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说明:每张2段或3段裁剪,每位老师可自己决定并调节哈。 o 1.For a long time people believed that the only way to learn a language was to spend a great deal of time in a country where it was spoken. Of course it is clear that students who go to England, America, or Australia to learn English have a great advantage over others, but a large number of students cannot afford to do so. Some students go to the opposite extreme and think they can teach themselves at home with dictionaries. But it is wrong to assume that each word in English has a precise equivalent in another language and vice versa … o 2.My parents moved to Vermont when I was still an infant. A soft-spoken man, my father settled quietly into his medical practice in a small town called Enosburg. Soon the local people accepted him as one of their own. Word passes quickly in small Vermont towns. They know good people when they meet them. Around town the neighbors greeted my father as ―Doc Eppley.‖ And I soon learned that as long as I lived in Enosburg I would always be known as ―Doctor Eppley’s son.‖ o 3.I groaned whenever I heard their compliments. I wondered how I would ever fit in with my teenage friends. I hated being followed by my father’s good name. And so when strangers asked me if I was Doctor Eppley’s son, I replied emphatica lly, My name is Harold. And I can manage quite well on my own.‖ As an act of rebellion, I began to call my father by his first name, Sam. o 4.It is natural for students to be attracted to methods that will teach them as quickly and efficiently and cheaply as possible. But it is difficult for anyone to explain in simple language why one method is better than another, and it is no use pretending that anyone has discovered a perfect way of teaching English in every possible situation. Some experts even argue that there are as many good methods of teaching a language as there are good teachers, because every teacher is an individual with his own personality. o 5.In my personal opinion, no one can ever learn to speak English or any other language unless he is interested in it. Human beings, unlike parrots and chimpanzees, do not like making noises unless they understand what the noises mean and can relate them to their own lives. It is worth remembering that language is a means of communication. What people want to say and write in another language is probably very similar to what they want to say and write in their own. What they listen to and read cannot be a formula. It must be real. o 6.―Why are you acting so stubborn lately?‖ my father asked me one day in the mi dst of an argument. ―Well, Sam,‖ I replied, ―I suppose that bothers you.‖―You know it hurts me when you call me Sam,‖ my father shouted.―Well, it hurts me when everybody expects me to be just like you. I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be myself.‖ I survived my last years of high school until finally I turned eighteen. The next fall I enrolled in college. I chose to attend a school far from Enosburg, a place where nobody called me ―Doctor Eppley’s son.‖ o 7.During the spring semester, she really astonished me, however. One day, in one of our many free periods, she was reading at her desk. From a glimpse of the illustrations I thought I knew what the book was. I said to myself, ―It can’t be, ―and went to take a closer look. Sure enough, she was reading Moby Dick, in the edition with woodcuts by Rockwell Kent. When I came close to her desk, she looked up. I said, ―Are you really re a ding that?‖ She said she was. I said, ―Don’t you find parts of it rather heavy going?‖ She answered, ―Oh, sure, but I just skip over those parts and go on to the next good part.‖ o 8.―I, too, had a special doll when I was a little girl,‖ she told Meagan. ―I got it one Christmas when I was about your age. I lived in an old farmhouse in Maine, with Mom, Dad and my four sisters, and the very first gift I opened that Christmas was the most beautiful doll you’d ever want to see.‖ ―She had an exquisite, hand-painted porcelain face, and her long brown hair was pulled back with a big pink bow. Her eyes were blue as blue could be, and they opened and closed. I remember she had a body of kidskin, and her arms and legs bent at the joints.‖ o 9.Intellectual traits are the third part of personality. These qualities are influenced by the mind and how it works. One person may prefer spending his spare time in deep thought. Another may be more creative. Jake, for example, often has people in his class laughing. He sees humor in almost everything and is able to express it in entertaining ways. The emotional, social, and intellectual traits of personality become apparent to others through behavior. Usually you need to get to know a person well enough before you can discover the full depth of that person’s personality. o 10.A few years later, GG’s baby sister was also gone, she told Meagan, a victim of pneumonia. Now the tears in her eyes spilled over — tears, I knew, not only for a lost doll and a lost sister, but for a lost time. Subdued for the rest of the visit, Meagan was no sooner in the car going home than she exclaimed, ―Mom, I have a great idea! Let’s get GG a new doll for Christmas, one exactly like the doll that got broken. Then she won’t cry when she thinks about it.‖ o 11.T he children sat stunned and silent. Was this a teacher talking? One girl, who had just come to us from a school where she had had a very hard time, and who proved to be one of the most interesting, lively, and intelligent children I have ever known, looked at me steadily for a long time after I had finished. Then, still looking at me, she said slowly and solemnly, ― Mr. Holt, do you really mean that?‖ I said just as solemnly, ― I mean every word of it.‖ o 12.C radling the doll in her frail arms, she repeated over and over again, ―She’s exactly like my old doll, exactly like her.‖ And perhaps she wasn’t saying that just to be kind. Pe rhaps however impossible it seemed, we had managed to produce a close copy of the doll she remembered. But as I watched my eight-year-old daughter and her great-grandmother examining the doll together, I thought of a likelier explanation. What GG really recognized, perhaps, was the love that inspired the gift. And love, wherever it comes from, always looks the same. o 13.A ll human beings must grow up, but we don’t all do it in the same way. Suppose, for instance, we belonged to a primitive tribe. There, as we grew up, we’d learn the skills we needed as adults—how to hunt or fish, how to keep house and look after children. In our early teens, we’d be ready to marry and set up house near our family in the village we knew. We call this a primitive way of life but it’s what human beings have adapted to through hundreds of thousands of years. And it’s what we are still adapted to in the 21st century, for man hasn’t changed much in the short time since he became civilized. o 14.W ho takes care of the elderly in the United States today? Many people wrongly believe that when people reach old age, their families place them in nursing homes. They are left there in the hands of strangers for the rest of their lives. Their grown children visit them only occasionally, but more often, they do not have any regular visitors. The truth is that this idea is an unfortunate myth– a fictitious story. In fact,