1 Chine New Year
Chine New Year is the most important festival for Chine people all over the world. It is also called the Spring Festival or the Lunar New Year.
The exact date of the Spring Festival on the Western calendar changes from year to year. However, Chine New Year takes place between January 1 and February 19.
On the Chine calendar every year has an animal's name. The animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, hor, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and pig. A Chine legend says that the twelve animals had a race. The first year was named after the rat, the winner. The other eleven years were named according to the order in which the animals arrived in the race. The clever rat jumped onto the ox's back, and then at the end jumped over the ox's head to arrive first!
The Chine believe that a person born in a particular year has some of the characteristics of that animal.
2 A Teenager's Joke: Guidelines for Doing Schoolwork
My school had a policy about homework. Students should not spend more than ninety minutes per nighoddnumber
t doing homework. This is how I u the time for my work.
Fifteen minutes looking for assignment; Eleven minutes calling a friend for the assignment; Twenty three minutes explaining why the teacher is mean and does not like teenagers; Eight minutes in the bathroom; Ten minutes getting a snack; Seven minutes checking the TV Guide;
Six minutes telling my parents that the teacher never explained the assignment;
Ten minutes sitting at the kitchen table waiting for Mom or Dad to do the assignment.
guideline 指导方针 policy 政策 per 每
assignment 作业 mean 低劣的 snack 小吃 TV guide 电视指南
有关青少年的一则笑话——做作业的指导方针
我的学校有一项针对作业的政策。学生每天晚上做作业的时间不应该超过九十分钟。以下
就是我如何为完成作业而使用这九十分钟的。
花十五分钟找作业；
花十一分钟打电话向同学问作业；
花二十三分 钟抱怨 老师为什么总是那么讨厌，为什么不喜欢我们这些十几岁的孩子； 柠檬树英文版
花八分钟在洗手间里；
花十分钟找小吃；
花七分钟查看电视节目预告；
花六分钟告诉父母，老师从没解释过所布置的作业；
3 The Toad and the Frog
A toad saw a frog near the road. He was a fat old frog. He sat and moaned and groaned.
The toad said, “Do not moan and groan, Mr. Frog. Hop like me. Hop down the road.”
报价技巧So the frog and the toad went down the road to a big oak tree.
“I am home,” said the toad. “Come in and I will make tea.”
But Mr. Frog said, in a deep croak, “I must not roam far from home. I will be off to my home near the pond.”
toad 蟾蜍，癞蛤蟆
moan 呻吟
hop 跳跃
oak 橡树 现代大学英语精读3答案
croak 一种低而嘶哑的声音
癞蛤蟆和青蛙
一只癞蛤蟆在路边看到一只青蛙。那是只又胖又老的青蛙。他坐在那里呻吟叹息着。
癞蛤蟆说：“青蛙先生，不要呻吟叹息了。像我一样跳吧。沿着这条路跳。”
所以青蛙和癞蛤蟆一起沿着小路跳到一棵大橡树下。
“我到家了，”癞蛤蟆说，“进来吧，我来泡茶。”
但青蛙用低沉的声音说：“我不能在离家远的地方闲逛，我要回我在池塘边上的家。”
5 Homestay in the US
My name is Jenny and I did a homestay in America. When I first met my host mother, Mary, she gave me a big hug. I was really shocked becau I had never been hugged before, and I wasn sure how to respond. By the time I left America, though, I came to enjoy hugging and being hugged. Shaking hands was also a challenge. My homestay father, Peter, looked at me straight in the eye and squeezed my hand firmly.
Both Mary and Peter wanted me to call them by their first names becau they, as Americans, like informality. By using first names only, we felt friendlier towards each other.
homestay 家庭寄宿
host 东道主
hug 拥抱
shock 震惊
respond 回应
challenge 挑战
straight 直接地
squeeze 挤压
firmly 紧紧地
vickersinformality 随意
在美国家庭寄宿
我叫珍妮，我在美国家庭寄宿。当我第一次见到我要寄宿那家的母亲玛丽时，她热情地拥抱了我。我确实感到非常震惊因为我从来没有被拥抱过，我不知道该如何回应。然而到我要离开美国时，我已经非常喜欢拥抱别人和被别人拥抱了。
握手也是个挑战。我寄宿那家的父亲彼特，直视着我的眼睛，紧紧地握我的手。
玛丽和彼特都希望我对他们直呼其名，因为美国人一般比较随意。通过直呼其名，我们互相之间感到
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6 Brothers and Sisters
My sister is a year older than me and we've been sharing a room since I was 3 years old. We are very clo, but we also fight all the time. Our fights are never rious. I can't remember the cau of our fights now, but they were always over small things. Sometimes it was just over a particular word I ud or maybe just becau my sister gave my teddy bear a hug and I was unhappy about it. We don't take our fights very riously as if all the fights are a game. I think it's perfectly okay for kids to fight with their brothers or sisters. Now I'm a teenager, and I even think that they're sweet memories!
share 分享
rious 认真的
cau 原因
fight 打架
particular 特别的，特殊的
teddy bear 玩具熊
teenage 青少年
perfectly 完全
兄 弟 姐 妹 图片翻译
我的姐姐比我大一岁，从我三岁起我们就一直合用一个房间。我们非常亲密，但是我们也时常打架。我们打架从来不是认真的。我现在都记不起我们打架的原因，但肯定是因为一些小事。有时候，仅仅是因为我用的某个词，或者是因为姐姐抱了我的玩具熊，而我对此感到生气。我们从来不把打架当真，就好像这只是场游
戏。我觉得小孩子和兄弟姐妹们打打闹闹没有什么。现在我已经十几岁了，但我觉得那都是我美好的回忆！
7 Thirty Days Hath September （Nurry Rhyme）
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Except for February alone,
It has twenty-eight days clear,
And twenty-nine on each Leap Year.
hath （古英语）=has the scarlet letter
leap year 闰年
三十天的是九月（童谣一首）
三十天的是九月（童谣一首）
三十天的是九月，
四月，六月和十一月；
其余的月份都是三十一天，
除了二月，
二月只有二十八天，
每个闰年二月有二十九天
8 Two Dumplings
A young man had a small business. He worked very hard, and he made a lot of money. One day, he had dinner with a businessman. He wanted the man to become his business partner. When they finished the dinner, there were two dumplings left.
The young man told the waitress: "Plea pack them in a doggy bag and I'd like to take them home.Soon the businessman decided to work together with the young man. He said, "The young man is great. He has lots of money but he won't waste it.
dumpling 饺子
belongspartner 伙伴
waitress 女服务员
pack 包
doggy bag （饭店里客人将吃剩食物打包带走时用的）纸包
两个饺子
一个年轻人做了点小生意。他工作很努力，所以他赚到了许多钱。一天，他和一个商人吃饭。他希望那个人成为他的生意伙伴。当他们吃完饭后，还剩下两个饺子。
年轻人告诉服务员小姐：“请把这两个饺子打包，我要带回家去。”很快，这个商人就决定和这个年轻人一起做生意了。他说：“这个年轻人很好。他有很多钱但他不浪费。”
9 A Visit to the City Centre
On their first day in the capital, Diana and Peter visited the Old Tower which stood on a hill near the city centre. There were stairs leading to the top, but Diana and Peter decided to take the lift. At the top there was a caf?and a balcony where visitors could stand and enjoy the view. It was magnificent — you could e the whole city, the river and the hills beyond.
On their way back from the Tower, Diana and Peter went past the main square in the city centre. The
y stopped at a stall to have some orange juice, and sat and watched the traffic for a while. The square was very busy, with cars, bus, bicycles and pedestrians going in all directions. In the centre of the square there was a policeman controlling the traffic.
stair 楼梯
take the lift 乘电梯
balcony 阳台
magnificent 壮观的
stall 摊点
pedestrian 行人
control 控制
游览市中心
戴安娜和彼特第一天游览了首都市容，去了市中心附近小山上的古塔。古塔有楼梯直通塔顶，但戴安
娜和彼特决定乘坐电梯。塔顶有一个咖啡厅和观光平台，游客可以俯瞰市容。这儿的景色很美丽——整
座城市尽收眼底，还有远处的河流和群山。
在从古塔回来的路上，戴安娜和彼特游览了市中心广场。他们在一个小摊贩前停下喝果汁，坐下小歇一会，观赏街上的车水马龙，广场上小汽车、公共汽车、自行车和行人络绎不绝，广场中心一位警察在指挥交通
10 Rain, Rain, Go Away（Nurry Rhyme）
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again another day.
Rain, rain, go to Spain,
Never show your face again.
Rain, rain, pour down,
verina
But not a drop on our town.
Rain on the green grass,
And rain on the tree,
And rain on the houtop,
But not on me.
Rain, rain, go away,
Come again on washing day.
Rain, rain, go to Germany,
And remain there permanently.
Rain, rain, go away,
Come on Martha's wedding day.
remain 保持，逗留
permanently 永远地
雨，雨，走开吧（童谣一首）
雨，雨，走开吧，
改天再来吧，
雨，雨，去西班牙吧，
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不要再出现了。
雨，雨，尽情地下吧，
但是一滴也不要下到我们镇上来。
雨下在碧绿的草地上，
雨下在树上，
雨下在房顶上，
但不要下在我身上。
雨，雨，走开吧，
洗衣服的那天再来吧。
雨，雨，去德国吧，
永远待在那里吧
