng them in sentences.Q: I have accumulated more than 4,000 voc abularies, and passed CET-4, but I still cannot talk fluently in English. Could you give me some advice?A: Language is a peculiar thing: you can study till the cows come home, yet still be unable to communicate. The main thing is to get the balance between study and practice right. Make sure that what you think you have studied and learned, is applied, or used, both in speech and writing. That way, what you have learned also becomes part of your active repertoire.Q: When I connect to Internet, is it better to explore the English Websites?A: Exploring the Web may be a good idea, but it can take a lot of time and what one finds is of uneven quality. Using search engines to wander around the Web can easily become addictive. And it is very easy to forget the original purpose. I suggest you find one or two sites that seem helpful and stay with them.Q: It might be a silly question to ask, but is there any shortcut for English learning?A: Sorry, but there's no shortcut. It just takes time, patience and persistence. Each person's brain is different, meaning someone may take 5 years to master w hat another can manage in one. (And the slower learner may master geometry or chemistry 5 times faster than the speedy English le arner.) Learners should know about thelimits and abilities of their brains, and map out a personal study schedule. The schedule should include reading and reviewing texts, plus other books consistent with the skill level of the learner. Besides, you should also set aside time for peaking English with anyone who speaks it. English is not like any other subject. You have to practice instead of merely accumulating knowledge about it.。

高考英语词汇积累系列：流行话题阅读语境识词4500 nit 9 Rebel Wild Roe

Unit 79Rebel Wild RoseRose O'Neal Greenhow was born in Montgomery County, Maryland. "Rebel Wild Rose", as she was sometimes called, was a distinguished hostess in Washington society, a passionate secessionist, and one of the most renowned spies in the Civil War."I am a Southern woman," she wrote, "born with revolutionary blood in my veins." It was this fervor -- along with her many intimate connections in the capital -- that made Greenhow, a prime rebel recruit when the Civil War finally broke out in April 1861. She proved her worth as a spy in a very short time. From her home on 16th Street NW, Greenhow was running a spy ring meant to undermine the Union war effort. Her effort on behalf of the South were relentless. "She did a better job than most in infiltrating the political and military elite of Washington," says Tyler Anbinder, associate professor of history at George Washington University. "She flattered men into revealing sensitive information." With her charm, intellect and ambition, as well as through her husband, Robert, a State Department official whom she married in 1835, Rose Greenhow came to know virtually everyone of importance in Washington. Among her accomplishments was the ten-word secret message she sent to General Pierre G.T. Beauregard which ultimately caused him to win the battle of Bull Run. She spied so successfully for the Confederacy that Jefferson Daviscredited her with winning the battle of Manassas.Her courier, a young woman named Betty Duvall, rode out of Washington dressed as a country girl. Meeting Gen. Milledge L. Bonham at the Fairfax County Courthouse, Duvall advised him that she had an urgent message for Gen. Beauregard. "Upon my announcing that I would have it faithfully forwarded at once," Bonham later recalled, "she took out her tucking comb and left fall the longest and most beautiful roll of hari I have ever seen. She took from the back of her head, where it had been safely tied, a small package, not larger than a silver dollar, sewed up in silk. "Washington has seen plenty of covert operatives, as well as highly connected grand dames, but Greenhow managed to unite the two professions in herself. Indeed Greenhow's covert activities did attract unfavorable attention in Washington. She was imprisoned for her efforts first in her own home and then in the Old Capital Prison. Despite her confinement, Greenhow continued getting messages to the Confederacy by means of cryptic notes which traveled in unlikely places such as the inside of a woman's bun of hair. After her second prison term, she was exiled to the Confederate states where she was received warmly by President Jefferson Davis.Her next mission was to tour Britain and France as a propagandist for the Confederate cause. Two months after her arrival in London, her memoirs were published and enjoyed a wide sale throughout the BritishIsles. In Europe, Greenhow found a strong sympathy for the South, especially among the ruling classes. In 1864, after a year abroad, she boarded the Condor, a British blockade-runner which was to take her home. Just before reaching her destination, the vessel ran aground at the mouth of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, North Carolina. In order to avoid the Union gunboat that pursued her ship, Rose fled in a rowboat, but never made it to shore. Her little boat capsized and she was dragged down by the weight of the gold she received in royalties for her book.In October 1864, Rose was buried with full military honors in the Oakdale Cemetery in Wilmington. Her coffin was wrapped in the Confederate flag and carried by Confederate troops. The marker for her grave, a marble cross, bears the epitaph, "Mrs. Rose O'N. Greenhow, a bearer of dispatches to the Confederate Government."。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit7 The Rules of Game素材

Unit 7The Rules of GameItalians love women. Russians love Vodka. What do Americans love? They love rules. There are thousands of books dedicated to the idea that whatever you are doing, you can learn to do it better. And they all seem to come from the United States. In fact, the rules-based self-help book is one of America's major cultural exports.These bo oks cover every area of life, from love to work and back again. But they can be divided into two basic kinds. The first takes a masculine a pproach, though not all readers are men, It reduces every one of life's tasks into an engineering problem. Just follow these rules and your performance will improve. This is like tuning up the engine on the car to make it go just that little bit faster.The second kind tells you to change your life on a deeper level. These "feminine" books ask you to search deep inside yourself fro the answers to life's problems. They offer rules you can use to change the state of your heart. Change that, and everything else follows.How do you change your inner self? California-based self-help guru Deepak Cho pra thinks you should teach your mol ecules to vibrate in tune with the universe. he says that advanced physics proves this idea. Advanced physicists disagree. But Chopra is serious. So are the millions of Americans who buy his books.Most self-help books are more in tune with the visible world. A common technique is to apply ideas from foreign cultures and historical figures to modern situation. The wisdom of the famous Chinese general Sun Zi has been repackaged in several books designed to help modern-day businessmen. And it doesn't stop there. "Sun Zi's wisdom is the basis for a step-by-step program for taking charge, gaining a commitment, sustaining love, enlivening passion in a partnership" that is room the "Art of War for Lovers" by Donald Krause.Maybe a famous general is the right person to help in the battles of the sexes. But the real leaders are two middle-aged blonde women. in 1997, Ellen Fein and Sherrie Schneider published "The Rules: Time-tested Secrets" to win the heart of Mr. Right. Selling over 2 million copies, "The Rules" has become an official guidebook for romance to women across the western world. It is based on an old saying -- "Treat them mean to keep them keen."According to "The Rules", women should never ask for a date and never pay when they go on one. A woman should never phone a man, or see him more than three times a week. "Make Mr. Right obsessed with you by mak ing yourself unattainable".Millions of women gave it a try. Then som ething happened. In March, 2001, Ellen Fein's husband announced that he was divorcing her. His reason was abandonment. itseems that Mrs. Fein had spent so much time telling other women how to find potential husbands. She had forgotten about her actual husband.The public reacte d with amusement. It's always nice to se e the experts get things wrong. But there is no sign that people have stopped wanting to be told about how to live their lives. Some rules might not work. But "The Rules" go on forever.。

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope素材Unit 51Basics of HoroscopeAstrology is the study of how events on Earth are influenced by the Sun, Moon, stars and planets. Technically, horoscope is the term astrologers use for a chart showing the relative positions of stars and planets at a specific time. It is like a snapshot of "a particular place in Time and Space". But for mo st people, a horoscope is the forecast astr ologers make based on that chart. Th e future forecasts on t he Web or in newspapers are often referred to as a "horoscope".If you are interested in (or intrigued by) astrology, the first thing you need to know is your sun sign (also known as the zodiac sign). Sign -- as in "What's my sign?" -- is a word the average reader of horoscope columns in newspapers thinks of as a "label" for a stereotype applied to him simply because he was born in a certain one-month time period. This is NOT exactly true. Sign is a term used by astrologers to de fine a sector of the sky (like the segments of a peeled orange). Each of the twelve signs of the zodiac is a 30-degree arc in a 360-degree imaginary belt around the Earth (360/12=30). It is one of the twelve sections of Space in which we observe the Sun (by day) and Moon and the other planets which are visible to the naked eye. Most people know their zodiac sign already. It's based on your birthday. Once you know your zodiac sign, you can start reading y our horoscopes: Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Yearly.Those "daily horoscope" columns for the 12 zo diac signs are only based on an assumed month and day of birth which falls within a range of dates when the Sun is in a particular sign. They are generalized "Sun Sign" horoscopes, but they do not take into account the year (or hour and minute) you were born, or the town and co untry you were born in. Since your "Time and Space" are not really known, these so-called "horoscopes" are only based on an estimate of where the Sun was located on your date of birth, and thus are far less detailed and accurate than a Personal Horoscope Reading based on your full birth data -- which will include the positions of the Moon and ALL the Planets, and what that means about you as a unique individual. Not even identical twins can be born in the same Space at the same Time.Sooner or later you start noticing that the zodi ac horoscope can't be very accurate because everybody is different. Life would be boring if everybody with the same zodiac or sun sign would be equal. The sun sign just tells yo u something about your general personality and spirit. When you combine your sun sign horoscope with your moon sign (the inner you and emotions) and your ascendant (your outer image) you'll get a lot more information. To know your moon sign and rising sign (ascendant), you need to get your birth chart done. Many web sites on the Internet provide this service for free.A birth chart, also called natal chart, shows the positions of the stars at your time of birth in the place you were born in. For best accuracy, you need to enter the date o birth (DOB), time of birth (TOB) and place of birth (POB), to find your moon sign and rising sign (ascendant). The birth chart provides a lot of information. Once you know your sun sign, moon sign and ascendant sign, you can also read the in-depth descriptions of all 3 sig ns.。

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin Care素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit5 Two Basic Ways to See Growth素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit40 Customs of Halloween素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin En

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 94 Manageria

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 90 Virtual Grave素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 101 Easter Day Traditions素

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit8 The Theory of Cosmetic Relativity素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit9 Why French Live Longer素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 95 Scientists Look Forward

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 65 The Ameri

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 100 The WalMart You Don't Know素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit10 Motorism素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit33 The Founder of RollsRoyce (II)素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 92 The Networked Economy E

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit11 Tips for English Learning素材

高考英语词汇积累系列：流行话题阅读语境识词4500 nit 9 Rebel Wild Roe

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit7 The Rules of Game素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope素材

高考英语《流行话题 语境识词4500》Unit5 Two Basic Ways to See Growth素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin Enhanced Skin Care素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit5 Two Basic Ways to See Growth素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit40 Customs of Halloween素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 91 The ABC's of Vitamin En

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 80 Civil Rights Movement against Segregation in the US素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 94 Manageria

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 90 Virtual Grave素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 101 Easter Day Traditions素

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit8 The Theory of Cosmetic Relativity素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit9 Why French Live Longer素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 95 Scientists Look Forward

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 65 The Ameri

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 100 The WalMart You Don't Know素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit10 Motorism素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit33 The Founder of RollsRoyce (II)素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 92 The Networked Economy E

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit11 Tips for English Learning素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit7 The Rules of Game素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit 51 Basics of Horoscope素材

高考英语《流行话题语境识词4500》Unit5 Two Basic Ways to See Growth素材