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• Lesson5：The facts新概念英语第三册
• 初中英语阅读短文（2）

a hero’s aspiration课文翻译

一位英雄的愿望

琼达警官的心跳加快了。在那个寒冷、漆黑的冬夜，路况险恶。狂风暴雨令人视线不清，但她能感到前面的车出了麻烦。那辆车开得歪歪扭扭。虽然歪得不是很厉害，还勉强开在车道里，但在十一月大雨滂沱中的蜿蜒道路上，这已经够悬的了。琼达对事故有着第六感，并且自从很多年以前那个可怕的夜晚之后，她一直生活在对事故的恐惧中。那个十几岁的少年呼喊求助——向她求助——的骇人情景至今在她脑海中，挥之不去。她当时无能为力，因为汽车燃起的大火使她无法靠近。

她在事后的事故报告中按照以前的培训要求，就事论事地记录了事实，并没有对尖叫声和伤痛的描述。记录的是一种形式，即警方报告中的一连串事实；而回忆却是另一种形式：熊熊燃烧着的金属、湿滑水泥地上深深的车胎痕迹，还有散落在血泊中、如天然水晶般闪烁的安全玻璃碎屑。记录和回忆竟会如此不同，着实令人奇怪。这些成为琼达脑海中始终摆脱不掉的记忆。她靠着受过的训练来支撑自己。

现在，她再不会放过任何预示下一起事故的征兆。她动手要去打开巡逻车上的警灯，但是她的搭档戴维抢先一步打开了警车顶灯，他也觉察到了险情。“我们让那辆车靠边停下，以免有人出事，”他说道。那辆大轿车的司机猛踩刹车，车子慢了下来，但还是来不及停在警示线内。车子滑下公路，掉进了道尔顿河。琼达急忙停下警车，来到车外。她一边喊着让戴维呼叫支援，一边沿路肩下滑到河边。

雨水使河水猛涨，变成一头凶猛的怪兽。它咆哮着冲上两岸，夹杂着被急流冲下的树枝，汹涌奔腾。那辆车一半己被水流淹没。尽管车不小，但是水流的力量把它顶在一棵树上，副驾驶座一侧被淹没，河水漫过挡风玻璃。“我的上帝啊！”琼达祈祷道。“不要再像上次一样啊！”这样的事让人受不了，太熟悉了，琼达心想。琼达知道，司机肯定来不及脱身。倾盆大雨中，她手电的光亮几乎没什么用，但是她还是能够看到被困司机在叫喊着，拍打着车窗。

河水正在灌满车厢。“戴维，我需要破窗锤！”琼达向对讲机呼叫，并冲向车子。当她来到驾驶员一侧的车门时，水已经涨到她的腰部，而且冰冷刺骨，她的双腿就像被冰包裹住一样。如果她动作不够快，她的下半身可能就会失去知觉，她就会瘫倒。透过车窗，琼达看到那位妇女，水已经淹到她的胸口。她胸前别有一枚工作胸卡，写着她的名字桑迪。她年事己高，有65岁或70岁。她在冰冷的水中支撑不了多久。

她的眼中流露出极度的恐惧，直直地盯着琼达的眼睛。“救救我，”她大声呼喊着。戴维赶到琼达身边，把破窗锤递给她。“夫人，”她透过车窗喊道，“请你转过身，避开玻璃！我要把车窗砸开！”那位妇女转过头去，琼达砸向车窗。这辆旧车车身大，窗玻璃也厚，砸一下几乎不见裂缝。这时，琼达感到车起伏了一下，她不禁心头一沉。水流正把车推离那棵树。琼达用尽全力又砸了一次，谢天谢地，这次车窗碎成了小片。

水灌了进来，车又起伏了一下，它很快就会被冲到下游。那位妇女颤抖着双唇，努力想说些什么。“告诉我的孙子孙女，我爱他们，”她呜咽着。琼达探进身子，用自己的双臂箍住妇女。“桑迪，我们不会让你死的！你抱住我的脖子，抓紧！戴维，搂住我的腰往外拉！”.戴维搂住她的腰往外拉。同时，琼达在冰冷的水里用尽全力把那位瘦弱的妇女拖出驾驶座，从砸破的车窗拉了出来。车最后又起伏了一下，那位妇女刚被救出，车就被水吞没了。

那位妇女在琼达的怀里哭了。“没事了，夫人，”琼达说道，泪水顺着她的脸颊滚落下来，她抱紧那位妇女不愿松开。“我们没有失去你！我们没有失去你！”她哭着说。四肢僵硬酸痛的桑迪也哭着说道：“谢谢你！”自从那次车祸之后，两位女士成了亲密的朋友。“她是一个了不起的女人，”桑迪说。“她绝不让我死。我永远感激她。”但是琼达感到她也同样很感激。因为她内心的创伤终于愈合了，她终于摆脱了过去痛苦的噩梦。

原文：

A hero’s aspiration

Officer Jonda’s pulse quickened. Road conditions were dangerous on that cold, dark wintery night. The fierce storm made it hard to see, but she could tell the car ahead of her was in trouble. It was swaying. It was not swaying violently, and was still barely within the lane, but on the winding road in the fierce November rain, it was enough. 

Jonda had a sixth sense for accidents and lived in terror of them ever since that awful night so many years ago. She still couldn’t abolish the terrible image of that teenager screaming for help, her help. Help that she had been unable to give as she was driven back by the intense heat of the car fire.

Her subsequent report on the incident had dutifully noted the facts, as she had been trained to write them, facts that did not include screams or pain. It was strange to talk about them one way: a string of facts for a police report; and to think about them in another: burning metal and deep tire tracks on the slippery concrete, bits of safety glass like primitive crystals reflecting in pools of blood. 

These were memories Jonda could never really turn off. She leaned on her training for support, and these days she never ignored any signs of the next accident. She made a gesture to turn on the patrol car’s flashing lights, but her partner, David, beat her to it; he too had sensed the danger. “Let’s pull that car over before someone gets hurt,” he said.

The big car slowed, but not enough to stop at the warning sign as the driver slammed on the brakes. The car slipped off the road into the Dalton River.Jonda quickly brought the police car to a halt and got out. Yelling at David to call for backup help, she slipped down the side of the road to the water’s edge.

The rain had swelled the river into a raging monster. It roared well over its banks, rushing swiftly with tree limbs caught in the raging current. And half submerged in the current was the car. As big as it was, the force of the water had heaved it against a tree, the passenger seat submerged, water rushing over the windshield. “Dear Lord!” Jonda prayed. “Never again!” This is too much, too familiar, Jonda thought.

The driver would not have had time to make it out, Jonda knew. Her flashlight beam barely cut through the heavy rain, but she could still see the trapped driver screaming and banging the window. And the car was filling up with water.“David, I need the window hammer!” Jonda called over her radio and rushed toward the car. 

By the time she was at the driver door, the water was rushing up to her waist, and unbelievably cold, like her legs had been encased in ice. If she didn’t work quickly, she could lose the feeling in her lower body and collapse.

Through the window, Jonda saw the woman with water up to her chest. A work badge pinned to her chest identified her as Sandy. And she was old, 65 or 70. She would not last long in the icy water. Her eyes, betraying her intense fear, were locked on Jonda’s. “Save me,” she screamed.

David caught up with Jonda and passed her the window hammer. “Ma’am,” she yelled through the window, “I need you to turn away from the glass! I’m going to break through!” The woman turned her head, and Jonda struck. The glass, thick as the old car was big, barely cracked. And with a heavy heart Jonda felt the car heave. The current was loosening it from the tree.

Jonda struck again with all her might and this time, mercifully, the window broke into little pieces. Water rushed in and the car heaved again, soon to be carried downstream.The woman tried to speak through her shivering lips. “Tell my grandchildren I love them,” she moaned.Jonda leaned in and wrapped her arms around the woman. “We’re not going to lose you, Sanely! Put your arms around my neck and hold on! 

David, grab my waist and pull!”With all her strength in the icy water, Jonda grabbed the slender woman out of her seat and through the broken window, David pulling at her waist. The car heaved one last time, and just as the woman cleared it, it was swallowed by the water.The woman was crying in Jonda’s arms. “It’s all right, ma’am,” Jonda said, tears streaking down her cheeks, unable to let go of the woman. 

“We didn’t lose you! We didn’t lose you!” she cried. Stiff and sore, Sandy cried, “Thank you!”Since the accident, the two women have become close friends. “She’s a fantastic woman,” Sandy says. “She just refused to let me die. I’m forever grateful to her.” But Jonda feels she has much to be grateful for too, because finally, she is healed and free of the acute nightmares of her past.

扩展资料：

课文内包含的短语

live in terror of sb./sth. 一直很害怕某人/某物

a string of 一连串，一系列（事件等）

turn off 不再听，不再想

lean on 依靠，依赖

beat sb. to it 抢在某人之前做

pull over （使）（车辆或司机）停靠在路边

slip off/down 滑落，脱落

bring sth. to a halt 使停住，使停止，使暂停

cut through （在水中或空中）轻松地通过

fill up with （使）充满，（使）装满

identify sb. as sb. 表明...的身份

catch up with 追上，赶上

break through (sth.) 冲破，突破

hold on 紧紧抓住，紧紧抱住

let go (of sb./sth.) 放手，松开

be grateful for 对...表示感激

初中英语阅读短文

初中英语阅读短文

　　适合初中学生阅读的短文有哪些呢?下面我为大家准备了初中的英语阅读短文，希望大家喜欢!

　　初中英语阅读短文一：The Road To Happiness幸福之道

　　It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other ways of pursuing money, which often succeed.

　　So it is with happiness. If you pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented by a little cheese on feast days.

　　His method proved successful in his case, but he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.

　　There are a great many people who have all the material conditions of happiness, i.e. health and a sufficient income, and who, nevertheless, are profoundly unhappy. In such cases it would seem as if the fault must lie with a wrong theory as to how to live. In one sense, we may say that any theory as to how to live is wrong.

　　We imagine ourselves more different from the animals than we are. Animals live on impulse, and are happy as long as external conditions are favorable. If you have a cat it will enjoy life if it has food and warmth and opportunities for an occasional night on the tiles. Your needs are more complex than those of your cat, but they still have their basis in instinct. In civilized societies, especially in English-speaking societies, this is too apt to be forgotten.

　　People propose to themselves some one paramount objective, and restrain all impulses that do not minister to it. A businessman may be so anxious to grow rich that to this end he sacrifices health and private affections. When at last he has become rich, no pleasure remains to him except harrying other people by exhortations to imitate his noble example.

　　Many rich ladies, although nature has not endowed them with any spontaneous pleasure in literature or art, decide to be thought cultured, and spend boring hours learning the right thing to say about fashionable new books that are written to give delight, not to afford opportunities for dusty snobbism.

　　If you look around at the men and women whom you can call happy, you will see that they all have certain things in common. The most important of these things is an activity which at most gradually builds up something that you are glad to see coming into existence.

　　Women who take an instinctive pleasure in their children can get this kind of satisfaction out of bringing up a family. Artists and authors and men of science get happiness in this way if their own work seems good to them.

　　But there are many humbler forms of the same kind of pleasure. Many men who spend their working life in the city devote their weekends to voluntary and unremunerated toil in their gardens, and when the spring comes, they experience all the joys of having created beauty.

　　The whole subject of happiness has, in my opinion, been treated too solemnly. It had been thought that man cannot be happy without a theory of life or a religion. Perhaps those who have been rendered unhappy by a bad theory may need a better theory to help them to recovery, just as you may need a tonic when you have been ill. But when things are normal a man should be healthy without a tonic and happy without a theory.

　　It is the simple things that really matter. If a man delights in his wife and children, has success in work, and finds pleasure in the alternation of day and night, spring and autumn, he will be happy whatever his philosophy may be. If, on the other hand, he finds his wife fateful, his children’s noise unendurable, and the office a nightmare; if in the daytime he longs for night, and at night sighs for the light of day, then what he needs is not a new philosophy but a new regimen----a different diet, or more exercise, or what not.

　　Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.

　　道德家们常说：幸福靠追求是得不到的。只有用不明智的方式去追求才是这样。蒙特卡洛城的赌徒们追求金钱，但多数人却把钱输掉了，而另外一些追求金钱的办法却常常成功。追求幸福也是一样。如果你通过畅饮来追求幸福，那你就忘记了酒醉后的不适。埃毕丘鲁斯追求幸福的办法是只和志趣相投的人一起生活，只吃不涂黄油的面包，节日才加一点奶酪。他的办法对他来说是成功的，但他是个体弱多病的人，而多数人需要的是精力充沛。就多数人来说，除非你有别的补充办法，这样追求快乐就过于抽象和脱离实际，不宜作为个人的生活准则。不过，我觉得无论你选择什么样的生活准则，除了那些罕见的和英雄人物的例子外，都应该是和幸福相容的。

　　很多人拥有获得幸福的全部物质条件，即健康的身体和丰足的收入，可是他们非常不快乐。就这种情况来说，似乎问题处在生活理论的错误上。从某种意义上讲，我们可以说任何关于生活的理论都是不正确的。我们和动物的区别并没有我们想象的那么大。动物是凭冲动生活的，只要客观条件有利，它们就会快乐。如果你有一只猫，它只要有东西吃，感到暖和，偶尔晚上得到机会去寻欢，它就会很快活。你的需要比你的猫要复杂一些，但还是以本能为基础的。在文明社会中，特别是在讲英语的社会中，这一点很容易被忘却。人们给自己定下一个最高的目标，对一切不利于实现这一目标的冲动都加以克制。生意人可能因为切望发财以致不惜牺牲健康和爱情。等他终于发了财，他除了苦苦劝人效法他的好榜样而搅得别人心烦外，并没有得到快乐。很多有钱的贵妇人，尽管自然并未赋予她们任何欣赏文学或艺术的兴趣，却决意要使别人认为她们是有教养的，于是他们花费很多烦人的时间学习怎样谈论那些流行的新书。这些书写出来是要给人以乐趣的，而不是要给人以附庸风雅的机会的。

　　只要你观察一下周围那些你可称之为幸福的男男女女，就会看出他们都有某些共同之处。在这些共同之处中有一点是最重要的：那就是活动本身，它在大多数情况下本身就很有趣，而且可逐渐的使你的愿望得以实现。生性喜爱孩子的妇女，能够从抚养子女中得到这种满足。艺术家、作家和科学家如果对自己的工作感到满意，也能以同样的方式得到快乐。不过，还有很多是较低层次的快乐。许多在城里工作的人到了周末自愿地在自家的庭院里做无偿的劳动，春天来时，他们就可尽情享受自己创造的美景带来的快乐。

　　在我看来，整个关于快乐的话题一向都被太严肃的对待过了。过去一直有这样的看法：如果没有一种生活的理论或者宗教信仰，人是不可能幸福的。也许那些由于理论不好才导致不快乐的人需要一种较好的理论帮助他们重新快活起来，就像你生过病需要吃补药一样。但是，正常情况下，一个人不吃补药也应当是健康的;没有理论也应当是幸福的。真正有关系的是一些简单的事情。如果一个男人喜爱他的妻子儿女，事业有成，而且无论白天黑夜，春去秋来，总是感到高兴，那么不管他的理论如何，都会是快乐的。反之，如果他讨厌自己的妻子，受不了孩子们的吵闹，而且害怕上班;如果他白天盼望夜晚，而到了晚上又巴望着天明，那么，他所需要的就不是一种新的理论，而是一种新的生活——改变饮食习惯，多锻炼身体等等。

　　人是动物，他的幸福更多的时候取决于其生理状况而非思想状况。这是一个很庸俗的结论，然而我无法使自己怀疑它。我确信，不幸福的商人与其找到新的理论来使自己幸福，还不如每天步行六英里更见效。

　　初中英语阅读短文二：If the Dream is Big Enough如果梦想足够大

　　I used to watch her from mykitchenwindow, she seemed so small as she muscled her way throughthecrowd of boys on the playground. The school was across thestreetfrom our home and I would often watch the kids as theyplayedduring recess. A sea of children, and yet to me, she stoodout fromthem all.I remr the first day I saw her playing basketball.

　　I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids.Shemanaged to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into thenet.The boys always tried to stop her but no one could.I begantonotice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.Shewould practice dribbling and shooting over and overagain,sometimes until dark.

　　One day I asked her why she practicedsomuch. She looked directly in my eyes and without a momentofhesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way Icango is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I decided thatifI were good enough, I would get a scholarship.

　　I am going toplaycollege basketball.

　　I want to be the best. My Daddy told me ifthedream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” Then she smiledandran towards the court to recap the routine I had seen overandover again.

　　Well, I had to give it to her—she was determined.Iwatched her through those junior high years and into highschool.Every week, she led her varsity team to victory.One day inhersenior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled inherarms.

　　I walked across the street and sat down in the coolgrassbeside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,”came asoft reply. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at5’5”she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team—muchless offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreamingaboutcollege.She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tightenas Isensed her disappointment.

　　I asked her if she had talked to herdadabout it yet.She lifted her head from her hands and told methather father said those coaches were wrong. They just didnotunderstand the power of a dream. He told her that if shereallywanted to play for a good college, if she truly wantedascholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing — herownattitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, thefactsdon’t count.”The next year, as she and her team went totheNorthern California Championship game, she was seen by acollege recruiter.

　　She was indeed offered a scholarship, a fullride, toa Division I, NCAA women’s basketball team. She was goingto getthe college education that she had dreamed of and workedtoward forall those years.It’s true: If the dream is big enough,the factsdon’t count.

　　我以前常常从厨房的窗户看到她穿梭于操场上的一群男孩子中间，她显得那么矮小。

　　学校在我家的街对面，我可以经常看到孩子们在下课时间打球。尽管有一大群的孩子，但我觉得她跟其他的孩子截然不同。

　　我记得第一天看到她打篮球的情景。看着她在其他孩子旁边兜来转去，我感到十分惊奇。她总是尽力地跳起投篮，球恰好越过那些孩子的头顶飞入篮筐。那些男孩总是拼命地阻止她，但没有人可以做得到。

　　我开始注意到她有时候一个人打球。她一遍遍地练习运球和投篮，有时直到天黑。有一天我问她为什么这么刻苦地练习。她直视着我的’眼睛，不加思索地说:“我想上大学。只有获得奖学金我才能上大学。我喜欢打篮球，我想只要我打得好，我就能获得奖学金。我要到大学去打篮球。我想成为最棒的球员。我爸爸告诉我说，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”说完她笑了笑，跑向篮球场，又开始我之前见过的一遍又一遍的练习。

　　嘿，我服了她了——她是下定了决心了。我看着她这些年从初中升到高中。每个星期，她带领的学校篮球代表队都能够获胜。

　　高中那会儿的某一天，我看见她坐在草地上，头埋在臂弯里。我穿过街道，坐到她旁边的清凉的草地上。我轻轻地问出什么事了。“哦，没什么，”她轻声回答，“只是我太矮了。”原来篮球教练告诉她，以五英尺五英寸的身材，她几乎是没有机会到一流的球队去打球的——更不用说会获得奖学金了——所以她应该放弃想上大学的梦想。

　　她很伤心，我也觉得自己的喉咙发紧，因为我感觉到了她的失望。我问她是否与她的爸爸谈过这件事。

　　她从臂弯里抬起头，告诉我，她爸爸说那些教练错了。他们根本不懂得梦想的力量。他告诉她，如果真的想到一个好的大学去打篮球，如果她真的想获得奖学金，任何东西也不能阻止她，除非她自己不愿意。他又一次跟她说：“心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”

　　第二年，当她和她的球队去参加北加利福尼亚州冠军赛时，她被一位大学的招生人员看中了。她真的获得了奖学金，一个全面资助的奖学金，并且进入美国全国大学体育协会其中一队女子甲组篮球队。她将接受她曾梦想并为之奋斗多年的大学教育。

　　是的，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。

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Itwas still a somnolent Sunday morning when the first Japanese plans planesroared down the west coast and the central valley of Oahu to begin theirassault .
这还是一个无精打采的星期天的早晨的第一个日本计划时planesroared下来西海岸和中央谷theirassault瓦胡岛开始。
at 7:53a.
在7:53a。
m theflight commander ,Mitsou fuchida, sounded the cry “tora!
米theflight指挥官,Mitsou fuchida,听起来呼唤“虎!
tora!
虎!
”---the signalthat the attackers had taken the American pacific fleet by surprise .
- - - signalthat袭击者已经把美国太平洋舰队大吃一惊。
for nearlytwo hours the Japanese planes kept their attack on an unready pacific fleet .
日本飞机为nearlytwo小时让他们袭击了一个脑骄薏太平洋舰队。
ofthe eight battleships in pearl harbor, three were sunkone grounded , onecapsized ,and the others badly battered .
八战舰在珍珠港热销,三人是sunkone接地,onecapsized,其余的严重打击。
altogether nineteen ships were sundand disabled.
共19船只被sundand残疾人。
At the adjoining hickam field and other airfields on the islandthe Japanese found planes parked wing to wing ,and destroyed in all about 150ofthem .
在邻近的领域和其他机场“日本人发现在islandthe翼飞机停在侧翼,摧毁了大约150的诗句吧。爱情,这在所有。
few were able to get airborne, and Japanese losses numbered fewer thanthirty planes.
很少人能够得到机载和日本损失更少的thanthirty数的飞机。
Before it was over ,the raid had killed more than 2400americanservicemen and civilians ,and wounded 1170 more .
在它结束的时候,袭击造成2400多人死亡americanservicemen和平民,1170多人受伤。
the surprise attack fulfilledthe wildest dreams of its planners ,but it fell short of total success in twoways .
突然袭击fulfilledthe最狂野的梦里面的规划者,但它却低于twoways总成功。
the Japanese ignored shore installations and oil tanks, without which thesurviving ships might have been forced back to the west coast ,and they missed theAmerican aircraft carriers which were out on mission at the time .
日本忽视海岸设施和油缸,没有船只thesurviving可能被迫回到西海岸以及他们错过了美国航空母舰在任务的时间。
in the navalwar to come ,these carriers would be decisive .
在navalwar来,这些公司将是决定性的。
Laterthe same day (December 8inthe western pacific )Japanese forces began assaults in Hong Kong and the Malaypeninsula .
Laterthe同一天(12月8日在西太平洋)日本军队开始攻击在香港和Malaypeninsula。
with one stroke the Japanese had silenced America’s debate ongneutrality ,and a suddenly unified nation prepared for the struggle .
与一个打击日本堵住美国ongneutrality辩论,突然统一国家准备斗争。
the nextday present Roosevelt delivered his war message to congress:
目前的战争nextday罗斯福向国会发表他的信息:
“Yesterday,December 7, 1941—a date which will live infamy---the united states of Americawas suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the empire ofJapan…
“昨天,1941年12月7日,将成为生活- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -美国声名狼藉的预谋的突然袭击Americawas由海军、空军的帝国ofJapan…
”thefacts of yesterday speak for themselves.
“昨天的thefacts不言自明。
The people of the United Stateshave already formed their opinions and well understand the implications to thevery life and safety of our nation
美国人民已形成了自己的见解和Stateshave非常了解它关系到我们国家的生存和安全
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新概念第三册 第五课（The facts）

Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic.And finally he was arrested when he was counting the steps of the palace.
用了很多原文的话，但就是这个意思，所以没用自己的话复述。

新概念英语第三册课文，第1到第8课

Lesson 1 A Puma at large 逃遁的美洲狮
Pumas are large, cat-like animals which are found in America. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously. However, as the evidence began to accumulate, experts from the Zoo felt obliged to investigate, for the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw ’a large cat’ only five yards away from her. It immediately ran away when she saw it, and experts confirmed that a puma will not attack a human being unless it is cornered. The search proved difficult, for the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening. Wherever it went, it left behind it a trail of dead deer and small animals like rabbits. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes. Several people complained of "cat-like noises’ at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from? As no pumas had been reported missing from any zoo in the country, this one must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught. It is disturbing to think that a dangerous wild animal is still at large in the quiet countryside.
New words and expressions 生词和短语

puma
n. 美洲狮
spot
v. 看出，发现
evidence
n. 证据
accumulate
v. 积累，积聚
oblige
v. 使……感到必须
hunt
n. 追猎；寻找
blackberry
n. 黑莓
human being
人类
corner
v. 使走投无路，使陷入困境
trail
n. 一串，一系列
print
n. 印痕
cling
v. 粘
convince
v. 使……信服
somehow
adv. 不知怎么搞地，不知什么原因
disturb
v. 令人不安
参考译文
美洲狮是一种体形似猫的大动物，产于美洲。当伦敦动物园接到报告说，在伦敦以南45英里处发现一只美洲狮时，这些报告并没有受到重视。可是，随着证据越来越多，动物园的专家们感到有必要进行一番调查，因为凡是声称见到过美洲狮的人们所描述的情况竟是出奇地相似。
搜寻美洲狮的工作是从一座小村庄开始的。那里的一位妇女在采摘黑莓时的看见“一只大猫”，离她仅5码远，她刚看见它，它就立刻逃走了。专家证实，美洲狮非被逼得走投无路，是决不会伤人的。事实上搜寻工作很困难，因为常常是早晨在甲地发现那只美洲狮，晚上却在20英里外的乙地发现它的踪迹。无论它走哪儿，一路上总会留下一串死鹿及死兔子之类的小动物，在许多地方看见爪印，灌木丛中发现了粘在上面的美洲狮毛。有人抱怨说夜里听见“像猫一样的叫声”；一位商人去钓鱼，看见那只美洲狮在树上。专家们如今已经完全肯定那只动物就是美洲狮，但它是从哪儿来的呢？由于全国动物园没有一家报告丢了美洲狮，因此那只美洲狮一定是某位私人收藏豢养的，不知怎么设法逃出来了。搜寻工作进行了好几个星期，但始终未能逮住那只美洲狮。想到在宁静的乡村里有一头危险的野兽继续逍遥流窜，真令人担心。
Lesson 2 Thirteen equals one 十三等于一
Our vicar is always raising money for one cause or another, but he has never managed to get enough money to have the church clock repaired. The big clock which used to strike the hours day and night was damaged many years ago and has been silent ever since.
One night, however, our vicar work up with a start: the clock was striking the hours! Looking at his watch, he saw that it was one o’clock, but the bell struck thirteen times before it stopped. Armed with a torch, the vicar went up into the clock tower to see what was going on. In the torchlight, he caught sight of a figure whom he immediately recognized as Bill Wilkins, our local grocer.
’Whatever are you doing up here Bill?’ asked the vicar in surprise.
’I’m trying to repair the bell,’ answered Bill. ’I’ve been coming up here night after night for weeks now. You see, I was hoping to give you a surprise.’
’You certainly did give me a surprise!’ said the vicar. ’You’ve probably woken up everyone in the village as well. Still, I’m glad the bell is working again.’
That’s the trouble, vicar,’ answered Bill. ’It’s working all right, but I’m afraid that at one o’clock it will strike thirteen times and there’s nothing I can do about it."
We’ll get used to that, Bill,’ said the vicar. "Thirteen is not as good as one, but it’s better than nothing. Now let’s go downstairs and have a cup of tea.’
New words and expressions 生词和短语
equal
v. 等于
vicar
n. 牧师
raise
v. 募集，筹（款）
torchlight
n. 电筒光
参考译文

我们教区的牧师总是为各种各样的事筹集资金。但始终未能筹足资金把教堂的钟修好。教堂的钟很大，以前不分昼夜打点报时，但很多年前遭到毁坏，从此便无声无息了。
一天夜里，我们的牧师突然被惊醒了，大钟又在“打点”报时了！他一看表，才1点钟，可是那钟一边敲了13下才停。牧师拿着一支电筒走上钟楼想去看看究竟发生了什么事情。借着电筒光。他看见一个人，马上认出那是本地杂货店主经比尔.威尔金斯。
“你究竟在这上面干什么，比尔？”牧师惊讶地问。
“我想把这口钟修好，”比尔回答说。“好几个星期了，我天天夜里到钟楼上来。嗯，我是想让你大吃一惊。”
“你确实使我大吃了一惊！”牧师说，“也许同时你把村里所有的人都吵醒了。不过，钟又能报时了，我还是很高兴的。”
“问题就在这里，牧师，”比尔回答说。“不错，钟能报时了，但是，恐怕每到1点钟，它总要敲13下，对此我已无能为力了。”
“大家慢慢就习惯了，比尔，”牧师说。“13下是不如1下好，但总比1下也不敲强。来，咱们下楼去喝杯茶吧。”
Lesson 3:An unknown goddess 无名女神
Some time ago, and interesting discovery was made by archaeologists on the Aegean island of Kea. An American team explored a temple which stands in an ancient city on the promontory of Ayia Irini. The city at one time must have been prosperous, for it enjoyed a high level of civilization. Houses -- often three storeys high -- were built of stone. They had large rooms with beautifully decorated walls. The city was equipped with a drainage system, for a great many clay pipes were found beneath the narrow streets.
The temple which the archaeologists explored was used as a place of worship from the fifteenth century B.C. until Roman times. In the most sacred room of temple, clay fragments of fifteen statues were found. Each of these represented a goddess and had, at one time, been painted. The body of one statue was found among remains dating from the fifteenth century B.C. It’s missing head happened to be among remains of the fifth century B.C. This head must have been found in Classical times and carefully preserved. It was very old and precious even then. When the archaeologists reconstructed the fragments, they were amazed to find that the goddess turned out to be a very modern-looking woman. She stood three feet high and her hands rested on her hips. She was wearing a full-length skirt which swept the ground. Despite her great age, she was very graceful indeed, but, so far, the archaeologists have been unable to discover her identity.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
goddess(tile)
n. 女神
archaeologist
n. 考古学家
Aegean
adj. 爱玲海的
explore
v. 考察，勘探
promontory
n. 海角
prosperous
adj. （经济上）繁荣的，昌盛的
civilization
n. 文明
storey
n. 楼层
drainage
n. 排水
worship
n. 祟拜
sacred
adj. 宗教的，神圣的
fragment
n. 碎片
remains
n. 遗物，遗迹，废墟
classical
adj. （希腊和罗马）古化的
reconstruct
v. 修复
rest
v. 倚放，放置
hip
n. 屁股，臀部
full-length
adj. （裙衣）拖地长的
graceful
adj. 优雅的
identity
n. 身份
参考译文
不久之前，在爱琴海的基亚岛上，考古工作者有一项有趣的发现。一个美国考古队在阿伊亚.依里尼海角的一座古城里考察了一座庙宇。这座古城肯定一度很繁荣，因为它曾享有高度的文明，房子一般有3层楼高，用石块修建。里面房间很大，墙壁装饰华丽。城里甚至还敷设了排水系统，因为在狭窄的街道底下发现了许许多多陶土制作的排水管道。
考古工作者考察的这座庙宇从公元前15世纪直到罗马时代一直是祭祀祈祷的场所。在庙中最神圣的一间殿堂里发现了15尊陶雕像的碎片。每一尊雕像代表一位女神，而且一度上过色。其中有一尊雕像，她的躯体是在公元前15世纪的历史文物中发现的，而她那身异处的脑袋却碰巧是在公元前5世纪的文物中找到的。她的脑袋一定是在古希腊罗马时代就为人所发现，并受到精心的保护。却使在当时，它也属历史悠久的珍奇之物。考古工作者把这些碎片重新拼装起来后，惊奇地发现那位女神原来是一位相貌十分摩登的女郎。她身高3英尺，双手叉腰。身穿一条拖地长裙，尽管上了年纪，但体态确实优美。不过，考古工作者至今未能确定这位女神的身份。
Lesson 4:The double life of Alfred Bloggs 阿尔弗雷德.布洛格斯的双重生活
Listen to the tape then answer the question below.
听录音，然后回答以下问题。
Why did Alf want a white-collar job?
These days, people who do manual work often receive far more money than people who work in offices. People who work in offices are frequently referred to as "white-collar workers’ for the simple reason that they usually wear a collar and tie to go to work. Such is human nature, that a great many people are often willing to sacrifice higher pay for the privilege of becoming white-collar workers. This can give rise to curious situations, as it did in the case of Alfred Bloggs who worked as a dustman for the Ellesmere Corporation.
When he got married, Alf was too embarrassed to say anything to his wife about his job. He simply told her that he worked for the Corporation. Every morning, he left home dressed in a smart black suit. He then changed into overalls and spent the next eight hours as a dustman. Before returning home at night. He took a shower and changed back into his suit. Alf did this for over two years and his fellow dustmen kept his secret Alf’s wife has never discovered that she married a dustman and she never will, for Alf has just found another job. He will soon be working in an office. He will be earning only half as much as he used to, but he feels that his rise in status is well worth the loss of money. From now on, he will wear a suit all day and others will call him ’Mr. Bloggs’, not ’Alf’.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
manual
adj. 体力的
collar
n. 衣领
sacrifice
v. 牺牲，献出
privilege
n. 好处
dustman
n. 清洁工
corporation
n. 公司
overalls
n. 工作服
参考译文
如今，从事体力劳动的人的收入一般要比坐办公室的人高出许多。坐办公室的之所以常常被称作“白领工人”，就是因为他们通常是穿着硬领白衬衫，系着领带去上班。许多人常常情愿放弃较高的薪水以换取做白领工人的殊荣，此乃人之常情。而这常常会引起种种奇怪的现象，在埃尔斯米尔公司当清洁工的艾尔弗雷德.布洛斯就是一个例子。
艾尔弗结婚时，感到非常难为情，而没有将自己的职业告诉妻子。他只说在埃尔斯米尔公司上班。每天早晨，他穿上一身漂亮的黑色西装离家上班，然后换上工作服，当8个小时清洁工。晚上回家前，他洗个淋浴，重新换上那身黑色西服。两年多以来，艾尔弗一直这样，他的同事也为他保守秘密。艾尔弗的妻子一直不知道她嫁给了一个清洁工，而且她永远也不会知道了，因为艾尔弗已找到薪职，不久就要坐办公室里工作了。他将来挣的钱只有他现在的一半。不过他觉得，地位升高了，损失点儿钱也值得。从此，艾尔弗可以一天到晚穿西服了。别人将称呼他为“布洛格斯先生”，而不再叫他“艾尔弗”了。
Lesson 5: The facts 确切数字
Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: ’Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace’. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.
The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but the took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
editor
n.
extreme
n. 极端
statistics
n. 统计数字
journalist
n. 新闻记者
president
n. 总统
palace
n. 王宫；宏伟的住宅
publish
v. 出版
fax
n. 传真
impatient
adj. 不耐烦的
fire
v. 解雇
originally
adv. 起初，原先，从前
参考译文
报刊杂志的常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。”立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。
记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，终于接到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。
Lesson 6:Smash-and-grab 砸橱窗抢劫

The expensive shops in a famous near Piccadilly were just "opening. At this time of the morning, the arcade was almost empty. Mr. Taylor, the owner of a jewellery shop was admiring a new display. Two of his assistants had been working busily since eight o’clock and had only just finished. Diamond necklaces and rings had been beautifully arranged on a background of black velvet. After gazing at the display for several minutes, Mr. Taylor went back into his shop.
The silence was suddenly broken when a large car, with its headlights on and its home blaring, roared down the arcade. It came to a stop outside the jeweller’s. One man stayed at the wheel while two others with black stocking over their faces jumped out and smashed the window of the shop with iron bars. While this was going on, Mr. Taylor was upstairs. He and his staff began throwing furniture out of the window. Chairs and tables went flying into the arcade. One of the thieves was struck by a heavy statue, but he was too busy helping himself to diamonds to notice any pain. The raid was all over in three minutes, for the men scrambled back into the car and it moved off at a fantastic speed. Just as it was leaving, Mr. Taylor rushed out and ran after it throwing ashtrays and vases, but it was impossible to stop the thieves. They had got away with thousands of pounds worth of diamonds.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
smash-and-grab
n. 砸橱窗抢劫
arcade
n. 有拱廊的街道（两旁常设商店）
Piccadilly
n. 皮卡迪利大街
jewllery
n. 珠宝（总称）
necklace
n. 项链
ring
n. 戒指
background
n. 背景
velvet
n. 天鹅绒，丝绒
staff
n. 全体工作人员
raid
n. 偷袭
scramble
n. 偷袭
scramble
v. 爬行
fantastic
adj. 非常大的
ashtray
n. 烟灰缸
参考译文
皮卡迪利大街附近的一条著名拱廊街道上，几家高档商店刚刚开始营业。在早晨的这个时候，拱廊街上几乎空无一人。珠宝店主泰勒先生正在欣赏新布置的橱窗。他手下两名店员从早上8点就开始忙碌，这时刚刚布置完毕。钻石项链、戒指漂亮地陈列在黑色丝绒上面。泰勒先生站在橱窗外凝神欣赏了几分钟就回到了店里。
宁静突然被打破，一辆大轿车亮着前灯，响着喇叭，呼啸着冲进了拱廊街，在珠宝店门口停了下来。一人留在驾驶座上，另外两个用黑色长筒丝袜蒙面的人跳下车来。他们用铁棒把商店橱窗的玻璃砸碎。这开始发生时，泰勒先生正在楼上。他与店员动手向窗外投掷家具，椅子，桌子飞落花流水在拱廊街上。一个窃贼被一尊很重的雕像击中，但由于他忙着抢钻石首饰，竟连疼痛都顾不上了。这场抢劫只持续了3分钟，因为窃贼争先恐后地爬上轿车，以惊人的速度开跑了。就在轿车离开的时候，泰勒先生从店里冲了出来，跟在车后追赶，一边还往车上扔烟灰缸、花瓶。但他已无法抓住那些窃贼了。他们已带着价值数千镑的首饰逃之夭夭了。
Lesson 7: Mutilated ladies 残钞鉴别组

Has it ever happened to you? Have you ever put your trousers in the washing machine and then remembered there was a large bank note in your back pocket? When you rescued your trousers, did note in your back pocket? When you rescued your trousers, did you find the note was whiter than white? People who live in Britain needn’t despair when they made mistakes like this (and a lot of people do)! Fortunately for them, the Bank of England has a team called Mutilated Ladies which deals with claims from people who fed their money to a machine or to their dog. Dogs, it seems, love to chew up money!
A recent case concerns Jane Butlin whose fiancé, John, runs a successful furniture business. John had very good day and put his wallet containing $3,000 into the microwave oven for safekeeping. Then he and Jane went horse-riding. When they got home, Jane cooked their dinner in the microwave oven and without realizing it, cooked her fiancé’s wallet as well. Imagine their dismay when they found a beautifully-cooked wallet and notes turned to ash! John went to see his bank manager who sent the remains of wallet and the money to the special department of the Bank of England in Newcastle: the Mutilate Ladies! They examined the remain and John got all his money back. ’So long as there’s something to identify, we will give people their money back,’ said a spokeswoman for the Bank. ’Last year, we paid $1.5m on 21,000 claims. Damaged bank notes. The Queen’s head appears on English bank notes, and ’lady’ refers to this.
New words and expressions 生词和短语
mutilate
v. 使残缺不全
chew
v. 咀嚼
microwave
n. 微波，微波炉
oven
n. 炉灶
safekeeping
n. 妥善保管
Newcastle
n. 纽卡斯尔（英国港市）
identify
v. 鉴定，识别
spokeswoman
n. 女发言人

参考译文
这种事情在你身上出现过吗？你有没有把裤子塞洗衣机，然后又想在裤子的后兜有一张大面值的纸币？当你把裤子抢救出来时，你有没有发现那张纸币已经变得比白纸还白？当英国人犯这种错误时，他们不必感到绝望（而许多国家的人都有这种绝望的感觉）。对英国人来说，值得庆幸的是英国银行有一个残钞鉴别组，负责理那些把钱塞进机器或塞给狗的人提出的索赔要求。看起来，狗很喜欢咀嚼钱币。
最近的一个案例与简.巴特林有关，她的未婚夫约翰拥有一家生意兴隆家具店。有一天约翰的生意很好，他把一只装有3,000 英镑的钱包放进微波炉内保存。然后，他和简一起去骑马。回家后，简用微波炉煮了晚饭，无意中之中把她未婚夫的钱包也一起煮了。可以想像他们发现一只煮得很好看的钱包，钞票已化成灰时的沮丧心情。约翰去找银行经理，经理把约翰的钱包和纸币的残留物送到英国银行在纽卡斯尔的一个专门部门——残钞鉴别组。他们鉴定了这些残留物。约翰拿回了他损失的全部数额。“只要有东西可供识别，我们会把钱还给人家的，”银行的一位女发言人说。“去年，我们对21，000 起索赔要求支付了150万英镑。”
..长度不够，只能到这里了

英语精读笔记.新概念第三册（5）The facts确切数字

文章原文：

Editorsof newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers withunimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed bya well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a newAfrican republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentenceand then refused to publish it. The article began: ’Hundreds of steps lead tothe high wall which surrounds the president’s palace.’ The editor at once sentthe journalist a telegram instructing him to find out the exact number of stepsand the height of the wall.

Thejournalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took along time to send them. Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for themagazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, butreceived no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if hedid not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed toreply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally beenwritten. A week later, the editor at last received a telegram from thejournalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent toprison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which heinformed the editor that he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 stepsleading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.

精读笔记：

1.Editorsof newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their readers withunimportant facts and statistics.

(1)Editor:aperson who corrects or changes pieces of text or films before they are printedor shown, or a person who is in charge of a newspaper or magazine.

(2)goto extremes:to do something much more than is usual or reasonable.

(3)unimportant:not

important，是由否定前缀un-加上important构成。

例句：There’sno point in arguing over something so unimportant.

(4)statistics:thenumerical facts or data themselves.

(5)provide

sb with sth: 向某人提供某物

例句：Customers,suppliers, and contractors will be provided with the specialist training theyneed to work on the project.
2.Lastyear a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write anarticle on the president’s palace in a new African republic.

(1)journalist:aperson who writes news stories or articles for a newspaper or magazine orbroadcasts them on radio or television.

(2)instruct:to  order  or  tell  someone to do

something,  especially  in a  formal way.

例句：The  police  have

been instructed not to  let  anyone  leave  the  area .

(3)president:(thetitle given to) the person who has the highest political position in a countrythat is a republic and who, in some of these countries, is the leader of thegovernment.

例句：Severalpeople are considering running for president, but none have announced theircandidacy yet.

此外，还有a

person who has the highest position in a company or organization的含义。

例句：Thecompany’s board of directors will name a new president at its next meeting.

(4)republic:A state in which supreme power is held by the peopleand their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominatedpresident rather than a monarch.

(5)writeon (someone or something):To create a narrative about or a detailed descriptionof someone or something in a piece of writing.

例句：Myeditor asked me to write on a local politician for my next article.
3.Hundredsof steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace.

(1)leadto:be a route or means of

access to a particular place or in a particular direction，此外还有to cause something to happen or cause someone to do something的含义，例如：A degree in English could lead to a career injournalism.

(2)surround:to be aroundsomething on all sides.

例句：Snow-cappedmountains surround the city.

(3)palace:alarge house that is the official home of a king, queen, or other person of highsocial rank.
4.Theeditor at once sent the journalist a telegram instructing him to find out theexact number of steps and the height of the wall.

(1)telegram:(especiallyin the past) a piece of paper with a message sent by telegraph.

(2)height:thedistance from the bottom to the top of someone or something standing upright.
5.Thejournalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but he took along time to send them.

setout:to  start  an  activity  with

a  particular   aim .

例句：They setoutto discover  a  cure  for  cancer .
6.Meanwhile,the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press.

impatient:easily

annoyed by someone’s mistakes or because you have to wait，是否定前缀im-加上patient构成的。
7.Hesent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon hewould be fired.

fire:这个词通常的含义是”火、火苗”（a

state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is

ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame），但是在这儿的意思是to  order  someone

to give up his or her  job ，例句：She was fired for  stealing  from

her  employer .

此外，这个词还有the

act of shooting bullets or other explosives from a weapon的意思，例句：The  soldiers   began firing.
8.When the journalist again failed toreply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally beenwritten.

(1)failedto:to not succeed in what you are trying to achieve or are expected to do.

(2)reluctantly:ina way that shows that you are not willing to do something and are thereforeslow to do it.

例句：Shereluctantly agreed to step down as managing director.

(3)originally:inthe earliest form of something, or in the form that existed at the beginning.
9.Not only had the poor man beenarrested, but he had been sent to prison as well.

Not

only …, but also/but…as well：不仅…而且…

例句：Thecar not only is economical but also feels good to drive.

帮我找一篇英文作文 题目是 科学与技术 字数在100字左右

科学与技术
科学与技术是有区别的。
科学致力于回答理论问题，而技术则致力于解决实际问题。科学关注的是发现事实，找出自然界可观察到的各种现象之间的关联，并建立起一些理论，将这些事实与关联组织起来；而技术则关注于将科学发现诉诸实践所需的工具、工艺及程序。
科学与技术的另一个区别在于其各自的发展进程。科学的发展排除了人的因素。在试图以最精确、最可靠的方式理解宇宙、了解真理的过程中，科学家不可顾及他们本人或他人的好恶以及公众对事物合理性的构想。科学家的发现可能使人震惊或恼火——如达尔文的进化论。而即使是令人不快的发现也很可能具有实用价值。而且，我们还有拒绝相信的选择!不过，技术就不同了。我们无法不听在头顶掠过的超音速飞机发出的轰鸣，我们无法拒绝呼吸污染了的空气。与科学不同，技术上的进步必须受制于我们，而不是相反。技术的正当目的就是服务于人——是所有人，而不仅仅是某些人；未来一代的人，而不仅仅是那些希望马上从中获益的人。
我们熟知技术的弊病。许多人一般谴责技术本身扩散污染，消耗能源，甚至导致社会腐败——连技术的承诺也失色了。这承诺就是一个更干净、更健康的世界。如果科学技术的善用不能引出更美好的世界，那还有什么可以呢?
Science
and
Technology
Science
and
technology
is
different.
Efforts
to
answer
the
question
of
scientific
theory,
and
technology
to
solve
practical
problems.
Science
is
concerned
that
the
facts
found,
to
identify
the
nature
of
the
phenomena
observed
correlation
between
and
the
establishment
of
a
number
of
theories,
facts
and
related
them
to
organize
themselves;
and
technology
will
focus
on
the
practice
of
scientific
discoveries
necessary
to
resort
to
tools,
techniques
and
procedures.
Science
and
Technology
Another
difference
lies
in
their
development
process.
Ruled
out
the
development
of
science,
the
human
factor.
In
an
attempt
to
the
most
accurate
and
most
reliable
way
of
understandingthe
universe,
understanding
the
process
of
truth,
scientists
can
not
take
into
account
their
likes
and
dislikes
himself
or
others,
as
well
as
the
rationality
of
the
public
on
the
idea
of
things.
Scientists
found
that
may
give
rise
to
shock
or
angry
-
such
as
Darwin’s
theory
of
evolution.
And
even
if
it
is
unpleasant
discovery
also
likely
to
have
practical
value.
Moreover,
we
have
refused
to
believe
that
the
choice!
However,
the
technology
is
different.
We
can
not
not
listen
to
the
head
over
the
roar
of
supersonic
aircraft,
we
can
not

Lesson5：The facts新概念英语第三册

【 #新概念英语# 导语】为了方便同学们的学习， 为大家整理了新概念英语第三册Lesson5：The facts。新概念英语作为一套世界闻名的英语教程，以其全新的教学理念，有趣的课文内容和全面的技能训练，深受广大英语学习者的欢迎和喜爱。希望以下内容能够为大家的新概念英语学习提供帮助!

Lesson 5 The facts

　 　确切数字

　　What was the consequence of the editor’s insistence on facts and statistics?

　　Editors of newspapers and magazines often go to extremes to provide their reader with unimportant facts and statistics. Last year a journalist had been instructed by a well-known magazine to write an article on the president’s palace in a new African republic. When the article arrived, the editor read the first sentence and then refuse to publish it. The article began: ’Hundreds of steps lead to the high wall which surrounds the president’s palace’. The editor at once sent the journalist a fax instructing him find out the exact number of steps and the height of the wall.

　　The journalist immediately set out to obtain these important facts, but the took a long time to send them Meanwhile, the editor was getting impatient, for the magazine would soon go to press. He sent the journalist two more faxes, but received no reply. He sent yet another fax informing the journalist that if he did not reply soon he would be fired. When the journalist again failed to reply, the editor reluctantly published the article as it had originally been written. A week later, the editor at last received a fax from the journalist. Not only had the poor man been arrested, but he had been sent to prison as well. However, he had at last been allowed to send a fax in which he informed the editor that the he had been arrested while counting the 1,084 steps leading to the fifteen-foot wall which surrounded the president’s palace.

　　 New words and expressions 生词和短语

***隐藏网址***

　　editor

　　n. 我

　　extreme

　　n. 极端

　　statistics

　　n. 统计数字

　　journalist

　　n. 新闻记者

　　president

　　n. 总统

　　palace

　　n. 王宫;宏伟的住宅

　　publish

　　v. 出版

　　fax

　　n. 传真

　　impatient

　　adj. 不耐烦的

　　fire

　　v. 解雇

　　originally

　　adv. 起初，原先，从前

　　 参考译文

　　报刊杂志的我常常为了向读者提供成立一些关紧要的事实和统计数字而走向极端。去年，一位记者受一家有名的杂志的委托写一篇关于非洲某个新成立共和国总统府的文章。稿子寄来后，我看第一句话就拒绝予以发表。文章的开头是这样的：“几百级台阶通向环绕总统的高墙。”我立即给那位记者发去传真，要求他核实一下台阶的确切数字和围墙的高度。

　　记者立即出发去核实这些重要的事实，但过了好长时间不见他把数字寄来，在此期间，我等得不耐烦了，因为杂志马上要付印。他给记者先后发去两份传真，但对方毫无反应。于是他又发了一份传真，通知那位记者说，若再不迅速答复，将被解雇。但记者还是没有回复。我无奈，勉强按原样发稿了。一周之后，我终于接到记者的传真。那个可怜的记者不仅被捕了，而且还被送进了监狱。不过，他终于获准发回了一份传真。在传真中他告诉我，就在他数通向15英尺高的总统府围墙的1，084级台阶时，被抓了起来。

初中英语阅读短文（2）

初中英语阅读短文

　　初中英语阅读短文二：If the Dream is Big Enough如果梦想足够大

　　I used to watch her from mykitchenwindow, she seemed so small as she muscled her way throughthecrowd of boys on the playground. The school was across thestreetfrom our home and I would often watch the kids as theyplayedduring recess. A sea of children, and yet to me, she stoodout fromthem all.I remr the first day I saw her playing basketball.

　　I watched in wonder as she ran circles around the other kids.Shemanaged to shoot jump shots just over their heads and into thenet.The boys always tried to stop her but no one could.I begantonotice her at other times, basketball in hand, playing alone.Shewould practice dribbling and shooting over and overagain,sometimes until dark.

　　One day I asked her why she practicedsomuch. She looked directly in my eyes and without a momentofhesitation she said, “I want to go to college. The only way Icango is if I get a scholarship. I like basketball. I decided thatifI were good enough, I would get a scholarship.

　　I am going toplaycollege basketball.

　　I want to be the best. My Daddy told me ifthedream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” Then she smiledandran towards the court to recap the routine I had seen overandover again.

　　Well, I had to give it to her—she was determined.Iwatched her through those junior high years and into highschool.Every week, she led her varsity team to victory.One day inhersenior year, I saw her sitting in the grass, head cradled inherarms.

　　I walked across the street and sat down in the coolgrassbeside her. Quietly I asked what was wrong. “Oh, nothing,”came asoft reply. “I am just too short.” The coach told her that at5’5”she would probably never get to play for a top ranked team—muchless offered a scholarship—so she should stop dreamingaboutcollege.She was heartbroken and I felt my own throat tightenas Isensed her disappointment.

　　I asked her if she had talked to herdadabout it yet.She lifted her head from her hands and told methather father said those coaches were wrong. They just didnotunderstand the power of a dream. He told her that if shereallywanted to play for a good college, if she truly wantedascholarship, that nothing could stop her except one thing — herownattitude. He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, thefactsdon’t count.”The next year, as she and her team went totheNorthern California Championship game, she was seen by acollege recruiter.

　　She was indeed offered a scholarship, a fullride, toa Division I, NCAA women’s basketball team. She was goingto getthe college education that she had dreamed of and workedtoward forall those years.It’s true: If the dream is big enough,the factsdon’t count.

　　我以前常常从厨房的窗户看到她穿梭于操场上的一群男孩子中间，她显得那么矮小。

　　学校在我家的街对面，我可以经常看到孩子们在下课时间打球。尽管有一大群的孩子，但我觉得她跟其他的孩子截然不同。

　　我记得第一天看到她打篮球的情景。看着她在其他孩子旁边兜来转去，我感到十分惊奇。她总是尽力地跳起投篮，球恰好越过那些孩子的头顶飞入篮筐。那些男孩总是拼命地阻止她，但没有人可以做得到。

　　我开始注意到她有时候一个人打球。她一遍遍地练习运球和投篮，有时直到天黑。有一天我问她为什么这么刻苦地练习。她直视着我的眼睛，不加思索地说:“我想上大学。只有获得奖学金我才能上大学。我喜欢打篮球，我想只要我打得好，我就能获得奖学金。我要到大学去打篮球。我想成为最棒的球员。我爸爸告诉我说，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”说完她笑了笑，跑向篮球场，又开始我之前见过的一遍又一遍的练习。

　　嘿，我服了她了——她是下定了决心了。我看着她这些年从初中升到高中。每个星期，她带领的学校篮球代表队都能够获胜。

　　高中那会儿的某一天，我看见她坐在草地上，头埋在臂弯里。我穿过街道，坐到她旁边的清凉的草地上。我轻轻地问出什么事了。“哦，没什么，”她轻声回答，“只是我太矮了。”原来篮球教练告诉她，以五英尺五英寸的身材，她几乎是没有机会到一流的球队去打球的——更不用说会获得奖学金了——所以她应该放弃想上大学的梦想。

　　她很伤心，我也觉得自己的喉咙发紧，因为我感觉到了她的失望。我问她是否与她的爸爸谈过这件事。

　　她从臂弯里抬起头，告诉我，她爸爸说那些教练错了。他们根本不懂得梦想的力量。他告诉她，如果真的想到一个好的大学去打篮球，如果她真的想获得奖学金，任何东西也不能阻止她，除非她自己不愿意。他又一次跟她说：“心中有目标，风雨不折腰。”

　　第二年，当她和她的球队去参加北加利福尼亚州冠军赛时，她被一位大学的招生人员看中了。她真的获得了奖学金，一个全面资助的奖学金，并且进入美国全国大学体育协会其中一队女子甲组篮球队。她将接受她曾梦想并为之奋斗多年的大学教育。

　　是的，心中有目标，风雨不折腰。