新概念英语第四册Lesson 11 How to grow old

Lesson 11 How to grow old 如何安度晚年 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What, according to the author, is the best way to overcome the fear of death as you get older? Some old people ar

新概念英语第四册Lesson 4 Seeing hands

Lesson 4 Seeing hands 能看见东西的手 First listen and answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 How did Vera discover she had this gift of second sight? Several cases have been reported in Russia recently of people

新概念英语第四册Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry

Lesson 15 Secrecy in industry 工业中的秘密 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Why is secrecy particularly important in the chemical industries? Two factors weigh heavily against the effec

新概念英语第四册Lesson 1 Finding Fossil man

Lesson 1 Finding fossil man 发现化石人 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Why are legends handed down by storytellers useful? We can read of things that happened 5,000 years ago in the Nea

新概念英语第四册Lesson 2 Spare that spider

Lesson 2 Spare that spider不要伤害蜘蛛 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 How much of each year do spiders spend killing insects? Why, you may wonder, should spiders be our friends? Becau

新概念英语第四册Lesson 3 Matterhorn man

Lesson 3 Matterhorn man 马特霍恩山区人 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 What was the main objective of early mountain climbers? Modern alpinists try to climb mountains by a route which

新概念英语第四册Lesson 12 Banks and their customers

Lesson 12 Banks and their customers 银行和顾客 First listen and then answer the following question. 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 Why is there no risk to the customer when a bank prints the customer's name on his cheques? When anyone op

新概念英语第四册 Lesson 5 Youth

Lesson 5 Youth 青年 First listen and then answer the following question: 听录音，然后回答以下问题。 How does the writer like to treat young people? People are always talking about 'the problem of youth'. If there is one -- which I take

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit10:Types of Speech

Standard usage includes those words and expressions understood, used, and accepted by a majority of the speakers of a language in any situation regardless of the level of formality. As such, these words and expressions are well defined and listed in

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit1:The Language of Music

01 The Language of Music A painter hangs his or her finished pictures on a wall, and everyone can see it. A composer writes a work, but no one can hear it until it is performed. Professional singers and players have great responsibilities, for the c

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit3:The Defini tion of Price

03 The Definition of Price Prices determine how resources are to be used. They are also the means by which products and services that are in limited supply are rationed among buyers. The price system of the United States is a complex network compose

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit4:Electricity

04 Electricity The modern age is an age of electricity. People are so used to electric lights, radio, televisions, and telephones that it is hard to imagine what life would be like without them. When there is a power failure, people grope about in f

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit5:The Beginning of Drama

05 The Beginning of Drama There are many theories about the beginning of drama in ancient Greece. The on most widely accepted today is based on the assumption that drama evolved from ritual. The argument for this view goes as follows. In the beginni

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit6:Television

Television-----the most pervasive and persuasive of modern technologies, marked by rapid change and growth-is moving into a new era, an era of extraordinary sophistication and versatility, which promises to reshape our lives and our world. It is an

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit7:Andrew Carnegie

Andrew Carnegie, known as the King of Steel, built the steel industry in the United States, and , in the process, became one of the wealthiest men in America. His success resulted in part from his ability to sell the product and in part from his pol

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit8:American Revolution

The American Revolution was not a sudden and violent overturning of the political and social framework, such as later occurred in France and Russia, when both were already independent nations. Significant changes were ushered in, but they were not b

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit9:Suburbanization

If by suburb is meant an urban margin that grows more rapidly than its already developed interior, the process of suburbanization began during the emergence of the industrial city in the second quarter of the nineteenth century. Before that period t

新概念优美背诵短文50篇 Unit2:Schooling and Education

02 Schooling and Education It is commonly believed in United States that school is where people go to get an education. Nevertheless, it has been said that today children interrupt their education to go to school. The distinction between schooling a

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 unit13 Skyscrapers and Environment

13 Skyscrapers and Environment In the late 1960's, many people in North America turned their attention to environmental problems, and new steel-and-glass skyscrapers were widely criticized. Ecologists pointed out that a cluster of tall buildings in

新东方优美背诵短文50篇 Unit49:Sleep

Sleet is part of a persons daily activity cycle. There are several different stages of sleep, and they too occur in cycles. If you are an average sleeper, your sleep cycle is as follows. When you fist drift off into slumber, your eyes will roll abou