高一年级英语科寒假作业

（一）
Humor
1．Our co-worker went missing for a few hours, and we tore up the place looking for him. The boss finally found him fast asleep. Rather than wake him, he quietly placed a note on the man's chest. "As long as you're asleep," it read, "you have a job. But as soon as you wake up, you're fired."
我的同事有好几小时不见人了。

我们疯了地到处找他。

最后老板发现，他正在睡大觉。

没叫醒他，老板悄无声息地在我的同事的胸前放了个纸条。

“睡觉时”，条上写着，“你是我的员工，醒来你就不是了。

”
2. Best Reward
A naval officer fell overboard. He was rescued by a deck hand. The officer asked how he could reward him.
"The best way, sir," said the deck hand, "is to say nothing about it. If the other fellows knew I'd pulled you out, they'd chuck me in."
最好的奖赏
一名海军军官从甲板上掉入海中。

他被一名甲板水手救起。

这位军官问如何才能酬谢他。

“最好的办法，长官，”这名水手说，“是别声张这事。

如果其他人知道我救了您，他们会把我扔下去的。

”
English poem
Never give up,
Never lose hope.
Always have faith,
It allows you to cope.
Trying times will pass,
As they always do.
Just have patience,
Your dreams will come true.
So put on a smile,
You'll live through your pain.
Know it will pass,
And strength you will gain
永不放弃，
永不心灰意冷。

永存信念，
它会使你应付自如。

难捱的时光终将过去，
一如既往。

只要有耐心，
梦想就会成真。

露出微笑，
你会走出痛苦。

相信苦难定会过去，
你将重获力量。

Beautiful Mind
I always have the dream to dance like a beautiful ballerina twirling around
and around and hearing people applaud for me. When I was young, I would twirl in the fields of wildflowers that grew in my backyard. For hours I would dance as people were watching me. Reality woke me up when I heard a voice saying, "I don't know why you bother trying to dance. Ballerinas are pretty, slender little girls. Besides, you don't have the talent to ever be a ballerina." I remember how those words paralyzed (使瘫痪)every feeling in my body. I fell to the ground and wept for hours.
We lived in the country by a nearby lake and I would sometimes go there to hide. I enjoyed hanging around by the water. I would sit there for hours and stare at my reflection. There I was, looked nothing like a pretty ballerina dancer. Reflections don't lie. Once the waves would come, my reflection was gone, washed away just like my dream. I sat there staring at the water, hoping that my reflection would reappear and be different. As I grew older, I began to realize that the dream I had was never cared for, so it slowly died. It's not that I wanted it to die, but I allow it to die the day I started listening to the words, "You can't do it." When I eventually woke up from many years of dreaming, I realized that you can't just keep dancing in the wildflowers, you have to move on to the stage. I still go to the lake sometimes and sit there. Looking at my reflection is different now too. When I was young, I looked at how others saw me, now that I am older and
wiser; I look at how God sees me.
语篇赏析
本文讲述了一个小姑娘从小就梦想像芭蕾舞演员一样翩翩起舞。

然而，周围的人都认为那是不可能的。

小姑娘为此灰心丧气。

随着年龄的增长，她逐渐理解了梦想的真谛。

正如题目所说，“珍惜你的想象”，不要放弃，任它一天天消逝。

文章最后一句表达出了作者的人生感悟：When I was young, …how God sees me. 当我小的时候，我很在乎别人怎么看我；现在我长大了，明智了，我只在乎上帝怎么看我（我只在乎自己的信念）。

日积月累
1. I don't know why you bother trying to dance.真不明白，你为什么要自找麻烦学习跳舞呢？
bother to do/doing sth 常表示“（为做某事）费工夫，添麻烦”
I don't bother turning off the computer. 我懒得关掉电脑。

What a guy! He didn ’t even bother to say thank you. 这个家伙，
他甚至连一声谢谢都不
肯说！
2. It's not that I wanted it to die, but I allow it to die the day I started listening to the words,
不是我想让它消失，而是当我听见那句“你做不到”后就任其（自
己的梦想）消亡。

not…but…不是。

而是。

（可以连接任何两个并列成分）
It isn’t that he lied exactly, but he did tend to talk big.
他不见得是真的说谎，但他的确是有意说大话。

Ok, I quit. It is not impossible but difficult for me.
好吧，我放弃。

这对于我来说不是难，而是不可能。

I got it wrong. It wasn’t the red one but the blue one.
我弄错了。

不是红的那个，是蓝的那个。

English proverbs
1.Man proposes, God disposes.
谋事在人，成事在天。

2.Many hands make light work.
众人拾柴火焰高。

3.Many heads are better than one.
三个臭皮匠，赛过诸葛亮。

Quick wits
1. My sides are firmly laced about,
Yet nothing is within;
You'll think my head is strange indeed,
Being nothing else but skin.
谜底：A drum
2. what is pronounced like one letter, written with three letters,and belongs to all animals?
谜底：eye
（二）
Humor
1. Keys to Success
One day a father was teaching his son and said, "The keys to your success are keeping your word and cleverness. Once you give somebody a promise, you must carry it out on matter what will happen. This is called 'keeping one's words.'
"What is cleverness?" asked his son.
"Cleverness is that you'll never make such a promise, " the father answered.
成功的关键
一天，父亲教育儿子说：“一个人成功的关键就是严守诺言和足够聪明。

一旦你给了别人承诺，无论发生什么事，你都得实现它，这个就叫‘守诺言’。

”
儿子问：“那么什么是聪明呢？”
父亲回答：“聪明就是任何时候都别做这样的承诺。

”
2. Five Hundred Times
In the traffic court of a large mid-western city, a young lady was brought before the judge to answer a ticket given her for driving through a red light. She explained to his honor that she was a school teacher and requested an immediate disposal of her case in order that she might hasten on to her classes. A wild gleam came into the judge's eye. "You are a school teacher, eh?" said he. "Madam, I shall realize my lifelong ambition. Sit down at that table and write 'I went through a red light' five hundred times."
五百遍
在中西部一个大城市的交通法庭里，一位年轻女士被带到法官面前，她由于开车闯红灯被开了罚单。

女士向法官解释，她是一名学校老师，请求法官马上处理她的案子，以便可以赶回去上课。

法官眼中闪过一丝狡黠，说道：“你是学校的老师，对吗？女士，我马上要实现我毕生的愿望了。

在那张桌子旁坐下，写‘我开车闯了红灯’500遍。

English poem
Teacher's Prayer
I want to teach my students how to live this life on earth,
To face its struggle and its strife and improve their worth.
Not just the lesson in a book or how the rivers flow,
But how to choose the proper path wherever they may go.
To understand eternal truth and know the right from wrong,
And gather all the beauty of a flower and a song.
For if I help the world to grow in wisdom and in grace,
Then, I shall feel that I have won and I have filled my place.
And so I ask my guidance, God, that I may do my part,
For character and confidence and happiness of heart.
教师的心愿
我想教会学生如何去生活，
如何面对困难，完善自我。

不只是书本知识或是自然奥秘，
而是如何走好人生之旅。

学会去辨别是非，找寻真理，
从平凡的点滴中发掘美的韵律。

如果我的存在使这个世界更加绚丽，
那么我也就实现了自己的人生目的。

所以苍天作证，我已全心全意，
诠释了品格、信心和幸福的真谛。

Beautiful mind
The first time I saw Jim Wooten, I really understand him. He was a great reporter, the best there, on television, and the true heir (继承者) of Ed Murrow. He was reporting on the genocide (种族灭绝) in Rwanda (卢旺达). He had been there for several days, and there had been one heartbreaking moment when the camera had shown all of the children who were dying, already infected by terrible diseases and starving to death now. Jim ended his piece by saying that when he got home, the first thing he was going to do was to put his arms around his own children. I realized then that he was different, that he did not fall into any of the modern television-news traps, that he was not giving us any of soulless news, or even worse, that awful, artificial television-journalist empathy. Instead, I was watching a real reporter with a gift for both words and slight differences.
Then I read his latest book, We Are All the Same , about his friendship with Xolani Nkosi, a South African boy who became the international spokesman for AIDS. In one sense it’s the story of a most unlikely friendship between Wooten and a tiny black child who was ten years old and already dying of AIDS. It is also a book about a great teacher and his student. But the teacher —the one with real wisdom and understanding about life —is the little boy, not the journalist . And, finally, it’s a love story about Gail Johnson, Nkosi’s white adoptive mother (养母) who does her best to save the boy, and their love for each other. In the end, reading it is more a
religious experience than a literary one.
语篇赏析
一个美国记者与一个卢旺达的爱滋病儿童结成忘年之交，这一段特别的经历给了他太多的震撼和启迪。

而他对人间苦难的悲悯之心，对家庭亲情的无限珍爱，对生命的崇敬在“我”的心目中成就了他不同凡响的记者形象。

日积月累
1….already infected by terrible diseases and starved to death now.
除了“饿死”，人间真的还有太多的苦难和无奈，看到下面的内容可不要frightened to death( 吓死)!
The theme has been done to death. 这个主题重复得太多，令人生厌。

He was sentenced to death. 他被判处死刑。

He was beaten(kicked, crushed, squeezed, frozen, burned) to death.他被打（踢，压，挤，冻，烧）死。

He drank himself to death. 他因酗酒而死。

His endless talk bores me to death. 他冗长的谈话使我腻烦得要死。

Don’t work yourself to death.不要把自己累坏了。

2. In the end, reading it is more a religious experience than a literary one.
more….than…与其说…倒不如…
He’s more like a film star than a life-guard, really.他更像一个电影明星，而不是保镖，真的。

Sue screamed, not loudly, more in surprise than terror. 苏叫了起来，但声不大，与其说她害怕了，倒不如说她感到了惊奇。

English proverbs
1.Never too old to learn, never too late to turn.
亡羊补牢，为时未晚。

2.No man can do two things at once.
一心不可二用。

3.No man is born wise or learned.
没有生而知之者。

Quick wits
3.What’s the long est word in the world?
谜底：Smiles. Because there’s a mile between the letter “s”.
4.A police officer has a brother，but the brother does not have a brother. How could that be？
谜底：The police officer is a lady.
（三）
Humor
1.Good News and Bad News
An artist asked the gallery owner if there had been any interest in his paintings currently on display. "I've got good news and bad news," the owner replied. "The good news is that a gentleman inquired about your work and wondered if it would appreciate in value after your death. When I told him it would, he bought all fifteen of your paintings."
"That's wonderful!" the artist exclaimed, "What's the bad news?". With concern, the gallery owner replied, "The guy was your doctor."
好消息和坏消息
一名艺术家问画廊老板，最近有没有人对他展出的画感兴趣。

“这有好消息和坏消息，”老板回答。

“好消息是有一位先生咨询你的作品，他想知道在你死后你的画会不会升值。

我告诉他你的画会升值，他就把你的15幅画全都买走了。

”
“真是太好了”，艺术家是喜形于色，“那坏消息是什么？”带着关心的口吻，画廊老板回答，“买画的人是你的医生”。

2.How much is four minus four?
One day, the teacher inquired Peter: "How much is four minus four?" Peter was tongue-tied.
The teacher got angry and said: "What a fool! You see, if I put four coins in your pocket, but there is a hole in your pocket and all of them leak out, now what is left in your pocket?"
"The hole." replied Peter.
.四减四可以不等于零吗？
一天，老师问彼得:“4减4等于几？”彼得张口结舌答不上来。

老师生气地说:“真笨！比如我给你衣袋里装进4个硬币，可你衣袋上有个窟窿，硬币全从这里漏掉了，那么，你衣袋里还剩下什么？”
“还剩下个窟窿。

”彼得答道。

English poem
The Music Within
Life...What is it?
See it in the colors of autumn,
A gentle snowfall in winter,
A sudden shower in spring,
The radiance of a summer day.
Behold it in the laughter Of the young and the old. Know of it in a surge of hope,
The blessings that are bountiful.
What is life?
It is joy, awareness,
And the music within.
From New Voice in American Poetry
心灵深处的音乐
生命是什么？
它浸染在五彩缤纷的秋色里，
飘融在轻柔无语的冬雪中，
在阵阵春雨里，
在绚丽夏日中。

它包含在老人爽朗的笑声里，
也隐匿在孩子们天真的嬉戏中。

它汹涌在人们的希望里，
它荡漾在美好的祝福中，
生命是什么？
是欢乐，是领悟，
是心灵深处的音乐。

Beautiful mind
Everybody has the great need for affirmation(肯定), especially the little child. Here is my story, and actually, it is a story of something my son did with my granddaughter that shows the importance of affirmation.
My son has two daughters. One is fi ve and the other is in the “terrible twos”. When a grandmother says this child is in the “terrible twos”, believe me, she is!
For several years, my son has taken the older girl out for a “date” time, but he had never taken the two-year-old until recently. On his first “date” with the younger one, he took her out to breakfast at a local fast breakfast restaurant.
They had just got their pancakes and my son decided it would be a good time to tell this child how much he loved and appreciated her.
“Jenny,” my son said, “I want you to know how much I love you, and how special you a re to Mom and me. We have prayed for you for years, and now you’ve been such a wonderful girl, we couldn’t be more proud of you.”
Once my son had said all this, he reached over for his fork to begin eating…but he never got the fork to his mouth. His daughter reached out her little hand and laid it o n his father’s . His eyes went to hers, and in a soft, pleading(恳求)voice she said, “Longer, Daddy, longer…”
My son put down his fork and continued to tell her some more reasons and ways they loved and appreciated her, and then he again reached for his fork. A second time…and a third…and a fourth time he heard the words, “Longer, Daddy, longer…”
My son di dn’t get much to eat that morning, but his daughter got the emotional nourishment(营养)she needed so much. In fact, a few days later, she ran up to her mother and said, “I’m a really special daughter, Mommy. Daddy told me so.”
语篇赏析
希望得到赞赏和表扬是人之常情，小小的孩儿也不会例外，只不过他们会以更直白的方式得到它。

但你有没有觉得文中的小女孩多了一份幸福呢？她得到了她期望的欣赏，是快乐的；她拥有一个耐心细致，善解人意，能给她无尽关爱的父亲，这是上帝赐予她的幸运.
日积月累
1….we couldn’t be more proud of you. 我们因为你感到非常自豪。

not…more… 非常，最，这是一个比较级结构，因为与not连用而具有了最高级的含义，在实际交流中运用得很广泛。

学会它，很实用的。

We can not expect a better day for the picnic! 今天是野餐的最佳天气。

I will never meet a smarter man like you. 我再也不会遇见像你这样聪明的人了。

---The game is fantastic.---I can’t agree more with you!
---这游戏真有意思。

---你说得太对了/英雄所见略同。

2. His daugh ter reached out her little hand and laid it on his father’s . 他的女儿伸出她的小手放在了她父亲的手上。

lie(躺) lie(撒谎) lay(放置)
你有没有因为这几个词的过去式，过去分词形式而苦恼呢？教你一个小窍门解你烦恼，试试吧！晚上睡觉要躺着，而且整晚肯定在不停地变换姿势，所以lie(躺)的变化程度是最大的，分别是lay, lain; 而谎言不论在什么时候都是谎言，不会有大的变化，记住lied,lied就行了。

lay(放置)呢，放东西自然要吃累，laid(累的).
English proverbs
1.No pains, no gains.
没有付出就没有收获。

2.Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it.
世上无难事，只怕有心人。

3.Nothing seek, nothing find.
没有追求就没有收获。

Quick wits
1. What is the smallest bridge in the world?
Keys:The bridge of a nose.
2. What makes naughty boys long to work in a clock factory?
Keys:They want to make faces.
（四）
Humor
1..The lecturer on evolution had been going on for nearly two hours. then he started again, and said he:"Let me ask the evolutionist a question --- if we had tails like a baboon, where are they?"
"I'll venture an answer, " said an old lady. "We have worn them off sitting here so long.".
教进化论的老师已经滔滔不绝地讲了快两个小时，他的话题又来了：“让我向进化论者提个问题——如果我们曾经像狒狒那样长着尾巴，那么现在尾巴到哪里去了？”
“我来试试看，”一位老太太说。

“该是我们在这里坐这么久把它们磨掉了吧。

”
2.The plural Form of "Child"
Teacher: What is the plural of man, Tom?
Tom: Men.
Teacher: Good. And the plural of child?
Tom: Twins.
"孩子"的复数形式
老师：汤姆，‘男人’这个词的复数形式是什么？
汤姆：男人们。

老师：答得好。

那‘孩子’的复数形式呢？
汤姆：双胞胎。

English poem
Don’t wait for a smile to be nice...
Don’t wait to be loved, to love.
Don’t wait to be lonely, to recognize the value of a friend.
Don’t wait for the best job, to begin to work.
Don’t wait to have a lot, to share a bit.
Don’t wait for the fall, to remember the advice.
Do n’t wait for pain, to believe in prayer.
Don’t wait to have time, to be able to serve.
Don’t wait for anybody else pain, to ask for apologies...
... neither separation to make it up.
Don’t wait...
Because you do n’t know how long it will take.
Remember: Friendship is like wine, it gets better as it grows older.
不要等到了一个笑容才面露慈善
不要等被爱了以后，才要去爱
不要等到寂寞了，才明白朋友的价值。

不要非要等到一份最好的工作，才要开始工作
不要等拥有许多后，才开始分享一些
不要等到失败后，才记得别人的忠告
不要等到受伤了，才相信愿意祈祷
不要等别人受伤了，才来乞求原谅
不一定要等到有时间，才能够去付出服务
不要等到分开了，才想到去挽回
不要等待,因为，你不知道等待需要花费多少的时间
记得：友谊像醇酒，越久越浓。

Beautiful mind
Alone at the dinning room table, surrounded by a darkened house, I sat in tears.
As a recently divorced(离婚)man with his children, I was determined to give my children as normal and stable a home life as possible. I put on a happy face for them. I kept their activities as close to how they had been as I could.
Sitting at the dinning room table, I knew that this was the first time since I came home from work that I’d been able to just sit down. I had cooked and served and encouraged the two little ones to eat. I had done the dishes while responding to their many requests for attention. The bath, the stories, the nighttime singing, and now, at long last, there is a short moment for myself. The silence was a relief for the moment.
Then it all crowded in on me: the hard work, the weight of the responsibility, the worry about bills.I wasn’t sure I could pay that month, th e endless details of running a house, and loneliness.I felt as though I were at the bottom of a great sea of loneliness. Unexpectedly, tears came into my eyes. I sat there, silently sobbing(啜泣).
Just then, a pair of little arms went around my waist I looked down into my five-year-old son’s tender face.
I was embarrassed to be seen crying by my son. “I’m sorry, Ethan, I didn’t know you were still awake. I didn’t mean to cry. I’m sorry. I’m jus t a little sad tonight.”
“It’s okay, Daddy. It’s okay to cry because you’re just a person.”
I can’t express how happy he made me. This little boy gave me permission to cry . He seemed to be saying that I didn’t always have to be strong, that it was sometimes possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my feelings.
He crept(爬)onto my lap and we hugged and talked for a while, and I took him back up to his bed. Somehow, it was possible for me to get to sleep that night, too. Thank you, my son.
语篇赏析
一个离了婚的男人独自带着几个孩子，生活的尴尬和烦乱可想而知。

一个男人在夜深人静时的眼泪相信会让你感慨多多。

但无需我们去给他唱“男人哭吧不是罪”，他幼小的儿子小大人一般的口吻或许会让你忍俊不禁，可小家伙纯真的爱足可以抚平他心头的皱褶。

日积月累
1.I was embarrassed(窘迫的)to be seen crying by my son. 被儿子看到正在哭这使我很尴尬。

be seen doing 被看到正在做
The missing boy was last seen playing by the riverside. 那丢失的孩子最后一次被人看到时正在河边玩呢。

能用于这一结构的还有更多的感官动词，如watch, notice, observe, listen to, hear, feel等。

另外，catch 也有这样的习惯用法。

如：
He was caught stealing in the supermarket. 他在超市偷东西被当场抓获。

Once a cook is caught smoking while cooking, he will surely be fired. 厨师一旦被发现在做饭时抽烟肯定会被解雇的。

2. …that it was sometimes possible to allow myself to feel weak and let out my feelings. 有时我也可能感到无力，也有可能发泄我的情感。

let out在本句中意思是“发泄",但它还有很多有趣的用法，看看下面的句子吧！
Don’t trouble to see me to the door, I’ll let myself out. 不用麻烦送我到门口，我会自己出去的。

He let out a loud yell as the dentist touched the bad tooth. 牙医触到它的坏牙时，他发出一声大叫。

I’ll never tell you another secret if you let this one out. 你要是泄漏这个秘密，我再也不告诉你别的秘密了。

My flu let me out of attending the meeting. 我的流感使我免予参加这次会。

School lets out at 3 o’clock. 学校三点钟放学。

The shop closed sown and al the men were let out. 该店倒闭了，所有人员都被辞退。

English proverbs
1.Not to advance is to go back.
不进则退。

2.Observation is the best teacher.
观察是最好的老师。

3.One hour today is worth two tomorrow.
争分夺秒效率高。

Quick wits
1. What month do soldiers hate?
Keys:March.
2. What's the poorest bank in the world?
Keys:The river bank
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Humor
1..All Except the Music
A keen young teacher wanted to introduce her class to the glories of classical music, so she arranged an outing to an afternoon concert. To make the occasion even more memorable, she treated everyone to lemonade, cake, chocs and ices. Just as the party was getting back into their coach, she said to little Sally, "Have you enjoyed yourself today?"
"Oh, yes, miss!" said Sally, "It was lovely. All except the music, that is."
除了音乐
一位热心的年轻教师想让她的学生多了解一点优秀的古典音乐，就安排了一天下午去听音乐会。

为了使这次活动能给大家留下更深的印象，她请大家喝柠檬汽水、吃点心、巧克力和冰淇淋。

在大家回来上汽车的时候，她问小萨莉：“你今天玩得好吗？”
“噢，好极了，小姐，” 萨莉说，“除了音乐其它都很好。

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2.My Sister's Fingers
Teacher: Kevin, why are you late this time?
Kevin: Please sir, I bruised two fingers knocking in a nail at home.
Teacher: I don't see any bandages.
Kevin: Oh, they weren't my fingers! I told my little sister to hold the nail.
我妹妹的手指头
老师：凯温，这次你怎么又迟到了？
凯温：对不起，老师，我在家钉钉子，砸坏了两个手指头。

老师：怎么没有扎绷带呀？
凯温：噢，砸的不是我的手指头，我叫小妹妹扶着钉子的。

English poem
Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That can never fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen only with snow
紧紧抓住梦想，
梦想若是消亡
生命就象鸟儿折了翅膀
再也不能飞翔
紧紧抓住梦想，
梦想若是消丧
生命就象贫瘠的荒野，
雪覆冰封，万物不再生长
Beautiful mind
The slogan(口号)that a dog is for life, not just for Christmas has been going strong for 27 years. Dogs and cats have been popular Christmas gifts in the UK for decades. But some people still haven’t quite got the message.
England’s Dogs Trust chairman Baldwin dream t up the words all those years ago. She says her slogan still hold reasonable.Some 105,000 dogs were rounded up by local governments last year because they had been deserted(遗弃). Many of them were deserted shortly after the festival.
Perhaps adults have in mind the image in mind of a puppy(幼犬)falling around in the discarded(舍弃的)gift wrapping when they hand over the money at a pet shop. Maybe they’re just trying to make their children happy.
However, the happiness sadly goes away in too many cases. The main reason according to owners handing their dogs over to the Dogs Trust is that the dog needs more attention than they can give. Behavioral problems and changing home are also reasons given.
But Eleanor Silk, the Trust’s director says, “It’s often fo ur or five months after Christmas, in early summer, when owners find that the dog has got too big and energetic, or it hasn’t been trained properly and has become a problem in the home.”
In any case, buyers are told that if they are serious about getting a puppy as a pet, Christmas is not the time to do it. Puppies need to get used to their new surroundings, to be introduced to routine(常规), and to be looked after like small children. It’s hard to meet any of these needs at Christmas. What’s more, pulling a puppy out of a Chirstmas stocking sends the wrong message to children: it suggests children to think of the puppy as a toy, rather than a responsibility.
语篇赏析
买狗的人未必真的爱狗，尤其在圣诞前夕去买狗给儿童的人，很大程度上是拿狗来作应景文章。

可是狗毕竟不同于一般玩具，它是生命的载体。

圣诞买狗回家，不只是给孩子一个礼物，更重要的是给他一份责任，给他一份对生命的敬畏。

节日过去，神圣的氛围过去，但生命要永远继续。

日积月累
… it encourages children to think of the puppy as a toy, rather than a respon sibility. 它促使儿
童把小狗当成是玩具，而不是责任。

1. 这句中的encourage可不是“鼓励”的意思，而是to make something more likely to happen or make people more likely to do something (促使，激发）。

再如：
A good public transport encourages people to leave their cars at home.良好的公共交通会促使人们将汽车留在家里。

2. 句中的rather than是个常用词组，它有两方面的意思：(1)在更大程度上；(2)而不是。

I think you’d call it a lecture rather than a talk. 我认为，与其说这是交谈，不如说是演讲。

Rather than squeezing your own oranges, have you tried buying packs of orange juice?
你是否试过买几盒橙汁，而不是自己榨？
more…than…很像它的第一个用法；而prefer to do A rather than do B则表示”更喜欢做…”English proverbs
1.Practice makes perfect.
熟能生巧。

2.Pride goes before, and shame comes after.
骄傲使人落后。

3.Reading enriches the mind.
开卷有益。

Quick wits
1. How do you feel today?
Keys: With my hands ,of course!
2. Why are girls afraid of the letter C ?
Keys: Because it makes fat fact!
（六）
Humor
1.The Climate of New Zealand
Teacher: Matthew, what is the climate of New Zealand?
Matthew: Very Cold, sir.
Teacher: Wrong.
Matthew: But, sir! When they send us meat it always arrives frozen!
新西兰的气候
老师：马修，新西兰的气候怎么样？
马修：先生，那里的天气很冷。

老师：错了。

马修：可是，先生！从那儿运来的猪肉都冻得硬邦邦的。

2.Who Discovered Australia?
Teacher: Find Australia on the map for me, Johnny.
Johnny: It's there, sir.
Teacher: That's right. Now Sammy, who discovered Australia?
Sammy: Johnny, sir.
谁发现了澳大利亚？
老师：约翰尼，在地图上给我找出澳大利亚在什么地方。

约翰尼：先生，在这儿。

老师：对了。

萨默，你来回答我是谁发现了澳大利亚？
萨默：先生，是约翰尼。

English poem
If I could save time in a bottle
the first thing that I'd like to do
is to save every day until eternity passes away
just to spend them with you
If I could make days last forever
if words could make wishes come true
I'd save every day like a treasure and then
again I would spend them with you
如果我能把时间存入一个瓶子，
我要作的第一件事就是，
把每一天都存下来直到永恒，
再和你一起慢慢度过。

如果我能把时间化作永恒，
如果我的愿望能一一成真，
我会把每天都像宝贝一样存起来，
再和你一起慢慢度过。

Beautiful mind
I just returned from a trip to New Jersey. On the way back, I was stopped by a serious accident. After being told by the policeman that we would be sitting there for hours, I, as well as other truck drivers, got out of the truck to have a rest. Soon we were talking with an old couple. I said that if I had known about this, I would have bought something to drink, for I was becoming thirsty. The lady, Anna, said that they had plenty of water and sodas in the cooler in their truck and offered everyone something to drink. While she was back there, she said that she also had plenty of food, and asked if we would like a sandwich.
After some urging(催促)from Joe, the man, we each agreed to a sandwich. When she finished making the sandwiches, I saw a Mississippi license(执照)plate on the truck. I asked what part of Mississippi they were from. Joe said Biloxi. Knowing that Biloxi had been damaged by Hurricane
Katrina, I asked if they had had any damage. Joe said that they had lost almost everything. All they had was in the truck.
All of us drivers tried unsuccessfully to pay them for their drinks and sandwiches. Joe said that their son was living around Harrisonburg, Virginia and they were going to start all over there. Starting over at their age, we know, would not be easy.
These wonderful people lost practically they owned and still would not accept any money for their food and drinks. Joe said that it was better to give than to receive.
语篇赏析
飓风中失去全部家产的一对老年夫妇，没有失掉生活的热情，没有失掉乐善好施的心情. 他们决定:从头再来.
日积月累
1.I said that if I had known about this, I would have bought something to drink,我说如果我早知道这事我会带点喝的东西。

这是一个表示与过去事实相反的虚拟条件，从句的动词用的是过去完成时，而主句则由would/should/could和现在完成时构成。

If you hand come a few minutes earlier, you would have met him.要是你早来几分钟的话，你就看到他了。

I should have written yesterday, if I had been well.要是我身体好的话，昨天就已经把信写好了。

2. After some urging(催促)from Joe, the man, we each agreed to a sandwich.在乔的再三催促下，我们每人同意吃了一个三明治。

urge 可不止“催促”一种用法，看看下面的句子吧！
They urged me to eat the strange food.他们怂恿我吃那种奇怪的食物。

He urged on us the necessity of patience.他对我们力言忍耐是必要的。

Lust of money urged him to the risky task.金钱的诱惑驱策他去做冒险的工作。

English proverbs
1.Reading is to the mind while exercise to the body.
读书健脑，运动强身。

2.Success belongs to the persevering.
坚持就是胜利。

3.The early bird catches the worm.
早起的鸟儿有虫吃。

Quick wits
1. How can you make a rope shorter without cutting or winding it?
Keys:Take a longer rope and compare with it!
2. .What does everybody do at the same time?
Keys: Grow old!。