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1
Shumei has many pen-friends
around the world. She likes writing to them and
receiving their letters in return. She
stated writing to her first pen-friend, Thomas
Wright from Britain, when she was ten
years old. They have been writing to each
other for two years now.
Shumei enjoys writing to people from
other counties because she finds it very
interesting to learn more about those
counties and the different things.
She hopes to visit her pen-friends some
day, but she will continue writing to
them and enjoying their friendship.
She will also try to look
for pen-friends from other counties such as Japan,
China and France.
Shu
mei
有很多世界各地的笔友。她喜欢写信给他们，喜欢收到他们的回信。当她
10
岁时，
开始给第一位来自英国的笔友
Thomas
Wright
写信。
他们互相写信至今已有两年了。
Shumei
之所以喜欢写信给外国人，
是因为她觉得更多地了解那些国家和
不同的事物是
件很有趣的事情。
她希
望有一天去拜访她的笔友，但是她会继续写信给他们，分享他们的友谊。
她也期待着来自外国的笔友，如日本，中国和法国的朋友。
2
The boss found a boy in the stock room
just standing around doing nothing. “How
much do you get paid a week?” He asked
the boy. The boy replied, “Twenty dollars.”
Taking a twenty dollar bill out of his
wallet, the boss gave it to the boy and said,
“Here, take this. Now get out of here
and don’t come back.” As the boy walked out
the door, the boss said to the manager,
“How long has that lazy kid been working for
us?” “He doesn’t work for us,” replied
the manager. “He just delivered a
package.”
老板在储藏室里看见一个男孩正站着，无所事事。他问这个男孩：“你一个星期得到
多少报酬？”。这个男孩回答说：“
20
美元。
”老板从他的钱包里拿出了
20
美元的钞票，
< br>给了这男孩，说：“收好了。现在，从这里滚出去，不要回来了”。当男孩走出门去，老
< br>板对经理说：
“这么懒惰的孩子为我们工作多长时间了？”
“他不适合为我们工作，
”
“经
理回答说。
“他刚才来送包裹的。
3
“Peter has just
come back from the shops,”said Mrs. James. “He
wanted to buy
some new football boots,
but he wasn’t able to find any that were right for
him.”
“Were they all the
same?”I asked.
“He said
they showed him different pairs but he
didn’t
like any of
them.”
“What is Peter going
to do about his boots, then?”I asked.
“Well, the shop told him to come back
the next week. It’s out a big problem
because he doesn’t need to have them
before the new school term. But he always
begins to get his thi
ngs
ready early. For example, he has never been late
for school.”
“My daughter is
different,”I said, “I have to throw her out when
it’s time for
school.”
“彼得刚刚从商店回来，”詹姆斯太太说。“他想买新的足球
鞋，但他没能找到适
合他的。”
“球鞋款式都一样吗？”我问道。
“他说店员给他看了不同的样式，但他都不喜欢。”
“
那么，彼得怎么办呢？
”我问。
“嗯，店员告诉他下周再来。这不是个大问题，因为在新学年开始之前，他
还不需
要球鞋。但他总是提前做准备工作。比如，他从不迟到。”
“我的女儿就不同了，”我说，“
每到上学时间我都不得不
‘扔’她出去。
”
4
The world is filled with many
interesting sounds. Some are unpleasant to our
ears while others are very pleasant to
hear. In a single day you probably hear
hundreds of different sounds. All
sounds are different. Some may be loud. Some are
high; others are low. Some sounds are
useful.
Without sound we
cannot talk or listen to one another. The ringing
of the
alarm clock wakes people up. The
hooting of a car warns people of danger.
Some sounds are harmful.
When planes fly low over the land, the very loud
sounds can damage the houses. Very loud
sounds can even make people deaf.
We know sound travel about one
kilometer in three seconds. In a thunder
storm you see the lightning first and
then hear the thunder. This is because light
travels much faster than sound.
Next time you see
lightning; count the number of seconds before you
hear the
thunder. Divide this number of
seconds before you hear thunder. Divide this
number
by 3. This will tell you how
many kilometers away the thunder storm is.
这个世界充满了许多有趣的声音。
对于我们的耳朵而言，有些是不舒适的，有些则是
悦耳动听的。在一天之你可能听到数以
百计的不同声音。所有的声音是不同的。有些可能
是响亮的。有些高的，有些低的。有些
声音是有用的。
没有声音，我们彼此不能听说。闹钟铃声唤醒
人们。汽车的啼声警示处于危险状况的
人们。
有些声音是有害的。当飞机在陆地上方低空飞行，巨大的声音可能会损坏房屋。巨大
的声音，甚至可以使人耳聋。
我们知道，
3
秒钟里声音传播约
1
公里。在雷雨天你先看到闪电，然后再听到雷声。
这是因为光的速度比声音的速度传播得快的多。
下次
看到闪电，在听到雷声之前，你计算闪电秒数。均分听到雷声之前的秒数，即除
以
3
。这会告诉你多少公里外有雷雨风暴。
5
Tommy has a little dog. Her name is
Goldier. She is pretty and interesting.
Tommy loves her very much.
The other day, Goldier was out walking
with Tommy. She cut her paw on a bit
of
glass. When they arrived home, Tommy’s mother
thought that the cut was deep.
She
asked Tommy to take Goldier to the vet. The vet
was very kind, and he gave her
an
injection. Then he stitched up the cut and put on
a bandage.
Goldier looks
ever so funny as she walks on three legs, holding
her paw as if
she has been to war!
汤米有一只小狗。它名叫
Goldier
。
它可爱而有趣。汤米很喜欢它。
几天前，
Goldier
跟着汤米外出散步。它的爪子踩到了碎玻璃。当他们回到家里，
汤米
的母亲认为它的伤口深。
她让汤米带<
/p>
Goldier
去兽医那儿检查。
兽医非
常和气，
他给
Goldier
打了针，
然后缝合伤口并缠上绷带。
Goldier
< br>只用三条腿走路，看上去太好笑了，它抬起伤爪子，好像是刚刚去过战场！
6
Long ago people used bells more than
they do today. The postman used to ring
a hand when he delivered the letters.
Fire engines had bells instead of sirens. People
who sold things came past houses,
ringing a bell and shouting what was for sale.
Every village had its
church bell to let people know it was time to go
to church.
At night, this bell was rung
so that traveler would find the village in the
dark.
In most counties,
bells were hung around the necks of animals. The
bells
helped owners to find lost cows
or goats. Today, in India, animals still wear
bells.
Now bells are used
less and less. Buzzers, sirens and horns have
taken their
place. Now people try to
keep the old bells in schools and churches so they
will not
lose their beautiful sounds
forever.
从前人们使用铃声比现在使用得更广泛。邮递员在投递信件的时候使用手打铃。消防
车使用警铃，而不是警报器。卖东西的人来到老式住宅区，摇响铃声，高喊吆呼卖东西。
每个村庄里使用各自的教堂钟声告知人们去教堂的时间。晚上，教堂钟
声响起，能让
旅行者在黑暗中找到村庄。
在大多数国家，响铃挂在动物的脖子上。响铃帮助业主寻找丢失的牛或山羊。今天，
在印度，动物仍然挂着响铃。
现在钟声使用得越来越少。蜂鸣
器，警报器及喇叭已占有一席之地，人们尽量在学校
和教堂使用老式钟，那些美丽的钟声
将永远不会消失。
7
A
good breakfast in important. We can easily
underground it. We have not
eaten
anything for about twelve hours by breakfast time.
Our bodies need food for
morning
activities.
One good
breakfast should be rice or bread, an egg, milk
and fruit. On cold
morning a cup of hot
drink is necessary.
We must
get up early to have plenty of time to eat
breakfast. A good
breakfast helps us to
be
more friendly
and also to
work better and play more
happily.
一份营养早餐是重要的。我们可以
很容易理解。到早餐时间之前我们约
12
个小时没
有吃任何东西了。我们的身体需要补充食物以应对整个上午的活动。
一份营养早餐应该包括大米，面包，鸡蛋，牛奶和水果。在寒冷的早晨，一杯热饮品
是必要的。
我们必须早起以便有充足的时间吃早
餐。一份营养早餐有助于我们更加友善，也有助
于我们将工作做得更好，玩得更快乐。<
/p>
8
In Britain
every town has a public library and there are
branch libraries in
many villages.
Anyone may borrow books, and it costs nothing to
borrow them. In
some places you may
borrow as many books as you want, but in others
you are limited
to a certain number of
books for several weeks so that you can have
enough time to
finish all the books
you’ve borrowed.
The latest
novels are always in great need, and non-fiction
books, such as
books on history,
science and gardening, are well-loved, too.
If the books you need are
out, you may ask for them to be kept for you when
they are returned, and if you pay the
cost of sending a postcard, the librarian will
let you know when the books are back
and are ready for you.
Most
public libraries also have a reading-room there
are tables and desks at
which you can
sit and read the daily newspapers and all the
other important
periodicals (the
weeklies, the monthlies and the quarterlies). In
the reference
library there are
encyclopedias, dictionaries, books of maps and
other useful books.
But you can only
use these books there. You cannot take them out.
在英国，每个乡镇都有公共图书馆
，很多乡村有分馆。任何人都可以借阅图书且无需
费用。在一些地方，你想借多少本书籍
就可以借多少本，
但在别处，你几个星期借阅一定
数量的图书是
受限制的，
这样你有足够的时间来完成你借的所有书籍。
<
/p>
最新小说总有很强的借阅需求，非小说类书籍，如历史，科学和园艺书籍，也深受喜
爱。
如果你需要借阅的书籍已借出了，你可
以要求他们当该书归还时为你保留，如果你付
费发送明信片，图书管理员将告知你书籍什
么时候归还的，并为你备妥。
大多数公共图书馆都有一个阅读室，那里有
[tables
and
？
desks]
桌子和椅子，
你可
以坐下来阅读报纸和所有其他重要期刊（周刊，月刊和季刊）。在图书馆的参考室里
，有
百科全书，字典，地图册和其他有用的书籍。但你只可以在那里使用这些书籍。你不
能外
借。
9
Every morning Mike goes to
work by train. As he has a long trip, he always
buys a newspaper. It helps to make the
time pass more quickly.
One
Tuesday morning, he turned to the sports page. He
wanted to read the
report about an
important football match. The report was so
interesting that he
forgot to get off
at his station. He didn’t know it until he saw the
sea. He got off at
the next station,
and had to wait a long time for a train to go
back. Of course, he got
to the office
very late. His boss was very angry.
每天早
晨，
Mike
坐火车去上班。由于路程漫长，他总是买报纸。这
有助于快速消磨时
间。
一个星期二的
早上，他翻到了体育版。他想阅读有关一场重要的足球比赛的报道。该
报道非常有趣，他
到站忘记下车了。直到看到了大海，他才知道过站了。他在下一站下了
车，不得不等待很
长时间坐车返回。当然，他很晚才到办公室。他的老板非常生气。
10
Molly was the
only little girl on her street, but when she was
eight years old,
another girl came to
live in the house opposite hers. The new girl was
eight years old
too, and her name was
Joan. Joan had two brothers. She didn't go to the
same
school as Molly, but they soon
began to play together after school.
One day Joan came home, had her milk
and cookies, and then went to Molly’s
house. She said to her friend, “Hi
Molly, will you come to my house to play? I’ve
got
a
nice new game. ”Molly
answered, “I’ve sorry, Joan, but my mother won’t
let me play
with you today, because
your brother George has a bad cold, and she
doesn't want
me to get it,
too.”
“Oh, that’s all right,
Molly,” Joan answered quickly. “George isn’t
r
eally my
brother. He’s my
step-brother.
”
[
step-
brother
继父或者继母的儿子
]
Mol
ly
是她街区里唯一的小女孩，但是当她
8
岁时，另一名女孩搬来了，就住在她家
对面。新来的女孩也是
8
岁，她的名字叫
Joan
。
Joan
有两个兄弟。她没有在
Molly<
/p>
的同
一所学校上学，但在放学后，他们很快就开始一起玩了。
有一天，
Joan
回到家里，吃完牛奶和饼干，然后前往
Molly
的家。她对
她的朋友说，
“嗨，
Molly
，你来
我家玩吗？我有一个好玩的新游戏。”
Molly
回答，“对
不起，
Joan
，
今天我的母亲不让我
跟你玩了，因为你的兄弟
George
得了重感冒，她不想让我
也得重感
冒。”
“哦，没事，
Molly
，”
Joan
很快回答。
“
George
不是我的嫡亲兄弟。他是我的非
亲兄弟
。”
11
“Daddy, can I learn to play the
violin?” young Sarah asked her father. She was
always asking for things and her father
was not pleased. “
You cost me a lot of
money,
Sarah,” he said. “First you
wanted to learn horse riding, then dancing, then
swimming.
Now it’s violin.” “I’ll play
it every day, Daddy,” Sarah said. “I’ll try very
hard.” “All
right,” her father said.
“This is what I’ll pay for
you to have
lessons for six weeks.
At the end of
six weeks you must play something for me. If you
play well, you can
have more lessons.
If you play badly, I will stop the lessons.” “OK,
Daddy,” Sarah
said. “This is
fair.”
He soon found a good
violin teacher and Sarah began her lessons. The
teacher
was very expensive, but her
father kept his promise.
Six weeks
passed quickly. The time came for Sarah to play
for her father.
She went to the living
room and said, “I’m ready to play for you, Daddy.”
“Fine,
Sara
h,” her father
said. “Begin.” She began to play. She played very
badly. She made
a terrible noise. Her
father had one of his friends with him, and his
friend put his
hands over his ears.
When Sarah finished, her father said,
“Well done, Sarah. You can have
more
lessons.” Sarah ran happily out of the
room. Her father’s friend turned to him.
“You’ve spent a lot of money, but she
still plays very badly,” he said. “Well, that’s
true,” her father said. “But since she
started learning the violin I’ve been able
to
buy
five flats in this
building very cheaply. In another six weeks I’ll
own the whole
building!”
“爸爸，我可以学习拉小提琴吗？”小
Sarah
问她的父亲。她总是要这要那的，她的
父亲很不高
兴。
“
Sarah
< br>，你让我花费很多钱了，”他说。“一开始，你想学骑马，然后
想学跳舞，然后想
学游泳。现在又想学小提琴。”“爸爸，我会每天都练习的，”
Sarah
说。“我会尽最大的努力。”
“好吧，”她的父亲说。
“我将为你支付
6
周课程的意思是：
到
6
周末，你必须拉给我听听。如果你拉得好，你可以上后面的
课程。如果你拉得不好，
我将停止后面的课程。”“行，爸爸，”
Sarah
说。“这是公平的。”
他很快找到了很好的小提琴教师，
Sarah
就开始了她的课程
。学费很昂贵，但她的父
亲信守自己的承诺。
六个星期很快就过去了。
Sarah
向她父亲汇报的
时间来到了。她走到客厅，说：“爸
爸，我准备好了。”“好吧，
Sarah
，”她的父亲说。“开始吧。”她开始拉琴。她拉得
非常糟糕。她拉出了一种极难听的声响。她父亲的一个朋友也在，他的朋友把双手捂着耳
朵。
当
Sarah
拉完后，她的父亲说：“干得好，
Sarah
。你可以
上后面的课程。”
Sarah
高
兴地跑
出了房间。她父亲的朋友转过来，面对他说：“你花了那么多钱，她还是拉得那么
糟糕，
”“嗯，就是这样子，”她的父亲说。“但自从她开始学习小提琴，我已经在这座
大楼里
非常便宜地购买了
5
个单位。再过
6<
/p>
个星期，我将拥有整座大楼！”
12
When Mary was fourteen,
her mother gave her a beautiful ring. It was a
birthday present, and Mary was very
pleased. But a week later, she was very sad,
because when she was working in the
kitchen, she lost the ring. She looked
everywhere, but she couldn’t find it.
She even looked in the drain outside the
kitchen, but the ring was not there.
That even
ing her
brother Tom was eating some cakes. “Who made these
cakes?” he said. “They are
excellent.”
“I made them,”
Mary said. She was pleased that her brother liked
them. Mary
liked cooking very much.
“Are there any …?” tom
started to ask. Then he stopped
s
uddenly. He opened
his
mouth and took a ring out. “Where did this come
from?” he asked. “This is a
strange
type of cake!”
Mary was
pleased. “My ring!” she said. She took it to the
kitchen. She washed
it and then went
back and thanked her brother.
“I’m sorry you had a surprise,” she
said, “but thank you very much for finding
my ring. I’ll cook some more cakes for
you tomorrow as a reward.”
Mary 14
岁时，她的母亲给了
她一个漂亮的戒指。这是一个生日礼物，
Mary
感到非常
高兴。但一个星期之后，她很伤心，因为当她在厨房里工作时，她丢失去了戒指。她到处
都找遍了，但她无法找到它。她甚至查看了厨房外的排水管道，但是戒指不在那儿。
那天晚上，她的兄弟
Tom
正在吃蛋糕。“这些蛋糕是谁做的？”他说，“太棒啦。”
“我做的，”
Mary
说。她感到高
兴的是她的哥哥喜欢这些蛋糕。
Mary
很喜欢烹饪。
“什么啊
...
？
”
Tom
开始问。他突然停了。他开他的嘴，取出了戒指。
“这是从哪
里来的？”他问。
“这是一个奇异的蛋糕！”
Mary
很高兴。
< br>“我的戒指！”她说。她拿着戒指进了厨房。她清洗一下，然后回来
并向她的兄弟
表示感。
“对不起，让你受惊了，”她说，“但是非常你帮
我找到了戒指。为了表示感，明天
我将为你多做一些蛋糕。”
13
Tom is a little boy, and he is only
seven years old. One day he went to the cinema.
It is the first time for him to do
that. He bought a ticket and then went in. but
after
two or three minutes he came out,
bought a second ticket and went in again. After a
few minutes he came out and bought a
third ticket. Two or three minutes later he
came out and asked for another ticket.
Then the girl in the ticket office asked him,
“Why do you buy so many tickets? How
many friends do you meet?” tom answered,
“No,
I have no friend here.
But a big boy always stops me at the door and
tears my
ticket to pieces.”
Tom
是一个小男孩，他只有
7
岁。有一天，他到戏院看戏。这是他第一次去看戏。他
买了票，然后走了进
去，但是过了两，三分钟，他出来了，买了第二票，再次进去。几分
钟后他出来买了第三
票。两，三分钟后，他又走了出来，重新要买票。于是，售票处里的
女孩问他：“你为什
么买这么多票？你遇见了多少朋友？”汤姆回答说：
“不，这
里没
有我朋友。但是在门口，一个大男孩总是挡住我，把我的票撕成碎片。”
14
A detective is a
policeman but doesn’t wear a uniform. He works in
his
ordinary clothes. If he wears a
uniform, robbers will know that he is a policeman.
Then they will avoid him.
To detect means to “find
out”.
A detective finds out who does
bad things. He
can sit in a coffee-shop
with other people. He can listen to people
talking. Some
thieves come, the
policemen will catch them.
A detective can go to a football match.
He can watch for pick-pockets are
people
who steal things from
other people’s pockets.
A
detective must be clever, honest and brave. He
works hard and helps to
protect us.
侦探是一名警察，但不穿制服。他
穿便服工作。如果他穿着制服，匪徒会知道他是一
名警察。然后，他们就会避开他。
做侦探意味着“发现”。侦探发现谁做了坏事。他可以与其他人
一样坐在咖啡馆里。
他可以听人说话。小偷出现了，侦探将抓住他们。
< br>
侦探可以到足球比赛场。他可以监视从别人口袋里窃取财物的扒手们。
侦探必须聪明，诚实和勇敢。他努力工作，保护着我们。
15
Dong Jianhua was born in
Shanghai in 1937. His father was Dong Haoyun, the
king of the ship in Hong Kong. Dong
Jianhua was his elder son.
In 1949, he
came to Hong Kong with his father. At the age of
thirteen, he
studied in Zhonghua Middle
School. In 1954, he went to England to study the
mechanical engineering. Five years
later, he received a Bachelor of Science in
Liverpool University. Later he went to
America and he worked in the General
Electrical Company in America.
There he had stayed for ten
years. He returned to Hong Kong again in 1969.
In Hong Kong, he helped his father do
business in shipping and opened an airline
from Hong Kong to Europe and America.
He never stressed the food or clothing. In
his spare time, he likes reading
newspapers and studying Chinese history. He also
likes sports.
On December
11, 1996, Dong Jianhua was elected the first
senior office of
Hong Kong. He took
office on July 1, 1997.
193
7
年董建华在出生。他的父亲董好运，是的船王。董建华是他的大儿子。
1949
年，他随父亲来到。
13
岁时，他在中华中学读书。
1954
< br>年，他到英国学习机械
工程。五年后，他获得英国利物浦大学的理科学士学位。此
后，他到美国，在美国
GE
公
司工作。
他在那里呆了十年。他在
1969<
/p>
年回到。在，他帮助父亲做航运业务，开辟至欧美航
线。他从来不
讲究吃穿。在业余时间，他喜欢阅读报纸和学习中国历史。他还喜欢运动。
在
1996
年
12
月
11
日
，董建华当选为第一任特首。他于
1997
年
7
月
1
日
就任。
16
The classroom
was very quiet. Twenty-four girls were having a
history lesson.
They had books open in
front of them on their desks,
and their
teacher was talking
to them.
The school was in Poland.
The time was 1877. At that time much of Poland was
a part of Russia. Children could not
learn the history of their own country in school
or even use their own language. But the
teacher was still teaching Polish history in
Polish.
Suddenly
the bell rang. Two long rings, two short rings.
The girls knew what
that meant. Quick
hands closed all the Polish books. Four girls ran
up and down the
classroom and picked
them up, and then they ran out through a door with
the books.
The girls quickly took some
sewing from their desks and the teacher got out a
Russian book. Just then a Russian
official came in, a
nd asked the
teacher, “What are
you reading to the
class?” the teacher said, “Russian stories.”
“Now,” he said, “I’d
like to ask one of
you some questions.” “Manya, please stand up,” the
teacher
ordered quietly. A little girl
stood up. After Manya answered all his questions,
the
Russian official walked out of the
classroom.
The little girl Manya became
Madame Curie, the great woman scientist.
教室里非常安静。
24
个女孩正在上历史课。在他们面前的课桌上他们打开着书，他
们的老师在讲
课。
学校在波兰。当时是
1877
年，波兰的许多地方已沦为俄国的一部分了。在学校里，
孩子不
能学习自己国家的历史，甚至不能使用自己的母语。但老师仍然用波兰语讲授波兰
历史。
突然间铃响了。两声长铃，两声短铃。女孩们知道这意味着
什么。双手快速合上所有
的波兰书本。四个女孩在教室里跑前跑后，收起书本，然后她们
拿着书本从另一扇门跑出
去。其他女孩们很快从课桌里取出针线物品，老师很快取出一本
俄语书。就在这时，一名
俄国官员走了进来，问老师，“你在上什么课？”老师回答，“
俄国的故事。”“现在，”
他说，“我想问问你们其中的一些问题。”“
Manya
，请起立，”老师悄悄地下令。一个
小女孩
站了起来。
Manya
回答俄国官员的所有问题后，俄国官员离
开了教室。
小女孩
Manya
成为居里
夫人，伟大的女科学家。
17
Mr. Mill arrived at
London Airport at the end of a three week holiday
in
France. He was a man with a beard.
Since it was hot there, he took off the beard.
But his passport photo showed him with
his beard.
An office looked
at the
photo and him for a moment, and
said, “Will you
excuse me? Please sit
dawn. I shan’t keep you long.” with this, he
walked away,
showed the photo to a
second officer and said, “Do you know that face?”
the second
officer looked at the
passport and asked where Mr. Mill had come from.
When he
heard that Mr. Mill had just
arrived back from Pairs, the second officer smiled
and
said, “An Englishman with a beard
stole a painting in Pairs on Friday. And that man
looks just like the kind of
man…”
Suddenly, it came to
the first officer who Mr. Mill was. He returned to
him
and asked, “Did you teach at the
No.2 Middle School?” when Mr. Mill answered in
surprise that he did, the first officer
smiled and said, “I though so. I’m Jack Smith.
You taught me French. You haven’t
changed a bit.”
Mill
先生结束在法国为期三周的假期后抵达伦敦机场。
他
是一个长大胡子的人。
由于
那里天气炎热，他刮光了胡子。但他
的护照照片显示他长大胡子。
一个工作人员一会儿看看他，
一会儿看看照片，说：“请原谅，我走开一下。您请坐
下，不会让您久等。”于是，他走
开了，把照片给另一个工作人员看，并说：“你辨认得
出那脸吗？”
那个工作人员看着护照，并问
Mill
< br>先生从哪来。当那个工作人员听到
Mill
先生刚刚从巴
黎过来时，他笑着说，“上周五在巴黎，一个长大胡子的英国人偷走了一幅
画。而这名男
子看起来就像那种人……”
突然，
第一个工作人员走向
Mill
先生。
他
回到他身旁，
问：
“你在第二中学教书吗？”
< br>就在
Mill
先生惊讶地回答他是的时侯，第一个工作人
员微笑着说，“我想是这样。我是
Jack
Smith
。你教我法语。你没有丝毫变化。”
18
A taxi hit a truck. A
policeman spoke to the taxi driver and to the
truck driver.
He also spoke to Tom. He
was a witness.
This is what
they said.
Truck driver:
I
was driving from the airport toward Newton. A car
crossed
the road, so I slowed down. I
did not stop. A taxi hit the back of the truck.
Nobody
was seriously injured but both
cars were damaged.
Car
driver:
I was
driving behind a truck several miles from
Newton
. The truck
stopped
suddenly. The driver did not give me a warning. I
was driving very slowly. I
could not
pass the truck because there were two cars coming
near from Newton. My
taxi hit the
truck, and some glass cut my left hand.
Tom:
I was watching the
traffic about a mile from the airport. A truck was
going to Newton. It was not going very
quickly. There was a taxi about two hundred
feet behind the truck. It was going
fast. When the truck slowed down, the taxi hit it.
The taxi driver was not looking at the
truck. He was looking out of the window at
something. My friend saw the accident,
too.
Later, Tom’s friend
spoke to the policeman and agreed with Tom.
一辆出租车撞上一辆卡车。一名警察向出租车司机和卡车司机
询问情况。他也问了
Tom
。他是个目击者。
< br>
下面是他们证词。
卡车
司机
：我正从机场向
Newton
道行
驶。一辆小轿车横穿马路，所以我放慢车速。
我没刹车。出租车追尾卡车。没有人受重伤
，但两辆车撞坏了。
出租车司机
：
我在卡车后面约有几英里驶向牛顿道。
卡车突然刹车。卡车司机
没有给
我一个警示。我行驶得非常慢。我没能超卡车，是因为有两辆车从
Newton
道驶来。我的
出租车撞上了卡车，一些碎
玻璃割伤了我的左手。
Tom
:<
/p>
我看到了距离机场约一英里的交通事故。一辆卡车驶向
Newto
n
道。卡车没有行
驶得很快。有一辆出租车在卡车后面约二百英
尺。出租车开得飞快。当卡车放慢了车速，
出租车就撞了上去。出租车司机当时没注意到
卡车减速。他正朝着窗外东西望。我的朋友
也目睹了意外发生。
接着，
Tom
的朋友向警察提供了赞同
Tom
的证词。
19
American schools begin in September
after a long summer: There are two
terms in a school year. The first term
is from September to January, and the
second is from February to June. Most
American children begin to go to school then
they finish high school.
High school students take only 4 or 5
subjects each term. They usually go to
the same classes, and they have
homework for every class. After class they do many
interesting things.
After high school, many students go to
college. They can go to a small one
or
a
large one.
They usually have to pay a lot of money. So many
college students work
after class to
get money for their studies.
长夏过后美国学校在
9
月开学：
每一学年有两个学期。
第一学期是从
9
月至来年
1
月，<
/p>
第二学期是从
2
月到
6
月。大多数美国儿童从小上学，直至他们完成高中学业。
每学期高中学生只需要学
4
或
5
种科目。他们通常一起上大课，也有每课的功课。下
< br>了课他们参加多种兴趣活动。
高中毕业后，很多学生进
入大学。
他们可以上小型学院或者大型学院
。他们通常要支
付很多学费。因此，许多大学生课余勤工俭学。
20
When you are reading something in
English.
You may often meet a new word.
What’s the best the best way to
know
it?
You may look it up
in the English-Chinese dictionary. It will tell
you something
about the word: the
pronunciation,
the part of
speech,
the Chinese meaning and also
how to use this word. But how can you
know where the word is in thousands of
English words? How to find it in a
dictionary quickly?
First, all the
English words are in the alphabetical order. In
the dictionary you
can first see the
words beginning with the letter A then B, C, D, E…
That means, if
there are two words “do”
and “put”, “do” will be certainly before “put”,
Then if there
are two words both
beginning with the same letter, you may look at
the second
letter. Then the third, the
forth… for example, “pat” is before “picture”,
“bald”
before “balloon.”
Do you understand how to look up a word
in a dictionary?
The dictionary will be
your good friend, I hope you’ll use it as often as
possible
in your English learning.
当你在看英文读物时。你可能会经常碰到生词。认生词的最佳方法是什么呢？
你可以查英汉词典。词典会告诉你这个词的容：语音，
一
部分引语
，中文意义，以及
如何使用这个词。但是你如何在成千
上万的英语单词中查找这个词呢？如何快速在词典中
找到它呢？
首先，所有的英文单词按字母顺序排列。在词典中，您可以先看到以字母
A
开头的单
词，
然后是
B, C, D, E...
这意味着，
如果
有两个单词
“
do
”
< br>和
“
put
”
< br>，
“
do
”
将肯定在
“
put
”
之前，
如果有两个单词都以相同的字母开头，
你可以
看第二个字母。
依此类推，
看第三个，
看第四个
......
例如，“
pat
”在“
picture
”之前，“
bald
”在“
b
alloon
”之前。
你理解怎样查词典了吗？
词典将是你
的好朋友，我希望你在英语学习中尽量经常翻翻词典。
21
What are middle school
students thi
nking about these days?
It’s a word that
starts with “s”.
Sunshine, swimming, sports… summer, Yes, that’s
it, summer, with
sunshine, swimming and
sports!
Of course, you can try to make
this summer a little bit special. It’s not
difficult.
There are usually
a couple of things that you’re been
thinking about doing for a long
time,
but haven’t done yet. When the summer comes, it’s
time to do them! For
example, you can
join spend sports team, go to a park, fly a kite,
lie in the grass, or
just spend some
time with friends.
Summer
is a great time to relax and it can also be a
great time to have fun and
to learn!
You can go to a botanical garden and get to know 5
or 6 different plants or
flowers. If
you have planned for a summer trip with your
family, it will be exciting to
write
down the details of your trip along with your
photos. And it you prefer to stay
indoors, you can learn to make some
easy crafts, such as paper cups, brown paper
bags, or cool cards. You can make some
birthday gifts to give on your friends
’
birthday!
It’s hard to
say
what is the best way to spend the
summer, just do something
new that you
haven't done before.
现今什么是中
学生所想的？有一个以“
s
”开头的词语。，游泳，运动
...
夏天，是的，
就是这样，夏天，充满，
尽情游泳和运动！
当然，
你可以尝试使这个夏天特别一点。
这并不困难。
通常有一两件事是你一直想做，
但没做的。夏天来临，正是做它们的时候！例如，你可以
参加运动队，去公园，放风筝，
躺在草地上，或者只与朋友一起共度。
< br>
夏天是一个休闲的好时光，
也是一个娱乐和学习的好时光！
你可以到植物园，
了解
5
，
6
种不同的植物或
花卉。如果你计划与你的家人一起夏季旅行，用照片记录一些你们的旅
行细节，这将是令
人兴奋的。如果你喜欢留在家里，你可以学做一些简易工艺品，比如，
纸杯，牛皮纸袋，
或者酷酷的卡片。你还可以给你朋友做一些生日礼物！
很难说什么是度过夏天的最好方式，只要做一些你以前没做过的新鲜事就行。
22
There would
be a school party on Friday evening. The girls
were talking about
what they were going
to wear.
“I’m going to wear
a black dress, so everybody will notice me,” said
Emily. “
How
about you,
Linda?”
“I’m not
sure.
May be jeans, an old skirt, and a
hat.
People will notice me more
tha
n you!” Linda said.
“What are we going to do
about the boys?” asked Jane. “Do you remember the
last school party last year? They just
stood there, and we girls had to by
ourselves!”
“I heard that
some of the boys learned how to dance better this
summer.
M
aybe it’ll be
better this time,” said Mary.
The party was held in Friday evening.
Groups of students arrived. The music
began. The girls stood in a line in one
side, and to boys in another side. Mr. Green,
their teacher, tried to get them
together, but fa
iled. After a while Tim
said, “I
don’t want to stand here the
whole time. The party is only for two hours. It’ll
be over
soon.” He started to dance. All
the others watched him. Then David asked Emily if
she wanted to dance.
Then
Jack and Linda.
Then, all began to
dance. Soon there were
more dancers
then watchers.
星期五晚上将举行一次校园聚会。姑娘们都在谈论她们准备穿些什么。
< br>
“我会穿黑色礼服，这样大家会注意我，”埃米莉说，
“琳达，你会穿什么？”
“我不清楚
。可能是牛仔裤，旧裙子，一顶帽子。与你相比，人们会更注意我！”琳
达说。
“说起男生，我们到底要做些什么？”简问。
“你记得去年校园聚会吗？他们只是
站在那里，我们女生不得不
自娱自乐！”
玛丽说：“我听说，今年夏天男生中的一些人学
习了如何更好地跳舞。也许这次情况
将会好一点。”
聚会在星期五晚上举行。学生们成群结队而来。音乐响起。女
生们站在线的一边，男
生站在线的的另一边。他们的老师，格林先生，试图让他们站在一
起，但没有成功。过了
一会，蒂姆说：
“我可不想全部时间里只
站在这里。聚会仅仅两个小时。它会很快结束的。
“他开始跳
舞。所有的人看着他。接着，大卫邀请埃米莉是否愿意一起跳舞。然后，杰克
和琳达。然
后，都开始跳舞。不久，起舞者比站观者多了。
23
At the end of
a busy week, I was anxious because
I
didn’t have a “how to”
speech for my
class.
My ride home was leaving
immediately after the class
, and I
hadn’t packed yet. Then I thought of a
solution for both problems.
Rushing back to my room, I threw
everything I needed into my traveling bag and
ran to class hurriedly. When I was
asked to speak, I carried my bag to the front of
the room and put it on the table. All
the disorderly things in the bag went out
suddenly.
“This
is not the way to pack a bag,” I said. I then
explained the right way to
pack
clothing and books, showing clearly as I went
along. By the time my speech was
finished, my traveling bag was packed.
I received an “A” for my speech and didn’t
miss my ride home.
在一个繁忙的周末，我因为没有准备好题为“如何”的课上发言而发愁。我回家的班
车会在课后很快离站的，可我还没有整理完毕。稍顷，我想出了这两个问题的解决方案。
我赶回寝室，我把所需的东西统统塞进旅行包，而后匆匆跑去上课。轮
到我发言了，
我提着旅行包来到教室前方，再把包放在桌上。包里所有未整理的东西一下
子都“跑”了
出来。
“这不是收拾行
包的方法，”我说。然后我解释了收拾衣物和书籍的正确的方式，同
时我清晰地演示操作
。到我发言完毕时，我的旅行包也整理完毕。我的发言得了一个“
A
”
级分，并且没有耽误搭车回家。
24
Many people go to school for me
education. They learn languages, history,
politics, geography, physics, chemistry
and mathematics. Others go to school to
learn skills in order to make a living.
School education is very important and useful.
Yet, no one can learn everything from
school. A teacher, no matter how much he
knows,
can not teach his
students everything they want to know. The
teacher’s job is
to show his students
how to learn. He teaches them how to read and how
to think. So,
much more is to be
learned outside school by the students themselves.
It is always more important
to know how to study by oneself than to remember
some facts or a formula. It is actually
quite easy to learn a certain fact in history or
a formula in mathematics. But it is
very difficult to use a formula in working out a
math problem. Great
scienti
sts before us didn’t get
everything from school. Their
teachers
only showed them the way. Edison didn’t even
finish primary school. But
they were
all so successful. He invented so many things for
human being. The reason
for their
success is that they know how to study. They read
books that were not
taught at school.
They would ask many questions as they read. They
did thousands of
experiments. They
worked hard all their lives, wasting not a single
moment. Most
important is that they
knew how to use their train.
很多人去学校接受教育。他们学习语文，历史，政治，地理，
物理，化学和数学。也
有部分人去学校学习技能，以便谋生。学校教育是非常重要的，非
常实用的。然而，人不
可能从学校学到每样东西。一位老师，无论他知道多少知识，都不
可能讲授给学生们所想
知道的每样东西。
教师的工作是给学生讲
授如何学习。
他讲授如何阅读和如何思考。
所以，
更多的是由学生自己在校外学习。
知道如何通过自
己的研习，比起死记一些事例或公式总是更重要的。其实学习一个历
史事件或某一个数学
公式很容易。不过运用一个数学公式解答数学问题却是非常困难的。
我们面前的科学伟人
并不是从学校里学到一切的。他们的老师仅仅给他们讲授读书方法。
< br>爱迪生甚至没有念完小学。但他们都非常成功。他为人类发明了这么多事情的人。他
们获得成功的原因是他们知道如何去学习。他们读了不止在学校学到的书籍。他们在阅读
的同时还会提出许多问题。他们做过数以千计的实验。他们辛劳一生，没有浪费过一分一
秒。最重要的是他们知道如何使用自己的经验。
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“Cool” is a
word with many meanings. Its old meaning is used
to descri
be a
temperature
that is a little bit cold. As the world has
changed, the world “cool” has
had many
different meanings.
“Cool” can be used
to describe feelings of interest in almost
anything. When you
see a famous car in
the street, maybe you will say, “It’s cool.” you
may think, “He’s so
cool”, when you see
your favorite footballer.
What's more, you can use “cool” instead
of many words such as “new” or
“surprising”. Here’s an interesting
story to show the way the word is used. A teacher
asked her students
to write
about the waterfall they had visited. On one
student’s
paper was just one sentence,
“It’s so cool.” maybe he thought it was the best
way to
show what he saw and felt.
But in fact, many other
words can make your life as colorful as the word
“cool”.
And I think they are also very
cool, too.
“酷”是一个多义词。本义是用来形容一个有点冷的温度。由
于时代的发展变化，
世间的“酷”已经有许多不同的含义。
<
/p>
“酷”
，
可以用来描述对几乎所有的东西
感兴趣的感觉。
当你在街上看到一辆名车时，
也许你会说，
“这很酷。”，当你看到你喜欢的足球运动员时，你可能认为“他太酷了”。
更重要的是，你可以使用“酷”代替许多词语，如“新”或“令人惊讶”。这
里有一
个有趣的故事，以显示该单词的使用方式。老师要求学生们就观赏过的瀑布作文。
在一个
学生的作文里只有一句话，“这太酷了。”也许他觉得这是最好的方式来展示他所
看到和
感受到的。
但事实上，
很多其他词汇也能描述你的生活如同“酷”字一样的丰富多彩
。而且我
认
为他们也非常酷。
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Mr. Jenkins is fifty
years old. He’s taught math in a middle school for
twenty-six years. He works hard and
always comes to his office on time. He hopes
his students will be honest and he is
strict with them. Some of his students have
become to him. Of course the man is
proud of them.
This term he
began to teach Grade One. Some of the new students
were told
about him, but the others
didn’t know about him. On th
e first day
of school he told
the students how to
be an honest person. He gave them some examples
and said, “I
don’t like telling a lie.”
Before class was over, he told all his students to
finish
Exercise 8 in Lesson 1.
The next morning, as soon
as he cam
e into the classroom, he
asked, “Who’s
finished Exercise 8 in
Lesson 1.”
The students had
a look at their workbooks and their faces turned
red at once.
<
/p>
詹金斯先生
50
岁。他在中学执教数学<
/p>
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年了。他工作努力，
总是准时上班。
他希望
他的学生们诚实守信并对他们严格要求。他的学生有的已成为他那样。当然，他为
此感到
骄傲。
这个学期，他开始教一
年级。一些新生听说过他，但其余的都不认识他。在开学第一
天，他告诉学生如何做一个
诚实守信的人。他给他们举了一些例子，说：“我不喜欢说谎
的。”下课之前，他布置全
体学生完成第
1
课练习
8
。
第二天早晨，他一走进教室就问：“谁完成了第
1
课练习
8
。
”
学生们看了看他们的作业簿，他们的脸一下子变红了。
27
Do you know how
to play a game called “Musical Chairs”? It is easy
to play and
most people and some way of
making music. You may use a piano or any other
musical
instrument, if someone can play
it. You may use a tape-recorder. You can even use
a
radio.
Put the
chairs in a row. The chairs may be put in twos,
back to back. A better
way is to have
the chairs in one row with each chair facing in
the opposite direction
to the chair
next to it.
The game is
easy. When the music starts, the players walk
round the chairs.
Every one goes in the
same direction, of course. They should walk in
time to the
music. If the music is fast
they should walk quickly. If the music is slow,
they should
walk slowly.
The person playing music cannot see the
people in the game. When the music
stops, the players try to sit on the
chairs. If a person cannot find a chair to sit on,
he drops out. Then, before the music
stops again, one more player will be out.
At last, there will be two
players and one chair! The one who sits on the
chair
when the music when the music
stops is the winner.
你知道如何玩
耍名叫“音乐椅”的游戏吗？这是很容易玩的，大多数人游戏及小部分
人播放音乐。如果
有人会弹奏，可以使用一架钢琴或任何其他乐器。你也可以使用一个录
音机。你甚至可以
使用收音机。
把椅子排成一排。椅子需背对背成双摆放。一个
更好的办法是把椅子面对面一把挨一
把地摆放成一行。
这个游戏是容易玩的。当音乐开始，游戏者轮着椅子转圈。每个人按同一个方向走，
当然，他们应该跟着音乐走。如果音乐节奏快，他们应该快走。如果音乐节奏慢，他们应< p>
该慢慢走。
播放音乐的人不可以看到游戏中的人
。当音乐停止时，游戏者设法坐在椅子上。如果
有人不能找到椅子坐下，他就出局了。然
后，在音乐停止之前，会有更多的游戏者出局。
最后，将有两
名游戏者，一把椅子！当音乐停止时，一个坐到椅子上的人就是赢家。
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Chinese
children are very obedient. In China, children are
taught to obey and
respect their
parents, teachers and elders. But children is
Western counties do not
obey every
time.
Most parents and
teachers in the West expect some bad behavior in
children.
They expect to see it in
teenagers as they are becoming adults.
In China students stand respectfully
when they answer questions from the
teacher.
In the West they
don’t stand and often several answer the teacher’s
questions at the same time. This
sometimes makes the classroom noisy and hard to
control. But students in these
classrooms can also have good talks about
interesting
ideas. Not all the ideas
come from the teacher.
Is
it good to be an obedient child at all times? Do
you sometimes feel that your
parents
are being unfair when they ask you to do
something? Perhaps the answer is
somewhere between the two days-the
Western way and the Chinese way. If you
disagree sometimes, it might be a good
way to speak out your ideas politely. That
was your parents or teachers can listen
and perhaps learn to see your point of view.
So you can disagree sometimes as long
as you do so politely and with respect.
中国孩子很听话。在中国，儿童被教导要服从和尊重他们的父
母，老师和长辈。但是
西方国家的儿童不都是这样。
在西方大多数家长和老师期望发现孩子们的一些不良行为，他们希望在青少年阶段发
现这些，因为孩子们正在成长为成年人。
在中国，
当老师提问时，学生需恭敬地站着回答。在西方，学生不必站着，往往会在
同时有几个人
回答老师的提问。有时候这样会使课堂嘈杂和难以控制。但是，在这些教室
里的学生可以
对感兴趣的想法作活跃的讨论。并非所有的观点都来自于老师。
在任何时候都听话的孩子是一个好孩子吗？当你父母要求你做某事，有时候你会感觉
到
他们的要求不太公平吗？也许答案是介于上述两种，中国式和西方式。如果有时候你不
同
意，有礼貌地说出你的想法可能是一个好的方式。这样，你的父母或老师听过后，也许
能
采纳你的观点。
因此，
只要你这样，
有
礼貌地和尊重地行事，
有时候你可以持不同意见。
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Jack went to
school to study history. But when he finished his
first year, he
didn’t pass the exam and
the teacher said to him, “You have to leave
school.”
When the boy’s
father heard the news, he was worried. He
cam
e to the school
to see
the teacher. He found the teacher in the office
and asked the teacher to let
Jack study
in school the next year.
“He is a good boy. He always does well
in history.” said Jack’s father, “He will do
better next year and pass the
exam.
”
“No, no,
that is not right!” answered the teacher, “Last
month I asked him,
'When did Napoleon
die?’ and he didn’t know.”
“Please sir, give him another chance,”
said Jack’s father, “You know we don’t
have any newspapers in our house, so
nobody on our family knew that Napoleon was
ill.”
杰克去学校学习历史。
但是，
当他学完了第一年，
他没有通过考试，
老师对他说：
“你
必须退学。”
当男孩的父亲听到这个消息，他担心起来。他
来到学校见老师。他在办公室里见到了
老师，并请求老师让杰克明年能在学校学习。
“他是一个好孩子。他学历史一直很认
真。”杰克的父亲说，“明年他会更努力，并
通过考试。“
“不，不，不是这样！”老师回答说：“上个月，我问他，<
/p>
'
拿破仑什么时候死的？
'
，
而他不知道。”
“对不起，老师，再给他一次机会吧，”杰克的父亲说，“要知道在我们家里没有任
何报纸，所以我们家没有人知道拿破仑病了。”
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A
middle school organized a “No TV Week” programme.
All the teachers,
parents and students
worked together for this programme and most of
them found
it to be a very good one.
The headmaster said, “The idea was not
to stop watching TV
completely but for the students just to
find how much time they watch TV and try
to use this time for other
things.”
What did the
students say about this “No TV Week”? One boy
said, “I can’t
believe I haven’t
watched TV for a week, but it’s been fun doing it.
”A girl student
said, “I’m going to
give up all TV programme except for 'Our Animal
World’ and other
language-
teaching programme.
I’m really pleased that I have more time to do
things
like walking and thinking. I
enjoy this 'No TV W
eek’ very much……”But
not all the
students thought it was
good. Here one student said something different,
“I don’t
like 'No TV Week’ because I
like watching TV. I have lots of favourite
programmes
and I don’t want to miss
them. But we have to do it.”
一所中学组织了一次“无电视周”活动。所有的老师，家长和
学生一起参与其中，大
部分参与者发现这是一个非常好的活动。
校长说：
“这个想法不是完全禁止学生观看电视，
而是为了调查
他们多少时间用于看电视，并尝试使用这些时间做其他事情。”
有关这个“无电视周”学生们说了些什么呢？一个男生说：“
真不敢相信我一个星期
没有看过电视，但我一直乐在其中。”一个女生说：“除了
'
我们的动物世界
'
和其他语言
教学节目，我将放弃所有的电视节目。我真的很高兴，我有更多的时间做其它
事情，比如
散步和思考。我非常喜欢这个
'
无电视周
'... ...
”但是，并非所有的学生都认
为这是好的。
这里有位学生说了一些不同的看法，“我不喜欢
'
无电视周
'
，因为我喜欢看电视。我有
很
多十分喜爱的节目，我不想错过它们。但是，我们不得不这样做。”
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When you are reading something in
English, you may often come across a new
word. What’s the best way to know
it?
You may look it up in
the English-Chinese Dictionary. It will tell you a
lot about
the word: the pronunciation,
the part of speech, the Chinese meaning and also
how to
use this word. But how can you
know where the word is in thousands of English
words?
How to find it in the dictionary
both quickly and correctly?
First, all
the English words are arranged in the alphabetical
order. In the
dictionary you can first
see the words beginning with the letter A, then B,
C, D, E…
That means if there are two
words “desert” and “pull”, “desert” will be
certainly
before
“pull”.
Then if there are two words both beginning with
the same letter, you
may look at the
second letter. Then the third, the fourth…For
example, “pardon” is
before “plough”,
“judge” before “just”, etc.
Do you understand how to look up a word
in a dictionary?
The dictionary will be
your good friend. I hope you’ll use it as often as
possible
in your English learning.
当你在看英文读物时。你可能会经常碰到生词。认生词的最佳
方法是什么呢？
你可以查英汉词典。词典会告诉你这个词的容
：语音，一部分引语，中文意义，以及
如何使用这个词。但是你如何在成千上万的英语单
词中查找这个词呢？如何快速在词典中
找到它呢？
首先，所有的英文单词按字母顺序排列。在词典中，您可以先看到以字母
A
开头的单
词，然后是
B, C, D,
E...
这意味着，如果有两个单词“
desert
”和“
pull
”，“
d
esert
”将
肯定在“
pull
”之前，如果有两个单词都以相同的字母开头，你可以看第二个字母。依此
< br>类推，看第三个，
看第四个
.
.....
例如，“
pardon
”在
“
plough
”之前，“
judge
”在“
just
”之前。
你理解怎样查词典了吗？
词典将是你的好朋友，我希望你在英语学习中尽量经常翻翻词典。
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