When
the doors of the Asile de Nuit were closed to them, Strickland and Captain
Nichols sought the hospitality of Tough Bill. This was the master of a sailors'
boarding-house, a huge mulatto with a heavy fist, who gave the stranded mariner
food and shelter till he found him a berth. They lived with ...
Lesson 86 Out of control As theman tried to swing the speedboat round, the steering wheel came away in his hands. He waved desperately to his companion, who had been water skiing for the last fifteen minutes. Both...
...2019阅读第二篇 Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought; it is that from ...
... us of your own free will it would have been a different thing," said the baronet, "you only told us, or rather your wife only told us, when it was forced from you and you could not help yourself.""I didn't think you would have taken advantage of it, Sir Henry -- indeed I did...
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Things to Do in Yorkshire This Summer
Harrogate Music Festival
Since its birth, Harrogate Music Festival has gone from strength
to strength. This year, we are celebrating our 50th anniversary. We begin on
1st June with Manchester Camerata and Nicola Benedetti, presenting ...
...d probably accomplish what you hoped for. But footsteps can be muddied and they can go off in different directions.My son Jody has hated school since day one in kindergarten. Science projects waited until the last moment. Book reports weren’t written until the final threat.I’ve been a newspaperm...
...;an aim is like sailing without a campusThere are lots of wise sayings underlie the importance of aims. Such as “Living without an aim is like sailing without ...
That man I thought you told me, you were never going to see him again.请教老师，was/were going to do 究竟有“几种”含义？ 是否通常有以下2种：1.是纯粹说明过去打算做某事，做还是没做成，其结果未知；2.是表示过去本来打算做某事，但实际...
...ng to humanity in an open
letter published last December: Policymakers and the rest of us must engage openly
with the risk of global collapse. Researchers in many areas have projected the widespread
collapse as “a credible scenario (情景) this century”. A survey of
scientists found that extrem...
...题时遇到了一些困惑。题目是:He found himself ___ (tail) by a man in black.我不确定应该填 tailed 还是
being tailed。我知道有 find + sb doing sth 和 find + sb/sth done 的结构，但不太清楚 find + sb/sth being done 是否也是一个正确的结构?
...语-原创题-阅读理解-01 ▲来自国外网站的材料：John Muir, the “Father
of the National Park System”John
Muir is a significant figure of the 19th century as he stood opposed to the
exploitation of natural resources at a time when many believed the resources of
the earth were infin...
"Do
you know how men can be so obsessed by love that they are deaf and blind to
everything else in the world? They are as little their own masters as the
slaves chained to the benches of a galley. The passion that held Strickland in
bondage was no less tyrannical than love.""How
strange that you sho...
...y does he risk his life like this?Haroun Tazieff, the Polish scientist, has spent his lifetime studying active volcanoes and deep caves in all parts of the world. In 1948, he went to Lake Kivu in the Congo to observe a new volcano which he later named Kituro. Tazieff was abl...