现代大学英语精读第三册 15b
Text A The President as Corporate Salesman The president of the United States, we learn in school, plays many roles: chief executive, commander-in-chief, chief legislator, head of state, and party leader. Seldom mentioned is this role as guardian and
现代大学英语精读第四册 1a
Thinking as a Hobby William Golding While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking;and that I myself could not think at all. It was the headmaster of my grammar school who first brought the subject of think
现代大学英语精读4 1b
The Pleasures of Learning*/Gilbert Highet As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought: even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all th
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现代大学英语精读4 2a
Waiting for the Police I wonder where Mr Wainwright's gone?' said Mrs Mayton. It didn't matter to her in the least where he had gone. All that mattered was that he paid his three guineas a week regularly for board and lodging. But life - and particul
现代大学英语精读第四册 2b
THE HITCH-hiker It had been touch and go whether Carole Phillips would reach the London main-line station in time to catch the last train. She had worked very late last night, preparing a report on the small department she managed in the London offic
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现代大学英语精读第四册 3a
Most students are usually introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names, dates,events and statistics. The students' skills are then tested by examinations that require them to show how
现代大学英语精读第四册 3b
The third person Graham Greene Somewhere behind the cakestall a man was whistling and Martins knew the tune. He turned and waited. Was it fear or excitement that made his heart beat-or just the memories that tune ushered in, for life had always quick
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现代大学英语精读第四册 4a
A Drink in the Passage In the year 1960 the Union of South Africa celebrated its Golden Jubilee, and there was a nationwide sensation when the one-thousand-pound prize for the finest piece of sculpture was won by a black man, Edward Simelane. His wor
现代大学英语精读第四册 4b
Unit4b The bench Richard Rive We form an integral part of a complex society, a society complex in that a vast proportion of the population are denied the very basic privileges of existence, a society that condemns a man to an inferior position becaus
现代大学英语精读第四册 5a
Man of the moment Alan Ayckboun V-Vick Parks D-Douglas Beechey N-Nerys T-Trudy S-Sharon (The scene is set at the Spanish holiday villa of VIC PARKS. He is sitting in the garden with DOUGLAS, waiting for the television interview. There are two other p
现代大学英语精读第四册 5b
Climbing the mountain of success Sydney J. Harris It has long struck me that the familiar metaphor of climbing the ladder for describing the ascent to success or fulfillment in any field is inappropriate and misleading. There are no ladders that lead
