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Every year thousands of tourists visit

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      When I was a boy,

Sailing along a canal，a ship often has to go through a series of locks．Locks are like stairs for ships．They make it possible for a ship to go“upstairs”from a low body of water to a higher one or“downstairs”from a high body of water to a lower one．
    A lock is simply a big water tank open at the top with watertight（不透

The whole world in which we live is influenced by science，as is shown most immediately and strikingly by our modern conveniences and material resources．A little deeper thinking shows that the influence of science goes much farther and colors the entire outlook in the mind of modern civilized（文明的）man on the world about him．Perhaps one of

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How to Solve Personal Problems
By Robert Millward

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Four Freedoms
By Franklin Roosevelt
In the future days，which we seek t

电影名星是怎样对待成名的？出名后能给他们带来幸福吗？家庭对他们来说很重要吗？
How do film stars cope with being famous? Does fame bring happiness? Rory Taylor takes a closer look at stardom and its effects on those lucky enough to have it.

乘坐热气球用19天的时间周游世界，这是可能的吗？怎样控制热气球的方向和高度呢？
On March 20th 1999, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones succeeded in meeting the world's last great aeronautical challenge by flying round the world in a hot-air balloon. It had taken them just 19 days. Gavi

American magician David Blaine left the glass box in which he has lived for 44 days without food on October 19. Hundreds of people came to watch the end of his starvation experiment, which has become one of London's main tourist attractions.

广告英语与普通英语存在许多差异，而又与人们日常生活密切相关，应用性很强。所以广告类阅读题可以很好地考查学生提取信息、处理信息的能力，也是历年来高考考查的一个热点。2003年高考全国卷就再次出现此类题目。但也正因为广告英语不同于学生平时所学习的普通英语，其文句精练，信息量大，表达方式千变万化，许多学生面对这种题目要么束手无策，要么需要花费大量时间才能完成，都不得要领，所以要加强针对性训练。其实，做这种题目也是有法可循的：先略读题目，再浏览题干，然后带着问题找答案。在阅读时又要特别注意文中以黑体、大写、下划线等方式加以提示

It was long ago people noticed that different plants open and close at different times of the day. In fact, in the nineteenth century they used to make gardens in the shape of a clock face, with different flowers opening at different times. It was possible to tell the time just by looking at this “flower clock”. No one really understands

The Internet has led to a huge increase in credit-card fraud (cheating). Your card information could even be for sale in an illegal web site (网站).
    Web sites offering cheap goods and services should be regarded with care. On-line shoppers who enter their credit-card information may never receive the goods they thoug

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I’m seventeen. I had worked as a box boy at a supermarket in

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You are what you eat. This saying has provided scientists with

The kings of ancient Egypt planned strong tombs to keep their bodies safe after death and to hold their treasure．The Great Pyramid was built thousands of years ago for a king called Khufu．It stands on the west bank of the Nile River not far from Cairo．In fact，all the pyramids along the Nile are on its west bank．The ancient Egyptians comp