...t have been about two in the morning when I returned 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...
...ht of a spider pouncing on a fly,
or a column of ants triumphantly bearing home an enormous dead beetle? Last summer I spent days in the garden
watching thousands of ants crawling up the trunk of my prize peach tree. The
tree has grown against a warm wall
on a sheltered side of the house. I am...
...ost and all records of him had been destroyed. Hans returned to his family home, but the house
had been bombed and no one in the neighbourhood knew what had become of the
inhabitants. Assuming that his family had been killed during an air raid, Hans
settled down in a village fifty miles away where h...
...ple don’t even realize it’s new. For them, it’s
just normal.This hit home for me as I was sitting with my 2-year-old grandson on a
sofa over the Spring Festival holiday. I had brought a children’s book to read.
It had simple words and colorful pictures—a perfect match for his age.Picture t...
...词。（2）Over a
hundred people must have been driven away from their homes by the noise.（文章作者住在机场附近）noise没加s，我判断它此时为可数名词（单数）或者不可数名词；下一步，通过语境分析：the problem of aircraft noise near airports，这个表...
...tea in the world, China began tea consuming about 5,000 years ago and is a home to a variety of teas.To celebrate the festival, a series of events took place at the ChineseBusinessmanMuseum in Beijing on Thursday.The China Culture Promotion Society, the Tea Road (China) Cooperative (TRC) and the Chi...
...veloped a greenhouse-like facility
that treated sewage (污水) from 1,600 homes in South Burlington. He also
designed an eco-machine to clean canal water in Fuzhou, a city in southeast
China.
“Ecological
design” is the name John gives to what he does. “Life on Earth is kind of a box...
...at 5:00 in the afternoon. 下午5点放学。（2）The school is near his home. 这所学校在他家附近。【语法总结1】像bed, school, church, prison等名词，在指这些家具、建筑或场所本身时前面要用冠词，但若指它们所具有的作用或功能时（此时为抽...
...g Away from it all helps teenagers forget about the pressures of exams and homework, and the troubles that fill the world today. They also say that it’s a good sign of today’s young people switching to happier TV series as it shows they would like a happier and healthier world.Although the serie...
...There are 56
nationalities in China.
中国有56个民族。The country is
home to five nationalities and seven languages. 这个国家有五个民族，使用七种语言。Kazakhstan alone had more
than 100 different nationalities. 仅哈萨克斯坦就有100多个不同的民族。【单词档案...
...oking after the dog, whom they had
started to call Riley. When she arrived home from work, the dog ____26____
itself against the screen door and barked ____27____ at her. As soon as she
opened the door, Riley dashed into the boys’ room where Ann found Jack
____28____ from a heart attack. Riley ran...
...make、order等。这也是不定式的语用特征之一；比如Let's go home. [我们回家吧。]另外，当两个或多个作用相同的不定式并列时，通常只需在第一个不定式前用to，其余不定式前的to可以省略；比如He told me to
stay there and wait for him. [他...
...course management system.Daily
Work/In-Class Writings and Tests/Group Work/Homework (10%)Class
activities will vary from day to day, but students must be ready to complete
short in-class writings or tests drawn directly from assigned readings or notes
from the previous class’ lecture/discussion, s...
...垃圾箱). By doing this, you have walked a
step further to help make our home clean. This action is a better choice.
Thirdly, you might want to pick them up and give them to an old man or woman
who collects waste for a living. If this is your choice, you have walked even
further. You're not only t...
...生什么事。A man narrowly
escaped death when a fire broke out in his home on Sunday morning. 周日早晨一名男子家中起火，他险些丧命。顺便说一句，当动词catch表示某物被卡住、钩住、缠住、绊住、夹住等意思时，它也是一个不及物动词，也没有...