《参考消息》2006年6月26日：消费者为何喜新厌旧【英国《新科学家》周刊6月10日一期文章】题：喜新成癖
Neophiliac
New Scientist
ARE you tempted to trade in your mobile phone every time a new model comes out, upgrade your laptop every year orpart-exchange[1]your car as soon as the shine wears off? If so, you could be suffering from neophilia:l_______①,t

《参考消息》2006年6月25日第8版：掌握汉语意味着领先一步《时代》周刊2006年6月26日（提前出版）文章：来吧，学习汉语
Get Ahead, Learn Mandarin
By Austin Ramzy
Posted Monday, June 19, 2006; 20:00 HKT Time
It's Friday night in Ikebukuro, a Tokyo entertainment district. As the office workers head to their favoritewatering holes[1],three salarymen split fro

《参考消息》2006年6月20日：中国高考制度根深蒂固【美国《洛杉矶时报》6月1 8日报道】题：中国的高考使人们为升入大学作更好的准备
China's Entrance Exam Further Stacks the Deck for College Seats
By Mark Magnier, Times Staff Writer
June 18, 2006
BEIJING — Yao Yao, 18, emerged from her college entrance exam at Beijing No. 55 Middle School tired but relieved it was finally over. S

《卫报》网站2006年6月27日文章：红牌与反思：裁判这一次是不是太过分了？Red cards and recriminations: have refs gone too far this time?
Andrew Culf in Stuttgart
Tuesday June 27, 2006
The Guardian
On Sunday night Valentin Ivanov, a 44-year-old music teacher from Moscow, became the latest to enter the World Cup hall of refereeing infamy afterbrandishi

《卫报》2006年6月15日文章：为什么厌恶足球的人也喜爱世界杯？
Why do football haters love the World Cup?
Gavyn Davies
Thursday June 15, 2006
The Guardian
In my time as BBC chairman, I discovered that Greg Dyke and Alastair Campbell did not seeeye-to-eye[1]on many things. But on one thing they did - the World Cup.
In on

《参考消息》2006年6月14日第3版：全球审判网络初具规模《国际先驱论坛报》2006年6月12日文章：一个全球审判网络已经形成并发挥作用
A global web of justice is up and running
Luis Moreno-Ocampo International Herald Tribune
Published: June 12, 2006
THE HAGUE Six children walked down a road in the region of Ituri, in Congo. They were on their way to school when a jeep packed with

《参考消息》2006年6月14日第7版：弓箭助人类征服世界
《独立报》网站2006年6月13日文章：弓箭是如何帮助人类征服世界的
How the bow and arrow helped humans to colonise the world
By David Keys, Archaeology Correspondent
Published: 13 June 2006
The invention of the world's first bows and arrows may have played ap_______①in the eventual colonisation

《参考消息》2006年6月14日第8版：现代丝绸之路穿越喜马拉雅山
彭博新闻社2006年6月13日文章：中国和印度决定重新认识丝绸之路关系
China, India Set to Rediscover Silk Route Ties
By Andy Mukherjee
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Western world's rediscovery of China and India has produced an importants_______①effect: （1）It has become a trigger for the two rising Asian superpower

《观察家报》2006年6月11日文章：为什么西方媒体要掩盖实情Why Western newsrooms hide the truth
Sunday June 11, 2006
The Observer
By David Smith
European media are too scared to speak out about injustices in Africa because of political correctness, says filmmaker Sorious Samura.
Sorious Samura says he did it because he could. The televi

《独立报》2006年6月11日文章：英国冷战时期的最后一个大谜团
The last great mystery of Britain's Cold War
By Francis Elliott, Whitehall Editor
Published: 11 June 2006
（1）Highly classified papers to be released this week cast new light on one of the most enduring Cold War mysteries- the disappearance of Lionel "Buster" Crabb.
The fro

加拿大《环球邮报》（Globe and Mail）2006年5月31日文章：中国在场外失望地观看
Disappointment as China watches from sidelines
Shanghai — Expectations were high four years ago when China made its World Cupd_______①in what was heralded as the first of many such finals appearances.
This time, though, China failed to even make it through the group stage of qual

feather your own nest
empty nest
我们上次讲了两个由nest组成的习惯用语， foul your own nest有破坏自己的名誉，家丑外扬等意思， stir up a hornet's nest意思是树敌招怨，自找麻烦。今天我们还要讲两个以 nest 为关键词的习惯用语。第一个是:

Scrape the bottom of the barrel
have somebody over a barrel
give somebody both barrels
我们今天学的习惯用语都有这个词: barrel。 Barrel是大桶，用来载运啤酒、威士忌、食糖、汽油等各种货品。我们要

Buy a pig in a poke
buy for a song
buy the farm
我们今天要学的习惯用语都有buy这个词。我们要学的第一个习惯用语是: Buy a pig in a poke。Poke在这儿解释口袋。Buy a pig in a poke是个很古老的习惯用语，至少有五百

hard sell
sell a bill of goods
sell somebody short
我们上次学到了好几个由buy这个词组成的习惯用语. Buy通常解释“买”，而“卖”这个词的英文是sell。今天我们要讲几个包括sell这个词的习惯用语。第一个是: hard sell。很多人知道hard这个词可以解