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㈠ 2022年英文原著#1：我差點就沒堅持下去
我在2022年給自己立了一個flag：至少完整閱讀10本英文原著。
昨晚半夜三更剛完成第一本：DON QUIJOTE （ 西班牙語書名 )，其全名是：DON QUIJOTE DE LA MANCHA。英語版的書名是：DON QUIXOTE。中文名叫《堂吉訶德》。
全書由上下兩部組成，第一部出版於1605年，第二部出版於1615年。
作者是西班牙的文學泰斗 Miguel de Cervantes ，塞萬提斯。
為什麼要讀這本書呢？大部分原因是，我平時在學西班牙語。學西班牙語不讀DON QUIJOTE，就像學中文不讀《論語》等經典首答。
但是！這本書剛到手之後，把我嚇了一跳。因為，從正面看，它就是本「平平無奇」的書。
但從側面看，它跟我的手臂一樣厚！
雖然之前也讀過1000多頁的書，但那本書的體積沒有DON QUIJOTE這么大，給我的心理壓力，也就相對沒那麼大。看看這對比：
書雖然厚得跟磚頭一樣，但我最近在朋友圈看到一句話：
「書這個東鍵塵西，者亮慧人家寫都寫出來了，你連讀都讀不完嗎？」
真是很不中聽的大實話啊！
不過，DON QUIJOTE這本書的語言本身不是太難。說實話，上圖左邊 那本1000多頁的書，我讀了大半年 ，而DON QUIJOTE，嚴格算來，我只讀了1個月。
這本書講述了一個瘦弱的老鄉紳Don Quijote，在一個清晨，披上盔甲，悄悄離開生活了幾十年的村莊，踏上了夢寐以求的冒險之旅。他沉迷於騎士小說多年，堅信書中的歷險故事是真實存在的，期待有一天自己也能周遊天下，行俠仗義，打抱不平，搞出驚天動地的大事情。
跟隨他的，只有殘破的盔甲，一匹叫Rocinante的瘦馬，一支生銹的長矛，一個叫Sancho的squire，隨從，和撲面而來的各種adventures……
故事發生時，騎士早已絕跡。在他的騎士生涯中，他依照自己的幻想和讀過的騎士小說，和風車決斗、把羊群當戰場……做了很多與時代相悖的荒誕事，四處碰壁，被人取笑。
最後他被同村的人騙回家，很快在家中得病去世，臨終前幡然醒悟。
讀這本書的時候，我時常想到咱們的《西遊記》。這是在網上找的一份QON QUIJOTE游歷線路圖：
DON QUIJOTE的偉大之處，大概是通過一連串的笑聲，一連串失敗，和一連串的磨難，來表達人在追求理想時的會遇到的困境，但永不言棄的精神。
我之前不知道書名里DON QUIJOTE的DON是什麼意思，想當然地以為是主角的名字，其實DON相當於英語的Sir，是一個頭銜，放在男性爵士姓名前面。
從語言的角度來說，書中的語言活潑生動，讀來總是讓我忍俊不禁，哦不，笑出豬叫。
我尤其喜歡讀這本書里的比喻句， 比喻句簡直是語言的靈魂！
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 ;
比如這句：
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 .
這句：
To try to think of a Don Quixote without Sancho Panza is like trying to think of a one-bladed pair of scissors .
這句：
For a knight-errant without love was like a tree without leaves or fruit, or a body without a soul .
這句：
A mouth without teeth is like a mill without a millstone .
書里也有很多很多很多很有哲理的話，這里放一些我比較喜歡的：
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.
㈡ 求一篇3分鍾英語故事~！
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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㈢ 求高手幫我翻譯一篇英語短文 四級閱讀里的 難度一般 別用機器 翻譯好分我還會加的
美猴王，或者說中國人熟悉的西遊記，是可以追溯到大約四百年前的中國四大古典小說之一。其他三部分別是「水滸傳」「紅樓夢」和「三國演義」。
「美猴王」是基於一個著名的中國和尚——玄奘的真實故事塑造的人物。為了尋找佛經，佛教的聖書，他經歷多年的考驗和磨難，徒步旅行盯逗段到了今天的印度，也就是佛教的發源地。當他回到中國，或者當時的稱呼——大唐，他開始將佛經翻譯成中文，由此為中國的佛教發展作出了重大貢獻。
「美猴王」的形象中夾雜了中國寓言，童話，神話，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，一般的讀者都被美猴王的能力和智慧所吸引，但是很多評論家認為主角體現了作者想要傳達給讀者的東西，那就是對當時不可一世的封建統治者的反叛精神。
孫悟空確實是叛逆的，他實際上不是一個普通人。根據這個故事，他是從石頭裡面生出來的，由上天的恩典受精，極其的凱譽聰明能幹。他從一個主道教那裡學會了所有的法術和功夫。現在他能72般變化，變成樹、鳥、獸或者像蚊子一樣的昆蟲，這樣他就可以潛入敵人的腹部，從裡面攻擊他/她。在外面，通過使用雲做交通工具，他可以一個筋斗行駛108000英里。
他無視天庭、海洋、大地和地下世界的唯的權威——玉皇大帝（在中文裡是「碧玉中偉大的君主」。ps不懂為什麼要這么理解，好窘），宣稱要成為大王（齊天大聖）。這種高調謀反的行為，指尺再加上來自四海龍王和地獄的抱怨，引來了天兵天將無情的懲罰。事實上，這只猴子已經攻入了海洋（東海）並且奪走了鎮海之寶——一根巨大的鐵棍。這後來成為了他最喜歡的武器。
最後，玉皇大帝向如來佛祖求救。如來搬來一座叫五指大山的山壓在了他的身上。猴子不能動了。五百年後，唐玄奘，就是我們故事開頭提到的那個人，拯救了他。
純手打……
㈣ 2-3分鍾英語小故事_英語小故事
2-3分鍾英語小 故事 既有趣味性又有 教育 性，是很受大家喜歡的!下面是我給大家整脊槐理的2-3分鍾英語小故事，希望大家喜歡櫻攜友。
2-3分鍾英語小故事：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'隱大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.
單詞注釋：
horrible adj. 可怕的;極討厭的
例句：It was a horrible dirty room.
那是個差勁的骯臟房間。
magnificent adj. 高尚的;壯麗的;華麗的;宏偉的
例句：It is magnificent. It compares with other great buildings here in Europe.
真是宏偉壯麗，可以媲美歐洲 其它 偉大的建築。
defeat vt. 擊敗，戰勝;使…失敗;挫敗
例句：The news of the enemy's defeat quickly circulated round the town.
敵人被打敗的消息很快地在整個城鎮傳播開來。
mosquito n. 蚊子
laughingstock n. 笑柄;嘲笑的對象
2-3分鍾英語小故事：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.
不守承諾的狼
森林裡有一隻很壞的狼。一天，他正在吃一隻羊羔.突然一根骨頭卡在他的喉嚨里了。
“哎呀，一根骨頭卡在我的喉嚨里了。”他趕忙去看醫生， “請幫幫我吧。”醫生熊貓先生說：“很抱歉，我幫不了你。骨頭卡在裡面。”
“我該怎麼辦啊?”狼傷心。後來他遇到一隻鶴。“親愛的鶴小姐，請救救我吧，一根頭卡在我的喉嚨里了。我會給你報酬的。”
“好吧。我試試看。”鶴小姐說。她用她的長嘴把骨頭拉了出來。“現在我要走了。記住你的話，你該給我報酬的。” “好的，給你報酬。”狼突然說，突然咬住鶴的長脖子，把她吃了。
2-3分鍾英語小故事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.
一隻小老鼠和一隻大獅子住在一座森林裡。小老鼠害怕大獅子。他總是離大獅子遠遠的。一天，小老鼠遇到了麻煩。當他在草叢裡面散步的時候，大獅子逮住了他。
2. "Let me go!" begs Mouse. "Someday I will help you!"
“放了我吧!”老鼠乞求道。“有一天我會幫助你的!”
3. "You help me?" says Lion. "Ha, ha, ha!" But Lion opens his paw. He sets Mouse free.
“你幫我?”獅子說。“哈哈哈!”但是獅子張開了他的爪子。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!
許多天過去了。一天，大獅子遇到了非常大非常大的困難。他被一張很大的網給困住了。他不能動彈。只能咆哮!
5. Mouse sits up. He hears that roar and runs to help.
老鼠經常熬夜。他聽到了咆哮聲，並跑去幫忙。
6. "Help me!" begs Lion.
“幫幫我!”獅子懇求道。
7. Mouse starts to chew. He cuts off the ropes with his teeth and sets Lion free! Little Mouse saves Big Lion!
老鼠開始咀嚼。他用牙齒把繩子咬斷，把獅子放了!小老鼠救了大獅子!
8. Lion does not laugh at Mouse now. Because he knows — even the littlest Mouse can help the biggest Lion.
現在獅子不在嘲笑老鼠了。因為他知道——即使是最小的老鼠也能幫助最大的獅子。
英語小故事：工之僑造琴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.
工之僑得到一塊優質的桐木料，用它製作了一把琴，安上琴弦，一彈，發出金玉一般的聲音，和諧悅耳。
工之僑自以為這是世界上最好的一把琴了。於是，他就拿去獻給太常寺卿。太常讓皇家的樂工檢驗，樂工卻不屑一顧，說:“不古。”把琴還給了他。
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:
工之僑只好把琴拿回家，讓漆工仿古，在琴上漆出許多裂紋，又讓雕匠在琴上刻了古人的題字，然後裝進匣子，埋在地下。
一年之後，工之僑把琴從地下取出來，趕到集市上去賣。有位顯貴之人正好路過，出百金買下了這把琴，並把它獻給了朝廷。樂工們捧著這把琴，爭相傳看，竟然齊聲稱贊:
"Ah! It is indeed a rare stringed musical instrument in the world!"
“啊，真是世上少有的珍琴i”
英語小故事：頭號庸醫有位醫生，自稱擅長治療外科疾病。一天，有位武將在戰場上中了敵人的飛箭，箭頭穿進了皮肉。他命人請來了這位“外科”醫生。
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”.
武將把情況對這位“外科”醫生一講，他連聲說: “好治!好治!” 只見他拿起一把鋒利的剪刀，“咔嚓”一聲，把露在皮膚外面的箭桿剪掉了。他就把箭桿交給武將，說:
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，請你付酬金吧!” 武將被他弄得哭笑不得，對“外科”醫生說: “箭頭還留在皮肉裡面，必須趕快取出來呀!
“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.”
”這位“外科”醫生說:“箭頭在皮肉裡面，這是內科的事了，與我‘外科’無關。”
The “surgeon” said:“The arrow head in the flesh is a matter of internal medicine and has nothing to do with my ‘surgery’”.
英語小故事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
[美國]斯蒂芬·克萊恩 孫致禮譯注
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.
他們誰也不知道天空的顏色。幾雙眼睛平望出去，緊緊盯著朝他們洶涌撲來的波濤。波濤是暗藍色的，只有浪脊上噴濺著白色的泡沫。他們幾個人全都知道這海的顏色。地平線窄了又寬，落了又起，邊緣上總是參差不齊，波浪看上去像巉岩一般尖削地向上搏擊。
漂浮在海上的這條小船，許多人家的浴盆都該比它大。那陣陣波濤無法無天、飛揚跋扈地翻得又高又陡，每個浪頭都給小船的航行帶來危險。
櫥子蹲在船底，雙眼瞅著那6英寸厚的船舷，他與這汪洋大海就這一舷之隔啊。他把袖子捋過肥胖的前臂，當他俯身從船里往外舀水時，身上的馬甲因為沒有繫上扣，兩片襟子在盪來盪去。他不時說道：「天哪！好險啊！」他說話時，眼睛總是向東凝視著那波浪滔滔的大海。
加油工在用兩把槳中的一把劃著船，有時猛然抬起身子，閃開由船尾漩進的海水。那是一把細細的小槳，好像隨時都會啪的一聲折斷似的。
記者劃著另一把槳。他注視著波浪，奇怪自己為何置身此處。
受傷的船長躺在船頭，此刻陷入極度的沮喪與冷淡之中。如果事情不顧人意，出現商行倒閉、軍隊敗北、船隻沉沒等情況，即使最有勇氣、最堅忍不拔的人，也會產生這種心情，至少暫時如此。一個身為一船之長的人，不論他指揮了一天還是十年，他的心深深地植根於船上的一筋一骨。更何況，這位船長頭腦中還留著如此嚴酷的景象：晨曦蒙朧中，海上漂著7張翻轉的面孔，後來又見到一根中桅的殘桿，上面還綴著一隻白球，在隨波沖盪，越來越往下沉，最後沉下海去。此後，他的聲音就變得有點奇怪了，雖說還很鎮定，但卻帶著深沉的哀傷，帶著一種口舌和淚水所無法表達的特質。
「比利，把船再向南轉一轉，」他說。
「是，『再向南轉一轉，』船長，」加油工在船尾回道。
坐在這只船上，簡直就像坐在一隻狂蹦亂跳的野馬上，何況，野馬也不比那船小多少。那船騰躍，豎起，栽下，就和那野馬一樣。每逢浪頭打來，小船因此而顛起時，它好似一匹烈馬身高聳的柵欄撲去。那船如何攀越過一道道水牆，實在令人不可思議。況且，到了滔滔的白色浪脊上，通常還存在這樣的問題：浪花每次從浪峰上俯沖下來，小船就必須跟著再跳一次，而且是凌空一跳。接著，小船目空一切地撞上一個浪頭之後，便滑下一道長坡，風馳電掣，水花四濺，顛顛晃晃地來到了下一個威脅跟前。
大海上有個特別不利的情況：當你成功地越過一個浪頭之後，你發現後邊又有一個浪頭接踵而至，一樣的氣勢洶洶，一樣的急不可待，非要想方設法把小船吞沒不可。在一條10英尺長的小船上，一個人可以了解大海如何善於興風作浪，而對於從未乘小船在海上漂流的一般人來說，這是無法了解的。每逢一垛暗藍色的水牆涌來，船上的人便給擋得什麼也看不見，因而也就不難設想，這個浪頭是大海的最後一次爆發，是海水的最後一次逞凶。波濤的運動極為優雅，靜靜地盪來，只有浪脊在咆哮。
在慘淡的光線中，那幾個人的面孔準是灰白色的。他們目不轉睛地盯著船尾，眼睛準是在奇怪地閃爍著。若是從陽台上看去，這整個場面無疑是神奇而迷人的。但是，船上的人卻無暇來觀賞，即使有這閑暇，他們心裡還要想著別的事情。太陽冉冉地升上天空，他們知道是大白天了，因為海的顏色由暗藍變成了碧綠，上面還夾帶著琥珀色的光道，而那浪花好似滾滾白雪。夜去晝來的過程，他們並不知曉。他們只是從滾滾而來的浪濤的顏色上察覺到這番變化。
廚子和記者在爭辯救護站與收容所有何區別，說起話來前言不拱後語。廚子說：「就在蚊子灣燈塔的北邊，有一個收容所，他們一看到我們，就會乘船來接我們。」
「誰一看到我們？」記者問。
「水手們，」廚子說。
「收容所里沒有水手，」記者證說。「據我了解，收容所只是為船隻失事的人准備衣服和食品的地方。他們沒有水手。」
「噢，有的，他們有的，」廚子說。
「沒有，他們沒有，」記者說。
「算啦，不管怎麼說，我們還沒到那兒呢，」加油工在船尾說。
「嗯，」廚子說，「我看離蚊子灣燈塔不遠處，也許不是收容所，說不定是個救護站。」
「我們還沒到那兒呢，」加油工在船尾說。
注 釋：
(1)蒂芬·克萊恩（1871——1900）是美國著名作家，以《紅色英勇勛章》、《街頭女郎瑪吉》以及一些短篇小說聞名於世。The Open Boat是他最膾灸人口的短篇名著，此處選譯的是該小說的第一節。
(2)gunwale：船的（上部）舷側（the upper sides of a boat）。
(3)That was a narrow clip：（情況）真險呀。
(4)willy nilly：副詞，也寫作willy-nilly，意為「不管（你）願意不願意」。
(5)…though he command：此處用的是虛擬語態，因而command未作詞尾變化。
(6)…beyond oration or tears：是言語和眼淚無法表達的。
(7)…by the same token：在此為「不單如此，而且，況且」的意思。
(8)…which is never at sea in a dingey：which的先導詞為the average experience,意思是說：一般人從未有過乘小船在海上漂流的經歷。
(9)…the last effort of the grim water：試比較「無情的海水的最後一次努力」和「海水的最後一次逞凶」兩種譯法，哪一種譯法更好？好在何處？
(10)ight：在此意為「燈塔」(lighthouse)。
㈥ 高一英語短篇閱讀理解試題(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.堅固的 B.淡的 C.清的 D.濃的
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. 服從 B. 違背 C. 聽從 D. 嘲笑
43. The meaning of "asked for his advice" in the second paragraph is " ________".
A. 向他請教 B. 問他數量 C. 批評他 D. 勸告他
44. The second old man ________the three brothers.
A. was good to B. was not good to C. didn't like D. cheated(哄騙)
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(癢) 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(昆蟲) have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be used mainly to protect themselves.
Some birds like eating locusts(蝗蟲), but birds cannot easily catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their colours together with the change of the colours of crops(莊稼). When crops are green, locusts look green. But as the harvest (收獲)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(液體) when it faces danger. While the liquid spreads over(散開), its enemies(敵人) 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 英語閱讀
第二題要根據題意來，「Mosquitoes fly everywhere.」說明「they fly here and there」。不可否認，A可以由文章推測枯陪出來。文字到處飛的確可以被很容易地找到。但相比較而言，B選項在文中可以找到（即相當同一意思的不同表達），所以選B更好。如果題目說infer（推測），那就選A更好。好多閱讀理解題會問你從文中能infer出什麼，千萬不要選像B這樣直接在文中有的東西，而是選像A一樣文中沒明說，但你可以推測出來的東西。
第五題選D很明顯，由文中「She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. 」可以看出。
題外話：閱讀理解題向來是個大問題。特別年級的升高，詞彙、篇幅、對你理解力的要求會劇增。有時可能一篇里有n個生詞。而且有的答案會因為理解思維的不同而讓人匪夷所思（有些人可能覺得就應該選這個，可有些人就是不能理解，我經常碰到這種情況，就算老師再解釋也是白搭，因為這寬拍是思維方式的問題，所沒巧蠢以碰到這種情況千萬別急，沒事的）。