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Town and Country Life in England

There is a big difference between town life and country life in England. In the country, everybody knows everybody else. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you have for dinner. If you want help, you will always get it and you will be glad to help others.

In a large town like London, however, it can sometimes happen that you have never seen your next door neighbor and you do not know his name or anything about him. People in London are often very lonely. This is because people go to different places in the evenings and at weekends. If you walk through the streets in the centre of London on Sunday, it is like a town without people. One is sorry for old people living on their own. They could die in their homes and would not be discovered for weeks or even months.

A Change in Women’s Life

The important change in women’on women’that age, and though women tend to marry younger, work at least until shortly before their first child is born. Very many return to full-time or part-time work. Such changes have led to a new marriage, with the husband wife sharing more equally in providing the money, the home, according to the abilities and interests of each of them.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. life-pattern生活方式

2. share

A One of the best the people of any nation is watching what the do then a window box or something growing in a pot will do. Looking at each other’s gardens is a popular pastime with the English.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. window box:窗台上的花盆箱

2.pastime 消遣，娱乐

Swimming is my favorite pastime.

British and American Police Officers

Real policemen, both in Britain and the U.S., hardly recognize any common points between their lives and what they se on TV—if they ever get home in time.

Some things are almost the same, of course, but the policemen do not think much of them

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The first difference is that a policeman’s real life deals with the law. Most of what he learns is the law. He has to know actually what actions are against the law and what facts can be used to prove them in court. He has to know nearly as much law as a lawyer, and what’s more, he has to put it into practice on his feet, in the dark and, running down a narrow street after someone he wants to talk to.

Little of his time is spent in talking with beautiful girls or in bravely facing cruel criminals. He will spend most of his working life arranging millions of words on thousands of forms about hundreds of sad, ordinary people who are guilty--- or not of stupid, unimportant crimes.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. think much of 重视，尊重

2. in court 在法庭上

3. criminal 罪犯，犯罪者

4. guilty 犯罪的，有罪的

Living Space

have enough living space, they eat well, sleep well and young well. But if their living conditions become too crowded, their their health change obviously. nations are the United States, Russia, France, Britain, and China. The 10 they did vote to try to stop wars.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. representative 代表

2. General Assembly 联合国大会

3. permanent 永久的，持久的

4. Security Council 联合国安全理事会

Plastic

We use plastic wrap to protect our foods. We put our garbage in plastic bags or plastic cans. We sit on plastic chairs, play with plastic toys, drink from plastic cups, and wash our hair with

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Plastic does not grow in nature. It is made by mixing certain things together. We call it a produced or manufactured material. Plastic was first made in the 1860s from plants, such as wood and cotton. That plastic was soft and burned easily.

The first modern plastics were made in the 1930s. Most clear plastic starts out as thick, black oil. That plastic coating inside a pan begins as natural gas.

Over the years, hundreds of different plastics have been developed. Some are hard and strong. Some are soft and bendable. Some are clear. Some are many-colored. There is a plastic for almost every need. Scientists continue to experiment with plastics. They hope to find even ways to use them!

Display of Goods

Are supermarkets designed to persuade us to buy more?

Fresh fruit and vegetables are displayed near supermarket entrances. This gives the products that they do not really need.

Sweets are often placed at children’buy from shelves with few products on them they feel there is something wrong with those products that are there.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. aisle 走廊，过道

2. trolley 手推车

3. checkout 收款台

Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was in 1879, His father owned a factory that made electrical him a The child was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle —to be north. He asked his father and his uncle what caused to move. Their answers about magnetism and gravity were difficult for the boy to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time thinking about them. He said later that he felt something hidden had to be behind things.

Useful expressions and words:

1. device 装置，设备

leave to one’s own devices 听任某人自行其是，允许某人按自己的意愿做事

She left the child to her own devices for an hour in the afternoon.

她允许孩子在下午有一个小时的自由支配时间。

2. compass 指南针

beyond one’s compass某人力所不及

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keep sth within compass 把某种事物限制在适当的范围内

speak within compass 谨慎小心地说

within sb’s compass 某人力所能及的

within the compass of 在……范围内

3.magnetism 磁力

Private Cars

With the increase in the general standard of living, some ordinary Chinese families begin to afford a car. Yet opinions of the development of a private car vary from person to person.

It gives a much greater degree of comfort and mobility. The owner of a car is no longer forced to atmosphere and causing actual harm to the health of people.

Whether private cars should be developed in Chicago is a difficult answer, yet the

There was once a large, fat woman who had a small, He had a job in a big company and was given his weekly wages every Friday As soon as he got home on only enough to buy his lunch in his company every day.

“” he said.

“I won ten thousand dollars on the lottery!”

“That is wonderful! ”angrily, “But how could you afford ”

1. henpecked

2. lottery

3. 拉下脸来

脸皮厚得竟能讲出这种话

A Young Man’s Promise

One day, a young man was writing a letter to his girlfriend who lived just a few miles away in a nearby town. He was telling her how much he loved her and how wonderful he thought she was. The more he wrote the more poetic he became. Finally he said that in order to be with her, he would suffer the greatest difficulties, he would face the greatest dangers that anyone couldn’t imagine. In fact, to spend only one minute with her, he would swim across the widest river, he would enter the deepest forest, and he would fight against the fiercest animals with his bare hands.

He finished the letter, signed his name and then suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to mention something quite important. So, in a postscript below his name, he added:

“By the way, I’ll be over to see you on Wednesday night, if it doesn’t rain.”

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A Kind Neighbor

Mr. and Mrs. Jones’ apartment was full of luggage, packages, furniture and boxes. Both of them were very busy when they heard the doorbell ring. Mrs. Jones went to open it and she saw a middle-aged lady outside. The lady said she lived next door. Mrs. Jones invited her to come in and apologized because there was no place for her to sit. “Oh, that’s OK.” said the lady. “I just come to welcome to your new home. As you know, in some parts of this city, neighbors are not friendly at all. They are some apartment houses where people don’t know any of their neighbors, not even the ones next door. But in this building, everyone is very friendly with everyone else. We are a big happy family. I am sure you will be very happy here.” Mr. and Mrs. Jones said, “But madam, we are not new dwellers in this apartment. We’ve lived here for two years. We are moving out tomorrow.”

That Isn’t Our Fault

Mr. and Mrs. Williams got married when he was twenty-three, and she twenty. of them.

Then the photographer gave Mrs. Williams a card and ’ll be ready next Wednesday. You can get them from studio.”

“No,” Mrs. Williams said, “please send them to us.”

She got into her car and drove to the photographer’“You I’m not going to pay for them.”

“Oh, why not?” the photographer asked.

““Well,”t our fault. Why didn’t you think of that before you married him?”

A Guide’s Answer

However, even Southerners have not forgotten their defeat, or forgiven the Northerners.

stories about how a few Southern soldiers had conquered powerful forces of At last, one of the tourists, a lady who came from the North, stopped the guide and said to him, “ But surely that the Northern army must have won at least one victory in the Civil War?”

“Not as long as I’m the guide here, madam,” answered the Southern guide.

A Qualified Pilot

The captain of a small ship had to go along a rocky coast, but he was unfamiliar with it, so he tried to find a qualified pilot to guide him. He went ashore in one of the small ports, and a local fisherman pretended that he was a pilot because he needed some money. The captain took him on board and asked him where to steer the ship.

After half an hour, the captain began to suspect that the fisherman did not really know what

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“Are you sure you are a qualified pilot?” he asked.

“Oh, yes,” answered the fisherman. “I know every rock on this part of the coast.”

Suddenly there was a terrible crash from under the ship. At once the fisherman added, “And that’s one of them.”

Living Things React

You and all organisms live an environment. An environment is made up of everything that surrounds an organism. It can include the air, the water, the soil, and even other organisms.

An organism responds to changes in its environment. When an organism responds to a change, it reacts in certain ways. All living things respond in some way.

Have you ever noticed how plants and insects respond to light? Plants bend Insects fly toward light.

other ways do you respond to changes in your environment?

Flowering Plants

What are the parts of a flower?

eggs. Many animals love flowers’1.

2. 3.

4.

5.花蜜，甘露

6. rub 磨擦

Finding the Direction and Location

How can you tell which direction? By day, look for the Sun. It is in the east in the morning and the west in the afternoon. At night, use the Big Dipper to help you find the North Star. It would be better to bring a compass because its needle always points north.

How do you know how far you have gone? You could count every step. Each step is about two feet. You’d better wear a pedometer which is a tool that counts steps. If you know where you started, which direction you are heading, and how far you have gone, you can use a good map to figure out exactly where you are.

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Today there is a new way for travelers to figure out where they are. It is the GPS. It has 24 satellites that orbit the earth and constantly broadcast their positions. Someday you may carry a small receiver as you hike and use GPS to find out if you are there yet!

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. dipper北斗七星

2. compass 罗盘

3. pedometer 步数计

4. GPS= Global Position System全球定位系统

5. orbit 轨道，绕……轨道而行

6. receiver 接收器

Waves

How does light get from the sun to the earth? How does music get from the the audience? They move the same way-----in waves!

through walls, but sound waves can. That is why you can hear in another room even though you cannot see them. The energy of some waves An earthquake produces seismic waves.

Shake the spring to transfer energy to it. What spring bounces up and down in Light waves travel 300,000 kilometers miles) per second! They can also travel earth!

Useful Words and Expressions;

1. destructive 破坏的

2. seismic地震的

3. vacuum真空

Soils

There are kinds of soils. Different soils have different types of rock and In some places, soil layers are very thick. Lots of plants grow in places with a thick soil layer. In dry and windy places soil layers are much thinner. Layers of soil on mountains are thin because gravity pulls the soil downhill.

The type of soil in a particular place affects what kinds of plants can grow there.

Useful Words:

1. clay 黏土，泥土

2. loam 肥土

3. layer 层

4. gravity 地心引力，重力

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5. downhill 往下

Crisis

Life is a contest! Who will win? A bluebird and sparrow both compete for space to build their nests. A fast-growing maple tree and slower-growing dogwood compete for the sunlight they both need. Oil competes with coal and nuclear power as an energy source for electric power plants!

There is a problem. There is a limited amount of space for birds, sunlight for trees, and energy for people! If we do not cut back on our uses of some of our resources, someday they will be gone!

How can we use energy today and know we will have enough to go around in the future? We can choose alternate, or replacement, energy resources. It takes the earth millions of create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.

Solar energy, wind energy and water energy are renewable resources. It the earth millions of years to create coal, oil, and gas. They are nonrenewable resources.

Useful words and expressions:

1. bluebird 蓝知更鸟

2. sparrow 麻雀

3. dogwood 山茱萸

4. power plant 发电厂，发电站

5. alternate 替换物

6. nonrenewable resources 不可再生资源

7. conserve 保存，保藏

heard “the news”Shortly before a radio dispatch came into Washington from Honolulu, Hawaii. “” Japanese planes had begun an attack on the largest American in the Pacific. They first destroyed planes on the ground. Then they sunk or badly damaged. Nearly 150 planes had been destroyed. More than 2,400 Americans had been killed and more than 1,200 wounded.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. dispatch 派遣，急件

2. air raid 空袭

3. drill 军事训练，操练

4. Pearl Harbor 珍珠港

Great Depression in the U.S.

In 1929, the bills started to come in. American industry had produced too many goods.

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During the next few years, business got worse and worse. By 1932, banks all over the country were closing.

People without money could not buy goods. So more businesses closed. More and more people lost their jobs. By 1932, more than 12 million Americans were jobless. Millions more were earning barely enough to live on. The country was in a great depression they had never experienced before.

Useful Words and Expressions:

1. bill 帐单，票据

foot the bill付账，负责

2. cut down on 减少

3. depression 沮丧，萧条

Great Depression大萧条

A Place of Our Own

We are all usually very careful when we buy something Why? Because we carefully.

—or we buy new furniture—and so on. It is an endless business.

impress their friends. But most of to enjoy our surroundings. We want to live as

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