...Ye may
stable your stirksin the shealings at Derncleugh; see that the hare does not
couch on the hearthstane at Ellangowan! Ride your ways, Godfrey Bertram! what
do ye glowrafter our folk for? There's thirty hearts there, that wad hae wanted
bread ere ye had wanted sunkets, and spent their life-bloo...
...essica wants to travel the globe. Unlike most of them, this
25-year-old is doing it full-time. She and her husband have spent the last two
years traveling the world, stopping everywhere from Paris to Singapore. It
might sound like one long, expensive vacation, but the couple has an unusual
way to ma...
...ry tight
budget. They could not afford to pay for transportation for their dog, Tiffy,
and desperately wanted to take her with them. 翻译：去年四月，我在PNP网站上看到了来自托皮卡的一家人发的帖子。他们当时不得不搬家去弗吉尼亚州，但是他们的预算非...
...sorry to announce that this train is delayed.”That
seemed to calm people down and so we all went back to what we were doing
before, but soon there was another announcement: we were going to be there for
a long time--- a train had broken down in front of us. There was a loud sigh
throughout the car...
...ed home. I tried to wake up my wife by ringing the doorbell, but she was fast asleep, so I got a ladder from the shed in the garden, put it against the wall, and began climbing towards the bedroom window. I was alm...
...us last year. This year we want to do better. It is more difficult to practise in winter because the days are short and the weather is cold too. It gets da...
Don't judge a book by its cover We live in a complex world. In the world, there are good things and terrible things. Let's see some contrary groups, beautiful persons and ugly persons, noble person and humble person, the rich and the poor, warmhearted person and ...
...sp;have an aim can we know what to do and then start to do it.The aim gives us strength. No one can achieve something without suffering, and no one can&nbs...
...ng out. Discussing your
issues and resolving them instead of stuffing them down can improve your
emotional health. In a study, 2,000 people were asked to record their feelings
and experiences for eight days in a row. When people had an argument that they considered
resolved, they had half the reacti...
... the ants were still swarming around the sticky
tape without being able to do anything about it. I got up early next morning hoping to find that the ants had given
up in despair. Instead, I saw that they had discovered a new route. They were
climbing up the wall of the house and then on to the leave...
...n the
kitchen.There was nothing to it. Jenna and Jeff knew exactly
what to do. The big day came at last. The alarm rang at 6 a.m. The pair went
down the stairs quietly to the kitchen. They decided to boil the porridge
first. They put some rice into a pot of water and left it to boil while they
made ...
...o enjoy it. They
are easy of approach and affable in conversation. They seldom put on airs, and
the offer of a drink is a sure way to their hearts. You need no laborious steps
to enter upon familiarity with them, and you can earn not only their
confidence, but their gratitude, by turning an attentiv...
...oughtco.com/john-muir-inspired-the-conservation-movement-1773625 ▲改编后的阅读理解题：阅读下列短文，从每题所给的
A、B、C、D
四个选项中选出最佳选项。John
Muir is a significant figure of the 19th century as he stood opposed to the
exploitation of natural resour...
...ria,' Brinksley Meers agreed. 'No newspaper men, no film fans! Why don't we come more often?' Meanwhile, two other actors, Rockwall Slinger and Merlin Greeves, had carried two large food baskets to a shady spot under some trees. When they had all made themselves comfortable, a s...