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Text A In My Day At the age of eighty my mother had her last bad fall, and after that her mind wandered free through time. Some days she went to weddings and funerals that had taken place half a century earlier. On others she presided over family din...
Glossary affluent a. 丰富的, 富裕的n. 支流, 富人 axe n. 斧, 斧头vt. 削减(人员、经费、计划、机构等) banal a. 平凡的, 陈腐的 battered 弄垮的 beam n. 光线 ray or stream of light behead vt. 斩首, 砍头 boast 吹牛...
Text A The Needs That Drive Us All All living creatures are driven by the basic need to stay alive and reproduce so that the species will continue. As creatures have evolved from simple to complex, they have developed additional basic needs ... Human...
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Lesson eleven Silent spring There was once a town in the heart of America where all life seemed to live in harmony with its surroundings. The town lay in the midst of prosperous farms, where, in spring, white clouds of bloom drifted above the green f...
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Diogenes and Alexander Lying on the bare earth, shoeless, bearded, half-naked, he looked like a beggar or a lunatic.He was one, but not the other. He had opened his eyes with the sun at dawn, scratched,done his business like a dog at the roadside, wa...
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A DILL PICKLE by Katherine Mansfield AND then, after six years, she saw him again. He was seated at one of those little bamboo tables decorated with a Japanese vase of paper daffodils. There was a tall plate of fruit in front of him, and very careful...