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㈠ 2022年英文原著#1：我差点就没坚持下去
我在2022年给自己立了一个flag：至少完整阅读10本英文原著。
昨晚半夜三更刚完成第一本：DON QUIJOTE （ 西班牙语书名 )，其全名是：DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA。英语版的书名是：DON QUIXOTE。中文名叫《堂吉诃德》。
全书由上下两部组成，第一部出版于1605年，第二部出版于1615年。
作者是西班牙的文学泰斗 Miguel de Cervantes ，塞万提斯。
为什么要读这本书呢？大部分原因是，我平时在学西班牙语。学西班牙语不读DON QUIJOTE，就像学中文不读《论语》等经典首答。
但是！这本书刚到手之后，把我吓了一跳。因为，从正面看，它就是本“平平无奇”的书。
但从侧面看，它跟我的手臂一样厚！
虽然之前也读过1000多页的书，但那本书的体积没有DON QUIJOTE这么大，给我的心理压力，也就相对没那么大。看看这对比：
书虽然厚得跟砖头一样，但我最近在朋友圈看到一句话：
“书这个东键尘西，者亮慧人家写都写出来了，你连读都读不完吗？”
真是很不中听的大实话啊！
不过，DON QUIJOTE这本书的语言本身不是太难。说实话，上图左边 那本1000多页的书，我读了大半年 ，而DON QUIJOTE，严格算来，我只读了1个月。
这本书讲述了一个瘦弱的老乡绅Don Quijote，在一个清晨，披上盔甲，悄悄离开生活了几十年的村庄，踏上了梦寐以求的冒险之旅。他沉迷于骑士小说多年，坚信书中的历险故事是真实存在的，期待有一天自己也能周游天下，行侠仗义，打抱不平，搞出惊天动地的大事情。
跟随他的，只有残破的盔甲，一匹叫Rocinante的瘦马，一支生锈的长矛，一个叫Sancho的squire，随从，和扑面而来的各种adventures……
故事发生时，骑士早已绝迹。在他的骑士生涯中，他依照自己的幻想和读过的骑士小说，和风车决斗、把羊群当战场……做了很多与时代相悖的荒诞事，四处碰壁，被人取笑。
最后他被同村的人骗回家，很快在家中得病去世，临终前幡然醒悟。
读这本书的时候，我时常想到咱们的《西游记》。这是在网上找的一份QON QUIJOTE游历线路图：
DON QUIJOTE的伟大之处，大概是通过一连串的笑声，一连串失败，和一连串的磨难，来表达人在追求理想时的会遇到的困境，但永不言弃的精神。
我之前不知道书名里DON QUIJOTE的DON是什么意思，想当然地以为是主角的名字，其实DON相当于英语的Sir，是一个头衔，放在男性爵士姓名前面。
从语言的角度来说，书中的语言活泼生动，读来总是让我忍俊不禁，哦不，笑出猪叫。
我尤其喜欢读这本书里的比喻句， 比喻句简直是语言的灵魂！
比如：
He saw the light of the glory of his achievements obscured; the hopes of the promises lately made him swept away like smoke before the wind ;
比如这句：
but I must say I think the anger he shows suggests an invisible assailant; it is like the irritation of a man stung by a mosquito in the dark .
这句：
To try to think of a Don Quixote without Sancho Panza is like trying to think of a one-bladed pair of scissors .
这句：
For a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul .
这句：
A mouth without teeth is like a mill without a millstone .
书里也有很多很多很多很有哲理的话，这里放一些我比较喜欢的：
No things human are eternal, but rather decline from their beginnings to their ultimate end, especially the lives of men.
This maiden's trouble comes from being idle, and the remedy is for her to have something useful to do to occupy her time.
Sleep soothes the miseries of those who have them when awake.
It's not with whom you are bred, but rather with whom you are fed.
What the eyes don't see doesn't break the heart.
Fate is a drunken and capricious woman, and above all, blind, and so she doesn't see who she tears down, nor who she raises up.
Every man is the architect of his own destiny.
There's a remedy for everything except death.
Just as a fire cannot be concealed, virtue cannot fail to be recognized.
The beginning of health is to recognize the illness and for the sick person to take the medicine the doctor prescribes.
The desire for revenge can pervert the calmest of hearts.
Justice is such a good thing, you have to practice it with thieves themselves.
Where there's life, there's hope.
Freedom is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven ever gave to man. Neither the treasures hidden in the earth nor those the sea covers can equal it. For freedom, as well as for honor, one can and should risk one's life. And the opposite is also true -- captivity is the worst evil that can befall a man.
To have begun something is like having it half-done.
When anger overflows its banks, it's almost impossible to stop it.
There are rare gifts that are lost in the world and many are wasted on those who don't know how to use them.
Love -- as I've heard tell -- looks through glasses that make copper look like gold; poverty, wealth; and sleep from one's eye, pearls.
Love and fondness easily blind the eyes of one's understanding, which is so necessary to choose a mate, and it's very easy to make a mistake in this area. When one wants to make a long voyage, if he's prudent, before starting out, he'll choose a faithful and pleasant companion.
Oh, power of flattery! How wide you cast your net and how vast are the boundaries of your satisfying dominion!
The pen is the tongue of the soul.
Time will finish us off without us looking around for reasons to end our lives before their time, when they fall like ripe fruit.
The tongue speaks from the outpouring of the heart.
Tell me the company you keep, and I'll tell you who you are.
Anyone who doesn't catch hold of Opportunity when it comes his way shouldn't complain when it passes him by.
Injustice typically awakens wrath in the meekest of hearts.
Honey was not intended for the mouth of donkeys.
It's better to be praised by the few wise men than to be jeered by the many fools.
There is nothing on earth, in my opinion, that can equal that of recovering one's lost freedom.
What costs the most is esteemed, and should be esteemed the most. If someone achieves eminence in letters, it costs him time, loss of sleep, hunger, nakedness, headaches, indigestion, and other things associated with it.
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January 1988: A 56-year-old woman from Spokane, washington, feels something bite her on the thigh. She soon becomes nauseated and develops a migrainelike headache. Her thinking becomes addled. In the days that follow, a patch of dead tissue sloughs from the spot where she was bitten. It is at least two weeks before she seeks help, and by then it is too late. She is bleeding from the orifices, even from the ears. Doctors find her blood deficient in several basic components. Her marrow stops making red blood cells. After lingering in the hospital for several weeks, the woman dies of internal bleeding.
There are other cases.
October 1992: A 42-year-old woman from Bingham County, Idaho, feels the burning bite of a spider on her ankle. She, too, develops a headache and nausea, as well as dizziness. The bite blisters and bursts, leaving an open wound that continues to grow. After 10 weeks, the crater, still growing, is big enough to accommodate two thumbs and is ringed with black flesh. More than two years after the bite, the wound heals as a sizable scar, beneath which veins are clotted. The woman’s ability to walk and stand remains impaired. The spider she found crushed within her clothing was a hobo spider, Tegenaria agrestis, a member of the family Agelenidae.
Agelenids are found in temperate places all over the world, in about 38 genera and 500 species. The hobo spider first appeared in the United States sometime before the 1930s. It spread across the Pacific Northwest and adjacent areas of Canada by attaching its egg sacs to shipping crates that were loaded on trains, hence its name. Its genus name, Tegenaria, means “mat weaver”; its species name, agrestis, suggests the agrarian life it leads in Europe. But in North America the hobo spider can often be found in cities and has made its presence known in ways its European experience never suggested. Hobo spiders, like this young female, have never been known to cause medically significant injuries in Europe. But in North America, hoboes have been blamed for serious symptoms and a few deaths.The hobo, clad in brown herringbone, has a body about half an inch long and a leg span exceeding an inch. Others in its family are hairy or gray and often big enough to straddle the face of a pocket watch. They build flat webs with a sort of billiard pocket at one corner, in which they lie awaiting prey. In Europe and parts of North America, a type of agelenid, the lesser house spider (Tegenaria domestica), is found behind books on shelves, its thick web tearing when a volume is consulted. In the American Southwest, I’ve seen a gray agelenid with long black stripes. Its abdomen is typically an ovoid, tight and ripe as a September plum. This species has eyes that gleam like emeralds in the dark and webs that lie on ground cover like silk handkerchiefs—crisply white at first, but dirtier with time and use. I have seen these spiders rush out when an insect lands on the web and deliver what looks like a kiss to the prey’s head, whereupon it ceases to struggle with shocking suddenness.Soon the spider drags its prey into the funnel of the web, where it is hard for a nosy biped to watch. Usually all I can see are dark masses and an occasional shadowy scrabbling of legs, but I know that the spider injects a venom into the prey that turns its innards into a soup the spider can suck down. The next day I often find a few insect legs littering the edge of the web.
In the upper Midwest, where the outdoors is coldly inhospitable to spiders several months a year, I have often noted another species of agelenid residing in basements, in what looks like a frayed handful of cotton balls. In one such web I noticed a hummock shaped like a human grave formed over the body of some black creature. This carcass was apparently too much trouble to drag over the web’s edge. The spider had simply built over it. These northern agelenids are brown and rapid. I’ve found in their webs creatures as diverse as millipedes and mosquitoes. I touched one web, as delicately as I could, and saw the spider heave itself out of its funnel-shaped retreat and immediately collapse back into it, so fast I could have hardly told what it was if I hadn’t already known. It reminded me of horror stories I’ve heard about spiders emerging from bathtub drains. I withdrew my finger with considerable haste.
The web felt like cloth made of human hair. It didn’t stick to me. This is typical of members of the Agelenidae family, including the hobo spider—their webs aren’t gluey but depend on their deceptive surface to snare insects. What seems a solid, smooth place to land is actually a layered network of filaments. Most insects lack the footgear to negotiate this snare. Their feet fall between the strands, their claws snagging and delaying their escape long enough for the spider to seize them. The spider itself walks on the strands by clasping them between opposing claws.
It’s hard to say how many people have been hurt by hobo spiders because spider bites are remarkably difficult to diagnose. Part of the problem is that they often don’t hurt enough at first to draw any notice. Even when victims develop serious symptoms, they rarely bring the physician the guilty spider. A spider bite is easily classified as a wound or sore of unknown origin. Moreover, 80 percent of the so-called spider bites treated by physicians are estimated to be something else entirely—the bites of lice, fleas, or ticks; symptoms of diseases like Lyme disease and tularemia; or strep or staph infections developing around minor scratches. Even eczema or a vigorously scratched mosquito bite may cast suspicion on some innocent arachnid. When several Americans exposed to anthrax developed skin lesions in 2001, the symptoms were first attributed to brown recluse spiders.
Why do spiders so often get the blame? Part of the answer lies in arachnophobia. People who notice a sore and a spider in the house independently of each other may jump to the wrong conclusion. Serious arachnophobes often report the feeling, which they themselves may recognize as irrational, that spiders are malicious, bent on frightening and harming human victims. Even people without a full-blown phobia can fall into this way of thinking. Yet most spiders, if they’re capable of biting people at all, only bite in defense of self, territory, or eggs.
Another source of confusion is folklore. Stories of venomous arthropods circulate so frequently that scientists tend to dismiss them out of hand. A few years ago, after I wrote an essay on black widow spiders, I received e-mails warning of blush spiders—tiny but deadly red spiders that hide under the seats of toilets on airplanes ready to bite the unwary traveler’s most sensitive parts. There’s no such thing as a blush spider. It’s an urban legend based on a hoax. Its “scientific name,” Arachnius gluteus, which translates into something like “buttocks spider,” is an easy tip-off.
Last year, I received anxious queries about camel spiders, accompanied by a shocking photo of a massively fanged monster as long as a man’s leg. The camel spider, it was said, habitually runs along under camels, leaping up to feast on the flesh of their bellies. Its venom was said to dissolve flesh rapidly. It was claimed that these creatures represented a deadly menace to soldiers at war in Iraq. In fact, camel spiders are harmless, though scary looking. They are known variously as sun spiders and wind scorpions but are really a little-known arachnid order unto themselves, the solifugids. The largest solifugids in the world are about the size of a woman’s hand, which is certainly awe inspiring, but a mere fraction of the size suggested by a photo placed on the Internet. Solifugids rarely if ever bite people—their mouthparts aren’t hinged the right way for it—and they don’t carry toxin. Because their fangs are so massive for their size (proportionally the largest in the animal kingdom), they can rely on mechanical injury to kill their prey.
With such drivel perpetually circulating, it’s not surprising that many scientists and doctors have dismissed more credible spider lore. It used to be said that no spider in the United States is really dangerous, and this view held sway well into the 1920s, despite reports of deaths from the bites of the black widow. The prevailing opinion graally changed after the experiments of William Baerg at the University of Arkansas in 1922 and Allan Blair at the University of Alabama in 1933. Both men subjected themselves to black widow bites in the lab and suffered horribly. After that, scientists blamed black widows for two sets of symptoms: extravagant pain that spreads rapidly throughout the body and the slow death of the flesh around the bite. We’ve since learned that the second set of symptoms is instead caused by the brown recluse spider.
That ought to have cleared everything up, but bogus new spider facts crop up routinely—that the average person inhales four spiders a year in his sleep, for instance, or that brown recluse bites can be cured with an electrical blast from a Taser. Many myths mix in a pinch of reality. The blush spider, for example, must have been inspired by the black widow, which used to infest outdoor toilets and bite people on the genitals. And the false reports of camel spider venom read like an exaggerated account of the true effects of brown recluse venom.
The truth behind hobo spider bites has been especially hard to determine. Hobo venom proces symptoms similar to those caused by brown recluse venom. When the brown recluse was first identified as dangerous in the 1950s, doctors in the Pacific Northwest began to attribute certain lesions to them. But the brown recluse lives in the Midwest and the South, with a few close relatives in the Southwest; no member of its genus is regularly found in the northern United States.
Graphic by Don Foley
VENOMOUS AMERICAN ARACHNIDSThe United States has five groups of spiders that can cause serious injury. The black widow and yellow sac spider are found throughout the country, although the latter’s range has yet to be mapped precisely. The hobo spider has expanded its range in the Pacific Northwest, while the brown recluse is found in the South and lower Midwest. Other recluses are found in the Southwest. (Legend: Purple, black widow; yellow, yellow sac; red, hobo spider; green, brown recluse; blue, other recluses)
In the late 1970s and early 1980s this mystery came to the attention of toxinologist Darwin Vest, an autodidact whose work on cobras, rattlesnakes, and other venomous creatures had won him respect. While working at Washington State University in Pullman, Vest learned that the local zoology department often received queries about necrotic arachnidism—flesh-killing lesions apparently caused by spider bites. Vest looked into the cases of 75 patients in the Pacific Northwest. He blamed most of the injuries on insect bites, cigarette burns, and other causes. But that left 22 cases. Vest and his team surveyed the homes of these patients, collecting thousands of specimens by hand and with sticky traps. None of the homes yielded brown recluses, but 16 of them revealed healthy populations of hobo spiders. Sometimes a single sticky trap would fill with hoboes in a week’s time.
The presence of hoboes in such numbers was suggestive, but it proved nothing. The average home in any temperate region is likely to host several dozen species of spiders. So Vest decided to bring hobo spiders, and several other suspect species, into the lab for tests. He and his team milked live spiders, using a mild anesthetic and micropipettes, under a dissecting microscope, working carefully so that the spiders could be released unharmed. The spiders were so small that the capillary action of the pipettes was often enough to draw venom from the fangs. When that didn’t work, the researchers sometimes resorted to mild electric shock, using a nine-volt battery to make the venom glands contract and prompt the release of a droplet or two. Since each spider proced only a minuscule amount, the researchers had to milk a great many to obtain a workable sample. Their result: The hobo spider venom proced necrotic lesions in rabbits. To confirm this result, Vest shaved the backs of rabbits and held a hobo spider down on each bald patch, forcing a bite. The lesions that formed were similar to those found in human victims.
The hobo spider is now widely recognized as dangerous. The Centers for Disease Control lists it as such, as do medical textbooks and publications like the The Journal of the American Medical Association. Doctors know the signs of hobo venom—a blistering wound ringed with yellow, like the moon in a halo of smog, often accompanied by headaches and, in rare cases, disturbed thinking.
SPIDER’S MILK Researchers at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon, draw the venom from an immature female hobo spider using electrical stimulation. The venom is drawn into a thin glass tube (bottom right). Female hoboes proce more venom than males. But the venom of the males is more toxic. The hobo spider is now widely recognized as dangerous. The Centers for Disease Control lists it as such, as do medical textbooks and publications like the The Journal of the American Medical Association. Doctors know the signs of hobo venom—a blistering wound ringed with yellow, like the moon in a halo of smog, often accompanied by headaches and, in rare cases, disturbed thinking.But skeptics remain. In 1998 evolutionary biologist Greta Binford of Lewis and Clark College and some of her colleagues at the University of Michigan tried to replicate Vest’s experiment. When they injected hobo spider venom into rabbits, however, the rabbits developed nothing worse than a red bump. Like several other prominent skeptics, Binford notes that the hobo spider is rarely caught in the act of biting and then taken to a competent specialist for identification. Its appearance is unremarkable, so its supposed victims can’t be expected to distinguish it from dozens of other spiders. In Europe the hobo has never been implicated in human injuries, although its venom is nearly identical to that of North American hoboes.
In four of the cases that Darwin Vest investigated, a hobo spider was captured or crushed near the victim. But Vest noted that one of these victims—the 42-year-old woman mentioned at the beginning of this story—had a history of phlebitis, a circulatory problem. According to Rick Vetter, an arachnologist at the University of California at Riverside, phlebitis sometimes causes necrotic lesions. Vetter also notes that the Australian white-tailed spider, once widely accepted by doctors as a source of necrotic arachnidism, has recently been exonerated. Researchers studied 130 cases of confirmed white-tailed spider bites and found not a single necrosis. Vetter would like to see hobo bites subjected to a similarly rigorous study. He points out that a mistaken diagnosis can have serious consequences: Certain skin cancers, for instance, look like necrotic arachnidism and can be fatal if left untreated.
Even if hobo spiders are responsible for the lesions, their bites may not always be venomous. It has long been known that black widow spiders, like some venomous snakes, can deliver “dry bites” to warn off larger animals without wasting venom on them. Typically, these are followed by a dose of venom if the harassment persists. Vest’s sister, Rebecca, who worked with him in his investigations, reports that hoboes often give dry bites. Widows vary in their toxicity with age, health, and gender, and these factors seem to come into play with hobo spiders as well. For example, male hoboes pack a more potent venom than females. It is typically the male hobo, wandering away from its web in search of a mate at the end of summer, that bites people.
People vary considerably in their reactions to venom. I have been bitten by brown recluses a number of times. Though the stinging sensation that developed after a short delay made it clear that I’d received venom, I never developed a sore or any systemic symptoms, and the same is true of most bite victims. The whole experience was less painful than a mosquito bite—and, taking into account the possibility of mosquito-borne disease, less dangerous. It may be that hobo venom is similarly selective. After all, its function is to sube insects. It would be comforting to think that a few hundred million years of evolution have put considerable distance between us and our insect kin, but only some of us are immune to insect-killing venoms.
Although hundreds of medically significant cases are diagnosed as spider bites in the Pacific Northwest each year, hard evidence is elusive. Rod Crawford, curator of arachnids at the Burke Museum of the University of Washington, notes that a handful of human deaths have been attributed to the hobo spider but that even a physician’s diagnosis is shaky evidence in the absence of the culprit. Like the recluse before it, the hobo has become what Binford calls “a medical mping ground”—a default diagnosis when a better one can’t be found.
Agelenids are remarkably tolerant of one another, as spiders go. I have seen a spindly male living on the fringes of a female’s web, suffering no abuse from its larger mate. Perhaps he was helping to guard the eggs. I have seen, too, a bed of wandering Jew covered with 20 or so funnel webs, the inhabitants apparently unconcerned about the proximity of neighbors. But I’ve also seen what happens when two come into conflict: a flurry of legs, then the sudden collapse of one spider, which folds up in the grasp of its enemy. The effect is something like a child’s hand crushed in an alt’s.
As it happens, this tendency for some agelenids to eat others may help explain why the hobo has apparently harmed people in North America but not in Europe. Darwin Vest, who considered pesticides an irresponsible way to control spiders, examined the question of what predators might naturally control hobo populations. The most effective predators proved to be other spider species, like the false black widow (Steatoda grossa) and the American house spider (Achaearanea tepidariorum). Most effective of all was the giant house spider, an agelenid with a leg span as broad as a human palm.
The giant is so closely related to the hobo that the two may interbreed, and it not only preys on the smaller species but also competes with it for food. Vest suspected it was the giant that kept the hobo out of European houses all along. In the past 25 years, the giant house spider has established itself in the Pacific Northwest. Rebecca Vest reports that hobo populations in southern Idaho have shrunk noticeably in that same period. It may be that the hobo, though equally venomous wherever it turns up, simply has fewer chances to bite in Europe. And perhaps the same situation will eventually prevail here as the giant house spider, an unrecognized ally long ago suspected of spreading the Black Death, expands its range across America.
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美猴王，或者说中国人熟悉的西游记，是可以追溯到大约四百年前的中国四大古典小说之一。其他三部分别是“水浒传”“红楼梦”和“三国演义”。
“美猴王”是基于一个著名的中国和尚——玄奘的真实故事塑造的人物。为了寻找佛经，佛教的圣书，他经历多年的考验和磨难，徒步旅行盯逗段到了今天的印度，也就是佛教的发源地。当他回到中国，或者当时的称呼——大唐，他开始将佛经翻译成中文，由此为中国的佛教发展作出了重大贡献。
“美猴王”的形象中夹杂了中国寓言，童话，神话，迷信，信仰，怪物故事的元素以及作者可以在道教和佛教中找到的元素。
然而，一般的读者都被美猴王的能力和智慧所吸引，但是很多评论家认为主角体现了作者想要传达给读者的东西，那就是对当时不可一世的封建统治者的反叛精神。
孙悟空确实是叛逆的，他实际上不是一个普通人。根据这个故事，他是从石头里面生出来的，由上天的恩典受精，极其的凯誉聪明能干。他从一个主道教那里学会了所有的法术和功夫。现在他能72般变化，变成树、鸟、兽或者像蚊子一样的昆虫，这样他就可以潜入敌人的腹部，从里面攻击他/她。在外面，通过使用云做交通工具，他可以一个筋斗行驶108000英里。
他无视天庭、海洋、大地和地下世界的唯的权威——玉皇大帝（在中文里是“碧玉中伟大的君主”。ps不懂为什么要这么理解，好窘），宣称要成为大王（齐天大圣）。这种高调谋反的行为，指尺再加上来自四海龙王和地狱的抱怨，引来了天兵天将无情的惩罚。事实上，这只猴子已经攻入了海洋（东海）并且夺走了镇海之宝——一根巨大的铁棍。这后来成为了他最喜欢的武器。
最后，玉皇大帝向如来佛祖求救。如来搬来一座叫五指大山的山压在了他的身上。猴子不能动了。五百年后，唐玄奘，就是我们故事开头提到的那个人，拯救了他。
纯手打……
㈣ 2-3分钟英语小故事_英语小故事
2-3分钟英语小 故事 既有趣味性又有 教育 性，是很受大家喜欢的!下面是我给大家整脊槐理的2-3分钟英语小故事，希望大家喜欢樱携友。
2-3分钟英语小故事：The Terrible King
A long time ago, there lived a terrible king. The terrible king's wish was that all the people would shake in fear at the sound of his name. The terrible king made the lives of the people in the neighbor land horrible. "Here! Take everything!"
The terrible king viciously took away all the belongings of the neighbor land. He even scared the poor women and children. The king was not even sorry to the children and women. The terrible king bothered the people of the neighbor land worse and worse everyday. The palace became more and more magnificent.
"Put up a statue in the church!" Now the terrible king was ordering the church to place a statue of himself there. However, the ministers could not do that." Your majesty may be great, but God is even greater."
The terrible king was becoming angry. It was because he thought that he was the greatest in the whole world. Then the king was angry. "What! He is greater? Then I will defeat God."
In a loud voice, the terrible king said that he would win against God. That's why he ordered that a magnificent ship be built in order to go to the heaven. He said he would ride the ship to go and defeat God. The terrible king rode the ship up to heaven.
From the sky, an angel was sent. However, the terrible king shot over a thousand bullets at the angel. "Ahhhhhh" Being shot, the angel was bleeding. The blood dropped unto the terrible king's ship. The angel's blood was so heavy that the king'隐大s ship sank.
The terrible king became angry, again. "Build a more stronger ship." The terrible king wanted a better ship, so he ordered all the workers in his kingdom to build it. "I will defeat God for sure!"
The terrible king went up to heaven, once more. God sent mosquitoes to the terrible king. The terrible king just laughed at the mosquitoes. "Go and bring me the best carpet."
The king made another command. He thought that if he wrapped the carpet around his body the mossquitoes would not be able to bite him. But one mosquito went inside of the carpet. Because of that one mosquito, the terrible king was rolling around screaming. The terrible king that couldn't even catch one mosquito was a laughingstock for his troops.
单词注释：
horrible adj. 可怕的;极讨厌的
例句：It was a horrible dirty room.
那是个差劲的肮脏房间。
magnificent adj. 高尚的;壮丽的;华丽的;宏伟的
例句：It is magnificent. It compares with other great buildings here in Europe.
真是宏伟壮丽，可以媲美欧洲 其它 伟大的建筑。
defeat vt. 击败，战胜;使…失败;挫败
例句：The news of the enemy's defeat quickly circulated round the town.
敌人被打败的消息很快地在整个城镇传播开来。
mosquito n. 蚊子
laughingstock n. 笑柄;嘲笑的对象
2-3分钟英语小故事：Wolf does not keep promisesHereis a bad wolf in the forest. One day he is eating a lamb. Suddenly a bonesticks in his throat. “Oh, a bone is my throat.” He goes to see adoctor, “Please help me.” The doctor, Mr. Panda says, “Sorry, I can’t help you.The bone is inside.”
“Whatcan I do?” the wolf is sad. Then he meets a crane. “Oh, dear crane. Please helpme. A bone is in my throat. I will pay for your help.”
“Ok. Let me have a try,” the crane says. Shepulls out the bone with her bill. “Now I will go. Remember your words. Youshould pay me,” she says.
“Well. Pay you. I remember,” the wolf says. Withthe words, the wolf bites off the crane’s neck and eats her up.
不守承诺的狼
森林里有一只很坏的狼。一天，他正在吃一只羊羔.突然一根骨头卡在他的喉咙里了。
“哎呀，一根骨头卡在我的喉咙里了。”他赶忙去看医生， “请帮帮我吧。”医生熊猫先生说：“很抱歉，我帮不了你。骨头卡在里面。”
“我该怎么办啊?”狼伤心。后来他遇到一只鹤。“亲爱的鹤小姐，请救救我吧，一根头卡在我的喉咙里了。我会给你报酬的。”
“好吧。我试试看。”鹤小姐说。她用她的长嘴把骨头拉了出来。“现在我要走了。记住你的话，你该给我报酬的。” “好的，给你报酬。”狼突然说，突然咬住鹤的长脖子，把她吃了。
2-3分钟英语小故事3
1.A Little Mouse and a Big Lion live in the forest. Little Mouse is afraid of Big Lion. He always stays away from Big Lion. One day, Little Mouse has big trouble. When he is walking in the grass, Big Lion catches him.
一只小老鼠和一只大狮子住在一座森林里。小老鼠害怕大狮子。他总是离大狮子远远的。一天，小老鼠遇到了麻烦。当他在草丛里面散步的时候，大狮子逮住了他。
2. "Let me go!" begs Mouse. "Someday I will help you!"
“放了我吧!”老鼠乞求道。“有一天我会帮助你的!”
3. "You help me?" says Lion. "Ha, ha, ha!" But Lion opens his paw. He sets Mouse free.
“你帮我?”狮子说。“哈哈哈!”但是狮子张开了他的爪子。他把老鼠放走了。
4. Many days pass. One day, Big Lion has big, big trouble. He is caught in a big net. He cannot move. Roar!
许多天过去了。一天，大狮子遇到了非常大非常大的困难。他被一张很大的网给困住了。他不能动弹。只能咆哮!
5. Mouse sits up. He hears that roar and runs to help.
老鼠经常熬夜。他听到了咆哮声，并跑去帮忙。
6. "Help me!" begs Lion.
“帮帮我!”狮子恳求道。
7. Mouse starts to chew. He cuts off the ropes with his teeth and sets Lion free! Little Mouse saves Big Lion!
老鼠开始咀嚼。他用牙齿把绳子咬断，把狮子放了!小老鼠救了大狮子!
8. Lion does not laugh at Mouse now. Because he knows — even the littlest Mouse can help the biggest Lion.
现在狮子不在嘲笑老鼠了。因为他知道——即使是最小的老鼠也能帮助最大的狮子。
英语小故事：工之侨造琴Gong Zhiqiao obtained a piece of fine Chinese tung wood and made a qin (stringed musical instrument) out of it. When installed with strings and plucked, it gave out a wonderful sound, harmonious and pleasing to the ear.
Gong Zhiqiao thought this was the finest instrument in the world, so he presented it to the Tai Chang Si Qing (a high official in charge of rites and protocol of the ancestral temple) who had it examined by an imperial musician, but the musician disdained to have a look at it. He only said "Not ancient!" and returned the instrument.
工之侨得到一块优质的桐木料，用它制作了一把琴，安上琴弦，一弹，发出金玉一般的声音，和谐悦耳。
工之侨自以为这是世界上最好的一把琴了。于是，他就拿去献给太常寺卿。太常让皇家的乐工检验，乐工却不屑一顾，说:“不古。”把琴还给了他。
Gong Zhiqiao had to take it home and asked a lacquerer to paint many crackles on the instrument in imitation of an ancient qin, and asked a sculptor to carve on it some inscriptions of ancient scholars. Then he put it in a box and buried it underground.
After one year, Gong Zhiqiao took out the instrument from underground, and went to the market to sell it. It happened that an influential personage was passing by. He bought it with 100 pieces of gold and presented it to the imperial court. The imperial musicians vied with each other to look at it and praised in unison:
工之侨只好把琴拿回家，让漆工仿古，在琴上漆出许多裂纹，又让雕匠在琴上刻了古人的题字，然后装进匣子，埋在地下。
一年之后，工之侨把琴从地下取出来，赶到集市上去卖。有位显贵之人正好路过，出百金买下了这把琴，并把它献给了朝廷。乐工们捧着这把琴，争相传看，竟然齐声称赞:
"Ah! It is indeed a rare stringed musical instrument in the world!"
“啊，真是世上少有的珍琴i”
英语小故事：头号庸医有位医生，自称擅长治疗外科疾病。一天，有位武将在战场上中了敌人的飞箭，箭头穿进了皮肉。他命人请来了这位“外科”医生。
There was a doctor who claimed to be good at treating surgical cases.One day,a general was struck by an arrow from the enemy on the battlefield. The arrow had penetrated into his flesh,so he called for the “surgeon”.
武将把情况对这位“外科”医生一讲，他连声说: “好治!好治!” 只见他拿起一把锋利的剪刀，“咔嚓”一声，把露在皮肤外面的箭杆剪掉了。他就把箭杆交给武将，说:
The general told him what had happened. The “surgeon” said repeatedly: “The treatment is easy! The treatment is xiaogushi8.com easy!”He took up a pair of sharp scissors,and with a snap cut off the exposed arrow shaft.He handed over the arrow shaft to the general and said:
“好了，请你付酬金吧!” 武将被他弄得哭笑不得，对“外科”医生说: “箭头还留在皮肉里面，必须赶快取出来呀!
“It's done. Please give me my pay.” These words left the general not knowing whether to laugh or to cry. He said to the “surgeon”: “The arrow head is still in my flesh.You must get it out quickly.”
”这位“外科”医生说:“箭头在皮肉里面，这是内科的事了，与我‘外科’无关。”
The “surgeon” said:“The arrow head in the flesh is a matter of internal medicine and has nothing to do with my ‘surgery’”.
英语小故事A young rich man to consult a success, but the rich man took three different sizes in front of a watermelon on the youth, "If each piece of watermelon on behalf of the interests of a certain extent, you choose that piece?"
"Of course is the biggest piece of!" Young did not hesitate to answer.
Rich man smiled: "Well, please now!" Rich people to the biggest piece of watermelon to the youth, while they eat the smallest piece.
Soon, rich on the finish, and then pick up the last piece of watermelon table proudly shook the face of the young, with big stuttering.
Young people immediately understand the meaning of the rich: the rich man does not eat the melon melon young people, and eat more than young people.
If each piece of watermelon on behalf of the interests of a certain degree, then the interests of rich natural possession of more than youth.
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㈤ the open boat （海上扁舟）的中文版 要全的
[美国]斯蒂芬·克莱恩 孙致礼译注
None of them knew the color of the sky. Their eyes glanced level, and were fastened upon the waves that swept toward them. These waves were of the hue of slate, save of the tops, which were of foaming white, and all of the men knew the colors of the sea. The horizon narrowed and widened, and dipped and rose, and at all times its edge was jagged with waves that seemed thrust up in points like rocks.
Many a man ought to have a bath-tub larger than the boat which here rode upon the sea. These waves were most wrongfully and barbarously abrupt and tall, and each froth-top was a problem in small boat navigation.
The cook squatted in the bottom and looked with both eyes at the six inches of gunwale which separated him from the ocean. His sleeves were rolled over his fat forearms, and the two flaps of his unbuttoned vest dangled as he bent to l out the boat. Often he said: "Gawd! That was a narrow clip." As he remarked it he invariably gazed eastward over the broken sea.
The oilier, steering with one of the two oars in the boat, sometimes raised himself suddenly to keep clear of water that swirled in over the stern. It was a thin little oar and it seemed often ready to snap.
The correspondent, pulling at the other oar, watched the waves and wondered why he was there.
The injured captain, lying in the bow, was at this time buried in that profound dejection and indifference which comes, temporarily at least, to even the bravest and most enring when, wilily nilly, the firm fails, the army loses, the ship goes down. The mind of the master of a vessel is rooted deep in the timbers of her, though he command for a day or a decade, and this captain had on him the stern turned faces, and lower, and down. Thereafter there was something strange in his voice. Although steady, it was deep with mourning, and of a quality beyond oration or tears.
"Keep' er a little more south, south, Billie," said he.
"A little more south,' sir," said the oiler in the stern.
A seat in this boat was not unlike a seat upon a bucking broncho, and , by the same token, a broncho is not much smaller. The craft pranced and reared, and plunged like and animal. As each wave came, and she rose for it, she seemed like a horse making at a fence outrageously high. The manner of her scramble over these walls of water is a mystic thing, and , moreover, at the top of them were ordinarily these problems in white water, the foam racing down from the summit of each wave, requiring a new leap, and a leap from the air. Then, after scornfully bumping a crest, she would slide, and race, and splash down a long incline and arrive bobbing and nodding in front of the next menace.
A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats. In a ten-foot dingey one can get an idea of the resources of the sea in the line of waves that is not probable to the average experience, which is never at sea in a dingey. As each slaty wall of water approached, it shut all else from the view of the men in the boat, and it was not difficult to imagine that this particular wave was the final outburst of the ocean, the last effort of the grim water. There was a terrible grace int eh move of the waves, and they came in silence, save for the snarling of the crests.
In the wan light, the faces of the men must have been gray. Their eyes must have glinted in strange ways as they gazed steadily astern. Viewed from a balcony, the whole thing would doubtlessly have been weirdly picturesque. But the men in the boat had no time to see it, and if they had had leisure there were other things to occupy their minds. The sun swung steadily up the sky, and they knew it was broad day because the color of the sea changed from slate to emerald-green, streaked with amber lights, and the foam was like tumbling snow.
The process of the breaking day was unknown to them. They were aware only of this effect upon the color of the waves that rolled toward them.
In disjointed sentences the cook and the correspondent argued as to the difference between lifesaving station and a house of refuge. The cook had said: "There's a house of refuge just north of the Mosquito Inlet Light, and as soon as they see us, they'll come off in their boat and pick us up."
"As soon as who see us?" said the correspondent.
"The crew," said the cook.
"Houses of refuge don't have crews," said the correspondent. "As I understand them, they are only places where clothes and grub are stored for the benefit of shipwrecked people. They don't carry crews."
"Oh, yes, they do ," said the cook.
"no, they don't," said the correspondent.
"Well, we're not there yet, anyhow," said the oiler, in the stern.
"Well," said the cook, "perhaps it's not a house of refuge that I'm thinking of as being near Mosquito Inlet Light. Perhaps it's a life-saving station."
"We're not there yet," said the oiler, in the stern.
他们谁也不知道天空的颜色。几双眼睛平望出去，紧紧盯着朝他们汹涌扑来的波涛。波涛是暗蓝色的，只有浪脊上喷溅着白色的泡沫。他们几个人全都知道这海的颜色。地平线窄了又宽，落了又起，边缘上总是参差不齐，波浪看上去像巉岩一般尖削地向上搏击。
漂浮在海上的这条小船，许多人家的浴盆都该比它大。那阵阵波涛无法无天、飞扬跋扈地翻得又高又陡，每个浪头都给小船的航行带来危险。
橱子蹲在船底，双眼瞅着那6英寸厚的船舷，他与这汪洋大海就这一舷之隔啊。他把袖子捋过肥胖的前臂，当他俯身从船里往外舀水时，身上的马甲因为没有系上扣，两片襟子在荡来荡去。他不时说道：“天哪！好险啊！”他说话时，眼睛总是向东凝视着那波浪滔滔的大海。
加油工在用两把桨中的一把划着船，有时猛然抬起身子，闪开由船尾漩进的海水。那是一把细细的小桨，好像随时都会啪的一声折断似的。
记者划着另一把桨。他注视着波浪，奇怪自己为何置身此处。
受伤的船长躺在船头，此刻陷入极度的沮丧与冷淡之中。如果事情不顾人意，出现商行倒闭、军队败北、船只沉没等情况，即使最有勇气、最坚忍不拔的人，也会产生这种心情，至少暂时如此。一个身为一船之长的人，不论他指挥了一天还是十年，他的心深深地植根于船上的一筋一骨。更何况，这位船长头脑中还留着如此严酷的景象：晨曦蒙胧中，海上漂着7张翻转的面孔，后来又见到一根中桅的残杆，上面还缀着一只白球，在随波冲荡，越来越往下沉，最后沉下海去。此后，他的声音就变得有点奇怪了，虽说还很镇定，但却带着深沉的哀伤，带着一种口舌和泪水所无法表达的特质。
“比利，把船再向南转一转，”他说。
“是，‘再向南转一转，’船长，”加油工在船尾回道。
坐在这只船上，简直就像坐在一只狂蹦乱跳的野马上，何况，野马也不比那船小多少。那船腾跃，竖起，栽下，就和那野马一样。每逢浪头打来，小船因此而颠起时，它好似一匹烈马身高耸的栅栏扑去。那船如何攀越过一道道水墙，实在令人不可思议。况且，到了滔滔的白色浪脊上，通常还存在这样的问题：浪花每次从浪峰上俯冲下来，小船就必须跟着再跳一次，而且是凌空一跳。接着，小船目空一切地撞上一个浪头之后，便滑下一道长坡，风驰电掣，水花四溅，颠颠晃晃地来到了下一个威胁跟前。
大海上有个特别不利的情况：当你成功地越过一个浪头之后，你发现后边又有一个浪头接踵而至，一样的气势汹汹，一样的急不可待，非要想方设法把小船吞没不可。在一条10英尺长的小船上，一个人可以了解大海如何善于兴风作浪，而对于从未乘小船在海上漂流的一般人来说，这是无法了解的。每逢一垛暗蓝色的水墙涌来，船上的人便给挡得什么也看不见，因而也就不难设想，这个浪头是大海的最后一次爆发，是海水的最后一次逞凶。波涛的运动极为优雅，静静地荡来，只有浪脊在咆哮。
在惨淡的光线中，那几个人的面孔准是灰白色的。他们目不转睛地盯着船尾，眼睛准是在奇怪地闪烁着。若是从阳台上看去，这整个场面无疑是神奇而迷人的。但是，船上的人却无暇来观赏，即使有这闲暇，他们心里还要想着别的事情。太阳冉冉地升上天空，他们知道是大白天了，因为海的颜色由暗蓝变成了碧绿，上面还夹带着琥珀色的光道，而那浪花好似滚滚白雪。夜去昼来的过程，他们并不知晓。他们只是从滚滚而来的浪涛的颜色上察觉到这番变化。
厨子和记者在争辩救护站与收容所有何区别，说起话来前言不拱后语。厨子说：“就在蚊子湾灯塔的北边，有一个收容所，他们一看到我们，就会乘船来接我们。”
“谁一看到我们？”记者问。
“水手们，”厨子说。
“收容所里没有水手，”记者证说。“据我了解，收容所只是为船只失事的人准备衣服和食品的地方。他们没有水手。”
“噢，有的，他们有的，”厨子说。
“没有，他们没有，”记者说。
“算啦，不管怎么说，我们还没到那儿呢，”加油工在船尾说。
“嗯，”厨子说，“我看离蚊子湾灯塔不远处，也许不是收容所，说不定是个救护站。”
“我们还没到那儿呢，”加油工在船尾说。
注 释：
(1)蒂芬·克莱恩（1871——1900）是美国著名作家，以《红色英勇勋章》、《街头女郎玛吉》以及一些短篇小说闻名于世。The Open Boat是他最脍灸人口的短篇名著，此处选译的是该小说的第一节。
(2)gunwale：船的（上部）舷侧（the upper sides of a boat）。
(3)That was a narrow clip：（情况）真险呀。
(4)willy nilly：副词，也写作willy-nilly，意为“不管（你）愿意不愿意”。
(5)…though he command：此处用的是虚拟语态，因而command未作词尾变化。
(6)…beyond oration or tears：是言语和眼泪无法表达的。
(7)…by the same token：在此为“不单如此，而且，况且”的意思。
(8)…which is never at sea in a dingey：which的先导词为the average experience,意思是说：一般人从未有过乘小船在海上漂流的经历。
(9)…the last effort of the grim water：试比较“无情的海水的最后一次努力”和“海水的最后一次逞凶”两种译法，哪一种译法更好？好在何处？
(10)ight：在此意为“灯塔”(lighthouse)。
㈥ 高一英语短篇阅读理解试题(2)
(5)
An owl is a bird with very large eyes. Those eyes make the owl look clever. The owl can not move its eyes freely as people can. It can only look straight ahead (朝前). If it wants to look at both sides, it must turn its neck.
Owls see better at night than ring the day. At night they look for food. They eat mice and insects.
Owls make a strange noise because the owls sleep most of the day. They usually give their cries at night. The cry sounds like “Whoo! Whoo!”. This strange sound sometimes frightens people at night.
26. An owl looks clever because it can look straight ahead.
27. An owl looks for food at night because it sees better at night than ring the day.
28. An owl lives on all kinds of birds.
29. The cry of an owl is frightening.
30. Man must not kill owls because they are helpful to people.
26-30 B A B A A
(6)
Coffee has become the most popular American drink. Today people in the United States drink more coffee than people in any of the other countries. People drink coffee at breakfast, at lunch, at dinner and between meals. They drink hot coffee or coffee with ice in it. They drink it at work and at home. They eat coffee ice-cream and coffee candy. Coffee is black and very strong. Different people like to drink it in different ways. Some people like coffee with cream or sugar in it. Other people like coffee with both cream and sugar in it. In all ways it is served. Coffee has become an international drink.
31. Coffee is an ____________ drink.
A . interesting B. international C. ice-cream D. American
32. Different people like to drink coffee ____________.
A. at work or at home B. in different ways C. with cream or sugar D. between meals
33. Today Americans drink ____________ coffee than people in any of the other countries.
A. as much as B. less C. more D. most
34. “Coffee is black and very strong.” The word STRONG here means ____________.
A.坚固的 B.淡的 C.清的 D.浓的
35. ____________ is the most popular American drink.
A. Black tea B. Coffee C. Water with ice D. Whisky
31-35 B B C D B
(7)
Computers are useful machines. They can help people a lot in their everyday life. For example, they can help people save much time, and they can help people work out many problems they can’t do easily. Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers. Parents buy computers for their children.
They hope computers can help them improve (提高) their studies in school. Yet many of the children use computers to play games, to watch video or to sing Karaoke, instead of studying. So many teachers and parents complain (抱怨) that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind. So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.
In some other countries, even some scientists hate computers. They say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness? It will be decided by people themselves.
36. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because _______________.
A. our country asks us to learn it
B. it can help us a lot
C. we can use it to play games
D. it can help us to find jobs
37. What do many teachers and parents complain about? _______________.
A. Their students and children use computers to play games.
B. Computers let them lost their jobs.
C. Computers make the students and children fall behind.
D. Computers bring people a lot of trouble.
38. In this passage we know computers _______________.
A. also bring us trouble
B. bring us happiness only
C. are hated by people
D. are bad for people’s health
39. Can computers really help children to study? _______________.
A. Yes, they can. B. It’s hard to say C. No, they can’t. D. Of course not.
40. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means _______.
A. computers are used by people
B. people can live well without computers
C. one must decide how to use computers
D. computers are strange machines
36-40 B C A A C
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Once upon a time there lived an old man. He had three sons. One day, he called them together and said, "Sons, I will die soon. To my oldest son I give half my camels, to my second, one-third(三分之一), and to my youngest, one-ninth (九分之一)." Soon after that he died.
Now, the old man had seventeen camels, and the three brothers didn't know how to do as their father said. They thought a long time about the problem, and it seemed that they must either kill some of the camels and cut them into pieces, or disobey their father. At last they went to their father's old friend and asked for his advice. As soon as he heard their story, he said, "I will help you. I was a good friend of your father's. I am old. I have only one camel, but take it-it is yours."
The three sons thanked the old man and took his camel. Now they found it was easy to do as their father wished, The oldest took half- that was nine camels; the second took one-third, that was six; and the youngest took one-ninth, that was two.
After each had got his camels, they found that there was still a camel there. So, to show their thanks to their father's friend, they gave the camel back to him
41. "Once upon a time" means " ________".
A. long long ago B. not very long ago
C. at once D. sometimes
42. The meaning of "disobey" in the second paragraph is" ________".
A. 服从 B. 违背 C. 听从 D. 嘲笑
43. The meaning of "asked for his advice" in the second paragraph is " ________".
A. 向他请教 B. 问他数量 C. 批评他 D. 劝告他
44. The second old man ________the three brothers.
A. was good to B. was not good to C. didn't like D. cheated(哄骗)
45. Both the two old men in the story were ________.
A. foolish B. clever C. poor D. rich
41-45 A B A A B
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Tom lived by himself a long way from town. He hardly went to town, but one day he went into town to buy a few things. After he bought them, he went into a restaurant and sat down at a table. When he looked around, he saw some old people put glasses on before reading their newspapers. So after lunch he decided to go to a shop to buy himself one pair, too. He walked along the road, and soon found a shop.
The man in the shop let him try on a lot of glasses, but Tom always said, "No, I can't read with these."
The man became puzzled (迷惑的) , and he said, "Excuse me, but can you read?"
"No, of course I can't!" Tom said angrily. "If I could read before, do you think I would come here to buy your glasses?"
46. Tom lived ______.
A. with his family B. near town C. in the country D. in town
47. Tom didn't go to town______.
A. never B. often C. sometimes D. sometime
48. Why did Tom decide to buy a pair of glasses?
A. Because he thought if he bought them, he could read.
B. Because they were very bright.
C. Because they were cheap.
D. Because he could read newspaper.
49. Tom went to the shop to ______.
A. have a rest B. have dinner C. wear glasses D. buy a pair of glasses
46-49 C B A D
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We know mosquitoes very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them.
No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may decide if she loves you. She? Yes, she. The male mosquito doesn’t bite! Only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to lay eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesn’t like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more delicious blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are chosen. You’re different from the others!
If the mosquito likes you, she lands on your body without letting you know. She bites you so quickly and quietly that you may not feel anything different. After she bites, you will have an itch(痒) on your body because she puts something from her mouth together with your blood. When the itch begins, she has flown away.
And then what happens? Well, after her delicious dinner, the mosquito feels tired. She wants to find a place to have a good rest. There, in a tree or on a wall, she begins to lay eggs, hundreds of eggs.
( )51.All the people don’t like mosquitoes.
( )52.All mosquitoes like to bite people for blood.
( )53.If a mosquito wants to bite you, it means she is very tired.
( )54.The mosquito bites you too quickly and quietly to let you know.
( )55.The itch begins after the mosquito flies away.
51-55 FFFTT
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Do you know why different animals or pests(昆虫) have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts(蝗虫), but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops(庄稼). When crops are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest (收获)time comes, locusts change to the same brown colour as crops have. Some other pests with different colours from plants are easily found and eaten by others. So they have to hide themselves for lives and appear only at night.
If you study the animal life, you’ll find the main use of colouring is to protect themselves. Bears, lions and other animals move quietly through forests. They cannot be easily seen by hunters. This is because they have the colours much like the tes.
Have you ever found an even more strange act? A kind of fish in the sea can send out a kind of very black liquid(液体) when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over(散开), its enemies(敌人) cannot find it. And it immediately swims away. So it has lived up to now though it is not strong at all.
( )56.From the passage we learn that locusts________.
A. are small animals
B. are easily found by birds
C. are dangerous to their enemies
D. change their colours to protect themselves
( )57.How can pests with different colours from plants keep out of danger?
A. They run away quickly.
B. They have the colours much like their enemies.
C. They hide themselves by day and appear at night.
D. They have to move quietly.
( )58.Bears and lions can keep safe because________.
A. they have the colours much like the trees
B. they move quietly
C. they like brown and grey colours
D. they live in forests
( )59.Why can the kind of fish live up to now?
A. Because it is very big and strong.
Because the liquid it sends out can help it escape from its enemies.
B. Because the liquid it sends out can kill its enemies.
C. Because it swims faster than any other fish.
( )60.Which is the best title for this passage?
A. The Change of Colours for Animals and Pests.
B. Colours of Different Animals and pests.
C. The Main Use of Colours for Animals and Pests.
D. Some Animals and Pests.
56-60 D C A B C
㈦ 英语阅读
第二题要根据题意来，“Mosquitoes fly everywhere.”说明“they fly here and there”。不可否认，A可以由文章推测枯陪出来。文字到处飞的确可以被很容易地找到。但相比较而言，B选项在文中可以找到（即相当同一意思的不同表达），所以选B更好。如果题目说infer（推测），那就选A更好。好多阅读理解题会问你从文中能infer出什么，千万不要选像B这样直接在文中有的东西，而是选像A一样文中没明说，但你可以推测出来的东西。
第五题选D很明显，由文中“She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. ”可以看出。
题外话：阅读理解题向来是个大问题。特别年级的升高，词汇、篇幅、对你理解力的要求会剧增。有时可能一篇里有n个生词。而且有的答案会因为理解思维的不同而让人匪夷所思（有些人可能觉得就应该选这个，可有些人就是不能理解，我经常碰到这种情况，就算老师再解释也是白搭，因为这宽拍是思维方式的问题，所没巧蠢以碰到这种情况千万别急，没事的）。