阅览世界 百科阅读 道德经 独立宣言【学生版】

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Part 1. 免费课程：针对词霸天下的学员承诺过的百科阅读训练开启！

I wonder why: The Wind Blows and other questions about our planet How old is the Earth?

Scientists think the Earth formed about 4,600 million years ago—although no one was there to see! They think the Moon formed then, too.

Human beings are very new to the Earth. If you imagine our planet’s 4,600-million-year-long history squeezed into one year, people have only been around since late on 31 December!

How the Earth changed much?

Yes, it has! About 200 million years ago, most of the land was joined together in one big piece. Then it began to break up into smaller pieces called continents. These slowly drifted apart until they reached the places they’re in today. About 200 million years ago there was just one supercontinent called Pangaea.

About 180 million years ago Pangaea began to break up.

About 65 million years ago the continents drifted farther apart.

Today, the continents are still drifting.

Continents are massive pieces of land. There are seven of them in all. Trace them from a map, and try to see how they once fitted together.

Emus live in Australia, rheas in South America, and ostriches in Africa. They look similar, and none of them can fly. They may once have been related to one kind of bird. It could have walked to all three continents millions of years ago, when the land was joined.

North America and Europe are still moving apart by about 4 centimetres each year. That’s about the length of your thumb.

Part 2. 限时免费：用英语学习《道德经》——史上最开悟的课程Chapter 8

The highest good is like water.

上善若水。

Water benefits everything by giving without taking or contending.

水善利万物而不争。

It likes the place others dislike, so it follows closely the divine law.

处众人之所恶，故几于道。

The place should be low, the mind broad, the gift kind, the speech trustworthy, the rule sound, the deed well-done, the action timely.

居善地，心善渊，与善仁，言善信，正善治，事善能，动善时。

Without contention, a man is blameless.

夫唯不争，故无忧。

Chapter 64

It is easy to hold what is stable, to plan before trouble should rise, to break what is fragile, to disperse what is small.其安易持，其未兆易谋；其脆易泮，其微易散。

Make preparations before things happen; keep order before disorder sets in.

为之于未有，治之于未乱。

A huge tree grows out of a small shoot; a nine-storied tower rises from a heap of earth; a thousand-mile journey begin with the first step.

合抱之木，生于毫末；九层之台，起于垒土；千里之行，始于足下。

Who is too eager for success will fail, too eager foreign will lose.

为者败之，执者失之。

Therefore, the sage does nothing for success so he will not fail; he holds nothing to tight to lose.

是以圣人无为故无败，无执故无失。

People engaged in a task often on the brink of success.

民之从事，常于几成而败之。

If cautious from the beginning to the end, they would not have failed.

慎终如始，则无败事。

Therefore, the sage desires to be desireless; he never values what is hard to get; he learns to be unlearned.

是以圣人欲不欲，不贵难得之货，学不学。

He tries to mend the fault of others, and to help all things develop naturally without his interference.

复众人之所过，以辅万物之自然，而不敢为。

Part 3. 收费阅读：解析经典文章（节选）《独立宣言》

The Declaration of Independence

独立宣言

Thomas Jefferson/托马斯·杰斐逊||历史链接||

1775年4月，列克星敦民兵打响了北美独立战争的第一枪。同年5月，第二届大陆会议在费城召

开。大会决定北美殖民地脱离英国而独立，并制定杰斐逊、富兰克林等五人起草北美独立宣言。经过商定，宣言起草委员会决定将这一重任委托给善于写作的杰斐逊。

从1776年6月11日到28日，杰斐逊满怀激情，写出了《独立宣言》的初稿，并提交大会批审，

经过两天逐字逐句的讨论和修改，最后于1776年7月4日该宣言被通过。美利坚合众国从此正式诞

生。

||作者简介||

托马斯·杰斐逊（1743~1826），生于美国佛吉尼亚州，1726年毕业于威廉与玛丽学院，1787年取

得律师资格。

杰斐逊于1769年进入殖民地会议，为反英运动领袖之一。1774年发表的小册子《英属北美权利概要》（A Summary View of the Rights of British America）为杰斐逊的重要作品，文中指出英国国会无权为